Politics

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said Thursday that a public tender for the new health complex in Cotai is already underway, reaffirming that he is confident that it will be up and running in 2017. Speaking to reporters Thursday after a meeting between government officials and representatives of Macau’s social […]

The Macau Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) was told by a resident on Wednesday that a stray kitten had been hung on metal bars with plastic bamboo scaffolding ties. The association said in a statement on its Facebook page Thursday that a small white-and-black kitten was found dead in an abandoned house in […]

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said Wednesday that the local government would do its best to ink a mutual legal assistance agreement with its Hong Kong counterpart this year. Asked by reporters as to whether the agreement will be applied to fugitives fleeing justice from either jurisdiction whose cases predate it, […]

Li Gang, director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said Tuesday that the city’s gaming industry’s current revenue decline was due to several causes and the effort the central government is putting into combating corruption was not the main cause, adding that “extremely few” corrupt mainland officials had gambled in the city. […]

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng vowed Tuesday that the government will come up with measures to help local social service groups tackle the problem of exorbitant rents and the shortage of professionals, adding that the government would consider purchasing industrial buildings so that the groups can lease them at an […]

The Commission of Audit (CA) slammed the Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Monday for its failure to control the budget for the first phase of the construction of the city’s light transit railway (LRT), which increased from its initial budget in 2007 of 4.2 billion patacas to 14.3 billion patacas in 2012. The report pointed out […]

SJM’s Managing Director Angela Leong On Kei told reporters Monday that the area where a large-scale sex ring was allegedly operating in Hotel Lisboa was not under the gaming operator’s control but the company would, nevertheless, reassess its management and security staff. Leong made the comments after attending a charity event to mark the adjacent […]

Police has busted the first sex-trafficking case involving Korean nationals in Macau, the International Crime Investigation Bureau of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Sunday and reported by The Korean Times. Overseas sex-trafficking cases involving Korean women have previously been uncovered in Japan, the Philippines, the United States and Australia. A 30-year-old identified only by […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo Arrais do Rosario said Thursday he believed the general public would agree that private property is “a bit expensive”. Asked by reporters as to whether the government will come up with new measures to ensure that the private property market develops in a healthy way, the new policy […]