Govt sets up body to reform public admin

The government has established a committee to coordinate the implementation of measures to reform the city’s public administration system, according to an announcement in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The announcement was made in the form of an executive order signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.According to the announcement, one of the tasks of the Public Administration Reform Coordination Committee is to draft the government’s public administration reform objectives, as

April 4, 2017 | BY admin

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Man scammed out of 5 million yuan: police

A non-local man lost over 5 million yuan in a phone scam last week when several Putonghua-speaking men claimed to be local Immigration Department staff and mainland policemen and prosecutors, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said yesterday.Lei announced the scam during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters.According to Lei, the 52-year-old victim received a phone call from a Putonghua-speaking man who claimed to be a staff member of the local Immigration Department on

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CE backs speaker’s rejection of interpretative law draft

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On supports Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng’s decision to reject a debate and vote on the draft of an “interpretative law” on the Land Law’s clauses regulating provisional land concessions which lawmaker Gabriel Tong Io Cheng submitted to the legislature last year, according to a statement by the Government Spokesperson’s Office yesterday.Tong, who heads the Law Faculty of University of Macau (UM), is a government-appointed deputy to

April 4, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt launches ‘Convergence of Thousands of Talents’

The government launched its ‘Convergence of Thousands of Talents’ platform yesterday, a year after the government’s ‘Thousands of Talents Programme’ began, to promote cultural and academic exchanges between young locals and their counterparts in the mainland.The platform’s launching ceremony took place at Macau Forum in Zape. Led by the Office of the Chief Executive (GCE) and being carried out by the Macau Foundation (FM), the three-year ‘Thousands of Talents Programme’ aims to

April 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Macau ranks lowest in smiling in the world: survey

The 2017 Smiling Report released late last week shows that Macau ranked the lowest among 67 countries and regions in the smiling index for customer services in the service industry. Hong Kong ranked second to last.The annual report, which is now in its 13th year of publication, is developed and managed by Better Business World Wide, a Sweden-based company.The report is compiled from information supplied by Mystery Shopping Providers in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and focuses on

April 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Policewoman nabbed for leaking information

A female Public Security Police (PSP) officer has allegedly leaked confidential internal information, according to a statement by the Secretariat for Security (GSS) last week.According to the statement, PSP officers discovered the alleged offence by the 47-year-old officer surnamed Ip while investigating a case on Wednesday. Ip joined the police force in 1992.Details of the leaked information and who received it were not mentioned in the statement.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT

April 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Group wants autism professionals in kindergartens

The Macau Autism Association (MAA) urged the government yesterday to assign social workers and therapists to visit kindergartens so that children with autism can get help as soon as possible.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a sharing session about experiences and skills required to parent a child with autism, Sara Violeta das Neves Chiang, a psychotherapist by profession and a member of the MAA, told reporters that parents who think their children are autistic should seek treatment

April 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt launches vet bill consultation

The government is launching a public consultation today on a bill regulating the city’s veterinarians and animal disease control, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) announced late last week during a press conference.The public consultation, with two public sessions to be held this month, will end on May 2.The consultation document can be downloaded at http://www.iacm.gov.mo, in Chinese and Portuguese versions.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

April 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Land Law legislative intent in line with committee: speaker

Officials of the Legislative Assembly (AL) have listened to the recordings of all the meetings of the legislature’s 1st Standing Committee and plenums about the Land Law, AL President Ho Iat Seng said on Friday, adding the transcripts show that the legislative intent of the law is the same as the standing committee’s conclusion.The officials listened to the recordings to confirm the legislative intent of the law after legislator-cum-law professor Gabriel Tong Io Cheng submitted the draft of

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Forum backs lower ratio for rebuilding

Guest speakers at yesterday’s Macau Forum agreed that the proportion of flat owners required to agree on the redevelopment of their building should be lowered, from the current 100 percent.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Members of the Urban Renewal Council proposed in a closed-door meeting last month that the required proportion of unit owners that need to agree on the redevelopment of their building be 90 percent for

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Watch out for the bear!

April 1, 2017 | BY admin

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Special radio taxis to blacklist uncivil customers

The Macau Radio Taxi Corporation will put the phone numbers of those who frequently verbally abuse staff members at its call centre, book a taxi but do not show up or cancel their bookings on a blacklist, Kevin U Kin Lung, the company’s general manager, said yesterday.U said his company was looking forward to serving “quality customers”, insinuating that those showing uncivil behaviour would be blacklisted permanently or temporarily. The government signed an eight-year contract with the

March 31, 2017 | BY admin

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Cinematheque Passion: More than just a cinema

Cinematheque Passion officially opened its doors yesterday and is ready to introduce locals to the world of film with screenings of new releases of non-mainstream movies, theme-of-the-month showings, free viewings of local productions, workshops, critics programme – all intended to get people to see beyond the blockbusters and nurture a new generation of film buffs.The inauguration ceremony was marked by the debut of three new productions, each created by three local directors – Tracy Choi

March 31, 2017 | BY admin

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Tam suggests Pearl Horizon buyers seek emotional help

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng yesterday urged pre-sale buyers of the ill-fated Pearl Horizon project who are suffering from stress due to their difficult situation to seek emotional support from private social organisations or the social service centres run by the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS).Tam made the remarks yesterday when replying to an oral interpellation by directly-elected lawmaker Mak Soi Kun during a plenary session of the legislature.The residential

March 31, 2017 | BY admin

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