Typhoon pushes Lusofonia Festival to next week

The three-day Lusofonia Festival, which was due to kick off on Friday, will be postponed to next Friday due to Typhoon Haima, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday.The bureau is the organiser of the event. Typhoon Sarika skirted the city yesterday, but weather stations around the region forecast that Typhoon Haima would make a landfall in Guangdong on Friday. The IC statement said that due to the possible impact of Typhoon Haima and for the safety of

October 19, 2016 | BY admin

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21st MIF debuts partner country & city

The 21st Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF) announced yesterday that it will have a partner country and a partner city for the first time, which will be Portugal and Beijing respectively. The annual event, once again themed “Co-operation – Key to Business Opportunities”, will be held from tomorrow until Saturday at the Venetian in Cotai. There will be around 1,600 exhibition booths and over 50 participating countries and regions, according to the

October 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Cage supervisor gives himself up after stealing HK$13 million chips: police

A local casino cage supervisor gave himself up to police on Monday as he had stolen chips worth HK$13 million from a casino where he worked, a spokesperson for the Judiciary Police (PJ) said during a special briefing yesterday.The PJ spokesperson said the suspect, surnamed Cheung, is a 31-year-old local resident who had been working as a cage supervisor for three to four years for a junket operator.According to the spokesperson, the suspect said he had stolen chips worth HK$2 million, HK$3

October 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmakers reject universal suffrage motion

Lawmakers yesterday rejected a motion by grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong to express a “wish” – his “wish” was that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On would launch a political reform process for universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2019.According to the Legislative Assembly Procedure Rules, lawmakers can present a motion to “express a wish”. Article 52 of the rules says that the “wishes” a lawmaker can express include congratulations, grief,

October 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Ex-Transport Bureau official gets 12 1/2 years for graft

The former chief of the Transport Bureau’s (DSAT) Division of Transport Management, Lou Ngai Wa, was sentenced yesterday to 12 and half years in prison, with a 36,000 pataca fine for his involvement in a public car park management corruption case which took place between 2012 and 2015.Lou was convicted of corruption, abuse of power and money laundering.The ruling was handed down by the Court of First Instance (TJB). A total of six defendants were sentenced. A vehicle of the Macau

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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No.3 Strong Wind Signal is up

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) hoisted the No.3 Strong Wind Signal at 10 p.m. yesterday.The signal was hoisted as Typhoon Sarika was 480 kilometres south-southwest of the city at 1 a.m. It was heading towards Hainan.According to the bureau’s website, the No.3 signal is expected to remain hoisted this morning.This image taken from the website of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) at 1 a.m. today shows the projected trajectory of Typhoon Sarika heading towards

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Mainland’s foreign gaming crackdown worries industry

PARIS – Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld announced yesterday he planned to launch his own branded hotel chain, with the first property set to open in Macau in 2018.The 83-year-old German-born designer has already collaborated with luxury Parisian address Le Crillon and the Metropole in Monaco, but the new business will see him and his company design entire hotels.Leading fashion houses from Dior to Diane von Fürstenberg have developed a lucrative side-business away from the catwalk by designing

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Reserves reach 467.2 billion patacas: official

The government’s current reserves amount to 467.2 billion patacas, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said in the legislature yesterday.The legislature returned from its summer recess yesterday, when Leong gave details of a report about the government’s implementation of its budget for last year.According to Leong, the government’s revenues stood at 116.1 billion patacas last year, 45.7 billion patacas – or 28.3 percent – less than 2014.Secretary for Economy and

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for inventing robbery

A woman from the mainland was caught on Tuesday for lying about being robbed by a man in Rua do Terminal Marítimo, a spokesperson for the Judiciary Police (PJ) said during a regular briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the female suspect, surnamed Mo, is a 35-year-old non-resident worker employed as a cashier in a supermarket.The spokesperson said that last Tuesday the suspect screamed and asked a police officer, who happened to pass by, for help, claiming that she had been robbed

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Political activist urges police to probe ‘false imprisonment’

Anti-government activist Lee Kin Yun, commonly known as “Street Fighter”, handed a petition addressed to Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak yesterday to an official outside the policy secretary’s office in Calçada dos Quarteis, urging the police to investigate his “false imprisonment” last Monday. Lee, who heads the Democratic Action Association, told the reporters yesterday that he had been prevented from leaving home by three or four men on October 10, the day Premier Li

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Spending on Sino-Lusophone culture week cut by 9 pct

The budget for the 8th China and Portuguese-speaking Countries Cultural Week opening next week is around 8 million patacas, about 9 percent lower than the previous year, in response to the government’s policy to cut-back on public spending, according to one of the officials preparing the annual event. The event will last from October 24 until 27. Cristina Morais, the local government-appointed deputy secretary-general of the Supporting Office of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Young people can lead civil society’s participation: HK academic

It is possible for Macau’s young people to trigger some changes in civil society, Chan Chi Wang, an academic from the University of Hong Kong, said on Sunday.Chan made the comments while speaking to reporters during a forum about the inspiration that young people could get from the results of Hong Kong’s legislative election last month, in the run-up to Macau’s legislative elections next year. The forum, organised by the local Catholic publication Observatório de Macau (“Macau

October 18, 2016 | BY admin

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Thais in Macau mourn king’s passing

Thais living in Macau offered their prayers and condolences over the passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, who died on Thursday after seven decades as Thailand’s head of state, at a temporary shrine at the Association of Thais in Macau yesterday.About 50 Thais, almost all dressed in black as a sign of mourning, gathered at the association in Rua do Abreu Nunes yesterday at about 6:30 p.m., to sing and pray for the late king.Anaknong Wechsil, a domestic helper who has lived in Macau for

October 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Cement worker dies under pile of sand

A male non-resident worker from the mainland died yesterday after he was covered by sand in a sand silo at a cement plant in Coloane.According to a statement from the Judiciary Police (PJ), the 44-year-old worker, surnamed Yang, was checking the moving parts at the bottom of the sand silo which had jammed. While Yang was at the bottom of the silo, sand suddenly poured down burying him, at 10:15 a.m. yesterday.According to the Fire Services Bureau (CB), because there was a block at the bottom of

October 17, 2016 | BY admin

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