Govt urges local academics to return home for sabbaticals

The government-appointed Talents Development Committee plans to launch a pilot scheme by the end of the year to attract local academics who are living abroad to provide short-term services to Macau’s higher education institutions, Sou Chio Fai, secretary-general of the committee, said yesterday.Sou, who heads the Tertiary Education Service Office (GAES), made the remarks at Government Headquarters on the sidelines of the committee’s first plenary meeting this year. Chief Executive

April 6, 2016 | BY Davis Ip

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Lawmaker urges harsher punishment for drunk drivers

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Ho Ion Sang urged the government in an interpellation yesterday to introduce harsher punishments for drinking and driving, so as to deter drivers from violating the law.Ho lamented that between 2008 and 2015, the Public Security Police’s (PSP) records show that the police busted over 9,000 drunk driving offences, averaging three cases a day.However, Ho said that unlike other countries and regions, drunk drivers in Macau only have to pay a fine for the violation. Besides,

April 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Construction workers still lack safety awareness: union

Macau Federation of Trade Unions Vice-Chairman Cheong Man Fun said yesterday that as construction technologies were advancing, local workers had yet to adapt to the new environment.The federation is generally known as Gung Luen, its Cantonese name.Cheong made the remarks during a press conference at the federation’s community centre “Stage” in Rua do Campo.Macau Federation of Trade Unions Vice-Chairman Cheong Man Fun speaks to reporters during a press conference at the federation’s

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Visitors take a selfie in front of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of Saint Paul’s Church

Visitors take a selfie in front of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of Saint Paul’s Church yesterday. The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday that the number of visitor arrivals recorded during the three-day Ching Ming Festival stood at 450,958, an increase of 6.5 percent compared with the same holiday period of last year. The festival – also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, ended on Monday.  Photo: Ian Sio Tou

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Air from disease centre will be safe: WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific Shin Young-soo said in Macau yesterday that a WHO expert team which visited the city last month determined that the air expelled from the “highly effective filtration facility” in the government’s planned infectious disease centre will be safe, according to a statement released by the Health Bureau (SSM) last night.  The South Korean medical expert made the remarks during a meeting with representatives from

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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

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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

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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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