Politics

Lawmakers on Thursday passed government-drafted amendments to the sales tax law by tripling tobacco tax in an urgent procedure without lawmakers’ usual committee-level discussion as is customary for government-drafted bills. Meanwhile, chief executive Fernando Chui Sai On signed an order on Thursday according to which from Tuesday each person is permitted to bring in only […]

Given the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge’s opening looming on the horizon next year, the local government on Thursday signed a framework agreement with authorities from Zhuhai and Hong Kong, ramping up regional collaboration on tourism development. The trilateral partnership was reached at a conference held on Thursday in Hengqin where both tourism departments’ major officials came […]

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) went on a joint sales mission to Malaysia and Singapore together with five tourism entities including Tourism Administration of Guangdong Province, Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality, Zhongshan Municipal Tourism Bureau, Zhuhai Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau as well as Tourism Administration of Shaoguan Municipality. The six offices jointly promoted international […]

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) went on a joint sales mission to Malaysia and Singapore together with five tourism entities including Tourism Administration of Guangdong Province, Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality, Zhongshan Municipal Tourism Bureau, Zhuhai Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau as well as Tourism Administration of Shaoguan Municipality. The six offices jointly promoted international […]

Lawmakers on Thursday passed the government bill declaring September 3 this year as a mandatory holiday to celebrate the nation’s anti-fascist victory over Japan. Lawmakers unanimously passed the bill in an urgent procedure without legislators’ usual committee-level discussion as is customary for government-drafted bills. Government representatives including Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said on Wednesday he hoped the government will decide by year’s end whether the city’s fourth Macau-Taipa link will be a bridge or a tunnel. The policy secretary made the remark after attending a meeting of the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs about the […]

Details of the first phase of government restructuring will be announced later this year, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Acting Director Kou Peng Kuan said on Tuesday in a reply to an interpellation submitted by lawmaker Si Ka Lon. Si submitted a written interpellation in April, asking for more information about the promised […]

The Housing Bureau (IH) announced on Monday its proposed amendments to the Social Housing Law by defining ‘rich’ households, which would have to return their flats after four years. IH Director Ieong Kam Wa, Vice Director Kuoc Vai Han and Chan Wa Keong, who heads the bureau’s public housing department, jointly hosted a press conference […]

To assist in the implementation of the government’s annual “wealth-sharing” cash handout scheme, a support centre at China Plaza in Avenida da Praia Grande will start operating today, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) said in a statement on Sunday. The payout started last week. The handout is the same as last year’s – 9,000 patacas […]