Group to set up hotline for dementia tests

The Macau Carers Association is planning to set up a recorded message hotline which will provide cognitive tests to detect dementia in the elderly, Lam In Nie, who heads the group, said yesterday.According to Wikipedia, dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember, which has a great effect on a person’s daily functioning.Lam made the remarks on the sidelines of a press conference at Macau Tower about the

March 3, 2017 | BY admin

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Locals with innate disabilities to get pension: govt

The government plans to include residents who suffer from congenital disabilities as recipients of the Social Security Fund’s disability pension, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Social Solidarity Department Chief Choi Sio Un said yesterday.Choi made the announcement when briefing reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the government-appointed Rehabilitation Affairs Committee at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ).According to Choi, the government will submit an amendment

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Student dies after scooter crash

A 23-year-old local male university student died yesterday in a scooter crash in Estrada de Cheoc Van in Coloane, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said yesterday.The spokesperson announced the case during a regular briefing. According to the spokesperson, the scooter rider was surnamed Lou.The spokesperson said Lou was riding his scooter from Largo do Presidente António Ramalho Eanes to Estrada de Hac Sá before crashing into a hillside in Estrada de Cheoc Van at about 11:05

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2 flats burgled after victims put spare keys under mats: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced the arrest of a 21-year-old local man for burgling two flats in a residential building in Areia Preta where he stole possessions worth about 17,300 patacas.The suspect succeeded in burgling the two flats after he had found the spare keys of each of the flats – which the owners had put underneath the mats in the corridor outside their flats, according to PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai.Choi identified the suspect as an unemployed man surnamed Wong,

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Councillors worry about Ilha Verde Hill

Four members of the government-appointed Northern Districts Social Services Consultative Committee expressed their concerns over the preservation of Ilha Verde Hill yesterday, urging the government to take action to preserve the bucolic hillock as soon as possible.Committee member Cheong Ka Man pointed out at the start of the closed-door meeting, before journalists were asked to leave, at the Government Service Centre in Areia Preta that there are centuries-old trees and an old monastery on the

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Bird’s nests shop robbed of HK$1.3 million

A shop selling bird’s nests in Nape was robbed of HK$1.3 million in cash yesterday morning, when a salesman was hit over the head with a stone by the male robber.The victim was not injured seriously, Judiciary Police (PJ) Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday.Choi identified the victim as a 32-year-old blue-card holder.According to Choi, the Public Security Police (PJ) have transferred the case to the Judiciary Police for investigation. A man enters the bird’s nest

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Election committee to set up complaints hotline

The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) and Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) will set up a complaints hotline for residents to report suspected irregularities concerning the upcoming legislative elections, CAEAL President Tong Hio Fong said yesterday.The elections are slated to be held in September.The committee held two separate closed-door meetings yesterday, one with the CCAC and the other with the Judiciary Police (PJ) and Public Security Police (PSP), at the Public

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Casino receipts in Feb hit 2-year high

Macau’s casino revenue rose for a seventh consecutive month and hit a two-year high last month, according to official figures released by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) yesterday.Last month’s gross gaming revenue increased 17.8 percent year on year to 22.99 billion patacas, the highest figure since January 2015.Gaming receipts in the first two months grew 10.6 percent year on year to 42.24 billion patacas.This photo taken yesterday shows one of the peninsula’s

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3 men, woman busted in 3 drug cases

Three men and a woman were arrested between Tuesday and yesterday in three individual drug trafficking cases, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, a 21-year-old local man surnamed Hong was arrested on Tuesday night for drug trafficking. The police received a tip-off about a week ago that a man was frequently smuggling drugs into Macau from the mainland.The spokesperson said the police approached the suspect on

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Govt pays 3.9 million patacas to live poultry suppliers: councillor

According to figures provided by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), the government has paid about 3.91 million patacas in compensation to suppliers affected by bird flu outbreaks since 2014, Central District Social Services Consultative Committee Deputy Convenor Un Sio Leng said yesterday.Un made the remarks after a regular closed-door meeting of the committee with officials of the bureau at the Central District Residents Service Centre. The regular meeting was closed to the

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97 pct surf Internet on their mobiles: survey

Findings show that 97 percent of the city’s netizens browse the Internet on their mobile phones, with 71 percent also using laptops and 67 percent tablets, Macau Internet Research Association (MAIR) Director Athena Seng I No said yesterday.Seng announced the findings of the 17th Macau Annual Internet Usage Survey, which was conducted by her association and e-Research Lab, during a press conference at the office of the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) in Nape.According to

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Shipwrights urge preservation of Lai Chi Vun

The owners of some of the dilapidated shipyards in Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village urged the government yesterday not to demolish the buildings, so as to preserve a historic part of the city’s collective memory.They also slammed the government for fencing off 11 shipyards in May last year without telling them or saying why, so that they were unable to enter the properties to carry out repairs.An ad-hoc concern group for the preservation of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village held a press

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Pupil, 17, molests 11-year-old girl: police

A 17-year-old schoolboy was arrested on Monday for indecently assaulting an 11-year-old schoolgirl in the stairwell of a residential building in Fai Chi Kei on Friday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press briefing yesterday.Choi identified the suspect as a F5 pupil surnamed Chan in a school in the northern district.According to Choi, the boy followed the victim into a tower block in Rua Sul do Patane on Friday. They took the same lift, and the suspect left

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Lawmakers ask election committee for clear guidelines

Lawmakers yesterday expressed their individual concerns over the officially required declaration of their campaign activities, urging the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee to set up clear guidelines.Election candidates must declare the content, date and location of all their campaign activities, such as travelling and hosting luncheons and dinners during the campaign, to the committee, Tong Hio Fong, who heads the committee, said last week.The committee yesterday held a meeting

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