Politics

Reported cases of domestic violence rose by 41.7 percent year-on-year in the first quarter this year, from 60 to 85. The overall number of reported crimes rose 8.3 percent year-on-year. Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va presented the first quarter’s crime statistics in a press conference at the Sao Francisco BarracksThursday. Macau Public Security Forces […]

The governments of Portugal and Macau plan to hold annual meetings of the two-way joint committee to discuss cooperation in areas such as justice, tourism, security and teaching the Portuguese language, said a source from the Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The joint committee between Portugal and the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) is a […]

The Portuguese President Cavaco Silva, during his next Saturday and Sunday visit to Macau, will honour several of its residents according to the Portuguese News Agency-Lusa. Cavaco Silva will impose the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit to Chief Executive of Macau Chui Sai On. Before being appointed Chief Executive Chui was secretary for […]

Hong Kong-listed Chinese Estates Holdings announced Monday that its fully owned subsidiary Moon Ocean will return all deposit money in full handed over for the presold property units in the mothballed La Scala project in Taipa to each promissory purchaser accepting the respective revocation and cancellation arrangement. The company announced the decision in a statement […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On pledged Thursday the government will investigate Saturday’s incident in which a female TV reporter was stopped from asking him questions by a member of his security detail by allegedly grabbing her. Chui said he was always ready to speak to the media in a “safe” situation. He made the […]

Guinea-Bissau’s infrastructure minister died in Macau Thursday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said. According to a PJ statement, a colleague of Rui Gomes de Araujo went to the latter’s room at the Venetian resort in Cotai Thursday morning where he found him unconscious in bed. Gomes de Araujo was rushed to the public Conde de S. […]

Lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong urged the government Tuesday to close the loophole which is being used by mainlanders to stay in the city for up to nine days as “transit passengers”. Ng said in a written interpellation submitted to the Legislative Assembly that the official figure from the Public Security Police (PSP) showed that […]

Li Gang, who heads the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said Sunday that everyone including officials have the freedom to refuse to answer reporters’ questions. He also said that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and his government communicate with the public “a great deal”. Li made the remarks to reporters on the […]

Women’s rights activist-cum-Good Shepherd Centre Director Juliana Devoy left for Geneva on Friday to speak to the United Nations’ Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) about Macau’s penalties for domestic violence on Thursday and Friday, where she will argue that the government’s classification of domestic violence as a semi-public crime is a violation […]