Top lawyer slams resolution aimed at sole lawmaker

Macau’s most senior lawyer has slammed a draft resolution proposed by two lawmakers because it appeared to be aimed at just one particular legislator.Macau Lawyers Association (AAM) President Jorge Neto Valente made the criticism in an interview with the Portuguese-language radio channel of TDM, Radio Macau, on Friday.Neto Valente said it was wrong anywhere in the world to make a law just to target a particular person, known as “ad hominem” in European legal parlance. PLEASE READ THE FULL

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Priest wants parish for Filipinos

Fr Joao Lourenço, the former rector of the Roman-Catholic Inter-University Institute of Macau (the precursor of the University of St Joseph), has called for the establishment of a parish for Macau’s sizeable Philippine community.Lourenço made the suggestion in an interview with Radio Macau which was broadcast on Saturday.The cleric said that the Philippine parish did not necessarily need to be “territorial but rather personal, or a chaplaincy, or a structure that would be ecclesiastical

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmaker wants peers to withdraw ‘political act’ draft resolution

Suspended directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou said in a statement on Friday that indirectly-elected lawmakers Kou Hoi In and Vong Hin Fai ought to consider insisting on their jointly proposed draft resolution – a document that they submitted to the Legislative Assembly (AL) last week – on whether the suspension of a lawmaker by his or her peers is a “political act”.The legislature has arranged a plenary session tomorrow afternoon to debate and vote on the draft resolution. Sou and

January 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmakers submit draft resolution to counter suspended peer’s court appeal

Indirectly-elected lawmakers Kou Hoi In and Vong Hin Fai yesterday called for an urgent plenary session to debate and vote on a draft resolution on whether the suspension of a lawmaker by his or her peers is a “political act”, according to the website of the Legislative Assembly (AL).The legislature has arranged a plenary session on Tuesday to debate and vote on the draft resolution, the legislature said on its website yesterday.The two legislators jointly propose the draft resolution in

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Casino staff petition govt over Wynn ‘tolerating’ illegal smoking

Several Wynn Macau casino workers, accompanied by lawmakers-cum-unionists Ella Lei Cheng I and Leong Sun Iok as well as members of the Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff Association (MGESA), yesterday petitioned Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, urging the government to ensure that gaming operators always strictly obey the anti-smoking law and, consequently, always ensure that gamblers do not smoke in no-smoking areas on their premises.The association is an affiliate of the Macau Federation of

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Local man arrested for burglary: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man yesterday for a burglary he allegedly committed last year, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the Judiciary Police received a report of a burglary at an entertainment venue near Avenida do Almirante Lacerda in September. Lei did not elaborate on the kind of entertainment the business provided.CCTV camera footage scrutinised by the police showed a man wearing a

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Teen nabbed for running fake base stations

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a teenager from the mainland on Wednesday for operating seven fake base stations in two flats near the Barrier Gate Plaza, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 16-year-old male surnamed Li, who told the police that he was a chef.A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Firm brings Armenian jams to Macau through social enterprises

Premium jams and preserves from Armenia made with natural ingredients and prepared according to traditional recipes are now available in Macau, but not at fancy supermarkets, only in shops run by two local social enterprises.“We want to let people who shop there to be the first to try high quality products,” Macau Hallway Co. Ltd Macau District Manager Stella Lei Fong Chi, who has been investing in and developing a production line for healthy fruit products in unpolluted mountain regions in

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Bear sightings set social media buzzing

Social media has been buzzing recently as photos of what seem to be a bear’s footprints in the woods and bear poop along a hiking trail in Coloane have been circulating online, with the most recent ones showing a blurry image of a big furry animal scavenging near a rubbish tip on a beach, and a night photo showing a shadow of a lonely old bear overlooking a lit-up city.The bears are in fact the work of Daniele Poidomani, artistic director from the Australian Memetica theatre troupe

January 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman on zebra crossing killed in 5-vehicle crash

A local woman was killed in a pile-up involving a bus and four private cars yesterday. The woman was on a zebra crossing in Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira when the accident occurred.The fatal traffic accident happened at around 9 a.m. Footage recorded on a nearby CCTV camera circulating online showed that a woman, who appeared to be in her sixties, was among a group of pedestrians crossing the road with a white car stopped at the zebra crossing.Suddenly a New Era’s Route No. 8 bus

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Post-Hato probe report does not mention ‘political’ responsibility: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that an investigative report drafted by a special commission tasked with probing whether any government entities or officials were at fault in their response to last August’s deadly Super Typhoon Hato does not mention that any government officials should be held “politically” accountable for the Hato disaster.Wong attended a plenum in the legislature’s hemicycle which discussed a debate motion by directly-elected lawmaker Ng Kuok

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Academic freedom is important: new UM rector

Song Yonghua, the University of Macau’s (UM) new rector, said yesterday that academic freedom is a core value of any university, adding that as the new UM rector he would comply with the university’s regulations to ensure academic freedom.Song made the pledge during his first meeting with the press after take up his new post on Tuesday.Song said that the University of Macau attracted him because he felt it was a university where he could apply the managerial experience he gained at mainland

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Education bureau to get new chief: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that Lou Pak Sang, one of the two deputy-directors of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), will succeed Leong Lai, who will retire early next month, as the bureau’s director.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of an exhibition at the bureau’s Educational Resources Centre in Nam Van. The exhibition showcases the use of information technology (IT) in

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau-Guangdong meeting spells out ‘fresh strategies’

Yesterday’s Guangdong-Macau Cooperation Joint Conference in Guangzhou “has spelt out fresh strategies to boost complementary benefits for the two places and to enable a joint contribution to significant national policies,” the Macau government said in a statement last night.According to the statement, Macau and Guangdong yesterday signed eight agreements to diversify cooperation. The pacts cover topics such as food safety, protection of intellectual property, energy efficiency, and

January 11, 2018 | BY admin

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