Dealers’ sacking ‘unreasonable’: union

Four former croupiers, backed by the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, told the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) yesterday that they had been “unreasonably” fired by their company.The union also handed in a petition addressed to DSAL Director Wong Chi Hong at the bureau in Areia Preta yesterday. A DSAL official received the petition on Wong’s behalf. Three of the ex-dealers, who worked at Casino Kam Pek Paradise, told reporters that they were “falsely” accused of violating

November 4, 2016 | BY admin

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Melco Crown income rises 220 pct in Q3

Melco Crown Entertainment said in a statement yesterday that its operating income for the third quarter was US$108.9 million, up 220 percent year-on-year.The company’s net revenue between July and September rose 22 percent year-on-year to US$1.15 billion, according to the statement.The increase in net revenue was primarily attributable to the net revenue generated by Studio City in Cotai, which started operations in October last year, and the increase in casino revenues at City of Dreams

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Mental health outreach team has 89 cases since July

The Health Bureau’s (SSM) first Community Psychiatric Service Team has dealt with 89 cases since its formation in July, among which 11 were forced hospitalisations, according to Northern Districts Social Services Consultative Committee Deputy Convenor Ho Chong Chun.Ho briefed reporters after the closed-door meeting at the Areia Preta District Government Service Centre. Ho Chi Veng, chief of the Psychiatry Department of the Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre, was invited to elaborate on the

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Beijing Kitchen spicing things up

For those who like it hot, Beijing Kitchen has some “outrageously hot” food for diners to push their taste buds to the limit.Grand Hyatt’s Beijing Kitchen is currently serving a season’s special spicy food menu that features regional specialities from Chengdu, Chongqing and Wuhan where diners can choose the level of spiciness – mild to medium to outrageously hot – when they order their dish.These dishes include poached beef ripe and eel, poached shrimp skewer or deep fried

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Love, hope and faith: music from the kitchen

As people are getting busier these days, it’s probably only during dinnertime that the family can get together to eat and talk about how good or how bad their day has been.It’s during this time while preparing meals in the kitchen that brings local singer-songwriter Gilbert Humphrey, aka Beto, and his family into harmony, literally. “Me and my family always do worship at home, simple worship, acoustic, just us singing with a guitar,” Beto told MPD Weekender recently. “It’s kind

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Chui vows govt will learn from LRT Taipa experience

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday the government would learn its lesson from the setbacks in the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Taipa for the still unscheduled LRT project on the peninsula.The Taipa section of the LRT, the construction of which started in 2011, has been hit by a string of technical, scheduling and budgeting issues.Chui made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the airport before departing for a working visit to Beijing, when asked

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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SJM revenue falls 11 pct in 3rd quarter

SJM Holdings’ gaming revenue fell 11.1 percent year-on-year to HK$9.99 billion in the third quarter, the gaming company said in a statement on Tuesday.In the first nine months, gaming revenue dropped 17.8 percent year-on-year to HK$30.87 billion.Adjusted Ebitda decreased 8.4 percent to HK$810 million in the third quarter. In the first three quarters, adjusted Ebitda fell 22.3 percent to HK$2.44 billion.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Graft busters slam transport officials over public car parks

A report released by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) yesterday accuses the Transport Bureau (DSAT) of tampering with the procedure of open tendering in the outsourcing of public car parks management services, as well as the bureau’s “defective” internal monitoring mechanism.According to the hard-hitting report, DSAT officials have been splitting the cost of public car park management services below 750,000 patacas and limiting the duration of the respective service contracts to

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Public housing for ex-Scala plot not a ‘hasty’ decision: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the government’s plan to build public housing on the plot of the abandoned La Scala luxury housing project in Taipa was not a “hasty” decision. Chui said the decision aimed to tackle the city’s strong public housing demand. Chui spoke to reporters at the airport, before departing on a working visit to Beijing for talks on the management of Macau’s coastal waters. Chui and his entourage will return to Macau

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Devoy urges domestic violence culprits to bear consequences

Good Shepherd Centre Director Juliana Devoy said yesterday she hoped that the victims of domestic violence realise that the culprits need to bear the consequences of what they did so that they could change and improve themselves.The Law on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence, which came into effect on October 5, defines domestic violence as a public crime – which allows the police to investigate without the victim’s consent. A defendant convicted of domestic violence faces up to five

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Casino revenues rise for 3rd straight month

Macau’s casinos have reported a third straight month of revenue gains in October, boosted by gamblers during the week-long Golden Week holiday.Gross gaming revenue rose 8.8 percent to 21.8 billion patacas, the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) reported on Friday. That compares with the median forecast for 5.5 percent growth in a Bloomberg survey of seven analysts.The growth builds momentum in reversing a 26-month slump as the world’s biggest casino hub strives to transform

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Woman pimps 14-year-old girl in Cotai: police

A woman from Guizhou province was arrested on Saturday for pimping a 14-year-old girl from the same province in Macau, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a special press briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, a security guard at a hotel in Cotai had suspicions about the victim, which were not elaborated on in the briefing, when he called the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday. The case was then transferred to the Judiciary Police for further investigation.The

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Caritas expects fewer donations from casinos

Caritas Macau Secretary General Paul Pun Chi Meng said yesterday he expected casino operators’ donations during this year’s bazaar to be 100,000 patacas less than those of last year because of Macau’s economic downturn.Pun made the remarks during a press conference at Sao Joao de Brito School about the 47th Caritas Macau Charity Bazaar on Saturday and Sunday.Addressing the press conference, Pun said: “As Macau is going through a stage of economic adjustment, I think the money donated by

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Councillors oppose public housing only on ex-Scala plot

Several members of the Urban Planning Council yesterday voiced disagreement with the government’s plan of a huge public housing project with a proposed height limit of up to 155 metres, on the plot of the abandoned La Scala luxury housing project near the airport.In early September, the government announced the final version of its first-ever Five-Year Development Plan, which says that more than 8,000 public housing units could be built on the plot.Some members of the government-appointed

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