Forum slams Hac Sa Beach bus route change

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum disagreed with the Transport Bureau’s (DSAT) recent changes to public bus route 25 – its terminus having been changed from Hac Sa Beach to Coloane Village – as it has made it less convenient for residents to travel between the beach and Coloane Village. They urged the bureau to return the route to the former one.Guest speakers also slammed the bureau for carelessness when it adjusts the city’s public bus routes.The

May 15, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers to debate regular social housing bids

The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed a debate motion proposed by lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I yesterday about whether the government should immediately recommence the acceptance of applications for low-rent social housing flats, and whether such applications should be accepted on a regular basis.A total of 26 lawmakers cast their votes, with 17 in favour, eight against and one abstention.The passage of a debate motion means that the legislature will request government officials to

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to amend procurement law next year: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday the government aimed to start the legislative process of amending a decades-old decree-law regulating the government’s procurement of goods and services in the third quarter of next year.Leong spoke to reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs.Government officials, including Leong and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario,

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Govt to raise investments ratio for reserves: lawmaker

The government plans to increase the ratio for its financial reserves to be invested by fund managers to 20 percent by the end of this year, with the aim of improving its investment performance, Mak Soi Kun, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, quoted government officials as saying yesterday.Mak briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting of the committee. The committee yesterday asked officials, including Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Poor air quality is a ‘warning’ for Macau: activist

Eco-activist Joe Chan Chon Meng, who heads the Macau Green Students Union, said yesterday the city’s poor air quality these days was a warning for residents and the government that a lot of pollutants originate from Macau.The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) announced on Saturday that the air quality index recorded by monitoring stations in Taipa and Coloane was “very bad”.On Wednesday, the bureau also said it expected the air quality that night and yesterday to be “bad”,

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Local woman cheated by ‘US soldier’ out of 12,500 euros

A local woman in her forties lost 12,500 euros after being cheated by a purported “American soldier” – whom she met online – who told the victim to deposit the money into a bank account so that he would give her half of his “retirement fund” of US$3.2 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Tam, the victim met a man on the Internet early last month, who claimed to be an American soldier. The man told the

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Nearly 60 new exhibitors to join gaming expo

Nearly a third of the 180 exhibitors taking part in the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) next week will be showcasing their products and services for the first time in Macau.G2E organiser Reed Exhibitions held a press briefing at Okura Hotel yesterday about the three-day fair to be held at the Venetian from Tuesday.According to the presentation, the expo is split into three sections, displaying products and services in gaming, online gaming and non-gaming, such as integrated resort management, IT and

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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More cases as privacy protection awareness rises: regulator

The Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) launched 224 investigations last year, up 44.5 percent year-on-year, GPDP Director Vasco Fong Man Chong said yesterday, adding that an increase in residents’ awareness of privacy protection was behind the rising number of cases.Addressing a press conference about the city’s privacy protection statistics for 2016 at his office in China Plaza, Fong, a former anti-graft commissioner and judge, said 65.6 percent of the investigations concerned

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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100th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima

Marian apparitions by the Blessed Virgin Mary are reported as a supernatural phenomenon. They are often named after the place where they have taken place. In the majority of Marian apparitions it is known that only one person has witnessed it, yet there are exceptions like that of Zeitoun (a district of Cairo), Fatima in Portugal and Assiut in Egypt, where thousands claimed to have seen Virgin Mary over a period of time.Some Marian apparitions and their respective global icons have received a

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Lush opens 2nd shop in Macau

For Lush fans living on the peninsula, here’s some good news. The British cosmetics retailer has recently opened a shop in the city centre so you don’t have to cross the bridge en route to the Venetian to restock your bathroom favourites.Conveniently located along the pedestrian precinct between Largo do Senado and St. Paul’s Ruins, the shop in Rua da Palha is making the air in the area smell “lush” – quite a distinctive fragrance from the use of natural oils in its products that

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Michael Jackson had planned to see ‘Thriller Live’

It was the fan magazine ‘Off the Wall’ that Adrian Grant launched in 1988 about Michael Jackson that brought about Grant’s association with the King of Pop in which he met his idol, visited Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and then went on to publish books and made shows that have the music legend’s personal stamp of approval.One of these shows is the musical “Thriller Live”, currently on at The Parisian Theatre, that Grant developed from the “Annual Michael Jackson

May 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Zhang has ‘3 hopes’ for students

National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Chairman Zhang Dejiang yesterday encouraged Macau’s young people by giving them “three hopes”, urging them to link their goals to the nation’s development, learn more about the country’s history and achievements, and be the inheritors of the “one country, two systems” principle.Zhang made the remarks when he attended a symposium with about 100 representatives from the education sector and students from tertiary education

May 11, 2017 | BY admin

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Zhang urges Macau to keep being ‘good role model’

Zhang Dejiang, the nation’s top lawmaker, yesterday wrapped up his three-day inspection of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), calling on the city to make greater efforts to keep being a “good role model” of successfully practicing the “one country, two systems” principle.Since Macao’s return to the motherland more than 17 years ago, the MSAR has witnessed overall progress in its socio-economic life, with remarkable achievements made in practicing the “one country, two

May 11, 2017 | BY admin

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Wang praises Zhang’s ‘deeply meaningful’ visit

Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Wang Zhimin said yesterday that the three-day inspection visit of National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Chairman Zhang Dejiang was a success and was “deeply meaningful”.Wang made the remarks after seeing Zhang off at the local airport. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, his predecessor Edmund Ho Hau Wah and other principal officials and community leaders, as well as 220 school children were also on hand to say farewell

May 11, 2017 | BY admin

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