16th imported dengue case confirmed this year: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has confirmed this year’s 16th imported case of dengue fever.According to the statement, the patient, a 72-year-old local woman, lives in Areia Preta district. She visited the city of Zhongshan some 40 kilometres north of Macau on August 21.The woman, a retiree, came down with a fever and dizziness last Wednesday. As the symptoms persisted, she went to the private Kiang Wu Hospital for treatment on Tuesday.PLEASE READ THE FULL

September 6, 2019 | BY admin

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State Council designates Ho Iat Seng as next CE

According to a statement by the State Council in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang chaired the 3rd Plenary Session of the State Council yesterday, designating Ho Iat Seng as the fifth-term chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), adding that Ho will be sworn into office on December 20.The session reviewed a report from the Macau government on Ho’s election as the fifth-term chief executive of the MSAR, and also heard a report on the process of Ho’s election from Zhang

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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15th imported dengue case confirmed this year: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has confirmed this year’s 15th imported case of dengue fever.According to the statement, the patient, a 25-year-old male mainlander, worked in the city of Sihanoukville in Cambodia from early July until August 25, when he returned to the city of Xiamen in Fujian province.He came down with a fever, muscle pain and a headache last Friday. However, he visited Macau on Sunday, and when he was about to return to Xiamen via the local

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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Taiwan’s ‘placemaking’ initiative could be good for Macau

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official Carol Duh Chia-fen, who heads the council’s Department of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, said on Tuesday that “placemaking” could be good for Macau to enhance its cultural industry that gets the community involved.Duh made the comments during a lunch meeting in Taipei with the Macau media who were invited by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macau for a five-day familiarisation trip to Matsu and Taipei that wrapped up yesterday.Duh

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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CEM to coordinate public utilities in using utility tunnels: gazette

Power utility CEM, which has been granted a concession for managing the city’s utility tunnels, will be tasked with coordinating with the city’s various other public utilities on the use of its utility tunnels, and also with carrying out real-time monitoring of the utility tunnels 24/7, according to the agreement signed between the government and CEM published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.While the city’s future utility tunnels will be managed by CEM, they will be built by the

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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Carpenters hope to pass down traditional woodworking skills

Mechanical production has replaced traditional woodworking skills, Macau Seong Ka Mok Ngai Association President Kong Chit Sang told reporters yesterday, adding that wood artistry has its historical value and it’s worth retaining.“Seong Ka” means “construction industry” and “Mok Ngai” means “wood art”. The grassroots association has been in operation for more than 70 years and comprises local woodworkers.The association held a press conference at its premises in Rua de Camilo

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau is one of world’s best places for fireworks by sea: Malaysian pyrotechnician

Malaysian fireworks company Blastmaster pyrotechnician Krishna Moorthy said yesterday that Macau is “one of the best” venues for fireworks by the sea offering a very good photo-opportunity.Moorthy made the remarks at a press briefing about the two companies that will start the 30th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest at Macau Tower on Saturday.According to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Moorthy’s company and its rival firework company Platinum

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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19 smugglers busted with drugs worth HK$5.5 million: HK & Macau Customs

Hong Kong Customs said in a statement yesterday that it recently conducted a joint operation codenamed “Turbine” with the Macau Customs Service (AF) to fight cross-border drug trafficking activities between Hong Kong and Macau, seizing narcotics with an estimated market value of HK$5.5 million and arresting 19 suspected drug smugglers.According to the statement, the six-week operation was held between July 20 and August 31, involving 18 drug-trafficking cases and resulting in the arrest of

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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HK schoolboy nabbed for selling drugs for ‘fast money’: police

A 16-year-old schoolboy from Hong Kong was hired by a gang to sell drugs in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lun said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Leng, the suspect surnamed Yip was detained in front of a hotel in Zape on Tuesday nightHe told the police that he’s a secondary school pupil in Hong Kong.Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded 16-year-old drug-trafficking suspect from Hong Kong to a vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape

September 5, 2019 | BY admin

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Overall crime rate drops in H1 but violent crimes up 8.4 pct: Wong

The total number of crimes reported in the first half of this year dropped 2.8 percent year-on-year to 6,920, but the number of violent crimes rose 8.4 percent, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday.Wong announced the city’s crime statistics for the first six months of the year during a press conference at the S. Francisco Barracks yesterday. The Macau Public Security Forces are headquartered at Macau’s erstwhile Portuguese garrison barracks.Wong said that the major kinds of

September 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Mobile phone imports fall 54 pct in July

Macau’s mobile phone imports fell 54.4 percent year-on-year to 151 million patacas in July, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.According to a DSEC statement last week, mobile phone imports in the first seven months of the year dropped 37.3 percent to 2.55 billion patacas.July’s total imports fell 3.2 percent to 7.2 billion patacas, while those between January and July dropped 2.2 percent to 49.4 billion patacas.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 4, 2019 | BY admin

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3 cross-border drivers smuggle US$1.7 million: Gongbei Customs

Gongbei Customs said in a statement yesterday that its officers busted three currency smuggling cases at the Cotai-Hengqin border checkpoint last week, involving a total of US$1,725,000 (13.9 million patacas) in cash.According to the statement, the joint operation was conducted by two of its subordinate departments –Hengqin Customs and the Anti Smuggling Bureau of its Hengqin Division – at about midnight on August 27. During the operation, customs officers checked cross-border drivers and

September 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainlander nabbed for stall investment scam: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainland man on Sunday for cheating a fellow mainlander by claiming he was a former member of the management staff of the local wholesale market who could arrange for the victim to be put on a priority list to buy a stall in a future wholesale market in Ilha Verde, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lun said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leng, the 38-year-old suspect is surnamed Zhou. He told the police that he is unemployed. The personal

September 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Auditors slam govt’s public servant central recruitment method

In a hard-hitting report published yesterday, the Commission of Audit (CA) criticises the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) for its “unreasonably low efficiency” in recruiting public servants for the public administration through its centralised recruitment method which has undergone various changes since 2011.The commission slams the bureau for failing to foresee the possible difficulties in implementing its centralised recruitment rules over the past decade.The report

September 4, 2019 | BY admin

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