New lawmakers will bring proactive approach: commentator

Local current affairs commentator Choi Chi U says that some of the newcomers to the legislature will make fellow lawmakers adopt a more proactive approach to monitoring the government.Choi made the remarks while speaking to reporters on Sunday on the sidelines of a forum about the prospects of the legislature’s new term. The forum, organised by the local Roman-Catholic Chinese-language publication Observatório de Macau (“Macau Observer”), was held at the Diocesan Youth Pastoral Centre

October 24, 2017 | BY admin

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Leong says racetrack will ‘properly handle’ its dogs

Lawmaker Angela Leong On Kei, the executive director of Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. reassured the public yesterday that her company will “properly handle” the about 600 greyhounds after the government-ordered closure of the racetrack in Fai Chi Kei next year.Leong made the remarks while speaking to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of government-owned broadcaster TDM’s Macau Forum in Areia Preta Park. In July last year, the government told the racetrack operator to vacate

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmakers call for officials’ accountability system

Lawmakers who attended yesterday’s Macau Forum as guest speakers called for the full implementation of an accountability system for senior officials. Some of the lawmakers in yesterday’s forum also demanded that senior officials be held accountable for the recent Super Typhoon Hato disaster.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.Five directly-elected lawmakers were asked to attend yesterday’s Macau Forum to reveal what

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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1st batch of LRT trains to arrive at end of month: govt

The Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) announced on Friday that the first batch of Macau’s Light Rapid Transit (LRT) trains left Japan on that day, slated to arrive here at the end of this month.According to the announcement, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, manufacturer of Macau’s LRT trains, is set to deliver the trains in batches. The first batch includes four trains and maintenance vehicles with each train weighing 15 tonnes.The announcement said that the LRT Taipa Line entered its

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Orbis marks World Sight Day with bungy jump

About a dozen people walked around 233 metres up on the outside of Macau Tower and bungy jumped from there yesterday as part of Orbis Macau’s campaign to mark World Sight Day.Bungy is an alternative spelling of bungee.World Sight Day was on October 12 this year and due to the fact that the No. 8 storm signal was hoisted for Severe Typhoon Khanun last Sunday, the event had to be rescheduled to take place yesterday.The global sight-saving organisation runs an “Action for Sight” campaign

October 23, 2017 | BY admin

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Probe shows ex-weather chief issued typhoon signals from home

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) says in a report released yesterday that the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), when forecasting typhoons and hoisting typhoon warning signals, simply relied on the personal judgement and decisions of its former director Fong Soi Kun – who resigned the day after Super Typhoon Hato hit Macau in late August, killing 10, injuring 244 and causing damage estimated by the government to be over 11 billion patacas.The report says there was no

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Govt proposes licensing of social workers

Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said yesterday that the government has drafted a bill on the mandatory accreditation and licensing of social workers, with the aim of improving the quality of the services provided by social workers and reinforcing their professional image.The bill will be submitted in due course to the Legislative Assembly (AL) for debate and vot.Addressing a press conference at Government Headquarters, Leong said that the council, the government’s top advisory

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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2 mainlanders nabbed for theft

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced in a special press conference yesterday the arrests of two mainlanders involved in two thefts on Wednesday.According to a PJ spokesperson, the two suspects are a 38-year-old driver surnamed Huang and a 31-year-old businessman surnamed Zhang.The spokesperson said that on August 20 the police received a report from a man from the mainland that his money had been stolen while he was shopping in a hotel mall in Cotai earlier that day. After investigating the

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Social housing applicants must be aged at least 23: govt

Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said yesterday that the government has drafted a bill on social rental housing – according to which residents can apply for social housing units any time, unlike now where residents can only submit their application when the government launches a new round of applications for social housing units.According to Leong, the bill also proposes that an applicant needs to be at least 23 years old, as opposed to the current minimum age requirement of

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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More high school graduates to enrol on mainland: govt

During a post–meeting briefing at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) yesterday, Kong Chi Meng, head of the Pre–School and Elementary Education Division of the bureau, said that more high school graduates in Macau enrolled in mainland colleges in the 2016/17 academic year.Kong said the rate of enrolment in local and non-local colleges – including universities – by Macau high school graduates increased from 84.4 percent in the 2007/08 academic year to 95.6 percent in the

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Exhibitors eye B&R opportunities at MIF

Over 1,000 enterprises from about 50 countries and regions are showing their products and services at the 22nd Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), hoping to network and get into partnerships with those along the “Belt and Road” (B&R), an initiative of the central government to promote global economic development by connecting Asia, Europe and Africa , according to a statement by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion (IPIM), the annual fair’s organiser.The fair

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Lush going ‘naked’ this winter

There’s only 64 days to go to Christmas and Lush has prepared its new Christmas range, with every packaged product offering a naked alternative.While both contain the same mix of innovation and ingredients, 80 percent of the range is “Naked”, which is a little better for the planet too.The new Christmas collection includes a “Christmas Sweater”, “Sherbet Dip”, and “Thundersnow” bath bombs, as well as a “Snow Fairy” jelly bomb where you will “watch as clouds of skin

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Where have all the street name signs gone?

Walking around the streets of the city on a daily basis, the dearth of street name signs has become increasingly noticeable, building numbers too for that matter. Where have they gone?Typically street name signs are placed on all corners of buildings at road junctions so that those walking up a street and arriving at a junction can see the name of street they are on and the name of the streets or street that cross the junction.The street name signs in Macau are particularly beautiful, white

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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Ambrose So opens calligraphy exhibition in Lisbon

Macau Millennium College (MMC) Chancellor Ambrose So Shu Fai, who is also the chief executive officer of gaming operator SJM, opened his solo calligraphy exhibition in Lisbon last week.The exhibition, “A Cultural Janus: Macau’s Complexity on Calligraphic Parade”, was held at the invitation of Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM) and Instituto Internacional de Macau (IIM).Besides promoting the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy, the exhibition aims to foster a deeper

October 20, 2017 | BY admin

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