Group wants law on disabled people’s rights

The newly established Macau People with Disabilities Federation wants Macau to get a law on the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities, Albert Cheong Chi Pong, who heads the group, said before meeting Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng yesterday. Speaking to reporters outside Government Headquarters, Cheong, visually impaired himself, said disabled people have “great difficulties” when using the city’s public facilities, adding that officials

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Chui family’s house is not listed: culture chief

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said yesterday that Chui’s family mansion in Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga is neither in the government’s cultural heritage protection zone nor is it included in its protection list.Ung made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting of the government-appointed Cultural Industries Council at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT).According to the website of the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT), a 30-storey residential

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Clean the World collects over 100 tons of soap from local hotels

Ever wondered what happens to the used pieces of soap in your hotel room after you check out? That was the question that lingered in Shawn Seipler’s mind, when he was working as a sales executive for a technology company and spending 150 nights a year in hotel rooms.“I found out they were simply thrown away”, Seipler, who turns 40 this year, told MPD Weekender in an e-mail interview earlier this week, “After learning that hand washing with soap could potentially prevent the deaths

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Le French May to bring Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ to town

The annual cultural event that promotes everything French, Le French May, is bringing just five programmes to town this year, with Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer” as well as Auguste Borget’s paintings of Macau in the mid-19th century as the highlights of the two-month festival that will see the other two dozen programmes taking place in Hong Kong.The Macau programme was announced yesterday during a press conference attended by Consul General of France

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Int’l Museum Day to be celebrated for one month

Marking International Museum Day, the city’s 18 public and private museums, archives and exhibition halls will co-organise a string of activities and events next month.International Museum Day is on May 18.Officials of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and representatives from the 18 entities including Lei Lai Kio, who heads the bureau’s department of museums, and Macau Museum Director Loi Chi Pang presided over a press conference at the Macau Science Centre in Nape to announce details about

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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‘Passive sting operation’ will follow law: security chief

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that police officers will work in accordance with local laws if the government’s proposed “passive sting operation” to collect evidence in its fight against rogue cabbies is to go ahead.Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony of new Fire Services Bureau (CB) Director Leong Iok Sam at the policy secretary’s office in Cotai.The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has proposed that the taxi-driving licence of a cabbie found

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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World wushu masters to gather in Macau: Tam

The government is inviting wushu masters from all over the world to join Macau’s four-day Wushu Grand Gathering in August, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng told reporters yesterday.‘Wushu’ is Putonghua for martial arts.The policy secretary made the remarks after chairing a plenary meeting of the government-appointed Cultural Industries Council at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT). Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng talks to

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Councillor calls for cultural zone at old power station

Certain facilities at power utility CEM’s former power station in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais, which is earmarked for demolition, should be set aside as a “cultural and creative zone”, Ieng Weng Fat, a member of the government-appointed Cultural Industries Council, said yesterday. Ieng, who holds a PhD in history from Jinan University in Guangdong, made the appeal during a meeting of the council at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT). Secretary for Transport and Public Works

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Group urges prosecutors to probe one-way permits

Activists from the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) yesterday urged the Public Prosecution Office (MP) to investigate whether any locals obtained their so-called one-way permits illegally. NMA President Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Vice President Jason Chao Teng Hei yesterday handed in their petition to an official of the Public Prosecution Office outside its headquarters in Nape.The activists urged the office to start an investigation into the matter. New Macau Association (NMA)

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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200 mainlanders cheated in job referral scam: police

The police arrested a man on Wednesday for running a job referral scam last year, in which he cheated about 200 mainlanders out of 720,000 yuan, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a special press briefing, the spokesperson said the owner of a job agency in Jiangmen reported the case to the police last Friday.According to the spokesperson, the suspect told the owner in the latter half of last year that the construction site where he was working was looking to

April 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt prepares to destroy 150 kilos of ivory

Lawmakers pass bill on CITES The government is preparing to destroy 150 kilos of confiscated ivory, Economic Services Bureau (DSE) Director Tai Kin Ip said yesterday. Tai made the remarks during a plenary session in the Legislative Assembly (AL).Asked by lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho, Tai said his bureau had transferred 748 kg of confiscated ivory to the Finance Services Bureau (DSF). He did not give time span for the transfer. Of the total amount, around 350 kg

April 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Council okays school’s redevelopment

Members oppose high-rise next to mosqueMost of the opinions raised during yesterday’s meeting of the government-appointed Urban Planning Committee agreed with the legal conditions proposed by the Lands, Transport and Public Works Bureau (DSSOPT) for the redevelopment of a plot of land on which the Instituto Salesiano school campus stands, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday.Under the proposed legal conditions, the school will not be legally bound to

April 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmakers agree to debate disease centre

The legislature approved yesterday three motions to hold a plenary debate on whether the Health Bureau’s (SSM) infectious disease centre should be built next to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) as planned.The motions were passed by all lawmakers present, except Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng, who did not vote, as is customary. One of the motions was jointly proposed by lawmakers Si Ka Lon and Song Pek Kei while the remaining two were proposed by

April 21, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt looks to June for HOS flat picks

Housing Bureau (IH) Director Arnaldo Santos said yesterday his bureau was looking to allow those qualified for a homeownership (HOS) scheme flat to pick their future home in June.Santos made the remarks after a closed-door committee meeting at the legislature.The government reopened the application for HOS flats in 2013, when applicants were chosen via a lucky draw system. Housing Bureau (IH) Director Arnaldo Santos speaks to reporters after a closed-door meeting at the legislature

April 21, 2016 | BY admin

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