Transport bureau & police promote new helmet rule

Enforcement of the city’s new crash helmet rule, slated to take effect on June 13, would be mainly educational initially, Transport Bureau (DSAT) official Kam Chun Kit said yesterday.Kam made the remarks when speaking to reporters in Avenida Doutor Mário Soares near Praia Grande, where DSAT officials and Public Security Police (PSP) officers set up a roadblock to check motorcyclists’ crash helmets yesterday morning and promote the new rule.In order to regulate the safety standards of the

June 1, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt urges gaming operators to remain election-neutral

Officials held a meeting with representatives of the city’s gaming operators and junket promoters yesterday, briefing them on the newly amended Legislative Assembly Election Law which requires them to remain politically neutral in the upcoming legislative elections, Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) President Tong Hio Fong said.The direct and indirect legislative elections will take place on September 17.Members of the government-appointed committee and officials from

June 1, 2017 | BY admin

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Legislature passes non-mandatory provident fund bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government’s bill on a non-mandatory central provident fund, which is slated to take effect on January 1 next year, after its promulgation in the Official Gazette (BO), during a plenary session yesterday.The legislative process took the government about a decade and two public consultations to complete.The bill’s outline was passed in a plenum of the legislature in June last year. The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee held 13 meetings to review

June 1, 2017 | BY admin

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Taipa terminal to open without shops on Thursday

The Taipa Ferry Terminal in Pac On will start operating at 6 a.m. on Thursday as its three ferry operators will transfer all sailings from the adjacent Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal to the new terminal, the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) announced yesterday.During a press conference at the airport-sized terminal yesterday, Tong Iok Peng, who heads the bureau’s Port Control Department, said the temporary terminal would be closed for good after the last ferry leaves at 1 a.m. on Thursday.

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Police clarify fake news about ‘human meat for sale’ in Macau

The police have released a statement, complete with a screenshot of an article, titled: “Woman caught selling human meat at a restaurant in Macau”, on the Judiciary Police (PJ) website, clarifying that the alleged case never happened in the city and that the police never received any information about it.The statement, jointly released by the Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday, also urged residents not to believe the story and not to share the

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt adjusts 2 bus routes serving UM

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday it will change two bus routes, route 71 and route 73, which serve the University of Macau (UM) campus on Hengqin, from Thursday.Currently, route 71 runs between Praça de Ferreira do Amaral and the UM campus, while route 73 runs between Areia Preta district and the campus. Both routes cross the Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge (commonly known as the Old Bridge) and pass Ocean Gardens. Route 73 stops on either side of the main road going

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt, ex-live poultry vendors fail to agree on one-off payment

The government and the now-defunct live poultry sector failed to reach a consensus yesterday during a meeting on the amount of the one-off payment that the government said it would pay, as officials insisted on giving each vendor 240,000 to 480,000 patacas, while the vendors asked for a payment of 2 million patacas each, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Fonseca Tavares said yesterday.The bureau announced late last month that the government decided to impose a permanent

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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6-year-old boy diagnosed with severe flu: govt

A 6-year-old local boy has been diagnosed with severe influenza, a Health Bureau (SSM) statement said yesterday.The statement said the boy showed symptoms of the potentially fatal disease on Friday, such as fever, sore throat and cough. He was admitted to the private Kiang Wu Hospital on Saturday.According to the statement, the boy’s condition worsened yesterday. It said the boy had been transferred to the intensive care unit, adding his pharyngeal specimen tested positive for the influenza A

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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GDP grows 10.3 pct in Q1

Macau’s gross domestic product grew 10.3 percent year on year in real terms in the first quarter of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.A DSEC statement attributed the return to double-digit growth to the “improving exports of services and investments, as well as a relatively lower base of comparison in the first quarter of last year.”External demand continued to expand, pushing up exports of services by 13.4 percent, in which exports of gaming services

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Group upbeat about local IT sector prospects

Macau Computer Society (MCS) Director General Michael Chan Weng Kin said yesterday he was “very optimistic” about the development of the local information technology (IT) sector as the government plans to develop Macau into a smart city.Chan made the remarks yesterday during a press conference about his group’s annual IT competition “Macau IT Innovation Awards”. The press conference was held on the premises of the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) in Macau Square.Chan

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt, PLA to hold first student camp

The local government and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison will jointly organise a summer camp for local university students for the first time, the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the summer camp will be held from July 16 to 24 at the garrison’s Taipa barracks.The statement said that some activities will not be held in Macau during the nine-day event. The statement did not say where the activities will be

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Croupier nabbed for stealing chips

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a 55-year-old dealer for embezzling HK$61,000 worth of casino chips, a PJ spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect, a local man surnamed Lau, was found by casino surveillance staff to have slipped a casino chip worth HK$10,000 up his sleeve when he was on duty on Sunday, according to the spokesperson.After checking CCTV recordings, the staff found that Lau stole a chip worth HK$1,000 earlier that day. The staff immediately

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Casino staff nabbed for owning banned arms

A Malaysian man surnamed Cheah, who works as a technical manager for a local casino, has been arrested for carrying and owning three daggers, three kukris, a flick knife, an air rifle and four replica grenades, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.Local Customs officers found the weapons in Cheah’s luggage as he was about to enter the city through the airport on Saturday.The 43-year-old man told the police that the weapons were for his

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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Uncle injures 6-year-old girl with knife

The police arrested a 20-year-old man for causing head injuries to his 6-year-old niece with a vegetable knife during a quarrel yesterday afternoon, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said early this morning.According to the spokesperson, the girl was at her grandmother’s flat in Avenida do Conselheiro Borja yesterday afternoon when she quarrelled with her uncle, who then took a vegetable knife from the kitchen and slashed at the girl, injuring her on the top of her head, cutting the

May 30, 2017 | BY admin

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