Sam urges local officials to heed Xi’s instructions
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai convened and chaired a meeting on Friday briefing principal and senior local officials about President Xi Jinping’s appraisal of the local government’s work over the past year, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) that day.The session held at Government Headquarters on Friday afternoon was attended by Sam’s five policy secretaries and other principal officials, as well as all the heads of the government’s about 70 bureaus
January 19, 2026
Forum discusses tiered mental health services in GBA
The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and Macao (MHAHKM) hosted a forum on Friday at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau in Nape, titled “Greater Bay Area Summit Forum on Medical-Social Collaboration in Mental Health”. According to MHAHKM Chairman Dr William Lo Tak Lam, who is from Hong Kong, the one-day forum focused on tiered mental health services and youth support.Dr Lo said in a speech that the forum’s selection of Macau as its venue symbolised the Greater Bay Area’s (GBA) mental
January 19, 2026
Sinulog Festival brings colour & beats to Macau
Members of Macau’s Filipino community danced in the sun in colourful self-made garb in honour of the child Jesus (Santo Niño) yesterday afternoon, swaying to the beat of drums and proudly proclaiming “Viva pit Señor! [Hail the Lord, Holy Child, listen to our prayers!*]” as the Sinulog Macau Festival 2026 took place.The annual festival is organised by the Santo Niño de Cebu in Macau Association, with the parade, the event highlight, seeing groups again dancing from Praça da Amizade
January 19, 2026
Police log over 14,600 traffic accidents in 2025, down 5.6 pct
The Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement on Friday their Traffic Police Department recorded 14,638 traffic accidents last year, representing a decrease of 5.63 percent from the 15,510 accidents recorded in 2024. On average 40.1 traffic accidents were recorded per day last year, against 42.4 accidents per day in 2024. According to the statement, the top three primary causes of traffic accidents were failure to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front, failure to
January 19, 2026
Sam urges local officials to heed Xi’s instructions
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai convened and chaired a meeting on Friday briefing principal and senior local officials about President Xi Jinping’s appraisal of the local government’s work over the past year, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) that day.The session held at Government Headquarters on Friday afternoon was attended by Sam’s five policy secretaries and other principal officials, as well as all the heads of the government’s about 70 bureaus
January 19, 2026
Forum discusses tiered mental health services in GBA
The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and Macao (MHAHKM) hosted a forum on Friday at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau in Nape, titled “Greater Bay Area Summit Forum on Medical-Social Collaboration in Mental Health”. According to MHAHKM Chairman Dr William Lo Tak Lam, who is from Hong Kong, the one-day forum focused on tiered mental health services and youth support.Dr Lo said in a speech that the forum’s selection of Macau as its venue symbolised the Greater Bay Area’s (GBA) mental
January 19, 2026
Sinulog Festival brings colour & beats to Macau
Members of Macau’s Filipino community danced in the sun in colourful self-made garb in honour of the child Jesus (Santo Niño) yesterday afternoon, swaying to the beat of drums and proudly proclaiming “Viva pit Señor! [Hail the Lord, Holy Child, listen to our prayers!*]” as the Sinulog Macau Festival 2026 took place.The annual festival is organised by the Santo Niño de Cebu in Macau Association, with the parade, the event highlight, seeing groups again dancing from Praça da Amizade
January 19, 2026
Police log over 14,600 traffic accidents in 2025, down 5.6 pct
The Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement on Friday their Traffic Police Department recorded 14,638 traffic accidents last year, representing a decrease of 5.63 percent from the 15,510 accidents recorded in 2024. On average 40.1 traffic accidents were recorded per day last year, against 42.4 accidents per day in 2024. According to the statement, the top three primary causes of traffic accidents were failure to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front, failure to
January 19, 2026
Reclaimed water unit price to be 15 pct lower than tap water: govt
The government has announced that the unit price of reclaimed water*, the generation and supply of which is scheduled to start on March 1, will be 15 percent lower than that of tap water.Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood and the University of Macau (UM) campus will be the first two areas in Macau to where reclaimed water will be supplied.The Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood comprises one social rental housing estate and three subsidised home-ownership
January 19, 2026
Two Macau chefs chosen for Young Chefs Programme
1st time Macau to be representedGalaxy Macau’s Daniel Chio Ka Kin and Safa Rodas from City of Dreams (COD) have been chosen to join the Young Chefs Programme (YCP), with the two chefs, aged 30 and 33 respectively, going to represent Macau among chefs from around the world.An initiative of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and coordinated by the World Food Forum (WFF), a total of 10 young chefs from around the world are routinely chosen for the
January 19, 2026
IAM orders subcontractor to correct misspelt warning sign
The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Saturday that it was investigating and following up on a case involving an erroneous signboard about ongoing maintenance work at a public sports ground, a picture of which was widely circulated on social media on Saturday. The Chinese wording on the notice board mistakenly wrote “quiet entry” (靜止進入), instead of “prohibited entry” (禁止進入). According to the Putonghua (Mandarin) input method (IME), the “靜”
January 19, 2026
‘Galaxy Macau Chill Coffee’ festival spotlights culinary tourism
The three-day “Galaxy Macau Chill Coffee” Macau Coffee Cultural Festival opened on Friday at the eponymous integrated resort in Cotai, providing a free showcase and sales platform for 60 exhibitors, including more than 40 local small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs), aiming to highlight the integration of tourism and gastronomy. Organised by Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) through its “GEG SME Series”, the festival ran from Friday afternoon to yesterday evening at Hall ABC of the
January 19, 2026
HK, Macau lower age threshold to 7 for automated immigration clearance
A joint statement released by the Public Security Police Force (PSP), Identification Services Bureau (DSI), and the Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau (DSFSM) on Friday announced new immigration clearance facilitation measures, lowering the minimum age for using automated channels from 11 to 7 years-old, starting today, to enhance cross-boundary travel convenience in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).The three local government entities, in conjunction with the Hong
January 19, 2026
Editorial: Xi’s spot-on New Year call: time to better integrate Macau into national development
President Xi Jinping mentioned Macau – and Hong Kong, for that matter – twice in his 2026 New Year address. Xi pointed out in his message broadcast nationwide on New Year’s Eve that “not long ago, I attended the opening ceremony of the National Games, and I was glad to see Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau coming together in unity and acting in unison”. I may add that Macau won a record three gold and two bronze medals, all in karate events, at the National
January 5, 2026
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Editorial: Xi’s spot-on New Year call: time to better integrate Macau into national development
President Xi Jinping mentioned Macau – and Hong Kong, for that matter – twice in his 2026 New Year address. Xi pointed out in his message broadcast nationwide on New Year’s Eve that “not long ago, I attended the opening ceremony of the National Games, and I was glad to see Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau coming together in unity and acting in unison”. I may add that Macau won a record three gold and two bronze medals, all in karate events, at the National
January 5, 2026
Sinulog Festival brings colour & beats to Macau
Members of Macau’s Filipino community danced in the sun in colourful self-made garb in honour of the child Jesus (Santo Niño) yesterday afternoon, swaying to the beat of drums and proudly proclaiming “Viva pit Señor! [Hail the Lord, Holy Child, listen to our prayers!*]” as the Sinulog Macau Festival 2026 took place.The annual festival is organised by the Santo Niño de Cebu in Macau Association, with the parade, the event highlight, seeing groups again dancing from Praça da Amizade
January 19, 2026
Macau's traditional Tap Siac Craft Market in Autumn draws fairgoers to shop, play, learn & eat
Macau has, to say the least, been busy with events from the recently concluded 15th National Games and the 72nd Macau Grand Prix (MGP) to the ongoing and ever-packed 25th Macau Food Festival. And now, with the onset of cooler weather, has come another event to draw Macau’s crowds: the annual Tap Siac Craft Market in Autumn, which opened on Thursday.Running for a total of eight days broken up into two consecutive weeks, the craft market, which has been annually held in the spring and the
November 24, 2025
Sam urges local officials to heed Xi’s instructions
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai convened and chaired a meeting on Friday briefing principal and senior local officials about President Xi Jinping’s appraisal of the local government’s work over the past year, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) that day.The session held at Government Headquarters on Friday afternoon was attended by Sam’s five policy secretaries and other principal officials, as well as all the heads of the government’s about 70 bureaus
January 19, 2026
Reclaimed water unit price to be 15 pct lower than tap water: govt
The government has announced that the unit price of reclaimed water*, the generation and supply of which is scheduled to start on March 1, will be 15 percent lower than that of tap water.Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood and the University of Macau (UM) campus will be the first two areas in Macau to where reclaimed water will be supplied.The Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood comprises one social rental housing estate and three subsidised home-ownership
January 19, 2026
Two Macau chefs chosen for Young Chefs Programme
1st time Macau to be representedGalaxy Macau’s Daniel Chio Ka Kin and Safa Rodas from City of Dreams (COD) have been chosen to join the Young Chefs Programme (YCP), with the two chefs, aged 30 and 33 respectively, going to represent Macau among chefs from around the world.An initiative of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and coordinated by the World Food Forum (WFF), a total of 10 young chefs from around the world are routinely chosen for the
January 19, 2026
Forum discusses tiered mental health services in GBA
The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and Macao (MHAHKM) hosted a forum on Friday at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau in Nape, titled “Greater Bay Area Summit Forum on Medical-Social Collaboration in Mental Health”. According to MHAHKM Chairman Dr William Lo Tak Lam, who is from Hong Kong, the one-day forum focused on tiered mental health services and youth support.Dr Lo said in a speech that the forum’s selection of Macau as its venue symbolised the Greater Bay Area’s (GBA) mental
January 19, 2026
IAM orders subcontractor to correct misspelt warning sign
The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Saturday that it was investigating and following up on a case involving an erroneous signboard about ongoing maintenance work at a public sports ground, a picture of which was widely circulated on social media on Saturday. The Chinese wording on the notice board mistakenly wrote “quiet entry” (靜止進入), instead of “prohibited entry” (禁止進入). According to the Putonghua (Mandarin) input method (IME), the “靜”
January 19, 2026
‘Galaxy Macau Chill Coffee’ festival spotlights culinary tourism
The three-day “Galaxy Macau Chill Coffee” Macau Coffee Cultural Festival opened on Friday at the eponymous integrated resort in Cotai, providing a free showcase and sales platform for 60 exhibitors, including more than 40 local small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs), aiming to highlight the integration of tourism and gastronomy. Organised by Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) through its “GEG SME Series”, the festival ran from Friday afternoon to yesterday evening at Hall ABC of the
January 19, 2026
Sinulog Festival brings colour & beats to Macau
Members of Macau’s Filipino community danced in the sun in colourful self-made garb in honour of the child Jesus (Santo Niño) yesterday afternoon, swaying to the beat of drums and proudly proclaiming “Viva pit Señor! [Hail the Lord, Holy Child, listen to our prayers!*]” as the Sinulog Macau Festival 2026 took place.The annual festival is organised by the Santo Niño de Cebu in Macau Association, with the parade, the event highlight, seeing groups again dancing from Praça da Amizade
January 19, 2026
Police log over 14,600 traffic accidents in 2025, down 5.6 pct
The Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement on Friday their Traffic Police Department recorded 14,638 traffic accidents last year, representing a decrease of 5.63 percent from the 15,510 accidents recorded in 2024. On average 40.1 traffic accidents were recorded per day last year, against 42.4 accidents per day in 2024. According to the statement, the top three primary causes of traffic accidents were failure to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front, failure to
January 19, 2026