Forum calls for e-sports development

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum called for the development of the electronic sports sector in Macau as it is an emerging industry in neighbouring regions and countries.However, some guest speakers and members of the audience warned that many local teenagers are addicted to video games.The weekly debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Guest speakers and audience members attend TDM’s Macau Forum in Areia

July 10, 2017 | BY admin

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Union urges govt to tackle illegal drivers

Activists of the Macau Drivers Will Win Rights Union yesterday urged the government to tackle the issue of non-local residents working illegally as drivers and reduce the number of non-local workers in the city.The union voiced their position during a press conference at the office of lawmakers Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San in Iao Hon district.Ng and Au are seeking re-election in the September direct legislative election. However, both were conspicuous by their absence from the press

July 10, 2017 | BY admin

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Kawase is director-in-focus in local documentary film fest

Internationally acclaimed and a Cannes favourite, Japanese director Noami Kawase will be the “Director-in-Focus” for this year’s international documentary film festival where she will be in town on Sunday to share her experience with local film buffs.The 2nd Macao International Documentary Film Festival (MOIDF), jointly organised by Cinematheque.Passion and Comuna de Han-Ian, will start rolling tomorrow at the cinema near Saint Paul’s Ruins. It will wrap up on July 30.Themed “Image of

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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7 groups submit final lists of candidates, political platforms

Grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou, lawmakers Jose Pereira Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai, Macau Civic Power (ECM) Chairwoman Agnes Lam Iok Fong, labour rights activist Lee Sio Kuan and lawyer Hong Weng Kuan submitted their respective groups’ final lists of candidates and political platforms yesterday to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) for the upcoming direct legislative election by popular vote.Two groups headed by indirectly

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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KYC improves information exchange with mainland: regulator

Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) Director Ng Man Seong speaks to reporters at Sands Cotai Central yesterday. Photos: Tony WongSecretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac delivers a speech during yesterday’s opening ceremony of the plenary meeting of the 24th Egmont Group, at Sands Cotai Central’s Conrad hotel. Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) Director Ng Man Seong said yesterday that the Know Your Customer (KYC) security feature installed in the city’s ATMs will

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for slapping gambling wife: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a 41-year-old local man surnamed Choi for slapping his wife who had gambled away almost all of the family savings, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to the spokesperson, Choi was arrested on Tuesday night in his flat in Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa where he lives with his wife and their two daughters aged seven and nine.The spokesperson said Choi, who is engaged in parallel

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Cyclist dies after being hit by tanker

A 69-year-old male cyclist died yesterday after he was hit by a petrol tanker near the greyhound race track in Fai Chi Kei, according to the Public Security Police (PSP).At about 1 p.m. yesterday, the petrol tanker hit the bicycle at the junction of Avenida do General Castelo Branco and Avenida do Conselheiro Borja. The local cyclist suffered serious head injuries. He was rushed to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the police.The junction is

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt prepares FSS expansion

The government will expand the organisational structure of the Social Security Fund (FSS) as the Law on the Non-Mandatory Central Provident Fund System will come into force on January 1, Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced yesterday.During a special press conference at Government Headquarters yesterday, Leong announced that the council, the government’s top advisory body, has completed its discussion on the draft of the by-law (administrative regulation) on the fund’s

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Coloane Police Station moves to Seac Pai Van

The Public Security Police (PSP) moved its Coloane Police Station, which was originally in Coloane Village, to Ip Heng Building of the sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing estate yesterday.In a speech at the station’s inauguration ceremony yesterday, PSP Commissioner Leong Man Cheong said the number of people living and working in Coloane has been rising rapidly, with the majority residing in Seac Pai Van estate.According to Leong, 100 officers will be stationed in Seac Pai Van. The most

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Teppanyaki master gives tips for perfect wagyu steak at Wynn

Teppanyaki master Junichi Yoshida, whose own Michelin-starred restaurant in Tokyo is known for its “Ultimate Crispy Steak”, was recently in town to show the proper way to prepare wagyu steak at Wynn Palace.“Teppanyaki” (“iron plate grill”) is a style of Japanese cuisine and “wagyu” means Japanese cattle.Yoshida joined Wynn in 2015 to be its teppanyaki specialist for the company’s Japanese restaurant Mizumi, which showcases Japanese culinary art through sushi, tempura and

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Brick by brick, Lego inspiring kids to think big

From a few bricks to kinetic machines, robots, animals, vehicles and many more, children are inspired to build, play and create in the realms of science, technology, engineering, art and maths.This “Think Brick – Play and Learn with Lego Education” activity is currently taking place at the Macau Science Centre (MSC) in its ground floor exhibition hall where over 30 mechanical models are on display, complete with interactive classrooms for children to learn how to build their own

July 7, 2017 | BY admin

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Civic leader calls for restart of Macau-Wanzai ferry

Central Districts Community Service Consultative Council member Tou Mio Leng yesterday urged the local government to discuss with its Zhuhai counterpart the resumption of a passenger ferry service between the peninsula’s Inner Harbour and Wanzai in Zhuhai.Tou made the appeal during a regular meeting of the council at the Central Districts Residents’ Service Centre in Rotunda de Carlos da Maia.Zhuhai’s Wanzai border checkpoint was officially classified as a dangerous building in January

July 6, 2017 | BY admin

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5 groups submit political platforms, final lists of candidates

Lawmakers Si Ka Lon and Song Pek Kei, plus Ron Lam U Tou, a former member of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, submitted their respective groups’ final lists of candidates and political platforms yesterday to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) for the upcoming direct legislative election by popular vote.The Macau Federation of Trade Unions is commonly known as Gung Luen.Lawmakers Chan Meng Kam, Si and Song are board members of the Alliance for Common People

July 6, 2017 | BY admin

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Man loses 120,000 patacas in dating scam: cops

A 25-year-old local man was cheated out of 120,108 patacas in a dating scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said in a regular press briefing yesterday.Ho said the victim, a driver, reported the case on Tuesday. He told the police that he met a woman on WeChat on Tuesday last week who claimed to be a bar girl. She told the victim that she did not want to go to work, and asked him to pay 1,300 patacas for a date with her.According to Ho, the victim agreed and they arranged to meet at

July 6, 2017 | BY admin

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