Union calls for casinos’ mandatory typhoon shutdown, starting with No. 8 signal

Members of the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union yesterday petitioned the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), urging the government to set up a specific legal framework for the mandatory shutdown of all local casinos when a typhoon hits the city, starting with the No. 8 signal.The union handed the petition to an official outside the bureau in China Plaza in Avenida da Praia Grande.On Saturday evening – shortly before the number 8 signal was hoisted due to Super Typhoon

September 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Man attacks wife over kids’ education: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man on Tuesday for allegedly attacking his wife with a cleaver after a heated argument last Saturday over how to educate their children, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday.Choi identified the suspect as a 47-year-old restaurant waiter surnamed Ng and his wife as a 42-year-old casino worker. They have an eight-year-old son and a daughter in her teens.According to Choi, the couple, who have been married for about a

September 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Clerk steals cheque in 1st month at job: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a local man – who had only been employed by the company for a month at the time of the crime – for stealing a 300,000 pataca cheque from his boss, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday.Choi announced details of the case during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspect is a 21-year-old surnamed Fong, who started to work as an office clerk at a decoration company in the city centre in July.The Judiciary

September 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Observatory gets new chief after predecessor’s 1-year concurrent appointment ends

The government announced yesterday that Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Van Man yesterday served his last day as director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) and that Tang Iu Man, who currently heads the weather bureau’s Meteorological Division, will be the acting director starting from today.The weather bureau made the announcement in a statement yesterday.Tam had headed the weather station after its then director, Fong Soi Kun, quit following

September 20, 2018 | BY admin

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CTM chief says data centre in HK provides extra back-up

Telecom operator CTM opened its first data centre outside Macau in Hong Kong yesterday, with the company’s CEO Vandy Poon Fuk Hei saying that it would provide an extra back-up service, as well as enhance the security and reliability of data management for its customers.Poon made the remarks after the opening ceremony of the new data centre located in CITIC Telecom Tower in Kwai Chung in Hong Kong.CITIC Telecom International is the parent company of CTM. CITIC Telecom International Chairman

September 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Invaluable experience gained from Mangkhut response: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the local government will need to carry out a large number of measures with the aim of constantly improving Macau’s ability to tackle typhoons and other major natural disasters.Chui made the remarks during a specially-convened meeting yesterday summarising the government’s measures in preparation for Super Typhoon Mangkhut and its disaster prevention and mitigation tasks.Chui convened a special meeting yesterday for representatives of

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Body found floating: police

The fully clothed body of a male was found yesterday afternoon floating in the sea near the land reclamation area known as Zone A, which lies off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula, according to a Judiciary Police (PJ) statement yesterday.The statement said that officers of the Customs Service patrolling on a speedboat spotted the floating body in the afternoon. They took the corpse to the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal.The statement said that the deceased – whose ID was found on him –

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Scrub typhus hits local schoolgirl

A 15-year-old local female pupil who sought treatment at the private Kiang Wu Hospital last Tuesday has been diagnosed with Tsutsugamushi disease (also known as scrub typhus), the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the girl began to run a fever and suffer from neck pain and a headache on September 2. She had seen a doctor several times since then. However, she came down in a rash and had an eschar on her left buttock last Tuesday. She went to the

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Hotel receipts top 32 billion patacas last year

Macau’s 79 hotels and 34 guesthouses recorded receipts of 32.59 billion patacas last year, a year-on-year increase of 14.7 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. According to a DSEC statement, 5-star hotels’ receipts accounted for 75.1 percent of the sector’s total receipts in 2017. The sector’s total expenses rose 8.8 percent year on year to 28.98 billion patacas. Employees’ salaries and other kinds of compensation accounted for nearly 45 percent

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Couple cheats illegal money changer: police

A mainland couple was arrested at the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Thursday for defrauding a money changer out of over 150,000 yuan last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday.Choi announced the case during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspects are a 26-year-old man surnamed Wang and his 23-year-old wife surnamed Fan. The victim is a male mainlander who engaged in illegal currency changing activities in

September 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Response to Mangkhut a ‘relatively ideal’ achievement: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the various tasks to respond to typhoons and other disasters that the government has prepared since last year have enabled the authorities to obtain a “relatively ideal” achievement in its tackling of Super Typhoon Mangkhut that pummelled Macau on Sunday.Wong made the remarks during a press conference at the S. Francisco Barracks summarising the government’s tasks in preparation for Severe Typhoon Mangkhut and its disaster

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Some households still without power last night

A number of households in the city’s flood-hit neighbourhoods following the onslaught of Super Typhoon Mangkhut were still without power last night due to flood-damaged electricity-supply components in their buildings. When serious flooding was hitting the city’s various low-lying areas on Sunday afternoon, power utility CEM took the initiative to cut electricity at sub-power stations in these areas with the aim of enabling the company to resume electricity for affected households following

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Septuagenarian dies in social housing fire

A 74-year-old man was found dead in a flat in Fai Fu Building – a social rental housing estate in Fai Chi Kei - after a fire broke out there early Friday morning.According to a spokesman for the Fire Services Bureau (CB), the blaze broke out in a flat on the 17th floor at 5 a.m. When firefighters arrived at the scene and broke into the flat, they found the man lying near the metal gate, with burns to his head and limbs. The man was found to have died at the scene.The Housing Bureau (IH)

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Assault suspect found to be II: police

During the investigation of an assault case, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered the suspect to be an illegal immigrant (II) while all his flatmates were overstaying their visas, PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Fong, the suspect is a 31-year-old Vietnamese man surnamed Duong, who claimed to be unemployed. The victim is a man from Hong Kong surnamed Wong.On September 3, Duong punched Wong during a quarrel in Rua dos Faitioes in

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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