Govt receives 5 bids for 200 ‘green’ radio taxis

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) received five bids for a company licence to operate another 200 special radio taxis up to yesterday – the deadline for the submission of bids, according to a report by the Chinese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM.DSAT officials will unseal and screen the bids at the Transport Bureau Building today.The bureau launched a public tender on August 15 for a company licence to operate up to 200 special radio taxis.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Nightclub managers force Kazakhstani into prostitution: police

Two nightclub managers have been arrested for forcing a Kazakhstani into prostitution, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.The spokeswoman identified the suspects as a 34-year-old local woman surnamed Lei, an assistant manager, and a male manager surnamed Wong, both working at a hotel nightclub in Zape. She noted that the victim is a 22-year-old woman from Kazakhstan who has worked as a dancer in the nightclub for six months.Wong’s

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Police to handle financial intelligence from today

The Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) will be overseen by the government’s public security portfolio from today, according to an executive order signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On that was published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday. According to the order, the office’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing tasks will remain unchanged. The office had been part of the government’s economy and finance portfolio since its setting-up in July 2006. PLEASE

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Student association sets up sex crime concern group

The General Association of Chinese Students of Macau announced yesterday that it has set up a sex crime concern group, urging the government to toughen punishment for such crimes.The announcement was made during a press conference hosted by the association’s president.Last week, the Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 78-year-old local man for allegedly molesting two girls aged eight and nine during a music class. According to the girls’ statements, the suspect had asked them to sit on his lap

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Body found near Kun Iam Statue – man drowns in Barra: police

A man’s body was found lying on the beach near the Kun Iam Statue in Nape and a man drowned in the Inner Harbour near the bus terminal in Barra, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in separate statements yesterday.The first statement said at 7:15 a.m. yesterday, a security guard working at the Kun Iam Statue called the authorities after seeing a body lying on the waterfront there. Customs officers and firemen arrived at the scene to retrieve the body.According to the statement, the man passed away

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Eatery near Horta da Mitra market gutted by fire

A fire gutted a restaurant outside the Horta da Mitra Municipal Market in the early hours of yesterday, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The fire erupted at around 6:30 a.m. at the well-known Tai Heng Noodle Shop – located at the junction of Rua de Horta e Costa and Rua da Colina. The eatery is in a two-storey house at the junction. The fire broke out on the first floor.Alerted by a call, firefighters rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze within an hour.Firemen stand in

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Nobel laureate Diamond visits UM, gives talk on ‘good pension design’

Peter Arthur Diamond, a US economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2010, visited the University of Macau (UM) and delivered a talk titled ‘Good Pension Design’ last week, according to a statement released by the public university yesterday. Friday’s event attracted a full-house, including UM faculty members, students, and guests.Diamond, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, discussed the purpose of a pension system, its key

October 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Police discover Macau’s first capsule hotel

The Public Security Police (PSP) have discovered Macau’s capsule hotel in Zape, believed by the police to be the first of its kind locally, and have caught two women allegedly involved in the operation of the illegal accommodation business, the Public Security Police said on Friday.The police said in a statement said that they received a tip-off on Thursday that a residential flat in Rua de Pequim was suspected of being run as an illegal inn. Later that day, police officers went to the flat

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt mulls legislation on youngsters’ alcohol consumption: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the government was considering the possibility of drafting legislation aiming to tackle the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks by young people. Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Macau Stadium on the sidelines of the 3rd Macau Popular Sports Games. The two-day event, which is organised by the Sports Bureau (ID) once every two years, ends today.Tam said that while it was all right for

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau church raises 5,280 patacas for Sulawesi

Local church Jesus Alive Ministry (JAM) said that it raised 5,280 patacas for the victims of last month’s earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi. According to a JAM statement, the amount was raised during a one-hour event attended by over 30 local Indonesians and others at the auditorium of the Macau Assembly of God Church in Rua de Ferreira do Amaral. The statement said that the Jesus Alive Ministry is collaborating with Jakarta-based Christian channel Pijar TV which “will visit and

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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194 receive awards for lifelong learning

A total of 194 locals received awards for their continual lifelong learning during an activity promoting this year’s Lifelong Learning Week at Zheng Guanying Public School in Toi San district yesterday.The 194 locals received the award for attending 160 hours of lifelong learning courses per year – for at least six years in a row or an accumulation of eight years.In a speech, Kong Ngai, who heads Education and Youth Affairs Bureau’s (DSEJ) Department of Education, said that since the

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Financial intelligence to move to security portfolio

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak confirmed at the weekend that the Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) will come under his portfolio. Wong made the statement on the sidelines of a public function on Saturday when asked by the media about the Executive Council’s announcement on the previous day that the office would be moved from the portfolio of Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac to Wong’s portfolio. Wong said the aim of the move was to ensure that the

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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HKM Office chief urges local youth to grasp GBA opportunities

Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council Director Zhang Xiaoming said at the weekend that enhancing the well-being of the people in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), particularly in terms of creating more opportunities for young people, is one of the intentions of the city cluster initiative.He also urged Macau’s young people to grasp the “plentiful” GBA opportunities and to learn from their mainland counterparts – and vice versa.Zhang made the remarks

October 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt convenes 1st meeting of national security commission

The government announced yesterday that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has convened the first meeting of the newly-established Commission on the Defence of National Security of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), during which he called for improvements in the city’s legal system concerning the protection of national security.According to a statement by the commission yesterday, the meeting was held last Friday at Government Headquarters.The statement noted that the

October 12, 2018 | BY admin

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