Floating body found: police

Macau’s population rose by 2,700 to 686,400 between last year’s fourth quarter and this year’s first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. According to a DSEC statement, the increase was mainly due to a rise in the number of non-resident workers (NRWs) living in Macau.Based on Macau’s land area of 33.3 sq.km, its population density reached 20,612 per sq.km at the end of March, one of the world’s highest. Females accounted for 53.4 percent of

Labour rights activist Lee Sio Kuan said yesterday that his group, Ou Mun Kong I (“Macau Righteousness”), No. 17 on the ballot, was urging the government to implement an effective housing policy, proposed by his group, to help young people who are neither eligible to apply for public housing units nor can afford to buy their own flat in the private property market.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily yesterday at the Workers’ Power Union’s office in Areia Preta, Lee, who heads the union,