Bear sightings set social media buzzing

Social media has been buzzing recently as photos of what seem to be a bear’s footprints in the woods and bear poop along a hiking trail in Coloane have been circulating online, with the most recent ones showing a blurry image of a big furry animal scavenging near a rubbish tip on a beach, and a night photo showing a shadow of a lonely old bear overlooking a lit-up city.The bears are in fact the work of Daniele Poidomani, artistic director from the Australian Memetica theatre troupe

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman on zebra crossing killed in 5-vehicle crash

A local woman was killed in a pile-up involving a bus and four private cars yesterday. The woman was on a zebra crossing in Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira when the accident occurred.The fatal traffic accident happened at around 9 a.m. Footage recorded on a nearby CCTV camera circulating online showed that a woman, who appeared to be in her sixties, was among a group of pedestrians crossing the road with a white car stopped at the zebra crossing.Suddenly a New Era’s Route No. 8 bus

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Post-Hato probe report does not mention ‘political’ responsibility: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that an investigative report drafted by a special commission tasked with probing whether any government entities or officials were at fault in their response to last August’s deadly Super Typhoon Hato does not mention that any government officials should be held “politically” accountable for the Hato disaster.Wong attended a plenum in the legislature’s hemicycle which discussed a debate motion by directly-elected lawmaker Ng Kuok

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Academic freedom is important: new UM rector

Song Yonghua, the University of Macau’s (UM) new rector, said yesterday that academic freedom is a core value of any university, adding that as the new UM rector he would comply with the university’s regulations to ensure academic freedom.Song made the pledge during his first meeting with the press after take up his new post on Tuesday.Song said that the University of Macau attracted him because he felt it was a university where he could apply the managerial experience he gained at mainland

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Education bureau to get new chief: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that Lou Pak Sang, one of the two deputy-directors of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), will succeed Leong Lai, who will retire early next month, as the bureau’s director.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of an exhibition at the bureau’s Educational Resources Centre in Nam Van. The exhibition showcases the use of information technology (IT) in

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau-Guangdong meeting spells out ‘fresh strategies’

Yesterday’s Guangdong-Macau Cooperation Joint Conference in Guangzhou “has spelt out fresh strategies to boost complementary benefits for the two places and to enable a joint contribution to significant national policies,” the Macau government said in a statement last night.According to the statement, Macau and Guangdong yesterday signed eight agreements to diversify cooperation. The pacts cover topics such as food safety, protection of intellectual property, energy efficiency, and

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Deportation of checkpoint breacher is ‘proper’: prosecution

The Public Prosecution Office (MP) said in a statement yesterday it was proper that the local authorities deported a mainlander who managed to illegally cross the Macau side of the Cotai-Hengqin checkpoint without going through immigration procedures late last month, back to the mainland.Some commentators have wondered why the local police deported the suspect back to the mainland shortly after the case occurred.According to the statement, the Public Prosecution Office issued the statement to

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Baby in hospital for hypothermia

The Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday that a new-born has been hospitalised with hypothermia.According to an SSM statement, even though doctors diagnosed the case as “mild hypothermia”, they decided that the infant remain under observation at the public Conde de S. Januario Hospital Centre.Earlier this week, the bureau announced the death of an elderly woman from hypothermia. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Wynn to pay ‘winter bonus’

Wynn Macau announced yesterday that a “winter bonus”, equal to one month’s gross salary, will be paid to all eligible Wynn Macau and Macau Palace employees, excluding senior management, which represents nearly 95 percent of its 13,000-strong workforce.“The bonus is being awarded to show the company’s appreciation to all team members for their hard work and commitment during what has been a successful second half of 2017,” the statement said.

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Most residents can afford bus fare hike: Rosario

Transport and Public Works Secretary Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday he believed that most residents would be able to afford the government-proposed increase in public bus fares.Rosario attended a plenum in the legislature’s hemicycle which discussed a debate motion by directly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I on the issue.The legislature passed Lei’s debate motion in November, which questioned whether the government was taking into account that its proposal to increase

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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Israeli dad launches smart parenting app

Everything is becoming smart these days, and as children are growing up in the digital age, it is perhaps becoming a challenge for parents to keep up with their children who are spending far too much time on their smartphones, and so there’s finally an app to help parents get connected with their children’s world.There are many parenting apps available in the market, but they didn’t appeal to Enon Landenberg, a father of three from Israel, so he created his own one, called “Bosco” app

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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Adelsons donate 15 million patacas to USJ

The Los Angeles-based Adelson Family Foundation presented a US$1.9 million (15.3 million patacas) ceremonial cheque yesterday to the Roman Catholic University of Saint Joseph (USJ) to assist its recovery efforts after Typhoon Hato and subsequent floods caused major damage to its new campus in August and September last year.According to a statement by Hong Kong-listed gaming operator Sands China, executives from Las Vegas Sands and Sands China presented the cheque to USJ Rector Fr Peter Stilwell

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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2 mainlanders cheat local loan shark: police

Two mainlanders were arrested on suspicion of trying to defraud a local man, a suspected loan shark, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.Lei said that the two suspected fraudsters are a 26-year-old man surnamed Jing and a 32 year-old man surnamed Ma, both claiming to be businessmen. Lei identified the victim as a 36-year-old local man who later turned out to be a loan shark. His surname was not

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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MTel vows to reach 99 pct coverage by year end

MTel Chairman and CEO Michael Choi Tak Meng said yesterday he was confident that his company’s network will cover 99 percent of the city’s residential building by the end of this year as required by its licence agreement with the government.Choi spoke to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of a media lunch hosted by his company, at The Plaza Restaurant in Zape.According to previous news reports, the company’s licence agreement with the government requires its network to cover 30 percent

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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