‘Harmonics Corridor’: A night of string & lights in bucolic park

A live performance of music performed with traditional Chinese and western string instruments with a soft touch of electronic music played in harmony with a light projection and mapping show in Macau’s bucolic Lou Lim Ieoc Garden this Sunday evening offers the public a new experience in the classic Chinese garden.The string and lights performance titled “Harmonics Corridor” is a Macau Foundation-sponsored project by the Macau Strings Association and Macau Maker Interactive Arts Space.This

March 23, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Jockey Club must pay govt 153-million-pataca debt or lose concession: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that Macau Jockey Club (MJC) will need to pay 153 million patacas in unpaid fees that it owes the government within three years or face having its concession withdrawn.Leong also said that while the government initially required the company to repay the debt within 10 years in 2015, the government shortened the period to three years when it extended the company’s horse-racing concession late last month.Leong made the

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Bureau proposes 9 pct school subsidy hike

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) proposes to raise school subsidies by nine percent in the next academic year, Chiang Ka U, acting chief for the bureau’s Division of Socio-Educational Aids, said yesterday.Chiang made the remarks during a press conference after a closed-door regular meeting of the Non-tertiary Education Committee at the bureau.Referring to the free education subsidy, Chiang said that the bureau proposed to raise it to between 954,000 patacas and 1,463,400 patacas

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Vacant vice tourism chief post temporarily taken by 7 department chiefs: MGTO chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the heads of the seven departments of her office are in turn temporarily taking on the function of a vice-director – whose position has been vacant for about three months.Senna Fernandes made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a press conference about the 6th Macau International Travel (Industry) Expo, at Macau Tower.Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

NPC Macau Basic Law Committee gets new chief

Seasoned central government legal affairs official Shen Chunyao was appointed yesterday as head of the Macau Basic Law Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Xinhua reported.The NPC Standing Committee made the appointment.According to Xinhua, Shen will concurrently head the NPC Hong Kong Basic Law Committee. Shen Chunyao, then still the chairman of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, answers questions at a press conference about proposed

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Woman steals valuables worth HK$450,000 from hotel safe

A woman from the mainland was arrested on Tuesday for stealing a male mainlander’s valuables worth HK$450,000 from a hotel safe last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Choi, the suspect is a 26-year-old businesswoman surnamed Li while the victim is a businessman whose surname was not revealed.Choi said the victim met Li on February 1 for the first time in a casino in Cotai. The two later went to the

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Inflation rate leaps 3.12 pct

Macau’s inflation rate jumped 3.12 percent last month, the largest year-on-year growth since March 2016, as the Chinese New Year (CNY) fell in February this year but in January last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, the steep increase was attributable to higher prices for eating out and CNY package tours, as well as rising housing rents, parking meter rates and women’s clothing.The composite consumer price index (CPI) last month

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Komodo park targets Macau, HK visitors

Indonesia’s Komodo National Park has been historically more popular among Europeans, particularly Germans, but in the past two years there has been a significant increase in the number of mainland Chinese tourists visiting the park. Now the park’s management is keen to attract visitors from Macau and Hong Kong too.Park official Abdul Rahman, who has worked in the park for 30 years, told Macau and Hong Kong media on Rinca Island yesterday, “In the past, most foreign tourists came from

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Macau will reinforce contributions to Sino-PSCs forum: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that Macau will make further contributions as a service platform for financial services for China and the world’s eight Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs).Leong made the remarks in his opening speech during a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (PSCs), at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cotai.According to

March 22, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Xi vows to protect ‘every inch’ of nation’s territory

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping vowed yesterday to protect “every inch” of the nation’s territory, improve the lives of its people and promote the resurgence of Chinese culture and creativity as he kicked off his second term.Xi sounded a stark warning clearly directed at Taiwan’s pro-independence government and advocates of independence in Hong Kong.“Every inch of our great motherland absolutely cannot and absolutely will not be separated from China,” Xi declared in his speech

March 21, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Rogue cop steals chips in casino

An off-duty Public Security Office (PSP) officer entered a casino – breaching the casino entry ban for public servants – on Monday, the website of the Secretariat for Security (GSS) said yesterday.During a police investigation, the officer was also found entering the same casino last Friday while off-duty and stole chips that a gambler had left on a gaming table, the website said. The gambler decided to not take legal action against the chip theft.According to the GSS website, the Public

March 21, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Changing school doesn’t stop SEN kids from being bullied: group

Pupils with special education needs (SEN) sometimes face bullying by other pupils when they are included in a general education system, and simply moving them to another school doesn’t solve the issue, Macau Autism Association Director General Nicole Chan Sio Man said yesterday.Chan made the remarks on the sidelines of a press conference at Macau Science Centre about World Autism Awareness Day 2018, for which a series of events will be held next month.She talked to The Macau Post Daily in an

March 21, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

HK girl, 13, smuggles cocaine in her bra: police

A 13-year-old girl from Hong Kong and two Hong Kong male teens were taken into custody on Monday for smuggling cocaine worth HK$190,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Choi, the two male suspects are a 19-year-old pupil surnamed Cheung and an 18-year-old surnamed Pui who claimed to be unemployed. Choi said the girl is a F1 pupil, whose surname was not revealed.The police last week received a tip-off about Hong

March 21, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Tam defends trip to Beijing during ‘two sessions’

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that he held talks with central government officials in Beijing earlier this month at their request.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of a new restaurant in Patane district.Tam’s remarks came after Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng told the media on Monday in Beijing that it was impropriate for officials of the local government to visit

March 21, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0