Politics

Macau, China, 13 Jun -Taiwan police on Saturday repatriated 122 phone and Internet scam suspects to the island via Macau on a chartered plane, The Macau Post Daily reports today.   Another 100 suspects are slated to be flown back to Taiwan from Indonesia today in the operation’s second round of repatriations following a massive cross-border crime crackdown, […]

Macau, China, 8 Jun – Macau, China, 8 Jun – Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Director Wang Guangya will pay his first working visit to Macau next week, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced Tuesday. According to the announcement the visit between next Tuesday and Thursday will take place at the invitation of […]

Macau, China, 7 Jun – The Public Security Police (PSP) announced Monday the arrest of 14 suspected pickpockets from the mainland allegedly involved in a legion of recent thefts in the city main thoroughfare, San Ma Lou, The Macau Post Daily reported today. A PSP spokesperson said in a press conference that all the 14 […]

Macau, China, 2 Jun – Secretary for Economic and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Wednesday that the central government would "shortly" approve favorable policies to encourage Macau businesses to invest in the Guangdong-Macau Co-operative Industrial Park in Hengqin island. Tam said he believed the green light from Beijing would come in the second half […]

Macau, China, 1 Jun -The government’s expenditure in the January-April period stood at 10.4 billion patacas, up 115.6 percent year-on-year, the Finance Service Bureau (DSF) announced yesterday.   The government’s revenue rose 46.5 percent year-on-year to 33.1 billion patacas in the January-April period, resulting in an overall surplus of 22.7 billion patacas, up 27.8 percent […]

Macau, China, 26 May -A Portuguese lawyer was attacked Wednesday by a young man who threw corrosive liquid over him burning about a tenth of his body, informed sources told The Macau Post Daily. The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement that it has launched an investigation into the case. The Judiciary Police said  […]

Macau, China, 25 May – An audit report released Tuesday found that the government’s Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) spent 260 million patacas on the core service and construction contracts for the Macau light rail project, which were not included in the publicly announced 7.5 billion patacas (US$ 930 million) budget, which itself already has overrun. […]

Macau, China, 17 May – The number of noise complaints received by the Public Security Police (PSP) rose 13.9 percent year-on-year to 4,435 cases last year, just 59.9 percent of which resulted in an official warning, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a summary of its 2010 environmental statistics Monday. According to the […]

Macau, CHina, 13 May – Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Thursday that the government would start paying out its one-off extra “cash handout” from August or September. Tam made the remark after a meeting of the government’s Non-resident Workers Employment Concern Commission, which comes under the Social Affairs Co-ordination Standing […]