Govt sets up committee to develop coastal waters

The government has established a committee with the aim of promoting the development and improvement of the management of the city’s coastal waters, according to an announcement in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The announcement was made in the form of an executive order signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.In December 2015, the central government granted Macau jurisdiction over 85 square kilometres of its coastal waters to help with its economic diversification. Previously,

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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Portuguese School to get new wing

The Portuguese School will get a new wing and a sports pavilion, Maria Edith da Silva, the new president of the Council of Curators of the Macau Portuguese School Foundation, told the Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday.Edith da Silva was elected during yesterday’s regular meeting of the Council of Curators which also includes Macau’s last Portuguese governor, General Vasco Rocha Vieira.According to Edith da Silva, a former director of the

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman loses 312,900 yuan in phone scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced a phone scam case in which a local woman lost 312,900 yuan (362,500 patacas) after she deposited the money into a bank account in the mainland, when someone pretending to be from a law enforcement agency in the mainland claimed that the victim was involved in an “economic crime” case and that depositing money into a bank account could speed up the investigative process.During a regular press conference, PJ spokesman Chan Cho Man identified the

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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MSAR passports granted visa-on-arrival entry to Ukraine

Holders of Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) passports will be granted visa-on-arrival entry to Ukraine, the Macau government said yesterday.The Identification Services Bureau was notified by the embassy of Ukraine Beijing on Monday that the holders of MSAR passports traveling to Ukraine for tourism or business can obtain a single-entry visa upon their arrival at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv and Odessa International Airport in Odessa for a maximum stay of 15 days.A total of

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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Police nab 9 loan-sharking suspects

The police arrested nine mainlanders yesterday for alleged membership of a loan-sharking gang, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.The spokesperson said the police were tipped off about a week ago about a gang of mainlanders offering instant loans to gamblers in casinos in Taipa and giving clients cash advances on their credit or debit cards.After investigating, the police discovered that the gang was based in a residential flat in Rua de Chaves

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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88 pct of households have Internet: survey

About 88.6 percent of the city’s households – 167,600 in total – used the Internet last year, up by 2.3 percentage points year on year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.The number of households using fibre optic broadband connection leapt by 115 percent year on year to 77,900 at the end of last year, resulting in a decline in the number of households using fixed broadband connection by 36.2 percent o 71,200.The number of Internet users aged 3 and above increased

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman steals diamond ring from friend: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a young woman from the mainland on Friday on suspicion of stealing a diamond ring valued at 350,000 yuan from her friend who had left it in the bathroom of their hotel room, PJ spokesman Chan Cho Man said yesterday.Chan identified the suspect as a 20-year-old surnamed Wang and the victim as a 25-year-old. Chan did not disclose the victim’s surname.According to Chan, the victim and her four female friends arrived in Macau from the mainland on Thursday and

March 21, 2017 | BY admin

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MGTO has no concrete plans for Greater Bay Area yet: tourism chief

The development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area will require “large-scale” co-operation among the three regions, and the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has no concrete plans about it yet, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.Senna Fernandes made the remarks on the sidelines of a sharing session at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf Convention & Exhibition Centre co-hosted by the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) and the Secretariat for

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Election reformer dies

Ex-legislator Rui Afonso, widely known as the prime mover in the city’s 1980s electoral reforms that gave local Chinese the right to vote, died in Lisbon on Friday, Portuguese media reported at the weekend.According to the reports, the 70-year-old lawyer died after a prolonged illness.Afonso was a member of the Macau Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1997. He headed the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) in the 1980s when he was one of the driving forces behind a profound

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt spends 1 million patacas to raze 2 shipyards

Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) Director Susanna Wong Soi Man said yesterday her bureau spent about one million patacas to demolish two shipyards in Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village earlier this month.Concerning the fate of another nine shipyards officially earmarked for demolition, Wong also said her bureau was “carrying out procedures”, with the aim of tearing them down also.Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of an advocacy event for water conservation. The event, co-organised by her

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Police probe Grand Lisboa Palace fire

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement at the weekend that they have launched an investigation into a fire at the construction site of a hotel project in Cotai on Friday night.The statement did not identify the project. According to local Chinese-language media reports, SJM’s Grand Lisboa Palace project was partly damaged by the blaze. According to the statement, the fire broke out in a warehouse storing construction materials and paint on the 14th floor of the casino-hotel project.

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Group slams govt for ‘ignoring’ logistics industry

Macau International Logistics and Forwarding Association Director Victor Lei Kuok Fai accused the government yesterday of “ignoring” the logistics industry.He made the remarks on the sidelines of the weekly open-air Macau Forum in Areia Preta Park.Lei was a member of the government-appointed Logistics Development Committee which was axed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On in an executive order published last Monday. The committee was set up in 2011.Macau International Logistics and

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Forum urges govt to prioritise new holiday rules

Panellists and most audience members at yesterday’s Macau Forum said that paid paternity leave and compensatory holidays should be given top priority when revising the Labour Relations Law.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Yesterday’s forum focused on the proposed changes to the Labour Relation Law, such as five days paid paternity leave, 14 unpaid days in addition to the current 56 days paid maternity leave, and

March 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Schoolgirl among 9 drug suspects: police

A schoolgirl and eight other suspects were arrested yesterday in two separate drug-taking and selling cases, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the seven suspects in the first case are from Macau, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Mongolia. The spokesperson said one of the suspects, surnamed Lio, is a 17-year-old schoolgirl.After receiving a tip-off a week ago that the seven suspects were holding drug parties in a residential flat near the Barrier

March 17, 2017 | BY admin

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