Capital, Macau vow to start co-op programme

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Communist Party of China (CPC) Beijing Municipal Committee Secretary Guo Jinlong agreed during a working meeting in the capital yesterday to start a co-operation programme between the two cities this year, including Beijing being the partner city of this year’s 21st Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF).The media was only allowed in for a photo call prior to the meeting, which was held at Beijing Hotel.Guo used the heavy rain on Wednesday

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to open more breastfeeding rooms to public: Tam

Responding to lawmakers’ questions during yesterday’s Q&A session in the legislature’ hemicycle on what the government would do to further promote breastfeeding, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said that by the end of the year mothers could breastfeed their babies in 60 breastfeeding rooms located in government bureaus and on the premises of other public entities.  Several lawmakers yesterday criticised the government for not providing enough places

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Police bust HK drug smuggler

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers early yesterday arrested a 29-year-old unemployed man from Hong Kong on suspicion of smuggling drugs into Macau to sell them here. A PJ spokesperson announced the case during a special press briefing at the PJ headquarters.The suspect surnamed Chan was arrested in a Zape casino early yesterday morning, the spokesperson said. Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the suspected HK drug-trafficking suspect from the PJ headquarters in Zape to a van

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmakers slam infectious disease centre project

During yesterday’s Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle several lawmakers criticised the government’s infectious disease centre project near the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre on Guia Hill. Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng and several senior officials including Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion attended the two-day Q&A session which ends today.Lawmaker-cum-civic leader Song Pek Kei criticised the government’s

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Residents use fewer plastic bags: shop manager

Chris Pang Ieng Chon, an operations manager at Daiso, the Japanese budget shop, said yesterday there has been a trend by local residents of bringing their own bags rather than opting for a plastic carrier bag.Pang made the remarks to reporters at a Daiso outlet in Taipa.The shop has joined an activity organised by the Environment Protection Bureau (DSPA) which aims to encourage customers to reduce the use of plastic carrier bags.The bureau yesterday arranged for the media to visit the outlet,

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt expects visitors to revamped GP museum to triple

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday she expected the revamped Grand Prix Museum to attract up to three times more visitors than it does currently.The office yesterday organised a media briefing about plans to revamp the museum at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape, where engineer Diamantino Torrado and architect Filipe Coutinho showed the reporters details of the renovation project.Both will oversee the project.Senna Fernandes

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Woolly wonders: Needle-felting a cute craft for all

The cakes and bread look delicious, except you can’t eat them, because if you take a closer look, they are made of wool.These soft and fluffy handicrafts are the work of Grace Wong Lai Kuan, who has been teaching children and senior citizens the needle-felting technique to make the woolly crafts because it’s simple: just poke the pieces of wool with a special needle. Wong started learning needle-felting after seeing handmade felt toys at an art fair in Taiwan some six years ago.Please

July 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Spending on public projects boosts competitiveness: CE

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the development of public infrastructure did help enhance the city’s competitiveness in the long term. Chui also said he was still considering whether to add the proposed renovation of the Grand Prix Museum to his policy address for next year.Chui spoke to reporters at the airport, before departing for Beijing where he was set to meet the head of the capital’s Communist Party of China (CPC), Guo Jinlong, to discuss deeper

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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7 teens caught taking drug trips to mainland in 2015: govt

A total of seven residents under the age of 18 were caught last year visiting the mainland to take drugs, compared to the eight reported cases in 2014, a senior Judiciary Police (PJ) official said yesterday.Lei Hon Nei, a deputy supervisor at the PJ Narcotics Division, spoke to reporters outside the Barrier Gate checkpoint, where the Judiciary Police arranged for members of its “Youth Guide to Fight Crime” scheme to conduct a promotion campaign with the aim of preventing young people from

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Iec Long land swap row won’t impact flat owners: Chui

The fact that the land swap involving the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory in Taipa was deemed invalid by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) last week won’t affect the property rights of flat owners of King Light Garden in Taipa and One Central Macau, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterdayChui spoke to reporters at the airport yesterday before departing for a working visit to Beijing.The King Light Garden and One Central Macau residential estates were built on sites

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmaker says his political & academic activities are separate

Government-appointed lawmaker Gabriel Tong Io Cheng said yesterday that his political activities and his academic research and teaching at the University of Macau (UM) should be seen as separate aspects of his life.  Tong, the acting dean of UM’s Faculty of Law (FLL), made the remarks outside the Legislative Assembly (AL) when asked by reporters about a Facebook page created recently by a group of students at UM’s FLL urging UM students and alumni to sign a petition titled “Depose

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Residents ‘most pessimistic’ about housing, land use and eco-protection: survey

The public consultation findings on the government’s proposed Five-Year Development Plan (2016-2020) released by the government’s think tank yesterday show that issues concerning the city’s land use, housing and environment protection are the issues that residents are most “pessimistic” about.Policy Research Office Director Lao Pun Lap, Vice Director Peter Ung Hoi Ian and U Man Fong, an advisor to Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On’s office, presided over a press conference at

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Defendant in car-park graft case admits to bribery

One of the six defendants in a public car-park management corruption case confessed yesterday during the trial’s second hearing at the Court of First Instance (TJB) yesterday. Chan Chi Pio, the third defendant, broke his silence to respond to the 28 bribery charges against him. The case includes the former chief of the Transport Bureau’s (DSAT) Division of Transport Management Lou Ngai Wa and his subordinate Pun Ngai, who both stand accused of graft involving public car-park

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Police probe ‘arson’ next to ATM

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday its arson section was investigating a suspicious fire which broke out earlier in the day next to an ATM machine of a BCM branch near the Red Market.No one was injured in the incident.According to the statement, at about 10 a.m. the Judiciary Police received a report from the Public Security Police (PSP) about a suspected arson attack close to an ATM machine thus several PJ officers went to the scene to investigate.Please read the full

July 21, 2016 | BY admin

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