Santa Cecília Int’l Piano Competition China Finals to start tomorrow

The 26th Santa Cecília International Piano (SCPC) Competition Finals of China International Piano (SCPC) Competition Finals of China and International Youth Piano Festival 2024 will take place in Macau tomorrow and Friday, with young pianists from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan competing for a place in the global finals in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, according to the local organisers. The SCPC is an annual event held in Porto considered one of the most influential

April 3, 2024 | BY Lesley Wells

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UM scholar gets William E. Mosher & Frederick C. Mosher Award

The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement last week that its Faculty of Social Sciences’ Department of Government and Public Administration Associate Professor Wen Bo has recently received the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for an article that he co-authored, which was also chosen as the best article of 2023 by experts in the Public Administration field.The award is presented by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).Entitled “Advancing the Frontiers

April 3, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Pile of cardboard boxes catch fire

A pile of cardboard boxes left outside the door of a flat in a building near Rua do Comandante Mata e Oliveira caught fire on Monday night, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday. According to the statement, a resident informed the police about some cardboard boxes burning in the neighbourhood, and firefighters arrived at the scene to extinguish the blaze. Some of the cardboard boxes outside the unit were gutted by the fire, and the walls of the building’s staircase were

April 3, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Woman cheated out of 151,600 patacas in ‘fake police’ scam: police

A local woman fell victim to a “fake police” scam, resulting in a loss of 151,600 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the young victim received a call last Wednesday morning, in which a Putonghua-speaking man claiming to be an officer of the Shanghai Anti-Fraud Centre told her that a phone number registered in her name in Shanghai was found to have been involved in sending out a large number of fraudulent

April 3, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police nab 2 drunken motorists in Taipa & Nape

Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Kong Chi Ian announced yesterday the separate arrest of two drunken male motorists last week, whose alcohol concentrations were 2.23 grams and 2.71 grams of alcohol per litre of blood respectively.During a regular press conference yesterday at a PSP press room in Zape, Kong identified the two suspects in their thirties as a student holding a South African passport surnamed Els and a local driver surnamed Cheang.In the first case, according to Kong, upon

April 3, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man borrows 10,000 yuan online, loses 160,000 yuan: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received last week a report from a non-local man who suspected that he was the victim of an online loan scam, reporting a loss of about 160,000 yuan, PJ spokesman Lei Chi Hou said yesterday.Lei said during a regular press conference that the middle-aged victim received a “friend” request from an unknown person on WeChat on March 20, claiming that his loan application of 10,000 yuan had been approved.Lei quoted the victim as saying that as the victim had filled in

April 3, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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PJ warn against fake ‘Union Pay’ phishing texts

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that over 10 residents reported receiving messages from fraudsters pretending to be the e-payment platform “Union Pay” on Sunday, which contained a link to a fraudulent website that harvested personal and credit card information, leading to the victims’ losses ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of patacas.According to the statement, the scammers used technical means to alter the sender ID of the phishing messages to match

April 3, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local, GBA firms set up innovation & technology trading centre

Scientific and innovation enterprises from Macau and elsewhere in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) have jointly established a innovation and technology trading centre, which aims to select cutting-edge technologies with investment potential and development prospects for research institutions, enterprises and investors, and promotes the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of enterprises, Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) Deputy

April 3, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau logs over 400,000 visitor arrivals during Easter holiday

Macau recorded a total of 406,329 visitor arrivals during the four-day Easter holiday period, or a daily average of 101,582, according to calculations based on daily immigration statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) during the period.According to the PSP data, the daily number of visitor arrivals on the four days from Good Friday through Easter Monday stood at 105,169, 122,235, 103,043, and 75,882 respectively.Last year, the first post-pandemic year, Macau recorded a daily

April 3, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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LRT daily passenger average drops to 12,000 last month

The average daily number of Light Rail Transit (LRT) passengers dropped to 12,000 last month from the average of 16,700 per day in February, the government-owned LRT operator, Macau Light Rapid Transit Corporation Limited (MLM), announced on its website yesterday.The 12,000 LRT passengers per day on average recorded last month was even lower than the average of 13,900 per day recorded in December last year when the section connecting Taipa and the peninsula’s Barra opened on December 8.The

April 3, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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New law regulating lifts, escalators & travellators takes effect

A new law regulating the city’s operation and safety of lifts, escalators, travellators and similar devices, making their maintenance and inspections mandatory in Macau, took effect on Monday, according to a statement from the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) yesterday.From now on, Macau has a specific piece of legislation regulating the operations of lifts, escalators, travellators and similar devices.The law stipulates that the people in charge of such devices will be required to

April 3, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Luso Intl Bank vows to become ‘advanced’ bank for bond market development

Luso International Banking Limited pledged yesterday that it will develop itself into an “advanced” bank in terms of its participation in the development of Macau’s bond market as well as a bank offering wealth management products with “special features”.The bank’s chairman, Huang Laizhi, made the remarks when delivering a speech during a dinner for the media marking the 50th anniversary of its establishment.Luso International Banking Limited was established on December 4, 1974 when

April 3, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Waiting time for kids’ developmental disorders first-time consultation shortened to 4 weeks: MAA

The waiting time for the first consultation at the local government’s Children’s Comprehensive Evaluation Centre and Paediatric Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre has been shortened to 4 weeks on average, Macau Autism Association (MAA) Chairwoman Sun Choi Man said yesterday.The Health Bureau (SSM), Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) and Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) jointly established the Children’s Comprehensive Evaluation Centre in 2016, targeting children aged six or below

April 3, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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‘Howl A Bow’ captivates audiences with poem-based show

Review by William Chan        I had the opportunity to attend a theatrical performance entitled “Howl A Bow”, organised by the local Route Arts Association last Thursday night. I was invited by one of my teachers to see the public rehearsal at Centro de Cultura e Artes Performativas Cardeal Newman de Macau (CCCN Macau) on Calçada da Vitória.Arriving at the venue with little prior knowledge about the show, I found myself in an old house with a backyard. The side of the

April 3, 2024 | BY admin

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