Author: Julie Zhu, MDT
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Chief Executive Election | Ho Iat Seng confident, welcomes grassroots competition
The President of the Legislative Assembly (AL), Ho Iat Seng, said yesterday he was confident in his bid to become the third Chief Executive of Macau, ... -
Another political outsider joins Chief Executive race
Choi Teng Teng, a local ‘grassroots’ woman who says she supports democracy and dreams of becoming Chief Executive, visited the administration building yesterday to express her ... -
New association hopes to promote youth integration across borders
A new association hopes to promote cultural exchange among students in the Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau Greater Bay Area. The purpose behind the newly-created Association for Cultural ... -
Analysis | Environmental Bureau awards 19 hotels for ‘going green’
A total of 19 hotels were awarded at the Macao Green Hotel Awards, held by the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) on Friday, for their environmentally friendly ... -
Civil Servants Association | Secretary Alexis Tam urged to improve health, education
The Macau Civil Servants Association had a meeting with Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam to discuss several social affairs issues, including health, education ... -
Chief Executive election | New Macau to hold Sunday meeting calling for universal suffrage
New Macau Association (ANM) is planning a meeting on Sunday in front of Escola Luso-Chinesa Técnico-Professional to demand universal suffrage in the upcoming Chief Executive election. ... -
Grassroots candidates knocking on Chief Executive’s door
Many Macau residents hope that they will have more people listening to their voices through different opportunities, such as the opportunity for election,” the city’s youngest ... -
Legislative Assembly | Secretary Wong refutes claims Macau is undemocratic
The Civil Protection Law was approved in general terms during yesterday’s Legislative Assembly (AL) plenary session, amid some lawmakers’ worries against the advent of a new ... -
Legislative Assembly | Democrats urge lawmakers to rehabilitate June 4 memory
Pro-DEMOCRACY lawmakers Sulu Sou, Au Kam San and Ng Kuok Cheong voiced their concerns about the memories of the June Fourth Movement during yesterday’s Legislative Assembly ... -
Cybersecurity | Government banned from collecting internet data
The final draft of the cyber security law was discussed and passed at yesterday’s Legislative Assembly (AL) session. The bill proposed to set up the Committee ... -
Executive Council | Proposal would extend maternity leave, resolve overlapping holidays
The Executive Council has completed its discussion on the proposed amendments for the labor relations law and minimum wage law, deciding to establish paternity leave, holiday ... -
Sulu Sou calls for lawmakers to vote sensibly on his appeal
Lawmaker Sulu Sou has called upon the city’s lawmakers to vote sensibly on his appeal regarding the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) decision to reject and deny the ... -
Crime | Taxi drivers conspired to keep passenger’s money
Three taxi drivers have been brought to the prosecution authority, being accused of conspiring to retain possession of a passenger’s property, the Public Security Police Force ... -
Logistics, trade and technology: the core of booming Bay Area economy
The logistics, trade and technology industries are believed to benefit the most from the development of the Greater Bay Area, according to speakers at the 10th ... -
Tourism | MGTO: residents divided over visitor tax
Macau residents are not showing a clear consensus in favor or against a tax applied to visitors to the SAR, according to the Director of the ... -
Chui Sai On hopes Macau infrastructure forum will promote GBA
The 10th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF) officially kicked off at the Venetian Macao yesterday, with Macau Chief Executive Chui Sai On expressing his ... -
Greater Bay tourism far from sustainable, says professor
Tourists coming to the Greater Bay Area have not been evenly distributed across its 11 cities, said Xu Honggang, Dean of the School of Tourism Management ... -
New IPIM head reports 40 suspicious immigration cases
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has spotted approximately 40 suspicious applications of major investment immigration and technical immigration, according to Irene Va Kuan ... -
Ambrose So | Visitor tax would ‘certainly affect tourism’ in Macau
The Chief Executive of SJM Holdings Limited, Ambrose So, said on Friday that the effectiveness of a levy imposed on visitors to the Macau SAR would ... -
Coutinho says gov’t reviewing housing reserved for civil servants
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan is said to have already submitted a report to the Chief Executive on a proposal to build housing specially ... -
Analysis | Bargain GBA islands unlikely to meet investor expectations
In April, the Department of Natural Resources of Guangdong Province issued the trial measures for the sale of non-resident island use rights, according to which the ... -
Chief Executive election | Commentators bemoan single-candidate charade
Social commentators are criticizing the prospect of Macau facing yet another single-candidate election for the next Chief Executive, adding that they believe the position has already ... -
Polylingual peacekeepers wanted for Macau parks
Lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong has written an inquiry to the government asking it to arrange for helpers to be stationed at public playgrounds in order to ... -
Security force plans to expand power of disciplinary body
The security authority intends to expand the powers of both the security force and the security discipline inspection commission, according to Secretary for Security Wong Sio ... -
Pro-democrats propose amendment for public house and affordable house acts
The New Macau Association (ANM) is making proposals to the government regarding the social housing act and economic housing act bill. Yesterday, members of ANM reported ... -
Macau celebrates China Space Day for second year
The local Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) and the Science and Technology Development Fund have invited approximately 400 middle school students to participate in the ... -
Guangdong announces policies allowing private ownership of GBA islands
Come to GBA to be an island owner,” mainland news outlet 21st Century Business Herald wrote in a report about the latest document issued by the ... -
Ho Iat Seng’s resignation accepted, gears up for CE candidacy
The 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) has accepted the resignation tendered by Ho Iat Seng, the chairman of Macau’s Legislation Assembly (AL), making him the first ... -
Hong Kong | Carrie Lam disappointed after extradition bill’s first legislative hurdle
The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, is disappointed with the Legislative Council of Hong Kong because the council, in its first meeting, failed to ... -
Pearl Horizon buyers insist they don’t want to carry on demonstrations
Yesterday, a group of five buyers of the former Pearl Horizon project delivered a petition to the Liaison Office in Macau asking its director to help ... -
Executive Council | Healthcare vouchers going electronic
Yesterday, the Executive Council (ExCo) completed its discussion on the amendment of two administrative regulation drafts and one draft law. These drafts are related to drugs, ... -
Hengqin | 24-hour construction to meet Macau’s 20th anniversary deadline
Zhuhai is likely to continue carrying out 24-hour construction in order to prepare several projects in time for the 20th anniversary of the Macau handover. According ... -
Our Desk | Mega project may be too small
The Secretary of Transport and Public Works has voiced the opinion that the mega projects already built in Macau, in addition to the ones which will ... -
Legislative Assembly | Rosário favors higher plastic tax, but not before public consultation
The local government is open to raising the plastic bag levy higher than the one pataca suggested in the law proposal, according to Secretary for Transport ... -
HKZMB | Hengqin property deals surge on Delta Bridge effect
The number of residential property transactions in Hengqin increased more than 75 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, Centaline Property (Macau) revealed yesterday during a press ...
