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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
May 4, 2016
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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
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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Police call for witnesses to near-fatal traffic accident
The Public Security Police (PSP) are calling for witnesses to contact them about a near-fatal traffic accident in Areia Preta on Saturday, a PSP spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a press briefing, the spokesperson said an 8-year-old boy was hit by a car on a pelican crossing in Rua 1 de Maio.The spokesperson said the victim suffered a brain haemorrhage from the accident, and was still undergoing hospital treatment at the time of the press briefing.Please read the full article in our
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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Police urge residents to set better passwords
Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Chong Sin I yesterday advised residents to set better passwords, an example being not to include it in their public social media name.Chong gave the advice during a press briefing where she announced the case of a 32-year-old unemployed local woman, who in April was able to steal from a victim’s hotel safe and bank account by using the numbers he used for his social media name.According to Chong, the suspect was arrested on Monday in Praceta 24 de
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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Police should learn from checkpoints computer glitch: Wong
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said in a statement released by his office yesterday that the security forces should learn from Saturday’s computer glitch at the city’s border checkpoints, pledging to improve their ability to co-ordinate preparation for, and response to emergencies.Automated passenger clearance systems – also known as e-channels – at the checkpoints did not work properly between 5:18 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. that day due to a computer malfunction, according to a Public
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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HK cop flees to Macau with HK$1 million: reports
According to Hong Kong Chinese-language news media reports on Monday, a Hong Kong police sergeant who stole HK$1.07 million in bail money from a report room at a police station in Wan Chai has absconded to Macau.Speaking to reporters during a press briefing yesterday, both Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai and Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Chong Sin I said they did not have any further information about the case. They added that their Hong Kong counterparts had not filed
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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Committee ‘basically finishes’ review of asset-freeze bill: lawmaker
The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee “has basically finished” its review of a government-drafted bill on the freezing of assets allegedly related to terrorism, lawmaker-cum-unionist Kwan Tsui Hang, who chairs the committee, said yesterday.Kwan, a vice chairwoman of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, briefed the media on yesterday’s closed-door committee meeting about the bill afterwards.Kwan said she hoped the bill can become law by the end of the current legislative session,
May 4, 2016 | BY admin
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Govt to review checkpoints computer glitch: tourism chief
Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that official bodies including her office and the Public Security Police (PSP) would review their handling of Saturday’s computer glitch in which thousands of people were stuck for hours at the city’s checkpoints.The tourism chief, who also heads the Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT), was asked by reporters about the incident on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition at
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Kai Fong calls for competition law
Ilha Verde District Welfare and Mutual Help Association Vice President Chan Fong yesterday urged the government to come up with a bill to ensure competitive prices for food such as fruit, meat and vegetables.Chan also said there should be regulations in place to prevent businesspeople from reaping “exorbitant profits”, adding that businesspeople should follow their conscience when running their businesses.Chan made the remarks on the sidelines of a one-day seminar about food prices at the
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Transmac says new buses will improve service
Transmac Chairman Alfred Liu Hei Wan said yesterday he believed that 25 newly purchased buses which are equipped with USB ports to charge mobile phones and computers will further improve the services provided by the city’s public bus operators.Liu made the remarks on the sidelines of yesterday’s launching ceremony for the 25 new buses in Pac On.Talking to reporters, Liu, who heads one of the city’s three public bus service providers, said that some of the 25 buses would start operating
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Only 580 take part in May Day protests: police
Macau Youth Dynamics President Lei Kuok Keong and New Macau Association (NMA) President Scott Chiang Ming Hin said yesterday that the poor turnout of just 580 demonstrators by 10 groups for this year’s May Day protest had been “expected”.Lei and Chiang made the remarks during separate phone interviews with The Macau Post Daily.An ad hoc alliance by three of the groups – Macau Youth Dynamics, New Macau Association and ‘Our Land, Our Plan’, demonstrated about land development issues,
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Kindergarten interview subsidy may become recurrent: official
The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) will consider whether its one-off subsidy for kindergartens to conduct interviews with prospective pupils this year, which amounts to 100 patacas per interview, should become one of its recurrent subsidies to schools in the future, DSEJ Deputy Director Lou Pak Sang said yesterday.Lou made the remarks on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition at the Bank of China Building. According to Lou, the government will also review
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Students urge peers to ‘carry forward’ May 4th spirit
Young people should “inherit and carry forward” the spirit of the May 4th Movement, Tommy He Zhaodong, a vice-director general of the University of Macau Students’ Union (UMSU), said yesterday, adding that they should bear in mind “the lessons of history and the era”.The student leader made the remarks when addressing the opening ceremony of the group’s three-day “UMSU May 4th Youth Leadership Summit Series” activity commemorating the historic movement in 1919, at the university
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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Over 900 march for animal rights
Over 900 people marched on Saturday to urge the government and the legislature to get a long-delayed animal protection bill passed as soon as possible. Animal rights protests were held in Hong Kong and Taiwan simultaneously, with Macau’s protest co-organised by the Macau Abandoned Animals Association (AAPAM).The government-initiated animal protection bill, the outline of which was passed by the legislature in October 2014, is being reviewed in detail by the Legislative Assembly’s
May 3, 2016 | BY admin
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‘Smart city’ needs mutual trust between govt & public: lawmaker
Lawmaker-cum-urban planner Jose Chui Sai Peng said yesterday that the government and the public must trust one another if Macau is to become a ‘smart city’.A ‘smart city’ is an urban development vision to integrate multiple information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in a secure fashion to manage a city’s assets, according to Wikipedia. Chui, vice-chairman of the government-appointed Science and Technology Council (CCT), made the remarks on the sidelines of
April 29, 2016 | BY admin
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