Freezing moments: Creating stories

The presence of smartphones that feature built-in cameras complemented with all the fancy filters nowadays makes everyone a photographer, even those who don’t usually take pictures will snap away to record virtually every moment of their life.Joao Miguel Barros, who opened his photo exhibition “Between Gaze and Hallucination” at the Creative Macau gallery yesterday, wanted to take the opportunity to show what photography means to him.Barros told MPD Weekender in an e-mail interview

February 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt decision on smoking lounges to heed public interest: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the government had not made a final decision on the possible retention of casino smoking lounges, pledging that the government’s decision on the matter will heed the public interest.Chui spoke to reporters at the airport before departing for a working visit to Fuzhou, the provincial capital of Fujian province, for talks with the provincial government on their joint participation in the development of the central government’s ‘One

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Primary pupil knifed classmate

A primary school pupil was cut on his thigh with a Swiss Army type penknife yesterday by his classmate for having allegedly doodled on his homework, according to a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson.The boys are P5 pupils in an unnamed school in Taipa. The cut on the victim’s right thigh was 1 centimetre deep and 12 centimetres long, according to the police.He was taken to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) around 4 p.m. and released a few hours later. The pupil

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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4 men busted in 2 drug-trafficking cases: police

A Hong Kong man, a local taxi driver and two local ex-casino workers were busted for their alleged involvement in two separate drug-trafficking cases on Tuesday and yesterday respectively, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the Hong Kong man, surnamed Cheung, is a 22-year-old commercial vehicle driver while the local taxi driver, surnamed Chui, is 34 years old.The spokesperson said the police had received a tip-off that Cheung was selling drugs to

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Woman dies after hit by car on zebra crossing

A 59-year-old woman from the mainland was hit by a car on Tuesday night on a zebra crossing near Ponte 16, and died yesterday morning from serious head injuries, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said yesterday.The spokesperson urged witnesses to the accident to contact the police.According to the spokesperson, the woman was reportedly walking across the zebra crossing in Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos at about 11 p.m. when the accident happened. The car was being driven from Patane

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Culture bureau to join shipyard redevelopment: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) would participate in the redevelopment of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village.Chui made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the airport before departing for a working visit to Fujian province.A total of 11 dilapidated shipyards out of 14 in Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun Village will be demolished starting next month due to their state of disrepair causing a potential safety hazard, according to the

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Leong urges non-gaming industries to boost competitiveness

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac urged non-gaming industries yesterday not to wind down but continue to enhance their competiveness, irrespective of the continuous growth in gaming revenue over the past six months.Leong, who was a businessman before becoming a policy secretary, made the remarks while addressing an annual conference hosted by the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) in Zape.Businessman Alexandre Ma Iao Lai, a member of the Executive Council, chairs the chamber

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Candidates must declare all campaign activities: election committee

Election candidates must declare all their campaign activities, such as travelling and hosting luncheons and dinners during the campaign period, to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee, the committee’s President Tong Hio Fong said yesterday.The next direct and indirect legislative elections are slated to be held in September.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the committee’s third meeting, at the Public Administration Building in Rua do Campo, Tong said the candidates

February 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt watches tour cancellation talks before travel alert system starts: tourism chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the travel sector was discussing the arrangements for possible tour cancellations resulting from the government’s new travel alert system, adding that her office was paying close attention to the discussions.The government published the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Travel Alert System in the Official Gazette on Monday, stating that the system, promulgated as an executive order,

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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S&T innovation drives development: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday there exists a global consensus that the application of scientific and technological innovation is driving social and economic development.Leong made the remarks while addressing the opening ceremony of the Cross Straits, Hong Kong and Macau Collaborative Innovation Forum 2017 at the Macau Science Centre in Nape.Co-organised by the local government and the China Association for Science and Technology, the two-day forum aims

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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Info bureau to join Facebook, Instagram

The Government Information Bureau (GCS) plans to provide information about the government on Facebook and Instagram, Victor Chan Chi Ping, who heads both the Government Information Bureau (GCS) and the Government Spokesperson’s Office, said yesterday.Addressing an annual Spring Festival media gathering hosted by his bureau, Chan said the bureau would continue to strengthen co-operation with the local media, adding that the bureau planned to create a Facebook page and an Instagram account to

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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Inflation rises in January

The city’s composite consumer price index (CPI) for last month rose 1.76 percent year on year, up by 0.32 percentage points from the 1.44 percent growth in the previous month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, the increment was attributable to significant year-on-year increases in package tour prices as the Chinese New Year fell in February last year but occurred in January this year.The higher cost of eating out, rising rentals for

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for hitting 2 men with glass bottles

The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested a local man on Monday on suspicion of attacking two men with a glass bottle in a restaurant in Areia Preta on Friday, PSP Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Fong, another two men also attacked the two victims with glass bottles, and are still at large. Fong identified the suspect as a 26 year-old surnamed Ho.According to Fong, on Friday morning the two victims were having breakfast and drinking, accompanied by

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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Smoking lounges split labour unions

Members of the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union yesterday submitted a petition, addressed to Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, urging the government to implement a blanket ban on smoking in all the gaming areas of the city’s casinos.Speaking to reporters after handing the petition to an official outside Government Headquarters, Cloee Chao Sao Fong, the union’s president, slammed Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng for talking “nonsense” on Monday by

February 22, 2017 | BY admin

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