Scholar vows local colleges will nurture more talents for GBA

Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) Vice-President Lei Ngan Lin said yesterday that for local tertiary education institutions to better participate in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), nurturing more talents was the key.Lei made the remarks in her opening speech at the Youth Form for the Planning Guidelines for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) hosted by the institute on its campus in Zape yesterday.A symposium on the

February 27, 2019 | BY admin

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Police bust loan-sharking gang, nab 71 suspects

The police arrested 71 men and women on Saturday for their alleged involvement in a loan-sharking gang controlled by a triad organisation, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said in a special press conference yesterday.Leng did not name the triad organisation that controlled the gang.According to Leng, the 71 suspects are from Macau, Hong Kong, the mainland, and Thailand, comprising 60 males and 11 females, aged from 23 to 65 years.One of the suspects, a 53-year-old mainlander

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Chui to visit Beijing for GBA talks, NPC opening

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, will travel on Thursday to Beijing to attend a meeting on Friday of the central government’s leading group for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement yesterday. According to the statement, Chui will also attend next Tuesday’s opening of the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC). While in the national capital, Chui will meet

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Non-resident workers exceed 188,000

Macau’s number of non-resident workers rose by 4.3 percent year-on-year to 188,321 at the end of last month, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) announced yesterday, citing immigration statistics from the Public Security Police (PSP).According to the data, mainlanders accounted for 62 percent of the total number of imported labour. The number of non-resident workers from the Philippines stood at 31,924, the second-biggest imported labour segment. Other major segments came from Vietnam (15,267),

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Taipa Ferry Terminal’s 3rd phase starts: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that the third-phase construction of the Taipa Ferry Terminal has get off the ground, which will have a passage connected to the restricted area of the adjacent airport.Rosario made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Plaza Restaurant in Zape on the sidelines of a reception hosted by the Macau Women’s General Association (commonly known as Fu Luen) to celebrate the upcoming International Women’s Day on March

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Beauty therapist loses HK$150,000 in online love scam: police

A local beauty therapist has fallen victim to an online love scam, in which she lost HK$150,000 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng said that the victim surnamed Chao is a beauty therapist in her forties. According to Leng, Chao told the police that she met a man who told her that he was an engineer from the US through an online social platform last month, after which they started an online relationship and stayed in touch

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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Joint Hengqin checkpoint to use new clearance mode: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak reaffirmed yesterday that a new mode of clearance based on the so-called “joint inspection and one-time release” principle will be adopted at the future mainland-Macau joint checkpoint on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai.Under this new customs and immigration clearance system, travellers are required to pass border controls only once when completing their departure and arrival formalities.The policy secretary described the relocation of Macau’s Lotus Flower

February 26, 2019 | BY admin

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PJ officer suspended for ‘unexplained wealth’

A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer has been suspended for the possession of unexplained wealth, the website of the Secretariat for Security (GSS) said yesterday.The Secretariat for Security uploaded yesterday an update on the progress of the handling of the case, which was first revealed by the office on its website in April 2015.The website said yesterday that the Judiciary Police have completed a disciplinary procedure against the officer, and Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak ordered the

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab 70 from ‘triad-backed’ loan-sharking ring

The police have detained 70 men and women for their alleged involvement in a loan-sharking racket “controlled by a triad organisation”, a message from the Judiciary Police (PJ) said last night.The message said that details of the case would be released in a press conference today.

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Chan in Beijing to discuss transfer of convicts

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Soi Fan will lead a delegation to the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing this week to discuss cooperation in the mutual transfer of convicts, Chan’s office said in a statement yesterday. The four-day working visit begins today. According to the statement, the delegation will also be briefed on the development of “smart courts” on the mainland. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Visitors’ non-gaming spending rises 13.6 pct in 2018

Visitors’ non-gaming spending rose by 13.6 percent to 69.7 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Overnight visitors’ non-gaming spending grew by 13 percent to 56.2 billion patacas. Same-day visitors’ non-gaming spending rose by 16.2 percent to 13.4 billion patacas. Visitors’ per capita non-gaming spending rose by 3.5 percent to 1,946 patacas last year. Mainlanders’ per capita non-gaming spending grew by 1.8 percent to 2,242 patacas,

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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CEM reaches 99.99 pct on reliability index in 2018: chief

Macau’s electric power utility CEM says its average service availability index (ASAI) reached 99.998 percent last year, “allowing CEM to take the lead worldwide in terms of the power supply service level.”The figure was released by CEM Executive Committee Chairman Bernie Leong Wa Kun during a Spring Festival media lunch at MGM in Nape on Friday.The ASAI is the ratio of the total number of customer hours that service was available during a given period of time to the total customer hours

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Electronic vote counting to be used in election of CE Election Committee members

Electronic vote counting is to be used in the election of the 400 Chief Executive Election Committee members, the Electoral Affairs Commission for the Chief Executive Election has announced. Song Man Lei, president of the commission, told the media after a regular meeting of the commission on Friday the decision was made after reviewing the experience gained from the chief executive election in 2014. Song, Macau’s most senior female judge, said the committee also decided that the polling on

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Police order repairs to emblem damaged by ‘wear & tear’

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday that it has removed its star-shaped emblem – which has the official emblem of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in it – from the roof of the headquarters of its Traffic Department for repairs as some patterns on the police emblem had fallen off due to “normal wear and tear”.The PSP emblem has the MSAR emblem in the centre, with the Public Security Police name written in the Chinese and Portuguese languages

February 25, 2019 | BY admin

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