Macau to host GBA Cup Regatta & Macau Cup Int’l Regatta next month

The Sports Bureau (ID) announced in a statement yesterday that the “2020 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Cup Regatta and Macau Cup International Regatta” will be held from January 9 to 12 in Macau.According to the statement, the event is co-organised by the bureau and Across Four Oceans Sailing Management in conjunction with the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) and Macau Sailing Association.The Macau Fisherman’s Wharf provides venue support, the statement underlined.This undated

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Baidu chief gives lecture on autonomous driving at UM

The president of Beijing-based internet giant Baidu, Zhang Yaqin, delivered a lecture on “Advances in Autonomous Driving” on the University of Macau (UM) campus yesterday afternoon.According to a UM statement, Zhang talked about the opportunities and challenges brought about by autonomous driving from technological, industrial and policy perspectives.Zhang also shared his views on some of the controversial and key issues in the advances in autonomous driving technology, the statement

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass 2020 budget bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday unanimously passed the government’s 2020 budget bill, according to which the government expects a total expenditure of 100.69 billion patacas next year, 2.65 billion patacas less than this year’s budget, down 2.6 percent.According to the bill, the government expects total receipts of 122.7 billion patacas next year, 312 million more than this year’s budget, up 0.3 percent.As a result, the bill expects a surplus of 22 billion patacas next

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Chinese Embassy in Japan holds reception to celebrate 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to motherla

TOKYO – The Chinese embassy in Japan held a reception in Tokyo yesterday evening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland.Addressing the reception which was attended by about 150 guests, Ambassador Kong Xuanyou said that over the past 20 years, with the strong support of the central government and the mainland, the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) has understood and implemented the principle of “One Country, Two Systems” in a comprehensive and

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau, mainland’s 20-year journey of shared development

It takes just half an hour for Cai Yuanbo to travel from his home in Macau to his office in Hengqin.After graduating from university, Cai started his own company Discover Macau, an online tourist platform which provides 1,700 travel programs.About 62 percent of the users are people residing in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) city cluster.Conference Management Director at Cotai Sands Central’s Conrad Hotel Paulina Pereira Che poses at the property’s ballroom last month.

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau – a city of ubiquitous public services

Once a week, Ms. Kou has been with her seven-year-old son in a language training class at a family service center in Taipa since the boy was diagnosed with severe autism in 2015.From mouth muscle training at the very beginning to vocabulary and sentences, as well as emotional training, her son has slowly been making progress, bit by bit.“He has finally begun to ask me questions, sometimes where his dad is, sometimes where I put his toys,” she said. “I feel all my efforts paid off at that

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau-HK airport bus service starts

A bus service between the Macau checkpoint of the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) and Hong Kong’s international airport came into service yesterday, with 38 round trips per day from Mondays to Fridays, and 44 round trips per day from Saturdays to Sundays and on public holidays.The new shuttle bus service runs 24 hours every day.Previously those choosing to use public transport to the Hong Kong airport from Macau via the delta bridge could only use the bus service between the Macau

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau platform boosts PSCs trade, BRI cooperation

“Macau has achieved many fruitful results in building the China-Portuguese speaking countries (PSCs) trade cooperation platform, such as a PCS food exhibition center, financial services, and people-to-people exchanges,” Xu Yingzhen, secretary general of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum Macau, told Xinhua in a recent interview.Forum Macau, or the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and PSCs (Macau), was initiated by China in 2003, and now its members include Angola,

December 17, 2019 | BY admin

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LRT boasts 68,800 passengers in 1st 3 days

The Taipa section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT), which started service last week, had 68,800 passengers in the first three days of its operation, the government-owned operator has announced.According to a statement on Friday by the operator, officially named “Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation, Limited” in English, there were 15,600 passengers, 26,400 passengers and 26,800 passengers using Macau’s first-ever railway on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.It means that the

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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HK police battling rioters fire tear gas

HONG KONG – A two-week spell without tear gas ended yesterday as police repeatedly used the crowd-control weapon late last night in Mong Kok against rioters, Hong Kong media reported.A large force of riot police had been on standby in the district for much of the night, with long lines of police vans parked in the area.Late last night, rioters dug up bricks and scattered them on the road at the junction of Soy Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street South, where tear gas was first used.Police deploy

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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2 motorcyclists injured in crash with car on Small Taipa Hill

A car and two motorcycles collided in Estrada de Sete Tanques on Small Taipa Hill yesterday morning, leaving the two motorcyclists injured, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement.The crash happened at around 9 a.m. on a section of the road outside The Peak luxury residential estate. One of the two motorcyclists sustained abrasions on his legs, while the other one suffered bruises on his right arm and right leg and around his mouth. Both, who are in their thirties, were taken to

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau’s lunar, planetary lab aims to boost nation’s deep space exploration

Macau’s first space exploration satellite was named Macau Science 1, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng announced yesterday at the opening ceremony of an aerospace exhibition.During the opening ceremony on the MUST campus in Taipa, National Space Administration (CNSA) Vice Administrator Wu Yanhua announced that the CNSA will set up the Macau Space Exploration and Science Center to assist deep space exploration cooperation between China and the international

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainland water powers Macau’s development

GUANGZHOU – For those who still remember what it was like to suffer from water shortages, like 80-year-old Macau resident Lee Zan Dok, fresh and clean water is seen as the lifeline of everything.With a land area of only 32.8 square km, Macau is widely covered by low hills, without any lakes and rivers, making it impossible to build a big reservoir in this tiny area.“For centuries, local residents’ water demand was met largely through groundwater extraction,” said Lee, who worked for

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainland-Macau cultural, tourism exchanges continue to deepen: vice minister

BEIJING – The mainland and Macau have seen constant progress in exchanges and cooperation in the fields of culture and tourism since Macau’s return to the motherland in December 1999, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism Zhang Xu said in an interview with Xinhua.The mainland and Macau have enjoyed comprehensive and deep cooperation in areas including hosting major events, promoting and branding their culture and tourism, and boosting mutual development, said Zhang.Cultural exchanges have

December 16, 2019 | BY admin

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