Xi, Biden hold ‘candid, in-depth, constructive’ phone call

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping spoke with US President Joe Biden on the phone yesterday at the request of the latter. The two presidents had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on China-US relations and issues of mutual interest.President Xi noted that his San Francisco meeting with President Biden last November opened a future-oriented San Francisco vision. Over the past months, their officials have acted on the presidential understandings in earnest. The China-US relationship is

April 3, 2024 | BY admin

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Jurisdiction over LRT Cotai-Hengqin section transferred from Guangdong to Macau

The jurisdiction over the area reserved for the extension of Macau’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) to the Hengqin checkpoint was transferred yesterday from Guangdong to the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), the Macau Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced in a statement.Consequently, Macau’s laws and regulations have been applicable in the area since yesterday.According to yesterday’s DSOP statement, a ceremony marking the jurisdiction’s transfer was held at 00:00 a.m. yesterday at

April 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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My & Macau’s connection with Japanese ‘naughty’ mascot Kumamon

Kumamon’s first post-pandemic visit to the supermarket in Macau’s New Yaohan department store in October last year caused me to look back at how and when I suddenly became connected to him, and that led me to go to interact with the mascot during his first-ever visit to Macau in March 2016 to promote food products from Kumamoto prefecture.I can’t remember exactly how and when I became aware of the existence of Kumamon, who was “born” in 2010, but I am clear that since 2016, or perhaps

April 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt excludes 3 public universities from ceiling on public servants

The Macau government has announced that it has decided to exclude the public University of Macau (UM), Macau Polytechnic Institute (MPU) and Macao University of Tourism (UTM) from its official ceiling on the number of public servants.In a statement on Sunday, the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) noted that the current government launched its campaign in April 2020 to ensure that the total number of public servants would not exceed 38,000 by the end of the current

April 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Fuhong’s Macanese eatery aims to help ex-mentally ill patients re-enter job market

Interview by Yuki Lei        The Fuhong Society of Macau, a non-profit social service organisation, officially opened in 2020 its “Corner of Portuguese Cuisine” in Fai Chi Kei district, providing ex-mentally ill people with on-the-job catering training, with the aim of enabling them to re-enter the job market, and thus increasing their sense of commitment to civil society.“Cantinho Luso” (“Little Portuguese Corner”) is the restaurant’s Portuguese name.Founded

April 2, 2024 | BY admin

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Blood donation vehicle off today

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement yesterday that its mobile blood donation vehicle’s regular service outside Luso International Bank Building and the Macau Square commercial building on Rua do Dr Pedro José Lobo in Nam Van will not be provided today, because health workers tasked with providing services at the vehicle are scheduled to carry out an ad-hoc blood donation activity organised by the bureau’s Blood Transfusion Centre.The statement said that blood donors intending

April 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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9 firms decide to start business in Macau during 2024MIECF: organisers

The three-day 2024 Macao International Environmental Cooperation Forum & Exhibition (2024MIECF) closed on Saturday, during which nine enterprises decided to start business operations in Macau, with their business scope ranging from big health and high-tech to MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) tourism, the organisers have announced.Themed “Reaching the Dual Carbon Goals through Green Transformation”, the fair-cum-forum, featuring a 12,000-square-metre exhibition

April 2, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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S Korean man robs local woman

A South Korean man has been arrested for robbing a local woman, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said at a regular press conference yesterday.The 36-year-old suspect surnamed Jang told the police that he works at a warehouse.According to Lei, on Friday at 2 a.m. when the victim was walking along Calçada do Tronco Velho, Jang approached her and snatched her handbag. While struggling, the victim fell and suffered a fractured finger. The handbag contained 10,000 patacas in cash, Lei

April 2, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Mainlander sells fake gold bars: police

A man from the mainland has been arrested for selling fake gold bars to a fellow mainlander, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said at a regular press conference yesterday.The 37-year-old suspect surnamed Lu is a designer. The victim is under the age of 30. They got to know each other while gambling in a local casino.According to Lei, on March 4, while Lu and the victim were having a meal at a restaurant in Cotai, Lu requested a loan of 15,000 patacas. To secure the loan, Lu offered

April 2, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Hairdresser hocks fake watches in 3 pawn shops

A male hairdresser from the mainland has been arrested for hocking fake watches in three local pawn shops, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said at a regular press conference yesterday.The 60-year-old suspect is surnamed Wu.According to Lei, in July 2021 an employee of a pawnshop in Zape reported to the police that a watch pawned by Wu was found to be counterfeit. The police confirmed that the watch was indeed fake. Subsequently, the police discovered that Wu had also pawned two more

April 2, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Magnum Classic ice cream may contain metal pieces: IAM

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said on Saturday that some batches of the UK-origin Magnum Classic Ice Cream were found to possibly contain metal pieces, warning the public to stop eating them.According to an IAM statement, branded as “Magnum”, the affected batches of 3x100ml packs, have a best-before-date of November 2025, with their batch codes of L3324, L3325, L3326, L3327, L3328 respectively.The statement underlined that upon having received an announcement made by the UK Food

April 2, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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HK woman nabbed for involvement in fraud

A Hong Kong woman has been arrested for involvement in a fraud case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said at a regular press conference yesterday. The 24-year-old suspect surnamed Chu told the police that she works in the financial sector.According to the local male victim’s report, in April last year he met a woman claiming to be from Taiwan on social media who told him that she was a tea trader. She persuaded him to invest with her in a tea business. The victim paid her

April 2, 2024 | BY William Chan

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IFTM is now Macau’s 6th university

The erstwhile Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) is now the city’s sixth university, with the public tertiary education institution changing its name to “Macao University of Tourism (UTM)”, which officially took effect yesterday.UTM, a statement from the university on Sunday noted, is now 澳門旅遊大學 and Universidade de Turismo de Macau in Chinese and Portuguese.The university’s mission is “to become a leading higher education institution in internationalised

April 2, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge logs new peak in daily vehicle traffic

GUANGZHOU – The Zhuhai checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) received around 18,400 inbound and outbound vehicles on Sunday, logging a record high since its opening, official data showed yesterday.From Thursday to Sunday, over 484,900 passengers and 68,700 vehicles, both inbound and outbound, passed through the checkpoint, as reported by the border inspection station of the HZMB, the world’s longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.During the period, the total number of Hong

April 2, 2024 | BY admin

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