Hundreds celebrate Guan Di’s birthday

The Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (known in Cantonese as Kai Fong) hosted an event at Kam Pek Community Centre in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro yesterday to celebrate the birthday of Guan Di, the god of war. Hundreds of people attended the one-day event and filled the auditorium with a lively atmosphere.The Chinese deity’s birthday was on 12th day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, last Friday.Zau Kam Yuk, who heads the Welfare and Mutual Help Association for

June 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Worker falls to death from hotel scaffolding

A 60-year-old local worker died yesterday after falling to the ground outside Grand Emperor Hotel in Nam Van from a height of 11 metres when he was setting up scaffolding there on Sunday, the police said yesterday.According to a statement by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) on Sunday, the accident happened near the hotel’s main entrance in Avenida Comercial de Macau at around 3 p.m. on Sunday, when the worker fell from the scaffolding on the hotel’s third floor. The victim, who suffered

June 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Gambler cheated out of HK$1.3 million for ‘dead chips’ worth HK$2.6 million: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Sunday for claiming he could sell a gambler non-negotiable chips worth HK$2.6 million for half the amount, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leng, the suspect is a 32-year-old man surnamed Zhang. He told the police that he works as a manager. The male victim is a tourist from the mainland whose personal information was not released.The suspect met the victim on New Year’s Eve last year.

June 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Retired single woman cheated out of 50,000 euros in love scam: police

A retired woman has fallen victim to an online love scam in which she lost 50,000 euros (454,420 patacas at the exchange rate when the crime was committed), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng said the victim is a retired local woman in her fifties who is single. Her surname was not released.According to Leng, the victim told the police that she met a man who told her that he was a Singaporean engineer working in Turkey through an

June 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Yinkiu Hospital hopes govt solves shortage of medical staff

The chief executive officer of the private Macau Yinkui Hospital, Stella Wong Shuk Yi, said yesterday as there’s a shortage of local medical staff hospitals are competing for medical specialists, adding she hoped the government could help the private hospital by solving the severe lack of medical professionals in Macau.The Bank of China (BOC) Macau Branch and Macau Yinkui Hospital held a cooperation agreement signing ceremony yesterday about a mobile phone app for a medical appointment

June 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Voter turnout for CE Election Committee reaches 87 pct

A total of 5,001 voters representing over 500 associations elected 344 members of the 400-member Chief Executive Election Committee among 350 candidates – just six more than the number of seats available.Addressing a press briefing at the Public Administration Building in Rua do Campo last night, Chief Executive Electoral Affairs Commission President Song Man Lei noted that the voter turnout of 87.2 percent in yesterday’s election was higher than the one of 82.69 percent five years ago.A

June 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Activists protest ‘small-circle’ CE ballot

A handful of activists showed up outside a polling station to protest against what they described as a “small-circle” election of 344 members of the 400-head Chief Executive Election Committee yesterday.The protest was organised by the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). Fewer than 10 people protested outside the entrance of the Luso-Chinese Vocational and Technical School in Areia Preta district to express their opposition to the “small-circle” election of the Chief Executive

June 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Election committee candidate hopes next CE will push diversification

Election committee candidate Kwan Tsui Hang, a former lawmaker representing the labour sector, said yesterday morning that if she’s elected a member of the Chief Executive Election Committee, she would cast her ballot for a new chief executive who will invest in diversifying the local economy.Kwan made the remarks outside the Luso-Chinese Vocational and Technical School in Areia Preta district after casting her vote in the election of 344 members of the 400-head Chief Executive Election

June 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Survey finds 60 pct dads are under pressure

About 60 percent of local dads are under rather high pressure, with money, work and family being the biggest causes of stress, according to the findings of a street survey conducted by the Collective Wisdom Policy Centre.The centre announced the survey results on Friday in a press conference hosted by the centre’s Vice President Chan Ka Leong and Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations’ Social Affairs Committee Deputy Director Tam Man Kin.The survey, carried out last month,

June 17, 2019 | BY admin

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About 40 PJ officers hold contingency drill in Hac-Sa

About 40 Judiciary Police (PJ) officers held a contingency drill in the Hac Sa area and at Hac-Sa Youth Hostel on Saturday, according to a PJ statement.According to the statement, PJ officers from the Crisis Negotiation Team, Organised Crime Division and Special Investigation Division participated in the drill.An experienced crisis negotiator and Hong Kong police retiree, Cheng See-hing, provided on-site advice. About 40 volunteers from the Junior Anti-crime Pioneers training programme also

June 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt plans to launch alcohol law consultation in 2H

Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said yesterday that the bureau planned to launch a public consultation on the possible enactment of an alcohol law in the second half of this year with the aim of banning the sale of alcoholic beverages to youngsters.The bureau held a local short film première of “Continuity” at Cinema Alegria. It was attended by about 200 government officials, film directors, actors and audience members.Lei told reporters after the première that the bureau was

June 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Coffee for Cats: Café sheltering waifs & strays

Cat cafés have been popular globally among travellers and youngsters in recent years. Two locals have put a twist to this trend by combining the café with a cat shelter, so that money earnt from the café could be poured in to save the city’s feline waifs, strays and abandoned.This cat shelter café, “Catfee”, is co-owned by Michelle Cheung Pek Ieng and Agostinho Jesús Liu do Castro.“We started this café to provide a shelter for stray cats, allow people to interact with them, and

June 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Woman hurt by falling stone slab from BNU headquarters

A slab of stone from the door frame of an entrance of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) headquarters in the city centre fell off and slightly injured a woman walking past on the pavement outside yesterday afternoon, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.The BNU headquarters main entrance is in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro and a side entrance in Avenida da Praia Grande.According to the bureau, the incident happened outside the entrance in Avenida da Praia Grande at 3:30 p.m., where part of the

June 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Refurbisher nabbed for dropping lit cigarette end in hotel room: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested the manager of a local renovation company on Wednesday for causing a fire in a guestroom of a hotel in Cotai after dropping a still lit cigarette end in the room where his company was carrying out a refurbishment project, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chan identified the suspect as a 32-year-old local man surnamed Chao.The case was first announced in a PJ statement on Wednesday, according to which the Judiciary

June 14, 2019 | BY admin

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