Students organise carnival to promote exchanges

Volunteers from the Centre for Higher Education Students organised a carnival in Iao Hon Market Garden yesterday afternoon to promote exchanges between student associations and encourage students to “go into the community”, according to one of the organisers. The event was titled Summer Gathering – Carnival of the Higher Education Student Associations. Many residents, mostly housewives and children, were queuing at the game booths run by various student organisations, including

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Visitors spend less in Q2 on non-gaming

Visitors’ per-capita non-gaming spending fell by 4 percent year-on-year and 3.4 percent quarter-to-quarter to 1,601 patacas in the second quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According to a DSEC statement, visitors’ total non-gaming spending in the second quarter amounted to 11.7 billion patacas, down by 4.5 percent year-on-year but up by 1.4 percent quarter-on-quarter. Total non-gaming spending by overnight visitors (9.3 billion patacas) and same-day

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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New Cotai bonds hit distressed levels

SINGAPORE – Bonds issued by US partners in Studio City have dropped to distressed levels after gaming revenue in the city entered a third year of declines and S&P Global Ratings lowered its outlook on the project.The 10.625 percent notes co-issued by New Cotai Limited Liability Company and New Cotai Capital Corporation, units of US hedge funds Silver Point Capital and Oaktree Capital Group, were indicated at 42.5 cents on the US dollar on Thursday, according to prices from independent

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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72-year-old rider in ICU after falling off scooter

A 72-year-old local man was critically injured yesterday after he fell off his scooter, sustaining severe head injuries, in Avenida de Horta e Costa.A spokesperson for the Public Security Police (PSP) told The Macau Post Daily last night that a lump of concrete that had apparently fallen from a residential building was found at the scene, adding that the reason the man fell off his scooter – hitting his head on the piece of concrete, or falling off trying to avoid it – was being

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Pupils experience 2 electricity-free days

Power utility CEM organised a camp for pupils to experience life without electricity over the weekend, with the aim of showing them the importance of saving energy. The two-day camp was held at CEM’s power plant in Coloane, with 45 secondary school pupils, selected from some 200 pupils from different schools, participating, according to a CEM statement yesterday.During the event, the first of its kind held by the company, the pupils visited the power station, played challenge games, put

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab mainland official with nephew, 16, at hotel ‘drug party’

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have detained a mainland civil servant who admitted bringing his 16-year-old nephew across the border to take drugs in a hotel in Cotai, where they also arrested two other mainlanders, one for possession of fake documents and the other for loan sharking.A PJ spokesperson said in a press conference on Saturday the four male suspects included a 45-year-old civil servant surnamed Wang and his 16-year-old nephew surnamed Shen on suspicion of taking drugs.The two other

August 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab man cheating pawnshop with fake watch

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a man from the mainland on Tuesday on suspicion of cheating a pawnshop out of 100,000 patacas with a fake watch.A PJ spokesperson said at a regular press conference that an employee of the pawnshop reported the case to the police in March. The 32-year-old suspect, surnamed Jian, was reportedly a businessman.The spokesperson said that after Jian pawned the watch, the staff member discovered after checking properly that the watch was a

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Coutinho questions TDM’s neutrality

Lawmaker Jose Pereira Coutinho yesterday questioned government-owned broadcaster TDM’s neutrality because the station appeared to be helping the Macau Jiangmen Communal Society promote itself in the run-up to next year’s legislate elections. Coutinho made the claim in a press conference at the headquarters of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM). The press conference was mainly about the work of the association’s two lawmakers – Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai – in the

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Mainland makes it easier for locals who lose travel permits

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday that it has reached an arrangement with the mainland authorities to launch a new measure which makes it easier for local residents who lose their “Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents” while travelling in the mainland to report the loss and apply for a one-time permit to return to Macau. The measure will take effect today, the statement said.According to the statement, under the previous measure, local

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Coutinho calls for live broadcasts of committee meetings

The Legislative Assembly (AL) is the “people’s home” and all of its meetings should be broadcast live, lawmaker Jose Pereira Coutinho said at the headquarters of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM) in Avenida da Amizade yesterday.Coutinho, who heads the association, made the remarks during a press conference with fellow lawmaker Leong Veng Chai, summarising their work during the 2015/16 session of the legislature which ended on Monday. The legislature is now in summer recess

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt to host tourism expo

The 4th Macau International Travel (Industry) Expo will kick off next month, with the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) being its main organiser for the first time.MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes made the announcement yesterday during a press conference about the upcoming fair at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape.The expo, co-organised by the Macau Government Tourist Office and a number of local tourism associations, will be held on September 2-4 at the Venetian in

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Tourism chief expect s10 pct rise in int’l tourists

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday she expected the number of “international” tourists to rise by 10 percent this year.Senna Fernandes also said that the total number of tourists rose slightly year-on-year during the first six months of this year.According to the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC), the number of visitor arrivals rose 0.1 percent year-on-year to 14.76 million in the first half of the year. Macau Government

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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IFT chief expects all undergrads in Taipa in 3 years

Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) President Fanny Vong Chuk Kwan said yesterday she expected all undergraduate students to have their classes on the new campus in Taipa – the former campus of the University of Macau (UM) – within two or three years.The ex-UM campus will be shared among the public Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) and the private City University of Macau, since the University of Macau moved to Hengqin Island in 2014.Vong made the comments

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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Changing face of reading in the computer age

It seems as if reading a book is becoming a thing of the past if Macau’s younger generation is anything to go by, newspapers and magazines too for that matter. This situation is probably hard to imagine for the older members of the community, who consider the morning read of the newspapers a ritual.The Internet, although a mine of information, is no substitute for a good book or a newspaper with the morning coffee before work for most.However, this does not appear to sit well with the younger

August 19, 2016 | BY admin

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