S Korean visitors drop 19.8 pct in July

Visitor arrivals from South Korea, Macau’s number-one foreign visitor segment, fell 19.8 percent year on year to 59,500 last month, accounting for 2.0 percent of all visitor arrivals, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday. The number of South Korean visitors in the first seven months dropped 4.8 percent to 483,400. Last month’s total number of visitor arrivals rose 4.0 percent to 3.03 million. Overnight visitors accounted for 53.9 percent of all visitors

August 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Sales assistant steals diamond ring to repay gambling debts: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a sales assistant on Wednesday for stealing a 2-carat diamond ring from a jewellery shop, where she worked, and selling it to a pawnshop so that she could repay her gambling debts, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press briefing in Zape yesterday.According to the PJ spokesperson, the suspect is a local 32-year-old resident who had been arrested before for stealing gaming chips worth HK$100,000 from a casino where she worked.Although she is waiting for

August 24, 2018 | BY admin

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E-govt services development ‘sluggish’: audit

In a hard-hitting report published yesterday, the Commission of Audit (CA) slams the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) for its “sluggish” progress in the development of e-government services over the past two decades.The report can be downloaded from the commission’s website http://www.ca.gov.mo/, in Chinese and Portuguese language versions.The report says that back in 2001 the government set up a working group – consisting of officials from a raft of government

August 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Striking lifeguards to return to work today

A total of 24 lifeguards who were on strike earlier this week over an employment dispute will return to work today after they and their employer reached a compromise during negotiations yesterday, Sports Bureau (ID) Vice-President Lam Lin Kio said yesterday at the bureau in Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues in Zape.Lam made the remarks in a media briefing after a meeting attended by representatives of her bureau, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL), the striking lifeguards, and their employer Surf

August 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau’s disaster-tackling ability has ‘hugely’ improved: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that Macau’s ability to tackle disasters over the past 12 months – after deadly Super Typhoon Hato pummelled the city – has “hugely” increased.Wong also said he was confident that if Macau were to face typhoons as strong as Hato in the future, the government could minimise the casualties. However, Wong acknowledged that he believes that there is no government in the world that can ensure zero casualties caused by a storm as strong as

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman steals 2 watches from couple who let her stay in their guestroom: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman on Tuesday for stealing two luxury watches last month from a couple in a guestroom of a casino-hotel resort in Cotai where the couple were staying, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to the spokesperson, both the victims and the suspect are from the mainland.According to the spokesperson, the couple met the female at a gaming table where they were all gambling, after which the suspect told the duo that

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Man punches driving test examiner for failing him: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) have arrested a local man who punched a driving test examiner in a fit of anger after failing the test, PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Fong, the suspect is a 22-year-old surnamed Yau, who works as a casino host while the victim is a 47-year-old local man surnamed Si Tou.Fong said that on Tuesday morning, Yau was taking his driving test in Taipa with Si Tou as his examiner. During the test as

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau, Zhuhai vow to promote TCM platform: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that Macau will further strengthen its partnership with Zhuhai to jointly strengthen the development of the Hengqin-based platform for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).According to a statement by the Secretariat for Economy and Finance (GSEF), Leong made the remarks during a meeting with Zhuhai Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee Secretary Guo Yonghang in Zhuhai yesterday.Leong also visited the Traditional Chinese

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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‘Lifeguard shortage’ affects 3 more pools

The Sports Bureau (ID) said yesterday that three more of the city’s public swimming pools – the Taipa Central Park Swimming Pool and Carmo Swimming Pools in Taipa, and the Hac Sa Park Swimming Pool in Coloane – would also be affected by the current “lifeguard shortage” as its service provider couldn’t provide enough personnel.It is the fourth statement that has been published by the bureau since Friday regarding the “lifeguard shortage”.Originally, the Taipa Central Park

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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S Korean tourism office hopes to get mainland visitors via Macau

The central government’s apparent travel ban on mainlanders’ package tours to South Korea is still in place, and the South Korean tourism agency hopes that Macau could be an alternative departure for visitors from Guangdong to South Korea.Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) Hong Kong Office Executive Director Janice Kim Kwan Mi made the remarks while speaking to The Macau Post Daily yesterday after a lunch it hosted for the Macau travel industry and media at StarWorld Hotel.KTO, whose Hong

August 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Sin Fong to be demolished soon: public works chief

Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) Director Li Canfeng said yesterday that he expected the long-delayed demolition of the ill-fated Sin Fong Garden residential high-rise to get off the ground “in the next few days”.Li made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of yesterday’s press conference about a public consultation on the drafting of a bill on the government’s temporary housing plan. The press conference took place on the premises of the

August 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt should toughen penalties for delayed roadworks: group

The government should toughen its penalties for contractors who sign public roadwork contracts but do not finish the projects on time, Ho Weng Hong, a senior member of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Association (commonly known as Kai Fong) said yesterday.Ho, who is also a member of the government’s Central District Community Service Consultative Council, made the suggestion on the sidelines of a forum which discussed the causes of the city’s often delayed roadworks and the

August 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman says man she met on dating app raped her

A 42-year-old single woman has told the police she was raped by a mainlander she had met on a dating app in June, the Judiciary Police said in a regular press conference yesterday in Zape.The accused, a 44-year-old mainlander, has denied the allegation, the police said.According to the police, the two met through a dating app in June and after texting for 10 days decided to meet.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

August 22, 2018 | BY admin

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3 lawmakers want to know why 2 legal advisors’ contracts weren’t renewed

Three non-establishment lawmakers – Ng Kuok Cheong, Sulu Sou Ka Hou and Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho – are asking Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng why the employment contracts of two legal advisors were recently not renewed.The trio announced their request in a joint statement released to the media, claiming that they were “shocked” by the nonrenewal of the two contracts. The statement described the two legal advisors’ imminent departure as a “great loss” to the

August 22, 2018 | BY admin

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