Zone A sand supply to resume on Friday: Rosario

Addressing a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said that the supply of sand from the mainland for the land reclamation project off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula would resume on Friday.Rosario made the remarks on the last of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.Rosario and several other senior officials of his portfolio attended yesterday’s plenum in

December 7, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt mulls using waste to reclaim land in Zone D: Rosario

Addressing a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said the government was considering the possibility of using inert waste as landfill to reclaim land off the northern coast of Taipa – a planned land reclamation area officially known as Zone D.Rosario said the possible measure aimed to reduce pressure on the city’s only construction waste landfill site which has reached its full capacity.Inert waste is

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Vehicle growth probably less than 1 pct this year: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said in the legislature yesterday that the increase in the number of registered motor vehicles was expected to be less than one percent this year.Rosario made the remarks on the first of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year. The 2017 policy address proposes that the annual growth rate of vehicles should not exceed 3.5 percent.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Residents find new media more trustworthy: survey

According to a survey conducted by the Macau Internet Creativity and Development Association (MICDA), 42.7 percent of the respondents tend to find new media’s news reporting more trustworthy than the traditional media, while 29.8 percent tend to trust traditional media, and 27.5 percent tend to trust neither.The association carried out the survey last month about residents’ views on the credibility of traditional and new media, where 1,011 locals aged from 18 to 45 were chosen randomly in

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Union rejects banning off-duty dealers from casinos

The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union complained to the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) yesterday about the government’s proposal to ban off-duty dealers from entering local casinos.The bureau said in July that it was studying the feasibility of banning gaming workers from entering local casinos during their free time. The bureau said it was also analysing whether such a ban should only include dealers or all staff employed by gaming operators.According to the

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Macau should remain cross-Strait platform: scholar

Taiwanese scholar Shaw Chong-hai said yesterday on the sidelines of a forum at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) about cross-Strait relations he hoped that Macau will continue to act as a platform for relations between the mainland and Taiwan.Shaw is dean of the College of Social Sciences of the Chinese Culture University (CCU) in Taiwan. According to the IPM website, Shaw has been engaged in studies of cross-Strait relations for 25 years. He is also researching Taiwan’s relations with

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Govt mulls subsidy for professional certificates & licences

The government plans to offer a subsidy to encourage locals to obtain professional certificates or licences, Talents Development Committee Secretary-General Sou Chio Fai said yesterday.Sou, who heads the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES), briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting with the government-appointed committee at Government Headquarters.According to Sou, the subsidy aims to encourage locals to obtain professional certifications required for high-level positions.Talents

December 6, 2016 | BY admin

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Forum urges govt to train young entrepreneurs

The government could help young entrepreneurs by providing business-related courses, University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Business Administration Associate Professor Matthew Liu Ting-Chi said yesterday.Liu made the remarks at a forum on youth entrepreneurship hosted by the Macau Wisdom Convergence Network at Flower City Garden in Taipa. “Aside from financial aid,” Liu said, “the government could provide finance or accounting training for young people who want to start their own

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Academic calls for teaching of local history

Local history academic Lam Fat Iam yesterday urged schools to teach local history, to give young people a better understanding of what happened in the city in the past.Lam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a forum to mark the 40th anniversary of the so-called 123 incident, a riot by residents sparked by the then Portuguese administration’s bungled handling of an application for permission to build a school in Taipa.The forum, organised by the grassroots New

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Appeal delays graft trial of ex-top prosecutor

The graft trial of former chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng, which had been scheduled to start at the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) this morning, has been postponed by the court sine die because of an appeal by the defence against the participation of the president of the court, Sam Hou Fai, in the trial. According to the TUI statement on Friday, Ho’s defence has requested Sam’s exclusion from the trial because the latter allowed the city’s graft busters access to the income and assets

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Forum worries about exit ban on local teens

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum expressed concern that the government’s proposed measure enabling parents to request that their children be banned from leaving the city, such as when they suspect that their children go to the mainland to take drugs, would further worsen the relationship between parents and their teenage children.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcast TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.On Monday last week,

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Instituto Salesiano to start demolition & expansion next year

The demolition of an over 100-year-old building on the Instituto Salesiano campus and the school’s expansion are slated to begin next year, the school’s alumni association announced yesterdayInstituto Salesiano is a Roman-Catholic school founded in 1906. The total size of the campus is 8,008 square metres covering several buildings including the over 100-year-old edifice. The building, which serves as a primary school, will be demolished and the school will erect a new one in its

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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Kenya & N Korea win 35th Macau Int’l Marathon

Kenya’s Peter Kimeli Some and North Korea’s Kim Ji-hyang won the men’s and women’s 35th Galaxy Entertainment Macau International Marathon yesterday respectively. While Some finished the race in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 52 seconds, Kim clocked up 2 hours, 36 minutes and 16 seconds. According to Wikipedia, Some’s marathon best stands at 2.05:38 hours. Kim’s personal best is 2.28:06, according to all-athletics.com Some won US$47,000. Kim took home US$40,000. Fellow

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Pearl Horizon buyers ask for divine intervention

About 20 pre-sale buyers of Pearl Horizon flats prayed to Pau Kung, the god of justice in local folk belief, at Pau Kung Temple yesterday to “punish those who caused them to lose their flats”.The Pearl Horizon residential project has been mothballed since the government decided late last year to axe the ill-fated project’s temporary land concession that had expired. The government has repeatedly said that the issue must be solved in strict adherence with the Land Law. The developer, Hong

December 5, 2016 | BY admin

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