The Secretary for Security, Mr Cheong Kuok Va, said today that the police had enhanced the force to combat illegal labours and violent crimes such as murder and robbery.

Mr Cheong said this when he announced the crime statistics for the first quarter of 2007, which recorded 177 cases of violent crime, a drop of 8.3% compared with the same period last year. However, a total of 3,081 crimes were recorded in the first three months of 2007, an 17% increase (+447 cases).

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Simon Montlake wrote recently in the Christian Science Monitor about Macau’s “exhilarating” growth of late. Imagine yourself in a town where the GDP rose 17 percent last year and the law mandated that the highest paying of the thousands of new jobs must go to you, a local resident.

Desperate casinos are hiring college students before graduation and they are easy to spot as they doze off even in the midst of exams. One the face of it Macau, with salaries 3-6 times higher on average than the mainland, has re-nationalized and re-located the American Dream Eastward.

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Perched behind the front desk at the Pousada de Mong-Ha, a colonial-style hotel in Macau, Iris Lo looks every inch a professional hotelier in her dark bow tie, and gray tunic over a blue-striped blouse.

In a few months, that’s what she could be. For now, Ms. Lo is a fourth-year student at Macau’s elite Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS), where the hotel is located. Her outfit is the school’s uniform. She’s getting ready to graduate in a labor market so tight that most of her classmates have already lined up well-paid jobs in Macau’s burgeoning hospitality sector.

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The is long overdue as labour shortages in Macau are pressing and the only way to solve it, is by allowing more imported labour!

The Executive Council had just completed discussions on a bill aimed at overhauling labour laws that have been in effect for the past 18 years.

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We know already Macau is busting at it’s seams. But two recent articles are bringing doom but not gloom. There are just too many jobs but not enough people for those jobs in Macau.

Macao’s booming casino industry is to need at least 50,000 croupiers in 2009, The Macao Post Daily quoted Joao Bosco Cheang Hong Lok, chairman of the Macao Gaming Industry Workers Association, as saying that a large number of residents are keen to become croupiers as the job does not require high level education yet offers “good benefits.” The number of the current croupiers stood at 20,000 or 7 percent of Macao’s labor force.

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The Statistics and Census Service released the results of Employment Survey for the fourth quarter of 2006. Principal indicators such as the labour force participation rate (66.4%), unemployment rate (3.5%) and underemployment rate (0.8%) have been published in the brief report in January. The annual unemployment rate for 2006 was 3.7%, down by 0.4 percentage point compared with 4.1% in 2005.

In the fourth quarter of 2006, total labour force was estimated at 286,000, of which 276,000 were employed and 10,000 unemployed, representing an increase of 5,100 workers in the employed population and a decrease of 600 in the unemployed population over the previous quarter.

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It was too good an opportunity for Stanley Ho to ignore.

When the Macao gaming tycoon’s arch-rival, Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands Corp., sacked 160 dealers at the Sands Macao in November for not being up to snuff, Ho was quick to take advantage.

He invited the former Sands dealers to apply for jobs, declaring that “it is our duty of care to the Macao community to employ quality, talented local Macao residents and to nurture them for a long and successful career with our company.”

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Around seven hundred people have marched to the central government offices in Macau - calling for a halt to the importation of labour and better pay and public services. The protestors consisted of trade unionists, members of the pan-democratic camp and right of abode seekers.

They were angry that the influx of foreign workers to Macau was making it difficult for local people to find jobs. The march was timed to coincide with the seventh anniversary of Macau’s handover.

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