Lawmakers pass 4 debate motions

The legislature yesterday passed four debate motions separately proposed by three directly-elected lawmakers – Ella Lei Cheng I, Ng Kuok Cheong and Sulu Sou Ka Hou.The passage of each of the debate motions yesterday means that the legislature will request government officials to attend the plenary sessions when the public debates between the officials and lawmakers take place.In her debate motion, Lei questions whether the government is taking into account whether its proposal to increase

November 8, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass tax benefits bill for employers of disabled

The legislature yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill on tax benefits for those employing disabled people.The bill proposes a special tax reduction for those hiring disabled residents, with the aim of encouraging the employment of people with disabilities.According to the bill, employers are eligible for a reduced tax bill for each disabled resident they employ as long as the employees hold a Disability Assessment Registration Card issued by the Social Welfare Bureau

November 8, 2017 | BY admin

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Reserves top half a trillion patacas: Leong

The government’s current reserves amount to 505.2 billion patacas, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said in the legislature yesterday.During a plenary session yesterday, Leong revealed details of a report about the government’s implementation of last year’s budget.According to Leong, the government’s revenues stood at 110.5 billion patacas last year, 5.6 billion patacas – or 4.8 percent – less than 2015.The government’s expenditure rose 2.3 percent – or 1.9

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‘Angel of the Lepers’ dies, aged 102

Father Gaetano Nicosia, widely known as Macau’s “Angel of the Lepers” died in Hong Kong on Monday, aged 102, members of the Salesian community confirmed to The Macau Post Daily yesterday.According to previous local media reports, Fr Nicosia was born in Sicily in 1915. He arrived as a Roman-Catholic missionary in mainland China in 1935 and moved to Macau in 1963 when he began to look after a leprosarium in Ka Ho in Coloane. He founded the Roman-Catholic D. Luis Versiglia School in Ka Ho in

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Health Bureau condemns attack on 4 anti-smoking inspectors

The Health Bureau (SSM) “vehemently condemned” a violent verbal and physical attack by a smoker on four anti-smoking inspectors yesterday.According to an SSM statement, the inspectors required hospital treatment after the attack.The incident happened in the so-called “Friends of the Areia Preta Triangular Garden” area during a routine inspection when the inspectors told a person to stop smoking in the public park. After refusing to hand his ID card to the inspectors, the assailant

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Banco Well Link holds opening ceremony

Macau’s newest lender, Banco Well Link, held its formal inauguration ceremony on its Bank of China Building premises yesterday, announcing that it plans to start retail counter services “in due course”.Zhang Shengman, the bank’s board chairman, made the announcement on the sidelines of the ceremony.The bank, whose Chinese name means “setting up a bridge”, replaced Portugal’s Novo Banco Asia.Zhang told reporters that while Macau is a “small” city it is also a “bridge”

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Govt vows to help ‘typical old shops’: DSE chief

Economic Services Bureau (DSE) Director Tai Kin Ip said yesterday that his bureau would assist small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing and supporting their “typical old shops” to rebrand.Tai made the remarks in his opening speech during a founding ceremony at the government-run Macau Business Support Centre (MBSC) in China Civil Plaza in Alameda Dr Carlos d’Assumpçáo.At the event, the bureau launched the “Typical Old Shops Support Group” in conjunction with the

November 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass social workers licensing bill

The legislature yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill on the mandatory accreditation and licensing of social workers, with the aim of improving the quality of the services provided by social workers and reinforcing their professional image.Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng introduced the outline of the bill during a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.According to Tam, the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) commissioned a study

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Ex-info bureau to house youth start-ups, Tourist Police: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday that the former premises of the Government Information Bureau (GCS) will be used as a venue for youth start-ups as well as an office for the Tourist Police unit.The five-storey building next to Sao Domingos Church in the city centre has been mostly empty for 11 years since the info bureau moved to its current premises in China Plaza.The government said late last year that it planned to use the

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Central govt official rejects municipal elections

Zhang Rongshun, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), said in Macau yesterday that the board members of Macau’s non-political municipal organisation cannot be elected by popular vote.Zhang made the remarks during a seminar jointly organised by the Macau Legal Workers Association and Macau Basic Law Promotion Association. The seminar, about the establishment of a non-political municipal organisation in Macau,

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Macau firm buys 30 pct stake in Portuguese media group

Macau-based KNJ Investment, headed by local businessman Kevin Ho King Lun, has acquired a 30 percent stake in Portugal’s Global Media Group for 15 million euros (140 million patacas), the Portuguese radio channel of government-run local broadcaster TDM reported last night.According to the report, Global Media Group’s ownership structure after the deal will consist of two shareholders each holding 30 percent (Ho’s KNJ Investment and Jose Pedro Soeiro), one holding 20 percent (Joaquim

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Japanese firm to use ‘integrated resort’ theme at gaming show

Japanese company Pixel Companyz Inc., which will be taking part in next week’s Macau Gaming Show (MGS), will at its ‘integrated resort’-themed booth present the latest news updates about the so-called “casino law “and tourism development in Japan.A Jasdaq-listed company in Japan, Pixel is an office automation supplier which also sells LED lighting systems, real estate and is also engaged in the relocation, construction and renovation of offices.According to Bloomberg, the company

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Govt vows to ‘localise’ national anthem law

The government will draft related local legislation as the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Saturday passed decisions to include the National Anthem Law in the Macau Basic Law’s Annex 3, the Secretariat for Administration and Justice said in a statement on Saturday.The NPC Standing Committee in Beijing on Saturday adopted decisions to apply the newly-adopted National Anthem Law both in Hong Kong and Macau, the nation’s two special administrative

November 6, 2017 | BY admin

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NMA gets new leadership

The New Macau Association (NMA) has elected a new president and vice-president, lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou, also an NMA vice-president, told The Macau Post Daily over the phone yesterday.Kam Sut Leng was elected the president and Wong Kin Long a vice-president of the grassroots group in a by-election on Friday, according to Sou.Kam succeeds Scott Chiang Meng Hin who recently resigned as the group’s president.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

November 6, 2017 | BY admin

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