Acting CE pledges to support GBA media

Acting Chief Executive Wong Sio Chak, who heads the government’s security portfolio, said yesterday the government was aware of the “great importance” of media development in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), pledging that the government will continue to support media exchanges, cooperation and innovation in the three-jurisdiction conurbation that comprises nine cities in Guangdong province and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.Wong made the remarks in a speech on behalf

May 20, 2019 | BY admin

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90-year-old man hit by scooter on zebra crossing

A 90-year-old local man was seriously injured after being hit by a scooter yesterday when he was on a zebra crossing in Avenida do Coronel Mesquita, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.The scooter rider, who is in his sixties, was not injured. He passed a breathalyser test, the police said.According to the police, the accident happened at around 10:30 a.m. when the scooter hit the man as he was walking across the zebra crossing outside Colégio Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) in the thoroughfare.This

May 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainland student loses 250,000 yuan in phone scam: police

A female student from the mainland studying at a local university lost 250,000 yuan (292,100 patacas) in a phone scam last Thursday, according to a Judiciary Police (PJ) statement on Saturday.The student received a phone call from an unknown number on Thursday morning. The caller was a woman speaking Putonghua, who claimed that she was an SF Express employee and that the student had sent a package that contained a prohibited item, according to the PJ statement.After the student denied the

May 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Gaming-related crime up 14 pct in Q1: Wong

The police investigated 438 suspected gaming-related crimes in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 14.1 percent from the 384 reported cases in the same period of last year, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced yesterday.However, the policy secretary insisted there was “so far no indication” that gaming-related crimes are causing a threat to the city’s public security beyond the confines of local casinos.Wong announced the January-March crime statistics

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Group collects public opinion on cooked food market

The president of the Industry and Commerce Association of Macau Northern District, Wong Kin Chong, told a press conference yesterday that a trial run of an outdoor cooked food market will be held in the northern district from October to December with the aim of attracting visitors and bringing business opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the area, adding that a 15-day survey starts today to collect residents’ views on the plan.The press conference was held by the

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau-Portugal meeting ends with 2 accords

The 6th meeting of the Macau-Portugal Joint Commission meeting, which was held in Lisbon on Wednesday, concluded with consensus on the further fostering of bilateral cooperation, including in economic and trade matters and Portuguese-language education, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) yesterday.The meeting was co-chaired by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva.Chui is leading a Macau government

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Hengqin int’l leisure tourism island construction plan presented in Macau

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes yesterday said that Hengqin and Macau could “join hands” to explore their new cooperation scheme for the development of the adjacent island into an international leisure tourism hub.Senna Fernandes made the remarks in a speech at a presentation of the “Hengqin International Leisure Tourism Island Construction Plan” at Galaxy’s Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cotai.The presentation was co-organised by MGTO, the

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Sands vows to keep investing in Macau

Sands China President Wilfred Wong Ying Wai pledged yesterday that his company will continue to invest in Macau, having been part of the city’s rapid economic growth in the past 15 years.Wong made the remarks when delivering his speech at the 15th anniversary celebration of Sands Macau in Nape, the US gaming operator’s first property in the city.The celebration was marked with fireworks and musical performances at the hotel-casino resort’s outdoor fountain yesterday. The event was

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Sofitel revamps Privé into French bistro

The Privé restaurant in Sofitel Macau has been revamped into a Parisian-style bistro.In France, anyone looking for a snack – perhaps more – in between traditional meal hours that also show off the best of local delicacies, heads to a bistro.Bistros today are chic, relaxed, yet boisterous alternatives for large gatherings and intimate dinners, surrounded in everything from turn-of-the-century gilded halls to funky Années folles-era.Privé’s bistro menu offers patrons a selection of

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Variety of local indies to shine at ‘Macau Films Panorama’

Locally produced features, documentaries, shorts and animations will get their silver-screen moment at Cinematheque٠Passion as part of its “Macau Films Panorama” festival kicking off tomorrow at 8 p.m.The two-week long festival will have four opening films – “G.D.P.: Grandmas’ Dangerous Project” by local filmmaker Peeko Wong Si Nga, “The Bridge” by Hong Kong director Yeung Leung-chuen, “Mother Eden” by director Wang Erzhuo from the mainland, and “Grandma’s Farting

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Irene Lau to head IPIM from May 27

Irene Va Kuan Lau will become president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) on May 27, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) on Wednesday.The order was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On on May 7.According to an annex to the order, Lau holds a master’s degree in business management from the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). She also holds a bachelor’s degree from the public Dalhousie University in

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Man beats wife over cigarettes: police

A 29-year-old unemployed local man beat his wife early this week as he was unhappy that the victim appeared to ignore his “order” to buy cigarettes for him, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the suspect surnamed Lao and his 27-year-old wife, who were married in January 2017, have a son and a daughter. The family of four live with a domestic helper in a flat in Avenida Marginal do Lam Mau.At around 10 p.m. on

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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2 buses crash at junction, 6 passengers hurt

Two TCM buses crashed into each other at the junction of Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida and Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga yesterday, slightly injuring six passengers on the two buses, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.The police said they suspected that the accident was due to one of the buses jumping a red light.According to the Fire Services Bureau, the two buses crashed at the junction at around 11:45 a.m. yesterday, when one of the two buses was travelling along Avenida do

May 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Grace Kelly exhibition features collection from the Prince’s Palace of Monaco

An exhibition tracing the “real-life fairytale” of Grace Kelly from when she was an American actress to becoming Princess of Monaco through exhibits on loan from the collections of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco is currently on display at Galaxy Macau’s Crystal Lobby in Cotai.Entitled “Grace Kelly, from Hollywood to Monaco – Artists’ Tributes”, the exhibition is co-organised by Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) and the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.During yesterday’s opening ceremony,

May 16, 2019 | BY admin

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