Kai Fong calls for better elderly care

The General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong) yesterday called for more comprehensive planning for elderly care as the city faces an ageing population.Chan Ka Leong, who heads Kai Fong’s social affairs committee, made the suggestion during a press conference addressing the city’s elderly care at the group’s community service centre in Toi San district.According to the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC), residents aged above 65 accounted for 9.8 percent of

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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National high-speed rail link to Macau possible: engineer

A railway engineer from the mainland said in Macau yesterday it was possible that the national high-speed railway network will ultimately be connected to Macau.Zhao Guotang, vice general engineer of China Railway Group Limited, yesterday delivered a speech about the development of the nation’s high-speed railway system at an event attended by local deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) and local members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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April visitors rise 11 pct to 2.7 million

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 11 percent year on year to 2.74 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Month-to-month, the figure was up 9.7 percent.Overnight visitors (1.4 million) and same-day visitors (1.3 million) increased 17.7 percent and 4.4 percent year on year respectively.Visitors’ average length of stay rose 0.1 day year on year to 1.2 days. Overnight visitors stayed an average of 2.1 days. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Police nab man for cheating gambler out of HK$1.3 million

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland on Monday on suspicion of cheating a male compatriot out of HK$1.3 million late last year, PJ spokeswoman Yeung Sau Chan said during a regular press conference yesterday.Yeung identified the suspect as a 29-year-old man surnamed Zhao, and the victim as a 27-year-old surnamed Yi.Two other male suspects involved in the case are still at large, according to Yeung.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Off-duty cop nabbed for drink driving: police

An off-duty Public Security Police (PSP) officer was caught drink driving in Taipa early yesterday morning, PSP spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said yesterday.According to Cheong, the police officer, surnamed Ao, is in his forties. He joined the police in 1994.Cheong said when police officers were on patrol near Rotunda Dr. Sun Yat Sen at about 2:20 a.m. yesterday, they spotted Ao standing beside a light vehicle near the roundabout. The vehicle and the roundabout barrier were damaged.PLEASE READ THE

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for prostituting 14-year-old girl

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman from Jilin province on Sunday for bringing a 14-year-old girl from the same province to work in Macau as a prostitute, PJ spokeswoman Yeung Sau Chan said during a special press conference yesterday.Yeung identified the suspect as a 22-year-old surnamed Zhang.According to Yeung, early this month PSP officers saw the girl soliciting male passers-by in Cotai. PSP officers took the victim and a woman surnamed Wang in for questioning and then transferred

May 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Auditor slams poor coordination of roadworks

The government’s Road Projects Coordination Group failed to coordinate such projects by different government entities or public utilities to ensure that disruptions to the public are kept to a minimum, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a hard-hitting report yesterday.The report can be downloaded from the commission’s website http://www.ca.gov.mo/, in Chinese and Portuguese language versions.According to the report, the government set up the interdepartmental Road Projects Coordination

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Top activist says will quit his position

Scott Chiang Meng Hin said in a Facebook statement yesterday that he would step down as president of the New Macau Association (NMA) on June 9.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily last night in a phone interview, Chiang said he would remain a member of the grassroots activist group after he stepped down from its top post.Chiang said he believed his resignation was “good” for his group’s candidates in the upcoming legislative elections. However, Chiang declined to say why he decided to resign

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Caritas provides stair climbers for wheelchair users

Caritas Macau Secretary General Paul Pun Chi Meng yesterday said his group has started to provide a mobility solution for local wheelchair users who live in buildings without lifts, thereby having great difficulty in getting in and out of their flats, with a stair climber.Pun announced the new service during a press conference at a family service centre run by the Catholic welfare organisation in São Lourenço district.According to Pun, the group has three battery-powered stair climbers, one

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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KK to defend his CPBU belt on Saturday

Ng Kuok Kun aka The Macau Kid aka KK will defend on Saturday the China Professional Boxing Union (CPBU) belt that he won in December last year against Thailand’s Weerachit Kitee.KK KO’d Weerachit in 1.28 minutes of the second round.The fight will take place in Ding’an county in Hainan province. In defence of his Super Welterweight (154lbs) title KK (11-0-0, 6 KOs) will be up against another Thai Apisak Puttawong, alias Denyaso Sithkhrumak (1-5-0) in a 10 round fight. KK poses in his gym

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Procurement law changes aim for transparency: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday that the government’s plan to amend a decree-law regulating the government’s procurement of goods and services aims to improve the transparency of the government’s procurement procedures.Leong attended a plenum in the legislature’s hemicycle which discussed a debate motion by directly-elected lawmaker Mak Soi Kun on the procurement issue.The legislature passed Mak’s debate motion last month, which questioned whether

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to give up to 480,000 patacas to each ex-live poultry vendor: IACM chief

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) has decided to give 240,000 to 480,000 patacas as a one-off payment to each former live poultry vendor, the bureau’s President Jose Fonseca Tavares said yesterday.However, Leong Men Lap, who chairs the Macau Live Poultry Vendors Association, told reporters that most vendors who attended yesterday’s meeting thought that the amount was “too small”.Tavares made the remarks after a closed-door meeting with representatives of the now-defunct live

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt to raise parking meter rates from next month

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Lam Hin San yesterday announced an increase in the city’s parking meter rates beginning on June 17, according to an executive order promulgated yesterday.Lam made the announcement during a special press conference at the bureau’s headquarters.The parking rates for light vehicles with a parking limit of an hour currently costing 6 patacas and a parking limit of two hours now costing 2 patacas an hour will be hiked to 10 patacas and 6 patacas per hour

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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‘Noticeable rise’ in phone scams: security chief

The total number of reported scams increased 28.8 percent year on year to 219 in the first quarter, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday, noting a “noticeable rise” in the number of reported phone scams which rose from 9 in the first three months of last year to 22 in the same period this year.Addressing a press conference about the city’s first-quarter crime figures at the Secretariat for Security (GSS) in the S. Francisco Barracks, Wong said phone scams had made a

May 23, 2017 | BY admin

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