Politics

Macau, China, 29 Oct – Macau will set up a key state laboratory of Chinese medicine, which will help promote high-tech research in medicine, improve Guangdong-Macau co-operation and aid in the development of the Hengqin Chinese Medical Technology Industrial Park, said Chui Sai On, chief executive of Macao Special Administrative Region. Chui announced this during […]

Macau, China, 27 Oct – The 2010 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published by Transparency International, ranked Macau 46th among 178 countries in the world, and 10th among 33 countries and regions of Asia Pacific, down three points in the world ranking and one in the regional index. In the report released Tuesday in Berlin by […]

Macau, China, 25 Oct – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On met with the honorary chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Wu Poh-hsiung during his official visit in Macau on Saturday. Wu together with a prominent business delegation from Taiwan attended the 7th World Summit of Chinese Entrepreneurs at the Venetian Macau upon the invitation […]

Macau, China, 21 Oct – The president of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), Jorge Neto Valente, Wednesday slammed the local judiciary for its sluggishness. Addressing a ceremony marking the start of the 2010/2011 Judicial Year in Macau, Neto Valente also called for the hiring of more Portuguese-Chinese interpreters and translators from the mainland as well […]

Macau, China, 19 Oct -Twenty-four out of Macau’s 29 lawmakers, who were all present at Monday’s Legislative Assembly’s (AL) plenary meeting, voted against grassroots lawmakers Au Kam San, Chan Wai Chi and Ng Kuok Cheong’s motion to congratulate jailed mainland dissident Liu Xiaobo on winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2010. During the plenary meeting outspoken […]

Macau, China, 14 Oct – The Macau Government will sign Friday an agreement contract with the Urban Planning Society of China and the China Academy of Urban Planning & Design to study the development of the new land reclamation projects for Macau, according o official statement. Both chinese companies will be paid a total of […]

Macau, China, 13 Oct -Transportation Infrastructure Office technical consultant Michael Lam Soi Hoi said Tuesday that the government planned to extend the Macau Light Rapid Transit (LRT) route to Zhuhai’s Hengqin border checkpoint where it could be linked up to an interchange with the future Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Lam, that was speaking […]

Macau, China, 30 Sept – The Macau Public Security Police (PSP) has urged organisers of a protest march scheduled for Friday to change their routes to avoid the busy city thoroughfares of Avenida Almeida Ribeiro, known locally as San Ma Lou, and Avenida de Horta Costa, a move which saw another protest march turn into […]