Most residents can afford bus fare hike: Rosario

Controversially, the category of non-locals would not only comprise visitors but also non-resident workers (popularly known as blue-card holders). Migrant worker groups and social activists have complained about the proposal which would discriminate against imported labour – most of them low-income workers.Nearly two thirds of Macau’s blue-card holders are mainlanders. The number of imported labour stood at 178,492 at the end of November, according to the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL).The

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau, Guangdong ink nuclear emergency pact

Macau and Guangdong signed in Zhuhai on Monday a cooperation agreement on the emergency management of nuclear accidents in the neighbouring province, the Macau Unitary Police Service (SPU) announced yesterday.The pact was signed by SPU Commissioner General Ma Io Kun and Lu Xiulu, head of the office of Guangdong’s nuclear emergency management commission and director of the province’s environmental protection department.Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak witnessed the signing ceremony.

January 10, 2018 | BY admin

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Two dozen seek shelter from cold snap

About two dozen people went for protection from the current cold snap to the winter shelter yesterday as the mercury plunged from 18 degrees Celsius in the morning to 10 degrees in the afternoon and just around 8 degrees Celsius in the evening.The chief of the Social Affairs Bureau’s (IAS) Public Relations and Media Division, Catherine Lee Kuai Heng, told The Macau Post Daily yesterday that 25 people stayed at the winter shelter in Ilha Verde as of 9:43 p.m. They were all Macau citizens,

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Court postpones lawmaker’s disobedience trial

The Court of First Instance (TJB) said in a statement yesterday that it has approved a request to postpone the date of the trial of directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou and fellow non-establishment activist Scott Chiang Meng Hin for alleged aggravated disobedience, from today as previously scheduled to Tuesday next week.The court approved to postpone the trial date in response to an urgent request by the duo’s recently-hired defence lawyer who would need time to prepare for the trial.The

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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UM professor appointed editor of English Today

Andrew Moody, an associate professor at the University of Macau (UM) Department of English, has been appointed by Cambridge University Press as the editor of the journal English Today for a five-year term with effect from the beginning of this year.According to a UM statement yesterday, Moody will lead the international editorial team of the journal.English Today is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the description of the English language and its many forms and functions as an international

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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AirAsia plans to launch 4 new Macau routes this year

Low-cost carrier AirAsia will be launching three to four new routes for Macau this year, the airline’s CEO for Hong Kong and Macau Celia Lao Sio Wun told reporters yesterday.Lao made the comments before officiating over the launch ceremony of the airline’s Macau-Phuket daily flight at the local airport. The route’s first flight arrived from Phuket in the morning and returned shortly after.Lao said that AirAsia had received many requests for the Macau-Phuket route and when it managed to

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Taxi overcharging up 85 pct, jaywalking up 147 pct last year: police

A total of 5,491 offences by taxi drivers were recorded last year, a 32.3 percent increase from 2016, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, 28.7 percent (1,574) of the cases were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers, while 57.9 percent (3,180) concerned overcharging.In 49 of the cases, cabbies jumped the queue to pick up passengers at taxi ranks, the statement said.Two taxis stop at a pedestrian crossing in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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2 mainlanders nabbed in 2 gaming chip cases: police

A suspect was arrested for stealing chips from a casino, while another one was arrested in a gaming chip exchange fraud, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.Lei noted that the first case took place on November 26 last year in a casino in the city centre. Lei said that police officers on duty at the casino were informed by security guards about a man stealing chips from a chip float. After investigating,

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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15 fined for smoking at bus stops in 7 days

Inspectors fined 15 people for smoking at bus stops in the first seven days since the toughened version of Macau’s anti-smoking law took effect on New Year’s Day, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government-initiated Tobacco Prevention and Control Law’s amendment bill during a plenary session in July last year.The new version of the law bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops and taxi ranks.A bus stops at a bus

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Delta bridge car park to have 5,143 spaces

The West Car Park of the border checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will have a capacity of 5,143 spaces, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The parking spaces comprise 3,089 for cars and 2,054 for motorcycles and scooters.Various types of vehicles are barred from using the car park, such as vehicles for more than 9 seated passengers including the driver; vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes; vehicles with a height exceeding 2 metres;

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Delta bridge to open in Q2: report

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) will open in the second quarter this year, the quasi-official China Daily reported yesterday, quoting unnamed informed sources.Although the exact date has not been fixed, the bridge will start services officially around May to June, the sources told the newspaper.The final commissioning date will partially depend on the construction progress of port facilities in Zhuhai and Hong Kong, according to the sources. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT

January 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Wong ‘deeply shocked’ by car driving straight through checkpoint

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak was “deeply shocked” by an incident in which a man from the mainland managed to illegally cross the Macau side of the Cotai-Hengqin without going through immigration procedures late last month, the Secretariat for Security has said in a statement.The policy secretary said the incident reflected serious security “loopholes” at the city’s border checkpoints, as well as “insufficient” communication between local and mainland border protection

January 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmaker finds lawyer for disobedience trial

Directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou and fellow non-establishment activist Scott Chiang Meng Hin have hired Jorge Menezes as their defence lawyer for their trial for alleged aggravated disobedience which is scheduled to start tomorrow, the New Macau Association (NMA) said in a statement yesterday.Sou and Chiang are members of the grassroots association which was established in 1992.Over the past few weeks, Sou had told local media repeatedly that he and Chiang were unable to hire a lawyer

January 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Diocese ‘disagrees’ with in vitro fertilisation

The government has started a public consultation on a bill that regulates in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the local Roman Catholic Diocese yesterday held a signature campaign in front of the churches of Macau’s nine parishes against the use of assisted reproductive technology.It was reported by local Catholic weekly O Clarim (“The Bugle”) on Friday that the Diocesan Family, Marriage and Life Commission was of the view that the diocese “absolutely disagrees” with IVF.“Besides

January 8, 2018 | BY admin

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