Health Bureau shuts down Mayo Medical Centre

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has ordered the 90-day closure of the Mayo Medical Centre for allegedly providing vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment without a licence.The bureau said that on Friday its officers inspected the centre, located on the 20th floor of the Fortuna Business Centre (FBC), after a resident reported to the bureau that the medical centre had been “secretly” providing IVF treatment and that “there are victims already”.The statement said

October 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Police nab 31 loan sharks in Taipa

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested 31 men and women from the mainland in Taipa yesterday for alleged membership of a loan-sharking gang which had offered casino patrons instant gambling loans during the past six months.Last week, the Judiciary Police received a tip-off about suspected loan sharks staying in a residential estate in Rua de Coimbra. At 6 a.m. yesterday, PJ officers raided two flats in the 7th block of Nova City, where 19 male and 12 female suspects, including two alleged

October 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Police nab 7 for operating online baccarat

Seven men aged between 19 and 28 have been arrested for streaming online baccarat games after a resident told the police that a relative on the mainland had lost 3 million yuan (3.6 million patacas) from gambling on the site.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Yeung Sau Chan said in a special press briefing near the crime scene yesterday evening that a resident called 993 at around noon yesterday, saying that a group of people were operating an online gambling business out of a flat in Fai Chi

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Record number of HIV cases in 2016: govt

AIDS Prevention and Control Commission Secretary-General Lam Chong said yesterday that last year saw the highest number of cases when 30 people were diagnosed with HIV since the first case was recorded in 1986, adding that the record number was due to the government’s promotion of HIV testing in recent years.Lam made the remarks during a press conference at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Nape about a series of activities in the run-up to World AIDS Day organised by the

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers elect 7 committee presidents, secretaries

Lawmakers yesterday elected the presidents and secretaries of the Legislative Assembly’s seven committees – the Committee on House Rules, 1st Standing Committee, 2nd Standing Committee, 3rd Standing Committee, Follow-up Committee for Land and Public Concession Affairs, Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, and Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs.Four of the seven committees are chaired by directly-elected lawmakers.The legislature announced the results of the

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Macau student in Taiwan dies after ‘falling’ from flat

A Macau resident in his second year at university in Taiwan died yesterday after “falling” from his 11th floor rented flat, Taiwan media reported yesterday.According to ETtoday’s news report, the 20-year-old Macau resident, surnamed Wu, was a student of Feng Chia University in Taichung.The report said that Wu “fell” from the building at around noon yesterday and was certified dead at 1 p.m. by a hospital. The report said that the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) had immediately notified

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Mainlander nabbed for robbery on stolen scooter: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainland suspect on Friday about a scooter robbery in Taipa earlier this month, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Nape.Choi said that the police received a report from a mainland couple on October 13, stating that when they were walking along Estrada da Baia de Nossa Senhora da Esperança at 3 a.m. that day, a scooter suddenly approached them. A man riding pillion grabbed the male victim’s

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Rosario launches disciplinary procedures against ex-weather chief

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario has decided to launch an investigation into the operation of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) as well as disciplinary procedures against its former director Fong Soi Kun, the Government Spokesperson’s Office (GPV) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, Rosario made the decision after studying a report released last week by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) on the findings of an investigation

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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New lawmakers will bring proactive approach: commentator

Local current affairs commentator Choi Chi U says that some of the newcomers to the legislature will make fellow lawmakers adopt a more proactive approach to monitoring the government.Choi made the remarks while speaking to reporters on Sunday on the sidelines of a forum about the prospects of the legislature’s new term. The forum, organised by the local Roman-Catholic Chinese-language publication Observatório de Macau (“Macau Observer”), was held at the Diocesan Youth Pastoral Centre

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Leong says racetrack will ‘properly handle’ its dogs

Lawmaker Angela Leong On Kei, the executive director of Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. reassured the public yesterday that her company will “properly handle” the about 600 greyhounds after the government-ordered closure of the racetrack in Fai Chi Kei next year.Leong made the remarks while speaking to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of government-owned broadcaster TDM’s Macau Forum in Areia Preta Park. In July last year, the government told the racetrack operator to vacate

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers call for officials’ accountability system

Lawmakers who attended yesterday’s Macau Forum as guest speakers called for the full implementation of an accountability system for senior officials. Some of the lawmakers in yesterday’s forum also demanded that senior officials be held accountable for the recent Super Typhoon Hato disaster.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Five directly-elected lawmakers were asked to attend yesterday’s Macau Forum to reveal what

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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1st batch of LRT trains to arrive at end of month: govt

The Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) announced on Friday that the first batch of Macau’s Light Rapid Transit (LRT) trains left Japan on that day, slated to arrive here at the end of this month.According to the announcement, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, manufacturer of Macau’s LRT trains, is set to deliver the trains in batches. The first batch includes four trains and maintenance vehicles with each train weighing 15 tonnes.The announcement said that the LRT Taipa Line entered its

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Orbis marks World Sight Day with bungy jump

About a dozen people walked around 233 metres up on the outside of Macau Tower and bungy jumped from there yesterday as part of Orbis Macau’s campaign to mark World Sight Day.Bungy is an alternative spelling of bungee.World Sight Day was on October 12 this year and due to the fact that the No. 8 storm signal was hoisted for Severe Typhoon Khanun last Sunday, the event had to be rescheduled to take place yesterday.The global sight-saving organisation runs an “Action for Sight” campaign

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Probe shows ex-weather chief issued typhoon signals from home

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) says in a report released yesterday that the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), when forecasting typhoons and hoisting typhoon warning signals, simply relied on the personal judgement and decisions of its former director Fong Soi Kun – who resigned the day after Super Typhoon Hato hit Macau in late August, killing 10, injuring 244 and causing damage estimated by the government to be over 11 billion patacas.The report says there was no

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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