CityU launches arts education research centre

The private City University of Macau (CityU) launched its Arts Education Research Centre on its Taipa campus yesterday with artist Sun Jiangtao appointed as the centre’s founding director.CityU Rector Zhang Shu Guang said in his opening speech that the centre aimed to provide an academic platform for arts education and research not only for students and staff of the university but also anyone who is interested in the arts. According to Sun, the university is planning to provide general

November 24, 2016 | BY admin

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Chan vows to listen to consultative bodies’ views

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said yesterday that the government will always listen to the opinions of the nearly four dozen government-appointed consultative bodies, adding that they are useful for the government’s decision-making process. Chan made the remarks when answering questions from several lawmakers, on the last day of a two-day Q&A session about her portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.Several lawmakers asked the government whether it

November 24, 2016 | BY admin

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3-legged race to help disabled: Lions Clubs

Lions Clubs International’s branches in Macau announced yesterday that they will hold their first three-legged charity race aiming to help people with disabilities. The event will be held the Macau Federation of Trade Unions’ Workers Stadium near the Barrier Gate checkpoint on January 8. Addressing a press conference at a youth activities centre in Avenida de Marciano Baptista, William Koi Wai Kong, who heads the Lions Clubs International District 303, said it will be the first

November 24, 2016 | BY admin

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Health Bureau seeks legal advice on Venetian smoking area

Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said yesterday his bureau was seeking legal advice on a complaint about an alleged breach of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Law at the Venetian in Cotai on Monday.Lei made the remarks on the sidelines of a blood donation drive by the rank and file and officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison at their Zape barracks. Lei said as the Venetian’s case was “a bit complicated” the bureau had launched an investigation into

November 24, 2016 | BY admin

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Visitors rise 1.6 pct in October

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 1.6 percent year-on-year and 10.4 percent month-on-month to 2.67 million in October, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. A DSEC statement attributed the two-digit month-on-month increase to the National Day “Golden Week” holiday in the first week of last month. Overnight visitors rose 12.1 percent year-on-year to 1.37 million, accounting for 51.2 percent of the total, while same-day visitors dropped 7.6 percent to

November 24, 2016 | BY admin

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Chan insists current election systems suitable for Macau

Addressing yesterday’s Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle, Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said that the current systems to elect the chief executive and legislators were suitable for Macau.Chan made the remarks when answering questions from grassroots lawmakers Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San, on the first day of the two-day Q&A session about her portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.Chan and several other senior officials of her

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt mulls amending law to better protect inspectors: Chan

The government considers reviewing the law on providing legal aid for inspectors facing insults, physical violence and other kinds of attacks, so as to evaluate if the law is still suitable under the current circumstances, Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said yesterday.Chan made the remarks when replying to a question by legislator-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I during a plenary session of the legislature. Chan yesterday presented the 2017 policy guidelines for her

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt plans shopping centre for Seac Pai Van

Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Fonseca Tavares said in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday that the government was planning to build a shopping centre in Seac Pai Van.Tavares made the remarks when answering questions from several lawmakers, on the first of the two-day Q&A session about the Administration and Justice portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.Several lawmakers asked the government whether it planned to build wet markets in new neighbourhoods,

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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GDP grows again after 2-year shrinkage

Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) has finally snapped a two-year contraction amid a recovery in casino receipts.  GDP grew 4 percent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter, the first positive quarterly growth recorded over the past two years, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. The bureau attributed the return to growth to a rebound in both exports of services and investment. The gain brought an end to a slide that was at its worst in the second

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for punching police, resisting arrest

A 60-year-old local man was arrested on Sunday for resisting arrest and injuring two policemen, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a press briefing yesterday.According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a report about suspected illegal gambling near a construction site in Fai Chi Kei at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. When PSP officers arrived at the location, several men ran off in different directions but the suspect, surnamed Lau who claimed to be unemployed, was

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Hengqin has enough land for local investors: official

Apart from the five-square-kilometre area known as the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau Co-operation Industrial Park, Hengqin Island has enough land for investors from Macau, the director of the Administrative Committee of Hengqin New Area, Niu Jing, said yesterdayNiu made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar at the Zhuhai Holiday Resort Hotel about the investment projects at the industrial park. According to a statement released by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM)

November 23, 2016 | BY admin

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Lawmakers reject bill on interpretation of Coloane law

Lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Pereira Coutinho’s bill of on the interpretation of Decree Law No. 33/81/M concerning the preservation of a 198,060-square-metre plot of land in Coloane was rejected by his fellow legislators yesterday.Coutinho’s bill, formally known as an interpretative norm, requested that the government ensure that no one can develop the plot except for scientific reasons or in the public interest.In the introduction to his bill, Coutinho said that more and more residents were

November 22, 2016 | BY admin

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Firm urges govt to help improve residents’ spoken English

Education First (EF) urged the government yesterday to help improve residents’ spoken English by creating an English-speaking atmosphere in Macau.Founded in Sweden in 1965, the firm focuses on teaching languages, educational travel and cultural experiences, according to an EF statement.EF General Manager of Macau Region Adrian Kwok Gee Kin made the remarks during a press conference at the Fortuna Business Centre (FBC) in Nam Van about the company’s recent report on the 6th Edition of the

November 22, 2016 | BY admin

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1,254 sign petition to halt joint exam

New Macau Association (NMA) activists handed a petition signed by 1,254 residents to the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) yesterday, urging the government to stop a controversial joint university admission examination scheduled to be held from March 30 to April 2.The joint exam will replace the separate entrance exams of four local tertiary education institutions, namely the public University of Macau (UM), Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT), Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM,) and the

November 22, 2016 | BY admin

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