Speaker slams Beijing visits by local officials during ‘two sessions’

Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng said yesterday it was impropriate for officials of the local government to visit Beijing and meet their counterparts from the central government during the “two sessions” (“liang hui”) – the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in March.Ho made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the first session of

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui vows to ensure protection of public land

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that he has already received a report on the case of an illegal land reclamation project in Hac Sa Village in Coloane. He also stressed that the government will ensure that public land is always properly protected.Chui spoke to reporters at the airport yesterday before departing for Beijing where he will attend the closing meeting of the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) today.Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak is

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Man on bail scams 56 job seekers out of 300,000 patacas

A local man on bail was caught for allegedly scamming dozens of job seekers by claiming to be able to get them jobs, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.Choi identified the suspect as a 63-year-old man surnamed Kwong, who worked at a car park.According to Choi, the police recently received reports by several people about two separate cases involving a total of 56 victims claiming to have been defrauded by

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Tam confirms: childbirth fee hike for low-income imported workers reduced to threefold

The government’s childbirth fee hike for low-income non-resident workers will be threefold, while for other non-resident workers and tourists it will be ninefold, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng told the media yesterday, saying that he made the decision after listening to concerns raised by local migrant worker groups regarding the ninefold fee increase originally proposed by the Health Bureau for all non-local residents giving birth in Macau, except for those

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Indonesia wants more Macau, HK tourists

Six local journalists arrived on the Indonesian island province of Bali last night on a familiarisation trip organised by the Consulate-General of the Republic of Indonesia to Hong Kong and Macau on behalf of the Tourism Ministry in Jakarta, in a bid to attract more tourists from the two special administrative regions to the island nation.The six local media professionals – representing The Macau Post Daily, Macau Cable TV, TDM’s Chinese-language TV channel and Portuguese-language newspaper

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Taxi catches fire, pregnant passenger unhurt

A taxi caught fire while it was being driven past Galaxy Macau in Cotai yesterday afternoon, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The taxi driver and his passenger – a 32-year-old pregnant woman – were not injured in the incident that occurred shortly after 3 p.m.The taxi driver told firefighters that the dashboard suddenly burst into flames when he was driving. He and the passenger immediately left the vehicle.Firemen check the fire-gutted taxi outside Galaxy Macau

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman killed in work accident was illegal worker: police

A woman who fell to her death on the construction site of the five-star Morpheus hotel on Sunday was an illegal worker, as was her husband, the Public Security Police (PSP) said yesterday.The deceased was a woman from the mainland surnamed Liu, and her husband, both in their thirties, who were illegally employed to work at the site, according to the Public Security Police (PSP).The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that Liu and her husband on Sunday afternoon were painting a

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawrence Ho: more gaming concessions make no sense

Gaming operator Melco Resorts & Entertainment Chairman and CEO Lawrence HoYau Lung said yesterday that it “doesn’t make that much sense” to issue more gaming concessions as the central government wants growth in diversification and non-gaming entertainment in Macau.He made the remarks in response to media questions about his opinion on what the government should do when the city’s three concessions and three sub-concessions expire between 2020 and 2022. There has been no word yet

March 20, 2018 | BY admin

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Liaison vice-chief elected as NPC Standing Committee member

Chen Sixi, a vice-director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing yesterday.From a list of 172 candidates, 159 were elected as members of the 13th NPC Standing Committee.Chen is one of the four deputy directors of the Liaison Office in Macau.During the sixth plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th NPC yesterday, Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng was

March 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Mainland worker dies in hotel fall

A female worker from the mainland died after falling for around seven metres, from the fifth floor to the platform level, on the construction site of the five-star Morpheus hotel in Cotai yesterday, according to media report.The Fire Services Bureau (CB) received a report about the accident at around 5 p.m. After arriving, the emergency services found that the 32-year-old victim was neither breathing nor did she have a heartbeat. She was transferred to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital

March 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Threefold childbirth fee hike for non-resident domestic helpers: Tam’s office

The government plans to triple the childbirth fees for non-resident domestic helpers, while other non-resident workers’ birthing fees will be raised ninefold, or by 800 percent, as previously announced, according to a spokesperson for the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture yesterday.The spokesperson told The Macau Post Daily on the phone yesterday that the government plans to raise the childbirth fees ninefold for the other non-resident workers as previously proposed.According to a

March 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Deception again and again

Recently, the Falun Gong sect claimed on The Epoch Times website that the number of people joining the Tuidang Movement, which urges Chinese to quit the Communist Party of China and its affiliated Chinese Youth League and Chinese Young Pioneers, now reaches over 300 million, and plans to hold parades of celebration in HK and other places in the near future. We have to ask; however, how is it possible that 300 million people have been persuaded to withdraw from the party and its affiliated

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Forum slams govt for failing to draft lift bill

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum accused the government of “sluggishness” in drafting a bill regulating the city’s lift operations.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The focus of yesterday’s forum was on the city’s lift operations safety in response to a lift accident in a residential building early this month in which a 12-year-old boy fractured his right thigh after getting

March 19, 2018 | BY admin

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Female ‘snakehead’, 3 IIs caught by Customs

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers have busted an illegal immigration case involving a people smuggler and three of her clients.In the early hours of Saturday morning, officers of the Customs Service patrolling the city’s coastal areas spotted a suspicious motorised sampan near Sai Van Bridge. The Customs Service launch set off in pursuit of the boat.The statement said that the launch managed to intercept the sampan near a land reclamation area known as

March 19, 2018 | BY admin

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