Politics

He Suzhong, deputy director of the Policies and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in Beijing, Thursday urged local residents to participate in protecting the city’s cultural heritage, while urging the local government to increase public awareness of cultural protection rules. He made the appeal on the sidelines of a ceremony organised […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On pledged Wednesday that his government will look into why sometimes there is a gap between residents’ expectations and the plans which the government comes up with after public consultation sessions. He also vowed that the government would further study how to come up with policies, plans or measures that […]

The government will update the Legislative Assembly on construction of the city’s light rapid transit system on Taipa, and announce the new route across the Macau peninsula by the middle of next month, said Ho Ion Sang president of the Assembly. “It’s the government that requested to explain to us the progress of the LRT […]

The Macau Journalists Association released a statement Wednesday to denounce the stabbing of former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau Chun-to in Hong Kong . The statement said that the association strongly condemned the “barbaric” action, adding that such incidents should not take place in a place governed by the rule of law. It claimed […]

Guest speakers and audience members at the weekly Macau Forum, hosted by government broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park Sunday, voiced their displeasure and frustration at lawmakers’ apparent reluctance to pass an animal rights law, contending no time should be wasted over the issue while calling for the government to protect animals. The forum was […]

Overall reported crime last year in Macau recorded a 7.9 percent increase, with drug-trafficking rising 80.5 percent and the number of reported phone scam cases reaching 108, as opposed to only one in 2012. Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va presented last year’s crime statistics at a press conference Thursday in the Sao Francisco Barracks. […]

Macau and Taiwan officials inked Monday a new agreement for flights between the two places that replaces a previous arrangement signed between unofficial entities. The new pact also lifts previous limits on the number of flights between the two sides. Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macau Director Lu Chang-shui and Macau Economic and Cultural […]

A group of staff members of government broadcaster TDM said in a public statement Sunday that they doubted theIR newly government-appointed chief could uphold the freedom of the press and worry TDM could become a government mouthpiece. TDM is fully owned, funded and overseen by the government. Meanwhile, according to The Macau Post Daily, the […]

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Deputy Director Manuel Goncalves Pires Junior will take over from Leong Kam Chun as president of the executive committee of government-owned TV and radio broadcaster TDM from March 1. The government-appointed position is the station’s de facto CEO. Government spokesperson Alexis Tam Chon Weng made the announcement at special a […]