Politics

Business leaders are the big winners and grassroots groups the big losers of Sunday’s direct legislative election. The Macau United Citizens Association (ACUM) electoral group headed by businessman-cum-Fujianese community leader Chan Meng Kam won an unprecedented three directly-elected seats in the 33-member legislature. Aside from Chan, the group’s second- and third-ranked candidates, Si Ka Lon […]

The Public Security Police (PSP) announced Thursday the arrests of two mainland women for false imprisonment and loan sharking on Wednesday. According to The Macau Post Daily, a PSP spokesperson announced the arrests in a regular press conference. According to the spokesperson, three suspects, all from mainland women, are allegedly involved in the case but […]

Those who climb over fences to the University of Macau’s new campus in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, will be punished for illegal border crossing, an official with the provincial border control agency confirmed to the Global Times. The Zhuhai-based Zhujiang Evening News reported over the weekend that since the construction of the new campus was completed […]

A survey conducted by the Macau Clerical Employees General Association found that the stress that local white-collar workers are under is “bearable” and also that the support of families and friends could help relieve their pressure. The findings of the survey on local workers’ stress were presented in a press conference Wednesday, chaired by the […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) Tuesday busted a Vietnamese drug-trafficking gang that operated in Macau for at least five months, leading to the arrests of nine suspects – two women and seven men. PJ spokesman Vong Chi Hong announced the case after the arrests were made. The suspects are aged between 23 and 33. According to […]

Responding to concerns that individual polling booths shrouded in a cloth would make it simple for voters to take a photo of their ballot paper to show who they voted for, especially if they had been coerced into voting for a particular group, the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) said in a statement Monday […]

Just 7,650 votes could be enough to win a directly-elected seat in Sunday’s Legislative Assembly ballot, according to an article by local political scientist Paulo Godinho in the Portuguese-language daily Tribuna de Macau on Friday. This would mean that 4.5 percent of the total number of votes would suffice to win one of the 14 […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Sunday he had noticed different opinions about the performance of the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL). However, he insisted that the committee always acted in line with the law. Chui made the remarks to reporters in the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal before he left Macau for the […]

Guangdong, one of China’s economic powerhouses, is conducting a feasibility study of a free trade zone (FTZ) in cooperation with the neighboring Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions, according to the newspaper China Daily. The paper said that officials in the southern province have been urged to apply “immediately” for central government approval to […]