Govt launches cargo lift 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 cargo lifts in their shops in the city’s low-lying areas.The subsidy scheme, which also includes technological assistance, aims to allow business owners and their staff to lift their goods off the ground quickly if flooding hits their neighbourhoods.The subsidy covers 80 percent of

April 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui vows to review officials’ disciplinary rules

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the government will “thoroughly” review possible amendments to its rules and system on disciplinary procedures for public servants.Chui made the remarks when answering lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho’s question in a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.Coutinho heads the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM).Coutinho said that the government appeared to have imposed an excessively heavy

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Reciprocal driving-licence to benefit locals: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On stressed yesterday that the government’s plan to sign a reciprocal driving-licence recognition deal with the mainland aims to benefit local residents by making it more convenient for them to work and do business on the mainland.He also said that a reciprocal driving-licence recognition scheme between Macau and the mainland would help young local people to pursue their career prospects there.Chui made the remarks when answering questions from

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Esports finals to be held on Saturday

The joint organisers of the Grand Lisboa Hotel CESG & KOM Esports Tournament said in a statement yesterday that its finals will be held at the Macau Convention Centre opposite the airport in Taipa on Saturday.The event is title-sponsored by Grand Lisboa Hotel and jointly organised by the Macau E-Sports Federation (MESF), Mario E-sport Limited, KOM Macau and A&J event planning, according to the statement.The statement noted that it is the first local esports tournament to be held in

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Indonesian nabbed for 7 thefts: police

An Indonesian man has been arrested for seven thefts committed between February and April, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular news conference in Zape yesterday.Choi noted that the suspect, Johanes, is in his fifties, and claimed to be unemployed.According to Choi, the police received two theft reports, the first on February 15 and the other last Thursday. In the first case, a smartphone was reported stolen from an Internet café in Rua da Erva, while in

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Graffiti defaces plinth of Camões bust: IC

Graffiti has been scrawled on the plinth on which the bronze bust of Luís de Camões stands in Camões Garden, according to a statement by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) yesterday.According to the statement, the bureau discovered the plinth had been vandalised in a recent inspection of historical relics.The graffiti in blue and red was found on the back of the plinth.This undated handout photo provided by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) shows the vandalised plinth on which the bronze bust

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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La Scala plot to be used for HOS units: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the government has decided to build 6,500 subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) units on the plot of the abandoned La Scala luxury housing project near the airport.Chui made the remarks when answering lawmaker-cum-unionist Lei Chan U’s question in a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.The government announced in September 2016 in its first-ever Five-Year Development Plan that it planned to build a huge public

April 18, 2018 | BY admin

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All bus rides to cost 6 patacas from Saturday

The government announced yesterday that an across-the-board increase in public bus fares will take effect on Saturday.According to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, all passengers paying with cash will have to pay six patacas per trip on all routes. The announcement was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.Passengers using MacauPass will have to pay three patacas on regular routes and four patacas on express routes, according to the

April 17, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt mulls unit for local national security law enforcement: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday there was a need to establish a unit specifically for the enforcement of Macau’s local national security law – the Law on the Defence of National Security.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters after overseeing the swearing-in ceremony of newly-appointed Macau Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau (DSFSM) Director Kok Fong Mei, at the S. Francisco Barracks.Wong told reporters on Sunday the government would study the drafting of

April 17, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau, mainland to ink reciprocal driving licence recognition deal

Secretary for Transport and Public Workers has been authorised to sign an agreement with the Ministry of Public Security on the reciprocal recognition of driving licences, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The order, which took immediate effect, was signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.The order did not say when the deal will be inked.

April 17, 2018 | BY admin

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2 men rob woman of HK$480,000: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two male mainlanders on Saturday for robbing a female compatriot in a resort hotel in Cotai in January, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspects as a 43-year-old surnamed Song and a 43-year-old surnamed Wang, both from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and both claiming to be unemployed. Lei noted that the victim is a woman from the mainland in her fifties, who runs a money-changing business in

April 17, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt to make help for disabled more precise: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng promised yesterday that the government will come up with more precise measures to help the intellectually disabled and others with disabilities.Tam made the remarks in a speech during the opening ceremony of the premises of the Association of the Intellectually Disabled and their Elderly Parents, in Areia Preta.According to Tam, there are seven residential care homes, providing a total of 638 places, and eight day-care centres for

April 17, 2018 | BY admin

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Liaison chief calls for improved mechanism to safeguard national security

Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau Director Zheng Xiaosong yesterday urged Macau to improve its legal system for ensure the more effective enforcement of the local national security law.Zheng made the remarks in a speech during the opening ceremony of the “National Security Education Exhibition” at the Macau Handover Gifts Museum in Nape.The exhibition, which will end on April 30, is Macau’s first-ever exhibition aiming to increase residents’ awareness of the

April 16, 2018 | BY admin

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National security & local security are interrelated: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the government would study the drafting of local laws and regulations to ensure the more effective enforcement of the local national security law – the Law on the Defence of National Security enacted in 2009.Wong also said that national security and local security are closely interrelated.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters after the opening ceremony of the “National Security Education Exhibition” at the Macau Handover

April 16, 2018 | BY admin

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