Politics

Macau, China, 13 Jul – The future Chief Executive of Macau vowed Saturday to regulate the city’s gambling business better to avoid excessive competition and diversify the economic base. Fernando Chui Sai On, who will officially replace Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah in December, also said he will build 19,000 public housing flats by […]

Macau, China, 9 Jul – The Macau population is more relieved and confident that the worst period of the crisis is now over and its impact on their own lives and on Macau overall is nearing an end, according to a report released on Wednesday in the Special Administrative Region. The Quality of Life Report […]

Macau, China, 06 Jul – Guangdong governor Huang Huahua will arrive in Macau Wednesday as head of an official delegation for a two-day working visit, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced Tuesday. Huang Huahua and his delegation will attend the 2009 Guangdong-Macau Joint Cooperation Conference and will visit several facilities and projects such as […]

Macau, China, 03 Jul – The Macau court of Second Instance (TSI) Thursday rejected convicted 14 K triad boss Wan Kuok Kio’s request for early release from jail. The court described his appeal against a lower court ruling on the matter as " groundless". Wan, widely known by his nickname "Broken Tooth", has been in […]

Macau, China, 17 Jun – Fernando Chui Sai On is set to be the new Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region of Macau from 20 December of this year for a five-year term. Confirmation of his victory came on Tuesday after he submitted his nomination list, which contained a number of signatures that were […]

Macau, China, 16 Jun – The former and last governor of Macau, Vasco da Rocha Vieira, said on Monday that Portugal forgot and neglected the territory that was under Portuguese administration for 450 years, according with the Portuguese News Agency Lusa. General Rocha Vieira, who governed Macau until 19 December, 1999, said that Macau has […]

Macau, China, 12 Jun – Chief Executive (CE) candidate Fernando Chui Sai On is likely to run alone after Public Prosecutor-General Ho Chiu Meng announced in an interview published by the Chinese-language Macau Daily News Thursday that he will not stand in next month’s CE election. Ho Chiu Meng had been widely rumoured to be […]

Macau, China, 11 Jun – The government will spend 100 million patacas ( US$ 12.5 million)  on the purchase of one million doses of A (H1N1) vaccines, Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion announced  Wednesday. Lei Chin Ion said the order was enough to provide two doses per resident. At the end of March, […]

Macau, China, 10 Jun – Some 73.5 percent of the respondents of a survey commissioned by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said they believed that illegalities and irregularities in the public administration were “very common” or “common” according to he Macao Post Daily. The findings of the annual survey were released by the CCAC Tuesday. […]