Govt insists on location of new central library: official

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said yesterday on the sidelines of a regular Cultural Heritage Council meeting that the government had already made up its mind to build the new central library at the Old Courthouse.Ung also said the bidding process for the library’s detailed design plan would start later this year.Ung said: “We have decided to build [the new central library] on the site where the Old Courthouse is standing... We do not have any more time to

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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Residents’ health improves from 5 years ago: govt

Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun said yesterday that residents’ health had improved from five years ago. Pun also said he was satisfied with the findings of a report that was released by the bureau yesterday. Pun spoke to reporters after a press conference about the government’s report on the 2015 Health Physical Fitness Test. The press conference was held at the Olympic Sports Centre in Taipa.Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun talks to the media after

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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Jobless rate stays at 1.9 pct,

Macau’s officially estimated unemployment rate remained at 1.9 percent in the Statistics and Census Bureau’s (DSEC) June-August employment survey period compared with the May-July period. The bureau said in a statement yesterday that the rate also stayed unchanged from the same period last year. The city’s total labour force in June-August amounted to 400,000 when the labour force participation rate stood at 72.7 percent. Total employment increased by 600 from May-July to

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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Venezuelan nurse caught with cocaine worth 12 million patacas: police

A Venezuelan female nurse was caught at the airport at 3 a.m. yesterday for smuggling 4.1 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the drugs have a street value of about 12 million patacas.After receiving a tip-off that traffickers were planning to smuggle drugs into the city hidden in the linings of their suitcases, the police strengthened their inspections of

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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Surveillance would help ban on off-duty gaming staff entering casinos: scholar

Professor Davis Fong Ka Chio, who heads the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming at the University of Macau (UM), said yesterday that it would be easy to implement a ban on gaming workers entering casinos during their leisure time, particularly with the assistance of advanced surveillance systems already installed in casinos.Fong made the comments while speaking to reporters on the UM campus in Hengqin where he attended the opening ceremony of the annual Responsible Gambling awareness

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab 27 suspected casino loansharks

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced the arrests of 27 mainlanders on suspicion of being members of a casino loansharking gang.PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced the case during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters.According to Ho, the suspects comprise 23 men and four women, aged between 20 to 53, most of them from Fujian province.PJ officers escort hooded loansharking suspects to vehicles parked outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat

September 28, 2016 | BY admin

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4 locals cheat VIP room out of HK$24 million with ‘tampered’ cards in 1/2 hour

A casino pit manager and three junket workers have been detained for using a pack of apparently tampered-with cards in a baccarat game and managed to cheat a VIP room out of HK$24 million in just 30 minutes of gambling.The Judiciary Police (PJ) held a special press conference yesterday during which PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said that the four are all local residents.According to Ho, the foursome consists of a pit manager surnamed Ao, aged 38, and three junket workers: a 39-year-old surnamed

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Worker injures head when falling from Grand Prix stands

A non-resident worker fell yesterday about five metres while setting up the seating in the stands for the Grand Prix at the Guia circuit’s Lisboa Bend in Avenida da Amizade The 45-year-old man sustained head injuries and a broken left arm, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said. The man was conscious when he was taken to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre.The 63rd Macau Grand Prix will take place from November 17 to 20. Firemen attend to the injured worker on stretcher

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Ban on off-duty gaming staff entering casinos impractical: scholar

Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) Professor Zeng Zhonglu said yesterday it was difficult to implement a ban on gaming workers from entering casinos during their leisure time. He also said it was important to strengthen newly-hired dealers’ awareness of the possible dangers of gambling.The Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) said in July that it was studying the feasibility of a ban on gaming employees from entering local casinos during their free time. The bureau said it

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Institute to launch trilingual medical lexicon

The Portuguese Orient Institute (IPO) will launch a trilingual medical lexicon– Portuguese, Chinese, English – on Thursday, the Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM reported yesterday. According to the report, the lexicon consists of 5,700 medical terms, with Portuguese as the source language, comprising a range of medical fields such as paediatrics, ophthalmology, cardiology, dermatology, and psychiatry.  The Association of Portuguese-speaking

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to pay 1 billion patacas to new contractor for LRT depot

The government has granted China Construction and Engineering (Macau) Company Limited the contract for the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) depot in Cotai, for 1.07 billion patacas, according to yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO).Earlier this year, the government said it had terminated the construction contract with the depot’s original contractor. The government said it had paid 85 million patacas to the original contractor for the work it had completed.The construction of the

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Group urges govt to improve property management bill

An ad-hoc group consisting of members of several property management committees yesterday opposed an article in a government-draft bill regulating the management of the common areas of residential buildings.The article states that property management committee members should be held responsible for jeopardising condominium owners’ interests if they wrongly implemented decisions made at the owners’ general meetings.Mok Kam Heng, the convener of the ad hoc group, spoke to reporters after he

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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2 nabbed for HK$1.1 million fraud, 1 at large: police

Two men were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of cheating a mainland man out of about HK$1.15 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular briefing yesterday.According to Ho, the local 31-year-old suspect, surnamed Kwan, is unemployed while the other suspect, surnamed Lam, aged 35, is a driver from Hong Kong. Ho said an unidentified suspect was still at large.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced the casino fraud case during yesterday’s

September 27, 2016 | BY admin

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Peruvian mule swallows 50 condoms of liquid cocaine worth 10 million patacas: police

A Peruvian man was detained at the airport on Saturday for smuggling 1.6 kilogrammes of liquid cocaine worth about 10 million patacas.A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said it was the first time that the local police were able to nab a drug mule trying to smuggle liquid cocaine to Macau. The spokesperson said the police recently received a tip-off that a cartel had hired people to smuggle drugs to Macau. The police monitored a flight from Thailand on Wednesday and after it had landed,

September 26, 2016 | BY admin

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