Politics

About 37,000 students will benefit from a subsidy of 3,000 patacas in the 2013/2014 school year, which must be used for their learning material or stationery, Executive Council (ExCo) spokesman Leong Heng Teng said Wednesday. Adressing a press conference at Government House, Leong said that the government had completed a by-law on subsidising local students, […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Wong Sio Chak announced Tuesday that the number of scam-related crimes increased drastically in 2013, with phone scams increasing from 14 in 2012 to 133 last year while Internet scams rose by 93 percent from 175 cases in 2012 to 338 last year. Wong made the statement in the PJ headquarters, […]

The central government’s newly appointed most senior representative in Macau, Li Gang, said yesterday that the city was able to cope with the current number of visitor arrivals, which he described as “appropriate,” but he also stressed that Macau must offer its tourists a quality service. Li, director of the Liaison Office of the Central […]

High-profile tycoon Steven Lo Kit-sing yesterday broke his silence in his corruption case, declaring to Macau’s Court of First Instance that he did not bribe the city’s disgraced former public works chief Ao Man-long, according to the South China Morning Post today. Lo, chairman of BMA Investments and convenor of the South China soccer club, […]

The government’s Energy Sector Development Office (GDSE) said Wednesday that it has completed drafting a by-law regulating the installation of photovoltaic facilities to generate electricity and that it expected the by-law to be promulgated later this year According to The Macau Post Daily, GDSE Director Arnaldo Ernesto dos Santos made the remarks to the media […]

Graft trial prosecutor says former works chief used Macau government projects to pursue his own interests with Hong Kong businessmen, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) today. It was Macau’s former public works chief Ao Man-long’s “precise design” that allowed a Hong Kong tycoon and businessman to buy the land involved in a […]

A survey conducted by the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) released Tuesday found that locals have become even more dissatisfied with the government’s policies last year than in 2011 – and they were most dissatisfied with the government’s housing and traffic policies. The findings also showed that legal and political […]

Public Security Police (PSP) officers Monday busted an illegal inn operating out of a flat in Nova Taipa Gardens, in which three illegal immigrants were staying, according to a statement by the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO). The office said that it had earlier received a tip-off that the flat housed an illegal inn but […]

Kiang Wu Hospital Deputy Director Chan Tai Ip said Sunday that the privately-run facility has enough beds for patients in case of a local outbreak of the potentially fatal H7N9 virus. Chan made the assurances at a sports event for Kiang Wu employees in the Macau Olympic Complex in Taipa. He said the hospital had […]