Politics

The Macau government’s Food Safety Co-ordination Group urged residents in a statement Monday not to consume certain batches of Cow & Gate baby formula products that are being recalled by the UK dairy products company because they may contain a potentially deadly bacteria that can cause botulism. The company said that it was recalling batches […]

Starting out as a group on Facebook about a year ago to give peer support to mothers and promote breastfeeding, the Macau Breastfeeding Association was officially set up Sunday with the aim to have a law enacted to protect mothers wishing to breastfeed in public places. Any law would have to be passed by the […]

Macau’s number of licensed motor vehicles rose five percent year-on-year to 220,591 at the end of June, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Wednesday. Scooters and other types of motorcycles accounted for 53 percent of the total number of motor vehicles. The number of new registrations of motor vehicles increased eight percent to 8,994 […]

A local concern group for the rights of the disabled – Macau Special Olympics – Monday slammed the government for its perceived failure to assist the city’s disabled in integrating into society as many disabled residents were still unable to use most public facilities. Siu Yu Hong, a social worker who heads the group, made […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers have caught another drug swallower from Tanzania on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine via Macau into the mainland, this time swallowing 1.091 kg of the drug with an estimated street price of roughly HK$900,000. In a press conference held at the PJ headquarters on Saturday, a PJ spokesperson said that […]

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement Thursday that they seized 78 tiger fangs weighing 1.7 kg and 69 tiger claws weighing 190 grammes disguised as egg rolls on Wednesday. According to the statement cited by The Macau Post Daily, the fangs and claws were discovered in the luggage of a mainland man in […]

Deputy Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in Macau Zhang Jingfeng said Tuesday the commission was firmly against any outside forces interfering in Macau’s internal affairs, referring to the direct and indirectlegislative elections in September. According to The Macau Post Daily, Zhang made the comments while speaking to about 100 secondary school pupils who were visiting […]

The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday that rising residential rents contributed to last month’s inflation rate of 5.31 percent year-on-year. However, the bureau did not say by how much the rental rates were up last month, merely saying that the composite consumer price index (CPI) of housing and fuels rose 8.91 percent. A […]

The new campus of the University of Macau (UM) on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province was handed over to Macaugovernment on Saturday, in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing. In 2009, the government signed a leasing contract for the land where UM will now operate, at a cost […]