Young people don’t get enough sleep: survey

A survey released yesterday shows that young locals do not get enough sleep – 6.95 hours per day on average. Sheng Kung Hui (SKH) Macau, which carried out the survey, said that young people in the city have to get more sleep.The survey, called Macau Youth Indicators, has been commissioned by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) and carried out every two years since 2008 by SKH Macau.The Anglican Church is known as Sheng Kung Hui in Hong Kong and Macau.Bonnie Chang Mei Fan, who heads

December 14, 2016 | BY admin

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Fewer local youth take drugs in mainland: govt

According to the Macau government’s central registration system for drug users, the youth segment only takes up 4.8 percent of the city’s 374 registered drug users in the first half of this year, down by nearly half over the same period last year.Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Drug Abuse Prevention Division Head Tang Yuk Wa quoted the figures when briefing reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the government-appointed Narcotics Control Committee at the Education and Youth Affairs

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Argentinean director’s ‘The Winter’ wins film-fest

Argentinean director Emiliano Torres’s Spanish-language “The Winter” won the best film award at the 1st International Film Festival & Awards • Macao (IFFAM) yesterday.The awards ceremony, which was held at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM), marked the end of the six-day film-fest, which was co-organised by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and the Macau Films & Television Productions and Culture Association (MFTPA).According to a statement from the festival’s organising

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Wynn inks procurement deals with about 200 SMEs

Wynn currently has procurement contracts with about 200 local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Linda Chen, the gaming operator’s executive director, said yesterday.Chen made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending the launching ceremony of mobile app “ChoicePro”, which serves as a platform to connect local SMEs and large enterprises and provides the latest procurement information to further promote business opportunities for local SMEs. The app was developed by a

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Employers urge govt to allow non-local delivery drivers

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac insisted yesterday that the government will allow employers to hire non-resident delivery drivers only if locals are unwilling to fill the vacancies.Currently, the hiring of non-local drivers – both for passenger and goods vehicles – is banned by the government. Leong made the remarks during a seminar about labour affairs with local business associations hosted by the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) at its headquarters in

December 13, 2016 | BY admin

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Ex-chief prosecutor says needed to rent villa, denies running criminal group

Standing accused of spending public funds on renting a villa in Coloane for his personal use, former ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng insisted yesterday that it was necessary to rent the mansion in Coloane to entertain important guests and officials from outside Macau when they visited the Public Prosecution Office (MP).Ho made the remarks in his defence on the second day of his trial by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) yesterday.The trial is taking place in front of a panel of three judges,

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Nursing college to provide dementia tests

Urging the public to pay more attention to dementia, the private Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau (KWNC) announced yesterday that it will provide free cognitive tests to detect the disease in the elderly.Addressing an on-campus press conference in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais, KWNC President Florence Van Iat Kio said the college would collaborate with the Dr. Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation and the Macau Alzheimer’s Disease Association (MADA) to provide the test at three elderly

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Wynn donates 500,000 patacas to Tung Sin Tong

Wynn has made a 500,000-pataca donation to the local Tung Sin Tong Charitable Society, and a cheque presentation ceremony was held at Wynn Palace in Cotai yesterday.Wynn Macau President and Executive Director Ian Michael Coughlan, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director Linda Chen and Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace Vice President of Communications Katharine Liu as well as a delegation from Tung Sin Tong including Chui Sai Cheong, the organisation’s president, and Deborah Vong, a member of

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2 Taiwanese nabbed at airport with weapons

Two men from Taiwan were caught at the airport on Sunday morning for attempting to carry prohibited weapons, a telescopic stick and five stun guns, onto an aircraft, a spokesperson for the Public Security Police (PSP) announced yesterday.The spokesperson said one of the suspects, surnamed Huang, is an unemployed man in his forties while the other suspect, surnamed Chang, is a businessman in his fifties. The spokesperson said that although the suspects were booked on the same flight the two

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Over 60 pct less than 3 years in current job: survey

According to the findings of a survey conducted by the Macau Management Association (MMA) which were released at a press conference yesterday, 60.8 percent of the respondents have been in their current job for less than three years.The association conducted the survey about local residents’ job mobility between August and October by choosing people randomly in the streets to provide answers to questionnaires, 1,308 of which were valid.Over half of the respondents were between 21 to 30 years

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Ex-chief prosecutor says accusations are ‘unfactual’

Former ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng insists that the accusations against him are “unfactual”. Ho made the remarks on the first day of his trial by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) on Friday.Ho also denied that he rented office space using public funds for his personal use.  Ho is being tried for over 1,500 charges, including alleged fraud, abuse of power, money laundering, illicit participation in business activities, document forgery and membership of a criminal organisation.A

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More than half of film-fest tickets for sale: chief

More than half of the 1st Macau International Film Festival and Awards’ (IFFAM) tickets could be bought by members of the public, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.Fernandes, who heads the festival after internationally renowned “festival maker” Marco Mueller abruptly quit last month, told reporters on the sidelines of yesterday’s ‘Walk for a Million’ charity event that about 10 percent of the tickets had been reserved for

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Govt to review rules on self-defence guns: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday the government would consider reviewing the regulations on owning firearms for self-defence and requiring all firearm owners to submit their handgun’s ballistic fingerprint record.Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of the annual ‘Walk for a Million’ charity event.Commenting on the 58-year-old retired custom officer who committed suicide with a handgun on Friday in Taipa, Wong said he was upset about the officer’s death, adding that

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LRT peninsula route shouldn’t be decided yet: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario insisted yesterday that the government won’t give up its plan to build the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system also on the Macau peninsula, but he was quick to add that the route should not be decided yet.  Rosario made the remarks while talking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual ‘Walk for a Million’ charity event in Nape. “The Taipa section [of the LRT] linking Seac Pai Van and Barra takes priority over the

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