Police record 355 offences by cabbies in August

Members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum expressed dissatisfaction with the “slow” progress in the government’s diversification of the local economy. One member of the audience slammed the government for having ignored the development of the city’s environmental protection industry.However, two of the four guest speakers at the forum acknowledged the government’s effort in diversifying the city’s economy in recent years, one of whom said that the inability of the

The dust has settled and only five of the seven changes proposed by nine legislators survived. Rent control was voted down after a heated debate. Those passed into law are (1) extension of minimum lease term from 2 to 3 years; (2) establishment of an arbitration mechanism; and (3) notarisation of leases.The government considered high rent as threatening the livelihoods of poor families and survival of SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises). The rise in rent was, however, just to reflect the