Flyover to link Areia Preta with Zone A

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San pledged yesterday that the government will finalise the design of a flyover connecting the peninsula’s Areia Preta district and the land reclamation area known as Zone A – which lies off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula – and then invite bids for its construction as soon as possible.Lam made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a regular closed-door meeting of the Traffic Consultative Council at his bureau. One of the

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau Grand Prix ‘flying car’ driver returns to testing: BBC

Germany’s Formula 3 driver Sophia Flörsch has returned to action, just 106 days since having surgery after fracturing her spine in a high-speed “flying car” crash during last year’s Macau Grand Prix, BBC has reported.The 18-year-old Munich resident took part in pre-season testing with her Van Amersfoort Racing team in Monza, northern Italy on Wednesday and was set to drive again yesterday, according to the report.Flörsch suffered two broken bones in her spinal column after crashing

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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Over 80 pct of CityU graduates ‘locate’ jobs before graduating: rector

City University of Macau (CityU) Rector Zhang Shuguang said yesterday that 1,365 students graduated from the private university last year, adding that over 80 per cent of them were able to “locate” their job before graduating, while about 20 per cent opted for further education.Zhang also told reporters that in order to coordinate with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) development, CityU would continue encouraging graduates to develop their careers in the area.Zhang also

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Vice-Premier Han has 4 hopes for Macau

During a meeting with the 12 local deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing yesterday, Vice Premier Han Zheng listed “four hopes” for Macau’s civil society, such as to actively participate in events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland and to support the current local government’s work to ensure the smooth transition to the next one, local NPC deputy José Chui Sai Peng told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting at the Great

March 7, 2019 | BY admin

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Gambler cheats couple out of HK$4 million: police

A local female gambler cheated a couple out of HK$4 million by claiming that she required their authorisation for signing a note to obtain casino chips, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 42-year-old surnamed Cheang. She told the police that she is unemployed. The local couple are in their forties whose surnames were not released. They told the police that they are unemployed. Lei said the couple are not

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Police nab woman for illegally washing cars

The police arrested a female mainlander on Monday for illegally engaging in gainful employment by washing cars in a residential car park, Public Police Security Force (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Choi, the suspect surnamed Chen is in her fifties.According to Choi, the police had recently received complaints from residents that someone was washing cars illegally in a residential car park in Rua de Nanquim in Taipa. Police officers

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Population rises to 667,400, continues to age

Macau’s total population – comprising residents and non-resident workers as well as non-local students – increased by 14,300 year-on-year to 667,400 at the end of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, females accounted for 53.1 percent of the total.The proportion of the elderly population (aged 65 and over) grew by 0.6 percentage points to 11.1 percent.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Portuguese wine imports rise 9 pct in 2018

Macau imported Portuguese wine worth 63.8 million patacas last year, a year-on-year growth of nine percent, TDM-Radio Macau reported yesterday.According to the report citing industry data, Macau imported 1.8 million litres of Portuguese wine last year, more than from any other country.However, in terms of the value of imports France continued to be Macau’s number-one source of wine, reaching 695 million patacas last year, even though the French exported 500,000 litres less than the Portuguese

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Bus crashes into LRT column, injuring 10

An overnight-service TCM bus crashed into a column of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Cotai in the early hours of yesterday, leaving 10 passengers with slight injuries, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.According to the bureau, the accident occurred at around 5 a.m. outside the Judiciary Police (PJ) branch office in Estrada Flor de Lótus, when the No. N3 route bus crashed into the column of the elevated LRT tracks.The accident occurred near the Lotus Flower Bridge border

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Police announce 3 drug-trafficking cases

The Judiciary Police yesterday announced three separate drug-trafficking cases in which three male drug pushers from Hong Kong and a local male drug user were arrested earlier this week.PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei announced the three cases yesterday – the first case during a special press conference and the latter two cases during another special press conference.Concerning each of the three cases, the Judiciary Police (PJ) were tipped off that someone had been hired by a Hong Kong gang to

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Li offers Macau full support, BRI & GBA boost

BEIJING – Premier Li Keqiang yesterday offered the Hong Kong and Macau administrations the full support of the central government, saying that Beijing will support them in “seizing the opportunities” from the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Greater Bay Area (GBA) development plan.“The governments and chief executives of the two regions have our full support. We’ll support the two regions in seizing the opportunities presented by the Belt and Road Initiative and the

March 6, 2019 | BY admin

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2 groups to protest against reciprocal driving-licence deal

The non-establishment New Macau Association (NMA), directly-elected lawmakers Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San, and their grassroots Macau Community Development Initiative (MCDI) group – of which Ng and Au are board members, will jointly hold a protest on Saturday against the government’s plan to sign a reciprocal driving-licence recognition deal with the mainland, according to an announcement by the New Macau Association on its Facebook page yesterday.Legislator Sulu Sou Ka Hou is a

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601 books published in Macau in 2018: report

A total of 601 books were published in Macau last year, Radio Macau reported yesterday, a decrease of 36 books compared to 2017, quoting a report by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC). According to the IC report, Macau had 954 registered publishers at the end of last year, an increase of 1,438 percent from the 62 registered publishers in 2000, the first full year after the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in December 1999. The IC report noted that 44 publishers

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Civil servant caught drunk driving: police

A driver who is a civil servant was caught drunk driving in Estrada da Penha near Sai Van Lake, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday.Choi said the driver is a local Portuguese man surnamed Pilartes who is in his fifties. He told the police that he is an administrative assistant working in the public administration.The incident happened at around 3 a.m. on Saturday. Pilartes approached police officers who were on duty nearby and

March 6, 2019 | BY admin

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