Group vows to help develop China-PSCs platform

Lawmaker Melinda Chan Mei Yi, who heads the Alliance for Change group, No. 18 on the September 17 ballot, said yesterday her group could help the government develop Macau’s role as a business-service platform between China and the world’s eight Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) if her group succeeded in its re-election bid.Chan is the wife of businessman David Chow Kam Fai, a former lawmaker. Her group comprises eight candidates with Macau Travel Industry Council (ATIM) President Andy Wu

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Race to the bottom – morality

As a father, I share the pain parents endure by the loss of their children. At a time when Christine Choi Yuk-lin, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for Education, most needed consolation and emotional support after her 25-year old son, suffering from depression, jumped to his death, she was “congratulated” by 12 A4-sized papers posted on the “democracy wall’ of the Education University in Hong Kong. This drew wide condemnation.Ms. Choi was recently appointed Undersecretary for Education.

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2 groups hold press conferences about smears & ‘doubts’

The electoral group New Macau Progressives (ANPM), No. 7 on the September 17 ballot, and Synergy Power, No. 15 on the ballot, held separate press conferences yesterday about alleged smear campaigns and netizens’ “doubts” about them.New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou is the first-ranked candidate of New Macau Progressives while Paul Chan Wai Chi, an ex-lawmaker, is the second-ranked candidate.Ron Lam U Tou, a social affairs commentator, heads the electoral group

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Candidate says ‘platforms are empty promises’ without universal suffrage

Social activist Carl Ching Lok Suen said yesterday his electoral group, New Ideals of Macau, No. 1 on the September 17 ballot, believed that without universal suffrage for the elections of the chief executive and all members of the legislature, all political platforms proposed by the city’s different electoral groups were just “empty promises”.Ching heads the electoral group while Hong Hok Sam is the second-ranked candidate. Ching’s group comprises four candidates.Speaking to The Macau

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Activist slams media for ‘distortion’ in Hato protest reports

High-profile activist Lee Kin Yun yesterday slammed a number of local media outlets for allegedly not mentioning the major purpose of a protest he and two other activists organised on Saturday – demanding that senior officials be held accountable for the Typhoon Hato response fiasco.Lee leads electoral group Association of Macau Activism for Democracy, No. 23 on the ballot, for the September 17 direct legislative election.Lee spoke to reporters yesterday before submitting his petition to the

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2 cabbies buy fake mobile phones

Two male taxi drivers were cheated – possibly by the same man – in the same way on two separate occasions on Sunday after the man told them he could get them a good deal on a mobile phone, so on checking the phone both victims believed it to be genuine and bought it but later found out that it was a fake one, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said yesterday.Tam announced details of the case during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Tam, the two cases occurred at

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2 schools ask parents to vote for electoral group

Notices issued by two schools asking parents to vote for the Alliance for a Happy Home, No. 11 on the ballot, went viral online over the weekendThe direct and indirect legislative elections will take place next Sunday while the official campaign period runs from September 2 to Friday.Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng heads the Alliance for a Happy Home. The electoral group comprises 10 candidates. Wong, a board member of the Macau Women’s General Association (Fu Luen), is running for

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Group wants housing allowance for low-ranking public servants

Lam Wai Koi, who heads The Aurora of Grassroots Workers (No. 21 on the September 17 direct legislative election ballot), urges the government to treat all public sector employees equally by giving low-ranking public servants a housing allowance as well.Lam, who heads the Macau Association of Low-Ranking Public Sector Staff, is the first-ranked candidate of the group while Ao Ion Hong is the second-ranked candidate. Lam’s group comprises five candidates.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily

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Group wants developers ‘with a conscience’, voters over 65 banned

Labour rights activist Lee Sio Kuan said yesterday that his group, Ou Mun Kong I (“Macau Righteousness”), No. 17 on the ballot, was urging the government to implement an effective housing policy, proposed by his group, to help young people who are neither eligible to apply for public housing units nor can afford to buy their own flat in the private property market.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily yesterday at the Workers’ Power Union’s office in Areia Preta, Lee, who heads the union,

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Group vows to fight for casino workers’ interests

Direct legislative election group Gaming Front Line of Casino Workers said yesterday that its political platform proposes policies to improve casino workers’ benefits such as a five-day working week.The group’s eight candidates announced their political platform during a press conference at the joint office of grassroots lawmakers Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San in Iao Hon.The group, No. 25 on the September 17 ballot, is led by high-profile activist Cloee Chao Sao Fong, who heads the New

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Chui to hold floodgate talks in Guangzhou today

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will hold talks in Guangzhou today to seek the Guangdong provincial government’s support for getting a floodgate construction project by the local government off the ground as soon as possible, according to a statement by the Government Spokesperson’s Office on.The statement said the aim of the project was to “avoid flooding.”The statement also said that the government had submitted a proposal on the construction project to the central government and

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Observatory forecasts Talim stronger than Hato

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) forecast yesterday that tropical storm Talim which recently formed near Guam will move to Luzon Strait and Taiwan later this week.The weather station also forecast that Talim will be stronger than Hato, which killed 10 and injured 244 when it descended on Macau last month.The government has said Hato was the strongest typhoon to have hit Macau in 53 years, coinciding with a storm surge that caused massive floods in the city’s low-lying

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Customs officer films in changing room: police

A male Macau Customs Service clerk was arrested last week for secretly filming at least eight men showering in a changing room in a tertiary education institution in Zape, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.The Macau Customs Service (SA) said in a statement on Friday it had launched disciplinary proceedings against the suspect, according to the website of the Secretariat for Security (GSS).The police identified the suspect as a 28-year-old surnamed U.A PSP spokesperson said during a press

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Top court doesn’t admit ex-prosecutor’s appeal

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announced yesterday that it has “not admitted” an appeal by ex-chief public prosecutor Ho Chio Meng against his 21-year prison graft sentence.The city’s top court said in a statement that after its ruling to not admit the appeal, Ho’s sentence was final.Due to his former position as a principal official of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), Ho was tried by the city’s highest court. Ho was arrested in February 2016 and charged with hundreds

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