Action for Sight: Some eye care tips for your kids

“Action for Sight” is an annual fundraising campaign by Orbis to mark World Sight Day and to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment with a different theme each year.Headquartered in New York, Orbis is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation that fights blindness around the world.This year’s World Sight Day falls on October 13 and Orbis’s local office has chosen this year’s “Action for Sight” theme as raising awareness of the importance children’s eyesight

October 7, 2016 | BY admin

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‘Kino’ a festival celebrating German films

“Kino Film Festival”, an annual event in Hong Kong for some years, is making its debut in Macau tomorrow, bringing two weekends of German films ranging from classics, new wave to original shorts on to the silver screen at Cinematheque – Passion. The festival is presented by the local Association Audio-Visual CUT and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, and the films will be showcased at the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) newly-opened cinema located near St Paul’s Ruins.“Kino” means

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Lusofonia Festival to start on Oct 21

The Lusofonia Festival will kick off on October 21 at the Taipa-Houses Museum area, with a budget of three million patacas.The annual festival is co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) and Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM).A press conference about the three-day event was held yesterday at the Cultural Affairs Bureau in Praça do Tap Seac.Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Vice-President Leung Hio Ming addresses yesterday’s press conference

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Eco-bureau installs collection box for old batteries

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in a statement yesterday that a collection box for old batteries has been set up on its premises in Estrada de D. Maria II, for residents to dispose of old batteries other than at Macau’s only hazardous waste disposal facility in Pac On in Taipa. The address of the building is 11-11D Estrada de D. Maria,  Macau Post Office Building.  Hitherto, residents could only dispose of their old batteries at the city’s only hazardous waste

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Banning off-duty dealers from casinos ‘good for them’: So

Banning off-duty dealers (croupiers) from gambling in local casinos would be good for their physical and mental wellbeing, SJM CEO Ambrose So Shu Fai said yesterday.So made the comments while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the gaming operator’s National Day cocktail reception with its staff held at Macau Tower.“It [the proposed ban] is actually a good thing, we do not wish that they gamble,” So said in response to the government’s initiative to study whether to ban dealers

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Council urges govt to tackle tourist coach issue

Members of the Northern District Community Service Consultative Council urged the government yesterday to improve its communication with local travel agencies to reduce the adverse impact caused to residents in the northern district when tourist coaches take visitors to shops only catering for tour groups. The council’s deputy convenor, Ho Chong Chun, and council member Chio Lan Ieng briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting at the Government Service Centre in Areia

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63rd Grand Prix to feature first-ever FIA F3 World Cup

The annual Macau Grand Prix, for which this year’s Formula 3 race has been elevated to FIA F3 World Cup status for the first time, will be held from November 17-20, the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee (COGPM) announced yesterday. This is the 63rd year that the event will be held and the second time Macau has held the FIA GT World Cup.The races will also include the 50th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix and Macau Guia Race.Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee (COGPM) Co-ordinator Pun

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No.1 typhoon signal is up

Macau’s Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) hoisted the No.1 stand-by signal at 0:15 a.m. today.The signal was hoisted as Tropical Cyclone Aere was 470 kilometres east-south-east of Macau at midnight. It was heading west at about 10 kilometres per hour, moving towards the southern island province of Hainan, according to the bureau. According to the SMG website, the possibility of hoisting the higher signal today is low. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Govt mulls building tunnel near ‘Old Bridge’

A tunnel, which would be the fifth link between the peninsula and Taipa, will possibly be located near the Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge, commonly known as the “Old Bridge”, Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Lam Hin San said in a statement responding to a lawmaker’s written interpellation.Legislator Si Ka Lon submitted the written interpellation in mid-July, questioning the government’s reason for researching the feasibility of building a tunnel near the Governador Nobre de

October 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt, group urge domestic violence victims to seek help

Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Celeste Vong Yim Mui yesterday urged domestic violence victims and other people who may know about such incidents to report them to the authorities and to seek help.Vong made the comments while speaking to reporters yesterday at the Macau Science Centre in Nape where she attended a ceremony to mark the launch of a co-operation mechanism across several government entities for the handling of domestic violence cases.Led by the Social Welfare Bureau, the

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Police nab woman for holding ex-business partner against his will

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced the arrest of a woman from the mainland on Tuesday on suspicion of telling three men to hold a local man against his will in Zhongshan city in Guangdong province, after the failed to pay the suspect 600,000 yuan.PJ spokesman Tam Weng Keong announced the case in a regular press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.Tam identified the suspect as a 32-year old woman surnamed She and the victim as a 52-year-old man.Cars drive past the

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Main construction of ‘Water Market’ will be finished next year: official

Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Fonseca Tavares reaffirmed yesterday that the main construction of the Patana Municipal Market, popularly known as “Water Market” because of its proximity to the Inner Harbour, in the Patane district will be finished next year. Patane is the Portuguese name for the district known as Sa Lei TauTavares made the remarks before a meeting of the Central District Social Services Consultative Committee which was held behind closed doors

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GDP to drop 4.7 pct this year: IMF

Macau’s gross domestic product will drop 4.7 percent in real terms this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts in its World Economic Outlook October 2016. The Macau Post Daily received the report from the Washington-based lender yesterday. In its April outlook, the fund had still forecast a negative GDP growth of 7.2 percent for this year. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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City has nearly 2,300 eateries and bars: official

Macau had 2,284 eateries and “watering holes” at the end of last year, 172 more than a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. According to the bureau, local-style cafés and congee and noodle shops accounted for 42 percent of the total number of restaurants and other kinds of eating and drinking places. Chinese restaurants made up 25.5 percent of the total.  Restaurants, bars and similar businesses reported total receipts of 10.04 billion

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