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Some CTM concession articles are ‘unfair’: lawmaker
Lawmaker-cum-businessman Chan Meng Kam said yesterday that the legislature’s Public Administration Affairs Monitoring Committee found several articles in CTM’s concession agreement with the government to be “unfair” and “unjustifiable”.According to Chan, the government would, for example, have to pay about three billion patacas if it chose to end the agreement with CTM due to public interest.The committee met government officials in the legislative chamber yesterday to discuss the
June 29, 2016
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Police nab mainland pimp, 2 sex workers
The Public Security Police (PSP) announced yesterday the arrest of a mainland man on suspicion of pimping and using social media to find clients for two sex workers.A PSP spokesperson announced the case during a regular press briefing.According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a tip-off on Sunday that a mainlander was using social media to find clients for prostitutes. After investigating, PSP officers arrested the suspect and two women from the mainland in a hotel room later that
June 29, 2016 | BY admin
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Public libraries launch webpage for elderly
Internet use is becoming more popular among senior citizens so the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has launched a special version of its library webpage for the elderly.The bureau said in a statement yesterday that the version was launched last Wednesday.According to the statement, the version has an interface and design that are easy for senior citizens to use and read. The font is bigger, and there is a function that allows users to magnify what they are reading.Yesterday’s image shows the
June 29, 2016 | BY admin
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New continuing education subsidy to last 3 years again: govt
The new phase of the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme will run for three years, unchanged from the two previous phases, Kong Ngai, who heads the Continuing Education Division of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), said yesterday.Kong also said that for the third-phase subsidy scheme, the policy for unused subsidies will be unchanged, meaning it cannot be transferred to the next phase.Kong made the remarks during a press conference about a regular meeting of the
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Wynn Palace to open on Aug 22
Wynn Macau will open its new integrated resort, Wynn Palace, in Cotai on August 22, the US gaming company said in a statement yesterday. The 32 billion patacas property features 1,706 rooms, restaurants, cable car rides around the resort, a water fountain show and a luxury shopping centre as well as floral and art sculptures. According to the statement, the company founded and headed by American casino mogul Steve Wynn expects the new resort to attract more international tourists to
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Galaxy bets on slot machines to woo mass market
Galaxy is betting on new slot machine games to woo the mass market to boost business during the summer.Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Corporate Office’s International Premium & Mass Market Development Director Raymond Yap Yin Min, who attended the launch of a new slot machine game at Galaxy Macau in Cotai yesterday, told reporters the group saw potential in the slot machine segment of the casino revenue as a way to push business while the economy is still not doing so well.“Although
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Less than half of 300 HOS applicants qualify: govt
The Housing Bureau’s (IH) Housing Allocation Division Chief Michael Mio Chan Seng said yesterday that of the first batch of 300 homeownership scheme (HOS) applicants, less than half qualified for the programme. The allocation process began at the bureau yesterday, according to which qualified applicants can choose from a total of 1,900 flats in eight HOS buildings, which include 845 single-bedroom flats, 888 two-bedroom flats and 158 three-bedroom flats.The government reopened the
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Coastal waters pollution seriously affects residents: lawmaker
The “increasingly deteriorating pollution” of the Macau peninsula’s coastal waters has been seriously affecting the daily lives of residents, legislator Ho Ion Sang said yesterday. Ho, a vice-president of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations, raised the concern in a written interpellation submitted to the government. The lawmaker sent copies of the interpellation to the media yesterday. His association is commonly known as Kai Fong. He quoted the official Report
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Local couple busted for cheating casino
The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a local couple – a 32-year-old male dealer and his 30-year-old wife, on Friday on suspicion of cheating a casino out of HK$42,000.A PJ spokesperson revealed details of the case during a regular press briefing. A staff member from the casino in Cotai reported the case last Tuesday, the spokesperson said.The spokesperson said the dealer surnamed Che and his jobless wife surnamed Vong were arrested last Tuesday at different locations.
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Science & techno week to show ‘Intelligent Life’
The annual Science and Technology Week by the government-run Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) will kick off next week.This time, the week is themed ‘Intelligent Life’.Members of the fund – the convener of its working group for the popularisation of science Tong Chi Kin, executive members Mok Kai Meng and Cheang Kun Wai as well as Leong Pou Fong, who heads the fund’s activity support services – co-hosted a press conference at the headquarters of the fund in Nape
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Govt hopes panda cubs will meet public in 6 months
Macau’s first panda cubs, born in Coloane on Sunday afternoon, will hopefully make their first public appearance with their mother Sam Sam in six months time, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) Administrative Committee Member Leong Kun Fong told reporters yesterday. Coloane’s Macau Giant Panda Pavilion, which houses the four-member panda family, will be reopened to the public on July 12, but only the cubs’ father Hoi Hoi will be available for the public to see because Sam Sam
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Court rules drunk driver must pay money insurance paid to victim
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that the Court of Second Instance (TSI) has ruled that a drunk driver involved in a severe traffic accident in 2006 will have to repay his insurance company the money it paid out to the victim.According to the statement, while driving along Avenida do Comendador Ho Yin in the early morning of January 14, 2006, the driver failed to give way to a scooter at a junction, causing severe injuries to the rider.On being breathalysed at the
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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Artist shows ‘way to peak of artistry’
Mainland artist Han Tianheng is holding an exhibition at the Macau Museum of Art (MAM) to show the public how he has pursued the way to the peak of artistry.Han’s “The Way to the Peak of Artistry” exhibition comprises various kinds of exhibits on display on the fourth floor of the museum.Apart from Chinese-style paintings and calligraphy, exhibits such as ink stones, writing brush pot, red stoneware utensils, water pots, paper-weights and screens, regarded carriers of the artist’s work,
June 28, 2016 | BY admin
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First-ever ‘made in Macau’ pandas born
For the first time a giant panda has given birth in Macau – and it was double happiness yesterday as not just one cub but twins were born – and both were even locally conceived.The “lovely giant panda twins” were born to eight-year-old Sam Sam and her mate Hoi Hoi, who is seven years old, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement last night. The bureau said both the mother and the elder cub, which weighs 135 grammes, were doing fine, adding that, however,
June 27, 2016 | BY admin
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Group warns of drug risk during summer holidays
Macau Health Association Vice Chairman Denis Vong Hou Piu said yesterday that as children may more easily come into contact with drugs during their summer holidays, parents should spend more time with their children, particularly during the holiday period.Vong made the remarks on the sidelines of an anti-drug activity in a sitting-out area in Lok Yeong Garden in Fai Chi Kei. Vong, an auditor by profession, was one of the guests officiating at the event.The Macau Health Promotion Association
June 27, 2016 | BY admin
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