Global Money Week promotes cyber security among youths

Online payment is prevalent in civil society nowadays. In order to ensure cyber security, the government should continuously strengthen the supervision of online trade safety while youths need to take responsibility for the protection of their personal data, Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB) cloud security architect Antony Ma Yu-kit said during yesterday’s Global Money Week 2019 opening ceremony.The ceremony co-organised by the Macau Institute of Financial Services (IFS) and the Macau

March 26, 2019 | BY admin

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12 local businesses named ‘classic brand’

An almond cookie bakery, a gold jeweller, a congee shop and an ice-cream parlour are among the 12 local businesses that were given the “Macau Classic Brand” title yesterday.The “Macau Classic Brand” project has been organised by the Macau Chain Stores and Franchise Association in conjunction with the Economic Services Bureau (DSE).During the award ceremony at the World Trade Centre, DSE Director Tai Kin Ip noted that the bureau signed a cooperation agreement with Macau Chain Stores and

March 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Elderly man hits driver in bus row: police

An elderly man has been arrested for assaulting a public bus driver in a row about almost having been unable to get onto the bus on Sunday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lai, the suspect surnamed Cheang is in his seventies. The victim surnamed Leong is in his forties. Both are locals.According to Lai, the incident happened at around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday when Cheang was hailing the arriving bus in Rua do

March 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau shop owner severs 2 fingers in work accident

A 52-year-old local man had the distal phalange of a finger completely severed and the distal phalange of another finger partially severed when using a wood-cutting machine in his shop – which is under renovation – in an alley in Ha Van district yesterday afternoon, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement.Ha Van is the Chinese name for the Praia do Manduco neighbourhood in the Inner Harbour area near Barra.After receiving a report about the accident at around 3:30 p.m., firemen

March 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Kaohsiung mayor meets CE, liaison chief

Speaking to the media yesterday when wrapping up his two-day trip to Macau, Kaohsiung Mayor Daniel Han Kuo-yu said his government hoped that Macau people suffering from serious illnesses would consider his city as an option when seeking medical treatment outside Macau, as medical technologies used in his city were “very excellent”.Before departing for Shenzhen to continue his seven-day trip to the nation’s two special administrative regions and two mainland cities, Han answered questions

March 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau, Zhuhai customs jointly bust II case

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers and their counterparts in Zhuhai have jointly busted a case in which a male snakehead was assisting two mainlanders to illegally enter Macau and five mainlanders who had illegally entered Macau to leave the city using a motor boat.In Cantonese jargon, people smugglers are known as “snakeheads”.The snakehead, also a mainlander, and five of the seven male illegal immigrants were caught by Macau customs officers on

March 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt’s top vet suspended for abuse of power

The government’s most senior veterinarian has been suspended from his duties for alleged abuse of power and illicit involvement in business activities, local media reported late last week.Government-owned broadcaster TDM identified the suspect as Choi U Fai, chief of the Municipal Affairs Bureau’s (IAM) Veterinary Inspection and Control Division until his recent suspension in the wake of an investigation by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC).The CCAC probe was launched in August last

March 25, 2019 | BY admin

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7 on school bus hurt in crash with car

A crash between a school bus and a car at the junction of Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga and Rua de Silva Mendes on Friday morning injured seven people on the bus – five pupils, a teacher and a caretaker, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.The police said that they suspected the crash was due to the car failing to give way at the junction.According to the Fire Services Bureau, the crash happened at around 10 a.m. on Friday at the junction where the neighbourhood’s landmark Bodhi nunnery –

March 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Medical interns among 3 new measles patients in Macau

Two medical interns from Kiang Wu Hospital and a staff member of the Venetian are the three latest patients infected with measles, with the total number of measles cases so far this year reaching 19, a statement from the Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday.According to the statement, the three new patients, all male Macau residents, are currently in quarantine at the bureau’s clinical health centre.SSM Director Lei Chin Ion told reporters yesterday that although there is a cluster infection at

March 25, 2019 | BY admin

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16-year-old schoolboy rapes 17-year-old girl: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 16-year-old schoolboy on Wednesday for raping a 17-year-old schoolgirl on Sunday after the victim had repeatedly declined the boy’s pleas to be his girlfriend, PJ spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a special press conference yesterday.The suspect and the victim are enrolled in the same school, according to Lai, who said that the rape happened in the girl’s family home in Patane district.A year ago, the boy, surnamed Leong, got to know the girl who later

March 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Film festival to take audience by surprise

Eight film classics will be shown at Cinematheque.Passion but the audience won’t know what they’re in for until the lights go down and the film starts.This “Surprise Film Festival” taking place from March 30 to April 28 will mark the 2nd anniversary of the cinema, which belongs to the Cultural Affairs Bureau and is run by CUT Ltd.“The vibrant programme is sure to excite and ignite the audience with works ranging from auspicious directorial debuts, moving and nostalgic love stories,

March 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Inflation rate hits 2.79 pct last month

Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose by 2.79 percent year-on-year last month, down 0.25 percentage points from the 3.04 percent growth in January, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, the increase was attributable to the higher cost of eating out and rising residential rents, as well as rising prices of motor cars, adults’ clothing and fruit.The price indices of education, transport, and clothing and footwear grew “notably”

March 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt unseals bids for 3 Cotai hospital buildings

The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) said in a statement yesterday that it expects the construction of three main buildings of the public hospital project in Cotai, officially known as Cotai Health Complex, to get off the ground in the fourth quarter of this year.Last year, the government said that construction of the three buildings was slated to be completed in 2023.The Cotai hospital project comprising seven buildings was first announced in 2010 and its construction has been

March 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau logs fewest cold days since 1952: observatory

Just 18 days with a temperature at or below 12.5 degrees Celsius were recorded in 2018, the fewest number of cold days of any year since 1952, the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a report yesterday.In its Climate Review for Winter 2018, the bureau said that the Macau’s winter temperature last year had broken several historical records.According to the bureau’s statistics, the number of cold days in the winter last year amounted to just 18, the fewest number of days

March 22, 2019 | BY admin

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