USJ to hold seminar on Patua grammar on April 28

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) is proposing to raise the flagfall to 21 patacas from the current 19 patacas for the first 1,600 metres, representatives of the city’s taxi sector told public broadcaster TDM yesterday.According to the TDM report, the bureau is also proposing an increase in incremental charges.Currently, the incremental fare is two patacas for every 240 metres after the first 1,600 metres. The bureau is proposing that the incremental fare will be two patacas for every 220 metres

Kou Meng Pok, who heads the Pearl Horizon Condominium Owners United Association, says his electoral group Pearl Horizon Buyers Rights Defence Union (UPHDD) is running in the September 17 direct legislative election to urge the government to solve the long-running row so that its pre-sale buyers can finally move into their flats.Kou is the first-ranked candidate of the direct legislative election group (No. 24 on the ballot) while Hong Cheng Tun is the second-ranked candidate. Kou’s list