Team China Rio heroes arrive for 4-day visit

The nation’s Rio Olympics heroes and their support team arrived in Macau yesterday afternoon for a 4-day visit, welcomed by hundreds of cheering pupils outside the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal. The delegation of 64 arrived at the terminal shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday. It includes Rio Olympic gold medallists, coaches and badminton player Lin Dan, sprint athlete Su Bingtian and Fu Yuanhai, the refreshingly outspoken swimmer who has become an Internet sensation.Outside the terminal, a

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Sunken vessel delays ferry services

A construction vessel sank near the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal yesterday, initially causing up to one-hour delays to ferry services.  According to a joint statement by the Macau Customs Service and the Marine and Water Bureau, the vessel sank at about 8 a.m. yesterday, and the five-member mainland crew went overboard. All of them were transferred to the Zhuhai border police after they had been taken to the public Conde de S. Januario Hospital Centre as a precautionary measure. One

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Gaming operators should help improve staff skills: scholar

Local scholar Chan Kin Sun urged the city’s six gaming operators yesterday to help their employees gain a variety of skills.Chan made the suggestion on the sidelines of a forum hosted by the Gaming Employees Advancement Association yesterday.Casino workers’ salaries, casinos’ tobacco control measures and other topics were discussed during the one-day forum, according to a statement released by the association.Assistant Professor of Public Administration of the University of Macau (UM)

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Eco-bureau publishes plastic bag consultation report

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) yesterday published a public consultation report about the possible implementation of plastic shopping bag charges.“Most” of the opinions collected during the consultation process supported a charge scheme on plastic shopping bags for retail businesses, the bureau said, without elaborating, in a statement.  The consultation took place from December 2015 to February this year.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Police nab S Korean man for raping compatriot

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a South Korean man on Sunday on suspicion of raping a compatriot who had borrowed gaming chips from him. The suspect is an overstayer.A spokesperson released details of the case during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape. The 37-year-old suspect, surnamed Ko, worked in the junket business, the spokesperson said.The spokesperson said that the victim, who is in her thirties, told the Judiciary Police on Sunday

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MGM chief ‘very confident’ about gaming industry

MGM China Holdings Executive Director and CEO Grant Bowie said he was “very confident” about the future of Macau’s gaming industry.Bowie made the upbeat remarks on the sidelines of a forum held at the MGM casino-hotel in Zape.Bowie made the remarks when asked by reporters about his views on Wynn Resorts Chairman & CEO Steve Wynn’s recent comments that he was “uncertain” about the industry’s future.CEO and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Grant Bowie talks to reporters

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Academician urges closer Macau-Guangdong co-operation

Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences President Wang Jun yesterday urged Macau to strengthen co-operation with Guangdong province, to help diversify the city’s economy whose development, he said, is hindered by its small area and a large population in relation to its size.Wang spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a forum organised by the City University of Macau and the Macau Economic Promotion Association. The forum, whose topic was about deeper co-operation between Macau and Guangdong, was

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Scholar questions urgency for new central library

Macau Civic Power (ECM) Chairwoman Agnes Lam Iok Fong urged the government yesterday not to waste money and questioned the urgency of building a costly new central library during the local economy’s current trough.She made the remarks on the sidelines of an outdoor forum in Vasco da Gama Garden yesterday.The forum was about the path of Macau’s sports. Lam, the assistant dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Macau (UM), said she agreed that a new central library

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Low chance for Macau to join Olympics: athlete

The chance of Macau joining the Olympic Games is low even though some officials said they had spoken to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about the matter, Paul Au Chi Kun, a senior athlete and coach, said on the sidelines of an outdoor forum in Vasco da Gama Garden yesterday.The forum discussed what policies and sports facilities were necessary for training athletes to reach their peak performance in Macau and where the future of Macau athletes lies.Au, the vice principal of the

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Bus crashes into lorry carrying bamboo poles

A public bus yesterday afternoon crashed into the back of a lorry carrying a bundle of bamboo poles in Taipa with the poles smashing the bus windscreen and narrowly missing the 62-year-old driver.The driver suffered cuts to his forehead from the flying glass and bruises to his chest from hitting the steering wheel. He was taken to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre, after being removed from the damaged bus by firemen, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The New Era bus

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Commentator urges govt to do more to protect animals

Local commentator Guderian Leung Kai Yin said yesterday the government should pay more attention to animal rights, adding he hoped the government will do more to protect animals.Leung, a social work tutor at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM), talked to The Macau Post Daily after a forum in Areia Preta Park. The forum, organised by the Macau Wisdom Convergence Network, focussed on the city’s first-ever Animal Protection Law which will come into force on Thursday. Leung said the

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Official vows to keep idyll at Taipa-Houses Museum intact

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Vice-President Leung Hio Ming said yesterday the government would strive to maintain the tranquillity and idyll of the Taipa-Houses Museum area after the renovation work on the five mansions is completed, while developing the area into another leisure attraction with cultural and creative elements.Leung made the remarks as a guest speaker at Macau Forum, an open-air debate hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Yesterday’s

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Local pupils win Microsoft world championship

Two local pupils were among the six winners at a world championship where they demonstrated their mastery of Microsoft Office products.According to a statement from Certiport, a US-based authorised testing centre, yesterday, some 700,000 students competed in the championship and just 150 candidates managed to get into the final round of the competition which took place in Orlando, Florida.The finalists were tasked with recreating Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in less than 50 minutes and

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Mixed results for local boxers in 4 regions fight night

The private Macao Boxing House’s “Attitude of Youth Boxing Tournament of Four Regions Across the Straits – Call Motion Youth” on Saturday was a night of mixed results for local amateur fighters against pugilists from Hong Kong, the mainland and Taiwan.Originally eight bouts were planned for the evening at the gym in Fat Lei Industrial Building, but due to an injury to one of the local guys there were only seven bouts, the sixth fight was the mainland versus Taiwan. The mainland fighter

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