Lawmakers reject trade union bill for 10th time

Only 13 out of 29 lawmakers who were attending yesterday’s plenum voted yesterday in support of a trade union bill proposed by legislator-cum-unionist José Maria Pereira Coutinho.The legislature has 33 members.Yesterday was the 10th time the legislature has rejected a trade union bill since the establishment of the Macau Special Administration Region (MSAR) in 1999.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

April 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Gang provides ‘fraud training’ for cheating loan sharks: police

The police arrested on Monday a female and six male members of a fraud gang from the mainland that provided its members with “fraud training” specialising in cheating casino loan sharks in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Chan, the seven suspects, aged between 25 and 51, are from Guangxi, Henan and Heilongjiang, surnamed Bai, Huang, Sun, Wang, Xie, Xu, and Yu. The gang’s five

April 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Lawmakers reject Sou’s appeal over his CE election bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday roundly rejected an appeal by non-establishment lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou against a decision by the legislature’s executive board which had prevented Sou from initiating a bill proposing that the chief executive election must have at least two candidates by amending the Chief Execution Election Law.Yesterday’s plenary session, which was chaired by Legislative Assembly Vice President Chui Sai Cheong, was attended by 30 lawmakers. Four non-establishment

April 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt promotes citywide reading culture

In celebration of yesterday’s World Book Day, the local government organised a citywide half-hour reading activity called “April 23 Reading in the City” at 3:30 p.m. with nearly 20,000 people reading at the same time in Macau, Hong Kong and Guangdong, Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Mok Ian Ian said yesterday.The Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) co-organised the reading activity at the Old Courthouse in Avenida da Praia Grande. Mok talked

April 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Housewife robs moneychanger after spiking drinks with sleeping pills

The police arrested a woman from the mainland on Sunday for robbing a female money-changer in a lobby in a Cotai casino resort, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.The victim is a 37-year-old woman from the mainland. Her surname was not released. The victim told the police that she runs a currency-exchange business via text messages, according to Chan. The suspect is a 35-year-old woman from the mainland

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab ex-staff for stealing 2 diamonds rings from boss 6 years ago

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man on Saturday for stealing two diamond rings worth 300,000 patacas about six years ago from a jewellery shop where he worked at that time, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.The suspect, who went to the mainland on the same day after committing the theft and pawning the two diamond rings in May 2013, was arrested on Saturday when he returned to Macau via the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, according to Chan,

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Customs fine 3 visitors for failing to declare excess cash

The Macau Customs Service says that its officers fined three visitors – two from Hong Kong and one from the mainland – last week for separately bringing large quantities of cash in Hong Kong dollars into Macau via the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal without declaring it to customs officers.The statement did not reveal how much each of the three visitors was fined.The cash brought by the three visitors, whose genders were not revealed, amounted to a total of HK$22,132,000, according to a

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Portuguese president to visit Macau next week: official

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will visit Macau between Tuesday and Wednesday next week (from April 30 to May 1), the local government has announced.According to a statement by the Government Spokesperson’s Office on Saturday, Rebelo de Sousa will visit Macau during a state visit to the nation at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Macau is one of the Portuguese president’s stops during the state visit between this coming Sunday and Thursday next week.The statement pointed

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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3 Macau people vanish when fishing boat sinks

The local government says that it is paying close attention to a case in which a fishing vessel with three Macau residents and five mainlanders on board went missing in the sea around the Wanshan Archipelago last Thursday, which is situated south of the mouth of the Pearl River estuary and Hong Kong.Wanshan Archipelago refers to a group of some 100 islands and islets in the area, most of which are administered by Zhuhai. The archipelago also includes Macau’s Taipa and Coloane islands as well

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Car driver injured in 3-vehicle crash

Two cars and a radio taxi collided in Taipa yesterday afternoon, leaving a car driver with slight injuries, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.According to the bureau, the crash happened outside the Nova City residential estate in Avenida de Kwong Tung (Guangdong Avenue) in Taipa. The driver of one of the two cars – a 33-year-old local man – slightly injured his left thigh and was taken to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre for treatment, the bureau said.According to the

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Package-free store promotes ‘less plastic’

A package-free shop called “Mai Lon Store” opened two days ago near São Lázaro district, selling legumes, rice, pastas and dried fruit served from glass storage jars or hoppers.Consumers are encouraged to bring their own bottles when shopping there. The aim is to convince shoppers to use less plastic packaging, the shop owner told The Macau Post Daily yesterday.The shop owner, Austin Sou Chon Kit, is keen to contribute to environmental protection. Sou said he got the idea of going

April 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho Iat Seng decides to run for CE

Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng announced yesterday that he has decided to run in the chief executive election later this year as he wants to promote Macau’s economic diversification and its participation in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) by making use of his experience in legislative tasks in both the nation’s top legislature and the local legislature.Ho made the announcement during a press briefing in a meeting room of the

April 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt to set up ‘sovereign wealth fund’ in 2H: Chui

The government will set up a development and investment fund in the second half of the year, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On told lawmakers yesterday.Chui made the announcement in a question-and-answer session in the hemicycle of the Legislative Assembly (AL).Chui said the fund – which would be similar to other state-owned investment funds known as sovereign wealth funds – said the future fund would allow the government to increase the value of its financial reserves and its

April 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Pinocchio to discover with audience what it means to be a human

Pinocchio, who is mostly known as the marionette boy whose nose grows when he tells lies, will take the audience on a magical adventure as he discovers what it means to be a human in this weekend’s stage performance.The contemporary dance and physical theatre production “Pinocchio” by UK-based Jasmin Vardimon Company will have two shows this weekend at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM).During a meet-the-press at CCM yesterday, Vardimon said that her version offers another interpretation of

April 19, 2019 | BY admin

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