On the third floor of The Parisian Macao in Cotai, a shop venue houses works of local artist Kit Lei Ka Ieng for her latest exhibition, where visitors can find several moving images featuring traditional cultural elements created through new media technology.Entitled “Ascendance - Kit Lei Ka Ieng’s New Media Art World”, the near month-long exhibition kicked off on Friday and comprises 13 digital animations and interactive installations. It is the second part of Art For All Society’s
An open tender for the government’s “Land for Education” project on lot B1 in the Zone A land reclamation area is now underway, and the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) said yesterday that the future “School Village” there was expected to provide 13,000 non-tertiary education places, including integrated and special education classes. The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) published last Wednesday a tender notice for the foundation and basement works of one of the four Land
The Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) drafted in 2019 an urban condition plan for six lots near Estrada de Sete Tanques (七潭公路) in Taipa, for one of which it received last year a hotel development proposal – and according to the bureau’s latest urban condition draft plan, it now estimates that a number of villas will be developed on two of the six lots.The six plots, namely M2A, M2B, C, M3, A4 and D, which had been zoned for new phases of the Lisboa Gardens new residential
The University of Macau (UM) and the Policy Research and Regional Development Bureau (DSEPDR) jointly hosted a forum on “’One Country, Two Systems’ with Macau Characteristics: Review and Prospects” yesterday, with the aim of providing a platform for promoting academic exchanges and enhancing Macau’s role in the national development.The forum will continue today, in which Macau’s political, socio-cultural, and economic development will be discussed.The forum yesterday was attended by
On the third floor of The Parisian Macao in Cotai, a shop venue houses works of local artist Kit Lei Ka Ieng for her latest exhibition, where visitors can find several moving images featuring traditional cultural elements created through new media technology.Entitled “Ascendance - Kit Lei Ka Ieng’s New Media Art World”, the near month-long exhibition kicked off on Friday and comprises 13 digital animations and interactive installations. It is the second part of Art For All Society’s
An open tender for the government’s “Land for Education” project on lot B1 in the Zone A land reclamation area is now underway, and the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) said yesterday that the future “School Village” there was expected to provide 13,000 non-tertiary education places, including integrated and special education classes. The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) published last Wednesday a tender notice for the foundation and basement works of one of the four Land
The Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) drafted in 2019 an urban condition plan for six lots near Estrada de Sete Tanques (七潭公路) in Taipa, for one of which it received last year a hotel development proposal – and according to the bureau’s latest urban condition draft plan, it now estimates that a number of villas will be developed on two of the six lots.The six plots, namely M2A, M2B, C, M3, A4 and D, which had been zoned for new phases of the Lisboa Gardens new residential
The University of Macau (UM) and the Policy Research and Regional Development Bureau (DSEPDR) jointly hosted a forum on “’One Country, Two Systems’ with Macau Characteristics: Review and Prospects” yesterday, with the aim of providing a platform for promoting academic exchanges and enhancing Macau’s role in the national development.The forum will continue today, in which Macau’s political, socio-cultural, and economic development will be discussed.The forum yesterday was attended by
Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) passport holders will be granted visa waivers for Kazakhstan from Thursday, bringing the total number of countries providing visa-free access and visas on arrival for MSAR passport holders to 147.According to a statement by the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) yesterday, Macau residents holding an MSAR passport from Thursday will no longer need a visa to travel to Kazakhstan and stay there for up to 14 days. Reciprocally, Kazakh citizens will be
The government published the two-volume “Macao Gazetteer Series: Book of Geography” yesterday, and Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng underlined that the publication is one of the most important cultural projects since the establishment of Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).Ho made the remarks during the book’s launch ceremony on the University of Macau (UM) campus, with the attendance of nearly 100 representatives including Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau
Another screening has been added for the upcoming “Music on the Big Screen: Cinematheque•Passion Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA”, an outreach programme of the 36th Macao International Music Festival (MIMF), due to popular demand, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement last night.Tickets for the programme, which is to be held at the cinematheque, had previously sold out, according to the statement. The statement noted that the additional screening will be held at 9:30 p.m. this
Two men from the mainland have separately been arrested for their involvement in two currency exchange-related fraud cases, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.In the first case, the 45-year-old suspect surnamed Wu told the police that he’s a businessman.According to Leng, on Thursday the victim wished to exchange Hong Kong dollars he had won in a casino into yuan and deposit the amount into his mainland bank account. The victim then
A university student from the mainland has been arrested for repeatedly touching a female passenger’s arm with his groin, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a male surnamed Yeh in his twenties. According to Wong, Yeh and the female local victim, also a university student, got on the same bus on Wednesday near the Hengqin checkpoint, after which the victim sat near the bus door, while Yeh
I must admit that when I first heard a rumour in late August about Macau’s top judge, Sam Hou Fai, going to run for the special administrative region’s top executive post and the current chief executive, Ho Iat Seng, would not be seeking a second term, I was flabbergasted. Well, a study released by the US-based science advancement online journal PlosOne in 2016* found that rumours that are ultimately proven true tend to be resolved faster than those that turn out to be false.In this
I must admit that when I first heard a rumour in late August about Macau’s top judge, Sam Hou Fai, going to run for the special administrative region’s top executive post and the current chief executive, Ho Iat Seng, would not be seeking a second term, I was flabbergasted. Well, a study released by the US-based science advancement online journal PlosOne in 2016* found that rumours that are ultimately proven true tend to be resolved faster than those that turn out to be false.In this
On the third floor of The Parisian Macao in Cotai, a shop venue houses works of local artist Kit Lei Ka Ieng for her latest exhibition, where visitors can find several moving images featuring traditional cultural elements created through new media technology.Entitled “Ascendance - Kit Lei Ka Ieng’s New Media Art World”, the near month-long exhibition kicked off on Friday and comprises 13 digital animations and interactive installations. It is the second part of Art For All Society’s
“The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have the right to be wonderful.”– Stephen King, “The Life of Chuck” Imagine that the world is ending. Civil society has begun to collapse, extreme weather disasters are affecting every state, region and country, while food shortages are rampant. There are frequent power shortages, until one day, there just isn’t any while the internet goes dark. And at the
A 7-year-old local child was diagnosed with Vibrio vulnificus yesterday after being injured on the toe of his right foot by a fish fin when playing at Hac Sa Beach on Sunday, according to a statement by the Health Bureau (SSM) yesterday.According to the statement, the boy later came down with fever and pain in his swollen right foot after being stabbed by a fish fin while playing on the beach in Coloane on Sunday. His family took him to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre on
Macau recorded this year’s 11th imported case of dengue fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement yesterday evening.According to the statement, the patient is a 52-year-old local woman who lives in the mainland. She came down with a headache, fever, muscle pain, and joint pain last Wednesday when she was in Foshan City, some 100 km north of Macau, where she sought treatment after which her symptoms improved.However, the statement said, the woman developed a rash on her
A mainland man in his seventies attempted to smuggle 65 smartphones from Macau to the mainland last Thursday by pretending to be a disabled person and hiding the phones inside his electric wheelchair’s battery that had been modified, Zhuhai’s Gongbei customs said in a statement on Monday.According to the statement, the man was on his way through the “nothing to declare channel” in his electric wheelchair at around 8:40 a.m. last Thursday when he was travelling from Macau to Zhuhai via
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) yesterday confirmed the results of Sunday’s chief executive election when Sam Hou Fai was elected with nearly all the votes cast as the sixth-term chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), according to a statement by the court yesterday.The statement noted that the election results will be published in the Official Gazette (BO) on Monday next week.Sam, the sole candidate for Sunday’s election garnered 394 of the 398 votes cast by the
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement earlier this week that four performances are set to take place between October 22 and 31 as part of the National Art Troupes Performance Season in Macao 2024.The statement said that the performances are the Liyuan Opera new production “The Scholar and the Widow” presented by the Fujian Liyuan Opera Heritage Centre (formerly Fujian Liyuan Opera Experimental Troupe), the only professional performance group of the opera, and the “Golden
The “We Care, We Share” Mental Health Youth Ambassador Programme and Macau Secondary Mental Health Speech Contest kicked off on Monday, with 20 schools and over 70 students joining this year’s edition, a statement from the Rotary District 3450 said on that day.The opening ceremony was held at the Wynn Macau Ballroom, during which Macau Speaker Association President So Io Kuong said in his speech, as summarised by the statement, that last year’s programme had enabled many secondary
CE-elect Sam’s legal background ‘is his greatest strength’ Interview by Yuki Lei Running as the sole candidate for the sixth-term chief executive election, Sam Hou Fai was elected with 394 of 398 votes in Sunday’s poll, making him the first Macau Chief Executive-elect with a legal background – and Macao-Japan Chamber of Commerce President Dominic Sio Chi Wai pointed out yesterday the linkage between the rule of law and the business
The findings of a survey show that Macau residents’ needs for training and professional development are often closely related to their social needs and career advancement, with over 70 percent of the survey respondents expecting the government to set up an official training platform with certificates.The Macau Federation of Trade Unions (FAOM – commonly known as Gung Luen in Cantonese) and the Macau Society of Social Sciences jointly conducted between April and last month their “Survey on