Ho praises repurposing of buildings in Rua do Cunha

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said on the sidelines of his morning visit to Rua do Cunha in Taipa yesterday that he appreciates how residents living in the neighbourhood have repurposed residential buildings for commercial use, adding that residents in the city’s other old neighbourhoods could use the area’s experience as a reference.Ho and around 20 members of his campaign team toured Rua do Cunha, which has become a popular tourist attraction, to understand the business

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Ho says Macau should train more Chinese & Portuguese bilingual talents

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday he agrees that Macau should train more Chinese and Portuguese bilingual talents.Ho made the comment during a meeting with about a dozen Macanese members of the Chief Executive Election Committee, where they spoke to Ho about their expectations of him and also gave him some advice.The meeting was held on the 17th floor of the Associação Industrial de Macau Building in Rua do Dr. Pedro José Lobo.Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng (centre,

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Raising birth rate is a social responsibility: Ho

Macau’s birth rate is declining and the city is entering the stage of an ageing society, chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday, adding that to increase the birth rate is a kind of social responsibility.Ho attended a Q&A session with representatives from the city’s woman’s association yesterday afternoon. The meeting at the headquarters of the Women’s General Association of Macau (known in Cantonese as Fu Luen) in Rua do Campo was attended by 250 participants.Over a

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Sou distances himself from anti-HK police gathering

Non-establishment lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou and his fellow activists from the New Macau Association (NMA) distanced themselves yesterday from a gathering reportedly planned for next Monday against alleged police violence in Hong Kong.In a statement released on the association’s Facebook page, the association says that it is “not the organiser [of Monday’s gathering], and we do not know the organiser.” However, the association added that “it must be stressed that all Macau citizens have

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Jobless HK man sells drugs to earn ‘fast money’: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested yesterday a man from Hong Kong for selling drugs in Macau so that he could earn “fast money”, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the 56-year-old suspect is surnamed Ho. He told the police that he is unemployed and has had a hard time in Hong Kong as he was addicted to drugs before. Therefore, he decided to sell drugs to earn “fast money,” Chan noted.The police received recently a tip-off that a

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Govt warns residents of mosquito menace

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that Macau’s overall ovitrap index stood at 60.5 percent last month, slightly lower than the average amount of 66.2 percent recorded in the same months of previous years.The statement was quick to add that the index last month was still rather high.In the statement, the bureau said that Macau has recorded 12 imported cases of dengue fever so far this year, urging residents to maintain environmental hygiene and take anti-mosquito measures

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Govt recruits volunteers for helping to restore disaster-hit areas

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement yesterday that it is recruiting volunteers who will provide assistance to all those in need in the aftermath of a strong typhoon or storm surge, and help restore the city to normal.According to the statement, those who are interested in joining the volunteer programme can file an application by visiting its dedicated website: http://www.vse.ias.gov.mo/index, or by visiting one of the social service centres run by the city’s various private

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Economic situation next year won’t be bright: Ho

The ongoing trade war between China and the US, and the current situation in Hong Kong have deeply impacted Macau’s economy, chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday, adding he believed that next year’s situation for the local economic won’t be bright.Ho attended a Q&A session with representatives of the city’s returned overseas Chinese yesterday afternoon. The meeting at the headquarters of the Association of Returned Overseas Chinese Macau in Rua de Sacadura Cabral was

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‘Slash Youth’ wins Miss Macau crown after 10-year hiatus

“Slash Youth”, a term which describes youngsters who have more than one occupation and need to use slashes “/“ to separate their different roles on their curriculum vitae (CV), was how the new Miss Macau, Bobo Leung Lok Chi, described herself yesterday during the Miss Macau 2019 beauty pageant’s Q&A session.The 26-year-old Miss Macau beauty pageant, organised by the SunCity Group, returned after a hiatus of a decade. After months of training, 12 candidates sashayed at the Venetian

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Ho doesn’t rule out possibility of electing CE by popular vote: Sou

Sulu Sou Ka Hou, vice chairman of the non-establishment New Macau Association (NMA), said yesterday that chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng wouldn’t rule out the possibility that the chief executive be elected by universal suffrage.However, according to Sou, Ho stressed that universal suffrage would need to be implemented “step by step”.Sou made the remarks after he and other members of the association met Ho at his campaign office behind closed doors on the 6th floor of Rodrigues

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Ho pledges to push ahead with urban renewal

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng and his campaign team members paid a visit to Iao Hon district – where many dilapidated residential buildings are located – yesterday to familiarise themselves with the business environment of shops there and the neighbourhood’s living environment – which is widely considered poor, and during the visit he told reporters that he is determined to push ahead with Macau’s urban renewal if elected chief executive.The visit in the morning covered an

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Chui keen to strengthen ties with Japan

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On yesterday called for closer ties between Macau and Japan, during a meeting with Japan’s Minister of State for Regional Revitalisation Satsuki Katayama who was visiting Macau, according to a statement by the Chief Executive Office (GCE).The meeting with Katayama’s delegation was held at Government Headquarters. Katayama is also minister of state for regulatory reform and minister of state for gender equality in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s

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Rehabilitated drug user vandalises public toilets: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a man for damaging public toilets in the northern district at least twice, a PJ spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The spokesperson did not say how many public toilets the suspect had damaged.The spokesperson identified the suspect as a 46-year-old unemployed local surnamed Chan who told the police that he was a rehabilitated drug user and has regularly been to a local drug addiction treatment centre since 2000.PLEASE READ THE

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AI shapes our future: IPIM executive

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) Executive Director Sam Lei Chou Sam said yesterday that innovation and technology have “fundamentally” transformed the way we live, work and communicate, pointing out that artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the heart of new technology that shapes our future.Lei made the remarks in his opening speech for the 28th International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) at the Venetian in Cotai.According to a statement by the

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