Macau SAR Establishment Day, Winter Solstice & Christmas public holidays

Due to it being the Macau SAR Establishment Day, Winter Solstice (冬至) and Christmas public holidays from tomorrow until Friday, The Macau Post Daily’s team will be taking Sunday to Friday off and return to work on Sunday December 28 so the print edition of your favourite newspaper will be on the newsstands again on the morning of Monday December 29. However, our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ will provide updates on important local and national news.We wish all our readers,

December 19, 2025 | BY admin

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Macau police launch traffic accident blackspot online map

The Public Security Police (PSP) launched yesterday a trilingual – Chinese, English and Portuguese – traffic accident blackspot online map. According to a PSP statement on Wednesday, in order to further enhance public awareness of travel safety, the Public Security Police and the Macau Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau (DSFSM) jointly developed the map, adding that the map’s data has been provided by the Mapping and Land Registry Bureau (DSCC). The Public Security Police

December 19, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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3 vacant plots in Macau to be temporary public car parks from this month

Three plots of land have been repurposed into temporary outdoor public car parks, and are slated to open progressively from this month to alleviate parking demand in their respective areas, including plots located on Rua da Cordoaria in Coloane (the former Flying Eagle Training Base), the original site of Julieta Nobre de Carvalho Building (嘉翠麗大廈) in Toi San, and next to the Maritime Training School in Barra, according to a statement released by the Transport Bureau (DSAT) and Public

December 19, 2025 | BY Ida Cheong

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Macau filmmaker Harriet Wong’s ‘Revisit’ touches audiences, garners more awards

Interview by Rui Pastorin         In 2024, local filmmaker Harriet Wong Teng Teng’s first feature length film “Revisit” was released to encouraging reactions from audiences of different backgrounds, having since garnered a number of nominations and awards.Made on a modest budget with a tight-knit crew, the family drama explores “universal family dynamics and the beauty of intergenerational relationships”, Wong, who directed the film, said during a recent

December 19, 2025 | BY admin

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ProjectPlayaround calls for artists for interdisciplinary tech-art workshops in Macau

The Macao New Media Arts Association, with sponsorship from the Macau Cultural Development Fund, has announced the launch of ProjectPlayaround Macau, an initiative calling for artists to participate in a series of interdisciplinary workshops focused on the integration of technological art and performing arts. ProjectPlayaround has a history of promoting technology, art, and interdisciplinary practices, with its first workshop established in Taiwan in 2007. The Macau edition, which is a

December 19, 2025 | BY William Chan

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35-pataca hourly minimum wage to start in Macau on Jan 1

Macau’s statutory minimum wage will increase from the current 34 patacas an hour to 35 patacas per hour from January 1 next year, representing an increase of 2.94 percent, after the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed a government-initiated bill amending the city’s overall minimum wage law.The implementation of Macau’s overall minimum wage system started on November 1, 2020. Since then, all employees in the private sector, except domestic helpers and those with disabilities, had

December 19, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Sands China Asian Youth Elite Fencing League – Macao’ returns

The Sands China Asian Youth Elite Fencing League – Macao competition will take place at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo from December 26 to 28, featuring new categories and 1,200 youth fencers from around the world, according to a joint statement by co-organisers Sands China in conjunction with Asia Sports Development Ltd.This year’s free-admission event will feature new categories including individual events for the U6 age group and team events for the U8 and U12 age groups, the

December 19, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme gains expert backing at first committee meeting: University of Macau (UM)

The University of Macau’s (UM) Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) held its first expert committee meeting on Tuesday to review and advise on the newly launched ‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme, an initiative aimed at advancing innovation and technology transfer in the Big Health sector, according to a UM statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the meeting focused on the direction and development of the ‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme, which is funded by

December 19, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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University of Macau (UM) hosts first GBA Immunity & Disease Summit

The University of Macau (UM) announced in a Wednesday statement that it hosted its first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Immunity and Disease Summit last month, bringing together leading experts from across the region to explore new frontiers in immunology and human health. Held under the theme “Immunity and Human Health: New Frontiers”, the summit provided a high-level platform for academic exchange on basic immunology research, the prevention and control of immune-related

December 19, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) seminar discusses low-altitude economy standardisation

The “2025 International Symposium on Standardisation-Enabled Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and the Low-Altitude Economy” was held yesterday, with the aim of driving the standardisation of the low altitude economy (LAE)* into a new phase characterised by institutionalisation, platformisation, and internationalisation, according to a statement by the organisers.The one-day seminar took place at the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Taipa. It focused on the

December 19, 2025 | BY Ida Cheong

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Local youngster falls victim to online naked chat blackmail: Macau police

A local youth fell victim to blackmail after chatting in the nude with a “female netizen”, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leng, a male reported to the Judiciary Police on Wednesday night that after meeting a woman on a social platform, he was induced into engaging in a nude chat. Subsequently, the woman blackmailed him for money, resulting in a total loss of around 19,350 yuan (22,030 patacas), Leng said.On Wednesday morning,

December 19, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Hainan evolves as gateway to global markets

FTP hits new milestone with launch of island-wide special customs operations         On April 13, 2018, when President Xi Jinping announced that China would support Hainan, a tropical island about the size of Taiwan province off China’s southern coast, in exploring the creation of a free trade port (FPT) with Chinese characteristics, the message traveled far beyond China’s southern shores.It reached Atyrau, a city on Kazakhstan’s Caspian coast, where Ruslan

December 19, 2025 | BY Analysis by Mo Jingxi and Chen Bowen

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‘China surplus anxiety’ mirrors West’s ‘rationality deficit’

Commentary        BEIJING – In recent weeks, some Western media headlines have fixated on China’s goods trade surplus, often portraying it in stark terms and as a threat to industries in the West. This narrative strips international trade of its economic context, weaponizing a single metric into a story of Chinese economic aggression.Yet, this framing reveals less about China’s trade practices and more about a growing anxiety within the West – anxiety over its own

December 19, 2025 | BY admin

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Macau SAR Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai vows to overcome all reform challenges by fully implementing Xi’s instructions

Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai yesterday pledged his government’s commitment to overcome all challenges expected to arise during its ongoing governance reform campaign, through the full implementation of President Xi Jinping’s instructions for Macau.Sam also said that his government has decided that investments made in Hengqin by Macau’s gaming operators can also be regarded as part of the total amounts of non-gaming investments that they have

December 18, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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