Elex committee to tell all lists to remove ‘pre-campaign’ online posts

The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) announced yesterday that it will issue another set of guidelines next week which will demand that all groups running in the upcoming legislative elections remove all “pre-campaign” status updates or video clips after the committee releases the final list of approved groups.The direct and indirect legislative elections will take place on September 17. A record 25 groups are running in the direct election.Committee President Tong

July 28, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt mulls automated parking system for legislature

The Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday discussed the government’s plan to build an underground car park outside the Legislative Assembly (AL) building in Nam Van – and a senior public works official said that the government was considering an automated parking system for the project.Yesterday’s regular meeting of the council, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development conditions for the project under a plot – currently a green

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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CTM expects updates on GBA service by year-end

Telecom operator CTM is currently planning to launch a fixed rate tariff system for cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), CTM Vice President for Commercial Affairs Ebel Cham Pou I said yesterday.Cham, together with CTM CEO Vandy Poon Fuk Hei attended the “re-opening” ceremony of its renovated shop in Toi San district, near the Barrier Gate checkpoint.Cham said that the company was currently in discussion with telecom service providers from Guangdong and Hong Kong

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers, activists oppose legislature’s proposed placard ban

Lawmakers Au Kam San and Ng Kuok Cheong yesterday held a press conference at their joint office in Iao Hon to express their opposition to certain amendments to the Legislative Assembly Procedure Rules proposed by the legislature’s Committee on House Rules, such as barring lawmakers from displaying placards during plenary sessions in the legislature’s hemicycle.Meanwhile, grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou, Paul Chan Wai Chi, a former lawmaker and NMA key

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Roosevelt opens with 30 gaming tables, 90 slot machines

Macau Roosevelt hotel opened yesterday with a casino in the name of the Macau Jockey Club with 30 gaming tables and 90 slot machines, as well as VIP rooms.The five-star hotel, located right next to Macau Jockey Club, has 368 rooms and an outdoor pool overlooking the racecourse. There will also be a chapel on the lawn near the pool for weddings.Yoho Group Managing Director Mike Lam Hin Wai told reporters after the opening ceremony that the HK$2 billion hotel is the only Roosevelt hotel in Asia

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Councillors call for footbridges to connect revamped Catholic Centre

Members of the Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday called for the construction of two footbridges connecting the planned new Catholic Centre in the city centre so that it will be easier for pedestrians to cross the busy junction.The Catholic Centre, located at the junction of Rua do Campo and Avenida da Praia Grande, has been vacant for over two decades.Yesterday’s regular council meeting, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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‘Son’ cheats woman out of 20,000 yuan: police

A local woman has lost 20,000 yuan (23,820 patacas) in a phone scam to a man claiming to be her son, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the victim’s husband received a call on Monday from a man claiming to be his son, telling him he had changed his phone number.The man called the victim the next day and alleged that he had been arrested by mainland police for visiting a prostitute, asking her to transfer 20,000

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Peninsula sewage plant resumes operation

The Macau Peninsula Wastewater Treatment Plant resumed operation yesterday afternoon after a two-day suspension for the replacement of a corroded section of pipe in the plant, according to a statement by the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) yesterday.The plant, which has been in operation since 1995, is on the north-eastern coast of the peninsula. The replacement work was carried out around the clock on Monday and Tuesday, during which sewage produced in the peninsula was pumped straight

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Councillors back hotel project at Cheoc Van Garden

Several members of the Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday agreed that an abandoned building at Cheoc Van Garden, a complex of villas in southern Coloane, originally earmarked for a commercial centre for residents living in the complex, be converted into a hotel.Yesterday’s regular meeting of the council, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development conditions for the plot on which the abandoned building is situated.The legal development

July 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt asks Beijing to allow airport land reclamation: aviation chief

Macau Civil Aviation Authority (AACM) President Simon Chan Weng Hong said yesterday that the local government has requested the central government’s permission to reclaim land in the waters between the local airport’s two taxiways that link the runway and the apron.Chan made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the launching ceremony of the Macau-Beijing-Lisbon route by Beijing Capital Airlines at the airport in Taipa.The Macau Civil Aviation Authority released the

July 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman makes up police station bomb threat to stop boyfriend gambling: police

A mainland woman was arrested yesterday for a false bomb threat, targeting one of the local police stations.According to Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Kai Sang, the about 50-year-old suspect surnamed Zhao, from the north-eastern province of Jilin, recently visited Macau with her 30-year-old boyfriend, surnamed Zhang, to gamble in the city’s casinos. Both gambled away their money.According to Lei, the Public Security Police received a phone call from Zhao, who was back in the

July 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman scammed out of 314,000 yuan by mainland ‘cop’: police

A local woman in her 40s has lost 314,000 yuan in a phone scam to a man who claimed to be a mainland police officer, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the victim received a call on Saturday from a man who claimed to be a police officer in the mainland, saying that she had committed an economic crime involving 2 million yuan. The “cop” said a financial investigation needed to be conducted, telling the victim

July 26, 2017 | BY admin

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2 activists petition elex committee for ‘clean’ poll

Political activists Lam Meng and Kuong Kai Nang petitioned the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) yesterday, urging the committee to promote a clean and fair election.The direct and indirect legislative elections will take place on September 17.Neither of them is running in the upcoming elections. Four years ago, Lam ran under the banner of activist Lee Kin Yun, commonly known as “Street Fighter” while Kuong was one of the candidates in Lee’s group in 2005.Activist

July 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Macau-Beijing-Lisbon route takes off

Beijing Capital Airlines yesterday launched a route between Macau and Lisbon via Beijing yesterday.The new route allows passengers from Macau to get a connecting flight to Lisbon in Beijing – and vice versa. The airline launched the route between Beijing and Lisbon last night.Passengers between Macau and Lisbon who transit in Beijing do not need to reclaim their luggage and check in their luggage again.The Beijing-based airline held a launching ceremony at the airport in Taipa

July 26, 2017 | BY admin

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