Govt to build Inner Harbour pumping station: Chan

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said yesterday the government plans to build a new pumping station on the waterfront in the Inner Harbour area, adding that the government expects to invite bids for its construction during the first half of next year.Chan made the remarks during a special press conference about the government’s efforts to restore the typhoon-hit city to normal and what it plans to do to improve its emergency response to major disasters. The press

September 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Mainlander nabbed for burglary in 2013

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland on Tuesday for burgling a flat in Taipa in 2013, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 43-year-old surnamed Li.According to Lei, the case happened in March 2013, when the owner of the flat discovered that his home had been burgled and then reported the case to the police. The victim told the police that he had lost cash and other valuables worth 82,400

September 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Hato floods reached at least 1.62 metres: weather station

The height of the floodwaters outside Hong Kung Temple in the Inner Harbour area reached at least 1.62 metres during Super Typhoon Hato’s battering of Macau last month, according to the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG).The bureau has uploaded Hato’s details, including maximum wind speed recorded at the different monitoring stations and maximum flood levels in different locations, on its website.The super-typhoon killed 10 people and injured 244 in Macau on August 23. It caused

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Candidate accuses ex-weather boss of homicide over killer typhoon

Legislative election candidate Hong Weng Kuan.has filed a criminal complaint against Macau’s ex-weather chief Fong Soi Kun, accusing him of homicide by negligence for his controversial handling of warning signals when Typhoon Hato hit Macau.The typhoon killed 10 people, injured 244, cut water and power supplies and caused severe flooding and immense damage. The disaster has left local residents in a shock.Hong, a lawyer by profession, is the first-ranked direct legislative election candidate

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Father gets 5 1/2 years jail for sexual abuse of his kids

A local Portuguese resident was sentenced to five years and six months behind bars yesterday for sexually abusing his two children, a two-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, according to the sentence announced by the Court of First Instance (TJB) yesterday.According to the three-judge bench, Joao Tiago Martins was also sentenced to pay 200,000 patacas to each child.The defendant’s lawyer, Joao Miguel Barros, told Portuguese media that he was determined to appeal. He said he was convinced

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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UPD vows to fight for workers’ interests

Direct legislative election group Union for Development (UPD) said yesterday that its political platform puts special emphasis on policies to improve workers’ conditions as well as enhance Macau’s competitiveness by participating in regional cooperation.The group’s 10 candidates announced their political platform during a press conference yesterday at an activity centre run by the Macau Federation of Trade Unions in Iao Hon district.The group, No. 16 on the ballot, is led by Ella Lei

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Group vows to fight for public servants’ interests

Former Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) inspector Nelson Kot Man Kam says that his electoral group Power of Political Thought (P.P.P.), the No. 10 on the ballot, would fight for public servants’ interests if it gets elected in the September 17 direct legislative election.Kot’s list comprises 11 candidates. According to Kot, his group’s candidates are current and retired public servants and professionals. Kot is the first-ranked candidate while António da Conceição

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Group calls for ‘one person, two votes’

Ron Lam U Tou, a former member of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, said yesterday that his electoral group, Synergy Power (No. 15 on the September 17 ballot), would urge the government to promote the legislature’s democratic development by enabling each member of the indirect election’s five sectors to have one vote in the direct and one vote in the indirect legislative elections.Lam, who chairs the think tank Macau Synergy Association, is the first-ranked candidate of the group while

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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590 cabbies offend last month: police

A total of 590 offences by taxi drivers were recorded last month, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, 26.4 percent (156 cases) of the 590 cases were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers, while 63.1 percent (372 cases) concerned overcharging.In six of the cases, cabbies did not queue to pick up passengers at taxi ranks, the statement said.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Torrential rain causes wall collapse

Part of a brick wall near the CEM headquarters collapsed during torrential rain in the early hours of yesterday.The seven-metre section was fenced off after the collapse at the junction of Rua dos Pescadores and Estrada de D. Maria II (known as Melco bend during the Macau Grand Prix).The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) recorded rainfall of over 60 millimetres at its monitoring station on Big Taipa Hill between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. yesterday.Two buses stop at a bus stop in Estrada de D.

September 5, 2017 | BY admin

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Draghi’s speech at Jackson Hole – pertinent & timely

The annual Jackson Hole 2-day economic symposium ended on August 26. The title this year was, “Fostering a Dynamic Global Recovery”.After Janet L. Yellen, chair of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, gave her speech in the morning, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), gave his luncheon address.Draghi’s speech was entitled “Sustaining Openness in a Dynamic Global Economy”. It was more pertinent to the symposium’s title than Yellen’s “Financial

September 5, 2017 | BY admin

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New Macau Progressives pushing for political reform

Sulu Sou Ka Hou, the first-ranked candidate of the New Macau Progressives (ANPM) group, the No. 7 on the ballot, said yesterday that his group would push for political reform and other institutional reforms widely regarded as “difficult” tasks in Macau.Sou’s list comprises five candidates. Ex-lawmaker Paul Chan Wai Chi is the group’s second-ranked candidate.Four years ago, the New Macau Association (NMA) ran three lists for the direct legislative election. Veteran lawmakers Ng Kuok

September 5, 2017 | BY admin

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New Hope calls for 12,000 pataca cash handout

New Hope (NE) members yesterday urged the government to increase its annual cash handout to 12,000 patacas next year as residents have to cope with the constantly rising prices of daily necessities.New Hope (No. 6 on the ballot paper) is led by current lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho, who has been a legislator since 2005. The group is vying with 23 other groups for 14 directly-elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.The group’s second-ranked candidate Leong Veng Chai won a

September 5, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt should pay seniors 10,000 patacas a month: UMG

Lawmaker-cum-building contractor Mak Soi Kun said yesterday he and fellow legislator Zheng Anting were confident of winning at least two seats in the September 17 direct legislative election, adding that as a lawmaker he had the responsibility to fight for grassroots residents’ interests.Mak also said the government should pay senior citizens 10,000 patacas a month.Mak, who has been a lawmaker since 2009, is the first-ranked candidate of the Macau-Guangdong Union (UMG) (No. 20), while Zheng,

September 5, 2017 | BY admin

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