Forum divided over ban on coaches around St Paul’s Ruins

Guest speakers at yesterday’s Macau Forum disagreed about whether tourist coaches should be banned from the area around the St Paul’s Ruins.Yesterday’s focus of the forum was on how to improve the traffic management of the coaches that take tourists to the area, following an accident in which a coach slammed into a residential building in the area early last week.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Audience members and

August 15, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmaker calls for govt incentives for affordable flats

The government should provide developers with incentives to build flats which young people can afford to buy, lawmaker-cum-developer Fong Chi Keong said on the sidelines of the annual Macau Youth Summit which was jointly organised by 10 local youth associations at the Macau Science Centre yesterday. “For example, the government should give developers an incentive to redevelop Macau’s idle industrial buildings,” Fong said, adding the government should be more flexible when drafting

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Taipei Office vows more info for local students on island’s legal system

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office chief Lu Chang-shui said yesterday his office would release more information to raise awareness among local students about the differences in the legal systems between the two places before going to study there.Lu made the remarks on the sidelines of a banquet held at The Plaza Restaurant in Zape last night when asked by reporters for his comments on a local student who is studying in Taiwan and has been accused of killing two stray cats there, according to

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Activist ‘very satisfied’ with impact of ‘banner’ protest

New Macau Association (NMA) President Scott Chiang Meng Hin said yesterday he was “very satisfied” with the impact of a banner accusing Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng of being “cultural heritage killer” that had been displayed for about 10 minutes over the iconic mosaic mural of the former Hotel Estoril on Thursday. Talking to The Macau Post Daily on the phone last night, Chiang said that he and fellow NMA board member Alan Lam Na Lon, also known as

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Taiwan’s ‘cat killer’ from Macau strikes again

Local student identified as Chan Hou Ieong, who studies at National Taiwan University (NTU), went to a police station in Taipei last week and admitted that he killed another cat, this one named Ban Ban early this month, Taiwan media reported yesterday. According to the news reports, Ban Ban was a stray cat fed by the owners of a vegetarian restaurant and it often wandered the area where the eatery is located.The reports said that the restaurant owner immediately checked CCTV

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Blue Man Show ready to connect with local audience

The three “blue men” from the Blue Man Group were ready to connect with the local audience on their debut at the Venetian last night.The Blue Man Show was created in 1991 by three friends taking inspiration from their interest in literature, art and music.In a press conference earlier in Hong Kong this week, performance art company Blue Man Group brought their three blue men live on stage where their bulging blue eyes stared curiously at everyone in the room and in every corner of the

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10 days to plan repairs to coach-crash building: govt

Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) Director Li Cangfeng said yesterday his bureau would finish compiling a plan within 10 days to repair the residential building in Rua de Entena which was damaged by a tourist coach early this week.Li spoke to reporters after attending a committee meeting in the legislature yesterday.According to Li, a technical report assessing the building’s structural safety has been compiled, according to which the building is “stable”.Lands, Public

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Wushu Masters Challenge widely liked: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the four-day Wushu Masters Challenge was “widely liked” by residents and tourists alikeMacau’s first-ever Wushu Masters Challenge, hosted by the Sports Bureau and Wushu General Association of Macau, aiming to promote traditional Chinese martial arts to tourists and residents, is being held until Sunday.The Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion, the venue of the International Taolu Competition, was only half full

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Suspect in car accident still not identified: police

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident, which has left a local student seriously injured in Zape last month, has still not been identified, a spokesperson for the Public Security Police (PSP) told The Macau Post Daily during a regular press briefing yesterday.According to Orange Post, a Facebook page run by University of Macau (UM) students, the 22-year-old victim, surnamed Lei, was hit by a black car when he was crossing the road near Avenida Xian Xing Hai and Avenida Dr. Sun Yat Sen on July

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Imported workers make up 28 pct of population

Imported workers accounted for 28 percent of Macau’s population at the end of June, according to demographic figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) this week. The city’s total population of 652,500 included 182,459 non-resident workers at the end of the second quarter. Mainlanders accounted for 65 percent of imported labour. Other major segments came from the Philippines (25,082) and Vietnam (14,609), according to figures released by the Labour Affairs Bureau

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Tam says he isn’t a ‘cultural heritage killer’

In response to a banner draped from the roof over the iconic mosaic of Hotel Estoril for about 10 minutes yesterday, which claimed that he was a “cultural heritage killer”, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said the allegation was false.  Tam also said the government had struck the right balance between social development and the protection of the city’s cultural heritage.The policy secretary made the remarks after attending last night’s opening ceremony

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Lawmakers start reviewing legislative election bill

The legislature’s 2nd Standing Committee yesterday started reviewing a government-drafted bill on amendments to the Legislative Assembly Election Law, and lawmakers promptly began raising questions about several of the bill’s articles, including the issue of whether candidates have to place a deposit in order to be able to run, according to lawmaker-cum-restaurateur Chan Chak Mo who chairs the committee.Chan briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting, which no government officials

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Govt to use re-possessed plots to ‘repay’ developers

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday the government was planning to use the plots of undeveloped land that it re-possessed to compensate developers whom it owes land-lease rights, as the government has used a rather large area of land which originally had been leased to developers but been used by the government for other purposes. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On admitted last month in the legislature that the government has used a total of

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2 coach accident victims still in ICU: govt

Two seriously injured tourists in Monday’s coach accident were still being treated in the intensive care unit of Kiang Wu Hospital while the third has now been transferred to the general ward, according to a statement released by the Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) yesterday.The office said that one of the two tourists, who are still in the intensive care unit, had undergone craniofacial surgery and remained in serious condition and in coma, with stable vital signs, while the other

August 11, 2016 | BY admin

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