Electoral body confirms single list for business-sector by-election

Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEAL) President Tong Hio Fong has announced that a single list has been confirmed for the by-election of a business sector seat in the Legislative Assembly (AL) on November 24.Tong made the remarks on Friday while speaking to reporters after a regular closed-door meeting of the commission at the Public Administration Building in Rua do Campo.The indirect election by the city’s business sector constituency will be held in the wake of Ho Iat

September 3, 2019 | BY admin

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IAM fines resident for keeping monitor lizard

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) told The Macau Post Daily on Friday that a resident who smuggled a monitor lizard into Macau has been fined by the bureau for keeping the endangered species as a pet.The monitor lizard measuring 1.30 metres in length was found crawling in the street in San Kio district on August 23. The reptile is believed to have fallen from a nearby building and smashed the windscreen of a car parked in the street before it landed on the ground.The huge lizard then started

September 3, 2019 | BY admin

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Rosário reassures public over Taipa-Barra LRT safety concerns

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário promised yesterday that the government will ensure that its ongoing project to build the Light Rail Transit (LRT) section between Taipa and Barra at the southern tip of the peninsula will not affect the structure of Sai Van Bridge.The Taipa-Barra LRT section will run through the lower enclosed deck of the bridge, which currently has a vehicular lane in each direction for cars and emergency vehicles when typhoon signals No. 8, 9 or 10

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Mixed bag of results for Macau boxers in 1st local all pro event

An enthusiastic crowd on Saturday saw local boxers Cheong Lap Cheong, Michael Olfindo and Andre (Jay) Angelo Adangla Fernandez fighting opponents from Yunnan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong respectively, ending in a mixed bag of results – a win for Cheong, while Olfindo and Fernandez had their fights stopped.Local gym Macao Boxing House held the “Guangdong-Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday, the first time that an all professional boxing

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Hengqin checkpoint busts 3 cars smuggling US$1.7 million in cash

Gongbei Customs said in a statement on Friday that officers of Hengqin Customs – which is under the administration of the Gongbei Customs – separately busted three cars with dual Macau-mainland registration plates in the early hours of last Tuesday for attempting to smuggle a total of US$1.725 million (13.9 million patacas) in cash from the mainland to Macau via the Hengqin border checkpoint.In the early hours of August 27, customs officers at the Hengqin checkpoint seized US$600,000 each

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Chui praises ‘great revolutionary’ Mao Zedong

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that Mao Zedong was a “great revolutionary, strategist and theorist” and the main founder and “remarkable” leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Republic of China (PRC).Chui made the remarks in a speech at the opening ceremony of the “Mao Zedong Emerged in China” exhibition of photographs of the “extraordinary life” of the late chairman (1893-1976) at the Macau

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Mixed bag of results for Macau boxers in 1st local all pro event

An enthusiastic crowd on Saturday saw local boxers Cheong Lap Cheong, Michael Olfindo and Andre (Jay) Angelo Adangla Fernandez fighting opponents from Yunnan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong respectively, ending in a mixed bag of results – a win for Cheong, while Olfindo and Fernandez had their fights stopped.Local gym Macao Boxing House held the “Guangdong-Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday, the first time that an all professional boxing

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Gaming revenue slips 8.6 pct on HK protests, junkets woes

Macau’s casino revenue in August dipped for a second consecutive month as Macau faced headwinds from protests in Hong Kong and regulatory uncertainty over high-roller junkets.Gross gaming revenue for Macau casino operators was 24.26 billion patacas in August, down 8.6 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau (DICJ). That missed the median analyst forecast of a 4 percent fall, following a 3.5 percent drop in July.Month-on-month, gross

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Typhoon signal No. 8 ‘unlikely’

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said late last night on its website that it expects the storm warning signal No. 3 to remain in effect at least until 10 a.m. today, adding that the hoisting of the typhoon signal No. 8 was unlikely for the – unnamed – tropical depression, which was moving towards the southern island province of Hainan.According to the website, the tropical depression was located about 340 kilometres south-southwest of Macau at 1 a.m. today and was moving west

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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852 Peppa Pig kidswear items seized by Customs

A total of 852 counterfeit children’s items of clothing and swimwear depicting famous British cartoon character Peppa Pig were seized by customs officers from four clothing shops near Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro on Monday.Seven suspects were taken in for questioning.The city’s latest infringement of intellectual property rights was announced during a press conference held at the Macau Customs Service headquarters in Rua de São Tiago da Barra yesterday.According to Cheang Wa Kam, chief

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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PLA garrison completes 20th troop rotation

According to Xinhua, the local People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison completed its routine annual rotation early morning yesterday.It was the 20th troop rotation since the PLA began garrisoning Macau in 1999, Xinhua said.Xinhua noted that the Hong Kong PLA garrison completed its 22nd rotation also in the wee hours of yesterday.According to Xinhua, the rotation was approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC) in Beijing, pointing out that the move was a “normal routine” annual

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Drunk motorcyclist sleeps on road for 2 hours after skidding: police

A drunk male motorcyclist skidded and fell near the Ponte 16 casino-hotel in the Inner Harbour area in the early hours of Wednesday, and then slept on the street for two hours before being discovered by a passer-by who reported the case to the police, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The police received a report at around 6 a.m. on Wednesday about an incident that appeared to be a traffic accident in Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos.

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Disclosing hidden craft talent around the city

There are many skilful and creative craftsmen in Macau who have joined an up-and-coming sector – the cultural and creative industries.The cultural and creative industries were popularised in Taiwan in recent years. However, the existence of arts and crafts is perennial. In Greek myths, the goddess Athena was known to be the patron of the arts and crafts. If Athena were real, then the goddess did shower Macau with grace and blessings because in the city there are secretly talented arts and

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Okura’s Chinese lunch set features dim sum essentials

The local Hotel Okura has rolled out a five-course meal featuring signature dim sum dishes typical of a traditional Chinese lunch.The new dim sum lunch set served at the hotel’s 28th floor is to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 13 this year.The five-course set lunch begins with the quintessential southern Chinese dish – char siu, or barbeque pork glazed with honey sauce served with jellyfish.This is followed by a dim sum platter featuring a rabbit-shaped dumpling for

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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