Opera director pledges a Magic Flute that won’t bore you

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to be presented tonight will be an opera like no other, and “we can promise, you won’t be bored”, the production’s opera director Philip Bröking promised yesterday.Originally premiered in 1791, The Magic Flute is about the Queen of the Night persuading Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity by the high priest Sarastro. Instead, Tamino learns the high ideals of Sarastro’s community and seeks to join it. Then Tamino and Pamina

October 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Xi says nation’s rise is unstoppable

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping presided yesterday over a grand display of the nation’s strength in Beijing – declaring that no force could stop the country’s rise.Speaking at the start of a massive parade marking 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Xi called for stability in Hong Kong, unity among Chinese ethnic groups, and the “complete unification” of the country. Xi delivered the remarks at the site where Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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700 watch ‘My People, My Country’ on National Day

About 700 pupils, teachers, government representatives and guests were invited to watch the patriotic film “My People, My Country” on National Day yesterday at Alegria Theatre (commonly known as Wing Lok Theatre).Organised by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), 6,000 pupils and teachers have been invited to watch the film in nine sessions starting this month, according to a statement by the bureau.DSEJ Director Lou Pak Seng told reporters after the inauguration ceremony the aim

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Scooter skids on Friendship Bridge, rider hurt

A scooter skidded when travelling on the Macau-Taipa Friendship Bridge yesterday morning, causing a fracture to male rider’s right arm, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.The rider was on his way from the peninsula to Taipa when the accident, which did not involve any other vehicles, happened.After the bureau received a report about the accident at around 8 a.m., firemen and paramedics rushed to the scene, where they found the 29-year-old rider, who told them that he lost control of the

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab jobless local over dual registration plate fraud

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local unemployed man last week for cheating two locals out of a total of 600,000 yuan (679,000 patacas) by claiming that he could assist them in applying for a dual Macau-mainland registration plate for their vehicles PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference earlier this week.Addressing Monday’s press conference, Lei identified the suspect as a 26-year-old surnamed Wong, who refused to cooperate with the police following his

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt, garrison hold flag-raising ceremony on PRC 70th anniversary

The local government held a series of events yesterday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including a solemn flag-raising ceremony and “Running in Celebration of the National Day” race, as well as a cultural show and fireworks display, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS).The flag-raising ceremony took place in Praça Flor de Lotus in Zape in the morning.Multiple giant screens were set up in

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Hottest National Day since 1952: observatory

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) told government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday that it recorded a temperature of 33.7 degrees Celsius – the highest yesterday – at its monitoring station on Big Taipa Hill yesterday, marking it the hottest National Day since 1952.The weather station said that Macau’s weather was very hot yesterday under the influence of a continental anticyclone, which was expected to continue to influence Macau’s weather today. The bureau predicted that

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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2 nabbed in Macau for sticking paper on wall

Two local residents in their twenties were taken to a police station yesterday for questioning after sticking paper on a wall, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday, adding that the two are suspected to have breached the General Regulations Governing Public Places.According to the statement, police officers were patrolling the city centre at about 2.30 p.m. yesterday when they saw two males sticking paper on a wall, and when searched they were found to be carrying a

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Gaming revenue last month touches lowest level in a year

Macau’s gross gaming revenue last month touched the lowest level in a year as casinos continued to be slammed by economic and geopolitical troubles.Gross gaming revenue for Macau’s six casino operators was 22.07 billion patacas in September, up 0.6 percent from a year earlier, according to data released by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) yesterday. That’s roughly in line with the median analyst forecast of a 1 percent rise.Month-on-month, revenue was down 9 percent.

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Firemen check fire at Athletes Training Centre

Discarded construction and renovation waste at the Athletes Training Centre in Cotai caught fire yesterday, according to a statement by the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to the statement, the fire started at about 10:50 a.m. yesterday in Rua da Patinagem near the Macau East Asian Games Dome and spread about 20 by 20 metres.Firefighters arrived at the scene and crews from several fire engines fought the blaze, the statement points out. Firemen continued to douse the site of the fire with

October 2, 2019 | BY admin

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100 more radio taxis in December, 100 more in mid-next year: operator

Macau Radio Taxi Services Limited, which has been granted a licence to operate another 200 radio taxis, said yesterday that with the first additional 100 taxis to come into service in December, it aims to raise the success rate of calling a taxi to up to 70 percent from the current 35 percent.The company also said that it aimed to get the additional 100 taxis to hit the streets in the middle of next year.Patriotic taxi paradeKevin U Kin Lung, the company’s general manager, made the remarks

October 1, 2019 | BY admin

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2019 honours list includes 7 ExCo members, Pansy Ho, ANIMA

The government’s 2019 honours list comprises 31 individuals and entities including seven members of its top advisory body, the 11-member Executive Council (ExCo), according to a statement by the Government Spokesperson’s Office yesterday.Executive Council members Liu Chak Wan and Ma Iao Lai, both businessmen, were awarded the Gold Lotus Decoration of Honour, the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) second-highest decoration. The top honour, the Grand Lotus, was not awarded this

October 1, 2019 | BY admin

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1st cabbie license axed as driver violates taxi law 4 times

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) have cancelled a taxi driver’s licence as they confirmed that the culprit violated the new taxi law four times, according to a PSP statement last night.According to the new law, if a cabbie violates the law four times in five years his or her licence will be cancelled.According to the statement, the cabbie – whose gender was not revealed – is understood to have violated Paragraph 1 (3) of Article 20 of the new taxi law eight times – involving five cases of

October 1, 2019 | BY admin

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Jobless man touches woman’s buttocks: police

A local man was detained last week for touching a woman’s buttocks, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lam, the 38-year-old suspect is surnamed Choi. He told the police that he is unemployed. The victim is a local in her forties. Due to the type of alleged crime, no further information on the victim was released by the police.The incident happened at about 7 p.m. last Wednesday in Rua Oito do Bairro in Iao Hon

October 1, 2019 | BY admin

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