GDP decline slows to 7.1 pct in Q2

Direct legislative election group Progress Promotion Union (UPP) said yesterday that its political platform puts special emphasis on policies to improve residents’ daily lives while the group is also calling for the implementation of an accountability system for government officials.The election group’s nine candidates announced their political platform during a press conference yesterday at Pak Wai Activities Centre.The centre is run by the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement that its subsistence team yesterday distributed free emergency food packs, or extra food packs with vegetables and frozen meat, to households in the locked-down buildings in Red Code Zones in preparation for the typhoon.The gradual lockdown of a number of residential buildings began last Wednesday when the first case of the current COVID-19 was diagnosed.Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 3 was in force when the statement was issued. The statement