Politics

Paul Tse, the head of Keck Seng Group, one of Macau’s biggest real-estate developers, said the sector’s best is yet to come in anticipation of the next phase of growth driven by human capital expansion. In an interview with the Macau Inc. Magazine, the top executive of the group that built Ocean Gardens, said what […]

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) said in a statement Thursday that it was “highly” concerned about a local company claiming that it would pay “the highest prices” to purchase the city’s commemorative Chinese zodiac 10-pataca banknotes, vowing that it would ensure the “normal” circulation and supply of the city’s pataca currency. The quasi-central bank also […]

Macau needs to educate talented people and diversify its development in the current good times, to better prepare for possible difficulties in the future said Chinese deputy Prime Minister Zhang Dejiang in a meeting with Macau’s deputies to the National People’s Congress in Beijing. Zhang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau […]

Lawmakers urged the government Wednesday to stipulate in its amendment bill on land use that all information on any plot of land exempted from public tender must include the reasons for the exemption and the size of the respective plot, according to directly-elected lawmaker Kwan Tsui Hang who heads the legislature’s First Standing Committee. Kwan, […]

Representatives of a recently-established trade union for the gaming industry’s “frontline workers” urged the Health Bureau (SSM) Wednesday to ensure that it has inspectors on duty in the city’s casinos 24 hours a day to enforce a strict smoking ban in the non-smoking areas of the casinos. The union also urged the government to review […]

Public Security Police (PSP) Commissioner Lei Siu Peng said Tuesdaythat despite a relatively high number of job vacancies in the police force that needed to be filled, there were still enough officers to serve the public and maintain law and order. Lei said that the PSP currently employed about 4,500 officers, of which roughly 1,000 […]

At the end of 2012 the population in Macau was estimated at 582,000 an increase of 4%4 year-on year,  according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSE), with female accounted for 51.8% of the total population. As regards the age structure, the elderly population (aged 65 and over) took up 7.7% of the total, up […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Monday that thorough research will be carried out to assess the effect of the mainland’s individual visit scheme on the city’s economic development in the past 10 years, vowing that the scheme will never be allowed to have an adverse impact onresidents’ quality of life. Chui made the […]

Pupils who go to tutorial classes after school have a lower reading ability and understanding of their subjects than pupils who do not go to tutorial classes. This is one of the surprising findings of a study conducted in Macau by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and […]