Union says stance on full casino smoking ban won’t change

Macau Federation of Trade Unions Vice President Un Oi Mou said yesterday that the group’s stance on a complete ban on smoking in casinos will not change. Un made the remarks on the sidelines of a press conference at the Macau Federation of Trade Unions’ Workers Stadium complex. The federation is widely known as Gung Luen, its Cantonese name. Macau Federation of Trade Unions Vice President Un Oi Mou talks to reporters on the sidelines of a press conference at the

June 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to run water leakage repairs course

The government will run its first-ever training course for residents about the detection and repairs of water leaks in buildings to provide them with the relevant qualifications and skills, with the aim of facilitating a more rapid handling of the problem. The course is co-organised by the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL), Housing Bureau (IH) and Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT), as well as the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) and Macau

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Macau should have 3 municipal bodies: scholar

There should be two non-municipal bodies for the Macau peninsula and one for Taipa and Coloane, Zhu Shihai, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), said yesterday.Zhu, who holds a PhD in law from Renmin University of China in Beijing, made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar on the implementation of the Macau Basic Law, at the public Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) in Zape.The professor also said that while most

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China’s volleyball team sees Macau as preparation for Olympics

Chinese women’s volleyball team head coach Lang Ping said yesterday that this week’s FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix in Macau will be a preparation for their matches in the Olympic Games in Rio in August.Lang made the comments yesterday during a pre-event press conference for the women’s tournament at Galaxy Macau, the Cotai resort of Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) which is the event’s title sponsor. The event’s organisers are the Sports Bureau and Volleyball Association of Macau,

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Create your own natural mosquito spray at Banyan Tree

Summer is here and mosquitoes too. While there are many mosquito repellents in the market, most of them have toxic chemicals that may cause insomnia and mood disturbances if too much is applied.Instead of using something that is not good for the health or the environment, natural sprays that use essential oils that give off natural fragrances that effectively repel mosquitoes while reducing itchiness and relieving tiredness are a better alternative.Clove tincture, made of cloves and gin, forms

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Darkness to go: Buy black to help save sight

Being in complete darkness can be a scary thing because you can’t see anything, so can you imagine how people who have lost their sight feel?About 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), but 80 percent of all visual impairment ailments can actually be cured, or prevented.Orbis is an international eye care charity that goes on sight saving missions around the world so that people, mostly in developing countries and regions, who

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Pupils show their ‘special homes’

Several dozen exhibits by children from the primary section of Kwong Tai School are on display at the Youth Art Exhibition and Performance Hall in Praça do Tap Seac to show their ideas about their homesThe school has organised the visual arts exhibition titled “Our Special Homes”, which comprises a number of pieces of artwork such as cartoons, drawings, ceramics, opera masks and installations.According to an introduction to the exhibition, the show is the first-ever visual arts display by

June 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Sale of live chickens to continue for now: official

The government will “eventually” replace Macau’s live chickens with chilled ones, which would be slaughtered before delivery in Macau for local consumption, Albino de Campos Pereira, who heads the Inspection and Health Department of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), said yesterday.However, Campos Pereira was quick to add that the government had yet to decide when to implement the ban, stressing that the sale of live chickens would continue for the time being. The bureau

June 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Local loses HK$1.2 million to ‘gun-wielding’ robbers: police

A 31-year-old local man was held up by a gang of robbers on Tuesday night and robbed of HK$1.2 million, and one of the robbers was allegedly wielding a gun, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a regular press briefing, the spokesperson said that on Tuesday night, the victim received a call from a mainland man he had met at a casino a while ago, informing him that someone wanted to exchange yuan to HK dollars, asking him to take the cash to a room at a hotel in

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Scholar urges local youths to befriend mainlanders

Peking University Professor Chen Yuyu said yesterday that local youths have an advantage when it comes to the opportunities provided by the central government’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, adding that they should visit the mainland more often and befriend more mainlanders.Chen, a professor at the world-famous university’s Guanghua School of Management, made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar at the Macau Science Centre about the central governments ‘One Belt, One Road’

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Activists to ask residents to vote on Macau Foundation reform

The grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) will ask residents to vote on how to reform the public Macau Foundation (FM), NMA Vice-President Jason Chao Teng Hei said yesterday, adding that his group was gathering the public’s views until July 30 on how the proposed poll should be conducted. Chao and four fellow NMA members held a press conference at the group’s office in Nam Van. He said the foundation did not process applications of subsidies in a transparent way and slammed the public

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Groups petition over lawmaker’s ‘non-local dealers’ proposal

Four local unions yesterday handed in petitions against a recent suggestion by indirectly-elected lawmaker Cheang Chi Keong that civil society should consider the possibility of setting up a ratio for non-locals to be hired as casino dealers (croupiers). The groups are the Macau Gaming Industry Frontline Workers (FMG), New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, People Power, and Workers’ Self-Help Union.Activists from the People Power group including its high-profile Vice-Chairman Cheong

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Lawmaker urges govt to explain MTR’s role in LRT project

Lawmaker-cum-businessman Si Ka Lon urged the government in an interpellation yesterday to explain why it has given Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation Ltd. a 470 million pataca service contract for the light-rail transit (LRT) project.The government said in a notice published late last month in the Official Gazette (BO) that as the contract for the LRT management and technical support with the current service provider was about to end, the government had decided to sign a two-year contract with MTR

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Data Protection Law can regulate cloud services: govt

Office for Personal Data Protection (GPDP) Director Vasco Fong Man Chong said yesterday that the current Data Protection Law is capable of regulating cloud services.According to Wikipedia, cloud computing is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage, applications and services,

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