Mainlander nabbed for running fake base stations: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland yesterday for operating three fake base stations in a flat near the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, PJ spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.Tam identified the suspect as a 28-year-old surnamed Luo, who told the police that he was a farmer.A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to ban entry to low-lying public car parks during typhoons: official

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San said yesterday the government was planning to impose a ban on people entering a number of public car parks in the city’s low-lying areas one hour after the hoisting of the No. 8 typhoon warning signal.Lam spoke to reporters after a regular meeting of the Traffic Consultative Council at his bureau.The bureau has confirmed that four public underground car parks were flooded during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Hato in late August and that

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Cultural Industries Fund grants 124 million patacas in Jan-Sept

From January to September this year, the Cultural Industries Fund (FIC) granted a total of 124 million patacas in financial support, FIC Administration Council member Davina Chu Miu Lai said yesterday.Chu made the remarks at a press conference about the fund’s financial support in the first nine months of the year, at the Macau Art Garden in Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues.According to Chu, of the 62 projects the fund received this year for financial support until last Saturday, 53 were

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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2 local boxers prepare for their 1st professional fight

Two of Macao Boxing House’s young fighters will have their first professional fights tonight and tomorrow night at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in the “2017 IBF Silk Road Championship Tournament Inaugural Fight and IBF World Championship”.Michael Ferreas Olfindo will be fighting Thailand’s Yutthana Narkprasert tonight and Cheong Lap Cheong will be up against mainland China’s Xie Zhenwu tomorrow night.Each night there will be five bouts with pugilists from Ghana, the Philippines,

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Daughter doesn’t see dad for days, finds him dead in bed: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) yesterday morning about finding a man dead in bed in a flat in Rua Três do Bairro da Areia Preta.According to the police statement, the deceased is a 58-year-old local man surnamed Wong, who lived with his daughter.Yesterday morning the deceased’s daughter noticed a strange smell emanating from her father’s bedroom while she was getting ready for work, according to the police statement. After entering her

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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This Halloween: delve into a Lynchian state of mind

If trick-or-treating and haunted houses are not enough to scare you witless for Halloween, watching some David Lynch’s films is surely enough to send shivers down your spine.Cinematheque.Passion is running a special screening of “The Nightmare Maker: David Lynch” where it will feature five of the acclaimed US filmmaker’s classics, with award-winning psychological thriller “Mulholland Dr.” as the opening film for the festival that begins tomorrow and runs until October 31, All

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Galaxy to host charity dinner with world’s elite gastronomic society

Galaxy Macau will be hosting a charity dinner with Le Club des Chefs des Chefs on Sunday, with five of the club’s elite chefs – who are currently or have previously been personal chefs to heads of state – designing the menu with the integrated resort’s award-winning chefs.Known as the world’s most exclusive gastronomic society, Le Club des Chefs des Chefs is an elite club whose members are currently the personal chefs of heads of state. Their event with Galaxy Macau therefore has been

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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The Countdown: 5,800 or so hours to go until Morpheus opens

Six men in suits seem to be busy working on the countdown clocks at The Countdown Hotel at City of Dreams to count down the hours until Morpheus hotel opens in May next year.The giant digital clock installed in the lobby of The Countdown Hotel (the former Hard Rock Hotel) with a duplicate hanging on the outside of the hotel tower is a work of art created by renowned Dutch designer Maarten Baas.Titled “Count:Down Clock”, it is the first real-time clock that Baas has created in Asia and his

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Herbalife host seminar on ways to combat ageing

Healthy-ageing and digestive health were the topics this year at the “Herbalife Asia Pacific Wellness Tour” that took place in the city last week.The tour was organised by the nutrition company Herbalife and Zhen-yu Chen, a member of the company’s Nutrition Advisory Board, was the guest speaker at the event, where the findings of the “Asia Pacific Healthy Aging Survey” was released.Conducted by the company in March, the survey interviewed 6,000 people who are 40 or above from 12 Asia

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Xi presents party’s central leadership, roadmap for next 5 years

BEIJING – Soon after being re-elected general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping yesterday presented the new CPC central leadership to the press and laid down a roadmap for the next five years.Amid applause, Xi led the other six newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee into a brightly-lit room inside the Great Hall of the People, facing rows of journalists.Xi, 64, was

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Over 11,000 traffic accidents in 9 months

Public Security Police (PSP) Traffic Department Commissioner Leong Wa Chi said yesterday that 11,087 traffic accidents were recorded in the first nine months of this year, or an average of 40 accidents a day, resulting in 3,541 injuries and six deaths.Leong made the remarks during a press conference about the annual Road Safety Carnival, at the Transport Bureau (DSAT) in Estrada de D. Maria II.According to Leong, the number of accidents recorded in the first nine months of the year was about

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Group calls for changes to weather bureau structure

The grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) yesterday urged the government to amend the operation of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) and its administrative structure.The activist group made the appeal during a press conference at its office.The press conference hosted by NMA activists Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Ray Leong Ka Wai was about a hard-hitting report released last week by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) on the findings of an investigation into the observatory

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to launch language subsidy scheme

The government will launch a subsidy scheme with the aim of encouraging residents to take examinations for a number of language proficiency qualifications. Each applicant can get a subsidy of 1,000 patacas for each qualification if they get the required results.The plan will be jointly launched by the Talent Development Committee, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) and Macau Foundation (FM).A press conference about the scheme was held yesterday at the committee’s office in Nam

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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Chui to deliver 2018 Policy Address on Nov 14

hief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will deliver his 2018 Policy Address in the legislature’s hemicycle on November 14, the Legislative Assembly (AL) announced yesterday.According to the announcement, Chui will answer lawmakers’ questions about his policy address on November 15.The government’s five policy secretaries will separately present their respective 2018 portfolio guidelines to the legislature from November 21 to December 6, according to the announcement.Customarily, the policy

October 26, 2017 | BY admin

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