Politics

Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday the question of how to increase the city’s supply of private housing will be “an important topic” for his next government, vowing that it would study how to approve land leases for private construction projects “quickly”. Chui’s second five-year term tenure will begin on December 20, […]

The number of reported phone scams surged by 476 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, from 25 to 144, while the number of reported extortion cases rose by 185.7 percent, from 21 to 60, of which 39 were those blackmailed for chatting naked online. Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va detailed crime […]

Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On continued his campaign trail Monday by attending a meeting with representatives from four commercial associations in the morning and the Women’s General Association (Fu Luen) in the afternoon. In his meeting with representatives of the Women’s General Association, Chui expressed his support for paid paternity leave. Chui, the […]

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 […]