Top court to move to old courthouse: Cheong

Macau’s top court will move to the long-vacant old courthouse in the city centre, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon has announced.Cheong made the announcement during a press conference after Friday’s regular meeting of the Executive Council, the government’s top advisory body.Cheong, who is the council’s spokesman, said that the old courthouse in Avenida da Praia Grande had the “architectural and historical features” to house judicial facilities such

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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5 locals incl civil servant nabbed for money laundering: police

Five local suspects, including a civil servant, were arrested on Friday for letting a gang use their bank accounts to receive, conceal and transfer fraudulent funds for two years totalling 380,000 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Chio Hong said at a special press conference on Saturday.The quintet comprise four men and a woman – a 56-year-old businessman surnamed Sitou, a 37-year-old man surnamed Wong who told the police that he works as an air-con technician, a 33-year-old man

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt keeps 6,000 pataca continuing education subsidy

The government will launch the fourth phase of its continuing education subsidy scheme tomorrow, which entitles local residents aged at least 15 to get a 6,000-pataca subsidy to enrol in courses run by the city’s various continuing education institutions until the end of August 2023.As in the previous phases, courses run by officially recognised education institutions outside Macau are also covered by the subsidy.Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon made the

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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KK organises youth training programme to give young boxers focus

The Macao Boxing General Association’s (MBA) gym in Areia Preta on Saturday saw the final day of the “2020 Youth Boxing Training Programme” organised by Ng Kuok Kun, aka KK aka The Macau Kid, Macau’s first successful professional boxer, who is now training aspiring boxers or those just doing it for fun.The training programme started on Thursday at the running track next to the now defunct Canidrome which saw the 15 pupils, students and adults, aged from 15 to 30, competing in 100m, 400m

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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Stability, development cornerstones of building new modern socialist Tibet

Commentary      BEIJING – At a symposium that concluded on Saturday, President Xi Jinping pointed out policy directions for developing Tibet, calling for efforts to build a new modern socialist Tibet.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), stressed efforts to ensure national security and enduring peace and stability, steadily improve people’s lives, maintain a good environment,

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Don’t let hawks abduct China-Australia friendship

Commentary       BEIJING – The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has recently fabricated a report claiming China uses talent-recruitment programs to gain technology from abroad through illegal or non-transparent means.This is not the first time the Canberra-based think tank has concocted and hyped anti-China topics – last time it faked an absurd report related to the Xinjiang issue. Over the past years, the institute has been trying so hard to depict China as the

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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Nation’s military ‘will not dance to US’ tune’

Commentary        The Chinese military opposes the United States ramping up its pressure and provocations against China, and promises to take “every measure necessary” to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests as bilateral relations face an “unusually severe and complicated situation”, the Ministry of National Defense said last week.When asked at a news briefing on Thursday about increased US military activity around China, Senior Colonel

August 31, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau's top court to move to old courthouse: govt

Macau's top court will move to the long-vacant old courthouse in the city centre, Secretary for Administration and Justice Andre Cheong Weng Chon has announced. Cheong made the announcement during a press conference after yesterday's regular meeting of the Executive Council, the government's top advisory body. Cheong, who is the council's spokesman, said that the old courthouse in Avenida da Praia Grande had the "architectural and historical features" to house judicial

August 29, 2020 | BY admin

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Locals account for 53 pct of Macau hotel guests in July

Macau residents accounted for 53 percent of local hotels' guests last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement today. According to the statement, 81,000 of the hotel sector's 152,000 guests in July were local residents. Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in many tourist destinations, staycations have become popular among locals. Guests from the mainland (55,000) and Hong Kong (11,000) both fell over 90 percent year-on-year last month.At the end of July,

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Carrie Lam vows to focus on 'rectifying mistakes' in society

    Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor says that she will spend the next year or two on "rectifying mistakes" in society, including strengthening the education of both students and their parents, as well as monitoring civil servants.Speaking on an interview with Phoenix TV last night, Lam said she's extremely relieved that the national security law has restored peace in the special administrative region and brought back the "familiar Hong

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Only kids aged at least 3 can attend kindergarten classes: govt

Addressing yesterday’s press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus situation, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) Deputy Kong Chi Meng announced that children enrolled in kindergartens can only attend their classes in the new school year – which will start next month – from the age of three, as it is not suitable for those aged below three to wear a facemask.According to Kong, some 1,000 K1 pupils will be affected by the measure – i.e. they will not yet be the minimum age

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Kiang Wu runs Macau’s 1st Quality End of Life Care for All programme

Macau’s Kiang Wu Nursing College and Kiang Wu Hospital announced this week that they have jointly hosted Macau’s first Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA) programme. According to a statement by the private hospital and nursing college, “supported by St Christopher’s Hospice in London and the Living Will Promotion Association in Beijing, the first QELCA in Macau was run exclusively by registered QELCA trainers accredited by City & Guilds of the UK.”The statement said that the

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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General jobless rate rises to 2.7 pct

Macau’s general unemployment rate between May and July reached 2.7 percent, up by 0.2 percentage points from the April-June survey period, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, local residents’ unemployment rate during the May-July survey period amounted to 3.8 percent, up by 0.3 percentage points from the April-June period.On the other hand, the underemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage point to 3.3 percent, the DSEC

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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IAM inspectors find contaminated bun in Areia Preta bakery

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that its inspectors tested a cream-filled bun sample that was found to have an excessive number of staph bacteria, when they were carrying out regular random testing in Areia Preta.The contaminated bun was found at a bakery called Magole in Rua da Saúde (“Street of Health”). The bureau banned the bakery from selling the cream buns immediately and ordered it to clean and disinfect the shop thoroughly, according to the

August 28, 2020 | BY admin

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