Prosperity and treasure at Sofitel

Chinese New Year is everything auspicious and the food eaten during the festival all has meaning that more or less symbolises good health, good luck and good business.At Le Chinois at Sofitel Macau, start the Chinese New Year meal with a “Prosperity Toss”. Originally a tradition for the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese community, this “Prosperity Toss” is a salad dish with raw salmon and tuna with an assortment of shredded vegetables. The raw fish is considered a symbol of abundance,

January 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Spice up Chinese New Year at Feng Wei Ju

For Chinese New Year, Galaxy Entertainment Group has launched a series of festive promotions in food and beverages across its properties in Galaxy Macau, Broadway Macau and StarWorld Hotel.While poon choi (‘big bowl dish’), typically filled with abalones, sea cucumbers, dried scallops, fish maws, mussels, prawns and mushrooms, steamed fish and chicken are staples of Chinese New Year menus, it might get boring after eating the same dishes twice in a row.For something different and to whet

January 20, 2017 | BY admin

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At the disco, a place of identity and freedom

Disco for most people is about catchy and kitschy music from the 70s and 80s, the glitter ball, flares and miniskirts, but for Er Gao, it’s a place where people found their identity and freedom when the disco phenomenon reached the mainland in 1985.Originally a personal piece, Er Gao created the “Disco-teca” dance performance two years ago as a way to understand his parents and start a conversation with them.“It’s hard to talk to them, it’s hard to express your love for them, as

January 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Security chief ‘disappointed’ in dog-abusing cop

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday he was disappointed in a Judiciary Police (PJ) officer who abused his dog in public view on Tuesday, criticising the officer for his misconduct and his refusal to co-operate with the Public Security Police (PSP) in their investigation into the case.The incident quickly became widely known because someone living nearby filmed the abuse which went viral on various social media such as Facebook, WeChat and WhatsApp.The footage shows the man

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Residential rentals to drop further this year: JLL

The rental values of residences, office and retail space all experienced year-on-year decreases last year, according to data collected by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), forecasting that the rental values this year will continue to fall up to 15 percent.JLL Macau, the local office of the global real estate services firm, held a press conference yesterday about its year-end property review of Macau in 2016 at its office in Finance and IT Centre (FIT) in Nam Van.According to the agency’s data, the

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Overnight exceed same-day visitors last year: MGTO

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the number of overnight visitors last year outnumbered same-day visitors for the first time in 10 years, a year-on-year increase of nearly 10 percent.Senna Fernandes made the remarks during a press conference at Macau Tower about last year’s tourism development and this year’s plans for the sector.Senna Fernandes said that the total number of overnight visitors last year exceeded 15.7

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Police suspect family suicide in Cotai hotel

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said yesterday they suspected that an Indian family of four were involved in a suicide pact in a hotel room in Cotai, in which two of them were found to have died at the scene while the other two were rushed to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) for emergency treatment.In a statement, the Judiciary Police identified the two people who died as a 52-year-old man and the couple’s 24-year-old son, and the two people who survived as his 45-year-old

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Firemen record over 1,000 blazes last year

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced yesterday it recorded 1,074 fires last year, 4 percent more than in the previous year.Lam Io Fan, a senior officer of the bureau, announced the 2016 fire statistics during a press conference at the CB headquarters in Nam Van.According to Lam, the fires were mainly caused by people forgetting to turn off their stoves, 245 cases in total. Burning joss papers and negligence, such as fires caused by carelessly disposing of lit cigarette ends, were also some

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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BNU opens Hengqin branch

Macau-based Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) officially inaugurated its Hengqin branch, becoming Macau’s first locally incorporated bank to open a branch in the mainland.A BNU statement quoted the bank’s CEO Pedro Cardoso as saying during the inauguration ceremony that “the Hengqin branch is a milestone in expanding our financial services to Guangdong province. We are committed to providing high-quality financial services such as traditional deposit and loan services, foreign exchange

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Activists complain about ‘nepotism’ to prosecutors

The grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) complained yesterday about Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan and her predecessor, Florinda da Rosa Silva Chan, to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for alleged nepotism.Sonia Chan Hoi Fan and Florinda da Rosa Silva Chan are not related.Former Prosecutor General Ho Chio Meng disclosed the alleged nepotism during his ongoing trial for alleged corruption in the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) last month.Ho said Sonia Chan and

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Macau airport operator vows further expansion

Local airport operator CAM said yesterday that it would push ahead with developing more facilities at the airport, to cope with the rising number of passengers for the next two decades.The company hosted a press conference yesterday about its future infrastructure development plan, at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Cotai.The Civil Aviation Authority of Macau (AACM) on Monday released the revised version of a development plan for the airport for the next 20 years.Vicki Mou In Lai, who heads the Corporate

January 19, 2017 | BY admin

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Local banks to launch mobile payment

Seven local banks will link-up with Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (JETCO) to provide a mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) fund transfer service to bank account holders in Macau in the second half of this year, JETCO Chief Executive Officer Angus Choi Ping Chung said yesterday.According to a JETCO statement, the company was established in 1982. It has more than 30 member banks in Hong Kong and Macau. JETCO has three core businesses: local and cross-region ATM services, an e-commerce platform

January 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass Soares condolence motion

Lawmakers yesterday passed a motion by lawmaker-cum-unionist Jose Pereira Coutinho to express the legislature’s deep sorrow over the demise of former Portuguese president Mário Soares who passed away in Lisbon on January 7, aged 92.According to the Legislative Assembly Procedure Rules, lawmakers can present a motion to “express a wish”. Article 50 of the rules says that the “wishes” a lawmaker can express concern congratulations, condolences, greetings, praise, objection and

January 18, 2017 | BY admin

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Leong pledges more info on public projects

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac told the legislature yesterday that the government would strive to be more transparent about the way it reveals information on public projects to the legislature.The legislature yesterday passed a report on an in-depth review drafted by the 3rd Standing Committee, regarding the government’s 2015 budget implementation.Leong made the remarks during yesterday’s plenary session which discussed the report drafted by the committee, which was

January 18, 2017 | BY admin

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