Activist stands trial for defamation

High-profile non-establishment activist Jason Chao Teng Hei was tried yesterday by the Court of First Instance (TJB) in absentia for alleged defamation of Wang Jianwei, ex-director of the University of Macau’s Department of Government and Public Administration. Wang continues to be a professor with the department. Chao, 31, is reported to be in the UK where he is said to be enrolled in a master’s degree course. He is a former president of the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). He once

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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‘Navy Yard No. 2’ to be new venue for music-fest

An area known as “Navy Yard No. 2” near Barra will be the new venue for one of the performances of the 32nd Macau International Music Festival (MIMF) that will be held from September 28 to October 28, Ieong Chi Kin, the acting president of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), said yesterday.Ieong made the remark during an MIMF press conference at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) where he announced that the budget for this year’s festival is roughly 30 million patacas.According to Ieong, the

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust 2 drug-selling cases

The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted two drug-selling cases yesterday, in which two male mainlanders and a local man were arrested, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Concerning the first case, Ho identified the two suspects as a 27-yaer-old man from the mainland surnamed Tang, who said he is unemployed, and a 31-year-old local man surnamed Fok, who said he works as a builder and decorator.According to Ho, the Judiciary Police were tipped off recently that a

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman, with fake passport, withdraws chips from casino account: police

A mainland woman was arrested on Saturday for using a fake passport to withdraw chips worth HK$50,000 from a casino account in Zape earlier this month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson Ho Chan Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the Ho, the suspect is a 44-year-old surnamed Wang, who works as a doorwoman.Ho said that in the afternoon of July 10, Wang, along with another suspect at large at the time of the press conference, went to a casino in Zape. Wang presented

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Top court orders govt to reassess quotations for LRT depot project

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that it has rejected an appeal by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On against a ruling by the Court of Second Instance (TSI) in March, which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT).The TSI ruling in March annulled the government’s contract with a company for the construction of the LRT

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Local youths’ gambling problems increase over past decade: survey

The findings of an annual survey released yesterday conducted by the Bosco Youth Service Network (BYS) show that increasingly more young local people had gambling problems during the last decade.The latest annual survey on young local people’s gambling problems was conducted last year, which was the ninth time the group conducted the survey.The group yesterday hosted a press conference at Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) College near Avenida do Coronel Mesquita yesterday about a comparison of the nine

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Junket shareholder defrauds friend of HK$17 million: police

A local man was arrested last Thursday in the local airport’s immigration area for cheating a female friend out of HK$17 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 49-year-old surnamed Cheang, who is a shareholder of a junket operator in Macau, while the victim is a local businesswoman in her forties, whose surname was not revealed. Ho said they were friends.Ho said that in April 2015, Cheang

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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S Korean visitors drop 2.2 pct in H1

The number of South Korean visitor arrivals, Macau’s number-one foreign visitor segment, fell 2.2 percent year on year to 424,000 in the first half of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday. In June, 57,800 South Koreans visited Macau, down 13.4 percent year on year. The first half of the year recorded 16.81 million visitor arrivals, up 8.0 percent year on year. Overnight visitors accounted for 52.1 percent of all visitor arrivals. Overnight visitors’ average

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Family row reveals S Korean overstaying for over 7 years: police

While investigating a family dispute, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered that a South Korean has been overstaying in Macau for over seven years, PSP spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspects are a local woman in her thirties surnamed Lei, who works as a clerk, while the other is her partner, a South Korean man also in his thirties, surnamed Kim. Choi said that the couple met

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Firework contest returns after Hato suspension

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced yesterday that the 29th Macau International Firework Display Contest will take place in September as well as on National Day, with this annual event coming back following its cancellation last year after Macau had been devastated by deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Addressing a press conference at Wynn Palace in Cotai yesterday about the event, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes noted that the annual firework contest was cancelled for the

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Short circuit causes fire in Mong Ha

A 44-year-old man was injured in a fire at his flat in Rua de Kun Iam Tong yesterday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to the spokesman, the bureau received a report at about at 4:20 p.m. that a flat on the ground floor of Block II of Iau Hei Building was on fire. After arriving at the scene, the bureau’s firefighters rescued the man, who sustained minor injuries, and extinguished the flames.The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.The

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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No. 3 signal unlikely: observatory

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said last night it was unlikely that it will hoist the No. 3 signal today for a tropical depression that was approaching the far western coast of Guangdong province.The weather station hoisted the No. 1 signal at 3:45 p.m. yesterday.According to the bureau’s website, the tropical depression was located at about 360 kilometres west-southwest of Macau at 2 a.m. today and was moving towards the western coast of Guangdong province at a speed of

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Forum strongly slams Canidrome for abandoning dogs

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum strongly slammed Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. for deliberately abandoning its greyhounds at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack and passing its duty of taking care of the dogs to the government, considering that the government told the company two years ago that it must vacate the property before July 21, 2018.The weekly debate programme is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in its studio at Macau Forum in Zape every

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Anima chief vows ‘yes we can’ rescue all greyhounds

In an email message on Saturday, Anima President Albano Martins told The Macau Post Daily that the “next steps are hard, but yes we can [rescue all the greyhounds]” left behind in the kennels of the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. racetrack after its closure on FridayThe animal protection activist also said in his message that “now is not the time to concentrate only on thanking Anima and its partners for having successfully closed the Canidrome and also having succeeded in convincing

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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