Kim, Trump claim big success of historic summit

SINGAPORE – Claiming success at their whirlwind summit, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump left Singapore yesterday, praising their face-to-face progress toward ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons. Yet Trump faced pointed questions at home about whether he got little and gave away much – including an agreement to halt US military exercises with South Korea. Meeting with staged ceremony on Singapore’s Sentosa (“Peace and Tranquility”) holiday

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman steals HK$197,000 from drunken man: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 32-year-old woman from the mainland on Monday for stealing HK$197,000 in cash from a retired 61-year-old Hong Kong man in a guestroom of a casino-hotel resort in Cotai in April, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the suspect from Jilin province, surnamed Qi, claims to be unemployed.The victim came to Macau from Hong Kong as a tourist and checked into the Cotai casino-hotel resort on April 2, Chan

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Taipa elevated walkway project to start in Q4: govt

The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement yesterday that it expects the construction of an elevated walkway along a major avenue in the city centre of Taipa to get off the ground in the fourth quarter of this year.The bureau unsealed bids submitted by 18 construction companies for the construction of the project yesterday. All bids were accepted.According to the statement, the construction costs of the project proposed by the bids range from 303.68 million

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Most pupils look for entertainment to tackle stress: study

Most secondary pupils tend to seek entertainment as a way to fight stress, but it is less effective compared to talking with others such as teachers, parents and/or social workers, according to the findings of a survey released by the General Association of Chinese Students of Macau yesterday. The findings were released in a press conference on the group’s premises in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais. The survey was conducted in March. It collected 974 valid questionnaires from local

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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60 residents evacuated in Toi San fire

Over 60 residents living in Block 4 of Cidade Nova in Toi San were evacuated during a fire there last night, Kwok Pan, an official of the Fire Services Bureau (CB), said in a special press conference at the scene, adding that the cause of fire was not immediately known.According to Kwok, the bureau received a report at 8 p.m. about a fire in a flat on the 19th floor of the residential estate. He said that the fire broke out on the balcony of the flat, and the fire spread to nearby flats. During

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Philippines marks 120th Independence Day

The Philippine Consulate General in Macau hosted a celebration to mark the 120th anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence, at Clube Militar yesterday.The celebration was themed “Independence 2018: Change We Fought For, An Offering to An Abundant Future.”Addressing guests at the event, Consul General Lilybeth Deapera said, “It has been 120 years since the Philippines regained independence and forged its own path towards democracy…I am confident that the Filipino people,

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt launches flood gate & water pump installation subsidy scheme

The Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) – a semi-government entity – yesterday announced details of a scheme to subsidise small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for the installation of flood gates and water pumps in their shops in the city’s low-lying areas.The subsidy scheme, which also includes technological assistance, aims to reduce the damage and losses that business owners suffer if flooding hits their neighbourhoods.Business owners can apply for the

June 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Backlash halts govt traffic law consultation

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement last night that as “the public had already expressed a lot of views” after the announcement of its plan to consult the public on the drafting of a bill to amend the current Road Traffic Law last Tuesday, the government has decided to halt the public consultation.The Transport Bureau last Tuesday announced in a press conference that the government would launch a two-month public consultation on June 28 on the drafting of a bill amending the

June 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for stealing HK$110,000: police

A woman from the mainland was arrested at the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Sunday for stealing HK$110,000 from a man in a hotel in April, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said in a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to the spokesperson, the suspect is a 35-year-old woman surnamed He, who claimed to be unemployed, and the victim is a 52-year-old construction worker from Hong Kong surnamed Chan.The spokesperson said that Chan came to the city on the

June 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Guangdong-Macau fund to have guaranteed return of 3.5 pct: govt

The local government said yesterday that it will get a guaranteed 3.5 percent rate of return annually from the recently-established 20.01-billion-yuan Guangdong-Macau Cooperation Development Fund during its 12 year duration, regardless of any losses incurred in investment projects in the neighbouring province.The local government said earlier this year that Macau will pay 20-billion-yuan (about 25 billion patacas) into the fund while Guangdong province will be responsible for carrying out the

June 12, 2018 | BY admin

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New car park near MGM to open

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday that an car park on an area opposite MGM casino-hotel resort in Nape will come into operation on Friday.According to the statement, the car park has 86 spaces for coaches, 43 spaces for scooters or motorcycles and 11 spaces for cars. All spaces have a parking meter. Among the 86 spaces for coaches, 65 are for those that are 10 metres long, while the remaining 21 spaces are for 12-metre-long coachesThe area is on the land reclamation

June 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Canidrome operator proposes moving dogs temporarily to Taipa racecourse

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement yesterday that it is studying a proposal submitted by (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. the operator of the city’s greyhound racetrack, last week about its relocation plan for the dogs.According to previous local media reports, the racetrack houses about 650 greyhounds. Local animal protection society ANIMA has offered to ship the greyhounds to a canine shelter in Portugal.According to the statement yesterday, the racetrack company

June 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Trump, Kim arrive for US-N Korea summit

SINGAPORE – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump arrived in Singapore yesterday for an unprecedented summit, with Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal at the top of the agenda and the US president calling it a “one-time shot” at peace.Bringing the Korean War to a formal end 65 years after hostilities ceased will also be on the table at the first-ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting president of its “imperialist enemy”.It is an extraordinary turnaround from the

June 11, 2018 | BY admin

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2 women fall to their deaths & man drowns in reservoir: police

A local woman was found to have fallen to her death on Friday in Areia Preta while a local man was found to have committed suicide in peninsula’s reservoir in Zape on Saturday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in two statements.In the first statement, the police identified the deceased as a 26-year-old woman surnamed Yu.The police said that according to Yu’s family, Yu became depressed recently due to work and relationship issues. At 5 a.m. on Friday, Yu left home in Avenida 1 de Maio. Her

June 11, 2018 | BY admin

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