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May 21, 2018 -

Countdown to the new Personal Data Protection Regulation in Europe

by: João Gonçalves de Assunção The answer to this question is one you typically get from lawyers: it depends. But keep calm and ‘mou man tai’, for the statutory requirements are n...

May 11, 2018 -

Mothers’ Days

By: Susana Batalha As stated in Article 54 and 55 of the Macau Labour Law, female employees in the private sector who have worked for the same employer for one year or more are en...

May 06, 2017 -

Environmental Protection in Macao

The rapid economic development of the Macao Special Administrative Region in recent years and the consequent expansion of the construction, tourism and transport sectors, inevitabl...

May 04, 2017 -

Macau Land Law (Law no. 10/2013)

The rapid economic development that has taken place in Macau after the establishment of the Macau SAR has brought about the need to revise the Land Law that was in force before the...

October 26, 2016 -

Law N. 2/2016 Domestic Violence Legal Framework

In order to address the utter viciousness of domestic violence, the Legislative Assembly of Macau has approved the Law n. 2/2016, listing domestic violent actions as a public crime...

September 26, 2016 -

The Macau Law N. 6/2016 – Assets Freeze Legal Framework

As recently stated in the Regional Risk Assessment for South-East Asia & Australia (2016), issued by the reputable inter-governmental agency named FATF (Financial Action Task F...

August 17, 2015 -

The reversion of leased lands to the Macau Government

The reversion of leased lands to the Macau Government In 2009 the Macau Government, based in public interest principles and the fact that Macau lacks on available lands, created...

July 23, 2015 -

July 2015

Employee accidents during Hoisting of Tropical Cyclone defined as work accidents for the purpose of the Decree-Law No. 40/95/M The Law No. 6/2015, amending the Decree-Law No. 40...

June 26, 2015 -

FlashNews – Allegation of Hong Kong as non-cooperative tax jurisdiction

Allegation of Hong Kong as non-cooperative tax jurisdiction The European Union published on 17th of June its first list of international tax havens. The list includes 30 territori...

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