Govt to subsidise local pupils in Shenzhen & Dongguan: official

Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) senior official Sit Weng Tou said yesterday that the bureau currently subsidises about 2,000 local pupils studying in five Guangdong cities – Foshan, Guangzhou, Jiangmen,  Zhongshan and Zhuhai – and it now plans to also subsidise local pupils studying in Dongguan and Shenzhen in the 2016/2017 school year.Sit, who heads the bureau’s Socio-Education Division, made the announcement after yesterday’s closed-door meeting of the

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BNU donates 1.6 million patacas to Tung Sin Tong

Local Portuguese lender BNU has donated 1.6 million patacas to Tung Sin Tong, the city’s oldest charitable organisation. According to a BNU statement yesterday, BNU Chief Executive Officer Pedro Cardoso handed the donation to Tung Sin Tong President Chui Sai On at the social welfare body’s headquarters on Friday. Tung Sin Tong has been providing a wide range of social welfare and education services to citizens in need since 1892. Please read the full article in our print

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Privacy protector launches 155 probes last year

The Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) last year launched 155 new investigations into the collection and handling of such data, a 20.1 percent drop year-on-year, GPDP Director Vasco Fong Man Chong said yesterday. Fong, a former anti-graft commissioner and judge, and his deputy Yang Chongwei co-hosted a press conference on the city’s privacy statistics for 2015 at their office in China Plaza.According to Fong, of the total number of investigations last year, 136 involved private

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Police nab man for HK$12 million fraud

A 62-year-old local businessman was arrested on Saturday for allegedly cheating another local man out of HK$12 million in 2014, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.The spokesperson announced the case during a regular press briefing.According to the spokesperson, the victim went to the police on April 25, alleging that the suspect had given him six cheques over several months in the latter half of 2015 in repayment of a loan of HK$12 million he made to the suspect in 2014, all of

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Trio caught for taking & selling drugs to teens

The police arrested three locals for drug-related crimes on Monday, with one of the suspects found to have sold drugs to teenagers, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a special press briefing, the spokesperson said that acting on a tip-off a week ago the police launched an investigation.After identifying one of the suspects, a 25-year-old local technician surnamed Leong, the police put his flat in Areia Preta under surveillance on Monday evening.The three hooded

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5-year plan just provides outlines: Chui’s advisor

Lei Ngan Leng, an advisor to the office of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, said yesterday that the government’s first ever Five-Year Development Plan (2016-2020) was merely meant to provide general outlines for the city’s future expansion.Lei made the remarks in response to several members of the government’s three social services consultative committees commenting on the draft’s perceived lack of detailed planning of a raft of issues facing their respective districts.The social

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Council backs high-rise next to Muslim cemetery

The government-appointed Urban Planning Committee voted yesterday on the legal conditions proposed by the Lands, Transport and Public Works Bureau (DSSOPT) for the possible development of a plot next to the city’s Muslim cemetery. Twenty of the 26 members of the committee who cast their votes supported the conditions while six voted against.With the support by the council, a high-rise of up to 127 metres can be built on the plot.The Urban Planning Committee yesterday held a meeting on the

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Almost 650,000 live in Macau

Macau’s population had risen to 649,100 at the end of the first quarter, an increase of 2,300 inhabitants quarter-to-quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Based on Macau’s land area of 30.4 square kilometres, the special administrative region’s population density per sq km stood at 21,352, reportedly the highest in the world. The population included 181,436 non-resident workers (“blue cardholders”). Please read the full article in our

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Govt mulls asking UNESCO for ‘city of gastronomy’ listing

The government is looking into the criteria required to lodge an application with UNESCO next year to designate Macau as a ‘city of gastronomy’ in the UN body’s Creative Cities Network, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.She made the remarks after attending a plenary meeting of the government-appointed Tourism Development Committee at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape. According to UNESCO’s website, the network,

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Lawmaker urges govt to probe public car parks

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Kwan Tsui Hang has urged the Transport Bureau (DSAT) to strengthen its supervision of the city’s public car parks and to check whether there are any irregular activities affecting their operation.Kwan, a chairwoman of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, commonly known as Gung Luen, made the appeal in a written interpellation submitted to the Legislative Assembly yesterday. A copy of the interpellation was sent to the media.The veteran lawmaker says in her

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2 women robbed of chips worth HK$1.1 million in hotel

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said yesterday that two women from the mainland were robbed of gaming chips worth HK$1.1 million in a hotel at the Venetian resort in Cotai.A PJ spokesperson announced the case during a regular police briefing.The spokesperson said PJ officers received a report from the Public Security Police (PSP) station in Taipa on Friday about a robbery that had occurred early that morning at a hotel in the Venetian resort.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Retired civil servant sexually abuses daughter: police

The police arrested a retired civil servant on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing his 4-year-old daughter at least five times, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the victim’s mother went to a police station with a social worker on Friday to report the case.According to the spokesperson, usually the family’s domestic helper picked up the victim from a tutorial centre, but on Thursday the suspect picked her up

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Mobile phone imports fall 52 pct in Q1

Macau’s imports of mobile phones fell 51.8 percent year-on-year to 1.3 billion patacas in the first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Gold jewellery imports fell 22.2 percent to 1.47 billion patacas, imports of food and beverages dropped 13.8 percent to 2.8 billion patacas, imports of watches decreased 38.8 percent to 1.0 billion patacas, and imports of handbags and wallets declined 18 percent to 654 million patacas. Imports of construction materials

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3 aviation bodies ink delta deal

The civil aviation authorities of the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau signed an agreement on enhancing air traffic management co-operation in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region yesterday, the Macau Civil Aviation Authority (AACM) said in a statement yesterday. The trilateral pact was signed in Hong Kong. Macau was represented by AACM President Simon Chan Weng Hong. According to the AACM statement, the three authorities agreed to strengthen co-ordination in the PRD region’s air traffic

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