Politics

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, the lone candidate in the August 31 chief executive election, said Sunday he had noticed that the media is focusing on issues such as housing, the gaming industry and overcrowding in the city while other topics such as social achievements and locals’ contributions to civil society are not mentioned […]

The office of Secretary of Social Affairs and Culture Cheong U said in a statement Thiursday that the University of Macau (UM) has almost completed the move to its new campus on Hengqin Island and the government has decided that the old campus in Taipa will “basically” be used for tertiary education. The office said […]

Red Cross Macau Disaster Relief Affairs Officer Patrick Tam Wai Iat said Monday that even though 500 relief packages sent by Macau have already arrived in the quake-hit area of north-eastern Yunnan, it proved difficult for staff to deliver them to the victims since road blocks were set up on many roads while others were […]

Macau’s population stood at 624,000 at the end of June, 9,500 more people than in the first quarter due to rising numbers of non-resident workers, the Statistics and Census Services announced. Females accounted for 50.8 percent (316,800 people) of the total. At the end of the second quarter of this year there were 155,310 non-resident […]

Chief government spokesperson Alexis Tam Chon Weng said Sunday there were some government officials who needed to improve their job performance. He also said that mutual trust between the general public and the government was vital, saying that any lack of it would mean that it is difficult for the government to get things done. […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Thursday he wasn’t a person who simply does what people ask him to do and insisted that his government’s policy-making is based on scientific data. Asked by a reporter for claims that in the run-up to his re-election campaign he seemed just to do what people wanted him […]

CTM recorded a net profit of HK$531.6 million in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 7.1 percent, CITIC Telecom International Holdings said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . According to the statement, CTM’s turnover rose 7.8 percent in the first six months. “Such increase in turnover was […]

Melco Crown Entertainment said Thursday that its second-quarter net revenue dropped seven percent year-on-year to US$1.19 billion “The decline in net revenue was primarily attributable to lower group-wide rolling chip revenues, partially offset by improved mass-market table games revenues,” the company said in a statement. VIP gamblers use so-called rolling chips which can’t be cashed […]

Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said Wednesday that all the necessary measures have been taken in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) instructions to deal with any possible cases of the Ebola virus. Macau’s health chief also said that local medical staff were “capable” and facilities were “adequate” to deal with the possible […]