Govt lifts 15-year poultry import ban from 7 countries, 4 Chinese regions

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said in his 2017 Policy Address yesterday that the government would continue to implement its current public housing policy in which social rental housing will be given priority over subsidised home ownership scheme (HOS) flats.Chui also said that the government would continue its annual “wealth-sharing” handout scheme next year – 9,000 patacas for permanent and 5,400 patacas for non-permanent residents, both amounts unchanged from this year.Presenting

The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union organised a protest march yesterday, urging the government to push the city’s six gaming operators to raise their workers’ wages by at least five per cent.According to Cloee Chao Sao Fong, the union’s high-profile leader, the protest rally also aimed to urge the government to reduce the number of non-resident workers and submit a trade union bill to the legislature.Speaking to reporters before the protest, Chao said that except Sands China, the