Grand Lapa wins energy-saving contest

Grand Lapa Macau won the Macau Energy Saving Contest organised by power utility CEM and the Energy Sector Development Office (GDSE), the hotel announced in a statement yesterday.In the same contest, its sister property – Grand Coloane Resort – was awarded third prize.According to the statement, both hotels are managed by the Hong Kong-based Artyzen Hospitality Group.The six-month contest aims to enhance public awareness on energy conservation and to encourage commercial and residential

January 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Kiang Wu says medics worry who’s liable

Kiang Wu Hospital Director Ma Hok Cheung said yesterday that the private hospital’s healthcare workers had raised concerns about whether the trainee doctor or his or her trainer will be liable for medical malpractice.The legislature passed a medical malpractice bill submitted by the government on August 12 last year. The law will take effect on February 26.Speaking to reporters at the hospital on the sidelines of a co-operation agreement signing ceremony with Linkou Chang Gung Memorial

January 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Chan insists recruitment process is fair

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said yesterday that the government’s staff recruitment process is carried out fairly and openly, promising that the government will constantly review its recruitment system to see if any improvements can be made.Chan made the remarks when replying to oral interpellations by grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong and lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Pereira Coutinho during a plenary session of the legislature.Ng and Coutinho questioned

January 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Man beats his dog to death for ‘barking too much’: police

A local man was arrested yesterday for killing his dog because it “barked too much”, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Kai Sang said during a regular press briefing yesterday. Lei said a woman called the police on Monday afternoon, alleging that her husband, surnamed Wu, had beaten their dog to death in their flat in Patane. Wu had left the flat when the police arrived. Lei said the police located the suspect, who is in his sixties, yesterday and made the arrest. Wu

January 25, 2017 | BY admin

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Tencent Web network extended to Macau

Tencent Web (qq.com), one of the mainland’s largest Internet companies, announced yesterday that its coverage has been extended to Macau.The announcement was made during a press conference at Macau Tower.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the press conference, Tencent Guangdong Web – Macau General Manager Lai Chi Kong said the company made the announcement to let local companies and the government know that Tencent Web has set up a division in Macau to promote new media and how to

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Overnight visitors rise 9.8 pct last year

Macau welcomed 15.7 million overnight visitors last year, an increase of 9.8 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Overnight visitors accounted for 50.7 percent of last year’s 30.95 million visitor arrivals. On average, overnight visitors stayed 2.1 days. The number of same-day visitors dropped 7.1 percent to 15.25 million in 2016. The total number of visitor arrivals rose 0.8 percent year-on-year. Last year recorded Macau’s

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman cheated out of 420,000 patacas online

A 30-year-old local woman was cheated out of 420,000 patacas on WeChat by a user claiming to be an investment consultant who convinced her to open an investment account, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during regular press briefing at the PJ headquarters yesterday. According to the spokesperson, the victim became digitally acquainted with the suspect, who claimed to be from Taiwan and worked for the well-known Jih Sun Securities Investment Consulting Company, via WeChat in

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Tam vows to protect Ilha Verde Hill

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng promised yesterday that the government will protect Ilha Verde Hill.Tam made the remarks when replying to an oral interpellation by lawmaker Ho Ion Sang during a plenary session of the legislature.Ho said that while Ilha Verde Hill has been listed as a cultural heritage site for many years, it has never been properly protected.According to previous news reports, many plots of land around Ilha Verde Hill are privately owned.Ho

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt vows to better regulate cross-border drivers

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Vice Director Luis Correia Gageiro said yesterday the government was planning to amend certain pieces of legislation with the aim of improving the regulations for cross-border drivers from the mainland who hold “special driving licences” which allow them to drive in Macau.Gageiro made the remarks when replying to an oral interpellation by lawmaker-cum-unionist Kwan Tsui Hang during a plenary session of the legislature.According to Kwan, Decree Law No. 67/84/M allows

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Kai Fong urges govt to tax private idle land

The General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong) yesterday suggested the government impose a tax on privately owned vacant plots of land as a way to push the landowners to develop their plots as soon as possible.Chan Ka Leong, who heads Kai Fong’s social affairs committee, made the suggestion during a press conference at the group’s community service centre in Toi San district.Kai Fong staff visited most plots of idle land from August to December last year, which

January 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Scholars slam govt’s policy implementation system

Macau Civic Power (ECM) Chairwoman Agnes Lam Iok Fong said yesterday that the government’s systemic problems in policy implementation, especially in its “ineffective” consultation system, had caused residents to suffer politics participation “fatigue”.Lam, the assistant dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau (UM) where she teaches media studies, made the remarks at a roundtable discussion held by ECM in the Art Garden in Nape.The group hosts monthly

January 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Liaison chief praises city’s ‘exceptional’ development

Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Wang Zhimin said in his address during a reception on Friday celebrating the Chinese New Year it was “exceptional” that Macau could achieve full employment and economic stability last year amid the ongoing pressure of the global economic slowdown.The event took place at Macau Tower, with more than 1,000 people attending, including Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, senior local government officials, lawmakers, Executive Council

January 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Union protests against non-local drivers

The newly-founded Macau Local Commercial Drivers Union organised a protest march yesterday afternoon against the possible hiring of non-local commercial vehicle drivers.About 30 members of the union started their protest march in Iao Hon Market Park at 2 p.m. They marched along Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira, Avenida do Coronel Mesquita, Avenida de Sidónio Pais and Rua do Campo, before ending their march outside Government Headquarters in Nam Van, where several representatives of the trade

January 23, 2017 | BY admin

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100 join anti-Trump Women’s March in Macau

About 100 US citizens living in Macau participated in a Women’s March protest against US President Donald Trump on Saturday, after his inauguration in Washington, DC, on Friday (1 a.m. Saturday Macau time), according to local Chinese-language online media All About Macau.According to All About Macau, the protesters urged the Trump administration to ensure that women’s rights in the US will always be protected.The local rally was part of the global anti-Trump Women’s March

January 23, 2017 | BY admin

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