Cabbie locks mainland family in taxi: police

A taxi driver has been arrested for locking a mainland family of five in his taxi on Saturday, Public Security Police (PSP) Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Wong, the suspect is a local man in his thirties surnamed Chan.Wong said that the five passengers including a baby got into the taxi driven by Chan at 12:30 p.m. at the Barrier Gate, asking him to take them to a resort hotel in Cotai. Soon after setting off, Chan told the passengers that they

July 31, 2018 | BY admin

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Canidrome sets up int’l greyhound rehoming centre, run by Anima

The operator of the city’s former greyhound racetrack – Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. – and local animal protection group Anima have inked a deal for the relocation of the racing dogs left behind at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack. Under the agreement, Yat Yuen will rent a vacant building in Pac On in Taipa for the setting-up of an international greyhound adoption centre – where the company plans to move the dogs left behind at the racetrack – which will then be operated by Anima.The

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Anima & Canidrome truce sees greyhounds saved

At the Macau Regency Art Hotel in Taipa on Friday afternoon an announcement was made in front of local and international media that Anima and Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. had made peace for the good of the 533 left behind greyhounds after the closure of the dog racing track on Friday August 20.At a joint press conference that would have been beyond the wildest imagination of the assembled media just a few short weeks ago former sworn enemies President of Anima Albano Martins and

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Weather bureau to be in charge of all flood monitoring stations

Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man announced at the weekend that his bureau will in charge of all of the government’s flood monitoring system stations.Tam made the announcement to reporters on the sidelines of a public event at the Macau Science Centre in Nape on Saturday.Tam heads both Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau and Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA)Raymond Tam Vai Man, who heads both the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG)

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Forum urges govt to ensure LRT trains next year

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum urged the government to ensure that the Taipa section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) will come into operation next year as repeatedly promised.They made the appeal in the wake of a ruling by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announced last week – which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven companies for the construction of the LRT depot.The weekly debate programme is

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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20 cases of enrolment without consent: official

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has received complaints from local residents about being enrolled in courses of the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme without their consent, according to a report by government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday.According to the report, Kong Ngai, who heads the DSEJ Department of Education, said that his bureau had received and investigated twenty complaints, in which residents who originally joined an organsation and signed up for a

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Graft busters to probe Viva Macau loans

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has announced that it will investigate loans worth 212 million patacas granted by the Macau government about a decade ago to the now defunct local airline Viva Macau.The city’s graft busters will probe the loans, which were granted in several instalments in 2008-09, at the request of the Industrial and Commercial Development Fund (FDIC) of the Economic Services Bureau (DSE), according to a CCAC statement issued on Friday.The loans, which were never

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Customs Service busts 5 smuggling cases

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement on Friday that its officers busted five smuggling cases earlier this month at the Barrier Gate border checkpoint.According to the statement, two local men and two female mainlanders were involved in the five cases. The contraband involved uninspected meat, cigarettes that no duty had been paid on and undeclared fishing rods.On July 19, local customs officers separately seized 32.5 kilogrammes of uninspected fresh fowl from a female mainlander and

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Canidrome applies to move greyhounds to Pac On: IACM

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement that it is studying a greyhound relocation proposal submitted by Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. yesterday evening which proposes to relocate the dogs left behind at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack to a “vacant” building on a privately-owned plot of land in Pac On in Taipa.According to the statement, Yat Yuen has applied to take back the greyhounds left at the racetrack’s kennels so that it can relocate the dogs.Yat Yuen had

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for cheating traders of jade worth 1.2 million yuan

A woman was arrested on Monday for defrauding two jewellery traders from the mainland of 10 pieces of jade worth 1.21 million yuan, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 31-year-old mainlander surnamed Yang, who works as a bar hostess. The two victims are a mother and son, whose details were not provided by Ho.Ho said that the two victims recently met a man on the mainland, who told them someone in Macau

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Police show upgraded disaster relief equipment

Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun said yesterday that the government has upgraded its disaster relief equipment, based on the lessons learnt from last year’s deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Ma made the remarks in a speech at the end of a presentation of the government’s disaster relief equipment by three government entities – the Macau Customs Service, Fire Services Bureau (CB), and Public Security Police (PSP) – at the Marine Enforcement Department Building in Ilha

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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SJM launches scheme to help small eateries

Local gaming operator SJM has committed itself to helping small- and medium-sized restaurants and bakeries in the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro and Inner Harbour areas which were badly affected by Super Typhoon Hato last August.The gaming company held a press conference along with representatives of several government bodies and local businesses at Grand Lisboa yesterday.Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) Vice President Choi Tat Meng said that gastronomy was an indispensable element of Macau’s

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Health Bureau records 4th imported case of dengue

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement last night that it has recorded the fourth imported case of dengue fever this year.According to the statement, the patient is a 22-year-old local man who lives in Avenida da Amizade and works in Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues.The statement said that the patient visited Malaysia with his friends between July 9 and July 14. Last Thursday the patient came down with a fever and a headache, and he took medicine for the symptoms. On Monday he had rashes on

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt needs time to study top court’s ruling on LRT depot project: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that the government will study a ruling by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announced early this week – which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) – and “carry out tasks in line with the ruling”.Rosario also said he “did not know” whether the TUI ruling will affect

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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