Bus stop announcement system to go on trial soon: traffic chief

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Lam Hin San said yesterday that a trial run of the long-announced “next stop announcement system” for the city’s public buses will finally start at the end of next month or in early June.Lam also said that he expected the system to be implemented formally around mid-August.Lam made the announcement after attending a closed-door meeting of the government-appointed Traffic Consultative Council at the bureau.Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Lam Hin San talks

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Expat with dog attacks inspectors: IACM

Two Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) inspectors were attacked by an expatriate walking his dog near Rua do Chunambeiro on Tuesday night, the bureau said in a statement yesterday. The male expat owns the dog, government broadcaster TDM reported last night. According to the General Regulation Governing Public Places, pets in public places must be in a cage or be kept on a lead by their owners.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Cops nab 3 teens for vehicle theft

The police arrested three teens for stealing a scooter on Wednesday, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said yesterday.The spokesperson announced the case during a regular press briefing.According to the spokesperson, the local trio comprising two 14-year-old boys, one of whom isn’t in school, surnamed Tang and Tse, and a 16-year-old waiter surnamed Lei. Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Colleges can be fined for unregistered courses: bill

A government drafted-bill proposes that local institutions operating tertiary education programmes which have not been registered with the government and not been published in the Official Gazette (BO) could be fined between 500,000 and 1.5 million patacas, legislator Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 2nd Standing Committee, said yesterday.Since the outline of the bill, which aims to regulate the tertiary education sector, was passed by a plenary session of the

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Entities can appeal against asset freeze: bill

A government-drafted bill proposes that entities or individuals “designated” by the chief executive as being involved in terrorism should have the right to appeal to the local courts over their frozen assets in Macau, lawmaker Kwan Tsui Hang, who chairs the legislature’s 1st Standing Committee, said yesterday.Kwan, a vice chairwoman of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen), made the remarks after presiding over a meeting of the committee about the bill on the

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Wynn hopes business will pick up by year-end

Wynn Resorts Macau Executive Director Linda Chen told reporters yesterday she expects gaming industry revenue to stabilise this year and hopes that there will be a slight rebound by the end of the year.Chen made the comments at Wynn Macau where she attended the opening of a business matching session with local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the food and beverage sector as part of its SME procurement partnership programme, which is jointly organised by the gaming operator and

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Mother performs filmed sex acts on 3-year-old son for money: police

A woman arrested for performing sex acts on her three-year-old son in front of the camera told police that she did it for money, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a special press conference, the spokesperson said that a school contacted the police via the School Safety Network on Saturday, alerting them to two video clips circulating on a parents’ social media group, which showed a woman performing sex acts on a young boy.The School Safety Network is a

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Govt axes Taipa leasehold

The provisional leasehold of a plot of land opposite the local airport, covering an area of 4,576 square metres, has been annulled because the plot, the government says, had still not been developed when the leasehold expired on December 13, according to yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO).The plot of land, adjacent to the ill-fated La Scala luxury estate project in Avenida Wai Long, known as “1d”, was earmarked for a green area.Accordion to the gazette, Tai Lei Loi – Sociedade de Fomento

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Unionists call for new composition of labour body

The Workers’ Self-Help Union said yesterday the government should review the composition of the city’s labour affairs body and change its representation.Several members of the small union, including its chairman Lei Kit Meng and president Wong Seng Wa, held a closed-door meeting with officials from the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) at the bureau yesterday.  Before the meeting, Wong told reporters the unionists would convey the concerns of local employees such as their job security

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Mainlander arrested for raping HK woman

The police arrested a 50-year-old mainland man on Tuesday on suspicion of raping a 55-year-old Hong Kong woman in Macau. A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson announced the case at a special press conference. The spokesperson said the suspect surnamed Pu, who is unemployed, was arrested on Tuesday in a casino in Zape.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Govt vows to submit senior citizens’ rights bill to legislature by year’s end

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) says that a government-drafted bill on protecting the rights and benefits of the city’s senior citizens will be submitted to the legislature by the end of the year.The bureau made the announcement in a reply to lawmaker Chan Meng Kam’s written interpellation about the bill’s drafting process. The lawmaker-cum-businessman sent copies of the reply to the media yesterday.The bureau says in the reply that the drafting of the bill is in its final stages and that

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Business-government collusion is ‘rather serious’: CCAC

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) is concerned about “rather serious” collusion between businesspeople and government officials, according to an annual report released by the graft buster yesterday. The report also singles out the shocking case of two Public Security Police (PSP) officers suspected of fabricating evidence. The commission says in the report its investigators discovered that a PSP officer mistakenly sent an electroshock weapon, which was to be submitted to

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Cultural Heritage Council meetings to be open ‘when possible’: culture chief

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said yesterday the government will open certain meetings of the government-appointed Cultural Heritage Council to the public “whenever possible”.Ung made the remarks after the signing ceremony for an implementation plan for cultural exchanges and co-operation between Macau and the mainland in 2016-18, at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Mandarin House yesterday.Some members of the public have been demanding that the government

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Police bust duo for selling & taking drugs

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrests of two males on suspicion of selling and taking drugs.A PJ spokesperson announced the case during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to the spokesperson, PJ officers arrested an unemployed 26-year-old local man surnamed Leong on Tuesday. The officers seized about 1.2 grammes of Ice from Leong’s home, as well as drug-taking paraphernalia. The drug-trafficking suspect from the mainland poses at a

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