Forum slams govt for insisting on e-cabs

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum slammed the government for insisting that the city’s 100 new common taxis must be electric vehicles even though officials had admitted they could not ensure that there will be enough charging facilities for e-cabs and other necessary conditions in place for electric taxis to operate.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The Transport Bureau (DSAT)

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Visitors’ non-gaming spending reaches 61.3 billion patacas in 2017

Visitors’ total non-gaming spending reached 61.32 billion patacas in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 16.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.Macau’s gross gaming revenue in 2017 rose 18.9 percent year-on-year to 266.6 billion patacas, according to figures released by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) earlier this year.Non-gaming spending by overnight visitors (49.75 billion patacas) and same-day visitors (11.57 billion patacas) rose 18.2

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Duterte’s children meet OFWs in Macau

Three of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’ children visited Macau and met hundreds of Filipinos living and working in the city on Saturday afternoon in a meet-and-greet at Chan Meng Kam Theatre in Iao HonThe trio consisted of Paolo Duterte, eldest son of the Philippine leader and former mayor of Davao City, Sara Duterte, current mayor of Davao City, and Sebastian Duterte.In May 2016 Rodrigo Duterte defeated four other candidates in the Philippine presidential election and won the election

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Patua is ‘critically endangered’: study

Patua, Macau’s Portuguese-Asian creole, is “critically endangered”, a recently published study reaffirms.According to the study entitled “Contact languages around the world and their levels of endangerment” by Singapore-based linguist Nala H. Lee, fewer than 50 people speak Patua (in Macau) so that “on the scale of absolute number of speakers”, the language is “severely endangered.The study finds that Patua, the language of the Macanese community, is “critically endangered”

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Lai Chi Vun heritage evaluation area raises doubts

Some members of the audience at Saturday’s session for the ongoing public consultation about the cultural heritage evaluation of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village and its traditional shipyards have expressed doubts about the government’s proposal to exclude all the village houses in the area covered by the evaluation.The government launched a two-month public consultation on January 22 about the ongoing cultural heritage evaluation of Lai Chi Vun Village and its old shipyards. The public

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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CNY visitors rise 6.5 pct to almost 1 million

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals reached 963,265 between last Thursday and Wednesday this week (from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year), a 6.5 percent increase compared to the corresponding period of the lunar new year last year when 904,367 visitor arrivals were recorded, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday.The number of mainland visitor arrivals amounted to some 710,000 during the seven-day period, a 12.3 percent

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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352 taxi offences recorded during CNY: police

A total of 352 offences by taxi drivers were recorded between last Wednesday and Wednesday this week, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, 17.9 percent (63 cases) of the 352 cases were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers, while 71 percent (250 cases) concerned overcharging, during the eight-day period between the day before Chinese New Year’s Eve to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year.According to the statement, the 352 cases

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Cabbie keeps passenger’s belongings: police

A taxi driver has been caught for keeping a passenger’s belongings left behind in his cab, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a local man surnamed Cheong in his 60s while the victim is a local woman, whose personal information was not released.According to Wong, the woman got into the taxi in Avenida de Lisboa and asked to be taken to the Barrier Gate on Tuesday. After getting out of the

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt raises Hato loss to 12.5 billion patacas

The government has revised up its estimate of financial losses caused by Super Typhoon Hato in August last year, from the initial estimate of 11.47 billion patacas to 12.55 billion patacas, according to a statement by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) yesterday.The statement noted that the preliminary estimation carried out by the bureau after the killer typhoon hit Macau indicated that the typhoon-induced financial losses – as measured at that time – amounted to 11.47 billion

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Our furbabies now have 3D CT scanner at the ready

Everyone’s furbaby deserves the best medical care they can get and now at Green Cross Vet Hospital that care has become even better thanks to their new state-of-the-art 3D veterinary CT (computed tomography) scanner, the first of its kind in Macau.Green Cross has always prided itself on having the best equipment available to vets so that owners are confident that their pets are properly diagnosed and treated promptly and correctly. Now with this new CT scanner the bar has been raised even

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Man arrested for attacking gambling wife

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man on Monday for hitting his wife during an argument, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday at PJ headquarters in Zape.Lei said that the suspect is a 49-year-old renovation worker surnamed Lao while the victim is his 51-year-old wife who works in a casino. The two got married on the mainland in 1992 and the victim has been living in Macau since 2002. They have a 23-year-old son and a 19-year-old daughter.According

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt fines 17 eateries over CNY menu price changes

Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Fonseca Tavares revealed yesterday his bureau has fined 17 eateries during the Chinese New Year (CNY) period for not having informed his bureau of the changes to the prices on their menus.Tavares made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a CNY activity in Coloane.According to a decree-law enacted in 1996, while eateries are allowed to set the prices of its meals and drinks, their owners are required to inform the

February 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Delta bridge Macau car park to have 3,000 spaces for HK cars

The East Car Park at the border checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau (HKZM) Bridge will have a capacity of 3,000 spaces for Macau-bound drivers of Hong Kong-registered cars, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The regulation was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.The East Car Park will be for users of Hong Kong-registered cars that have not been registered under a regular quota initiative announced by the Macau government last week – 300

February 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Eco-bureau collects reusable CNY red packets

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in a statement yesterday that it has launched a scheme to collect red packets (known as ‘lai see’ in Cantonese) for recycling.According to the statement, the scheme was launched yesterday in collaboration with about 150 entities, such as other government entities, community associations, schools, banks, supermarkets, property management companies, committees, hotels and the city’s six gaming operators. More than 600 collection points have

February 22, 2018 | BY admin

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