4-year-old dies of flu-related brain disease

A four-year-old local girl, who lives in Zhuhai and commutes to school in Macau, died in Zhuhai on Sunday from flu-related encephalopathy, a brain disease, a Health Bureau (SSM) statement said yesterday.The statement said that the bureau has ordered Escola Fukien (Fujian School) to suspend the K2B class that the girl attended until Friday, to reduce the risk of spreading the flu. It also ordered the school to carry out thorough disinfection of its classrooms and other facilities.According to

October 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust huge loan-sharking gang, nab 34 suspects

A total of 34 suspects were arrested on Sunday for their suspected membership of loan-sharking gang which lent about HK$60 million to about 80 gamblers, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said at a press conference in Zape yesterday.Lei said that in March last year the Judiciary Police were tipped off about the gang and arrested some of its suspected members. The police continued their investigation, and on Sunday 80 PJ officers raided nine residential flats in Taipa and the

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Indian trio caught in fortune telling scam

Three men from India were caught last Friday for deceiving shop owners in the city centre in a fortune-telling scam, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said in a regular press briefing yesterday. The trio told the merchants that they could predict the future of their businesses and that their “prayers” would bring good luck and prosperity to their shops. Shopkeepers paid them between one and 20 patacas per “prayer”. Two of the men surnamed Singh are brothers aged 24

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Scooter rider dies in crash on Friendship Bridge

A male scooter rider died in a crash with a lorry on Friendship Bridge yesterday afternoon, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.The police identified the victim as a 53-year-old local man. No further information on the victim was released.According to the police, the crash happened at around 2 p.m. when the rider was on his way to Taipa.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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IPIM gets acting chief, Sino-Luso forum’s secretariat gets temporary deputy secretary-general

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac has appointed Irene Lau Kuan Va, an executive director of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), as the institute’s acting president, his office said in a statement yesterday.The appointment came after the institute’s president, Jackson Chang, was suspended from his post in the wake of a criminal investigation by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) and Public Prosecution Office for alleged work-related

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt striving to draft minimum wage bill: official

Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong said yesterday the government was striving to start the legislative process of drafting a bill on the implementation of a statutory minimum wage for all workers as soon as possible.Wong made the remarks when replying to an oral interpellation by indirectly-elected lawmakers-cum-unionist Lei Chan U during a plenary session of the legislature. Lei is a vice-president of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen).In his

October 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Liaison Office praises late director’s honesty

The Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau yesterday praised its late director Zheng Xiaosong for his honesty and fruitful work.The office gave the praise in a statement about its former director who died in Macau on October 20, aged 59.According to a brief statement by the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HMO) on October 21, Zheng fell to his death – “because he was suffering from depression” – from the building where he lived.Yesterday’s statement by the

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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IPIM chief, 2 other officials suspended over work-related crimes: CCAC

The president of the board of directors of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), a member of its executive committee and a former official at the institute’s Residency Application and Legal Affairs Division who is now working as the chief of a department of the government’s Pension Fund (FP), have been transferred to the Judiciary for alleged work-related crimes, the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement on Friday.The Judiciary mentioned in the CCAC

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Carnival promotes traffic safety awareness

The annual Traffic Safety Carnival held by the government in Praça do Tap Seac yesterday aimed to promote public awareness of traffic safety, with parents and their children visibly enjoying the various activities.In their ongoing effort to promote traffic safety, the Transport Bureau (DSAT), Public Security Police (PSP), Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) and Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) jointly organise a string of events annually, the Transport Bureau pointed out in a statement last

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Garrison commander transferred to Guangzhou

The commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison, Liao Zhengrong, has been transferred to Guangzhou, according to an order issued by President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the army’s local garrison said in a statement on Friday.The statement said that Liao would be serving as deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and that his position in Macau was temporarily vacant.Liao took up the post of Macau Garrison commander in

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Delta bridge records 1st case of traveller with fever

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge recorded its first case of a traveller, a two-year-old boy from the mainland, suffering from a fever, on Friday, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement on Saturday.The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) officially began operating on Wednesday last week. President Xi Jinping had inaugurated the world’s longest sea bridge on the previous day.The statement said that the bureau received a report from Gongbei Customs about the first traveller on the bridge

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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UM to launch new Chinese-Portuguese translation system

Over the past two decades, the University of Macau (UM) has developed various innovative translation systems, such as the PCT, a Chinese/Portuguese translation system; the Um2T, an online interactive Chinese/Portuguese machine translation system, and the next-generation online Chinese-Portuguese translation platform, which is expected to be launched onto the market by the end of this year, the government-funded university said in a statement last week.These innovative translation systems

October 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Investment institute chief under criminal investigation: official

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) president Jackson Cheong is under criminal investigation and has been suspended from office, the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement today. The CCAC – Macau’s graft-busting agency – also said that an unnamed IPIM executive board member and a former deputy director of the institute’s Legal and Residency Office and current head of a department of the Pension Fund have also been suspended.IPIM is a government-owned

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau to be restructured, expanded

The government will rearrange and expand the organisational structure of the Macau Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau (DSFSM), with the aim of allowing the city’s law enforcement agencies to better cope with their increased workload resulting from the rising number of the city’s border checkpoints and from the growing application of advanced information technology (IT) for the police’s law enforcement tasks, Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced yesterday.Addressing a

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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