Politics

Two Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory (LECM) staff members are being investigated for allegedly fabricating 10 soil test reports, the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement Tuesday. The statement said that in May last year a gaming operator noticed that the surface of a road next to a casino and entertainment complex under construction […]

Economist Qiu Xiaohua, who heads the Institute of Economic Research of the private City University of Macau, Tuesday urged the local government to consider using some of its huge financial reserves to invest in the central government’s national development strategy known as “One Belt, One Road” or “Belt and Road Initiative”. Qiu said that the […]

A total of 18 male suspects were arrested on Monday on suspicion of pimping and being members of a South Korean prostitution ring in Macau. A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson announced the case at a special press conference at the PJ headquarters. Of the 18 suspects, 10 are South Koreans aged between 23 and 49, […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On (CE) said on Monday he believed there would be more changes in the public administration’s senior personnel in the next two months. Chui was speaking at the local airport before departing for a working visit to Fuzhou with Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac and other […]

Macau’s newly selected pair of pandas, 7-year-old male Yalin and 8-year old female Shurong, to be renamed Hoi Hoi and Sam Sam (in Cantonese), will arrive in the city on Thursday next week, according a statement from the office of Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan yesterday. Local government representatives including Chan […]

Caritas Macau’s long-awaited English-language suicide prevention hotline is finally to get off the ground next month, Secretary-General Paul Pun Chi Meng said on Sunday. Pun spoke to reporters on the sidelines of an event in Iao Hon Park promoting the Roman-Catholic charity’s food bank. He said that Caritas Macau was currently testing the system, adding […]

Large swathes of the city suffered a massive blackout Wednesday morning, affecting about 42 percent of CEM’s clients. The outage lasted about one and a half hours. Following the blackout at about 11 a.m., the power utility began to gradually restore power to the city after about an hour. A malfunction in the 110kV high-voltage […]

Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) President Anselmo Teng Lin Seng said Tuesday he will reveal details of the government’s planned setting-up of an investment development fund in the fourth quarter of this year. Teng made the announcement on the sidelines of Tuesday’s annual spring reception in the quasi-central bank’s garden. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On […]

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Monday he hoped that the “love the country, love Macau” concept will be one of local people’s “core values”, adding that now was the right time to strengthen teenagers’ understanding of the nation and their city. The policy secretary made the remarks during […]