About 600 local and central government officials, community leaders, members of the grieving family and friends attended the funeral of community leader Ma Man Kei at Macau Forum on Sunday. Ma passed away after a prolonged illness in Beijing on May 26 where he had been hospitalised for several years. Sources close to the family […]
Politics
After the city’s biggest protests since the 1999 handover, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On announced Thursday at a special press conference that he had decided shelve his government’s controversial perks bill that, if passed by lawmakers as scheduled on Tuesday, would have given him and a few other principal officials lavish retirement packages in […]
The Judiciary Police (PJ) caught two Ukrainians on Monday on suspicion of stealing bank card information from local ATMs, although no card readers or micro-cameras were installed in the machines. Instead, the duo inserted a device containing malicious software (malware) into the ATMs to record data from unsuspecting customers whenever the machines were used. A […]
Former National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) vice-chairman Ma Man Kei’s remains will return from Beijing by plane to Macau today and a public memorial service will take place from 9 a.m. at Macau Forum in Zape on Sunday. A special committee has meanwhile been set up to handle Ma’s funeral […]
Thousands of residents staged a sit-in protest organised by Internet group Macau Conscience on the patch of grass outside the Legislative Assembly as lawmakers debated the government’s controversial perks bill Tuesday. Macau Conscience member Sulu Sou Ka Hou said that nearly 7,000 people attended, while the Public Security Police (PSP) estimated that 4,900 people took […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On Tuesday expressed his deep condolences to the family of Ma Man Kei, a former vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who died on Monday in Beijing, aged 95. According to a statement from Chui’s office, Chui praised Ma’s contribution to the city […]
In an apparent U-turn, the Macau government has agreed to resubmit a revised version of its controversial perks bill to the legislature after Sunday’s huge protest against the proposed “golden handshake” law – the biggest protest since the 1999 handover. Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng Monday accepted a proposal by Chief Executive Fernando […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets Sunday to voice their opposition to the government’s controversial “golden handshake” bill on generous compensation packages for the chief executive and other principal officials, with Macau Conscience – one of the organisers – saying that about 20,000 people took part. Several independent observers estimated the number of protesters […]
The government announced Thursday that it will start paying the 652,808 beneficiaries of its annual “wealth sharing” scheme on July 2, costing the government about 5.65 billion patacas ( US$ 706.25 million)– 3.6 percent of its budget for this year. Leong Heng Teng, spokesman for the 11-member advisory Executive Council (ExCo), said during a press […]