Politics

The Office of the Government Spokesperson announced Wednesday that the government has donated 100 million patacas to the Yunnan earthquake relief effort. The temblor struck the province’s Zhaotong prefecture on Sunday. The statement said that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On informed the central government about the decision, saying the government would continue to provide […]

Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Director Lei Chan Tong said Monday that his office had decided to extend the public consultation period for the northern peninsula section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) to provide citizens with more time to understand the information put out on the government’s three proposals so that they will be able […]

The Macau Red Cross and two local associations Monday donated nearly 800,000 patacas for the victims of Sunday’s earthquake in Zhaotong prefecture in the north-east of Yunnan province. Meanwhile, the office of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said in a statement  that Chui expressed his condolences to the victims’ families on behalf of the […]

Macau’s long-delayed Light Rail Transit (LRT) system will only be fully ready in 2022, Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Deputy Director Andre Ritchie told the Portuguese news agency Lusa in an interview published Wednesday. Ritchie told the Lisbon-based wire service that the nine-kilometre-long LRT segment in Taipa was slated to be completed by the end of […]

Former Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) president Raymond Tam Vai Man and three of his staff have been acquitted of misfeasance charges in the city’s infamous burial plot case, the Court of First Instance (TJB) ruled Tuesday. Lawyer Paulina Santos filed a high-profile complaint with the Public Prosecution Office (MP) in 2010, alleging that […]

National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Chairman Zhang Dejiang told a delegation of the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) in Beijing Tuesday that the holding of a so-called “civic referendum” in Macau would violate the Macau Basic Law. ACM President Ma Iao Lai revealed Zhang’s position on the controversy when talking to reporters after a […]

The newly elected board members of the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM), including Chairman Ma Iao Lai and board member Lionel Leong Vai Tat, both members of the government’ top advisory Executive Council (ExCo), flew to Beijing Sunday for meetings with a number of central government entities, including the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau […]

Macau’s long-delayed legislation on animal protection is heading for another delay due to procedural matters in the legislature. The Legislative Assembly’s Rules and Statutes Committee reached a consensus Thursday that a government-drafted bill on protecting animals is a “repeat” of the one unsuccessfully proposed by lawmakers José Pereira Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai in February, […]

Government broadcaster TDM said in a statement Thirsday that it had submitted a complaint to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) over an incident in which several casino workers taking part in a demonstration outside the Venetian “harassed” the TV station’s journalists. The statement, signed by TDM Executive Committee Chairman Manuel Gonçalves Pires Jr., added that […]