Politics

Macau’s Customs Service said Monday that its officers have seized the largest amount of untaxed tobacco since the 1999 handover, with the confiscation of 4.38 tonnes of untaxed tobacco, amounting to about 870,000 patacas in unpaid tax. A Customs spokesperson pointed out that the confiscated tobacco could have been used to make some 4.78 million […]

A recent local court decision to appoint a medical team from Macau to co-ordinate with a hospital in Hong Kong to evaluate whether or not real-estate tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung’s health allows him to stand trial in a high-profile graft case has been abruptly axed. Health Bureau (SSM) Vice Director Cheang Seng Ip told reportersSunday […]

The overall crime rate in Macau rose slightly by 2.7 percent during the first quarter, or 85 cases more than the same period last year, according to official data release by the government. Drug trafficking cases surged by an alarming 70.3 percent, which does not include the 55kg of cocaine that was seized earlier this […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted nine suspects from the mainland – one man and eight women – in Taipa and the Nam Van area for alleged membership of a criminal organisation that provided sex and drugs to clients. A PJ spokesperson said in a press conference on Friday that officers received a tip-off a month […]

There will be just 10 local crèche places for 18 babies on average next year, according to the results of a survey announced by the Collective Wisdom Policy Centre (CWPC) Thursday. Using official data provided by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) on the number of births in the past three years and information provided […]

Sands China said in a terse statement Wednesday it was neither selling its Four Seasons Hotel nor spinning off of the company’s shopping mall assets through a business or real estate investment trust. The statement followed Hong Kong media reports that Sands China had allegedly sold 19 serviced apartments in the Four Seasons Hotel in […]

In what police officers described yesterday as the largest drug bust in Macau’s history, the Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested four Filipinos – two males and two females – on Saturday in two local hotels. The four suspects were identified by police as a 44-year-old man surnamed Ermino, a 36-year-old man surnamed Jinlan, a 25-year-old woman […]

The government has announced that it will start paying the 637,892 beneficiaries of its annual “wealth sharing” scheme on July 2, which will cost the government about 4.88 billion patacas. Leong Heong Teng, spokesman for the 10-member advisory Executive Council (ExCo), said during a press conference on Friday that the government had completed a by-law […]

The European Union (EU) released Thursday the annual report on Macau highlighting the measures taken to the  “economic diversification” in a economy largely depending on gaming, The joint report  (issued by the European Commission and the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) was released  by the European Union Office to […]