Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng (centre) speaks to reporters at the Tourist Activities Centre (CAT) yesterday, as IC Cultural Heritage Department Chief Leong Wai Man(left) and Cultural Heritage Council member Carlos Marreiros look on.  Photo: Leong Lok IanThe government-appointed Cultural Heritage Council voted yesterday against the initiation of a cultural revaluation procedure for Hotel Estoril. The council met at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in

Polytec Asset Holdings Chairman Or Wai Sheun said yesterday that Polytex, a subsidiary of Polytec, “definitely can’t lose, and won’t lose” its lawsuit in the Administrative Court against the local government over the Pearl Horizon debacle, according to government broadcaster TDM. Asked by reporters outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Or, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), pledged to resume and

Hu Angang, director of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University (THU), talks to reporters after his lecture at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai yesterday. – Photo: Davis Ip Macau’s Five-Year Development Plan for 2016 to 2020 is both “historic and iconic”, Hu Angang, director of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said yesterday.Tsinghua University (THU) is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng speaks to reporters before yesterday’s Macau Grand Prix Organisation Committee’s meeting at the Grand Prix Building.  Photo: MPDGSecretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday the government hoped to turn the Macau Grand Prix into an “international brand”.Tam made the remarks before attending a closed-door Grand Prix Organisation Committee (COGPM) meeting in the Grand Prix Building in Zape.

Asked by reporters yesterday about the case of a 15-year-old schoolboy who had sex with a girl aged 12 two days after they became friends on a social networking website in October, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) Youth Department Chief Un Hoi Cheng said the bureau would step up its efforts to provide young people with sex education. Un made the remarks on the sidelines of an activity hosted by the Macau New Chinese Youth Association at the government-run Areia Preta Health

2 Malaysians caught with 3.6 kg of cocaineDrugs wrapped to look like chocolate bars: policeStaff ReporterJudiciary Police (PJ) officers yesterday arrested a man and a woman, both from Malaysia, for smuggling about 3.6 kilos of cocaine wrapped to look like chocolate bars into Macau.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson Tam Weng Keong made the announcement late last night outside the local airport after the arrests earlier in the day.According to Tam, the estimated street value of the cocaine is

Gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group(GEG) has made a donation of 20 million patacas to Hubei province and will be donating five million patacas to the Macau community to help battle the novel corona virus outbreak, which emerged in Hubei’s provincial capital Wuhan in December.  The company said in a statement today that the donation comes from its Galaxy Entertainment Group Foundation. The statement said that the 20 million patacas for Hubei, made in coordination with the