Prince Kung’s Palace Museum CNY painting collection on display in Barra

The “MGM X Prince Kung’s Palace Museum Exhibition and Workshop” is being hosted at the Former Barra Slaughterhouse Site in Barra district and features a collection of works presented in Macau for the first time.Prince Kung’s Palace Museum*, aka Prince Gong’s Mansion and Prince Kung Mansion, is a tourist attraction in Beijing’s Xicheng District. It is a national first-class museum, according to an MGM statement provided on Sunday.The exhibition and workshops are event highlights of

January 28, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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CNY parades participants are raring to go: MGTO chief

The Parade for Celebration of the Year of the Snake will take place between January 31 and February 16, including two float parades this Friday and next Saturday, i.e., on the third and 11th day of the Chinese New Year (CNY), and Macau’s veteran tourism chief said yesterday that most of the performance troupes have arrived in Macau and “everyone is ready for [the parade]”.Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes made the remarks during yesterday’s

January 28, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGM hosts ‘Barra Lucky Blessing Market’ for CNY

Integrated resort (IR) operator MGM held an opening ceremony for its “Barra Lucky Blessing Market” on Sunday at the Former Barra Slaughterhouse as part of its “MGM Barra District CNY [Chinese New Year] series, with various activities and events on offer throughout its run.Located in Barra district, the pet-friendly event sees collaborations with Prince Kung’s Palace Museum, Japanese illustrator Shinri Murakami as well as local creative retail brand “Bookand.” for activities such as

January 28, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Businesses have mixed bag of expectations for CNY turnover: vox pop

The Chinese New Year (CNY) is nigh and Macau’s tourist hotspots are already attracting huge crowds, with some shops and eateries reporting long queues.The Post yesterday spoke with several local business operators in the city centre and Taipa to gauge their expectations about CNY visitors’ spending habits and the business environment in general, some describing the situation as “many visitors but not much spending”, while others said that “it’s busier than normal”.The

January 28, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei and Rui Pastorin

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Xi lauds China’s solid progress despite challenges in Year of Dragon

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday noted solid progress the country has made in advancing Chinese modernization amid “complex and challenging” situations over the past twelve months at a high-level reception to ring in the Chinese New Year.“In the Year of the Dragon, we demonstrated vitality and a can-do spirit. We endured storms and saw the rainbow,” said Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central

January 28, 2025 | BY admin

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Qingmao checkpoint’s YoBuy shopping centre to remain open during CNY: IPIM

The government’s Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) said yesterday that the Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Expo Centre, a newly opened shopping centre located on the sixth floor of the Macau-side building of the Qingmao joint border checkpoint in Ilha Verde, will remain open throughout the upcoming Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday period, during which different CNY celebratory events will be held there.The Year of the Snake begins tomorrow.During the CNY holiday, the

January 28, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Chinese New Year holidays

Due to it being the Chinese New Year holidays, The Macau Post Daily’s editing team will be off from today and will return to work on Sunday so the print edition of your favourite newspaper will be on the newsstands again on the morning of Monday, February 3. However, our digital edition on our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ will be updated 24/7. Our local news and editorials as well as commentary by national media organisations are also available on various LinkedIn, Twitter and

January 28, 2025 | BY admin

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Police nab mainlander exchanging fake money

A man from the mainland was arrested on Friday for being involved in a counterfeit money case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said in a regular conference yesterday.Chong identified the suspect as a 45-year-old man surnamed Ding. He told the police that he is a designer.According to Chong, a casino in Zape reported to the police on Friday that earlier that day Ding had attempted to obtain gaming chips with four counterfeit HK$1,000 notes from a dealer on a gaming table.The

January 28, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police nab 2 local men & woman in sham marriage case

The police have busted a bogus marriage case involving a “couple” and the man’s brother, in which two local men and a woman were arrested on Thursday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said in a regular press conference yesterday.Lei identified the “couple” as a local man surnamed Lam and a mainland woman surnamed Cao. Lam is in his sixties and works as a delivery driver, while Cao is in her forties, working in catering. The third suspect is Lam’s younger brother

January 28, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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One more critical flu case: 62-year-old man

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night that one more critical case of influenza was reported yesterday, a 62-year-old local man inflicted with various chronic diseases.According to last night’s statement, the 62-year-old man came down with a fever and shortness of breath yesterday when he was also coughing up phlegm.The man was rushed to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre yesterday, where he was tested positive for the influenza A virus in his respiratory

January 28, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Zhuhai Customs nabs woman smuggling 320 bottles of Botox

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs said in a statement yesterday that its officers have intercepted a woman trying to smuggle 320 bottles of botulinum toxin from Macau to Zhuhai through the Zhuhai checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) on January 18.According to the statement, Zhuhai Customs officers saw a woman wearing a grey jacket and a long skirt, carrying a satchel and a suitcase, behaving abnormally when she passed through the metal detector at the Zhuhai checkpoint of

January 28, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Hengqin gets new officials

The Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement yesterday evening that according to the website of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, the composition of its management committee and executive committee has been adjusted, according to which Guangdong Governor Wang Weizhong and Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai are the management committee’s dual directors, while Macau Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon is the management

January 28, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Weather to remain cold during CNY: observatory

As a winter monsoon is currently affecting Macau’s weather, it is expected to remain cold and very dry over the next few days during the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, the Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday.A Yellow cold weather alert was issued by the observatory yesterday morning at 6:50 a.m., which remained in effect early this morning. The temperature yesterday recorded was the lowest since 2025, dropping to just 9.4 degrees Celsius - 6 degrees

January 28, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HK, mainland uni students fall for fake police scams

Two male university students, from Hong Kong and the mainland, have separately been defrauded out of HK$155,000 and HK$580,000 in fake police scams, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said yesterday during a regular press conference.In the first case, the Hong Kong victim received a phone call earlier this month from someone claiming to be a mainland police officer. The “officer” told the victim that his mainland phone number was involved in spreading fraudulent messages, and

January 28, 2025 | BY William Chan

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