Seac Pai Van hit by 2 domestic violence cases

Coloane’s Seac Pai Van public housing estate has been hit by two domestic violence cases, the police announced yesterday. A 63-year-old local man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of having set his home on fire after arguing with his wife, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a special press conference yesterday.The spokesperson said a woman reported to the police on Thursday that her husband had set their bed on fire. She called the police after she had burnt her right hand

December 7, 2016 | BY admin

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Police station to be set up in Seac Pai Van

The Public Security Police (PSP) has confirmed that a police station will be set up at Ip Heng Building of the sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing estate next year, Sin Chi Young, a vice-convener of the government-appointed Islands Community Services Consultative Committee, said yesterday.Sin briefed reporters after attending the committee’s closed-door meeting which was held at a community service centre in Taipa run by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM).Judiciary Police (PJ)

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Pearl Horizon buyers to stop paying mortgages

About 300 to 400 pre-sale buyers of Pearl Horizon flats will stop paying their mortgages to local banks, the Pearl Horizon Condominium Owners United Association announced yesterday in a press conference at the group’s office.The Pearl Horizon residential project has been mothballed since the government decided late last year to axe the ill-fated project’s temporary land concession that had expired. The government has repeatedly said that the issue must be solved in strict adherence with the

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PISA 2015 ranks Macau 3rd globally in maths

Macau pupils’ mathematical literacy ranked third globally with a score of 544 in the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) announced yesterday during a press conference at the bureau. Singapore and Hong Kong ranked first and second respectively. Taiwan and the mainland ranked fourth and sixth respectively.  DSEJ Director Leong Lai, University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Education (FED) Professor Cheung Kwok Cheung, who

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Top court rejects appeal by ex-chief prosecutor

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected an appeal by ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng to disqualify TUI President Sam Ho Fai from his upcoming trial because the latter allowed the city’s graft busters access to the income and assets declarations of Ho and his wife when they were investigating the case. Ho’s defence also wanted Sam to be barred from the trial because he had chaired a hearing about Ho’s – unsuccessful – habeas corpus bid. The court said in a statement

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Zone A sand supply to resume on Friday: Rosario

Addressing a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said that the supply of sand from the mainland for the land reclamation project off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula would resume on Friday.Rosario made the remarks on the last of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.Rosario and several other senior officials of his portfolio attended yesterday’s plenum in

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Govt mulls using waste to reclaim land in Zone D: Rosario

Addressing a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said the government was considering the possibility of using inert waste as landfill to reclaim land off the northern coast of Taipa – a planned land reclamation area officially known as Zone D.Rosario said the possible measure aimed to reduce pressure on the city’s only construction waste landfill site which has reached its full capacity.Inert waste is

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Vehicle growth probably less than 1 pct this year: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said in the legislature yesterday that the increase in the number of registered motor vehicles was expected to be less than one percent this year.Rosario made the remarks on the first of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year. The 2017 policy address proposes that the annual growth rate of vehicles should not exceed 3.5 percent.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Residents find new media more trustworthy: survey

According to a survey conducted by the Macau Internet Creativity and Development Association (MICDA), 42.7 percent of the respondents tend to find new media’s news reporting more trustworthy than the traditional media, while 29.8 percent tend to trust traditional media, and 27.5 percent tend to trust neither.The association carried out the survey last month about residents’ views on the credibility of traditional and new media, where 1,011 locals aged from 18 to 45 were chosen randomly in

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Union rejects banning off-duty dealers from casinos

The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union complained to the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) yesterday about the government’s proposal to ban off-duty dealers from entering local casinos.The bureau said in July that it was studying the feasibility of banning gaming workers from entering local casinos during their free time. The bureau said it was also analysing whether such a ban should only include dealers or all staff employed by gaming operators.According to the

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Macau should remain cross-Strait platform: scholar

Taiwanese scholar Shaw Chong-hai said yesterday on the sidelines of a forum at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) about cross-Strait relations he hoped that Macau will continue to act as a platform for relations between the mainland and Taiwan.Shaw is dean of the College of Social Sciences of the Chinese Culture University (CCU) in Taiwan. According to the IPM website, Shaw has been engaged in studies of cross-Strait relations for 25 years. He is also researching Taiwan’s relations with

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Govt mulls subsidy for professional certificates & licences

The government plans to offer a subsidy to encourage locals to obtain professional certificates or licences, Talents Development Committee Secretary-General Sou Chio Fai said yesterday.Sou, who heads the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES), briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting with the government-appointed committee at Government Headquarters.According to Sou, the subsidy aims to encourage locals to obtain professional certifications required for high-level positions.Talents

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Forum urges govt to train young entrepreneurs

The government could help young entrepreneurs by providing business-related courses, University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Business Administration Associate Professor Matthew Liu Ting-Chi said yesterday.Liu made the remarks at a forum on youth entrepreneurship hosted by the Macau Wisdom Convergence Network at Flower City Garden in Taipa. “Aside from financial aid,” Liu said, “the government could provide finance or accounting training for young people who want to start their own

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Academic calls for teaching of local history

Local history academic Lam Fat Iam yesterday urged schools to teach local history, to give young people a better understanding of what happened in the city in the past.Lam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a forum to mark the 40th anniversary of the so-called 123 incident, a riot by residents sparked by the then Portuguese administration’s bungled handling of an application for permission to build a school in Taipa.The forum, organised by the grassroots New

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