Theme park reaches just 10 pct of visitor capacity

Visitor numbers to the live action role-playing theme park Planet J in Cotai have only reached 10 percent of the venue’s capacity, its director Damon Chan Kwok Wah said yesterday.Chan made the remarks while speaking to reporters prior to giving local government officials a tour around Planet J at Sands Cotai Central.Chan said that the since the opening last July, the average number of visitors to the theme park had only reached 10 percent of its annual capacity of 7 million visits.Planet J

February 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Fisherman’s Wharf lowers height of hotel project by 1/3

The Fisherman’s Wharf theme park in the Outer Harbour is going back to its original plan of building a 60-metre-high hotel instead of one with a height of 90 metres, a one-third reduction, in response to public concern, Macau Fisherman’s Wharf International Investment Ltd. President Melinda Chan Mei Yi said yesterday.Chan, the wife of Macau Legend Group Co-chairman and CEO David Chow Kam Fai, made the announcement while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Spring Festival media lunch

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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US-Chinese lensman tries to rob gambler: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a male suspect on Sunday for attempting to rob a gambler who had hit a lucky streak at the Venetian in Cotai, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference yesterday.Choi identified the suspect as a 38-year-old Chinese American surnamed Zhang who told the police that he works as a photographer. The victim is a man in his fifties from the mainland.According to Choi, shortly after 3 p.m. on Sunday the victim changed gaming chips worth

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Developer calls for mortgage rules to be determined by flat size

Association of Property Agents and Realty Developers of Macau Chairman Ung Choi Kun said yesterday he believed that the maximum mortgage rates available – as required by the government – to local first-time young home buyers should be determined by the size of the residential unit purchased rather than by the purchase price of the flat.Ung made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Chinese New Year reception hosted by his association at Plaza Restaurant in Zape.The

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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New ‘Water Market’ to open next week

Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Fonseca Tavares said yesterday that the new Patane Market Municipal Complex will come into service next Tuesday.Tavares made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Chinese New Year reception hosted by the Association of Property Agents and Realty Developers of Macau at Plaza Restaurant in Zape.Tavares said that his bureau would arrange a media visit to the wet market building tomorrow.This undated file photo

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Lit ciggies probable cause of hotel fire: police

A fire at Mandarin Oriental Macau is believed to have been caused by still lit cigarette ends thrown by residents of a neighbouring residential building, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday in Zape.The five-star hotel is located next to One Central, in Avenida Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Nape.On Saturday morning the Fire Services Bureau (CB) received a call from the hotel saying that some of its outdoor facilities on the fourth floor had been

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Mainlander cheats money changer out of HK$68,700: police

A man from the mainland was arrested last week for stealing HK$68,700 from an unlicensed money changer last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday during a regular press conference in Zape.According to Choi, the victim, whose details were not revealed, is a man from the mainland who engaged in unlicensed money exchange activities in local casinos. The suspect is a 30-year-old man, surnamed Tan, who told the police that he works as a driver.On January 20 in the

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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MTel urges govt to release 5G licence details

MTel Chairman and CEO Michael Choi Tak Meng said yesterday that the government should release details on the city’s future 5G licences so that the local sector can prepare itself for the upgrade as other jurisdiction will launch the service this year.Choi made the comments while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Spring Festival media dinner at Plaza Restaurant hosted by the telecommunications service provider (TSP).Choi said that as some jurisdictions are commercialising 5G, or

February 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Flu-related deaths rise to 3

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced this year’s third flu-related death in a statement on Saturday, a 68-year-old man who died earlier that day after treatment at the public Conde de S. Januario Hospital Centre.The statement noted that the victim was the one whose condition had been described as critical in a previous statement. He fell ill on February 8, and was admitted to the private Kiang Wu Hospital five days later.On the February 19 he was transferred to the public hospital, where he was

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Forum slams govt for insisting on e-cabs

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum slammed the government for insisting that the city’s 100 new common taxis must be electric vehicles even though officials had admitted they could not ensure that there will be enough charging facilities for e-cabs and other necessary conditions in place for electric taxis to operate.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The Transport Bureau (DSAT)

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Visitors’ non-gaming spending reaches 61.3 billion patacas in 2017

Visitors’ total non-gaming spending reached 61.32 billion patacas in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 16.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.Macau’s gross gaming revenue in 2017 rose 18.9 percent year-on-year to 266.6 billion patacas, according to figures released by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) earlier this year.Non-gaming spending by overnight visitors (49.75 billion patacas) and same-day visitors (11.57 billion patacas) rose 18.2

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Duterte’s children meet OFWs in Macau

Three of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’ children visited Macau and met hundreds of Filipinos living and working in the city on Saturday afternoon in a meet-and-greet at Chan Meng Kam Theatre in Iao HonThe trio consisted of Paolo Duterte, eldest son of the Philippine leader and former mayor of Davao City, Sara Duterte, current mayor of Davao City, and Sebastian Duterte.In May 2016 Rodrigo Duterte defeated four other candidates in the Philippine presidential election and won the election

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Patua is ‘critically endangered’: study

Patua, Macau’s Portuguese-Asian creole, is “critically endangered”, a recently published study reaffirms.According to the study entitled “Contact languages around the world and their levels of endangerment” by Singapore-based linguist Nala H. Lee, fewer than 50 people speak Patua (in Macau) so that “on the scale of absolute number of speakers”, the language is “severely endangered.The study finds that Patua, the language of the Macanese community, is “critically endangered”

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Lai Chi Vun heritage evaluation area raises doubts

Some members of the audience at Saturday’s session for the ongoing public consultation about the cultural heritage evaluation of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village and its traditional shipyards have expressed doubts about the government’s proposal to exclude all the village houses in the area covered by the evaluation.The government launched a two-month public consultation on January 22 about the ongoing cultural heritage evaluation of Lai Chi Vun Village and its old shipyards. The public

February 26, 2018 | BY admin

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