Govt launches 500,000 pataca prize for cultural industries

Interview by Yuki Lei        The number of people attempting to commit suicide has been increasing in recent years, Caritas Macau Secretary-General Paul Pun Chi Meng told The Macau Post Daily last week, pointing out that last month there were five to six teenagers who tried to commit suicide by cutting their wrists due to different reasons, such as clinical depression, school pressure, and anxiety disorder.Pun made the remarks during an exclusive interview with The Macau

Commentary by Swallow Xu*The COVID-19 outbreak is putting much of the world in lockdown and people in social distancing.On Monday morning I had a WhatsApp conversation with a French friend in Saint Martin, a small, beautiful island in the Caribbean, where strict stay-home measures have been implemented following its motherland, mainland France. Being a beach-loving islander, a single working mother of three shut at home away from the rest of the world (flights cancelled, cruises suspended), she