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Lawmakers urge govt to speed up budget hotel bids
The government should speed up its processing of the 27 applications to run budget hotels in Macau, legislator Chan Meng Kam, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs, said yesterday.The committee met yesterday to follow up on the government’s current review of the law on illegal accommodation. Briefing reporters afterwards, Chan quoted officials attending the meeting as saying that the 27 applications involved over 1,700 hotel rooms. Concerning
March 22, 2016
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Police to be trained to handle domestic violence: official
The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) will provide around 1,200 police officers with two training courses, each three weeks long, on how to handle domestic violence, IAS Vice-President Au Chi Keung said yesterday.Au made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) in Zape. He added that the training would take place before the government-drafted bill on the prevention of domestic violence becomes law.According to Au, similar training will be given to social
March 17, 2016 | BY admin
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Scholar urges firms to support social services
Businesses in Hong Kong and Macau should give more support to social service organisations, Ernest Chui Wing-tak, an associate professor of social work at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), said yesterday.Chui made the remarks on the sidelines of a social work seminar at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) in Zape.“If possible, it would be better if social service organisations become financially independent. However, I also think governments are responsible for providing social
March 17, 2016 | BY Davis Ip
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Culture chief urges to be ‘practical’ about Estoril fate
Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said yesterday he hoped that regarding the fate of Hotel Estoril residents will put the past behind them, as that would be more practical than to rake the coals over the same subject.Ung made the suggestion when talking to reporters after a phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin Tou, government broadcaster TDM’s Chinese-language radio station. IC Cultural Heritage Department Chief Leong Wai Man accompanied Ung to the station.Early
March 17, 2016 | BY Leong Lok Ian
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Parents meet school over rise in tuition fees
Over 40 parents of pupils of St Joseph Diocesan College of Macau 5 (CDSJ5) met the school’s management including its principal Kuok Wa Pong at the school in Toi San yesterday for a meeting about the school’s recently announced rise in tuition fees.The parents urged the school to give them more information about the planned fee hike, consider each family’s financial situation and let them know how the school plans to spend the extra income. According to government broadcaster TDM last
March 16, 2016 | BY Staff Reporter
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‘You can’t have both the fish and the bear’s paw’: principal
This photo taken yesterday shows the over century-old building that is facing demolition as Instituto Salesiano looks to expand.    Photo: Leong Lok Ian Instituto Salesiano Principal Jacob Yu Fu-keung speaks to reporters during a press conference on the school premises yesterday. ‘You can’t have both the fish and the bear’s paw’: principalBut Instituto Salesiano vows to preserve what it canInstituto Salesiano Principal Jacob Yu Fu-keung said yesterday that the
March 16, 2016 | BY Leong Lok Ian
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Council rejects Hotel Estoril’s cultural revaluation
Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng (centre) speaks to reporters at the Tourist Activities Centre (CAT) yesterday, as IC Cultural Heritage Department Chief Leong Wai Man(left) and Cultural Heritage Council member Carlos Marreiros look on.  Photo: Leong Lok IanThe government-appointed Cultural Heritage Council voted yesterday against the initiation of a cultural revaluation procedure for Hotel Estoril. The council met at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in
March 16, 2016 | BY Leong Lok Ian
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Polytex ‘definitely won’t lose’ Pearl Horizon lawsuit: boss
Polytec Asset Holdings Chairman Or Wai Sheun said yesterday that Polytex, a subsidiary of Polytec, “definitely can’t lose, and won’t lose” its lawsuit in the Administrative Court against the local government over the Pearl Horizon debacle, according to government broadcaster TDM. Asked by reporters outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Or, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), pledged to resume and
March 16, 2016 | BY Staff Reporter
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Macau’s 1st 5-Year Plan is ‘historic & iconic’: scholar
Hu Angang, director of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University (THU), talks to reporters after his lecture at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai yesterday. – Photo: Davis Ip Macau’s Five-Year Development Plan for 2016 to 2020 is both “historic and iconic”, Hu Angang, director of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said yesterday.Tsinghua University (THU) is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top
March 16, 2016 | BY Davis Ip
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Tam wants Grand Prix to become ‘int’l brand’ ‘Synergy of sports, culture and tourism’
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng speaks to reporters before yesterday’s Macau Grand Prix Organisation Committee’s meeting at the Grand Prix Building.  Photo: MPDGSecretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday the government hoped to turn the Macau Grand Prix into an “international brand”.Tam made the remarks before attending a closed-door Grand Prix Organisation Committee (COGPM) meeting in the Grand Prix Building in Zape.
March 15, 2016 | BY Staff Reporter
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Govt vows to step up sex education
Asked by reporters yesterday about the case of a 15-year-old schoolboy who had sex with a girl aged 12 two days after they became friends on a social networking website in October, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) Youth Department Chief Un Hoi Cheng said the bureau would step up its efforts to provide young people with sex education. Un made the remarks on the sidelines of an activity hosted by the Macau New Chinese Youth Association at the government-run Areia Preta Health
March 14, 2016 | BY Staff Reporters
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2 Malaysians caught with 3.6 kg of cocaine
2 Malaysians caught with 3.6 kg of cocaineDrugs wrapped to look like chocolate bars: policeStaff ReporterJudiciary Police (PJ) officers yesterday arrested a man and a woman, both from Malaysia, for smuggling about 3.6 kilos of cocaine wrapped to look like chocolate bars into Macau.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson Tam Weng Keong made the announcement late last night outside the local airport after the arrests earlier in the day.According to Tam, the estimated street value of the cocaine is
March 14, 2016 | BY admin
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Galaxy donates 25 million patacas to help Hubei, Macau fight Wuhan virus
Gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group(GEG) has made a donation of 20 million patacas to Hubei province and will be donating five million patacas to the Macau community to help battle the novel corona virus outbreak, which emerged in Hubei’s provincial capital Wuhan in December.  The company said in a statement today that the donation comes from its Galaxy Entertainment Group Foundation. The statement said that the 20 million patacas for Hubei, made in coordination with the
January 1, 1970 | BY Galaxy donates 25 million patacas to helpHubei, Macau battle coronavirus
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