Inflation further slows to 1.65 pct in August

Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose a mere 1.65 percent year-on-year last month, a further decrease of 0.43 percentage points from the 2.08 percent growth in July, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday. The statement attributed the increase mainly to higher rentals for parking spaces and the rising cost of eating out, as well as increases in property management fees and motor car prices. According to the bureau, the price index of food

September 22, 2016 | BY admin

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3 nabbed for doctoring gambling records

A local table games supervisor and two men from the mainland were arrested on Tuesday for doctoring gambling records and redeeming points for ferry tickets and gifts worth about HK$800,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Cho Man said during a regular briefing yesterday. According to Chan, the local female table game supervisor, surnamed Kuok, is 42 years old. She lives with one of the two suspects from the mainland, a 34-year-old man surnamed Pan. The other male suspect,

September 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab trio selling and consuming hashish

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced the arrests of three locals yesterday on suspicion of selling and consuming  hashish.PJ spokesman Chan Cho Man made the announcement during a special press conference yesterday. Chan identified the three suspects as a man in his twenties surnamed Guilherme, a 20-year-old man surnamed Huertas, and a 20-year-old woman surnamed Sousa, who is studying in a night school and is Guilherme’s girlfriend.A week ago, PJ officers received a tip-off that a local

September 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt plans to turn ex-leprosarium into tourist attraction

The government plans to convert the former leper colony in Ka Ho village in Coloane into a tourist attraction, a part of which is to repair half a dozen Portuguese-style houses in the hamlet. The plan to the make the village a tourist attraction was first mooted when Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng visited the hamlet in June.A regular meeting of the government-appointed Tourism Development Committee yesterday discussed the government’s plan. After the

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Tam says criticism due to electioneering

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the recent wave of criticisms targeting him was due to electioneering. Tam made the remarks on the sidelines of a regular meeting of the Tourism Development Committee which he chaired. The city’s next legislative elections will be held in the autumn of next year.  PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Grand Lisboa Palace local cleaners to return to work: unionist

The contractor of the Grand Lisboa Palace construction site pledged yesterday to rehire local cleaners who complained to the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) on Monday that they had been laid off after working for just two or three days, lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I said.Lei told The Macau Post Daily in a phone interview yesterday that the contractor of the construction site, representatives of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) and representatives of the

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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MGTO chief pledges to help flat owners affected by coach crash

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that a report on an headline-making accident in August, when a tourist coach spectacularly crashed into a residential building near the Ruins of St Paul’s, had been sent to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for follow-up investigation, and she pledged that her office would help the affected flat owners address their concerns to the relevant authorities. Senna Fernandes made the remarks on the

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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2 fall for online scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced two online scam cases in which two people in Macau lost between them a total of 4,701 yuan after each of them followed instructions from an unknown person they met on the Internet.No one has been arrested in connection with the two scam cases.PJ spokesman Chan Cho Man announced the cases during a regular press conference. Chan identified the victim in the first case as a 30-year-old local woman.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Live-alone senior found hanging from ceiling fan

Firemen broke into a flat yesterday after neighbours reported a hideous smell emanating from the home to find the body of a 73-year-old man hanging from a ceiling fan.The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that the Fire Services Bureau received a report at 10:47 a.m. yesterday from residents that there was a repulsive odour coming from a flat on the second floor of a building in Rua de Henrique Macedo.The PJ statement said that the firemen got into the flat by breaking the lock

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to pay 22 million patacas for tourism forum

The budget for next month’s Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF) is about 45 million patacas, of which about half will be paid by the government, Ip Peng Kin, chief-of-cabinet of the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture, said yesterday.Ip made the remarks at Macau Tower during a press conference for the 5th GTEF, which will take place on October 15-16 at Studio City in Cotai.The event, themed “The Growing Consumer Class – Rethinking and Reshaping the Future Tourism Landscape”, is

September 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Mainlander threatens gamblers with ‘AIDS syringe’: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday announced the arrest of a man from the mainland on Thursday on suspicion of threatening gamblers on two occasions in two casinos with a syringe by claiming he had AIDS, in order to get the gamblers give him money to gamble with.PSP spokesman Lam Keong made the announcement during a regular press conference yesterday. Lam identified the suspect as a 27-year-old man surnamed Guo.On September 8, Guo saw that two men had won a large amount of money in a

September 20, 2016 | BY admin

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MUST hospital calls for medical resources integration

Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) Hospital Vice President Edward Lai Cheuck Seen yesterday urged the government to integrate medical resources across the city’s three hospitals.Lai made the suggestion while speaking to reporters on the private university’s campus where he attended a ceremony in which the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh granted the Centre of Excellence for Professional Medical Development run by MUST’s Faculty of Health Sciences the recognition of

September 20, 2016 | BY admin

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30 gaming tables ‘enough’ for Jai Alai: Angela Leong

SJM Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer Angela Leong On Kei said yesterday that about 30 gaming tables would be enough for the company’s Casino Jai Alai that is set to reopen by the end of the year.Leong made the comments while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a business matching session held by the gaming operator for local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at Grand Lisboa.The session, co-hosted by SJM and the Macau Chamber of Commerce, attracted about 400

September 20, 2016 | BY admin

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Man dies after being attacked by ‘friend’

A local man in his fifties died after a fight between him and a “friend” during a heated argument at about 2:30 a.m. in a restaurant yesterday, according to the Judiciary Police (PJ).Until late last night, no one had been arrested in connection with the incident which happened outside a restaurant in Rua de Horta e Costa, close to Horta e Mitra Municipal Market.  According to a PJ statement released early yesterday morning, the victim, surnamed Kam, had a meal and drank beer with his

September 20, 2016 | BY admin

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