Eat at Azucar,pay with OCBC Wing Hang Bank to help blind see again

Global sight-saving organisation Orbis regularly hosts fund-raising events and “Darkness To Go” is one of its Macau office’s main campaigns this year that invites the whole community to take part in helping people around the world who are needlessly blind to see again.Following the success of Orbis Macau’s “Darkness To Go” campaign last year, over 60 businesses have joined the campaign this year where you only need to dine or shop at the designated retailers, and those business

July 14, 2017 | BY admin

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MAC team make top 10 in underwater robot challenge

The robotics team from the Macau Anglican College (MAC) finished 10th out of 39 teams from 17 countries and regions in a port security-themed underwater robot challenge organised by the Marine Advanced Technology Education Centre (MATE) in Long Beach, California.The MATE International ROV Competition took place from June 23 to 25 where teams, in the form of a company, were required to design and build a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that was able to carry out specific underwater tasks. The

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Celebrity chef Graham Elliot vows to bring casual fine dining to MGM Cotai

Dishes with all the quality and creativity of fine dining with ingredients that people are familiar with will be on the menu that Graham Elliot is helping to design for the Coast restaurant that he will be overseeing at MGM Cotai.The Chicago-based chef, who has a two Michelin-starred restaurant and has been on popular cooking shows like MasterChef, MasterChef Junior and Top Chef, was in town last week to give the media a sneak peek of some of the dishes set for the menu, which he is continuing

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Girl beaten, robbed by peers in toilet

A 15-year-old girl had her mobile phone robbed by four teenage girls after being beaten up in a toilet of a cyber café, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Tam said the victim was asked by the four girls, aged between 14 and 17, to meet them at a cyber café in Nam Van on Wednesday night. When the victim arrived, she went into the restroom with the other girls, who suddenly turned off the lights and beat her up, took her mobile and

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Lift technician dies in work accident

A non-resident male worker died yesterday after he was hit by suspension ropes that fell from the 22nd floor when he was working at the bottom of a lift shaft in a commercial building in Nape, the Secretariat for Economy and Finance (GSEF) said in a statement yesterday.Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac is saddened by the repeated occurrence of fatal accidents at work, the GSEF statement said.According to a statement from the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday, the accident

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Trio busted for selling drugs: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two locals and a Hong Kong man on Wednesday on suspicion of having sold drugs in night entertainment venues for a month, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.The spokesperson identified the three suspects as a 22-year-old local woman surnamed Tam, a 26-year-old Hong Kong man surnamed Lee, and a 38-year-old local man surnamed Chan.According to the spokesperson, the police received a tip-off a week ago that a local man was providing

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Firemen urge residents not to abuse ambulance services

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced yesterday that ambulances were sent out in 19,184 cases in the first half of the year, down 2.59 percent compared to the same period last year. However, residents were asked to refrain from calling out an ambulance for non-urgent cases.Cheong Chi Wang, a senior firefighter, announced the bureau’s statistics for the first six months during a press conference at the CB headquarters in Nam Van.The bureau said in a press conference in January that there had

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Cabbie nabbed for extorting passenger

A local taxi driver surnamed Chan who is in his twenties has been arrested for extorting money from a passenger who had left her mobile in the taxi, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the female victim and her husband, both from the mainland, reported the case on Wednesday afternoon. She told the police that they had got in a cab at Grand Lisboa Macau earlier that day hoping to go to the Venetian in Cotai,

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Rent control bill may reduce supply: JLL

The implementation of a rent control law may reduce the new supply of rental apartments and also would see landlords passing expenses onto the tenants instead, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Macau office’s residential property chief Jeff Wong Chi Wai said yesterday.The global real estate services firm held a media briefing at its office in the Finance and IT Centre yesterday about its mid-year property review of Macau.While the firm sees the residential market regaining momentum amid “robust

July 13, 2017 | BY admin

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PJ officer sacked over fraud case: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the government has dismissed a Judiciary Police (PJ) officer who allegedly – in collaboration with his girlfriend – cheated 320 mainlanders out of 1.5 million yuan.According to the website of the Secretariat for Security, the PJ officer and his girlfriend were arrested and transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) in December 2015. Prosecutors charged the two suspects in October last year.Wong said he decided to dismiss the

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Record 195 candidates running for 14 seats: govt

A record 195 candidates are running in the upcoming direct election of 14 seats in the legislature, Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) President Tong Hio Fong said yesterday.If all the candidates are formally approved by the committee, there will be nearly 14 candidates for each directly-elected seat.Tong also said there were two groups – officially known as lists – that have not completed all the required paperwork while some of the candidates on another two lists are

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Casino revenue drop pushes up gaming crime: PJ chief

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said yesterday that the recent rise in gaming-related loan-sharking cases and gaming-related false imprisonment cases was partially due to the drop in gaming revenues over the last few years.Chau made the remarks on the sidelines of an award ceremony commemorating the 57th anniversary of the Judiciary Police at the PJ headquarters in Zape.Addressing the award ceremony, Chau said that the Judiciary Police recorded 413 gaming-related loan-sharking

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Macau to host lusitanists’ congress for 1st time

The 12th Congress of the International Association of Lusitanists (AIL) will take place from July 23 and 28 at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM), with the aim of promoting the teaching of the Portuguese language as well as highlighting the important role Macau plays in the promotion of Portuguese-language teaching, according to a press conference yesterday.The press conference about the congress was held on the IPM campus in Zape. It was addressed by Carlos André, director of IPM’s

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Locals lack confidence in mobile payment: app operators

Jiang Haitao, creator of local mobile app for food delivery Aomi, said yesterday that local users’ general lack of confidence in e-payment transactions has been a road block for the city’s e-commerce development.Jiang made the remarks on the sidelines of a forum about e-payments at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) in Zape.Aomi, launched in June last year by Macau e-Media Development Company Limited, is the first local food app which supports payments in both

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