Politics

The government said Monday that the city’s increased taxi fares will take effect on December 14 with the flagfall to be raised to 17 patacas – up 13.3 percent – for the first 1.6 kilometres, while the distance-based interval charge will be increased to two patacas for every 260 metres and the waiting time charge […]

Macau will sign an anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing agreement with the United States, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) Monday. The order issued by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On authorises Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the […]

The government’s chief spokesman announced Thursday that the opening hours of three Macau-Zhuhai border checkpoints will be extended from December 18. According to the announcement, the Macau Cotai-Hengqin checkpoint will be open 24 hours seven days a week. The Barrier Gate’s opening hours will be extended by one hour each in the morning and at […]

The government has completed proposed amendments to the law on the reparation for damages arising from accidents at work and occupational diseases by introducing a mandatory insurance that employers must buy for their employees who need to work when the No. 8 or a higher typhoon signal is hoisted. Executive Council (ExCo) spokesman Leong Heng […]

The Legislative Assembly (AL) will hold a plenary meeting today to discuss a motion proposed by lawmakers-cum-activists Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San which calls for a debate about how the city’s political reform. Ng and Au are members of the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). Both are the association’s only members of […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Wednesday that the city’s light rail transit (LRT) in Cotai will be linked to the Hengqin border by a tunnel under the Shizhimen channel which separates Cotai from the island in Zhuhai. The Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) said in a statement  that in future passengers […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Kin Hong insisted Thursday that there was no evidence of foul play in Wednesday’s fire in a clothes shop in Rua do Tarrafeiro where two Filipinos and two Indonesians died. Speaking to reporters at a daily press briefing, Chan answered several questions regarding the fire. He said that three people […]

Four charred bodies were found inside a boutique in Macau after a suspicious fire ripped through the ground-floor shop early Wednesday. Police are investigating whether the blaze was started deliberately. “The four bodies were burned beyond recognition. We cannot identify even their gender,” a fire department spokesman, Lam Io-fan, said. Lam said some circumstances of […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On Tuesday called for residents’ understanding for their annual cash handout next year remaining unchanged at 9,000 patacas, adding he hoped a 6.75 percent increase in public servants’ salaries could take effect on January 1. He also said that according to some surveys his performance over the past five years […]