Govt saddened by senior falling to death in elderly home

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement yesterday that it was saddened by an incident in which a senior citizen – whose gender was not revealed by the bureau – fell to his or her death from an elderly care home yesterday.The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a separate statement yesterday a female senior citizen was suspected of having jumped to her death in an elderly care home yesterday.Neither statement revealed the name of the home.The Judiciary Police identified the woman as a

October 31, 2017 | BY admin

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Tests of LRT trains set to start

Technical tests of the first LRT trains, which arrived by ship from Japan at Ka Ho Port in Coloane on Sunday, will be carried out at the system’s Ocean Station in Taipa, the Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) has announced.However, the office did not say when the tests will start.The office said in Sunday’s statement that the trains will be sent to the Ocean Station in Avenida dos Jogos da Asia Oriental on the Taipa Line as soon as this week.An “Ocean Cruiser” LRT train is

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IACM clarifies regulations on street name signs

In response to an article published in the October 20 edition of MPD Weekender – titled “Where have all the street name signs gone?” – Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) official Anna Lam Tong U provided details of the relevant regulations related to street name signs and building numbers in an e-mail message sent to The Macau Post Daily late last week: 1. According to “Administrative Regulation No. 32/2001” and “Code of Municipal Ordinances of the City of Macau”, it is

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Local fighters win their 1st pro fights

Friday and Saturday night at Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai, the “2017 IBF Silk Road Championship Tournament Inaugural Fight and IBF World Championship” saw local boxers Michael Ferreas Olfindo and Cheong Lap Cheong of Macao Boxing House take on opponents from Thailand and the mainland respectively in their debut professional fights.“The Silk Road Championship Tournament” is part of the International Boxing Federation’s (IBF) IBF Belt and Road (B&R) Region made up of 70

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Sands to turn Cotai Central into London-themed resort

Las Vegas Sands, capitalizing on the rebound in Macau gambling, plans to spend US$1.1 billion (8.8 billion patacas) on renovating its local properties, including turning the Sands Cotai Central into a London-themed resort by 2020.Over the next three years, Sands Cotai Central will be rebranded as the Londoner Macau and feature attractions tied to some of the UK capital’s most recognizable landmarks, the US company said on Wednesday in a statement. The remodeling will add an additional

October 27, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt plans mutual driving-licence recognition with mainland

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San said yesterday that the local government was planning a mutual driving-licence recognition agreement with the mainland authorities.According to Lam, the deal would allow Macau driving licence holders to drive cars in the mainland, as well as vice versa.According to Lam, the planned mutual driving-licence recognition would only be applicable to cars, excluding other vehicles such as commercial vehicles, scooters and motorcycles.Transport Bureau

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Mainlander nabbed for running fake base stations: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland yesterday for operating three fake base stations in a flat near the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, PJ spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.Tam identified the suspect as a 28-year-old surnamed Luo, who told the police that he was a farmer.A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then

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Govt to ban entry to low-lying public car parks during typhoons: official

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San said yesterday the government was planning to impose a ban on people entering a number of public car parks in the city’s low-lying areas one hour after the hoisting of the No. 8 typhoon warning signal.Lam spoke to reporters after a regular meeting of the Traffic Consultative Council at his bureau.The bureau has confirmed that four public underground car parks were flooded during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Hato in late August and that

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Cultural Industries Fund grants 124 million patacas in Jan-Sept

From January to September this year, the Cultural Industries Fund (FIC) granted a total of 124 million patacas in financial support, FIC Administration Council member Davina Chu Miu Lai said yesterday.Chu made the remarks at a press conference about the fund’s financial support in the first nine months of the year, at the Macau Art Garden in Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues.According to Chu, of the 62 projects the fund received this year for financial support until last Saturday, 53 were

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2 local boxers prepare for their 1st professional fight

Two of Macao Boxing House’s young fighters will have their first professional fights tonight and tomorrow night at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in the “2017 IBF Silk Road Championship Tournament Inaugural Fight and IBF World Championship”.Michael Ferreas Olfindo will be fighting Thailand’s Yutthana Narkprasert tonight and Cheong Lap Cheong will be up against mainland China’s Xie Zhenwu tomorrow night.Each night there will be five bouts with pugilists from Ghana, the Philippines,

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Daughter doesn’t see dad for days, finds him dead in bed: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) yesterday morning about finding a man dead in bed in a flat in Rua Três do Bairro da Areia Preta.According to the police statement, the deceased is a 58-year-old local man surnamed Wong, who lived with his daughter.Yesterday morning the deceased’s daughter noticed a strange smell emanating from her father’s bedroom while she was getting ready for work, according to the police statement. After entering her

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This Halloween: delve into a Lynchian state of mind

If trick-or-treating and haunted houses are not enough to scare you witless for Halloween, watching some David Lynch’s films is surely enough to send shivers down your spine.Cinematheque.Passion is running a special screening of “The Nightmare Maker: David Lynch” where it will feature five of the acclaimed US filmmaker’s classics, with award-winning psychological thriller “Mulholland Dr.” as the opening film for the festival that begins tomorrow and runs until October 31, All

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Galaxy to host charity dinner with world’s elite gastronomic society

Galaxy Macau will be hosting a charity dinner with Le Club des Chefs des Chefs on Sunday, with five of the club’s elite chefs – who are currently or have previously been personal chefs to heads of state – designing the menu with the integrated resort’s award-winning chefs.Known as the world’s most exclusive gastronomic society, Le Club des Chefs des Chefs is an elite club whose members are currently the personal chefs of heads of state. Their event with Galaxy Macau therefore has been

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The Countdown: 5,800 or so hours to go until Morpheus opens

Six men in suits seem to be busy working on the countdown clocks at The Countdown Hotel at City of Dreams to count down the hours until Morpheus hotel opens in May next year.The giant digital clock installed in the lobby of The Countdown Hotel (the former Hard Rock Hotel) with a duplicate hanging on the outside of the hotel tower is a work of art created by renowned Dutch designer Maarten Baas.Titled “Count:Down Clock”, it is the first real-time clock that Baas has created in Asia and his

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