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Govt hopes toughened anti-money laundering law strengthens enforcement
Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) Director Ng Man Seong said yesterday the government hopes that the city’s recently toughened anti-money laundering law will improve enforcement by facilitating the arraignment and prosecution of money-laundering suspects.Ng made the remarks during a press conference at her office in the Bank of China (BOC) Building in Nam Van where she announced the results of the Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) recently released by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering
July 28, 2017
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Police crack phone scam involving fake kidnapping, topless video
A local woman in her twenties took a video of herself topless and lost 280,000 yuan (334,260 patacas) in a phone scam to a man who claimed to be a mainland police officer, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The case also involved a fake kidnapping.According to the spokesperson, the victim received a call on Sunday from a man who claimed to be a police officer in the mainland, saying that she had committed a serious crime and was wanted by the
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Committee withdraws bid to ban placards in legislature
The president of the Legislative Assembly’s Committee on House Rules, Vong Hin Fai, said yesterday his committee has decided to withdraw a controversial draft resolution that would have barred lawmakers from displaying placards during plenary sessions – if it had been passed by the legislature.The draft resolution’s proposed amendment to Article 47 of the Legislative Assembly Procedure Rules was abruptly retracted by the committee.Vong, a government-appointed lawmaker, made the remarks
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Box of beer falling from building injures man, boy
A man and his 5 year-old son were hurt by broken glass yesterday after a box of beer fell from an industrial building into a street in Areia Preta district.The box fell accidentally when a worker was moving a load of beer boxes with a forklift in a warehouse on the ninth floor of the building, the Public Security Police (PSP) said yesterday.According to the police, at 10 a.m. yesterday the box fell from the ninth floor of Chong Fong Industrial Building in Avenida do Dr. Francisco Vieira
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Filmmaking is search for ‘who am I?’: Naomi Kawase
Two-time Cannes winner Japanese director Naomi Kawase says she wants to get back to making documentaries so she can continue her search for her identity.Kawase was in town last weekend to give a talk at Cinematheque-Passion which hosted the 2nd Macau International Documentary Festival. Kawase was the director-in-focus of the festival.Speaking to the media after her talk, Kawase said it was pleasant to be at the festival as the focus was on filmmaking rather than other things, such as when she
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Legislature passes tertiary education bill
The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government’s bill on the city’s tertiary education sector, slated to come into effect only one year after its promulgation in the Official Gazette (BO), during a plenary session yesterday.The bill’s outline was passed during a plenary session of the legislature in February 2015. The legislature’s 2nd Standing Committee held 27 meetings to review the bill.Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng introduced the bill to the
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Elex committee to tell all lists to remove ‘pre-campaign’ online posts
The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) announced yesterday that it will issue another set of guidelines next week which will demand that all groups running in the upcoming legislative elections remove all “pre-campaign” status updates or video clips after the committee releases the final list of approved groups.The direct and indirect legislative elections will take place on September 17. A record 25 groups are running in the direct election.Committee President Tong
July 28, 2017 | BY admin
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Govt mulls automated parking system for legislature
The Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday discussed the government’s plan to build an underground car park outside the Legislative Assembly (AL) building in Nam Van – and a senior public works official said that the government was considering an automated parking system for the project.Yesterday’s regular meeting of the council, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development conditions for the project under a plot – currently a green
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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CTM expects updates on GBA service by year-end
Telecom operator CTM is currently planning to launch a fixed rate tariff system for cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), CTM Vice President for Commercial Affairs Ebel Cham Pou I said yesterday.Cham, together with CTM CEO Vandy Poon Fuk Hei attended the “re-opening” ceremony of its renovated shop in Toi San district, near the Barrier Gate checkpoint.Cham said that the company was currently in discussion with telecom service providers from Guangdong and Hong Kong
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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Lawmakers, activists oppose legislature’s proposed placard ban
Lawmakers Au Kam San and Ng Kuok Cheong yesterday held a press conference at their joint office in Iao Hon to express their opposition to certain amendments to the Legislative Assembly Procedure Rules proposed by the legislature’s Committee on House Rules, such as barring lawmakers from displaying placards during plenary sessions in the legislature’s hemicycle.Meanwhile, grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou, Paul Chan Wai Chi, a former lawmaker and NMA key
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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Roosevelt opens with 30 gaming tables, 90 slot machines
Macau Roosevelt hotel opened yesterday with a casino in the name of the Macau Jockey Club with 30 gaming tables and 90 slot machines, as well as VIP rooms.The five-star hotel, located right next to Macau Jockey Club, has 368 rooms and an outdoor pool overlooking the racecourse. There will also be a chapel on the lawn near the pool for weddings.Yoho Group Managing Director Mike Lam Hin Wai told reporters after the opening ceremony that the HK$2 billion hotel is the only Roosevelt hotel in Asia
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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Councillors call for footbridges to connect revamped Catholic Centre
Members of the Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday called for the construction of two footbridges connecting the planned new Catholic Centre in the city centre so that it will be easier for pedestrians to cross the busy junction.The Catholic Centre, located at the junction of Rua do Campo and Avenida da Praia Grande, has been vacant for over two decades.Yesterday’s regular council meeting, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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‘Son’ cheats woman out of 20,000 yuan: police
A local woman has lost 20,000 yuan (23,820 patacas) in a phone scam to a man claiming to be her son, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the victim’s husband received a call on Monday from a man claiming to be his son, telling him he had changed his phone number.The man called the victim the next day and alleged that he had been arrested by mainland police for visiting a prostitute, asking her to transfer 20,000
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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Peninsula sewage plant resumes operation
The Macau Peninsula Wastewater Treatment Plant resumed operation yesterday afternoon after a two-day suspension for the replacement of a corroded section of pipe in the plant, according to a statement by the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) yesterday.The plant, which has been in operation since 1995, is on the north-eastern coast of the peninsula. The replacement work was carried out around the clock on Monday and Tuesday, during which sewage produced in the peninsula was pumped straight
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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Councillors back hotel project at Cheoc Van Garden
Several members of the Urban Planning Council (CPU) yesterday agreed that an abandoned building at Cheoc Van Garden, a complex of villas in southern Coloane, originally earmarked for a commercial centre for residents living in the complex, be converted into a hotel.Yesterday’s regular meeting of the council, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion about the proposed legal development conditions for the plot on which the abandoned building is situated.The legal development
July 27, 2017 | BY admin
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