Lit ciggie causes fire at radio taxi headquarters: police

A door frame at the entrance of the headquarters of the Macau Radio Taxi Corporation in Nape was burnt yesterday afternoon after a staff member dropped a still lit cigarette end there, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement last night.The statement identified the smoker as a 39-year-old man surnamed Kuan. The statement did not say whether the staff member is a cabbie or works in another capacity for the company. Neither did the statement say if Kuan was arrested.According to the

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Sands gives YMCA children, families Easter treat

Around 40 children and their families from YMCA of Macau were treated to breakfast with Thomas & The Little Big Club on Saturday at Sands Cotai Central and tried egg painting as part of the Easter community event organised for them by a group of Sands China Care Ambassadors.“Our members really appreciate invitations like these,” said YMCA Macau Secretary General Grace Kuan. “The children and their families get to have fun and a memorable time together with an experience that might

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Goa Nights puts modern spin on Indian flavours

Chicken tikka mini burger, nachos topped with tandoori mayonnaise, vindaloo served in a naan wrap, and cocktails inspired by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s sea voyage from Portugal to India, are just some the items on the menu at Goa Nights.Goa Nights cocktail bar and restaurant is the latest project of Shilpa Sethi and her brother Gagan Sethi from Nagpur in central India who opened Indian Spice in Nape in 2009 when they couldn’t find quality Indian food in Macau.But Goa Nights is

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Half of collected CNY red packets can be used: eco-bureau

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in a statement yesterday that 1.05 million red packets (known as ‘lai see’ in Cantonese) collected from residents during a one-month scheme that ended earlier this month can be reused and distributed to residents in the run-up to the Chinese New Year (CNY) next year.According to the statement, the bureau collected a total of 2.1 million red packets – also known as red envelopes – during the period of the scheme which started on February 26

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Fund to help shops with ‘community characteristics’

The Cultural Industry Fund (FCI) will launch a specific programme to provide grants to help local shops with ‘community characteristics’ to improve their branding, FIC Administration Council member Davina Chu Miu Lai said yesterday.Chu made the remarks at a press conference about the fund’s financial support over the last two years and announced the new programme at Macau Design Centre.According to Chu, the programme aims to help shops with ‘community characteristics’ to integrate

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Mainlander caught taking upskirt video: police

A mainland man was caught taking an upskirt video of a local woman in a supermarket near the Barrier Gate on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Public Security Police (PSP) said during regular press conference in Zape yesterday.According to the spokesman, the suspect surnamed Huo, who is in his thirties, works as a salesman in Macau while the victim is a local university student in her twenties.The spokesman said that Huo went to the supermarket at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. In the supermarket, Huo

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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‘Harmonics Corridor’: A night of string & lights in bucolic park

A live performance of music performed with traditional Chinese and western string instruments with a soft touch of electronic music played in harmony with a light projection and mapping show in Macau’s bucolic Lou Lim Ieoc Garden this Sunday evening offers the public a new experience in the classic Chinese garden.The string and lights performance titled “Harmonics Corridor” is a Macau Foundation-sponsored project by the Macau Strings Association and Macau Maker Interactive Arts Space.This

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Jockey Club must pay govt 153-million-pataca debt or lose concession: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that Macau Jockey Club (MJC) will need to pay 153 million patacas in unpaid fees that it owes the government within three years or face having its concession withdrawn.Leong also said that while the government initially required the company to repay the debt within 10 years in 2015, the government shortened the period to three years when it extended the company’s horse-racing concession late last month.Leong made the

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Bureau proposes 9 pct school subsidy hike

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) proposes to raise school subsidies by nine percent in the next academic year, Chiang Ka U, acting chief for the bureau’s Division of Socio-Educational Aids, said yesterday.Chiang made the remarks during a press conference after a closed-door regular meeting of the Non-tertiary Education Committee at the bureau.Referring to the free education subsidy, Chiang said that the bureau proposed to raise it to between 954,000 patacas and 1,463,400 patacas

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Vacant vice tourism chief post temporarily taken by 7 department chiefs: MGTO chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the heads of the seven departments of her office are in turn temporarily taking on the function of a vice-director – whose position has been vacant for about three months.Senna Fernandes made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a press conference about the 6th Macau International Travel (Industry) Expo, at Macau Tower.Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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NPC Macau Basic Law Committee gets new chief

Seasoned central government legal affairs official Shen Chunyao was appointed yesterday as head of the Macau Basic Law Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Xinhua reported.The NPC Standing Committee made the appointment.According to Xinhua, Shen will concurrently head the NPC Hong Kong Basic Law Committee. Shen Chunyao, then still the chairman of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, answers questions at a press conference about proposed

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman steals valuables worth HK$450,000 from hotel safe

A woman from the mainland was arrested on Tuesday for stealing a male mainlander’s valuables worth HK$450,000 from a hotel safe last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Choi, the suspect is a 26-year-old businesswoman surnamed Li while the victim is a businessman whose surname was not revealed.Choi said the victim met Li on February 1 for the first time in a casino in Cotai. The two later went to the

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Inflation rate leaps 3.12 pct

Macau’s inflation rate jumped 3.12 percent last month, the largest year-on-year growth since March 2016, as the Chinese New Year (CNY) fell in February this year but in January last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, the steep increase was attributable to higher prices for eating out and CNY package tours, as well as rising housing rents, parking meter rates and women’s clothing.The composite consumer price index (CPI) last month

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Komodo park targets Macau, HK visitors

Indonesia’s Komodo National Park has been historically more popular among Europeans, particularly Germans, but in the past two years there has been a significant increase in the number of mainland Chinese tourists visiting the park. Now the park’s management is keen to attract visitors from Macau and Hong Kong too.Park official Abdul Rahman, who has worked in the park for 30 years, told Macau and Hong Kong media on Rinca Island yesterday, “In the past, most foreign tourists came from

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

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