HK protests are hurting Shenzhen & Macau: AirAsia

KUALA LUMPUR – Macau and Shenzhen are feeling the impact of protests in Hong Kong as demand for flights to both places is falling, according to Tony Fernandes, the founder of low-cost carrier AirAsia Group.“It is bad,” Fernandes said in an interview at AirAsia’s headquarters near Kuala Lumpur last week. He noted that customarily many travelers look to visit the three cities in one trip.The Malaysian government issued an advisory early this month warning citizens from non-essential

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Oct visitor arrivals ‘only’ rise 1.8 pct

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals last month rose a mere 1.8 percent year-on-year to 3.2 million, while the visitor arrivals in the first 10 months of the year still grew 15.3 percent to 33.4 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.In October last year, visitor arrival surged 23.2 percent year-on-year to 3.15 million. The bureau at that time attributed the two-digit growth to the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) in that month.Tourism sector

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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CityU rector urges GBA firms to learn about local students’ ambitions

City University of Macau (CityU) Rector Zhang Shuguang said yesterday that last year about 95 percent of CityU graduates opted to continue with their education or find a job, but he was quick to add that only a few CityU graduates entered the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) job market.Zhang urged employers in the 11-city cluster to learn more about local students’ career ambitions and their job prospects.Zhang made the remarks when talking to reporters on the sidelines of the

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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The Butterfly Effect: ‘Mr. Shi and His Lover’ unfolds complexity of gender and identity

Inspired by the real-life story of a Beijing opera singer and a French diplomat who were both convicted of espionage, local musical drama “Mr. Shi and His Lover” delves into the complex issue of gender and identity through a tale of love and betrayal.The 80-minute recital, laced with Chinese opera, Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and Western vintage pop with the story playing references to Chinese folklore “The Butterfly Lovers”, was jointly created by the Macau Experimental

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Savour Western delicacies with local flavours

Enjoying fine dining with your loved ones and families is definitely an item on the must-do list for everybody during weekends and holidays.Savour the new style Caesar salad with white anchovy and brioche twinkie; asparagus salad with black beans, Chinese sausage and clam; seafood rice; pineapple carpaccio with coconut sorbet and passion fruit and other dishes will be most tasty treats for celebrating with families or friends, as well as places to chill out.Graham Elliot, an award-winning chef

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Over 12,000 work in cultural industries

A total of 12,719 people worked in Macau’s cultural industries last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.Based on the city’s total workforce of 394,900 in the fourth quarter of last year, 3.2 percent of them worked in the cultural industries.According to a bureau’s statistics on the city’s cultural industries in 2018, 2,246 entities were operating in the industries’ four core domains, namely creative design, cultural exhibitions and performances, art

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Repeat burglar nabbed again: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Wednesday for breaking into a non-resident workers’ flat in a high-rise residential building in Nape, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said in a special press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the suspect is a 38-year-old man surnamed Yu who has a criminal record for burglaries on the mainland where he served a six-year prison term until 2015.The burglary happened in the early hours of Wednesday in Rua de Londres. A non-resident worker was

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Indebted security guard attempts to rob woman: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local security guard on Wednesday for attempting to rob a local woman at knifepoint when she was about to deposit HK$10,000 into an ATM in Areia Preta district on Tuesday, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said in a special press conference yesterday.In response to the man’s threatening behaviour, the woman in her twenties told the man, who was wearing a mask, that she had no money, after which the man “did not take any further action” so that the woman

November 22, 2019 | BY admin

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5 Philippine tourists steal 14 gold necklaces in 3 mins: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and Public Security Police (PSP) held a joint operation to solve a three-minute theft case involving five tourists from the Philippines, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei and PSP spokesman Lei Tak Fai said during a special conference yesterday.According to the spokeswoman, the suspects comprise four males and a female, aged between 43 and 63, surnamed Enteria, Grego, Lemon, Marin, and Mendoza.Lemon and Grego told the police that they work as sales assistants. Mendoza said

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Masked man tries to rob woman with a 10-cm folding knife: police

A man in a mask with a 10-cm-long folding knife tried to rob a local woman at an ATM in the northern district on Tuesday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.The spokeswoman did not reveal the personal information of the victim nor the suspect.According to Lei, the incident happened at a bank in Estrada da Areia Preta at about 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim reported the case right after the incident, the spokeswoman said.Judiciary

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt proposes national security & anti-terrorism units for Judiciary Police

Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said yesterday that the government proposes the setting-up of a unit under the Judiciary Police (PJ) for the enforcement of Macau’s national security law, as well as an anti-terrorism unit.Addressing a press conference at Government Headquarters, Leong said that the council, the government’s top advisory body, has completed its discussion of a bill amending the current law regulating the operation and structure of the Judiciary Police, which came

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Cybersecurity commission to start on Dec 22

The Executive Council announced yesterday that the government has drafted a by-law on the composition and operation of the government’s Cybersecurity Commission and Cybersecurity Incidents Alert and Response Centre, which will both start operating on December 22, two days after the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland.According to the Cybersecurity Law, which was passed by the Legislative Assembly (AL) in June and takes effect on December 22, a commission overseeing

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Casinos & junkets produce 50.5 pct of GDP in 2018

Macau gaming and junket businesses produced 50.5 percent of Macau gross domestic product (GDP) at producers’ prices, based on the production approach calculation, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.Gaming and junket businesses’ share of GDP at producers’ prices rose by 1.5 percentage points year-on-year in 2018.The gross value added (GVA) at current prices of the gaming and junket sector rose 10 percent in real terms year-on-year to 220.8 billion patacas last

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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IPM opens Seniors Academy in Taipa

The Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) opened a Taipa branch of its Seniors Academy (ACS) yesterday that will provide a four-year study programme in conjunction with its counterpart on the Macau peninsula campus next year tailor-made for the elderly.A formal opening ceremony was held on the first floor of the Taipa Chun Su Mei Community Centre where IPM’s second Seniors Academy is located, in Taipa Village. Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng and other government

November 21, 2019 | BY admin

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