Macau's beach swimming season to start tomorrow

This year’s swimming season will begin tomorrow when lifeguards and paramedics will be on duty at the city’s two beaches, Hac Sa (“Black Sand”) and Cheoc Van (“Bamboo Bay”), the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) said in a statement yesterday.The swimming season will run until October 31.During the annual non-swimming season between November 1 and April 30, no lifeguards and paramedics are on duty at the two beaches.Yesterday’s statement noted that the bureau will deploy lifeguards

April 30, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau's Hac Sa Long Chao Kok Coastal Trail reopens today

The Hac Sa Long Chao Kok Coastal Trail will reopen today after the completion of restoration work, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced in a statement yesterday.The coastal trail spans around 1,200 metres.Multiple parts of the trail’s stone railings were severely damaged due to typhoons last year, prompting its temporary closure and restoration works, the statement said.Now reopened, the statement noted that members of the public can again enjoy the trail, which extends from Rua de

April 30, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau's Studio City presents ‘Disney Palette of Happiness’

The “Disney Palette of Happiness” has opened at Studio City in Cotai, with themed attractions, games, and delicacies on showcase throughout its run until November 1.The event marks the fourth collaboration between the integrated resort operator and Disney IPs. Characters are found in parts of the property, ranging from the seven metre Mickey Mouse installation that greets visitors at the resort’s entrance to Zootopia’s Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde at one of the five Disney-themed cabins of

April 30, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau bus route linking Guia, Cotai hospitals starts Monday

The Macao Medical Centre of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) announced in a statement yesterday that it will launch a bus route on Monday between the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) on the peninsula’s Guia Hill and Macao Union Hospital in Cotai. According to the statement, in order to facilitate patients’ access to the two hospitals, the Health Bureau (SSM), in collaboration with Macao Union Hospital, has decided to launch a temporary shuttle bus

April 30, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau airport operator’s pre-tax profit dips 40 pct to 229 million patacas in 2025

Airport operator CAM recorded a pre-tax profit of 229 million patacas in 2025, according to a statement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.Last year’s pre-tax profit represented a 40.2 percent decrease from the 383 million patacas recorded in 2024.The statement noted that the airport recorded 7.52 million passengers and 58,196 flight movements in 2025, down 1.6 percent and 2.9 percent respectively from 2024.The statement also noted that the airport reached cargo volume of

April 30, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Vivienne Westwood exhibition opens at Macau's Grand Lisboa Palace resort in Cotai

An exhibition about the late British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood is being held at Grand Lisboa Palace in Cotai, highlighting her influential work in fashion, jewellery and activism, with the showcase running until July 15. According to an information board at the entrance of the exhibition, Westwood (1941–2022) is regarded as one of the most influential designers of the past half-century, known for breaking boundaries by merging cultural elements through bold experimentation

April 30, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau's Sands China resort operator launches ‘Community Revitalisation Programme 2.0’

Sands China launched its “Community Revitalisation Programme 2.0 for Rua das Estalagens” yesterday during a press conference at The Londoner Macao, opening recruitment for a new batch of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to operate in the district, along with its inaugural “Shop Rebranding Programme” for the currently operating businesses.The measure follows the company’s Entrepreneurship Recruitment Programme launched in 2024, which drew 128 applications, from which seven

April 30, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Mainland woman fined for trying to take baby without ID through Gongbei checkpoint

Zhuhai’s Gongbei border checkpoint announced in a statement yesterday that a woman from the Chinese mainland has been fined for attempting to bring a baby without ID from Zhuhai to Macau through the checkpoint on April 16.According to the statement, on that day a mainland couple were attempting to exit the adjacent city through the manual inspection lane at the checkpoint with two children. They were urged by customs officers to change their travel plans because one of the children, a

April 30, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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2026 Macau Spending Rewards achieves ‘significant’ results in 2 weeks: DSEDT

The 10-week “2026 Macau Spending Rewards” campaign, which was launched on April 10, achieved “significant” results in just the first two weeks since it started, according to Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) Director Yau Yun Wah, who also noted that participation was “markedly higher than last year”.Yau made the remarks during a speech at The Londoner Macao during the launch of Sands China’s Community Revitalisation Programme 2.0 for Rua das Estalagens.Yau

April 30, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Avian ‘feces bombardment’ haunts Chinese owners of aggressive pets

Analysis        BEIJING – A black bird swoops down, deliberately splattering its droppings at a pet cat pawing behind windowpane. What sounds like a Tom and Jerry scene is, for some pet owners in China, a real-life nuisance.From east China’s Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces to central China’s Hubei Province, many have recently shared videos of pets, homes and even people being “bombarded” by birds, not as isolated incidents but as repeated, targeted

April 30, 2026 | BY admin

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Macau police forecast up to 3.7 million border crossers during 5-day Labour Day holiday

Various local authorities hosted a press conference at the Barrier Gate border checkpoint arrivals hall yesterday morning about their preparations for the upcoming Labour Day holiday.Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong forecast between 3.6 and 3.7 million border crossers passing through Macau’s border checkpoints, equating to 720,000 to 740,000 border crossers per day. The Chinese mainland’s Labour Day holiday runs from May 1-5. In Macau, only May Day is a public

April 29, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau Hotel Association ‘quite confident’ about Spanish market

Macau Hotel Association Chairman Jocelyn Wong (王淑欣) said that she is “quite confident” in Macau being able to draw the Spanish market, she told the Post yesterday during an interview with Portuguese- and English-language media on the sidelines of a tasting event at Hotel Royal Macau.Wong, who joined the Macau government-led delegation during a trip to Portugal and Spain last week, highlighted the encounter of exchanges as well as the things that the Spanish market might find

April 29, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau's FADO Portuguese Restaurant highlights flavours from Porto, Goa

A media tasting event was held at the FADO Portuguese Restaurant at Hotel Royal yesterday, highlighting flavours from Porto and Goa.The four hands event saw a first-time collaboration between FADO Executive Chef Luís Américo and Michelin Bib Gourmand Chef Justin Paul, who also leads and owns Indian restaurant Justindia Macau. A selection of Portuguese wines by Vinomac were also featured at the event.The wine-pairing menu featured flavourful highlights from both chefs, ranging from Chef

April 29, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau police nab mainlander for trying to cheat illegal currency dealer

The Judiciary Police (PJ) nabbed a man from the Chinese mainland for attempting to defraud an illegal currency exchange dealer on Sunday, PJ spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 39-year-old man surnamed Zheng, who claimed to be jobless. Lei said that the victim is a middle-aged man from the Chinese mainland suspected of involvement in illegal currency exchange activities in local casinos, because of which the Judiciary Police

April 29, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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