New generation of Chinese cuisine chefs head Morpheus’ Yi

The Morpheus hotel represents a combination of luxury, contemporary and innovation, a concept that also runs through its fine-dining Chinese restaurant Yi that doesn’t have a fixed menu, instead relying on its two chefs in their thirties to decide every day after visiting the local market what to cook for the evening.“We’ve never done this before,” Yi’s Executive Chef Wilson Fam Kean Wah and Chef de Cuisine Angelo Wong Tsan-ki told MPD Weekender earlier this week at the

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Left-behind greyhounds can expect dazzling future

The greyhounds left behind in the now defunct Canidrome in Fai Chi Kei are gradually being rehomed and the majority of them appear to have a dazzling future ahead of them.The Civic and Municipal Bureau (IACM) has been looking after the greyhounds that were abandoned by Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. since the final deadline for the canines’ removal from the dog racetrack on October 6.After the racetrack finally closed its doors at midnight on July 20 the owners of the betting business

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Food4U makes GP debut as Macau Touring Car Cup title sponsor

Local online food delivery platform Food4U is the title sponsor for the Macau Touring Car Cup at the 65th Macau Grand Prix.This year’s Macau Grand Prix take place from November 15-18.A title sponsor by a local digital platform company at the Grand Prix breaks with tradition where gaming operators and public service operators used to be the main sponsors for the races over the four-day annual motorsports event.Food4U CEO Lei Weng Fai (left) and Sports Bureau President Pun Weng Kun shake hands

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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3 nabbed over continuing education subsidy scam: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday that two local men – a father and son – and a male mainlander have been arrested for their involvement in an alleged scam in which an education centre had fraudulently obtained 3.1 million patacas in continuing education subsidies from the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) by asking at least 200 residents if they could borrow their ID cards and used then to enrol in courses that did not exist.PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon made the

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Cabbies oppose bill only allowing firms to bid for taxi licences

Macau Taxi Drivers Mutual Help Association President Tony Kuok Leong Son said yesterday that the local taxi sector wants the government to implement a taxi licence bidding procedure in which half of the new taxi operation licences are granted to companies while the other half are granted to individual bidders every time the government launches a tender for taxi licences.Kuok made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the legislature’s 3rd Standing

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Film fest with Nicolas Cage to cost 55 million patacas: MGTO

This year’s International Film Festival & Awards Macau (IFFAM), with a line-up of stars such as two-time Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ Aaron Kwok Fu-shing from Hong Kong, will cost about 55 million patacas, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.According to Senna Fernandes, the amount is about the same that the organisers spent on each of the two previous festivals.Senna Fernandes, who is also

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Mother arrested for beating son for not eating his breakfast: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a local woman for beating her four-year-old son as he refused to eat his breakfast, resulting in bruises on the boy’s head, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng identified the suspect as a 43-year-old casino dealer surnamed Choi, who lives with her husband and son in a flat in Rua de D. Belchior Carneiro, a street near the St Paul’s Ruins.On Sunday morning, Choi beat her son on the palms of his hands with a

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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5 Vietnamese IIs caught swimming to Macau

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers caught five Vietnamese illegal immigrants (IIs) who swam to Macau in the early hours of TuesdayThis undated handout photo provided by the Macau Customs Service yesterday shows a customs officer watching the five IIs from Vietnam lined up in front of a vehicle outside the Marine Inspection Department Building in Ilha Verde.Four of the IIs were caught in the waters off Ocean Gardens in Taipa, while the other was later

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Gongbei Customs busts 6 cash smuggling cases

Gongbei Customs said in a statement yesterday that its officers busted six cash-smuggling cases at the border checkpoint between the Macau peninsula and the neighbouring city of Zhuhai last week, involving HK$748,000 and 996,500 patacas in total, equivalent to a total of 1.51 million yuan.According to the statement, the six cash smugglers comprise four mainlanders and two local women. The four mainlanders comprise three non-resident workers and a tourist.The first three cases were busted on the

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust 3 ‘members’ of Malaysian credit card fraud gang

Three suspected members of a Malaysian credit card fraud gang were arrested on Monday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced at a special press conference yesterday.A total of HK$300,000 was transferred by one of the three suspects to the gang’s mainland bank accounts, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said.Among the trio, a Malaysian man was arrested for receiving around 30 mobile phones from the gang that its members had bought with fake credit cards since July 2017, according to Leng.Cash and mobile

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Credit cards issued by local banks reach 1.28 million

The total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau increased by 10.3 percent year-on-year at the end of September, Macau Monetary Authority (AACM) said in a statement yesterday.The quasi-central bank said due to the increasing use of dual-currency and triple-currency cards, the total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau stood at 1,282,732 at the end of September, equivalent to a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.2 percent and a 10.3 year-on-year growth.The

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Wynn Resorts board gets new chairman

Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas announced yesterday a change at the helm of its board of directors. According to a statement by the US-Macau gaming company, its board of directors unanimously voted Philip G. Satre chairman of the board during a regular meeting in Las Vegas yesterday. The statement noted that Satre, an independent director of the company, joined the board in August as vice-chairman. He succeeds D. Boone Wayson, who is retiring from the board. Undated file photo of Philip G. Satre

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt plans to build special needs school on ex-Canidrome plot

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the government plans to build a special needs school on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack is located.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a religious ceremony for the upcoming four-day Macau Grand Prix that will start next Thursday. The ceremony took place at the Macau Grand Prix Building near the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal.The government told the operator of

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman has HK$3 million nicked by 4 men: police

A woman from the mainland reported to the police yesterday evening that HK$3 million in cash that she had put in a bag had been stolen by four men – including her friend – at a pawnshop in Zape, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.Last night, PSP officers set up roadblocks in various areas of the city with the aim of catching the four men. No immediate arrests were reported. The case has been transferred to the Judiciary Police (PJ) for further investigation.Following a provisional

November 7, 2018 | BY admin

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