Govt should consider bi-level Macau-Taipa bridge: forum

Guest speakers at yesterday’s Macau Forum urged the government to also include the option of a bi-level bridge as an alternative crossing connecting Macau and Taipa near the old Macau-Taipa bridgeThe weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The government said last week it had hired a consultancy firm to carry out a feasibility study on the construction of two tunnels either on the west or the east side of the old Macau-Taipa

July 18, 2016 | BY admin

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6 youngsters spread ‘human touch’ with ‘community canteen’

A total of six young local men have been spreading “human touch” in the city, culminating in 150 people from various backgrounds gathering in a “community canteen” for an afternoon of games and a dinner.The youngsters, who are in their late teens or early twenties, say their main aim is to promote human touch among local residents.   One of the six organisers, Jacky Lou Chi Weng, spoke to reporters yesterday about their activity at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) canteen

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167 cases of car park ‘misuse’ in Jan-June: govt

A total of 167 cases in which motor vehicle owners “misused” public car parks were recorded in the first half of the year, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday.According to public car park regulations, a motor vehicle cannot be parked in a car park building for more than eight consecutive days, except if the owner has a monthly pass. If the owner breaks the rule, the car park management can ask the Public Security Police (PSP) to clamp the vehicle. After three hours,

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Lawmaker, group oppose more govt discretion over land issues

Grassroots lawmaker Au Kam San said yesterday the Land Law would go backwards if the government is given even more discretion when dealing with land concessions, adding that he would oppose any changes to the law aiming to increase the government’s discretion on land issues.Au also said that that anyone or any company having doubts about a particular law should go to court to ask for an interpretation as the Legislative Assembly shouldn’t involve itself with the interpretation of

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Groups slam govt for ‘lack’ of energy-saving policies

Members of the Macau Green Students Union and local think tank Choi In Tong Sam accused the government yesterday of lacking any long-term energy saving policies.Eco-activist Joe Chan Chon Meng, who heads the Macau Green Students Union, told reporters on the sidelines of a forum about clean energy and local policies on how to save energy that although the government regularly organises various activities and events to encourage residents to save energy, he saw no long-term energy-saving

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Group hopes to improve quality of nannies

Macau Nanny Association President Keith Man Lai Kit said yesterday the main goal of the group was to improve the professionalism and quality of service provided by the city’s child care providers.Man, who works as a nannies’ tutor as well as a dietician, made the remarks during a speech at a ceremony to announce the associations’ newly elected board members at a community centre run by the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) in Areia Preta.Man said in a speech

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French artist shows ‘pleats and folds’

French artist Noel Dolla displays 32 pieces of art at Tap Seac Gallery.The exhibition, titled Plis & Replis 3 – Works by Noël Dolla, is hosted by the Culture Affair Bureau (IC).‘Plis et replis’ means pleats and folds in French. The exhibits include paintings, photographs and installations made of recycled clothes.Please read the full article in our print edition.

July 18, 2016 | BY admin

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JLL says property prices ‘already’ hit bottom

Property prices have “already” hit rock bottom but there won’t be a sharp rebound unless the city’s infrastructure and the economy are improved, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Macau’s residential property chief Jeff Wong Chi Wai said yesterday.Wong made the comments during a media briefing at his office in the Finance and IT Centre about the global real estate services firm’s Macau mid-year property review and forecast. According to the company’s data, the capital values for

July 15, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to decide on land swap follow-ups this year: Rosario

The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) will make a decision on how to follow up on Wednesday’s invalidation of a land swap deal involving the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory site “and not put things off until next year”, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday. After attending a plenary session in the Legislative Assembly (AL), the policy secretary was asked by reporters about the Commission Against Corruption’s (CCAC)

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Speaker says legislature can’t accept ‘interpretive bill’ without CE assent

Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng said yesterday that the legislature’s executive board has agreed unanimously that written consent from Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On is needed for the legislature to accept a bill proposed by lawmaker Gabriel Tong Io Cheng to “interpret” the Land Law’s articles regulating provisional land concessions.Ho also said that Tong, a law professor, insisted that he had the right to submit the bill and had refused to ask for Chui’s

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Govt confirms ‘multi-function rooms’ at MGM

The Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday it found that several “multi-function rooms” where gamblers are allowed to smoke at the MGM casino in Nape.The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union submitted a petition on Wednesday to the bureau, urging the bureau to investigate the setting-up of such rooms without separate ventilation systems for gamblers, supposedly “to take a rest”.Under government rules, smoking lounges are allowed to be set up in casinos’ mass market areas. A separate

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Customs bust two 16-year-old ‘snakeheads’

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that it foiled an attempt by six mainlanders to enter Macau illegally early Wednesday morning, during which customs officers arrested two 16-year-old ‘snakeheads’People smugglers are known as ‘snakeheads’ in Cantonese jargon.The statement said that while patrolling near the Taipa end of Sai Van Bridge at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, customs officers spotted a group of people disembarking from a sampan, so they immediately went to stop

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Lawmaker likens Uber petition to ‘organised crime’

Lawmaker Melinda Chan Mei Yi asked the government yesterday whether it should consider Uber’s petition last week as an act of organised crime.Chan, who heads the Sin Meng Charity Association, made the remarks during a plenary debate on the government’s draft of a new taxi service regulation in the legislative hemicycle. The regulation has not been amended since 1999.The draft suggests that the taxi-driving licence of a cabbie found breaking the regulation four times in a year would be

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Police arrest 8 locals for illegal gambling

Public Security Police (PSP) officers arrested eight local residents aged between 50 and 70 on Tuesday for illegal gambling, a PSP spokesperson said yesterday.The spokesperson announced the case during a regular press briefing yesterday.The spokesperson said that during a regular patrol PSP officers saw five men and three women gambling in a sitting-out area near Rua Norte do Patane.Please read the full article in our print edition.

July 15, 2016 | BY admin

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