Politics

The Good Shepherd Centre announced on Thursday in a press conference at MGM that it will organise a one-day seminar next Tuesday on “Business Leadership to End Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery” in collaboration with Vital Voices Global Partnership – an international non-profit and non-governmental organisation (NGO) on women’s rights and empowerment – about […]

The government-appointed Traffic Consultative Committee discussed Thursday ways to tackle the city’s growing number of vehicles, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said, adding that the committee had reached a consensus that vehicles taxes and fees ought to be increased, considering that they haven’t been raised for over 10 years. Rosario made […]

Over 80 people had to be evacuated Wednesday morning from the postnatal nursery of the Conde de São Januário Central Hospital. This followed the dropping of a fire extinguisher onto the floor, thereby releasing a chemical that, according to a fire department source, could affect people’s health. According to a Health Bureau statement, at the […]

The government reaffirmed Wednesday that it will tighten import regulations for 50cc scooters starting this year. Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Wong Wan said that for scooters that are manufactured to carry one person only, they must be classified as such when they are imported into Macau. He added that for scooters manufactured to carry two […]

A worker at the site of Galaxy Macau’s phase 2 expansion died when he fell from scaffolding in the second Cotai construction fatality reported by Macau’s Labour Affairs Bureau this week and the third this year. Police said the worker, a resident of mainland China, fell from 12 meters as a result of a safety […]

Macau’s population totalled 636,200 people at the end of 2014, an increase of 28,700 people or 4.7 percent over the number recorded in 2013, reported the Macau Statistics and Census Bureau. At the end of the year 50.6 percent of the population was female and the population aged over 65 years (8.4 percent of the […]

The cost of the massive bridge linking Hong Kong with Zhuhai and Macau will rise above its HK$132.9 billion estimate because of a significant delay and the extra expense will be shared by the three cities, says a senior Guangdong planning official. Li Chunhong, director of the Guangdong Development and Reform Commission, said the completion […]

Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Li Gang said on Monday that after rapid growth in the past decade the local gaming industry has entered a phase of mid-speed growth. Li also said the industry would not suffer any big losses if it deals with the situation well. Li, who is attending the annual meeting […]

Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Li Gang said on Monday that after rapid growth in the past decade the local gaming industry has entered a phase of mid-speed growth. Li also said the industry would not suffer any big losses if it deals with the situation well. Li, who is attending the annual meeting […]