Locals are generally tolerant of disabled people: study

A study commissioned by the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) found that local residents generally have tolerant attitudes towards disabled people, but there were still noticeable obstacles related to the integration of disabled people and others, the bureau’s Social Solidarity Department Chief Choi Sio Un said yesterday.Choi made the remarks during a press briefing about a meeting of the Rehabilitation Affairs Committee which was held yesterday at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau

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Pansy Ho says MGM Cotai project going smoothly

The construction of MGM China’s casino-hotel resort in Cotai is going smoothly, Pansy Ho Chiu King, co-chairperson and executive director of the gaming company, said yesterday, adding she believed it will open in the first quarter of next year.  The US-based brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein said last week there was a possibility that the opening of the resort “may trickle into the second quarter” of 2017, according to media reports. Ho was asked by a reporter about the reports on

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Some CTM concession articles are ‘unfair’: lawmaker

Lawmaker-cum-businessman Chan Meng Kam said yesterday that the legislature’s Public Administration Affairs Monitoring Committee found several articles in CTM’s concession agreement with the government to be “unfair” and “unjustifiable”.According to Chan, the government would, for example, have to pay about three billion patacas if it chose to end the agreement with CTM due to public interest.The committee met government officials in the legislative chamber yesterday to discuss the

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Police nab mainland pimp, 2 sex workers

The Public Security Police (PSP) announced yesterday the arrest of a mainland man on suspicion of pimping and using social media to find clients for two sex workers.A PSP spokesperson announced the case during a regular press briefing.According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a tip-off on Sunday that a mainlander was using social media to find clients for prostitutes. After investigating, PSP officers arrested the suspect and two women from the mainland in a hotel room later that

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Public libraries launch webpage for elderly

Internet use is becoming more popular among senior citizens so the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has launched a special version of its library webpage for the elderly.The bureau said in a statement yesterday that the version was launched last Wednesday.According to the statement, the version has an interface and design that are easy for senior citizens to use and read. The font is bigger, and there is a function that allows users to magnify what they are reading.Yesterday’s image shows the

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New continuing education subsidy to last 3 years again: govt

The new phase of the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme will run for three years, unchanged from the two previous phases, Kong Ngai, who heads the Continuing Education Division of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), said yesterday.Kong also said that for the third-phase subsidy scheme, the policy for unused subsidies will be unchanged, meaning it cannot be transferred to the next phase.Kong made the remarks during a press conference about a regular meeting of the

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Wynn Palace to open on Aug 22

Wynn Macau will open its new integrated resort, Wynn Palace, in Cotai on August 22, the US gaming company said in a statement yesterday. The 32 billion patacas property features 1,706 rooms, restaurants, cable car rides around the resort, a water fountain show and a luxury shopping centre as well as floral and art sculptures. According to the statement, the company founded and headed by American casino mogul Steve Wynn expects the new resort to attract more international tourists to

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Galaxy bets on slot machines to woo mass market

Galaxy is betting on new slot machine games to woo the mass market to boost business during the summer.Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Corporate Office’s International Premium & Mass Market Development Director Raymond Yap Yin Min, who attended the launch of a new slot machine game at Galaxy Macau in Cotai yesterday, told reporters the group saw potential in the slot machine segment of the casino revenue as a way to push business while the economy is still not doing so well.“Although

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Less than half of 300 HOS applicants qualify: govt

The Housing Bureau’s (IH) Housing Allocation Division Chief Michael Mio Chan Seng said yesterday that of the first batch of 300 homeownership scheme (HOS) applicants, less than half qualified for the programme. The allocation process began at the bureau yesterday, according to which qualified applicants can choose from a total of 1,900 flats in eight HOS buildings, which include 845 single-bedroom flats, 888 two-bedroom flats and 158 three-bedroom flats.The government reopened the

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Coastal waters pollution seriously affects residents: lawmaker

The “increasingly deteriorating pollution” of the Macau peninsula’s coastal waters has been seriously affecting the daily lives of residents, legislator Ho Ion Sang said yesterday. Ho, a vice-president of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations, raised the concern in a written interpellation submitted to the government. The lawmaker sent copies of the interpellation to the media yesterday. His association is commonly known as Kai Fong. He quoted the official Report

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Local couple busted for cheating casino

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a local couple – a 32-year-old male dealer and his 30-year-old wife, on Friday on suspicion of cheating a casino out of HK$42,000.A PJ spokesperson revealed details of the case during a regular press briefing. A staff member from the casino in Cotai reported the case last Tuesday, the spokesperson said.The spokesperson said the dealer surnamed Che and his jobless wife surnamed Vong were arrested last Tuesday at different locations.

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Science & techno week to show ‘Intelligent Life’

The annual Science and Technology Week by the government-run Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) will kick off next week.This time, the week is themed ‘Intelligent Life’.Members of the fund – the convener of its working group for the popularisation of science Tong Chi Kin, executive members Mok Kai Meng and Cheang Kun Wai as well as Leong Pou Fong, who heads the fund’s activity support services – co-hosted a press conference at the headquarters of the fund in Nape

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Govt hopes panda cubs will meet public in 6 months

Macau’s first panda cubs, born in Coloane on Sunday afternoon, will hopefully make their first public appearance with their mother Sam Sam in six months time, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) Administrative Committee Member Leong Kun Fong told reporters yesterday. Coloane’s Macau Giant Panda Pavilion, which houses the four-member panda family, will be reopened to the public on July 12, but only the cubs’ father Hoi Hoi will be available for the public to see because Sam Sam

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Court rules drunk driver must pay money insurance paid to victim

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that the Court of Second Instance (TSI) has ruled that a drunk driver involved in a severe traffic accident in 2006 will have to repay his insurance company the money it paid out to the victim.According to the statement, while driving along Avenida do Comendador Ho Yin in the early morning of January 14, 2006, the driver failed to give way to a scooter at a junction, causing severe injuries to the rider.On being breathalysed at the

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