Wynn hopes business will pick up by year-end

Wynn Resorts Macau Executive Director Linda Chen told reporters yesterday she expects gaming industry revenue to stabilise this year and hopes that there will be a slight rebound by the end of the year.Chen made the comments at Wynn Macau where she attended the opening of a business matching session with local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the food and beverage sector as part of its SME procurement partnership programme, which is jointly organised by the gaming operator and

April 15, 2016 | BY admin

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Mother performs filmed sex acts on 3-year-old son for money: police

A woman arrested for performing sex acts on her three-year-old son in front of the camera told police that she did it for money, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a special press conference, the spokesperson said that a school contacted the police via the School Safety Network on Saturday, alerting them to two video clips circulating on a parents’ social media group, which showed a woman performing sex acts on a young boy.The School Safety Network is a

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt axes Taipa leasehold

The provisional leasehold of a plot of land opposite the local airport, covering an area of 4,576 square metres, has been annulled because the plot, the government says, had still not been developed when the leasehold expired on December 13, according to yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO).The plot of land, adjacent to the ill-fated La Scala luxury estate project in Avenida Wai Long, known as “1d”, was earmarked for a green area.Accordion to the gazette, Tai Lei Loi – Sociedade de Fomento

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Unionists call for new composition of labour body

The Workers’ Self-Help Union said yesterday the government should review the composition of the city’s labour affairs body and change its representation.Several members of the small union, including its chairman Lei Kit Meng and president Wong Seng Wa, held a closed-door meeting with officials from the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) at the bureau yesterday.  Before the meeting, Wong told reporters the unionists would convey the concerns of local employees such as their job security

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Mainlander arrested for raping HK woman

The police arrested a 50-year-old mainland man on Tuesday on suspicion of raping a 55-year-old Hong Kong woman in Macau. A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson announced the case at a special press conference. The spokesperson said the suspect surnamed Pu, who is unemployed, was arrested on Tuesday in a casino in Zape.Please read the full article in our print edition.

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt vows to submit senior citizens’ rights bill to legislature by year’s end

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) says that a government-drafted bill on protecting the rights and benefits of the city’s senior citizens will be submitted to the legislature by the end of the year.The bureau made the announcement in a reply to lawmaker Chan Meng Kam’s written interpellation about the bill’s drafting process. The lawmaker-cum-businessman sent copies of the reply to the media yesterday.The bureau says in the reply that the drafting of the bill is in its final stages and that

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Business-government collusion is ‘rather serious’: CCAC

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) is concerned about “rather serious” collusion between businesspeople and government officials, according to an annual report released by the graft buster yesterday. The report also singles out the shocking case of two Public Security Police (PSP) officers suspected of fabricating evidence. The commission says in the report its investigators discovered that a PSP officer mistakenly sent an electroshock weapon, which was to be submitted to

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Cultural Heritage Council meetings to be open ‘when possible’: culture chief

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said yesterday the government will open certain meetings of the government-appointed Cultural Heritage Council to the public “whenever possible”.Ung made the remarks after the signing ceremony for an implementation plan for cultural exchanges and co-operation between Macau and the mainland in 2016-18, at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Mandarin House yesterday.Some members of the public have been demanding that the government

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Police bust duo for selling & taking drugs

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrests of two males on suspicion of selling and taking drugs.A PJ spokesperson announced the case during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to the spokesperson, PJ officers arrested an unemployed 26-year-old local man surnamed Leong on Tuesday. The officers seized about 1.2 grammes of Ice from Leong’s home, as well as drug-taking paraphernalia. The drug-trafficking suspect from the mainland poses at a

April 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Ex-staff gets into shop with copied key: police

A former employee was arrested on Monday for breaking into his former workplace using a key he had had cut from the original, and stealing over 70,000 patacas in cash from the safe, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the owner of a stationary shop in the northern district told the police last Tuesday that someone had entered the shop after it had closed, jimmied open a safe and stole over 70,000 patacas from it.The

April 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Police nab local woman for property investment immigration scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a 59-year-old local woman on suspicion of swindling 38 mainlanders out of about HK$6.64 million between September 2009 and the middle of 2010 by telling them that she could help them move to Macau through property investments here. The crux of the matter is that the government scrapped the property investment immigration scheme in 2007.A PJ spokesperson announced details of the scam during a regular press briefing. This

April 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Teaching material deal ‘lawfully granted’: Chui

Group and govt refute doubts over contract Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On confirmed yesterday that the government has granted a 5.9 million pataca service contract to the Macau Association for Promotion of Science and Technology, which is headed by his cousin Jose Chui Sai Peng, for compiling general knowledge teaching materials for local primary schools, “according to the law and established procedures”  The chief executive made the remarks on the sidelines of the

April 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Group pledges to boost ‘economic prosperity’

The Macau Jiangmen Communal Society will continue to contribute to Macau’s “long-term stability” and “economic prosperity”, local businessman Ian Soi Kun, the group’s newly sworn-in president, said yesterday. The society held a swearing-in ceremony of the new board members at Fisherman’s Wharf, which was attended by a number of high-ranking guests including Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and his predecessor Edmund Ho Hau Wah, who is now a vice-chairman of the National

April 13, 2016 | BY admin

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We can only improve by trial and error: Chui

CE insists public housing is a govt’s priorityChief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that concerning the home ownership scheme (HOS) registration process, the government could only improve the system through trial and error.Chui made the remarks on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony of the new board members of the Macau Jiangmen Communal Society at Fisherman’s Wharf.The government amended the HOS registration process last year, in the hope of speeding up the procedure,

April 13, 2016 | BY admin

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