506 apply for Macau & HK tour-guide licence in Hengqin: official

Hengqin New Area government official Zhang Ximin told reporters that by 10 a.m. yesterday, 506 Macau and Hong Kong tour guides had applied to the island’s government for a tour-guide licence in Hengqin, according to a report by government-owned broadcaster TDM.Zhang spoke to the media after yesterday’s press conference about the licensing process for tour guides from Hong Kong and Macau in Hengqin, the report said.The TDM report did not say when the application process started.PLEASE READ

September 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt ends term of Pension Fund department chief over IPIM case

According to an order by Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan dated September 9, Miguel Ian Iat Chun’s appointment as a department chief of the Pension Fund (FP) was terminated with immediate effect on that day.However, the order was only published in yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO).When a person is unable to perform his or her working duties for more than six months, their appointment shall be terminated, according to Article 16 of Law 15/2009 concerning

September 19, 2019 | BY admin

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90 pct of eligible Pearl Horizon pre-sale buyers apply to buy ‘home swap’ unit: govt

Macau Urban Renewal Limited, a fully government-owned company tasked with the city’s urban renewal process, announced yesterday that 90.8 percent of the Pearl Horizon pre-sale buyers who are eligible to buy a unit in its “home swap” housing project, which will be built on the plot where the ill-fated residential project is located, have filed their applications during the two-month application period which ended in the middle of last month.Peter Lam Kam Seng, who chairs the company’s

September 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Teen loses 14,120 patacas in credit-for-sex scam: police

A teenage boy fell for a credit-for-sex scam last week, losing a total of 14,120 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said in a regular conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Lai, the victim is a local pupil. The spokesman did not reveal the victim’s age and other personal information. However, Lai said that the age of the teen is under 18.Lai said that the boy befriended a female online on Saturday. She later told him through a social messaging app

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Property price reaches 116,856 patacas per m2: official

Macau’s residential property price rose 17.7 percent year-on-year to 116,856 patacas per square metre last month, the highest price this year, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) announced yesterday.In August last year, the price stood at 99,254 patacas.The average residential property price in Taipa reached 138,110 patacas per square metre, the highest in the whole city. In Coloane, the average price stood at 121,283 patacas. The price on the peninsula fell to 107,810 patacas.A total of 770

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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IAM opposes capture-neuter-release strategy for strays

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has rejected as “unfeasible” grassroots lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou’s proposal of reintroducing the so-called capture-neuter-release strategy for stray dogs and cats.According to Sou, the strategy avoids the culling of strays.In his written interpellation, Sou pointed out that the government implemented the strategy for neutered and vaccinated stray cats in 2007 to control the increase in Macau’s feline population. According to the interpellation, 1,875

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Businessman loses over 2.2 million yuan in procurement scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained a local man on Thursday for allegedly cheating a mainland businessman in a procurement scam in 2015, PJ spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Lai, the 58-year-old suspect is surnamed Kou. He told the police that he works as a project manager for a local construction company. The victim’s personal information was not released.According to Lai, Kou committed the fraud in July 2015. Kou told the victim that

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Health Bureau issues warning over water heaters’ exhaust pipes

In a statement yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) urged residents not to connect the exhaust pipes of their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) water heaters to the shared exhaust ducts running vertically along bathrooms in residential flats of different floors in their residential buildings.The statement came after a carbon monoxide poisoning case last week in a residential building involving a woman and her daughter, which was caused by this kind of exhaust pipe connection.According to the

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Police confirm PSP officer killed in Australian car crash

A Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson confirmed yesterday that one of the two local women killed in a traffic accident in Western Australia near Perth on Sunday was a PSP officer, the Chinese-language Macao Daily News reported last night, citing a statement by the spokesperson.According to the spokesperson, the victim had joined the Public Security Police last year. The Public Security Police expressed its deepest condolences to the victim’s family. The spokesperson was also quoted as

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Eco-bureau to plant mangroves along Areia Preta coast to tackle stench

Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man said yesterday that his bureau will remove some of the silt polluted by wastewater along the northern coast of Areia Preta district, and plant mangroves in the remaining silt, so as to solve “once and for all” the waterfront stench that has been affecting residents in the area for years.Tam made the remarks during a press conference at the bureau in Estrada de D. Maria II yesterday.Tam revealed on Friday that a project to

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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2 Macau women die after car, bus collide in Australia

SYDNEY – Two women from Macau were killed and another from Macau was seriously injured following a collision between a car and a tourist bus in the state of Western Australia on Sunday, Xinhua and Australia’s state broadcaster ABC reported yesterday.Officials from the Chinese Consulate General in Perth told Xinhua that the injured woman was in a stable condition and would remain in hospital for observation.ABC reported that the woman, aged 23, was in a critical but stable condition in

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Woman dies after being hit on zebra crossing by bus

A 71-year-old local woman died on Friday after being hit by a casino staff shuttle bus on a zebra crossing in Ilha Verde, the Public Security Police (PSP) said on Friday.The police said that the driver, who passed a breathalyser test, failed to give way to the woman on the zebra crossing.The vehicle is a TCM bus used as a casino staff shuttle bus driven by a TCM public bus driver. The city’s two public bus operators – Transmac and TCM – use some of their buses to run casino staff shuttle

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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19th imported dengue case confirmed this year: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement on Saturday that it has confirmed this year’s 19th imported case of dengue fever.According to the statement, the patient is a 22-year-old male tourist from Japan. The statement merely said that the man stayed in Avenida Doutor Mário Soares in Nam Van and did not say when he came to Macau. The statement did not say what kind of accommodation he was staying in.The man came down with a fever, a headache and a rash last Monday. He went to the public

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho says that ‘One Country’ first, then ‘Two Systems’

BEIJING – “When we talk about ‘One Country, Two Systems,’ we cannot only focus on the ‘Two Systems’ and ignore that the ‘One Country’ is the precondition,” Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s Chief Executive-designate said in an exclusive interview with China Media Group (CMG), state-broadcaster CGTN reported yesterday.Ho said that the “One Country, Two Systems” principle must not be messed with and people should be aware of what the nation’s bottom line is.Thanks to the mainland’s

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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