UFC to return to Galaxy Macau in May

Integrated resort Galaxy Macau announced in a statement yesterday that the United States’ Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to Galaxy Arena in Cotai from May 28 to 30 with three consecutive days of competition, culminating in UFC Fight Night Macau.According to the statement, the May events will include a triple-header featuring UFC Fight Night and ROAD TO UFC Season 5, with Galaxy Macau also hosting the opening round of ROAD TO UFC Season 5 on May 28 and 29.Ahead of UFC Fight

February 5, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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68 artworks on show at Macau's GalaxyArt ‘Golden Fortunes’ exhibition

GalaxyArt is continuing to showcase the representative works of well-known artist Zhu Bingren in the exhibition “Golden Fortunes: the Macau Debut of Zhu Bingren’s Copper Art”. Showcased until April 12, the exhibition marks Zhu’s, a National-level Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Copper Carving, first large-scale showcase in the city. Entering the permanent contemporary art space located within Galaxy Macau in Cotai, gallerygoers will be able to explore five zones:

February 5, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Union Hospital performs Macau’s first ‘CyberKnife’ brain tumour treatment

The Islands Healthcare Complex – Macao Medical Centre of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) said in a statement yesterday that it has recently performed Macau’s first brain tumour treatment using the “CyberKnife”* (a stereotactic radiosurgery system using X-rays) device. This marks the alignment of Macau’s radiosurgery capabilities with internationally advanced technology, the statement said.According to the statement, the CyberKnife system used in this procedure is

February 5, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau police launch week-long anti-crime campaign for youth in run-up to CNY

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday launched their annual week-long crime-prevention awareness campaign targeting young people, in collaboration with various local schools, in the run-up to the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday period, with the aim of enhancing schoolchildren’s ability to stay vigilant against different types of frauds and say no to drugs.As in previous years, members from two PJ training programmes for university and secondary school students, namely “Community Safety Youth

February 5, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau's University of Saint Joseph (USJ) adopts ARC sustainability assessment

The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) has become the first higher education institution in Macau to initiate the “ARC sustainability performance assessment”, adopting an international framework to evaluate and improve campus operations, according to a statement by the private university yesterday. The statement said that the ARC assessment will measure the university’s actual operational performance instead of focusing only on design-based sustainability goals. According to the

February 5, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau police nab ex-bank manager for cheating client out of 700,000 patacas

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a female former bank manager on Tuesday for cheating a client out of 700,000 patacas, PJ spokesman Cheong Siu Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a 41-year-old local who formerly worked as a customer service manager at a bank in the northern district.According to Cheong, an elderly man first met the suspect at the bank in 2022. She claimed that making fixed deposits could yield higher interest rates than

February 5, 2026 | BY Ada Lei

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Police nab mainland woman for stealing HK$160,000 from hotel guestroom

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman from the Chinese mainland yesterday for stealing HK$160,000 (164,000 patacas) in cash from a hotel guestroom, PJ spokesman Cheong Siu Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a 32-year-old female surnamed Pu who claimed to be jobless.According to Cheong, the police received a report on Monday from a middle-aged mainland man who said that his HK$160,000 in cash had been stolen from his hotel guestroom in

February 5, 2026 | BY Ada Lei

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Macau police bust smuggler with leg disability for trafficking drugs in cane

For the first time ever, the Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local smuggler on Tuesday for trafficking drugs hidden in his cane, PJ spokesman Cheong Siu Keong said during a special press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a 53-year-old male with a leg disability.According to Cheong, based on a tip-off, the Judiciary Police (PJ) identified the local man as a suspect smuggling drugs from across the border into Macau. The police apprehended the suspect on Tuesday as he entered

February 5, 2026 | BY Ada Lei

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AI reshapes China’s workforce via new professions, constant learning, one-person startups

Analysis        BEIJING – The widespread rise of AI is modifying China’s labor market in ways that go far beyond job replacement or creation. It has generated new professions, lowered the threshold for starting a business, and empowered employees to upgrade their skills in a bid to stay competitive.At Xunfei Healthcare’s office in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province, Hu Pingping, a former doctor specializing in stomach and gut diseases, spends her days

February 5, 2026 | BY admin

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When will Japan atone for its past sins?

Commentary by Shao Xia         There is one form of political hypocrisy that is even more corrosive than open aggression: the deliberate manipulation of memory to disguise guilt as innocence.Post-war Japan, particularly its right-wing political populists, has elevated this hypocrisy into governing tactics.Germany confronted its crimes through repentance. Japan chose denial, whitewashing, and silence. This difference is not cultural – it is political and moral.That

February 5, 2026 | BY admin

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Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) campus lectures on Constitution, Basic Law reaches 6,000 secondary students

The public Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement yesterday that its “One Country Two Systems” Research Centre hosted a series of campus lectures on the nation’s Constitution, the Macau SAR Basic Law and Macau’s National Security Law, reaching more than 6,000 secondary school students from nearly 30 schools last year.According to the statement, the lectures formed part of the public university’s continued support for the local government’s policy direction of

February 4, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau police bust 5 illegal currency exchange dealers

The Judiciary Police (PJ) separately arrested four men from the Chinese mainland and a local woman on Monday for engaging in illegal currency exchange activities, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a special press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspects as a 40-year-old male surnamed He, a 35-year-old male surnamed Cai, a 29-year-old male surnamed Li and a 27-year-old male surnamed Xiong, all of whom claimed to be jobless; and a 56-year-old local saleswoman surnamed

February 4, 2026 | BY Ada Lei

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Macau police bust mainland woman married to ex-husband’s brother to get IDs for her sons

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman from the Chinese mainland and a local man on Monday for their alleged involvement in a bogus marriage, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspects as a 42-year-old female surnamed Gao who claimed to be jobless, and her ex-husband’s elder brother surnamed Im, who works as a security guard in Macau.According to Cheong, the Judiciary Police received a referral from the Prosecutions Office

February 4, 2026 | BY Ada Lei

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Macau CE Sam Hou Fai meets new FM commissioner Bian Lixin, vows stronger communication

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai met with the newly appointed commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), Bian Lixin, yesterday at Government Headquarters where they exchanged views on various topics including the MSAR’s external affairs and the successful implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” principle in Macau, with Sam pledging to continue strengthening communication and coordination with the commissioner’s office,

February 4, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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