EU & Guangdong to be tourism forum’s partners

The European Union (EU) and Guangdong will be the partners of the upcoming Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF) that will be one of the highlight activities of the 2018 EU-China Tourism Year (ECTY 2018), GTEF Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Pansy Ho Chiu King said yesterday.While the 28-nation bloc will be the event’s partner region, Guangdong will be its featured partner province.Ho made the remarks during a press conference about the forum which has been held annually since 2012.PLEASE

October 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Over 4,100 fined for illegally smoking in Jan-Sept

Anti-smoking inspectors fined 4,131 people for illegally puffing away in the first nine months of the year, with the category of illegally smoking in casinos topping the list, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.The new version of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Law, which took effect on January 1 this year, bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops.The no-smoking area at bus stops is currently indicated by grey lines painted on the ground. The Health Bureau said

October 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau’s Golden Week run seen fading as mainland economy slows

Macau’s robust Golden Week holiday performance isn’t likely to continue with concerns over mainland China’s softening economy weighing down the gambling outlook in the world’s biggest gaming hub. Mainland Chinese tourist arrivals in Macau for the week-long holiday that ended on Sunday jumped 14 percent year on year to about 734,000, according to Macau government data. Betting volume from high rollers was up more than 10 percent in the first six days of the month over the same period

October 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt mulls stronger support to young start-uppers: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that his government will study how to provide stronger support to young business start-uppers.Chui made the remarks during a meeting with about 20 young start-uppers after attending the unveiling ceremony of a national co-working space at the Macau Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Centre in Nape.Delivering a speech during yesterday’s ceremony, Francis Tam Pak Yuen, the chairman of the Parafuturo de Macau Investment and Development Limited

October 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt nixes plan to house greyhounds next to old people’s home

About 500 greyhounds will stay for the time being in their kennels at the former racetrack in Fai Chi Kei as a provisional facility that Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome has controversially set up to house the dogs right next to a retirement home in Coloane has been rejected by the government for failing to meet the necessary criteria.The company headed by legislator-cum-gaming executive Angela Leong On Kei had left the racing dogs at the Canidrome closed down in July. Leong has said she is ready to

October 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Forum doubts govt’s ability to implement master plan’s goals

Members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum said that they doubted whether the government would be able to implement the various goals to be stipulated in its future urban master plan.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The government announced last Wednesday that it had decided to draft the urban master plan of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), based on the government’s strategic plan to develop the

October 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Lok Kok teahouse exterior to be kept for hotel project: culture bureau

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Vice President Leong Wai Man said yesterday that the construction of a new project on the plot where the heritage-protected former Lok Kok teahouse building is located would not affect the old building’s original façade.The badly dilapidated building is located in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.Leong made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Lou Kau Mansion – near the Cathedral – after attending yesterday’s launch ceremony of a guided tour service

October 8, 2018 | BY admin

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2 locals jump to their deaths & floating body found: police

A local man and a local woman jumped to their deaths in Areia Preta district on Saturday and yesterday respectively while the body of an unidentified man was spotted floating in the sea off Hac Sa beach on Saturday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in three statements.In the first statement, the police identified the deceased as 56-year-old local man surnamed Chang, who lived in a flat in a residential building in Areia Preta.On Saturday morning, a resident living in the building heard a noise

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Lawmaker urges govt to introduce adaptive traffic signals

The local government should introduce an adaptive traffic control system (ATCS) – a traffic management strategy in which traffic signal timing changes based on actual traffic demand - in order to tackle the city’s chronic traffic congestion, lawmaker Leong Sun Iok said yesterday.Leong made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar on traffic problems held by think tank Macau Wisdom Convergence Network on the latter’s premises in Ribeira do Patane district.Leong pointed out that the number

October 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Tourist sets 13 motorbikes alight after quarrelling with his mum: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland yesterday for setting a row of motorcycles on fire as a way to vent his anger after a heated argument with his mother, which resulted in 13 of the vehicles being burnt, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.The motorbikes were parked opposite the former CEM power station in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais.PJ officers arrested the suspect several hours after the arson case, which occurred in the early

October 5, 2018 | BY admin

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Ex-casino worker’s hunger for healthy diet leads to restaurant opening

When shift work and late nights became a bit too much, casino employee João Ricardo V. Areias turned to exercise and healthy food, which led him to open his own restaurant offering a range of dishes to cater to different diets, which are also healthier alternatives to the usual carbohydrate- and fat-based diet.“I didn’t have a healthy lifestyle when I worked at the casino, and there weren’t many restaurants for healthy eating,” Ricardo V. Areias told MPD Weekender at his HealthyHabits

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Yoga Room organises retreat programme in Chiang Mai

The Yoga Room organised an “Ashtanga and Yin Yoga Retreat” programme in the lush valley of Mae Ann Valley in Chiang Mai recently, which was attended by about a dozen participants.The yoga retreat took place from September 22 to 25 where, under the guidance of Master of Yoga Megala Sundarrajan, participants got to nourish their mind, body and soul in a natural, serene and tranquil surrounding through practising ashtanga and yin yoga.The retreat at The Pavana Chiang Mai Resort was designed to

October 5, 2018 | BY admin

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Sin Fong’s reconstruction finally gets off the ground

A ceremony for the reconstruction of the ill-fated Sin Fong Garden residential building to get off the ground finally took place yesterday.The “Sin Fong Garden Reconstruction Project Commencement Ceremony” was held at the rear of the mothballed high-rise in Patane district.Speaking to reporters after yesterday’s ceremony, Wong Man Sang, the chairman of the Sin Fong Garden condominium owners’ management committee, said that Sin Fong’s reconstruction was expected to take two and a half

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Activists fined for trespassing

The Court of First Instance (TJB) yesterday found political activists Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Alan Lam Na Lon guilty of “entering a place with limited public access”, and fined them 3,000 patacas and 4,500 patacas respectively.The duo each faced a charge of “entering a place with limited public access” and a charge of “damaging others’ possessions” after the police accused them of trespassing in the dilapidated Hotel Estoril by damaging the building’s fences in August 2016.On

October 5, 2018 | BY admin

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