Seminar focuses on smart elderly care technology

The Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (UGAMM) held a seminar yesterday focused on the concept and application of smart elderly care technology with the aim of further promoting the high-quality and sustainable development of elderly care services.The union is commonly known as Kai Fong in Chinese.The one-day seminar, which took place at the Macau Science Centre in Nape, gathered scholars and politicians from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan on nine topics.Delivering

March 28, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Registrations for craft market workshops open Saturday

The Tap Siac Craft Market is slated to take place from April 18 to 21 and April 25 to 28 in Praça do Tap Seac, with registrations for its 65 creative handicraft workshops, including 12 sessions for families, open from today until 5 p.m. on April 8, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday.“Tap Siac” is the bureau’s alternate spelling for Tap Seac.Workshops in ceramics, floral arrangement and knitting are among the activities on offer. With a 50 pataca fee per

March 28, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Ho vows to ‘prepare Macau for potential danger in times of peace to welcome big & happy events’

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has underlined that Macau must be “prepared for potential danger in times of peace” for its work on safeguarding national security and the city’s public security when welcoming the nation’s “big and happy events”, as well as those of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), later this year, according to government announcements yesterday.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the 25th

March 28, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Wong expects to move inmates to new jail in September

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the government plans to move the inmates from the current prison to the new penitentiary in September.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending a closed-door committee meeting in the Legislative Assembly (AL).Macau’s current prison complex is located near Coloane Village. Construction of the new jail, which is located on a hill in the hamlet of Ka Ho in Coloane, was completed last year.Construction of the new

March 28, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Series of unfounded cyberattack claims latest smear campaign

China Daily Editorial        In a new smear campaign against China, the United States and some of its key allies have accused the country of being responsible for a series of hackings over the last decade or more targeting officials, journalists, parliamentarians and institutions in the US and the United Kingdom, with the authorities in the two nations filing charges or imposing sanctions against what they perceive to be Chinese culprits involved in the “malicious” cyber

March 28, 2024 | BY admin

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DSEDJ vows to strengthen ‘Loving the Country, Loving Macau’ education

The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) vowed yesterday to strengthen education about the “Loving the Country, Loving Macau” principle at different levels, in which the upcoming 2024/2025 academic year will see the launch of a set of national security education supplementary teaching materials, as well as a patriotic education camp for Form 1 students.The government-appointed Youth Affairs Committee, chaired by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U, held its

March 27, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Lam Chak Seng takes ‘Steps Forward’ album on tour in GBA

Local jazz saxophonist and flautist Lam Chak Seng, based in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), has recently released his debut jazz album titled “Steps Forward”. To celebrate the album’s release, Lam’s quartet embarked on an album tour, performing a total of eight concerts across the Greater Bay Area earlier this month.Kicking off the tour with a performance at Sifang Art Space on Avenida do Almirante Lacerda on March 15, Lam’s quartet continued their musical journey with concerts in Zhuhai,

March 27, 2024 | BY William Chan

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No extra reclamation for Macau's Zone A plan as not yet passed by Beijing: Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said yesterday that the government’s urban development plan for “Eastern District 2”, which was published and took effect last week, does not include a proposed reclamation project between the peninsula’s north-eastern coast and Zone A’s north-western coast proposed by the local government during a public consultation on the plan’s draft in 2022 because the central government has still not decided whether to green-light

March 27, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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UM releases latest research results on mental health intervention app

The University of Macau (UM) and New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) have jointly developed a mobile application for mental health intervention called ‘Step-by-Step’ (SbS), the latest research results of which were released on the UM Hengqin campus yesterday, according to a UM statement.A large-scale randomised controlled trial ran for one year with a total of 371 participants, adding that data from the study shows that participants rated the effectiveness of the intervention by the

March 27, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau's March top temperature record broken yesterday: observatory

The temperature reached 31 degrees Celsius at “Big Taipa Hill” station yesterday afternoon, breaking Macau’s previous March record of 29.8 degrees set on March 19, 2008, according to a statement by the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG).Yesterday’s SMG statement noted that the temperature of 31 degrees recorded yesterday was the highest temperature in March since the bureau was established in 1952.The statement added that yesterday’s weather was generally sunny with few

March 27, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sports Bureau unveils mascot & slogan for next month’s int'l table tennis competition

The official logo, mascot and slogan for next month’s ITTF [International Table Tennis Federation] Men’s and Women’s World Cup Macao 2024 were unveiled by the Sports Bureau (ID) on Monday, according to a statement by the bureau on the same day.The ITTF-sanctioned event’s logo features silhouettes of swinging rackets forming the shape of a lotus flower, which the statement noted is “a poignant symbol of Macau’s cultural heritage”. The blooming lotus over the water ripples also pays

March 27, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Police nab 2 local men for theft

The Public Security Police (PSP) have separately arrested two local men for theft, PSP spokeswoman Cheong Im Sim said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Cheong, the suspect in the first case surnamed Lou is a 66-year-old chef.On March 8, a local resident reported to the police that he had left two parcels containing a pair of trousers and a pair of shoes, with a total value of 6,000 patacas, in the management office of his residential building in Areia Preta for a delivery

March 27, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Gaming table supervisor gives accomplice extra reward points

A gaming table supervisor gave her accomplice extra reward points during gambling for redeeming gifts from the casino, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Wai Lok said during a regular press conference yesterday.The supervisor surnamed Lei is aged 48. Her accomplice is a local man surnamed Cheong, aged 54, who told the police he’s jobless.According to Ho, a casino representative reported on Thursday that Lei had been exploiting her position to provide Cheong with additional reward points

March 27, 2024 | BY William Chan

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2024MIECF to kick off tomorrow

The 2024 Macao International Environmental Cooperation Forum & Exhibition (2024MIECF) kicks off on Thursday, with the event featuring an enlarged exhibition area, exhibitors, and booths.The 2024MIECF will run through Saturday at Cotai Expo at The Venetian Macao, themed “Reaching the Dual Carbon Goals through Green Transformation”.The exhibition area has been increased by 20 percent to 12,000 square metres from last year’s 10,000 square metres, Macau Trade and Investment Promotion

March 27, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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