Mandarin to offer HK$1,200-mani-pedicure treatment

Mandarin Oriental Macau will be offering a Bastien Gonzalez’ “acclaimed” mani-pedicure treatment at HK$1,200 an hour that will “make you feel that you are walking on clouds”According to the hotel’s statement, the Pedi:Mani:Cure Studio by Bastien Gonzalez at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, under the tutelage of Albin Brion, manager and podiatrist, has won many awards whilst the Bastien Pedicure has been recognised as the best pedicure on Forbes Online and in Prestige Beauty & Spa

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Kwan urges govt to improve social mobility

Outgoing lawmaker Kwan Tsui Hang urged the government yesterday to improve social mobility for Macau’s future generations by limiting the number of non-local workers.Kwan made the remarks at a joint press conference she held with fellow lawmakers Lam Heong Sang and Ella Lei Cheng I at the trio’s joint office in Rua das Lorchas about their 2013-2017 legislative work.Both Kwan and Lam announced earlier this year that they were not seeking re-election.Addressing yesterday’s press conference,

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Coutinho wants open legislative committee meetings

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Pereira Coutinho yesterday called for the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) committee meetings to be held in public so that residents can monitor how bills are being discussed and what views lawmakers express during the meetings.Coutinho and fellow lawmaker Leong Veng Chai, both board members of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM), held a joint press conference about their 2013-2017 legislative work at the association’s headquarters in Zape.Both Coutinho and

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Council agrees on 85 pct owners’ ratio for rebuilding

Members of the Urban Renewal Council yesterday agreed that only 85 percent of condominium unit owners are required to agree to the redevelopment of buildings that are older than 40 years.Currently, all condominium unit owners must agree to the redevelopment of their building, irrespective how old and in which condition it is, before it can go ahead.A closed-door meeting of the council, chaired by Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario, was held yesterday at the Transport

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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25 sick after eating at buffet restaurant

Galaxy Macau’s Festiva buffet restaurant has been ordered to stop serving raw and cold seafood after 25 people suffered from gastroenteritis after eating at the restaurant, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in statement yesterday.Since Thursday last week, IACM’s Food Safety Centre has received seven reports involving 25 people affected by gastroenteritis after eating at Festiva.According to the statement, Food Safety Centre inspectors went to assess the hygiene environment of

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDER

This article entitled “The Sacrament of Holy Orders” is dedicated to Stephen Lee Bun-sang, the Roman Catholic bishop of Macau, in remembrance of his receiving the Sacrament of the Holy Orders on August 20, 1988 at the Shrine of Torreciudad in the north-eastern Spanish city of Huesca.For a Catholic priest receiving the Sacrament of the Holy Order has the same joy and obligations like a lay man getting married.Bishop Lee, an Opus Dei numerary, was born in Hong Kong on November 10, 1956. He

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Cop pays 35,000 pataca fine for mistreating dog: govt

A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer has paid a fine of 35,000 patacas for mistreating his dog, but does not face criminal charges, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) announced yesterday.The announcement was made during a press conference by the bureau which marked the first year since the Animal Protection Law took effect, the first of its kind in Macau.According to the bureau, the officer’s dog-abusing case was classified as an administrative offence for mistreatment of an animal. If

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Locally-infected dengue confirmed: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) last night announced one more locally-infected dengue fever case.According to an SSM statement, the patient is a 19-year-old local man who lives in a residential flat in Kam Long Building, where the previous four reported dengue fever patients live or work in the area.The building is in Rua da Praia do Manduco.The statement said the patient was in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province, from August 5 to Tuesday, adding the first dengue fever symptoms appeared on Wednesday

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Local firm to ink Portugal media deal next month: report

Local businessman Kevin Ho King Lun has told Portugal’s newswire Lusa he expects to sign a deal with Global Media Group in Portugal next month to acquire 30 percent of the Portuguese group’s capital, the Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM reported yesterday.The report quoted Ho as saying that the deal, originally scheduled to be signed in March, had been delayed “for no specific reason.” Ho also said that both sides were currently readying the

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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11-year-old represents Macau at int’l chess tournaments

Gary Ip Weng Tou is only 11 but since the age of six he has been representing Macau at major youth chess tournaments around the world.Ip sat down with MPD Weekender last week in Ouvidor do Arriaga to discuss how he got into the game, why he loves it and his travels with the team.Ip started playing chess when he was 5 years old because his older brother Samuel Ip Seng Tou was a member of Macau’s youth chess team and got to “sit on an aeroplane.”Ip said, “Because I heard that my brother

August 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt confirms imported malaria, dengue cases

The Health Bureau (SSM) last night announced one case each of imported malaria and dengue fever.According to a statement by the bureau, the patient suffering from dengue fever is a 60-year-old female tourist from the Philippines, who had stayed near the Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal. The statement said that her condition is serious. The statement failed to mention the patient’s current location.The SSM statement said the patient arrived in Macau on August 7, two days after the first dengue

August 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Direct election candidate quits, but no reason given: elex committee

The number of candidates running in next month’s direct legislative election had dropped from 192 to 191 since the fifth-ranked candidate of the New Ideals of Macau list, headed by activist Carl Cheng Lok Suen, has decided to quit the group, Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) President Tong Hio Fong said yesterday.The direct and indirect legislative election will take place on September 17. There are a record number of 25 groups running in the direct election, while six

August 17, 2017 | BY admin

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HK man nabbed for 2 burglaries

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from Hong Kong on Monday for burgling two residential flats in Taipa earlier this month, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference yesterday, adding that the suspect committed the two burglaries after losing money in local casinos.The police also arrested the suspect’s girlfriend on the same day for giving the police a false alibi, according to Choi.Choi identified the man as a 37-year-old surnamed Wong and his girlfriend as a

August 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Outgoing lawmaker has ‘no regrets’

Outgoing directly-elected lawmaker Chan Meng Kam said yesterday that he had no regrets about his legislative work in the past 12 years, adding he was an “ordinary” man who would do an “ordinary” job in the future.Chan and fellow lawmakers Si Ka Lon and Becky Song Pek Kei, all of them board members of the Alliance for Common People Building Up Macau (API), held a joint press conference about their 2013-2017 legislative work at the association’s headquarters in Areia Preta.Chan, a

August 17, 2017 | BY admin

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