Forum strongly slams Canidrome for abandoning dogs

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum strongly slammed Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. for deliberately abandoning its greyhounds at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack and passing its duty of taking care of the dogs to the government, considering that the government told the company two years ago that it must vacate the property before July 21, 2018.The weekly debate programme is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in its studio at Macau Forum in Zape every

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Anima chief vows ‘yes we can’ rescue all greyhounds

In an email message on Saturday, Anima President Albano Martins told The Macau Post Daily that the “next steps are hard, but yes we can [rescue all the greyhounds]” left behind in the kennels of the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. racetrack after its closure on FridayThe animal protection activist also said in his message that “now is not the time to concentrate only on thanking Anima and its partners for having successfully closed the Canidrome and also having succeeded in convincing

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt ‘unable’ to recover 212 million pataca Viva Macau loan

The Economic Services Bureau (DSE) said in a statement yesterday that it was unable to recover a 212 million patacas loan granted to locally incorporated airline Viva Macau in 2008-09 and the latter’s Hong Kong-registered Eagle Airways as guarantor. The loan was granted by the bureau’s Industrial and Commercial Development Fund (FDIC) after the airline hit financial turbulence in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-08. The DSE statement that the fund had been unable to

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for repeatedly calling crime-reporting hotline

A local man repeatedly called the Judiciary Police’s (PJ) crime-reporting hotline 993 many times in May, using foul language in one of the calls, as he was unhappy with life and with his previous arrest by the police, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Friday.Chan identified the suspect as a 59-year-old surnamed Leong.According to Chan, Leong dialled the 993 hotline 10 times in May, mostly claiming that he needed ambulance services and other kinds of

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Illegal immigrant attacks wife with knife: police

A male mainlander, who had entered Macau illegally, was arrested at a casino on the peninsula last Thursday for assaulting his wife with a knife earlier this month, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.According to the spokesperson, the suspect is a 43-year-old businessman surnamed Song. The victim is his 40-year-old wife who is a local resident and works at a casino.The spokesperson noted that Song has a criminal record for various offences in

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Civic leader urges govt to help pupils discover their strengths

The government should implement more resources to help local schools carry out aptitude tests for pupils, so that they can discover their strengths at an early stage of their life, Gary Kou Chon Fai, president of the Macau Professional Development Association, said yesterday.Kou made the remarks during an interview on the sidelines of an education forum, which took place at a youth activity centre of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) in Areia Preta.Kou said that an aptitude test

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Police find illegal clinic following man’s death

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced yesterday that a 71-year-old local man provided unlicensed medical services for several years in his residential unit and that the situation was only discovered yesterday following the still-unexplained death of a male mainlander last month who had received medical treatment from the “doctor”.The bureau made the announcement during a hastily convened press conference at the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre last night, which was co-hosted by

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Taipa street to go one-way for 45 days due to walkway project

Estrada Governador Nobre de Carvalho in Taipa will become a one-way street starting tomorrow morning for 45 days as the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) will build a covered walkway there, Transport Bureau (DSAT) Coordination Division chief Mok Soi Tou said yesterday during a press conference.The press conference was jointly held by the two bureaus at the DSAT building.Loi Seong San, a senior DSSOPT official, said that his bureau would build the covered walkway on the Big Taipa

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt surplus reaches 30 billion patacas in June

The government’s current budget surplus reached 30.52 billion patacas at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of 50.8 percent, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) announced yesterday. According to the announcement, the government’s revenue amounted to 64.37 billion patacas in the first half of the year, when its expenditure stood at 33.85 billion patacas. Direct gaming tax payments rose 18.1 percent to 55.89 billion patacas, accounting for 86.8 percent of the government’s total

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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IACM ‘condemns’ Canidrome for planning to abandon dogs

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement last night that it “condemns” the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. for “shirking” its responsibility to house its greyhounds after it had received a letter from the company in the evening proposing the “reversion” of the dogs to the government after the official closure of the racetrack tonight.The letter was forwarded by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) to the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Mainland police bust 2 prostitution gangs operating in Macau

According to a report by government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday, police in Baishan city, Jilin province, recently arrested over 20 suspects from two gangs that regularly sent sex workers to Macau. Baishan lies some 2,500 kilometres north-east of Macau. According to TDM, after 3 months of investigation, Baishan police discovered that, as a ruse, the gang members dated potential sex workers from Baishan and its surrounding areas. According to the report, the men falsely promised the

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Adopted greyhounds get vet’s undivided attention

The greyhounds that have been adopted from the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. are slowly coming to terms with a life of freedom but there are still hurdles to overcome, one of which includes a trip to the vet for a check-up.Yesterday MPD Weekender spoke to Green Cross Vet Hospital vet Henrique Galvao at his practice in Taipa about the greyhounds that he has seen in his clinic since the racktrack operator put them up for adoption on three occasions at the end of last month and the beginning

July 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Kindergarten fined for mishandling alleged sexual abuse

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has found a kindergarten involved in an alleged sexual abuse case earlier this year had mishandled the incident and also had failed to respond to the case in line with DSEJ regulations, the bureau announced in a statement yesterday.The statement didn’t identify the kindergarten. However, after the news of the alleged sexual abuse was broken by local media in May, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng confirmed that the

July 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Fire Services to inspect more eateries

In response to a deadly gas explosion in a restaurant earlier this month, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) will carry out more inspections of local eateries, Cheong Chi Wang, a senior officer of the bureau said yesterday.Cheong made the remarks during a press conference announcing the fire statistics for the first half of this year, at the CB headquarters in Nam Van.On July 3, there was an explosion in a Fujianese restaurant in Areia Preta district that killed a woman and injured six other

July 19, 2018 | BY admin

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