Govt nixes plan to house greyhounds next to old people’s home

About 500 greyhounds will stay for the time being in their kennels at the former racetrack in Fai Chi Kei as a provisional facility that Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome has controversially set up to house the dogs right next to a retirement home in Coloane has been rejected by the government for failing to meet the necessary criteria.The company headed by legislator-cum-gaming executive Angela Leong On Kei had left the racing dogs at the Canidrome closed down in July. Leong has said she is ready to

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Forum doubts govt’s ability to implement master plan’s goals

Members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum said that they doubted whether the government would be able to implement the various goals to be stipulated in its future urban master plan.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.The government announced last Wednesday that it had decided to draft the urban master plan of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), based on the government’s strategic plan to develop the

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Lok Kok teahouse exterior to be kept for hotel project: culture bureau

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Vice President Leong Wai Man said yesterday that the construction of a new project on the plot where the heritage-protected former Lok Kok teahouse building is located would not affect the old building’s original façade.The badly dilapidated building is located in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.Leong made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Lou Kau Mansion – near the Cathedral – after attending yesterday’s launch ceremony of a guided tour service

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2 locals jump to their deaths & floating body found: police

A local man and a local woman jumped to their deaths in Areia Preta district on Saturday and yesterday respectively while the body of an unidentified man was spotted floating in the sea off Hac Sa beach on Saturday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in three statements.In the first statement, the police identified the deceased as 56-year-old local man surnamed Chang, who lived in a flat in a residential building in Areia Preta.On Saturday morning, a resident living in the building heard a noise

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Lawmaker urges govt to introduce adaptive traffic signals

The local government should introduce an adaptive traffic control system (ATCS) – a traffic management strategy in which traffic signal timing changes based on actual traffic demand - in order to tackle the city’s chronic traffic congestion, lawmaker Leong Sun Iok said yesterday.Leong made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar on traffic problems held by think tank Macau Wisdom Convergence Network on the latter’s premises in Ribeira do Patane district.Leong pointed out that the number

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Tourist sets 13 motorbikes alight after quarrelling with his mum: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland yesterday for setting a row of motorcycles on fire as a way to vent his anger after a heated argument with his mother, which resulted in 13 of the vehicles being burnt, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.The motorbikes were parked opposite the former CEM power station in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais.PJ officers arrested the suspect several hours after the arson case, which occurred in the early

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Ex-casino worker’s hunger for healthy diet leads to restaurant opening

When shift work and late nights became a bit too much, casino employee João Ricardo V. Areias turned to exercise and healthy food, which led him to open his own restaurant offering a range of dishes to cater to different diets, which are also healthier alternatives to the usual carbohydrate- and fat-based diet.“I didn’t have a healthy lifestyle when I worked at the casino, and there weren’t many restaurants for healthy eating,” Ricardo V. Areias told MPD Weekender at his HealthyHabits

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Yoga Room organises retreat programme in Chiang Mai

The Yoga Room organised an “Ashtanga and Yin Yoga Retreat” programme in the lush valley of Mae Ann Valley in Chiang Mai recently, which was attended by about a dozen participants.The yoga retreat took place from September 22 to 25 where, under the guidance of Master of Yoga Megala Sundarrajan, participants got to nourish their mind, body and soul in a natural, serene and tranquil surrounding through practising ashtanga and yin yoga.The retreat at The Pavana Chiang Mai Resort was designed to

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Sin Fong’s reconstruction finally gets off the ground

A ceremony for the reconstruction of the ill-fated Sin Fong Garden residential building to get off the ground finally took place yesterday.The “Sin Fong Garden Reconstruction Project Commencement Ceremony” was held at the rear of the mothballed high-rise in Patane district.Speaking to reporters after yesterday’s ceremony, Wong Man Sang, the chairman of the Sin Fong Garden condominium owners’ management committee, said that Sin Fong’s reconstruction was expected to take two and a half

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Activists fined for trespassing

The Court of First Instance (TJB) yesterday found political activists Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Alan Lam Na Lon guilty of “entering a place with limited public access”, and fined them 3,000 patacas and 4,500 patacas respectively.The duo each faced a charge of “entering a place with limited public access” and a charge of “damaging others’ possessions” after the police accused them of trespassing in the dilapidated Hotel Estoril by damaging the building’s fences in August 2016.On

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Yat Yuen says own report finds greyhounds’ noise ‘acceptable’

The Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. submitted a letter to the government yesterday, saying that it is ready to move about 500 greyhounds to its facility known as the “International Centre for the Rehoming of Greyhounds (Macau)”, located just metres away from a retirement home in Coloane, after its own report shows that the noise from the greyhounds was within an “acceptable” range.The arrangement to house the greyhounds next to the old people’s home has sparked noise and hygiene

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Customs officers nab 3 IIs, 2 ‘snakeheads’

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers have busted two illegal immigration cases.According to the statement, the Customs Service on Tuesday caught three illegal immigrants (IIs) and two “snakeheads”, aged between 24 and 40, all of them male mainlanders.“Snakehead” is Cantonese slang for people smugglers.This undated handout photo provided by the Macau Customs Service yesterday shows the inflatable boat used by one of the two

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Ambrose So: Grand Lisboa Palace to open in H2 2019

SJM CEO Ambrose So Shu Fai said yesterday that Grand Lisboa Palace in Cotai would open in the second half of next year, which would add vitality to the tourism offerings in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).So made the announcement as he gave a speech at the company’s cocktail reception for its staff at Macau Tower to mark the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).According to previous reports, the HK$36 billion project was supposed to be topped off in 2016, with

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Language skills are local youth’s advantage: youth committee

Members of the government-appointed Youth Affairs Committee believe that language skills are the advantage that young locals have compared to their counterparts from other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), Wong Ka Ki, head of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau’s (DSEJ) Division of Youth Organisations and Training, said yesterday.Wong made the remarks during a press conference about a regular closed-door meeting of the committee at the bureau.Citing the

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