Councillors want car parks to accept debit cards

Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council members Lo Wa Kit and Leong Meng Ian urged the government yesterday to accept payment with debit cards in all the public car parks in the two islands. The pair made the remarks during a meeting of the council at a community service centre run by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) in Taipa.There are three public car parks in Taipa, three in the Seac Pai Van public housing estate in Coloane, and one next to the Lotus Flower

September 7, 2016 | BY admin

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Bin man falls into dustcart: report

A local man slipped and fell into the dustcart when he was collecting refuse early yesterday morning, government-owned broadcaster TDM reported yesterday.TDM’s Chinese-language radio station said the incident was reported by the Macau Waste System Company (CSR).According to the company, the 53-year-old man had scratches on his left leg and swelling around his collarbone after falling into the dustcart when he was sorting out rubbish at the back of the vehicle in Pac On in Taipa.PLEASE READ

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Sino-Lusophone forum on Oct 11-12: official

The 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries will take place in Macau on October 11-12, the local government announced yesterday. According to the statement, delegations from seven of the world’s eight Portuguese-speaking countries – Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and East Timor – will participate in the forum. As in previous years, the Atlantic microstate of Sao

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Burglars target flats in buildings with broken main door locks: police

A mainland man has been detained for breaking into two flats where the residential buildings’ main doors were open, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a press briefing yesterday.A PJ spokesperson said the suspect and an accomplice broke into the two flats last month near Luis de Camoes Garden and stole items worth 6,500 patacas.The spokesperson said the suspect and his accomplice targeted flats in low-rises where the main doors had broken locks so that anyone could get in easily.Judiciary

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Fund to subsidise ‘smart city’ research

The government’s Science and Technology Development Fund will encourage research institutions to apply for subsidies for research projects on Macau’s development into a smart city, Frederico Ma Chi Nga, who heads the fund, said yesterday.Ma made the comments while speaking to reporters at Government Headquarters after attending an annual meeting of the government-appointed Science and Technology Council yesterday.The council, headed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, was founded in

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Govt vows to reduce impact of roadworks

The government will strive to reduce the impact on residents’ commutes from the numerous roadworks in Taipa, Mok Soi Tou, who heads the Co-ordination Division of the Traffic Management Department of the Transport Bureau (DSAT), said yesterday.Mok made the promise while speaking to reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council, which was held at a community service centre run by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) in

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Special radio taxi must be better than Uber: new taxi boss

Companhia de Serviços de Radio Taxi Macau S.A. Chairman Cheong Chi Man said yesterday that the service his company will provide “must be better” than that of Uber, pledging that it won’t fail like the “yellow taxi” business which went belly up a few years ago. Cheong made the upbeat remarks during a press conference which was held on the premises of Macau Juventude International Travel Limited, a company also headed by Cheong, at Macau Finance Centre in Zape. According to a

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Woman attacks boyfriend with cleaver: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a young woman on suspicion of attacking her boyfriend with a cleaver in his flat on Sunday.A PJ spokesperson said in a regular press conference that the 18-year-old suspect, surnamed Lou, moved into the victim’s flat in Patane district in February. The couple argued frequently, the spokesperson said.According to the spokesperson, Lou, who was drunk, went home on Sunday morning after she returned from a night out with her friends in

September 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Mainlander gets HK$59,000 with ‘DIY’ bank cards: police

A mainlander has confessed to making his own bank cards with which he managed to withdraw a total of HK$59,000 from a number of a local bank’s automated teller machines (ATMs), the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced in a special press conference yesterday.According to a PJ spokesman, the 30-year-old suspect, surnamed Liu, claimed to be unemployed. He was nabbed on Saturday at the Barrier Gate checkpoint when he was about to leave Macau.The spokesman said that PJ officials received a report from

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Initial design of 4th bridge to cost 75 million patacas

The initial design project for the fourth bridge connecting the peninsula and Taipa will cost over 75 million patacas, according to the Official Gazette (BO).The gazette yesterday showed that the government has granted the initial design project to Beijing-based CCCC Highway Consultants Company Limited for a fee of 75.19 million patacas. The same company is working on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge project.Macau currently has three bridges that connect the peninsula and Taipa, the oldest

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Councillors call for higher Nam Van govt buildings

Several members of the government-appointed Urban Planning Council yesterday urged the government to consider constructing government buildings on a plot in Nam Van that would be higher than what it proposed.Yesterday’s meeting, held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT), included a discussion of the proposed legal conditions for the plot where the government proposes to erect a 18-metre-tall building and another 25.9-metre-tall building which would include an exhibition hall, a convention centre

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Urban planning councillors oppose Nam Van central library project

Several members of the government-appointed Urban Planning Council yesterday rejected the government’s proposal to turn the Old Courthouse in Nam Van into the city’s new central library. While they agreed that a new central library is needed in Macau, they questioned whether it is the right location for it.Several councillors made their opposition known during a regular meeting of the council.Pedestrians walk outside the Old Courthouse in Nam Van yesterday. – Photo: Debby SengPLEASE

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Local nabbed for hammer attack

A local man was arrested on Sunday for attacking another man with a hammer, a spokesperson for the Public Security Police (PSP) said yesterday.The suspect, surnamed Ieng, is in his forties, while the victim, surnamed Leong, is in his fifties, the spokesperson said. The spokesperson said the victim suffered slight injuries to various parts of the body, adding that the victim had meanwhile been discharged from hospital.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Travel agencies call for Beijing Imperial Hotel probe

The currently mothballed Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel is suspected of having cheated 30 travel agencies by overselling hotel rooms to the tune of over HK$250 million, Macau Travel Industry Council President Andy Wu Keng Kuong said at a press conference yesterday.The ad hoc group, loosely translated as Victims Group, consists of travel agencies from Macau, Hong Kong and the mainland, as well as some individuals, who had booked the guestrooms, according to Paul Wong Fai, the organiser of the

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