Invaluable experience gained from Mangkhut response: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the local government will need to carry out a large number of measures with the aim of constantly improving Macau’s ability to tackle typhoons and other major natural disasters.Chui made the remarks during a specially-convened meeting yesterday summarising the government’s measures in preparation for Super Typhoon Mangkhut and its disaster prevention and mitigation tasks.Chui convened a special meeting yesterday for representatives of

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Body found floating: police

The fully clothed body of a male was found yesterday afternoon floating in the sea near the land reclamation area known as Zone A, which lies off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula, according to a Judiciary Police (PJ) statement yesterday.The statement said that officers of the Customs Service patrolling on a speedboat spotted the floating body in the afternoon. They took the corpse to the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal.The statement said that the deceased – whose ID was found on him –

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Scrub typhus hits local schoolgirl

A 15-year-old local female pupil who sought treatment at the private Kiang Wu Hospital last Tuesday has been diagnosed with Tsutsugamushi disease (also known as scrub typhus), the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the girl began to run a fever and suffer from neck pain and a headache on September 2. She had seen a doctor several times since then. However, she came down in a rash and had an eschar on her left buttock last Tuesday. She went to the

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Hotel receipts top 32 billion patacas last year

Macau’s 79 hotels and 34 guesthouses recorded receipts of 32.59 billion patacas last year, a year-on-year increase of 14.7 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. According to a DSEC statement, 5-star hotels’ receipts accounted for 75.1 percent of the sector’s total receipts in 2017. The sector’s total expenses rose 8.8 percent year on year to 28.98 billion patacas. Employees’ salaries and other kinds of compensation accounted for nearly 45 percent

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Couple cheats illegal money changer: police

A mainland couple was arrested at the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Thursday for defrauding a money changer out of over 150,000 yuan last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday.Choi announced the case during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspects are a 26-year-old man surnamed Wang and his 23-year-old wife surnamed Fan. The victim is a male mainlander who engaged in illegal currency changing activities in

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Response to Mangkhut a ‘relatively ideal’ achievement: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the various tasks to respond to typhoons and other disasters that the government has prepared since last year have enabled the authorities to obtain a “relatively ideal” achievement in its tackling of Super Typhoon Mangkhut that pummelled Macau on Sunday.Wong made the remarks during a press conference at the S. Francisco Barracks summarising the government’s tasks in preparation for Severe Typhoon Mangkhut and its disaster

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Some households still without power last night

A number of households in the city’s flood-hit neighbourhoods following the onslaught of Super Typhoon Mangkhut were still without power last night due to flood-damaged electricity-supply components in their buildings. When serious flooding was hitting the city’s various low-lying areas on Sunday afternoon, power utility CEM took the initiative to cut electricity at sub-power stations in these areas with the aim of enabling the company to resume electricity for affected households following

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Septuagenarian dies in social housing fire

A 74-year-old man was found dead in a flat in Fai Fu Building – a social rental housing estate in Fai Chi Kei - after a fire broke out there early Friday morning.According to a spokesman for the Fire Services Bureau (CB), the blaze broke out in a flat on the 17th floor at 5 a.m. When firefighters arrived at the scene and broke into the flat, they found the man lying near the metal gate, with burns to his head and limbs. The man was found to have died at the scene.The Housing Bureau (IH)

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Assault suspect found to be II: police

During the investigation of an assault case, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered the suspect to be an illegal immigrant (II) while all his flatmates were overstaying their visas, PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Fong, the suspect is a 31-year-old Vietnamese man surnamed Duong, who claimed to be unemployed. The victim is a man from Hong Kong surnamed Wong.On September 3, Duong punched Wong during a quarrel in Rua dos Faitioes in

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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5 fined for bridge walk during typhoon

The Public Security Police (PSP) fined five mainland men and women for walking across the Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge, commonly known as “Old Bridge”, on Sunday morning, when the No. 9 storm signal was up, PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference yesterday.Fong said that the Public Security Police (PSP) at 10 a.m. spotted the quintet walking across the bridge towards Taipa. Officers stopped the five and took them to a police station in Taipa. Under

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Casino stocks drop as typhoon shutdown tipped to cost up to 1.5 billion patacas

Local casino stocks retreated yesterday after Typhoon Mangkhut forced a 33-hour shutdown of the world’s biggest gambling hub, a halt that’s estimated to cost the city’s six gaming operators as much as 1.5 billion patacas in revenue.Nearly all local casinos reopened at 8 a.m. yesterday, after an informal agreement between the government and the six operators shuttered their doors at 11 p.m. on Saturday as the typhoon was approaching. According to the website of the Gaming Inspection and

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Super Typhoon hits Macau with maximum force

Macau authorities will hoist at 11 AM on Sunday typhoon signal 10 – the highest category in the city’s six-level typhoon warning system.Satellite images show that typhoon Mangkhut is currently located 180 km southeast of Macau and will continue to affect the territory during Sunday with heavy rain.The typhoon with winds of more than 100 km/h is moving to the western coast of Guangdong province.Gaming operations in the six concessionaires and sub-concessionaries in Macao casinos have been

September 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Elderly home wants CE’s intervention on greyhound issue

Asilo Vila Madalena retirement home director Sister Ip Pui King said yesterday that she was ready, if necessary, to take the elderly residents with her to go and ask Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On for help to stop Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome from putting about 530 greyhounds on a plot of land just metres away from the old people’s dormitories.Ip made the comments during a press conference at the retirement home in Coloane, when asked if she wanted the Chief Executive to intervene since

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Local man has Legionnaires’ disease: SSM

A 76-year-old local man who sought treatment at the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre on Tuesday has been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the patient was originally diagnosed with pneumonia and then his urine antigen test came back positive for Legionella pneumophila.According to the statement, the patient was hospitalised, adding that the patient is semi-unconscious and in a critical

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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