10,425 residential units sold last year: official

A total of 10,452 residential units were sold last year, 339 more than in 2016, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) announced yesterday.The DSF statistics are based on stamp duty records.The price per square metre rose 17 percent year on year to 100,569 patacas.Some 74 percent of the units were sold on the Macau peninsula, averaging 91,403 patacas per square metre. A total of 335 units were sold in Coloane, averaging 129,517 patacas per square metre. The average price per square metre of the

January 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Teen loses 14,600 yuan in a K-pop ticket scam

A local teenager was hit by a concert ticket selling scam, in which she lost a total of 14,600 yuan, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Yeung Sau Chan said during a regular press conference yesterday.Yeung identified the female victim as a 19-year-old high school pupil surnamed Ng.According to Yeung, in the small hours of Sunday morning Ng saw a post on the Chinese microblogging website Weibo about tickets for sale for a K-pop group’s concert at Studio City that night. Ng contacted the seller

January 16, 2018 | BY admin

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MGM COTAI still awaits gaming tables approval: CEO

MGM China CEO and Executive Director Grant Bowie said yesterday that the company was still waiting for the government to approve the number of gaming tables it can operate at MGM COTAI, slated to open on January 29.Bowie made the remarks while speaking to reporters after the launch ceremony at MGM Macau of its joint effort with local telecom operator CTM to provide a cloud data backup service to its local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) vendors who have lost important data and

January 16, 2018 | BY admin

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CTM chief says security, privacy can coexist in cyberspace

CTM CEO Vandy Poon Fuk Hei said yesterday that the local telecom operator supports having a cyber security law in the city, pointing out he believes that security and privacy can coexist in cyberspace.Poon made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending the launch ceremony at MGM Macau of a cloud backup service to help MGM’s SME vendors whose business have been affected by last year’s devastating Super Typhoon Hato.“I support the cause for a cyber security act or law in Macau

January 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Wong orders jail to review security checks

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has ordered the city’s prison administration to review its security checks of all those entering the jail, and also review its management and supervision of the over 1,000 inmates, the Secretariat for Security (GSS) said in a statement at the weekend.The statement issued on Saturday came after the police earlier that day announced a case in which two prisoners managed to instruct a man outside the prison via mobile phone to sell illicit drugs in

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Culture chief’s sick leave won’t affect bureau: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng revealed at the weekend that Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Cecilia Tse Heng Sai has been on sick leave for two weeks, but insisted that her absence will not affect the bureau’s operations.Tam said the bureau have temporarily been headed by Kent Ieong Chi Kin, its vice-president. The bureau has two vice-presidents but one of the posts is currently vacant.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on Saturday on the

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt vows to change bus stop no-smoking lines from grey to white

Macau’s top anti-smoking official said yesterday that the government would change the colour of the lines painted on the ground indicating the no-smoking area at bus stops from grey to white, with the aim of making it easier for residents and tourists to see them.Tang Chi Ho, director of the Smoking Prevention and Control Office of the Health Bureau (SSM), made the remarks as a guest speaker at Macau Forum, a weekly open-air debate hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Top lawyer slams resolution aimed at sole lawmaker

Macau’s most senior lawyer has slammed a draft resolution proposed by two lawmakers because it appeared to be aimed at just one particular legislator.Macau Lawyers Association (AAM) President Jorge Neto Valente made the criticism in an interview with the Portuguese-language radio channel of TDM, Radio Macau, on Friday.Neto Valente said it was wrong anywhere in the world to make a law just to target a particular person, known as “ad hominem” in European legal parlance. PLEASE READ THE FULL

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Priest wants parish for Filipinos

Fr Joao Lourenço, the former rector of the Roman-Catholic Inter-University Institute of Macau (the precursor of the University of St Joseph), has called for the establishment of a parish for Macau’s sizeable Philippine community.Lourenço made the suggestion in an interview with Radio Macau which was broadcast on Saturday.The cleric said that the Philippine parish did not necessarily need to be “territorial but rather personal, or a chaplaincy, or a structure that would be ecclesiastical

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmaker wants peers to withdraw ‘political act’ draft resolution

Suspended directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou said in a statement on Friday that indirectly-elected lawmakers Kou Hoi In and Vong Hin Fai ought to consider insisting on their jointly proposed draft resolution – a document that they submitted to the Legislative Assembly (AL) last week – on whether the suspension of a lawmaker by his or her peers is a “political act”.The legislature has arranged a plenary session tomorrow afternoon to debate and vote on the draft resolution. Sou and

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmakers submit draft resolution to counter suspended peer’s court appeal

Indirectly-elected lawmakers Kou Hoi In and Vong Hin Fai yesterday called for an urgent plenary session to debate and vote on a draft resolution on whether the suspension of a lawmaker by his or her peers is a “political act”, according to the website of the Legislative Assembly (AL).The legislature has arranged a plenary session on Tuesday to debate and vote on the draft resolution, the legislature said on its website yesterday.The two legislators jointly propose the draft resolution in

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Casino staff petition govt over Wynn ‘tolerating’ illegal smoking

Several Wynn Macau casino workers, accompanied by lawmakers-cum-unionists Ella Lei Cheng I and Leong Sun Iok as well as members of the Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff Association (MGESA), yesterday petitioned Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, urging the government to ensure that gaming operators always strictly obey the anti-smoking law and, consequently, always ensure that gamblers do not smoke in no-smoking areas on their premises.The association is an affiliate of the Macau Federation of

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Local man arrested for burglary: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man yesterday for a burglary he allegedly committed last year, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the Judiciary Police received a report of a burglary at an entertainment venue near Avenida do Almirante Lacerda in September. Lei did not elaborate on the kind of entertainment the business provided.CCTV camera footage scrutinised by the police showed a man wearing a

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Teen nabbed for running fake base stations

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a teenager from the mainland on Wednesday for operating seven fake base stations in two flats near the Barrier Gate Plaza, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 16-year-old male surnamed Li, who told the police that he was a chef.A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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