Schedule of by-election procedures is ready: govt

The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission Elections (CAEAL) announced yesterday the schedule for the by-election of a vacant business-sector seat in the Legislative Assembly, according to a statement by the Government Information Bureau (GCS).The statement was released after the commission’s first regular meeting. The commission was set up on Tuesday.According to the statement, the by-election is scheduled to be held on November 24 to fill one of the four indirectly-elected seats

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Govt vows to continue crackdown on online gambling

The government has been cracking down on illegal online gambling and will continue to do so, resulting in over 300 websites being shut down between 2016 and last year, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) Director Paulo Martins Chan said yesterday.Chan pointed out that many of the now defunct websites had illegally used the name of Macau.Chan’s bureau, the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) and the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming (ISCG) at University of Macau (UM)

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Shop manager steals HK$1.65 million from own shop, female friend helps

A jewellery shop manager was questioned at a police station on Monday about the theft of HK$1.65 million in cash from his shop in Zape, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the 34-year-old local suspect is surnamed Chan. He told the police that he works as a manager of a jewellery shop in a shopping mall of a hotel in Zape. The female accomplice is from Jiangxi province. Her personal information was not

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Govt launches mobile app for extreme weather warning

The government’s civil protection structure introduced a mobile application and an official WeChat account yesterday for users to receive details of weather hazards and information about public transport, shelters and schools during extreme weather conditions.The announcement for the new application was made by Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun yesterday during a press conference by the government’s civil protection structure – which consists of 29 government

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Weather station issues heat stroke warning

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) issued yesterday a heat stroke warning.According to an SMG statement yesterday evening, a tropical depression to the east of the Philippines has intensified into a tropical storm, named Danas. The statement said that Danas was expected to move towards the north of the Philippines and Taiwan. “Affected by its outer subsidence air, it will be very hot in Macau in the next few days,” the statement said, adding that the maximum temperate will be

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Chui swears in by-election’s affairs commission’s 6 members

The six members of the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission took their oaths of office during a ceremony conducted by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On at Government Headquarters yesterday.The commission will oversee the by-election for the business sector’s seat in the Legislative Assembly (AL) which will be held on November 24.The indirect election by the city’s business sector constituency will be held in the wake of chief executive hopeful Ho Iat Seng’s resignation

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Wushu Masters Challenge attracts more teams from B&R, GBA

The city’s fourth Wushu Masters Challenge, slated to take place from August 1 to 4 will spotlight major wushu competitions and performances, as well as a string of workshops, a wushu summer festival and other activities.The joint organisers – the Sports Bureau (ID) and Wushu General Association of Macau (WGAM) – announced the programme during a press conference at the Macau Science Centre in Nape yesterday.The Cultural Industries Fund, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and Cultural

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Group says lockers quickest way to tackle overweight schoolbags

Installing lockers and bookshelves in classrooms or in school corridors are the best short-term solution to tackle the overweight schoolbag issue that local pupils are suffering from, Macau Jiangmen Communal Society Executive Vice President Carmen Lo Choi In said yesterday.Lo made the comments in a media briefing on the association’s premises in the Chamber of Commerce Building, following the recent discussion about heavy schoolbags at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ).According

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Local couple help overseas gang’s HK$630,000 love scam: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local couple on Monday for working with an overseas gang which had cheated a local woman out of HK$630,000 in a love scam by receiving the ill-gotten money in their bank accounts and then transferring the money to bank accounts overseas used by the gang, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.The spokesperson did not explain why the couple assisted the gang in cheating the victim.The spokesperson identified the male suspect as a

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Tourist swaps deluxe watch for bogus one at jewellery shop: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a tourist on Saturday for swapping a genuine diamond watch for a counterfeit one in a jewellery shop in Zape, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the female suspect is a 27-year-old tourist surnamed Dong. She told the police that she is from the mainland and unemployed.Lei told The Macau Post Daily that Dong went to a shop in Zhuhai’s Gongbei underground mall and ordered a “tailor-made”

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Chui & senior officials take first LRT ride

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, accompanied by senior officials and members of his top advisory body, yesterday took the first ride on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system, according to a statement by the Chief Executive Office (GCE).The journey included the LRT Taipa line’s depot in Cotai. The system is slated to come into service later this year.In the morning, the members of Chui’s delegation went to the operations control centre of the LRT depot where Transport Infrastructure

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

By-election for legislature’s business sector seat slated for Nov 24

A by-election for the business sector’s seat in the Legislative Assembly (AL) will be held on November 24, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.By law, all elections in Macau shall be held on a Sunday.The order was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, whose term at the helm of the local government ends at midnight on December 19.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

2,000 to join annual martial arts contest: organiser

There will be about 2,000 participants at next week’s SJM Cup – The 8th Macau International Wushu Festival and Macau International Martial Arts Competition, the head of the event, Fok Chi Chiu, said yesterday.Fok made the remarks during a press conference at Kam Pek Community Centre in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.The martial arts festival, which will take place from next Tuesday to Friday, is co-organised by the Macau Chinese National Traditional Sports Association and SJM Holdings. Fok

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0

21 main roadworks to go on during summer holidays: govt

About 21 main roadwork projects are to be carried out during this summer holiday, 80 percent of which will be finished before the new school year begins in September, Transport Bureau (DSAT) Coordination Department Chief Mok Soi Tou said yesterday.The bureau held a press conference yesterday on its premises to introduce the city’s ongoing main roadworks. Various public utilities’ representatives also attended.Mok told the press conference that 21 roadworks involving the city’s major roads

July 16, 2019 | BY admin

Comment: 0