Lawmaker calls for measures to tackle income gap

Grassroots lawmaker Ho Ion Sang has urged the government to come up with measures to reduce the impact of the increasing inequality of residents’ income.Ho, one of 14 vice-chairmen of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong), makes the appeal in a written interpellation submitted to the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday. A copy was sent to the media.Ho, who is senior staff member of the local branch of the Bank of China (BOC), says in the

May 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Voter registration deadline should be extended: legislator

The voter registration deadline for the next direct and indirect legislative elections, which are slated to take place in September 2017, should be extended from December 31 this year to around three months prior to the yet-to-be-announced election day, legislator-cum-unionist José Pereira Coutinho said yesterday.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily in a telephone interview, Coutinho said he believed that more residents, especially young people, would register to vote if the time gap is shortened,

May 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Education bureau to set up WeChat notification system

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) said in a statement yesterday that it will set up a WeChat account so that it will be able to provide parents with up-to-date notifications.The statement was made in a reply to lawmaker Ella Lei Ching I’s interpellation in March, in which she asked the government about its plans to prevent a notification mishap that occurred earlier that month. In March, government-broadcaster TDM mistakenly announced on its Chinese language TV channel a

May 17, 2016 | BY admin

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Over 1,000 protest over Jinan Uni donation

A total of 17 groups protested yesterday with the aim of putting pressure on the public Macau Foundation (FM) to withdraw its controversial decision to donate 100 million yuan (123 million patacas) to Jinan University in Guangzhou.The 17 grassroots groups comprised two ad-hoc alliances. A 15-group alliance included People Power, Workers’ Self-Help Union, Love Macau, New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, Caring for Macau and Macau Gaming Industry Frontline Workers (FMG). The other alliance

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Police thwart violent revenge attempt

The police arrested five men on Friday for plotting a violent revenge act against an unidentified group of mainlanders, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.The case was announced during a special press briefing.According to the spokesperson, a worker at a hotel in Zape spotted a suspicious bag hidden in a planter in Rua Cidade de Santarem early Thursday morning. The worker looked inside the bag, and found three knives, so they immediately contacted the Public Security Police

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt vows draft of vocational education regulation ready next year

Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) senior official Ng Vai Hong said yesterday the bureau was preparing to amend its vocational education regulation, adding that the bureau would do its best to ensure that the draft will be ready next year.Ng, who heads the bureau’s division of vocational education, made the remarks on the sidelines of yesterday’s opening ceremony of a 10-hour fast organised by World Vision of Macau Association in Choi Kou Middle School in Kam Hoi San district. Ng was

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Mid-term gaming report draws mixed bag of views

Attending yesterday’s forum in Areia Preta Park hosted by government broadcaster TDM, guest speakers and audience members raised starkly divergent views on the government’s first-ever report about the city’s gaming industry.About two dozen residents attended the weekly open-air forum. Yesterday’s programme focused on the mid-term gaming sector performance report released by the government last week and issues related to the gaming sector such as the role of junket operators.Macau’s

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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KK and Rex win in 4th round TKOs in Clash of Champions

In the Clash of Champions at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) on Saturday night in front of a capacity crowd of 3,000, Ng Kuok Kun aka The Macau Kid aka KK and The Wonder Kid Rex Tso Sing-yu from Hong Kong did not disappoint with both winning their bouts with fourth round TKO’s.KK, (8-0 4KOs), whose training was interrupted with his third year exams at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM), got off to a shaky start as in round one he did not look his usual self in the

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Police bust drug-dealing prostitution ring

Four local suspects were arrested in Zape on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in a drug-dealing and prostitution ring, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press briefing yesterday.The spokesperson said the bust was a joint operation with their Zhuhai counterparts.According to the spokesperson, the Zhuhai police asked local police for help in their investigation into a prostitution ring in December last year. The ring, which was headed by a 34-year-old mainland

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab woman for stealing from 4 jewellery shops

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a woman from the mainland suspected of stealing from four jewellery shops in the city centre.A PJ spokesman announced the case during a special press conference. The four cases took place late last month and early this month.The spokesperson said the 27-year-old suspect surnamed Qiu was an overstayer and was arrested early Saturday morning in a casino in Zape.Please read the full article in our print edition.

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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Group vows to carry on Dr Sun’s unfinished work

The Macau Zhongshan Communal Friendship Association will carry on Dr Sun Yat-sen’s unfinished work by putting in extra effort to maintain both Macau and Zhongshan’s long-term stability, Lou Wai Sek, who heads the group, said yesterday. Lou made the remarks in a speech during the association’s 30th anniversary celebration at The Plaza Restaurant. Dr Sun, also known as Sun Zhongshan or Sun Wen, is widely seen as the founder of modern China. He was born in Guangdon’s then

May 16, 2016 | BY admin

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80 pct ready to buy fair trade goods: survey

A survey conducted by Oxfam Hong Kong’s Macau Office showed that 80.3 percent of the respondents said they were willing to buy fair trade products – but only 8.8 percent had actually bought such products, while 68.9 percent said they had never heard of the concept until they were told about it during the survey.The survey’s findings were released yesterday during a press conference at the local Oxfam office in Nape. Alfred Choy Man Kit, the organisation’s programme manager in Macau,

May 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Survey finds 6.6 pct of LGBTI respondents suffer ‘domestic violence’

About 6.6 percent of 715 respondents who identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI), or questioned their sexual identity or gender, said that they had suffered violence from their intimate partner, according to findings of a survey conducted by activist group Rainbow of Macau.Key members of the group including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT) rights activist Jason Chao Teng Hei, who is the group’s co-founder, held a press conference to announce

May 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Ice abuse rising, more HK drug suspects in Macau: official data

Considering the consumption of methamphetamine (commonly known as Ice) is rising and more Hong Kong people have been busted in Macau for smuggling and/or selling drugs Social Welfare Bureau President Celeste Vong Yim Mui said yesterday, that her bureau would strengthen co-operation with its Hong Kong counterparts in the fight against drugs.Vong also said that members of the government-appointed Narcotics Control Committee will visit Hong Kong and Guangdong to exchange information on anti-drug

May 13, 2016 | BY admin

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