70 Macau-Taiwan flights cancelled due to EVA Air strike

A total of 70 flights operated by EVA Air between Macau and Taiwan have been cancelled as the airline’s flight attendants are on strike, which began on Thursday afternoon after negotiations with the management collapsed.Xinhua reported yesterday that the airline said that more than 640 flights between yesterday and Friday have been cancelled due to the ongoing strike, affecting over 100,000 passengers.EVA Air (where EVA stands for Evergreen Airways) is the second largest Taiwanese airline.

June 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Inflation slows to 2.69 pct in May

Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.69 percent last month, slowing down by a 0.08 percentage point from the 2.77 growth recorded in April, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.A DSEC statement on Friday attributed last month’s inflationary pressure mainly to the higher cost of eating out, higher housing rents and rising prices of cars, gasoline and fruit.The price indices of education and transport grew notably by 5.90 percent and 4.88 percent respectively

June 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Cultural Affairs Bureau fines plagiarist staff member

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Mok Ian Ian revealed yesterday that her bureau has fined a design staff member in her bureau for the plagiarism discovered in April when he or she used reference materials lifted from the Internet when designing the poster of the Cantonese opera “The Soul of Macau”.Mok added her bureau has paid 20,000 patacas to purchase the ownership rights to the copyrighted image from the original designer.Mok made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the

June 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Visitors rise by 1/4 in May, daily average of 109,575

Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 25.6 percent year-on-year to 3.39 million last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.According to a DSEC statement on Friday, overnight visitors increased by 10.3 percent to 1.59 million, while same-day visitors surged by 43.3 percent to 1.79 million.As the share of same-day visitors increased by 6.5 percentage points year-on-year to 53 percent, visitors’ average length of stay shortened by 0.1 day to 1.2 days, the statement

June 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Xi, Kim agree to jointly create bright future of bilateral ties

PYONGYANG – The top leaders of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed yesterday to work together to create a bright future of inter-party and inter-state relations at a new starting point in history.The agreement was reached in talks between Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and state president, and Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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‘4.48 Psychosis’: Suicide play puts cast in state of depression

The harrowing “4.48 Psychosis”, considered late British playwright Sarah Kane’s suicide note, will this weekend be presented by a Polish avant-garde theatre troupe, whose director admits that the poignant text has put him and the cast in a state of depression.Director Grzegors Jarzyna’s interpretation of Kane’s “4.48 Psychosis”, with actress Magdalena Cielecka playing Kane the protagonist, will be staged tonight and tomorrow night at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM). The 60-minute

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt collects views on eco-assessment for Zone A-Zone B tunnel project

The government started to collect opinions and suggestions from the public yesterday on the report of the ongoing environmental assessment of an undersea tunnel project between the land reclamation areas known as Zone A and Zone B, the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the local government has commissioned the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Science to carry out the environmental

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Public welcome to visit Ho’s CE campaign office: campaign chief

Members of the public are welcome to visit Ho Iat Seng’s chief executive campaign office, the official representative of his election campaign, Iau Teng Pio, told reporters during a media tour of the premises yesterday.Iau also told the media that the monthly expenditure on the office is about 230,000 patacas, of which 110,000 patacas is for rent and utilities, while remainder covers the salaries of eight employees.Iau made the remarks in the conference room of the office, located on the 6th

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Scooter rider crashes into dump truck

A male scooter rider was seriously injured after crashing his vehicle into the back of a dump truck parked at the roadside of a roundabout in Cotai yesterday, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.According to the police, the crash happened at around midday in Rotunda Marginal – a roundabout on the western shore of Cotai underneath the Lotus Flower Bridge which connects Cotai and Zhuhai’s Hengqin Island.Firemen and paramedics rushed to the scene. The 20-year-old local rider, who suffered

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau, Jiangmen to co-promote GBA: govt

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng believes that the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) is providing “a more concrete foundation and a wider platform” for cooperation between Macau and Jiangmen, according to a statement by the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture (GSASC) yesterday.According to the statement, Tam expressed the view during a meeting with Liu Yi, the mayor and deputy secretary of the Communist

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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2 men fighting mosquitoes damage cultural heritage: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested the owner of a local engineering and construction company and his employee for causing damage to a building which is listed as a cultural heritage site in Largo do Lilau early this month, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.The employee cut a hole in the wall surrounding the building with a drill so that he and his boss could enter the building to remove weeds and combat mosquitoes, according to Leng.Leng identified

June 21, 2019 | BY admin

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HK man cheats local out of HK$3.6 million in property scam: police

The police arrested a Hong Kong man on Monday for cheating a local man by claiming he could help him transfer money to the mainland to buy property there, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng identified the suspect as a 24-year-old man surnamed See. He told the police that he works as a construction worker. The victim is a local man in his thirties. His surname was not released.The victim had met the suspect through a friend, Leng

June 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Cleaner’s cigarette end sets scooter alight: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 60-year-old local man on Tuesday for causing a fire which partially burnt a scooter parked on a pavement in Zape after leaving a still lit cigarette end nearby last week, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference.The suspect surnamed Tam works as a cleaner.The case was first announced in a PJ statement last Monday, according to which the Judiciary Police received a report from the Public Security Police (PSP) at 12:40 p.m. on that day

June 20, 2019 | BY admin

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112 school bullying cases in 6 months: govt

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) said yesterday that the bureau recorded 112 bullying cases in local schools during the current school year until February this year.Chow Pui Leng, a senior official of the Psycho-Pedagogical Support and Special Education Centre run by the bureau, made the remarks during a press briefing at the bureau in Nam Van after a closed-door meeting of the government-appointed Non-tertiary Education Committee.According to Chow – who had previously headed the

June 20, 2019 | BY admin

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