Group to train young ‘Basic Law promotion ambassadors’

The Macau Basic Law Promotion Association (ADLBM) plans to provide 40 young locals with training courses later this year about the Macau Basic Law so they can become “Basic Law promotion ambassadors”, Ho Sio Kam, secretary of the association, said yesterday,Addressing a press conference in The Plaza Restaurant about the programme, Ho said the participants would also visit Beijing to meet some members of the former Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative

April 6, 2016 | BY admin

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New Economic Services chief vows to boost ‘community-based economies’

Newly-appointed Economic Services Bureau (DSE) Director Tai Kin Ip said yesterday his bureau would do more to boost “community-based economies” by providing support to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and improving the business environment.Tai made the pledge after the swearing-in ceremony for his new post at the Bank of China Building in Nam Van.Tai, who holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and two master’s degrees, one in governance and the other in European studies, was

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School rebuts doubts over its Montessori kindergarten

Asked about a recent article questioning whether Escola do Santíssimo Rosário is qualified to operate a Montessori kindergarten as mentioned in its advertisement, Ieong Wai Cheng, principal of the school, said yesterday that at least two teachers of the kindergarten were certified Montessori teachers. The article was posted on Friday on the online activist media outlet Macau Concealers, an offshoot of the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). Macau Concealers said the article was a

April 6, 2016 | BY Davis Ip

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‘Mainland official’ cheats local woman out of HK$890,000

The police arrested a conman on Thursday for pretending to be a mainland government official who cheated a local woman out of HK$890,000 last year, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a regular press briefing yesterday. According to the spokesperson, a friend of the victim introduced her to the suspect in July last year, telling her that he was a government official in the mainland.The victim lent him HK$220,000, believing that as a government official in the mainland she could

April 6, 2016 | BY staff Reporter

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Casino revenue decline in Q1 ‘expected’: Leong

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday the 13.3 percent year-on-year decrease in the city’s casino revenue in the first quarter was pretty much what the government had expected.The Gaming and Inspection Co-ordination Bureau (DCIJ) announced on Friday that the casino sector’s gross revenue fell 13.3 percent year-on-year to 56.17 billion patacas in the first three months of the year. The policy secretary made the remarks after presiding over yesterday’s

April 6, 2016 | BY admin

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April 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmaker, commentator slam Urban Renewal Council’s ‘black box’ workings

Grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong has accused the recently-established Urban Renewal Council (CRU) of being a “black box” operation and urged the government to ensure the transparency of the council’s workings. The lawmaker says in a written interpellation, which he submitted to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, that the government-appointed council’s meetings should be open to the public, namely those focusing on policies and regulations. A copy of the interpellation

April 5, 2016 | BY Staff Reporter

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4.9 kilos of cocaine seized in 2 airport drug busts

Two separate drug busts involving a total of 4.9 kilos of cocaine were announced by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Saturday. In the first case a Malaysian man was arrested on Saturday for smuggling 3.58 kilos of cocaine into the city while the second case involved a woman from Kenya who was arrested on Wednesday for smuggling 1.32 kilos of cocaine, hidden in her body.  The 29-year old male suspect, surnamed Krishnan, was arrested on Saturday at the local airport, according to PJ

April 5, 2016 | BY Staff Reporter

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Family reunion protesters demand to meet Chan

The mostly elderly members of the Macau Family Reunion Federation are demanding to meet Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan on April 13, Lei Iok Lan, president of the federation, told The Macau Post Daily in a tent set up by her group in Largo do Senado on Friday. Their ongoing protest began there on March 2, calling for the government’s response to the members’ long-standing demand that their grown-up mainland-born children be allowed to move to Macau.Lei said

April 5, 2016 | BY Davis Ip

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The Ching Ming Festival

 Residents pay respects to their ancestors at Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery in Rua da Piedade yesterday, coinciding with the Ching Ming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, a tradition to celebrate and honour those who have passed away through grave-sweeping, offering food to one’s forebears and burning joss paper. A resident told reporters that while food prices had gone up by 10 to 20 percent since last year, her family had not cut back on their offerings, and spent about 1,000 patacas on the

April 5, 2016 | BY admin

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April Fool’s Day story

This is just to set the record straight: Friday’s front-page article headed ‘Estoril mosaic to grace disease centre façade’ was a spoof news story marking April Fool’s Day. Judging by our conservations with readers, some would have liked the story to be “real”. Anyhow, we hope that the government will find a dignified solution to the future whereabouts of Hotel Estoril’s Fortuna mosaic, which should be preserved. We also hope that the government will be able to put citizens’

April 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Student found unconscious on UM campus dies

A female student of the University of Macau (UM), who was found unconscious in her bed at Stanley Ho East Asia College on Friday, was declared dead later that day, according to an online report on Sunday by Orange Post, a student-run news outlet at the public university.The student, surnamed Lei, was a first-year student of the university’s Faculty of Education, according to an email sent by the faculty to its students yesterday. After being found unconscious by her roommate, Lei was

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Over 90,000 flu shots used so far: govt

Over 90,000 residents have had their flu shots since late last year, Health Bureau (SSM) public health specialist Leong Iek Hou said on the sidelines of a dengue fever awareness event outside Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery in Rua da Piedade yesterday.According to Leong, there are about 10,000 flu shots left. She urged residents who have yet to have their flu shots to get one free of charge at any of the government’s public health centres, or the vaccination centre at Kiang Wu Hospital.Leong said

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Ovitrap index set to rise this month: official

Health Bureau (SSM) official Leong Iek Hou said yesterday the government was expecting the city’s ovitrap index (OI) to rise this month.According to Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, the ovitrap index measures the number of Aedes-positive ovitraps. The number is then used for monitoring and detecting Aedes mosquito populations thus acting as an early warning signal to pre-empt disease outbreaks.Dengue is spread by several species of mosquito of the Aedes type,

April 5, 2016 | BY admin

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