Love, hope and faith: music from the kitchen

As people are getting busier these days, it’s probably only during dinnertime that the family can get together to eat and talk about how good or how bad their day has been.It’s during this time while preparing meals in the kitchen that brings local singer-songwriter Gilbert Humphrey, aka Beto, and his family into harmony, literally. “Me and my family always do worship at home, simple worship, acoustic, just us singing with a guitar,” Beto told MPD Weekender recently. “It’s kind

November 4, 2016 | BY admin

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Chui vows govt will learn from LRT Taipa experience

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday the government would learn its lesson from the setbacks in the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Taipa for the still unscheduled LRT project on the peninsula.The Taipa section of the LRT, the construction of which started in 2011, has been hit by a string of technical, scheduling and budgeting issues.Chui made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the airport before departing for a working visit to Beijing, when asked

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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SJM revenue falls 11 pct in 3rd quarter

SJM Holdings’ gaming revenue fell 11.1 percent year-on-year to HK$9.99 billion in the third quarter, the gaming company said in a statement on Tuesday.In the first nine months, gaming revenue dropped 17.8 percent year-on-year to HK$30.87 billion.Adjusted Ebitda decreased 8.4 percent to HK$810 million in the third quarter. In the first three quarters, adjusted Ebitda fell 22.3 percent to HK$2.44 billion.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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Graft busters slam transport officials over public car parks

A report released by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) yesterday accuses the Transport Bureau (DSAT) of tampering with the procedure of open tendering in the outsourcing of public car parks management services, as well as the bureau’s “defective” internal monitoring mechanism.According to the hard-hitting report, DSAT officials have been splitting the cost of public car park management services below 750,000 patacas and limiting the duration of the respective service contracts to

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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Public housing for ex-Scala plot not a ‘hasty’ decision: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the government’s plan to build public housing on the plot of the abandoned La Scala luxury housing project in Taipa was not a “hasty” decision. Chui said the decision aimed to tackle the city’s strong public housing demand. Chui spoke to reporters at the airport, before departing on a working visit to Beijing for talks on the management of Macau’s coastal waters. Chui and his entourage will return to Macau

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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Devoy urges domestic violence culprits to bear consequences

Good Shepherd Centre Director Juliana Devoy said yesterday she hoped that the victims of domestic violence realise that the culprits need to bear the consequences of what they did so that they could change and improve themselves.The Law on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence, which came into effect on October 5, defines domestic violence as a public crime – which allows the police to investigate without the victim’s consent. A defendant convicted of domestic violence faces up to five

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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Casino revenues rise for 3rd straight month

Macau’s casinos have reported a third straight month of revenue gains in October, boosted by gamblers during the week-long Golden Week holiday.Gross gaming revenue rose 8.8 percent to 21.8 billion patacas, the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) reported on Friday. That compares with the median forecast for 5.5 percent growth in a Bloomberg survey of seven analysts.The growth builds momentum in reversing a 26-month slump as the world’s biggest casino hub strives to transform

November 3, 2016 | BY admin

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Woman pimps 14-year-old girl in Cotai: police

A woman from Guizhou province was arrested on Saturday for pimping a 14-year-old girl from the same province in Macau, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a special press briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, a security guard at a hotel in Cotai had suspicions about the victim, which were not elaborated on in the briefing, when he called the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday. The case was then transferred to the Judiciary Police for further investigation.The

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Caritas expects fewer donations from casinos

Caritas Macau Secretary General Paul Pun Chi Meng said yesterday he expected casino operators’ donations during this year’s bazaar to be 100,000 patacas less than those of last year because of Macau’s economic downturn.Pun made the remarks during a press conference at Sao Joao de Brito School about the 47th Caritas Macau Charity Bazaar on Saturday and Sunday.Addressing the press conference, Pun said: “As Macau is going through a stage of economic adjustment, I think the money donated by

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Councillors oppose public housing only on ex-Scala plot

Several members of the Urban Planning Council yesterday voiced disagreement with the government’s plan of a huge public housing project with a proposed height limit of up to 155 metres, on the plot of the abandoned La Scala luxury housing project near the airport.In early September, the government announced the final version of its first-ever Five-Year Development Plan, which says that more than 8,000 public housing units could be built on the plot.Some members of the government-appointed

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Win a Macau GP garage tour with SJM Theodore Racing

Want to go behind the scenes at the Macau Grand Prix? Here’s your chance. This year’s Macau Grand Prix takes place from November 17 to 20. As the title sponsor of SJM Theodore Racing for this year’s FIA F3 World Cup at the Macau Grand Prix, SJM is giving fans the chance to win an exclusive garage tour of the SJM Theodore Racing team on November 19, where they will also meet the team’s F3 drivers and get a souvenir from the team, an SJM statement said yesterday. The SJM

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Dance adaption of ‘Carmen’ offers 2 interpretations of femme fatale

The dance adaption of opera masterpiece ‘Carmen’ will be performed in two shows this week with each night featuring a different lead performer, offering the audience two different interpretations of the femme fatale in an intense and modern choreography.The ‘Carmen’ that will be appear on stage at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) on Thursday and Friday is presented by the National Dance Company of Spain (CND).While the original opera written by French composer Georges Bizet in 1875 is

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Charity drive aims to ‘scan away hunger’

Local e-commerce platform Macau Central launched its ‘Scan away Hunger’ online charity drive yesterday to help World Vision end world hunger. The campaign was announced during a press conference at the Macau Square office of co-organiser Macau New Technologies Incubator Centre (Manetic).  Participants can enjoy discounted meals from more than 40 local restaurants, which have sponsored the campaign, by purchasing the meals beforehand via credit card on Macau Central’s online

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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Councillors slam govt’s Zone B proposal

Several members of the government-appointed Urban Planning Council yesterday slammed the administration for rushing to propose the construction of government buildings in the eastern part of a land reclamation area known as Zone B off Nape, without providing “sufficient” details.Some members also urged the government to withdraw the proposed construction plan, before the publication of an urban development plan for Zone B.Yesterday’s regular meeting of the council, held at the Transport

November 1, 2016 | BY admin

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