Politics

The 2ndStanding Committee of the Legislative Assembly met on Monday to review the government’s bill to reform the city’s tertiary education system, but its members found many of the points laid out in the bill to be unclear and said that they would require further clarification from the government. It was the committee’s first meeting […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai on will pay a four-day visit to the national capital from Wednesday, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said on Sunday. According to a GCS statement, Chui will attend the opening session of this year’s meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday. Chui is not a member of […]

About 10 people are missing after a speedboat believed to be carrying illegal visitors on a gambling trip from the mainland capsized off Macau early on Friday. Mainland and Macau authorities have launched an air and sea search-and-rescue operation after the boat overturned about 500 metres off the Grand Coloane Resort before dawn. Four men […]

There have been fewer reported cases of influenza so far this year than a year earlier, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the bureau recorded 239 cases of flu last month, down 57.7 percent from the same month of last year when 566 cases were reported. A […]

Beijing’s most senior representative in Macau, Li Gang, said in his Chinese New Year message last Tuesday that the local government should face social problems head-on and save for a rainy day. He also said that his office would fully support the local government. Li heads the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in […]

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement on Monday there were 116 violations by rogue taxi drivers between last Tuesday and Sunday. The statement said the incidents included 69 cases of overcharging and 25 cases of refusing to pick up passengers. However, it did not reveal what the remaining 22 cases were, nor […]

The number of reported phone scams rose 161 percent year-on-year to 282 last year, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Check announced on Friday. Addressing a press conference on last year’s crime figures, Wong described the increase in phone scam cases as “serious. The policy secretary also revealed a 100 percent increase in the number of […]

A total of 52 students from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Government and Public Administration issued an open letter on Wednesday, expressing their support of department head Wang Jianwei in the wake of recent allegations of sexual harassment against the academic. They also said in the letter that comments and messages in favour […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On pledged Tuesday that his government will give the public an explanation of the problems listed in a hard-hitting report by the Commission of Audit about the public University of Macau (UM) earlier this week. He made the promise before attending the annual Chinese New Year reception hosted by the […]