Over 1 tonne of smuggled seafood seized from fishing boat: govt

The Macau Customs Service and the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) jointly seized a total of 1,153 kilogrammes of uninspected seafood this week from a fishing boat, the bureau said in a statement yesterday.The statement said that the two entities jointly made the two seizures from the same fishing boat earlier this week. On Sunday, 130 kilogrammes of oysters were confiscated, while on Tuesday the vessel was caught again when 1,023 kilogrammes of shellfish were confiscated.The statement

April 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt axes ex-weather chief’s pension for 4 years

The government announced yesterday that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has decided to punish the former director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), Fong Soi, Kun, by suspending the payment of his pension for four years for his failure to fulfil his duties properly over the hoisting of storm warning signals when Super Typhoon Hato pummelled Macau last year.According to a statement from the Government Spokesperson’s Office (GPV) yesterday, disciplinary procedures launched

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‘Bide your time, a bright future is ahead’, Rosario tells students

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario yesterday urged young local people to be patient before eventually achieving success, because there’s a long road ahead, to work hard and have more confidence in the government.He also told his young audience that Macau has been getting better in various aspects.Rosario made the remarks while attending a “Dialogue With Young People” on the Hengqin campus of the University of Macau (UM). The topic of the event was the

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Xi vows further economic opening

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping pledged yesterday to lower car tariffs this year and take other steps to open the world’s number two economy “wider and wider”, addressing major complaints by the United States in a simmering trade row.Xi’s remarks follow weeks of tit-for-tat tariffs and mutual threats of more levies on hundreds of billions of US dollars worth of products between Beijing and Washington that have raised fears of a trade war that could lacerate the global economy.While he

April 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt proposes to axe rogue cabbies’ licences

Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said yesterday that the government has drafted a bill regulating the city’s taxi sector, which proposes that cabbies caught refusing to pick up passengers or overcharging them four times within five years will have their taxi-driving licences cancelled.Addressing a press conference at Government Headquarters, Leong said that the council, the government’s top advisory body, had completed its discussion of the bill, which aims to ensure the service

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2 CE electors to come from the 2 committees under new municipal body: lawmaker

The government is proposing that the two members from the future municipal organisation on the Chief Executive Election Committee will be elected among the municipal body’s administrative committee and consultative committee, lawmaker Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who heads the legislature’s 2nd Standing Committee, said yesterday.Chan briefed the media after a closed-door meeting of his committee which is reviewing a government-initiated bill on the establishment of a non-political municipal

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Councillor calls for ban on foam food containers

Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council member Liu Fengming said yesterday the government should ban disposable foam food containers in Macau as they are very slow to biodegrade and releasing hazardous chemicals at very high temperatures.Liu made the remarks during a regular meeting of the council at the Islands District Public Services Centre in Taipa.Liu said that many take-away shops in Macau use plastic foam (also known as expanded polystyrene) containers as they are cheap.

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Police warn of ‘low-risk-high-return investment’ pyramid scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) are aware of suspected pyramid scams in Macau, in which residents could be persuaded to join a “crowdfunding platform” claiming that investing a small amount of money would generate a profit of up to 150 percent while the investors “don’t need to do anything”, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.The statement pointed out that the pyramid schemes are potentially illegal.A pyramid scheme is a commercial practice or a form of investment that

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Macau, Guangdong to ink 20 billion yuan investment deal ASAP: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that talks between Macau and Guangdong on the setting-up of a 20 billion yuan (25.6 billion patacas) cooperation development fund had already been concluded and an agreement would be signed by the two sides as soon as possible, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS).Leong made the remarks during a session about the development of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) on the sidelines of this year’s

April 10, 2018 | BY admin

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SJM expects ‘enhanced prosperity’ from GBA: So

SJM Chairman Ambrose So Shu Fai said yesterday that his company expected “enhanced prosperity for Macau as the Greater Bay Area (GBA)initiative takes shape, promising mutual benefits for Macau and the surrounding region.”So made the upbeat remarks in a speech during the gaming operator’s annual media appreciation luncheon, at Grand Lisboa.In his speech, So also expressed SJM’s full confidence in the future of Macau, adding that his company was “delighted to walk hand in hand with the

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149 fined for smoking at bus stops in Q1

Inspectors fined 149 people for smoking at bus stops in the first quarter since the toughened version of Macau’s anti-smoking law took effect on January 1, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government-initiated Tobacco Prevention and Control Law’s amendment bill during a plenary session in July last year.The new version of the law bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops and taxi ranks.This undated handout photo

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Union calls for casino workers’ wage hike

The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union yesterday petitioned the city’s six gaming operators, urging them to raise the salaries of their casino workers and improve various other benefits including an increase in the number of days for paid maternity leave.Cloee Chao Sao Fong, the union’s high-profile leader, spoke to reporters about their petitions near MGM Macau in Nape yesterday. She and several union representatives then went to the offices of the six gaming operators and submitted

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Customs officers bust 3 IIs, 3 ‘snakeheads’

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers recently busted an illegal immigration case.In the early hours of Sunday, the Macau Customs Service received a report from its counterpart in the mainland that a speedboat was travelling fast near the runway of the local airport, the statement said.According to the statement, a Customs Service speedboat was deployed to intercept the vessel – which had two skippers. Customs officers told one of the skippers to stop his

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Filipino rapes compatriot after party: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a Philippine national on Sunday for raping a compatriot after a party, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday.Choi identified the suspect as a 35-year-old non-resident worker surnamed Llarena who has worked as a security guard in Macau since 2015. The 25-year-old victim is also a non-resident worker.According to Choi, the victim’s female cousin invited Llarena to a party in her home near the Ruins of St Paul’s on

April 10, 2018 | BY admin

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