Group stresses young people’s competitiveness

Lawmaker-cum-SJM executive Angela Leong On Kei said yesterday that her group was placing special emphasis on policies for Macau’s continued economic development while improving young people’s competitiveness.Leong leads the New Macau Development Union (NUDM), No. 14 on Sunday’s direct election ballot.Leong’s list comprises 12 candidates. Prominent developer William Kuan Vai Lam is the group’s second-ranked candidate.This is the fourth time Leong is standing in the direct election. She

September 13, 2017 | BY admin

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Group urges elex committee to clarify campaign ‘curbs’

Paul Chan Wai Chi, the second-ranked candidate of the electoral group New Macau Progressives (ANPM), No. 7 on Sunday’s ballot, accused the police yesterday of publishing a “false” statement about his group and petitioned Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) President Tong Hio Fong over the matter, urging the committee to clarify its – alleged – election campaign “restrictions”.New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou is the first-ranked

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Group vows to clean up elections, wants popular vote

Lawyer Hong Weng Kuan, who heads the United Citizens for Building Macau Association, No. 19 on Sunday’s ballot, said yesterday his group was determined to clean up the city’s future legislative elections. The group also demands universal suffrage for electing the chief executive and all lawmakers.Currently, 14 of the 33 members of the legislature are elected by popular vote, or 42 percent of the total.Hong, a former policeman, is the first-ranked candidate of the group while Cheong Fan, a

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Govt collects 1,264 views on disaster-response mechanism

The government has gathered 1,264 opinions and suggestions from residents on the improvement of its mechanism for responding to typhoons and other major disasters, the Policy Research Office (GEP) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the office collected residents’ opinions on how the government should improve the mechanism, from August 28 until Monday.According to the statement, the opinions collected concern coordination of civil protection work, dissemination of

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Woman slashes husband’s genitals over suspected affair

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman on Sunday for attacking her husband with a cleaver and slashing his genitals after a heated argument with the victim over a suspected affair, PJ spokesman Tam Weng Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.The couple are Vietnamese nationals living in Macau.Tam identified the suspect as a 46-year-old domestic helper surnamed Tran and the victim as a 38-year-old cleaner. The couple, who have a son in Vietnam, came to Macau to work in 2015,

September 12, 2017 | BY admin

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Group aims to improve women’s rights

Wong Kit Cheng, the first-ranked candidate of the electoral group Alliance for a Happy Home, says her group’s political platform puts special emphasis on policies to improve women’s rights and promote family-friendly policies in business.Four years ago, Wong and lawmaker Ho Ion Sang, a vice-president of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong), ran under the Progress Promotion Union (UPP) banner. Ho was the first-ranked candidate while Wong was

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Group vows to help develop China-PSCs platform

Lawmaker Melinda Chan Mei Yi, who heads the Alliance for Change group, No. 18 on the September 17 ballot, said yesterday her group could help the government develop Macau’s role as a business-service platform between China and the world’s eight Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) if her group succeeded in its re-election bid.Chan is the wife of businessman David Chow Kam Fai, a former lawmaker. Her group comprises eight candidates with Macau Travel Industry Council (ATIM) President Andy Wu

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Race to the bottom – morality

As a father, I share the pain parents endure by the loss of their children. At a time when Christine Choi Yuk-lin, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for Education, most needed consolation and emotional support after her 25-year old son, suffering from depression, jumped to his death, she was “congratulated” by 12 A4-sized papers posted on the “democracy wall’ of the Education University in Hong Kong. This drew wide condemnation.Ms. Choi was recently appointed Undersecretary for Education.

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2 groups hold press conferences about smears & ‘doubts’

The electoral group New Macau Progressives (ANPM), No. 7 on the September 17 ballot, and Synergy Power, No. 15 on the ballot, held separate press conferences yesterday about alleged smear campaigns and netizens’ “doubts” about them.New Macau Association (NMA) Vice-President Sulu Sou Ka Hou is the first-ranked candidate of New Macau Progressives while Paul Chan Wai Chi, an ex-lawmaker, is the second-ranked candidate.Ron Lam U Tou, a social affairs commentator, heads the electoral group

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Candidate says ‘platforms are empty promises’ without universal suffrage

Social activist Carl Ching Lok Suen said yesterday his electoral group, New Ideals of Macau, No. 1 on the September 17 ballot, believed that without universal suffrage for the elections of the chief executive and all members of the legislature, all political platforms proposed by the city’s different electoral groups were just “empty promises”.Ching heads the electoral group while Hong Hok Sam is the second-ranked candidate. Ching’s group comprises four candidates.Speaking to The Macau

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Activist slams media for ‘distortion’ in Hato protest reports

High-profile activist Lee Kin Yun yesterday slammed a number of local media outlets for allegedly not mentioning the major purpose of a protest he and two other activists organised on Saturday – demanding that senior officials be held accountable for the Typhoon Hato response fiasco.Lee leads electoral group Association of Macau Activism for Democracy, No. 23 on the ballot, for the September 17 direct legislative election.Lee spoke to reporters yesterday before submitting his petition to the

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2 cabbies buy fake mobile phones

Two male taxi drivers were cheated – possibly by the same man – in the same way on two separate occasions on Sunday after the man told them he could get them a good deal on a mobile phone, so on checking the phone both victims believed it to be genuine and bought it but later found out that it was a fake one, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Tam Weng Keong said yesterday.Tam announced details of the case during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Tam, the two cases occurred at

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2 schools ask parents to vote for electoral group

Notices issued by two schools asking parents to vote for the Alliance for a Happy Home, No. 11 on the ballot, went viral online over the weekendThe direct and indirect legislative elections will take place next Sunday while the official campaign period runs from September 2 to Friday.Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng heads the Alliance for a Happy Home. The electoral group comprises 10 candidates. Wong, a board member of the Macau Women’s General Association (Fu Luen), is running for

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Group wants housing allowance for low-ranking public servants

Lam Wai Koi, who heads The Aurora of Grassroots Workers (No. 21 on the September 17 direct legislative election ballot), urges the government to treat all public sector employees equally by giving low-ranking public servants a housing allowance as well.Lam, who heads the Macau Association of Low-Ranking Public Sector Staff, is the first-ranked candidate of the group while Ao Ion Hong is the second-ranked candidate. Lam’s group comprises five candidates.Speaking to The Macau Post Daily

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