Politics

The Macau Association of Parents of the Mentally Handicapped opened its first supermarket Wednesday in which the group aims to provide job training for disabled people so that they are able to find a job in a commercially run supermarket easier after they have completed two years training. Ho Wong Fong, supervisor of the association […]

The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, called on the people to join hands to help build a better Macao in the Year of the Horse. The Government would continue to implement the long-term effective mechanisms and join hands with the people to build a better Macao to achieve fruitful prospects, Mr Chui said in […]

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said that the government’s crowd control measures in the city centre over the Chinese New Year holiday had so far been effective in providing a safer environment for pedestrians due to the huge number of tourists. Cited by The Macau Post Daily, she also […]

The day after the government decided to ban the import of live chickens from Foshan’s Shunde district, as a result of Hong Kong’s  of H7N9 avian flu virus in a batch of poultry imported from the area, forcing the Hong Kong government to cull 20,000 chickens, Macau  residents condidently predicted that an outbreak will not […]

The government has set up a “human resources development committee” that will introduce elite-nurturing programmes and encourage overseas-trained locals to return to Macau as part of the government’s policy to cultivate a skilled workforce. Government spokesperson Alexis Tam Chon Weng announced in Government House Tuesday that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will  head the […]

Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) Director Susana Wong Soi Man said Thursday that the bureau expects to take over some areas of the long-delayed Pac On ferry terminal in Taipa in the middle of this year and aims to have it finally operational within the year. A temporary ferry terminal is currently being used while […]

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 […]