Liaison Office gets new vice-director

The State Council yesterday appointed Zhang Rongshun as a vice-director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau.Zhang succeeds Chen Sixi, who was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing in March.The Macau liaison office has four vice-directors.Zhang Rongshun, the then deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), speaks during a seminar in

June 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt pledges help for ill local student on mainland

The local government will provide “full assistance” to a seriously-ill female student from Macau enrolled at Huaqiao University in Fujian province, the Secretariat forSocial Affairs and Culture (GSASC) said in a statement yesterday.According to a report yesterday by Ou Mun Tin Toi, the Chinese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM, the student is suffering from viral encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, which led to seizures. She is in a coma now.PLEASE READ THE

June 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Kai Fong opposes Taipa crematorium project

Members of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (Kai Fong), along with a number of residents, petitioned the government yesterday against its proposal to build Macau’s first crematorium at Taipa Sa Kong Municipal Cemetery.The petitioners handed a petition to an official of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) at the bureau’s headquarters in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.Speaking to reporters after handing in the petition, Cheng Son Meng, a vice president of the group,

June 26, 2018 | BY admin

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MGM inspires visitors to play with art at new exhibition

A new exhibition opening today at MGM featuring five artists each presenting their own installations, demonstrates that art is not just for appreciating but also fun and playful through interaction, and in this case, lots of photo-taking opportunities.The “Art is Play” exhibition at MGM Art Space in the gaming operator’s property in Nape is open until September 9.The five artists showcasing their work at the exhibition are Cindy Ng Sio Ieng from Macau, Ayumi Adachi from Japan, tomtom from

June 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Leong says willing to adopt all greyhounds herself

Lawmaker-cum-gaming executive Angela Leong On Kei urged the government yesterday to consider allowing the operator of the city’s greyhound racetrack – Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. – to use the property “for some time” after its lease expires so that the greyhounds can wait for adoption in the kennels that “they are familiar with”, considering that the government has still not come up with its final development plan for the plot where the racetrack is located.Referring to an

June 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt mulls moving Lotus checkpoint to Hengqin: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has revealed that the local government has recently proposed to the central government that Macau’s Lotus Flower Bridge border checkpoint be moved from Cotai to Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, adding that a “new mode of clearance” might be adopted after the relocation of the Macau-side checkpoint to the island of the neighbouring city.Wong did not elaborate on what the new mode of clearance might be.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters on Friday

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Health Bureau bans Enzyplex after mould scare in HK

The Health Bureau (SSM) has temporarily banned over-the-counter medicine Enzyplex, following a contamination scare in Hong Kong.In a statement on Friday, the Health Bureau said that samples of different batches of the digestive remedy had already been tested, but that it would take five days to get the results. The statement noted that the medicine had been distributed to private hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in Macau, but that for the time being all prescriptions and sales of the medicine

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Plastic artist to head literary festival

Plastic artist Alice Kok Tim Hei, who heads the Art For All (AFA) group, will be the executive director of The Script Road Macau Literary Festival, a newly created post, the event’s prime mover announced in a statement yesterday. According to the statement, local Portuguese journalist Carlos Morais Jose will be the festival’s programme director, succeeding Helder Beja, one of the festival’s founders, who quit the annual event earlier this year after he had reportedly “semi-officially”

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt proposes crematorium at Taipa Sa Kong cemetery

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) has confirmed that it is proposing the Taipa Sa Kong Municipal Cemetery as the location for the construction of Macau’s first crematorium.In a statement on Friday, the bureau said that since last year it has been studying the feasibility of building a crematorium at any of the city’s public cemeteries, adding that it now considers the Sa Kong graveyard as the most suitable location for the future crematorium after taking various factors into

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt vows to improve vocational education’s recognition

An official from the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), who attended yesterday’s Macau Forum, pledged that the government will improve the professionalism and recognition of the city’s vocational education sector.The government launched a 40-day public consultation early this month about its proposed changes to the current rules on the city’s vocational education system with the aim of enabling vocational education pupils to be more competitive in the job market. The consultation

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Visitors rise 5.2 pct in May

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals in May rose 5.2 percent year on year to 2.7 million year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.The daily average of visitor arrivals last month stood at 87,250. Overnight visitors accounted for 53.6 percent of all visitor arrivals in May. Overnight visitors’ average length of stay remained unchanged as 2.2 days. Some 56.9 percent of all visitors arrived by land, 33.2 percent by sea and 9.9 percent by air.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt holds first BRI Family Fun Day

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) yesterday held its first Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Family Fun Day, in Iao Hon Market Garden.In a speech, Kong Ngai, who heads the bureau’s Department of Education, said that the nation has been promoting the Belt and Road Initiative in recent years, adding that the initiative aims to promote five major goals – policy coordination, facilitating connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and establishing new bonds between people.

June 25, 2018 | BY admin

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7 locals lose 1.26 million patacas in phone scams: police

Seven local residents have fallen victim to telephone scams and lost over 1.26 million patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lun said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leng, the seven victims comprise six women and one man, aged between 18 and 24, including three university students and a high-school pupil.Leng said that since last month the seven victims had received various phone calls from people claiming to be delivery company staff members as well as

June 22, 2018 | BY admin

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3 shops busted for illegally selling medicines

Officers of the Macau Customs Service, in conjunction with inspectors of the Health Bureau (SSM), have seized over 500 illegally imported pharmaceutical products from three shops selling cosmetic and beauty products, according to a joint statement by the two government entities yesterday.According to the statement, the customs officers and health inspectors jointly inspected cosmetic and beauty product shops in the peninsula’s northern district on Tuesday.During the joint operation, they

June 22, 2018 | BY admin

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