Terrorism a challenge to civilization that calls for concerted endeavors to counter

China Daily Editorial        By attacking a concert hall in a Moscow suburb on Friday night, which has resulted in at least 143 deaths and more than one hundred people being hospitalized for their injuries, the perpetrators have once again exposed to the world how morally low terrorists can be.Wearing the false mask of “the weak against the strong”, terrorist organizations attack only the most vulnerable targets. Often, as in this instance, concertgoers intent on

March 26, 2024 | BY admin

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Yellen’s visit expected to yield more productive outcomes for bilateral ties

China Daily Editorial        Among major US government officials, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is known for the often pragmatic and relatively positive tone she strikes in terms of how to manage Sino-US relations. She has reiterated that the United States is not seeking to decouple from China and called for a “constructive” and “healthy” economic relationship between the two countries.“The world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive,” she said.Her

March 26, 2024 | BY admin

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Govt proposes bill aiming to fight ‘zero-fare’ tours

Non-local tour guides mastering foreign tongues can be hiredThe government has finished drafting a bill regulating the licensing and operations of the city’s travel agencies and tour guides, proposing to bar local receiving agencies from serving tour groups visiting Macau at a price that generates a revenue lower than the cost required to organise the respective group’s tour here, with the aim of making it more effective for the government to combat the organisation of the notorious

March 25, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Dazzling VIVA Parade performers delight huge crowds

Photos: Rui Pastorin, Yuki Lei

March 25, 2024 | BY admin

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2 nabbed for drunk driving: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) busted two drunk-driving cases on Wednesday evening, in which one was found reeking of alcohol by an on-patrol PSP officer after he sounded his horn at the PSP motorcycle in front of his car, a PSP spokesperson said at a regular press conference.According to the spokesperson, the two drunken drivers in their forties are both surnamed Kuok. They are not related.In one of the cases, the Public Security Police received a report from a resident, whose gender was not

March 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Currency exchange dealer from HK hit with stun gun, robbed of HK$500,000 by mainland quartet

A male currency exchange dealer from Hong Kong was zapped on Friday afternoon by four mainlanders in the head and back with a stun gun and lost consciousness for about two to three minutes, during which he was robbed of HK$500,000 in cash by the quartet, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape on Saturday.Cheong announced the arrest of the male quartet by mainland police officers separately in Dongguan Guangzhou and

March 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau logs 316 new TB patients last year: SSM

The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) said in a weekend statement that it registered 316 new tuberculosis (TB) patients in Macau last year, among which 46 percent were elderly persons aged 65 years or above.The bureau made the announcement in a statement on Saturday, on the eve of yesterday’s World Tuberculosis Day initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO).According to the statement, the city’s success rate in the treatment of TB has averaged nearly 95 percent over the past two decades,

March 25, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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1st Int’l Macao Shorts Film Fest kicks off

The 1st Macao International Shorts Film Festival launched with an opening ceremony and opening screenings on Saturday at Galaxy Macau’s Galaxy Cinemas in Cotai, according to a statement by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) on that day.The film-fest runs until this Saturday.The opening films screened were the Oscar nominated “Knight of Fortune” by Lasse Lyskjær Noer, “Chuff Chuff Chuff” by Chao Koi Wang, and AirHostess-737 by Thanasis Neofotistos, the statement noted. Noer and Chao

March 25, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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VIVA Parade achieves expected results: IC chief

Macau welcomed yesterday its 10th VIVA Parade, and Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man pointed out that the event was held for the first time in March and achieved its expected results. “Viva!” is Portuguese for “hooray!”. Previously, the one-day parade took place in December on a regular basis. “It was a beautiful day, and the parade went smoothly, with foreign and local performing troupes giving their best so that the parade was very effective,”

March 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Tickets for 34th Macao Arts Festival go on sale

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Friday that tickets for its upcoming 34th Macao Arts Festival (MAF)) are now available, with members of the public able to purchase them from Macau Ticketing Network outlets, online or by phone.Themed “Wonderous Encounters”, the statement noted that the festival is slated to take place from May 3 to June 7 with 19 selected programmes, according to the statement. The programmes cover theatre, Chinese opera, dance, music and visual

March 25, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Govt proposes bill enabling LRT East Line expansion

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s top advisory Executive Council, has announced that the local government has finished drafting a bill enabling the Light Rail Transit (LRT) East Line to be extended to the Qingmao pedestrian border checkpoint by running under the Barrier Gate.Cheong made the announcement during a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday. The bill will be submitted to the Legislative

March 25, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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14,200 people donate blood last year, up 1.39 pct year-on-year

Macau Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) Hui Peng said on the sidelines of the Rotary Blood Donation Day held at NOVA Mall yesterday that the centre collected more than 18,400 units of blood from 14,200 donors last year, up by 1.39 percent year-on-year, and a total of 3,870 patients received blood from the centre last year.The “Rotary Blood Donation Day” organised by the eight Rotary clubs in Macau and co-organised with the MBTS was held yesterday at NOVA Mall in Taipa, with the aim of

March 25, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau to host 5 to 6 events of 15th National Games: Pun

Macau will host five to six events of the 15th National Games in 2025, and more details will be released next month, Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun told reporters on the sidelines of yesterday’s Women’s Sports Festival at the Tap Seac Multi-Sports Pavilion.Pun did not reveal which events will take place in Macau, but he said he believed the events will be “welcomed by residents and tourists alike”.The 15th National Games will be jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and

March 25, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local trio defraud credit card users out of 5.9 million patacas

The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted on Wednesday a local credit card fraud gang, in which two businessmen and a female insurance agent illegally obtained a large amount of credit card information and used the data to carry out counterfeit transactions online through their businesses, defrauding at least 71 non-local credit card users out of 5.9 million patacas in 110 bogus “transactions” between late November and early December last year, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong announced yesterday.Cheong

March 22, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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