Worker dies after falling off ladder

A local worker died early yesterday after falling off a ladder in Taipa last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lai identified the deceased as a 58-year-old man surnamed Wong.According to media reports last month, a local male worker in his fifties, who was renovating a bank branch in Taipa, was believed to have fallen two metres off a ladder on June 23. His colleagues took the semi-conscious man to the private Kiang Wu

July 3, 2018 | BY admin

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Police record 399 taxi violations last month

The Public Security Police (PSP) recorded 399 taxi violations last month, with 331 of them concerning overcharging and refusing hire, PSP spokesman Leong Wa Chi announced during a regular police press conference yesterday.June’s figures show a month-to-month decrease of recorded taxi violations amid the recent public outcry against taxi violations. In April, the Public Security Police (PSP) recorded 539 taxi violations, including 328 about overcharging and 108 about refusing hire, while in

July 3, 2018 | BY admin

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Tourist caught stealing from church donation box: police

A male tourist from the mainland was arrested by the Public Security Police after caught stealing from a donation box at the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in the city centre, a PSP spokesperson said during a regular news press conference on Friday.The spokesperson identified the suspect as a man in his twenties surnamed Meng.According to the spokesperson, on Thursday afternoon a security guard at the cathedral spotted three men acting suspiciously inside the church. Later Meng – one of the trio

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt expects San Ma Lou roadworks to be completed on schedule

An official from the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), who attended yesterday’s Macau Forum, said that the ongoing two-month roadworks in the city’s busy Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro was “well” underway and that his bureau believes that the roadwork project can be completed late next month, or in early September as initially planned.Popularly, the avenue is known as San Ma Lou (“New Thoroughfare”).The weekly debate programme is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM every

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt still working on kindergarten sex abuse probe

Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) Deputy Director Kong Chi Meng said yesterday that the one month that his bureau had said it needed to investigate the alleged sexual abuse at the private D. Jose da Costa Nunes Kindergarten did not include the time needed for translation and other processing work, hence the bureau had yet to release its findings and report.Kong made the remarks during a media interview on the sidelines of an inauguration ceremony of a youth internship programme

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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June casino receipts grow 12.5 percent

The casino sector’s total gross revenue from games of chance rose 12.5 percent year on year to 22.49 billion patacas last month, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) announced yesterday.According to DICJ statistics, last month’s revenue was the lowest of any month since September last year. Gaming receipts in the first half of the year rose 18.9 percent year on year to 150.2 billion patacas.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Hundreds protest against local crematorium plans

Hundreds of residents yesterday protested against the possible construction of a crematorium in Macau, saying that it is not suitable for the densely populated city to have a crematorium anywhere on its tiny land area of just 30.5 square kilometres.At the end of March, Macau had a population of 656,700, or 21,531 inhabitants per square kilometre.The demonstrators urged the government to not only suspend its plan to build Macau’s first crematorium at Taipa Sa Kong Municipal Cemetery but also

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt slams ‘unfair’ US human trafficking report

The government has reacted strongly to last week’s latest US human trafficking report, which it described as “unfair” and containing “false” conclusions and “unsubstantiated” allegations. According to the statement issued by the Office of Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak on Friday, the allegations made by the US State Department’s 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) that Macau is a transit territory for women and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Falling window pane hits pedestrian

A local woman in her thirties was hit by glass from a window pane that fell from a flat in Rua da Restauracao yesterday afternoon.According to the Fire Services Bureau (CB), as a resident living in the flat on the first floor was opening a window at 5 p.m. yesterday, the window pane fell out of the window frame and landed on the roof of a car parked below. A passing female pedestrian was hit by some of the flying glass shards and sustained an injury to her left arm. She was transferred to the

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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Canidrome holds final greyhound adoption day

Yesterday afternoon saw the third and final greyhound adoption day at the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome in Fai Chi Kei which will be closed for good later this month.From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. people queued to collect adoption forms for the 87 greyhounds that were on display. All of which had been adopted by the end of the day.The frightened, muzzled greyhounds were paraded in a ring and then taken to an area where they were surrounded by crowds of people taking selfies with them, manhandling them to

July 2, 2018 | BY admin

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UM professor ‘sexually assaults’ student: report

The former dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Macau (UM), John Mo Shijian, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a female student from the mainland enrolled in another local university, has been remanded in custody.Mo’s pre-trial detention was first reported by the Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM on Wednesday night. However, the initial report did not mention the reason for his arrest, merely that it was not related to financial issues. The

June 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Zero Latency bringing new VR gaming experience to Broadway

The Broadway Macau will have a new gaming experience with the opening of Zero Latency’s free-roam out-of-home virtual reality (VR) entertainment today.According to the press release, Zero Latency is a pioneer and global leader in warehouse-scale free-roam VR entertainment; using state-of-the-art wireless technology and motion tracking to take players into the next level of social gaming.Zero Latency has 18 venues in nine countries with venues in Asia in the cities of Busan, Kuala Lumpur,

June 29, 2018 | BY admin

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This summer, get a taste of rural Tottori in Japan

When it comes to travelling, trying the local food is just as important as seeing the sights.For places that grow their own produce, going there to savour the season’s best makes it a good enough purpose to travel. In this case, Japan’s rural Tottori has a lot of to offer especially for those travelling for a food experience.Tottori is an area in western Japan (west of Osaka and Kyoto) on the Sea of Japan. It has an area of 3,507 square kilometres, of which 14 percent is designated as

June 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Mum arrested for beating son to ‘discipline’ him: police

A woman has been arrested for beating her son with a stick, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the suspect is a 30-year-old woman from the mainland surnamed Deng who is unemployed and is staying in Macau on a multi-entry visa, while the victim is her three-year-old son who is attending a local kindergarten. Lei said that the two live in a flat in Rua das Estalagens.Lei said that on

June 29, 2018 | BY admin

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