Police bust 2 mainlanders for shoplifting in 5 shops

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrests of two men from the mainland who are suspects in shoplifting cases in at least five luxury goods shops in Taipa, Cotai and the city centre, resulting in estimated losses of 187,000 patacas in total.A PJ spokesman announced the case during a special press briefing.The spokesperson said the suspects – a 54-year old surnamed Liu and a 52-year-old surnamed Wang – were arrested on Tuesday as they were about to leave the city through the

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Consumer rights bill ready this year: official

Consumer Council Executive Committee member Lewis Chan Hon Sang said yesterday a government-initiated bill on protecting consumer rights was in its final drafting stages, adding that it would be ready for the legislative process later this year.Chan also said the bill aimed to strengthen consumers’ right to access information about products and their right to ask for compensation.Chan made the remarks after taking part in a phone-in radio programme about the city’s skyrocketing food

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CityU rector supports new degree programmes

The new types of tertiary degree programmes proposed in a government-drafted bill, such as a master’s-PhD programme and a taught master’s programme, will be able to address Macau’s need to “nurture talents”, City University of Macau (CityU) Rector Zhang Shuguang told reporters yesterday. Zhang, a political scientist holding a PhD in history of international relations from Ohio University, made the remarks on the sidelines of the university’s 35th anniversary celebration and

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CityU is base for ‘nurturing high-level talent’: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the City University of Macau (CityU) was one of the city’s “important bases for nurturing high-level talent”.Chui also said the government would continue to support the private university and the city’s other tertiary education institutions.Chui made the remarks when addressing the university’s 35th anniversary celebration and it’s Honorary Degree Conferment Ceremony on the CityU campus in Taipa yesterday.Chief Executive

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Young people in need of proper civic education: lawmaker

Lawmaker-cum-businessman Vitor Cheung Lup Kwan said yesterday that young people were in need of proper civic education so as to teach them the important values of the past.A plenary session was held at the legislature yesterday where government officials briefed legislators on the city’s first ever Five-Year Development Plan and collected lawmakers’ suggestions on the draft.Speaking during the session, Cheung, initially praising the plan, lamented that the government prioritised the wrong

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Union to give civil service recruitment ‘tips’

The Macau Federation of Trade Unions will hold a nine-day exhibition which will include photos showing the work done by different sectors in Macau and information boards on “tips” about the city’s civil service recruitment, Un Oi Mou, the co-ordinator of the event, said yesterday.The federation is commonly known as Gung Luen.Addressing a press conference about the event at the Beautiful World Restaurant, Un, who heads the federation’s Sports Committee, said that the exhibition will be

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Police nab Mongolian serial shoplifting couple

Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Chong Sin I announced yesterday the arrest of a serial shoplifter from Mongolia.According to Chong, the 24-year-old female suspect surnamed Enkhbat was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing from at least 12 shops in the city centre.Chong said the suspect was arrested at the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Tuesday as she was about to leave the city.Please read the full article in our print edition.

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Man threatens to jump from building

A man threatened to jump from the 9th-floor corridor balcony of Julieta Nobre da Carvalho Building, Block C, in Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa, yesterday. The man, a 26-year-old mainlander surnamed Zhang, appeared there at about 8 a.m. yesterday, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman told The Macau Post Daily by phone, adding that the police found the man’s passport “somewhere near the building”. A middle-aged female resident, who was in the crowd watching Zhang, told The Macau

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Crown cuts stake in MCE for HK$6.2 billion

Australian mogul James Packer’s Crown Resorts has reduced its stake in Melco Crown Entertainment (MCE) from 34.3 percent to 27.4 percent for HK$6.2 billion, Hong Kong-based Melco International Development (Melco) announced last night. According to the deal, MCE has agreed to repurchase 155 million shares from a Crown Resorts subsidiary called Crown Asia Investments (CAI). After the repurchase agreement, Melco’s stake will rise to 37.9 percent from 34.3 percent. Melco Crown

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Deal reached on rent arbitration centre: lawmaker

Lawmaker-cum-banker Cheang Chi Keong said yesterday that his standing committee had reached an agreement on the setting-up of an arbitration centre which would allow a speedier option for solving rent disputes than going to court.The proposed arbitration mechanism is part of a rent control bill initiated by nine of the legislature’s 33 lawmakers. The legislature’s 3rd Standing Committee yesterday held a closed-door meeting with government officials and some of the lawmakers who

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Govt vows guidelines for barrier-free environment

Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Celeste Vong Yim Mui says that the government will come up with guidelines for barrier-free designs for public and government-subsidised construction projects.Vong makes the pledge in a reply to a written interpellation submitted by lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I. Copies of the reply were sent to the media yesterday.Lei asked the government in her interpellation what it would do to give the city’s disabled people a barrier-free environment,

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3 family members hospitalised with CO poisoning

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that three members of a local family – two men and a woman aged 17 to 53 living in a building in Areia Preta – would remain in the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre overnight suffering from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.The SSM statement said that the three were in a stable condition after medical treatment but needed to stay in hospital under observation.According to the statement, the accident took place early yesterday

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ANIMA calls for TV debate on dog racetrack’s fate

The Macau Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) yesterday challenged representatives of Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome Co. Ltd. to take part in a TV debate on the future of the greyhound racetrack in Fai Chi Kei.Addressing a press conference held at ANIMA’s office in Nam Van, Albano Martins, who heads the group, said he and his fellow activists weren’t afraid of having a TV debate with the operator, adding that the company’s bosses should tell the public the reasons why they think that

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Seac Pai Van health centre is too small: civic leader

The Health Bureau’s (SSM) Seac Pai Van provisional health centre is “too small” and is not able to meet the growing demand for healthcare in the neighbourhood, Sin Chi Young, a vice-convener of the government-appointed Islands Community Services Consultative Committee, said yesterday. Sin, who heads the Macau Elderly Sports General Association, made the remarks when addressing a committee meeting with government officials in a community centre run by the Civic and Municipal Affairs

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