Politics

A jetfoil traveling from Hong Kong to Macau on Friday morning crashed into a breakwater, injuring 70 people, one of whom required surgery. The vessel was carrying 220 passengers and 13 crew members when it hit the seawall before listing to its right off Macau’s Outer Harbor. The Marine and Water Bureau revealed that preliminary […]

The Macau government has released a statement Friday denying Chief Executive Chui Sai On’s involvement in the administration’s land-granting decisions when he was the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture. However, the statement did not mention the allegations made against the former CE Edmund Ho Hau Wah The short statement, which consisted only of a […]

Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) Director Cheong Weng Chon told a press conference Thurday  that a public consultation period on the review of consumer rights legislation is now underway and will go on until August 12. Cheong said the primary objective of consulting the public was to improve Macau’s business environment. He pointed out that existing […]

The minimum wage for the city’s 11,800 cleaners, doormen and security guards employed by the property management sector will be set at 30 patacas an hour, according to a bill that the government will submit to the legislature for debate and vote soon. The Executive Council (ExCo) – the government’s top advisory body – finished […]

A group of Taipa residents hand­ed in a petition addressed to Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On outside Government House Thursday, expressing their opposition to the government’s plan to replace a small roadside park in Estrada Almirante Marques Esparteiro with a petrol station. This came two days after about two dozen residents held a sit-in […]

Lawmakers Jose Pereira Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai, both key members of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM), said Wednesday that they have submitted a bill which aims to promote the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and international labour conventions in schools. The two covenants […]

The Chief Executive of Macau Chui Sai On said Monday that his government continues to “support and strength the historical relations” with Portugal, and said that the Portuguese community contributes to the city’s prosperity. Speaking at the reception of the Portuguese National Day Chui Sai On recalled the success of the recent visit of Portuguese […]

Local youth group Macau Youth Dynamics and grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong Monday urged the government to protect a site in Coloane Village which officials believe dates back 3,000 to 3,800 years, to the late Neolithic (New Stone Age) or early Bronze Age. Lei Kuok Keong, spokesman for the group, said the government should […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io confirmed Monday  that one of the major shareholders of the new bus company which will take over Reolian’s service at the beginning of next month is TCM – one of the city’s two other bus operators. Lau made the revelation before attending a legislative committee meeting. […]