Govt plans to set up info platform on policies

Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Director Kou Peng Kuan says in a reply to a written interpellation by directly elected legislator Si Ka Lon that the government plans to set up an information platform from which the public can receive answers to their questions about the government’s policies.Si, a local Fujianese community civic leader, says in his interpellation, which he submitted to the legislature in February, that the government’s information on its policies

April 20, 2016 | BY admin

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16 locals lose HK$35 million in pawn shop con: police

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said yesterday that 16 locals claim that they have lost about HK$35 million in a pawn shop scam.Tam announced the case during a press briefing.Tam said that between Saturday and Monday, the 16 locals individually went to the police to report the case.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Top judge welcomes deal on prosecutors

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that its president, Sam Hou Fai, welcomed the continuation of a deal to send some public prosecutors from Portugal on secondment to Macau.Sam is the city’s top judge. Portugal’s Prosecutor-General Joana Marques Vidal along with other prosecution officials from Portugal paid a visit to the Court of Final Appeal in Nam Van yesterday.According to the statement, this was the first visit by a Portuguese prosecutor-general since

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Police nab Vietnamese for robbing Kazakhstan dancer

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a Vietnamese man on suspicion of robbing a woman from Kazakhstan of 300 patacas.A PJ spokesperson announced the case during a special press briefing at the PJ headquarters in Zape.The PJ spokesperson said that the 30-year-old suspect surnamed Luu works as waiter and was arrested on Monday in his flat near Praça de Ponte e Horta. Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the Vietnamese robbery suspect into a PJ pressroom yesterday.

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Govt decides uses of 2 repossessed plots: lawmaker

The government is planning to build an office block and a warehouse respectively on its two recently repossessed plots in Nape and Pac On, lawmaker Ho Ion Sang, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Land and Public Concession Affairs, said yesterday.Ho spoke to the media after a closed-door committee meeting with senior officials including Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario and Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) Director Li Canfeng.The

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Lawmakers propose debate on taxi regulation changes

Lawmakers Mak Soi Kun and Zheng Anting have proposed a motion calling for a debate on whether the government’s proposed changes to the city’s taxi regulation would help improve the quality of the city’s taxi service and protect the “legal rights of the taxi drivers obeying the law”.The motion is to be debated and voted on during a plenary session of the legislature. The date is yet to be announced. The two lawmakers sent copies of their joint motion to the media yesterday. Both

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Parents petition bishop over rise in tuition fees

About two dozen parents of pupils studying at St Joseph Diocesan College of Macau 5 (CDSJ5) yesterday handed in a petition against the school’s rise in tuition fees and asked for a meeting with Stephen Lee Bun-sang, the recently appointed bishop of the local Roman Catholic diocese, to convey their concerns about the matter.After handing the petition to a staff member of the Episcopal Office in Largo da Se, which was addressed to Lee, some parents told the media they hoped the bishop would

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Macau and Portugal reach deal on prosecutors

Portugal’s Prosecutor-General Joana Marques Vidal said yesterday that Portugal would continue sending public prosecutors on secondment to Macau, as long as the city’s top public prosecutor requests it.Marques Vidal, along with other prosecution officials from Portugal, met local prosecution officials headed by Public Prosecutor General Ip Son Sang at the Public Prosecution Office (MP) headquarters in Nape yesterday. The meeting was closed to the media.According to local Portuguese-language

April 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt should step up support to Portuguese classes: scholar

The government’s measures to support Portuguese language classes in Macau, including an annual trip to Portugal for local students, are very important and should be further “developed and increased if possible”, Maria Fernanda Gil Pinheiro da Costa, who heads the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Portuguese, said yesterday. Fernanda Gil Costa made the remarks on the sidelines of ‘The Portuguese Language Day’ hosted by her department at the university.The Tertiary

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Lawmakers want to debate disease centre

The Legislative Assembly (AL) will discuss and vote tomorrow on three motions to hold a plenary debate on whether the Health Bureau’s (SSM) infectious disease centre should be built next to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) as planned. All of the three motions were proposed last month, according to the legislature’s website. One of the motions is jointly proposed by lawmakers Si Ka Lon and Song Pek Kei while the remaining two are proposed by lawmakers Au Kam

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Scholar urges govt to reach youngsters via Facebook

Government organs can communicate with local youngsters better by opening accounts on social media platforms such as Facebook, University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Social Sciences Assistant Dean Agnes Lam Iok Fong said yesterday.The media scholar made the remarks after the opening ceremony of the five-day ‘UM CommFest 2016’ campaign, the university’s communication students’ graduation project, on the UM campus in Hengqin.The campaign, themed ‘Neosociety’, includes a range of

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Govt should accept public housing applications ‘regularly’: lawmaker

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I has urged the government to consider accepting applications for public housing on a regular basis and come up with measures to simplify administrative procedures so that eligible public housing applicants can move into their flats more quickly.Lei, makes the suggestion in a written interpellation, submitted to the legislature yesterday, and copies of the interpellation were sent to the media by her office. The government’s public housing programme

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Police nab Korean duo for 415 million won fraud

The police arrested two South Korean men on Friday for cheating a fellow compatriot out of 415 million won early this month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a press briefing yesterday.Tam said the two suspects, aged 40 and 45, surnamed Jang and Seo, told police that they were unemployed. Tam said the victim told police that on April 3, at a casino in Cotai, he asked the duo if they could transfer money from South Korea to Macau.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam

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Pollutants found in processed wastewater exceed emission limit: official data

Official figures announced by the Statistics and Census Service Bureau (DSEC) yesterday show that the amount of pollutants found in waste water, which had already been processed by the Macau Peninsula Waste Water Treatment Plant and Coloane Waste Water Treatment Plant, exceeded the official emission limit.According to environmental statistics for 2015 issued by the bureau yesterday, the city’s five waste water treatment plants processed a daily average of 192,965 cubic metres of waste water,

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