HOS applicants must be aged at least 25: govt

The Executive Council announced yesterday that the government has drafted a bill amending the law on its subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS). The amendment bill proposes that an applicant must be a permanent resident aged at least 25, as opposed to the current minimum age requirement of just 18.The bill also proposes that a points-based system be adopted for the allocation of HOS flats, replacing the current system in which applicants for HOS flats are divided into different groups.Leong

November 1, 2018 | BY admin

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Inner Harbour takeaway gas blast injures 4

A serious explosion occurred in a takeaway in the Inner Harbour area yesterday morning, which injured its four employees, three of them seriously, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).Firemen said they suspected that the blast was caused by gas leaking from the takeaway’s LPG cylinders.The Fire Services Bureau later discovered that a document applying for a licence to run the takeaway by the owner shows that only electric cooking appliances are allowed to be used there. The Civic and

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Man assaults wife & daughter, aged 8

A jobless local man punched his wife four to five times on the head, slapped her face two to three times, and also slapped his daughter during a scuffle last Friday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said at a press conference in Zape yesterday.The 41-year-old suspect surnamed Wong allegedly assaulted his wife and daughter in their flat near Rua do Mercado Iao Hon, according to Lei.The couple has a son, aged 19, and an eight-year-old daughter.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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German nabbed using other’s restricted area ID

A German man is suspected of having used his colleague’s documents to enter the restricted area of the airport in Taipa and was reported by an airport security guard to the police, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday in Zape.The 30-year-old man identified by Lam as Martin, who told police that he’s a project manager, holds a German passport. Martin entered the airport in Taipa on Monday at around 12 a.m. Airport security guards

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawrence Ho’s ‘family office’ launches pataca bond

Lawrence Ho Yau Lung’s “family office” Black Spade Capital launched the world’s first pataca-denominated corporate bond yesterday with Tai Fung Bank.Ho, who was reportedly ill, did not attend the launch ceremony held at Morpheus Hotel at City of Dreams, one of the gaming properties operated by Ho’s Melco Resorts and Entertainment. Ho is the son of gaming mogul Stanley Ho Hung Sun.According to a statement available only in Chinese, the corporate bond is valued at 2 billion patacas and

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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SJM Holdings net profit rises 65 pct in Q3

SJM Holdings’ profit attributable to owners of the gaming company in the third quarter rose by 65.1 percent year on year to HK$707 million, the company founded by legendary gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung Sun said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange yesterday. In the first nine months of the year, profit attributable to the company’s owners rose by 59.4 percent to HK$2.2 billion patacas. Net gaming revenue in the third quarter reached HK$8.3 billion, up 9.5 percent year on

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Rosario apologises for wrong assessment of LRT depot project quotations

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario apologised yesterday for an embarrassing incident in which the government wrongly calculated the marks for the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the building of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT).Rosario made the remarks when replying to an oral interpellation by directly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho during a plenary session of the legislature.In 2016, the government

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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4-year-old dies of flu-related brain disease

A four-year-old local girl, who lives in Zhuhai and commutes to school in Macau, died in Zhuhai on Sunday from flu-related encephalopathy, a brain disease, a Health Bureau (SSM) statement said yesterday.The statement said that the bureau has ordered Escola Fukien (Fujian School) to suspend the K2B class that the girl attended until Friday, to reduce the risk of spreading the flu. It also ordered the school to carry out thorough disinfection of its classrooms and other facilities.According to

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust huge loan-sharking gang, nab 34 suspects

A total of 34 suspects were arrested on Sunday for their suspected membership of loan-sharking gang which lent about HK$60 million to about 80 gamblers, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said at a press conference in Zape yesterday.Lei said that in March last year the Judiciary Police were tipped off about the gang and arrested some of its suspected members. The police continued their investigation, and on Sunday 80 PJ officers raided nine residential flats in Taipa and the

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Indian trio caught in fortune telling scam

Three men from India were caught last Friday for deceiving shop owners in the city centre in a fortune-telling scam, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said in a regular press briefing yesterday. The trio told the merchants that they could predict the future of their businesses and that their “prayers” would bring good luck and prosperity to their shops. Shopkeepers paid them between one and 20 patacas per “prayer”. Two of the men surnamed Singh are brothers aged 24

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Scooter rider dies in crash on Friendship Bridge

A male scooter rider died in a crash with a lorry on Friendship Bridge yesterday afternoon, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.The police identified the victim as a 53-year-old local man. No further information on the victim was released.According to the police, the crash happened at around 2 p.m. when the rider was on his way to Taipa.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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IPIM gets acting chief, Sino-Luso forum’s secretariat gets temporary deputy secretary-general

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac has appointed Irene Lau Kuan Va, an executive director of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), as the institute’s acting president, his office said in a statement yesterday.The appointment came after the institute’s president, Jackson Chang, was suspended from his post in the wake of a criminal investigation by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) and Public Prosecution Office for alleged work-related

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt striving to draft minimum wage bill: official

Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong said yesterday the government was striving to start the legislative process of drafting a bill on the implementation of a statutory minimum wage for all workers as soon as possible.Wong made the remarks when replying to an oral interpellation by indirectly-elected lawmakers-cum-unionist Lei Chan U during a plenary session of the legislature. Lei is a vice-president of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen).In his

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Liaison Office praises late director’s honesty

The Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau yesterday praised its late director Zheng Xiaosong for his honesty and fruitful work.The office gave the praise in a statement about its former director who died in Macau on October 20, aged 59.According to a brief statement by the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HMO) on October 21, Zheng fell to his death – “because he was suffering from depression” – from the building where he lived.Yesterday’s statement by the

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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