Govt to subsidise waste collection for recycling

The government will subsidise local companies which collect rubbish for recycling, Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said yesterday. Leong, who announced the government’s latest subsidy during a press conference about various issues at Government Headquarters, said the subsidy would help such companies buy equipment and/or vehicles. Each company, which must have been in business for at least a year, can apply for up to 1.5 million patacas in subsidies covering up to 50 percent

November 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui to deliver 2018 Policy Address today

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will deliver his 2018 Policy Address during a plenary session of the Legislative Assembly (AL) in the legislature’s hemicycle this afternoon. The session is slated to start at 3 p.m. Afterwards, Chui will hold a press conference at Government Headquarters. Chui’s second five-year term at the helm of the local government ends on December 19 next year. According to Article 48 of the Macau Basic Law, the chief executive “may service for not more

November 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Aristocrat presents its latest products at MGS

Local gaming equipment company Aristocrat is presenting is latest products at MGS at the Venetian in Cotai.The annual MGS Entertainment Show is organised by the Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association (MGEMA). This is the sixth year that MGEMA has organised the event which this year has two new local co-organisers. The three-day events ends today.For the first time Nam Kwong Culture and Creativity Industry Co. Ltd. and China National Machinery Industry International Co. Ltd. have been

November 15, 2018 | BY admin

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PhD graduate nabbed for ‘fake bribery’ of professor

A PhD student from the mainland enrolled in a university in Taipa allegedly told a fellow student last year he could help him pass two courses he had failed by bribing the professor in charge, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said yesterday.Leng did not identify the university.Speaking during a regular press briefing, Leng said the suspect cheated his fellow student out of 32,000 yuan (37,100 patacas).The suspect is a 32-year-old male surnamed Chen from the mainland who told police

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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4 Malaysians caught smuggling drugs worth 19 million patacas – HK ‘mule’ also nabbed

Four Malaysians in two separate cases were caught arriving at the local airport from Kuala Lumpur yesterday smuggling heroin and methamphetamine, also known as Ice, worth a total of 19 million patacas, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman said at a press briefing at the airport in Taipa yesterday.PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lun said that police officers cracked the first case by stopping a 25-year-old Malaysian man surnamed Lam who was behaving suspiciously when he arrived at the airport at about 10

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass HOS amendment bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill amending the law on its subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS). The amendment bill proposes that an applicant must be a permanent resident aged at least 25, as opposed to the current minimum age requirement of just 18.The bill also proposes that a points-based system be adopted for the allocation of HOS flats, replacing the current system in which applicants for HOS flats are divided into different groups

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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HK court gives maid hospital order for killing boy

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s High Court yesterday imposed a hospital order on a domestic helper who strangled her employer’s two-and-half-year-old son.Arshdeep Kaur, 24, had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter after attacking the boy at the family’s home in Tin Shui Wai two years ago.She has a mental illness and is to be treated in hospital for an indeterminate period.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Mick Schumacher eyes GP victory

BERLIN – Mick Schumacher will attempt to follow in his famous father’s footsteps on Sunday when he races in the Macau Grand Prix to decide arguably the world’s best Formula Three driver.“It’s great to be back in Macau, it was a fantastic season for the whole team and I’m proud to be coming here as European champion,” Mick Schumacher, 19, said after arriving in Macau with his Italian Prema Team.“This is the race that every Formula Three driver wants to win. I’ll try my best to

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Barbecue restaurant kitchen damaged in fire

A fire at the well-known Lam Kei barbecue restaurant in Areia Preta damaged the kitchen in the early hours of yesterday, according to a statement by the Fire Service Bureau (CB).According to the statement, the restaurant’s electric oven is believed to have overheated, which might have caused the fire. The blaze was put out by the restaurant’s sprinkler system, which stopped the fire spreading.The statement said the bureau received a report from a passer-by about the fire at 8:12 a.m.

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Theodore Racing’s Zhou says rain ‘more thrilling’ for GP

The local weather station predicts rain during the four days of the Macau Grand Prix which starts tomorrow, but the gloomy forecast hasn’t dampened mainland Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu’s spirit, saying yesterday that rain would make the race all the more thrilling.The 19-year-old made the comments when he was with his teammates including Michael Schumacher’s son Mick, Estonia’s Ralf Aron, New Zealand’s Marcus Armstrong and Russia’s Robert Shwartzman during the SJM Theodore Racing by

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Xi urges HK & Macau to embrace nation’s reform, expects ‘sincere patriotism’

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday voiced the hope that Hong Kong and Macau will further develop themselves by embracing the nation’s cause of reform and opening-up.Compatriots in Hong Kong and Macau are expected to continue participating in the country’s reform and opening-up with sincere patriotism and pioneering spirit, attain the greater development of the two special administrative regions (SARs) by promoting the development of the country, and jointly work for national

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui to head GBA commission

The government announced yesterday the setting-up of a special commission that will coordinate Macau’s participation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), which comprises 11 cities including 9 in Guangdong. According to an executive order gazetted yesterday, the commission will be headed by Chief Executive Chui Sai On and comprise a number of senior officials such as the government’s five policy secretaries and chief of customs. The order takes effect today. Earlier

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Special needs school to move to ex-Canidrome: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that an area on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack is located will be used for the new campus of the private Concordia School for Special Education.Tam made the remarks when visiting the current campus of the special needs school – located on the first to the third floors of the south block of Zhu Kuan Building in Rua de Madrid in Nape, with its entrance on the ground floor.During his visit to the

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Mangkhut causes 1.55 billion pataca loss: govt

The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday it estimates that September’s Super Typhoon Mangkhut caused Macau financial losses of 1.55 billion patacas – 520 million patacas in direct losses and 1.03 billion patacas in indirect ones.Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which pummelled Macau on September 16, caused 40 injuries.Residents have, in general, praised the government for the significant improvements in its disaster response to Super Typhoon Mangkhut, compared to when Super Typhoon

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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