Chui & senior officials take first LRT ride

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, accompanied by senior officials and members of his top advisory body, yesterday took the first ride on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system, according to a statement by the Chief Executive Office (GCE).The journey included the LRT Taipa line’s depot in Cotai. The system is slated to come into service later this year.In the morning, the members of Chui’s delegation went to the operations control centre of the LRT depot where Transport Infrastructure

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

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By-election for legislature’s business sector seat slated for Nov 24

A by-election for the business sector’s seat in the Legislative Assembly (AL) will be held on November 24, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.By law, all elections in Macau shall be held on a Sunday.The order was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, whose term at the helm of the local government ends at midnight on December 19.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

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2,000 to join annual martial arts contest: organiser

There will be about 2,000 participants at next week’s SJM Cup – The 8th Macau International Wushu Festival and Macau International Martial Arts Competition, the head of the event, Fok Chi Chiu, said yesterday.Fok made the remarks during a press conference at Kam Pek Community Centre in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.The martial arts festival, which will take place from next Tuesday to Friday, is co-organised by the Macau Chinese National Traditional Sports Association and SJM Holdings. Fok

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

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21 main roadworks to go on during summer holidays: govt

About 21 main roadwork projects are to be carried out during this summer holiday, 80 percent of which will be finished before the new school year begins in September, Transport Bureau (DSAT) Coordination Department Chief Mok Soi Tou said yesterday.The bureau held a press conference yesterday on its premises to introduce the city’s ongoing main roadworks. Various public utilities’ representatives also attended.Mok told the press conference that 21 roadworks involving the city’s major roads

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

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HK teenage couple sell, take cocaine in Macau: police

An 18-year-old youth from Hong Kong was hired by a man in Hong Kong to sell cocaine in Macau, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday, adding that his 16-year-old girlfriend – also from Hong Kong – was caught taking drugs.The teenager, surnamed Lee, was caught in the early hours of Sunday in Rua de Malaca in Zape with 20 packs of cocaine. Lee was picked up by PSP officers on routine patrol who had noticed his “suspicious”

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Residents oppose redevelopment of Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel

Several representatives of condominium owners and tenants of Chun Hung Garden in Taipa yesterday expressed strong opposition to a project to redevelop the mothballed Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel next to their residential estate, saying that the project’s planned height limit of 140 metres provisionally approved by the authorities, combined with the nearby 160-metre-high Altira Macau casino-hotel, would create a wall effect affecting residents living in the estate.Chun Hung Garden –

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt redrafts civil protection bill

The government has presented a new draft of its civil protection framework bill to the legislature which no longer refers to “groundless” information or news or those “with ulterior motives”.The Secretariat for Security released the new version on Friday in response to criticism by journalists about the original wording of one of the bill’s articles which made it a crime to disseminate “false” information or news or those “with ulterior motives” concerning public emergencies

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Veteran lawmaker set to be new speaker: sources

Veteran lawmaker Kou Hoi In is expected to become the new president of the Legislative Assembly (AL) on Wednesday, informed sources have told The Macau Post Daily.The sources, who asked not to be named, said that Kou, born in 1953, was the most suitable replacement of Ho Iat Seng, who resigned from the legislature earlier this month so that he can run for chief executive in next month’s election.Kou, who has been a member of the legislature since 1991, is its longest-serving member. He is an

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt says won’t implement social credit system

The mainland’s social credit system will not be implemented in Macau, the Policy Research and Regional Development Bureau (DSEPDR) said in a statement on Friday.The bureau operates under the direct supervision of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.According to the statement, the non-implementation of the system is due to Macau’s status as one of the nation’s two special administrative regions that in line with the “One Country, Two Systems” principle has its own legal system.PLEASE

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Gung Luen forum talks about GBA opportunities for local youths

The Youth Committee of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions hosted yesterday a forum to talk about the opportunities local youngsters have in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) at its headquarters in Patane.The federation is widely known as Gung Luen, its Cantonese name.The committee invited speakers from different industries to share their experiences as working adults. According to a statement by the committee, it hoped that by hosting the forum, local youths would be encouraged to work in the GBA

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Suncity boss says won’t take legal action against media

Local junket operator Suncity Group Chairman Alvin Chau Cheok Wa said on Saturday that no legal action would be taken against any media, a U-turn from his company’s statement last week following an allegedly “false report” about claims that it was running an illegal online gaming business.Chau held a press conference at Mandarin Oriental in Nape on Saturday where he read out a statement, insisting that his company and related companies have not engaged in any business violating mainland

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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CE electoral affairs chief says hopefuls rise to 9

Chief Executive Electoral Affairs Commission President Song Man Lei said on Friday that nine local residents plan to run in the chief executive election next month and have picked up their respective nomination forms.Song also said that four of the nine potential candidates have obtained contact information about the members of the Chief Executive Election Committee from her commission. She pointed out that all the chief executive hopefuls can request the contact information about the members

July 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Cotai subcontractor forges documents & hires illegal workers: police

Fifteen people from a Cotai construction site were arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Tuesday and Wednesday for alleged document forgery and the illegal hiring of non-local workers, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.Ho said all 15 suspects are males, aged 27 to 52. One of them is from Hong Kong, while the others are from the mainland. Ho noted that the illegal workers were paid 1,000 patacas per day.According to Ho, the case was reported by a “large

July 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Coffee shops to screen local amateurs’ short films

Seventeen short films produced by local amateurs will get a public screening at local coffee shops and then will tour Taiwan and Japan, as part of the “Present Future Film Festival” programme.The festival is a project by the Amateur Continuing Study Centre iCentre, which belongs to the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly called “Gung Luen” in Cantonese), in collaboration with Taiwan Future Film Development Association, Video Party Kyoto, and Future File Day Executive

July 12, 2019 | BY admin

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