4,000 public flats still being planned: govt

Some 4,000 public housing flats that the government in March last year pledged to build on several plots of land are still being planned, Housing Bureau (IH) Director Arnaldo Ernesto dos Santos said yesterday.Santos also said that a public housing project which was initially expected to be completed by 2012 was still being modified.Santos made the comments on the sidelines of a committee meeting at the Legislative Assembly.Housing Bureau (IH) Director Arnaldo Ernesto dos Santos speaks to

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for HK$200,000 chip fraud: police

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers on Sunday arrested a mainland man on suspicion of cheating a woman out of HK$200,000 with gaming chips which can’t be used in Macau, PJ spokesman Eric Choi Ian Fai said yesterday.Choi revealed details of the case during a regular press briefing at the PSP headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the 62-years-old jobless suspect, surnamed Bo, is unemployed. The victim, who is also from the mainland, arrived in the city on Saturday. Choi did not say when the

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt mulls wastewater plant capacity study: official

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) plans to start a study later this year on how to raise the capacity of the Macau Peninsula Wastewater Treatment Plant, DSPA Environment Infrastructure Management Centre Functional Head Stephen Ip Weng Kei told reporters yesterday. A committee formed by DSPA officials, which is in charge of the bidding process for the plant’s operating and maintenance concession, held a meeting yesterday at the bureau to unseal and screen the documents received

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Top court rejects Moon Ocean’s La Scala appeal

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected Moon Ocean Ltd’s request to annul a 2012 administrative order by Chief Executive Chui Sai On which invalidated the company’s provisional leaseholds of five plots of land where the aborted La Scala residential project is located, according to a statement issued by the court yesterday. Chui’s predecessor Edmund Ho Hau Wah issued an administrative order to transfer the provisional land concessions of the five plots from several companies to

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Shun Tak to build mall with cineplex in Taipa

Shun Tak Holdings Limited said in a statement yesterday that it was partnering with an Abu Dhabi company to build a shopping mall with a cineplex in Taipa that was expected to be operational in 2019.The statement said that the 50/50 joint venture partnership was agreed upon with HIP Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). ADIA is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi founded for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Paid paternity leave boosts staff morale: group

Macau Women’s General Association Vice-President Wong Kit Cheng said yesterday she hoped employers will realise that paternity leave boosts employees’ morale. The association is commonly known as ‘Fu Luen’, its Cantonese name. Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of a public activity held at the Fu Luen headquarters in Rua da Barca, where its members displayed signature boards containing over 1,000 signatures collected since last Tuesday to convince the government to mandate

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Group petitions Macau Foundation over subsidies

Activists from the People Power group including its high-profile Vice-Chairman Cheong Weng Fat urged Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On yesterday to cancel the funding of the Macau Foundation (FM) by the city’s casino industry.The activists accused the foundation of wasting public funds by handing out subsidies to associations and other organisations.The public foundation was set up by the government in 2001. It is mainly funded by 1.6 percent of the gross revenues of Macau’s

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Portuguese artist ‘gives his heart’

Portuguese artist Alexandre Baptista is holding an exhibition at local art group Albergue SCM to show the public his innermost thoughts.The “Drawing is Giving One’s Heart” exhibition comprising about 40 drawings and paintings combined with other elements such as photographs and poetry is on display in two Albergue SCM showrooms in the Sao Lazaro cultural district.The 47-year-old painter, who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University in Portugal, has participated in

June 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab pick-pocket red-handed

Public Security Police (PSP) officers on Monday arrested a mainland man after catching him trying to pick-pocket a woman, PSP spokesman Lei Tak Fai said yesterday.Lei revealed details of the case during a regular press briefing at the PSP headquarters in Zape.According to Lei, the unemployed suspect surnamed He is in his twenties.Please read the full article in our print edition.

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmakers finish reviewing private notary bill

The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said yesterday her committee had finished reviewing a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s private notaries, adding that the government would once more revise the bill and return it to the committee for further analysis.Kwan made the remarks after a meeting of her committee about the bill with government officials including Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) Director Liu Dexue in the legislative chamber.The legislature

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Long-delayed provident fund bill finally passes

The government’s bill for the city’s long-delayed non-mandatory central provident fund was finally passed by the legislature yesterday, eight years after it had first been presented by the government. During a plenary debate about the bill’s outline, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said he was “confident” that the government could convince the city’s major enterprises to take part in the fund.The bill proposes that employers and employees can opt

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Inflation slows to 2.64 pct in May

Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose by 2.64 percent year-on-year in May, down further from the 3.02 percent growth in April, representing the lowest year-on-year rise since August 2010, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday. Year-on-year growth in the price indices of food, non-alcoholic beverages, housing and fuels showed a continuous slowdown, the statement said, adding that the indices of clothing, footwear, communication, recreation and

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Chui reassures public of Taishan nuclear plant safety

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the central government was “deeply concerned about the safety of Macau’s residents,” amid concerns about safety at the still under-construction Taishan Nuclear Power Plant.Chui also vowed that his government will always be in close contact with the Guangdong provincial government about the plant’s construction progress and operation. Chui made the comments during a press briefing about the 2016 Macau-Guangdong Joint

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to co-operate with Guangdong on ‘One Belt, One Road’

The Macau and Guangdong governments yesterday signed a deal to join forces in the development of the central government’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative.The two sides inked the letter of intent during the one-day 2016 Macau-Guangdong Joint Co-operation Conference at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai.Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Guangdong Governor Zhu Xiaodan co-hosted a press briefing after the closed-door annual meeting. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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