2 local boxers prepare for their 1st professional fight

Two of Macao Boxing House’s young fighters will have their first professional fights tonight and tomorrow night at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in the “2017 IBF Silk Road Championship Tournament Inaugural Fight and IBF World Championship”.Michael Ferreas Olfindo will be fighting Thailand’s Yutthana Narkprasert tonight and Cheong Lap Cheong will be up against mainland China’s Xie Zhenwu tomorrow night.Each night there will be five bouts with pugilists from Ghana, the Philippines,

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Daughter doesn’t see dad for days, finds him dead in bed: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) yesterday morning about finding a man dead in bed in a flat in Rua Três do Bairro da Areia Preta.According to the police statement, the deceased is a 58-year-old local man surnamed Wong, who lived with his daughter.Yesterday morning the deceased’s daughter noticed a strange smell emanating from her father’s bedroom while she was getting ready for work, according to the police statement. After entering her

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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This Halloween: delve into a Lynchian state of mind

If trick-or-treating and haunted houses are not enough to scare you witless for Halloween, watching some David Lynch’s films is surely enough to send shivers down your spine.Cinematheque.Passion is running a special screening of “The Nightmare Maker: David Lynch” where it will feature five of the acclaimed US filmmaker’s classics, with award-winning psychological thriller “Mulholland Dr.” as the opening film for the festival that begins tomorrow and runs until October 31, All

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Galaxy to host charity dinner with world’s elite gastronomic society

Galaxy Macau will be hosting a charity dinner with Le Club des Chefs des Chefs on Sunday, with five of the club’s elite chefs – who are currently or have previously been personal chefs to heads of state – designing the menu with the integrated resort’s award-winning chefs.Known as the world’s most exclusive gastronomic society, Le Club des Chefs des Chefs is an elite club whose members are currently the personal chefs of heads of state. Their event with Galaxy Macau therefore has been

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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The Countdown: 5,800 or so hours to go until Morpheus opens

Six men in suits seem to be busy working on the countdown clocks at The Countdown Hotel at City of Dreams to count down the hours until Morpheus hotel opens in May next year.The giant digital clock installed in the lobby of The Countdown Hotel (the former Hard Rock Hotel) with a duplicate hanging on the outside of the hotel tower is a work of art created by renowned Dutch designer Maarten Baas.Titled “Count:Down Clock”, it is the first real-time clock that Baas has created in Asia and his

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Herbalife host seminar on ways to combat ageing

Healthy-ageing and digestive health were the topics this year at the “Herbalife Asia Pacific Wellness Tour” that took place in the city last week.The tour was organised by the nutrition company Herbalife and Zhen-yu Chen, a member of the company’s Nutrition Advisory Board, was the guest speaker at the event, where the findings of the “Asia Pacific Healthy Aging Survey” was released.Conducted by the company in March, the survey interviewed 6,000 people who are 40 or above from 12 Asia

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Xi presents party’s central leadership, roadmap for next 5 years

BEIJING – Soon after being re-elected general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping yesterday presented the new CPC central leadership to the press and laid down a roadmap for the next five years.Amid applause, Xi led the other six newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee into a brightly-lit room inside the Great Hall of the People, facing rows of journalists.Xi, 64, was

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Over 11,000 traffic accidents in 9 months

Public Security Police (PSP) Traffic Department Commissioner Leong Wa Chi said yesterday that 11,087 traffic accidents were recorded in the first nine months of this year, or an average of 40 accidents a day, resulting in 3,541 injuries and six deaths.Leong made the remarks during a press conference about the annual Road Safety Carnival, at the Transport Bureau (DSAT) in Estrada de D. Maria II.According to Leong, the number of accidents recorded in the first nine months of the year was about

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Group calls for changes to weather bureau structure

The grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) yesterday urged the government to amend the operation of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) and its administrative structure.The activist group made the appeal during a press conference at its office.The press conference hosted by NMA activists Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Ray Leong Ka Wai was about a hard-hitting report released last week by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) on the findings of an investigation into the observatory

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to launch language subsidy scheme

The government will launch a subsidy scheme with the aim of encouraging residents to take examinations for a number of language proficiency qualifications. Each applicant can get a subsidy of 1,000 patacas for each qualification if they get the required results.The plan will be jointly launched by the Talent Development Committee, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) and Macau Foundation (FM).A press conference about the scheme was held yesterday at the committee’s office in Nam

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Chui to deliver 2018 Policy Address on Nov 14

hief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will deliver his 2018 Policy Address in the legislature’s hemicycle on November 14, the Legislative Assembly (AL) announced yesterday.According to the announcement, Chui will answer lawmakers’ questions about his policy address on November 15.The government’s five policy secretaries will separately present their respective 2018 portfolio guidelines to the legislature from November 21 to December 6, according to the announcement.Customarily, the policy

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Macau to host 2nd Boao development summit next month

The 2nd Boao Forum for Asia Development Summit is to kick off in Macau early next month, the organizers said in a statement yesterday.The two-day event, starting on November 5, will be themed “Smart Cities and the Development of Asia”. It is co-organized by the Boao Forum for Asia, the Macau Youth Federation and Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST).The topics of the summit will include smart cities and the development of Asia, youth talents and the future of Asia, the central

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Xi Joins Mao & Deng as leaders credited in party charter

BEIJING – The ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) approved a revised charter that enshrined President Xi Jinping’s name under its guiding principles, elevating him to a status that eluded his two immediate predecessors.The revised CPC constitution approved yesterday at the end of the party’ twice-a-decade congress in Beijing listed “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” alongside the theories of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. While presidents

October 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt launches consultation on municipal body

The government is launching a one-month public consultation today on the establishment of a non-political municipal organisation in Macau.The government is proposing that board members of the municipal organisation are not elected but that they will be appointed by the chief executive instead.A press conference about the public consultation was held yesterday at the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) in Nape. The public consultation will end on November 23. Two public sessions will be held during the

October 25, 2017 | BY admin

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