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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Group wants faster legislation of elderly rights bill

The government should “speed up” the legislative process of a bill on the rights of the elderly, Kong Wai Iong, who heads the Social Services Committee of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations, said yesterday. The union is commonly known as Kai Fong.The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) completed its public consultation on the bill in 2012. Iong Kong Io, the then IAS director, said in July last year that the bill had already been drafted, adding the government aimed to put

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt rents offices while leaving its properties vacant: lawmaker

Legislator-cum-businessman Chan Meng Kam yesterday slammed the government for spending “a large amount of money” on paying rent for offices while leaving many of its own properties vacant.Chan, a key leader of the local Fujianese community, made the remarks in a written interpellation submitted to the government. Chan sent copies of the interpellation to the media yesterday.Finance Services Bureau (DSF) Director Iong Kong Leong said last month in a reply to another written interpellation by

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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2 women feel sick after inhaling hydrogen sulphide

Two women yesterday felt nauseated after inhaling what appeared to have been hydrogen sulphide and 21 people who were working or shopping in a cosmetics shop in Avenida de Horta e Costa were evacuated, according to a statement by the Fire Service (CB).The Fire Service said in the statement that at about 4:30 p.m. they received a call that two people at the Sa Sa shop in Avenida de Horta e Cost felt sick after breathing in what appeared to have been biogas from the sewers under the shop.Fire

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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6 arrested for aiding IIs: police

Six mainlanders were caught red-handed yesterday morning as they were giving four illegal immigrants a lift to Cotai, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said near the Pac On ferry terminal in Taipa.The spokesperson said that based on a tip-off about six months ago, the police learnt the sextet planned to pick up a group of illegal immigrants – colloquially known as IIs – in Pac On at around 2 a.m. yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the gang took advantage of shallow water around a

June 22, 2016 | BY admin

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