Protected teahouse’s exterior unchanged since 2014: govt

Choi Kin Long, the acting chief of the Division for Cultural Heritage Conservation of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), said yesterday that the exterior of the former Lok Kok tea house building has remained unchanged since 2014.The building was listed as a heritage site under the category of “buildings with architectural interest” in 1984.Choi made the remarks when speaking to reporters after a press conference about the bureau’s hiring malpractice at the IC headquarters in Praça do Tap

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Sin Fong evacuees upset over lack of reconstruction timetable

Flat owners of the ill-fated Sin Fong Garden Building in Rua da Ribeira do Patane, which was hastily evacuated after some of its main pillars burst in late 2012, yesterday expressed anger that the reconstruction of the high-rise still cannot get off the ground because of the ongoing lawsuit between the government and the building companies allegedly responsible for using poor building materials that ultimately caused the incident.The Macau Jiangmen Communal Society, which has promised to cover

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Visitors rise 5.7 pct to 2.5 million in March

Macau recorded 2.5 million visitor arrivals last month, averaging 80,684 a day, a year-on-year increase of 5.7 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.Overnight visitors rose by 13.9 percent to 1.33 million, while same-day visitors dropped by 2.4 percent to 1.16 million.The average stay of overnight visitors dropped by 0.1 day to 2.1 days. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Woman loses 150,000 yuan in baccarat scam: police

A mainland woman was cheated out of 150,000 yuan (about 170,000 patacas) last week by a man who claimed he had a friend who had developed a software which could help its users win at baccarat, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the victim said she met the suspect in a casino late last month when he told her about the software.Starting on April 12, the suspect and the victim gambled together many times in casinos in the peninsula and Cotai, the

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

77-year-old plane on world tour reaches Macau

A twin-engine propeller-driven Douglas DC-3 that made its maiden flight 77 years ago is now flying around the world sponsored by Swiss watch manufacturer Breitling and touched down on Sunday for its local stopover. It is off to Taipei today.The plane took off on its round-the-world trip from Switzerland on March 9 to mark the day it first flew 77 years ago. The Breitling DC-3 HB-IRJ, parked in a hanger at the local airport, was originally a military aircraft and used as a bomber during World

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Scholar urges govt to educate public about heritage preservation

The government should put more effort into educating the public about preserving listed buildings and look into imposing higher fines on property owners of heritage-protectred properties under the Cultural Heritage Protection Law if they do not co-operate with the government in the preservation of the sites, Agnes Lam Iok Fong, assistant dean of the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Social Sciences, said yesterday.Lam made the remarks after the opening ceremony of the four-day ‘UM

April 25, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Chui pledges new public housing application round

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has told the legislature that he expects the government to launch a new application round for public housing flats during his last term that ends in December 2019.Chui made the remarks during a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle on Friday.Chui attended the session to answer questions from 29 lawmakers in the 33-member legislature. Several lawmakers raised questions about the housing issue, such as public housing construction progress and public

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Forum speakers slam govt for axing HOS contracts

Guest speakers at yesterday’s Macau Forum expressed dissatisfaction with the government for recently cancelling the HOS flat purchase contracts of several dozen applicants for subsidised home ownership scheme (HOS) flats.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The Housing Bureau (IH) said in a statement last month that it had cancelled the HOS purchase contracts for 61 applicants, after IH officials discovered that the

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Sands ‘co-operates’ with govt on Legionnaires’ disease

Sands China said in a statement sent to The Macau Post Daily last night that concerning the recently reported possible cases of Legionnaires’ disease at The Parisian it “has been contacted by the Macau Health Bureau, and is fully co-operating with their investigations”.According to Hong Kong media reports at the weekend, three Hong Kong men who caught the potentially fatal disease were found to have stayed at The Parisian separately between December and early this month. The male

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Sports Bureau to stop May 1, Dec 20 gigs: chief

The Sports Bureau (ID) will not be holding any concerts to celebrate May Day and the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in the future, the president of the bureau, Pun Weng Kun, said yesterday.The government has customarily organised concerts, featuring famous singers from various places, such as Hong Kong and the mainland, on Labour Day on May 1 and MSAR Establishment Day on December 20.Government critics have claimed that the concerts primarily aimed at keeping

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Tam says only culture bureau hired via AoS deals

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) was the only entity under his portfolio which had hired staff illegally through acquisition of services (AoS) contracts.Tam made the remarks on the sidelines of the 36th Student Chinese Calligraphy Competition at Hou Kong Middle School.The bureau was revealed to have employed a large number of staff through illegal procedures in a report released by the Commission Against

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Lawmaker urges govt to check non-local workers quota

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I urged the government yesterday to pay close attention to the quotas of non-resident workers granted to local companies.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event hosted by the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) in Iao Hon Market Park to celebrate the upcoming Labour Day, Lei, a vice-president of the federation, said that some local workers had asked for her union’s help late last year as they said that after signing

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Woman burnt in fire caused by short circuit

A 63-year-old Hong Kong woman was injured in a fire at her flat in Rua de Nossa Senhora do Amparo early yesterday morning, according to a spokesperson for the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to the spokesperson, the bureau received a report at about 6 a.m. that a flat in the building, with Yu Seng Tailor Company on the ground floor, was on fire.Arriving at the scene, firefighters found that a flat on the top floor of the three-storey building was on fire, according to the spokesperson. The

April 24, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Greyhound ‘Garlic‘ finds a loving forever home

Garlic is one of the first greyhounds to be adopted from the greyhound race track in Fai Chi Kei. MPD Weekender met up with her new owners Edith Lam and her husband Roberto Wong as well as ANIMA President Albano Martins, who set the adoption in motion, in Nam Van earlier this month. Garlic is a five-and-a-half-year-old greyhound that was brought to Macau from Australia in 2015, where she had six races under the name Darling Princess. Garlic raced for a year in Macau under the name Dynamite

April 23, 2017 | BY admin

Comment: 0