Group strengthens protection measures for boot camp kids

Macau Flying Eagle Association Director-General Kent Yuen Seng Kam said yesterday his group had come up with more protection measures for children who participate in boot camps provided by the group, after one of the group’s male tutors was accused of sexually assaulting six schoolboys who took part in a military training camp last November.Yuen made the remarks on the sidelines of a ceremony held at the group’s training site in Coloane for children who recently finished a 7-day summer

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Chan clarifies ‘foreign’ lawmakers rule in bill

Asked by reporters on Friday whether local residents who are – hypothetically – lawmakers in Taiwan or Hong Kong could also run in local elections, Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said, “Yes, they can” – due to the fact that neither are foreign jurisdictions but integral parts of China.Chan made the comments when speaking to reporters at the legislature where she attended a meeting of the 2nd Standing Committee which is reviewing a government-drafted

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Group holds vigil urging officials’ accountability

The Love Macau Association held a candle-light vigil yesterday in the city’s main square, Largo do Senado, urging the government to hold its officials accountable for their deeds, such as in the recent land swap and typhoon signal rows.The event started at 7:30 p.m. and ended at 9 p.m. The members of the association distributed candles to passers-by to join the vigil. However, there were very few who passed by that sat down with the group. During the one-and-a-half-hour vigil, about two dozen

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Heroes of the World draw near capacity crowd

Singapore-based ONE Championship debuted its mixed martial arts’ Heroes of the World event at the Venetian’s Cotai Arena on Saturday night drew a near capacity crowd – with the fights televised in 118 countries around the world pulling in around one billion viewers, according to the MC of the night.There were nine fights on the programme culminating in the Interim Flyweight World Championship fight between Adriano “Mikinho” Moraes of Brazil and Tilek Baytr” Batyrov of

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Forum divided over ban on coaches around St Paul’s Ruins

Guest speakers at yesterday’s Macau Forum disagreed about whether tourist coaches should be banned from the area around the St Paul’s Ruins.Yesterday’s focus of the forum was on how to improve the traffic management of the coaches that take tourists to the area, following an accident in which a coach slammed into a residential building in the area early last week.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Audience members and

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Lawmaker calls for govt incentives for affordable flats

The government should provide developers with incentives to build flats which young people can afford to buy, lawmaker-cum-developer Fong Chi Keong said on the sidelines of the annual Macau Youth Summit which was jointly organised by 10 local youth associations at the Macau Science Centre yesterday. “For example, the government should give developers an incentive to redevelop Macau’s idle industrial buildings,” Fong said, adding the government should be more flexible when drafting

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Taipei Office vows more info for local students on island’s legal system

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office chief Lu Chang-shui said yesterday his office would release more information to raise awareness among local students about the differences in the legal systems between the two places before going to study there.Lu made the remarks on the sidelines of a banquet held at The Plaza Restaurant in Zape last night when asked by reporters for his comments on a local student who is studying in Taiwan and has been accused of killing two stray cats there, according to

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Activist ‘very satisfied’ with impact of ‘banner’ protest

New Macau Association (NMA) President Scott Chiang Meng Hin said yesterday he was “very satisfied” with the impact of a banner accusing Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng of being “cultural heritage killer” that had been displayed for about 10 minutes over the iconic mosaic mural of the former Hotel Estoril on Thursday. Talking to The Macau Post Daily on the phone last night, Chiang said that he and fellow NMA board member Alan Lam Na Lon, also known as

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Taiwan’s ‘cat killer’ from Macau strikes again

Local student identified as Chan Hou Ieong, who studies at National Taiwan University (NTU), went to a police station in Taipei last week and admitted that he killed another cat, this one named Ban Ban early this month, Taiwan media reported yesterday. According to the news reports, Ban Ban was a stray cat fed by the owners of a vegetarian restaurant and it often wandered the area where the eatery is located.The reports said that the restaurant owner immediately checked CCTV

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Blue Man Show ready to connect with local audience

The three “blue men” from the Blue Man Group were ready to connect with the local audience on their debut at the Venetian last night.The Blue Man Show was created in 1991 by three friends taking inspiration from their interest in literature, art and music.In a press conference earlier in Hong Kong this week, performance art company Blue Man Group brought their three blue men live on stage where their bulging blue eyes stared curiously at everyone in the room and in every corner of the

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10 days to plan repairs to coach-crash building: govt

Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) Director Li Cangfeng said yesterday his bureau would finish compiling a plan within 10 days to repair the residential building in Rua de Entena which was damaged by a tourist coach early this week.Li spoke to reporters after attending a committee meeting in the legislature yesterday.According to Li, a technical report assessing the building’s structural safety has been compiled, according to which the building is “stable”.Lands, Public

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Wushu Masters Challenge widely liked: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the four-day Wushu Masters Challenge was “widely liked” by residents and tourists alikeMacau’s first-ever Wushu Masters Challenge, hosted by the Sports Bureau and Wushu General Association of Macau, aiming to promote traditional Chinese martial arts to tourists and residents, is being held until Sunday.The Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion, the venue of the International Taolu Competition, was only half full

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Suspect in car accident still not identified: police

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident, which has left a local student seriously injured in Zape last month, has still not been identified, a spokesperson for the Public Security Police (PSP) told The Macau Post Daily during a regular press briefing yesterday.According to Orange Post, a Facebook page run by University of Macau (UM) students, the 22-year-old victim, surnamed Lei, was hit by a black car when he was crossing the road near Avenida Xian Xing Hai and Avenida Dr. Sun Yat Sen on July

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Imported workers make up 28 pct of population

Imported workers accounted for 28 percent of Macau’s population at the end of June, according to demographic figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) this week. The city’s total population of 652,500 included 182,459 non-resident workers at the end of the second quarter. Mainlanders accounted for 65 percent of imported labour. Other major segments came from the Philippines (25,082) and Vietnam (14,609), according to figures released by the Labour Affairs Bureau

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