Politics

The government’s registration process, which gives local parents or guardians of babies aged below one priority to purchase seven popular brands of baby formula of up to five tins per month, will start today. Only babies holding a local ID card will benefit from the scheme. The government promised on Friday it will guarantee that […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and his delegation held “very positive” meetings with central government officials in Beijing about new border-crossing facilities and flood-prevention measures, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement. The statement paraphrased by Chui and two of his senior officials during a press briefing in the capital after […]

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office chief Lo Muh-kuen said Tuesday that he would leave his current position at the end of next month as his official term ends on March 1. Lo made the announcement to the media on the sidelines of the opening of an exhibition organised by local student groups introducing universities in […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Monday that he was visiting Beijing to “exchange views” on a future Macau-Guangdong cross-border driving scheme but was quick to add that he did not plan to put it on the agenda for this year’s Guangdong-Macau Framework Agreement co-operation work. Chui also said that a new border checkpoint […]

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement Wednesday that the first local case of imported dengue fever had been found in an 11-year-old Filipino boy returning from a trip to the Philippines with his parents. The boy, who studies in Macau and lives in the Tap Seac area, went to the Philippines with his […]

The Audit Commission (CA) has criticised the government’s Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) for its failure to correctly assess the budget for the new campus of the public University of Macau (UM) in Hengqin Island, asserting that any “inadequate cost estimate” in the government’s construction budgets would lead to public resources not being allocated effectively. The […]

Maritime Administration (CP) Director Susana Wong Soi Man announced Sunday that a water recycling plant to serve the Macau peninsula and Taipa would possibly be built in one of the city’s five new areas to be reclaimed from the sea in the next few years. Two of the future land reclamation areas are located off […]

Macau and Shenzhen will enhance co-operation in fields including food, supervision of medical drugs and finance, Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui SaiOn and Shenzhen Mayor Xu Qin vowed Tuesday, the China Daily reported. Chui and Xu made the commitment after witnessing the signing of six co-operation agreements at the annual Shenzhen-Macau co-operation meeting in the […]

A trial involving eight defendants accused of bribing jailed former policy secretary Ao Man Long was delayed for the second time Monday after Hong Kong realty tycoon Joseph Lau Luen Hung’s lawyer presented a medical certificate that says Lau suffers from diabetes and other conditions. Presiding judge Mário Augusto Silvestre said during Monday’s Court of […]