Briefs | Sports Bureau reopens four sports facilities
Four sports facilities will be reopened to the public from today after the forced closure due to the consequences of the passage of Typhoon Hato, the Sports Bureau (ID) informed in a statement. The four facilities that will reopen from today are the Nam Van Nautical Center, the Hockey Field of the Olympic Sports Center in Taipa and the Running/Jogging track and Tennis Courts of the Olympic Sports Centre (Multi-purpose Zone). The ID also informs that classes operating in such venues are also resumeing accordingly.
DSAT opens on weekend to ease registration cancellation
The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has informed that they will extend their working hours into the weekend in order to assist vehicle owners with vehicle registration cancellation procedures following Typhoon Hato. The DSAT Service Center located at Rua D Maria II will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekend of September 16 and 17. The initiative is an effort to increase service accessibility during the final days of the deadline for tax refund requests regarding the vehicles affected by the typhoon, which closes on September 18 (Monday). The DSAT also reminded vehicle owners of the required documents for their applications, including the completed application form, a copy of the vehicle owner’s identity card and the documents proving the vehicle was damaged by the typhoon.
Vietnamese wife arrested after cutting husband’s penis
A 46-year-old Vietnamese woman has been arrested after attempting to cut off her husband’s penis, according to the Judiciary Police. The woman and her husband are both non-local workers in Macau. The couple had frequent quarrels, as the woman suspected her husband was cheating on her. Last Saturday, the couple reportedly had a fight. The following morning, the woman reportedly tied up her husband’s arms and feet with shoelaces before cutting off his penis while he was sleeping. The man sustained a three centimeter cut on his penis.
Drill pieces fall from building and injure passerby
A female passerby was injured after being hit by a chuck from an electric drill and screws that fell from a building in the Areia Preta district. The victim, who is in her 40s, sustained injuries to her right eye after the debris fell from a unit where renovation works were being conducted on the fourth and fifth floors. The woman was sent to the hospital after being hit. This incident follows similar accidents, including an occasion in early July where a passerby was injured by a bamboo stick that fell from a building.
Court slams IACM for improper decision
The Court of Final Appeal has criticized the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) after it rejected an election list’s request to hold campaigning events, allegedly on the basis that the request had improperly been made in the name of the bid, the New Macau Progressives. According to public broadcaster TDM, the court said that authorities that have “the power to deny the exercise of rights protected by the Basic Law, should only do so on solid reasoning and with at least some consistency.” The New Macau Progressives has filed another request to hold campaigning events, but in the bureaucratic chokehold, claims to have been victim to sabotage. The group says it has lost three days of potential campaigning due to the IACM’s decision.
