Xi, Lourenço elevate China-Angola ties to comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership

    BEIJING – President Xi Jinping held talks with his Angolan counterpart João Lourenço, who was on a state visit to China, in Beijing on Friday. The two heads of state announced the elevation of bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Noting that China and Angola jointly celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations last year, Xi said relations between the two countries have stood the test of international

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Mud dredged for LRT East Line project to be dumped into Zhuhai’s coastal waters

Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) Director Susana Wong Soi Man said yesterday that the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) has applied to dump sediment dredged from Macau’s maritime areas during the ongoing Light Rail Transit (LRT) East Line project into Zhuhai’s coastal waters.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of her bureau’s annual event aiming to raise residents’ awareness of tap-water saving, which was held at the recreational and sitting-out area on the

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Local lensman showcases his unique vision

“Unique Vision: Alex Chao Io Chong’s Solo Photography Exhibition” is being held at the Creative Macau gallery on the ground floor of the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM), with the local photographer giving exhibition-goers a chance to peep through his lens until Saturday.All the works Chao is showcasing at the free-admission exhibition are for sale, with proceeds to be donated to Caritas Macau, according to a recent statement from the gallery.Born in 1965, the statement noted that Chao has

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Kenyans win Sands Int’l 10K

Kenyan runners David Bett and Betty Sigei respectively emerged as champions in the men’s and women’s categories of the 2024 Sands China Macao International 10K yesterday, according to a statement from the Sports Bureau (ID).The statement noted that Bett won the race with a new race record of 29:02, while Sigei also set a new race record at 33:53. The Macao 10K website adds that first place winners win prize money of US$10,000 (80,591 patacas) each.Meanwhile, racers Wang Kun and Hoi Long

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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3 writers talk about their books about Macanese cuisine

A panel made up of writers Graça Pacheco Jorge, Annabel Jackson and Barrie Sherwood gave a talk entitled “Writing Macau Cuisine: From Recipes to Research and Fiction” at Casa Garden on Friday, which was part of The Script Road- 13th Macau Literary Festival that ended yesterday.Jorge authored the book “The Cuisine of Macao from My Grandfather’s House”, which was published in 2014, compiling recipes left by her grandparents, who were Macanese collector José Vicente Jorge and his

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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John Catlin wins Int’l Series Macau

US pro-golfer John Catlin claimed victory in the final round of the International Series Macau yesterday, winning a tense battle against Spain’s David Puig.Catlin, Wikipedia notes, plays on the European Tour and the Asian Tour, winning three times and five times on each tour respectively. He turned professional in 2013.A statement on the Asian Tour website yesterday noted that the event was Catlin’s fifth victory on the Asian Tour, his first since the 2019 Thailand Open, and his first

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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DSEDJ vows to strengthen patriotic education measures

The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) said in a reply to a recent written interpellation by lawmaker-cum-banker Ngan Iek Hang that the bureau will strengthen patriotic education measures for F1 students, such as launching a “Patriotism Education Camp” in the 2024/2025 academic year to visit the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin or another place in Zhuhai. The DSEDJ statement said that the new measures are in line with the implementation of the

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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IAM planting 40,000 saplings on 35 hectares

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) launched a forest restoration project on both sides of Estrada Militar and along Hac Sa Long Chao Kok Trail in Coloane, as well as Alto de Coloane (“Coloane Height”) back in 2018, and the bureau has now started to plant more than 40,000 saplings in an area of about 35 hectares (350,000 square metres), Wong Kai Chin, who heads the IAM Nature Conservation Division, said on Saturday.Wong told reporters on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Drunken driver flees scene after crashing into 15 water-filled barriers

A drunken driver fled the scene after crashing into 15 water-filled barriers in Avenida da Amizade in the wee hours of Saturday, according to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP) on that day.The car crash happened near the Oceanus casino in Zape, where PSP officers rushing to the scene saw that the car had slammed into the water-filled barriers separating opposing directions of traffic on the road, damaging 15 of the barriers. Two private cars travelling on the opposite side were hit

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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PJ to launch anti-fraud WeChat Mini Programme next month

A statement by the Secretariat for Security (GSS) on Friday noted that it will launch an anti-fraud WeChat Mini Programme next month to help members of the public identify fraudsters’ sock puppet accounts, as well as to obtain the latest anti-fraud information in a more convenient and timely manner.The secretariat published an article introducing the anti-fraud WeChat Mini Programme and summarising the types of fraud cases and their modi operandi in the past year, with a view to raising

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Filipino steals diamond ring lost in carpark: police

A Filipino has been arrested for stealing a diamond ring worth more than 100,000 patacas that he found in a carpark and kept as his own, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said at a regular press conference on Friday.According to the spokesperson, the suspect, a male domestic helper, is surnamed Tancaho.The Public Security Police received a report from a local woman on February 12 that she had lost her diamond ring worth 133,000 patacas in a carpark in the city centre, the spokesperson

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau again hosts Asian Sport for All Association Congress

The 17th Asian Sport for All Association (ASFAA) Congress took place at Hotel Royal on Friday and Saturday, with the attendance of more than 120 participants from the mainland and Macau, as well as a number of foreign countries.Authorised by the Asian Sport For All Association (ASFAA), the congress was once again organised by the Sports Bureau (ID) in Macau after seven years, with more than 10 Sport-for-All experts and scholars from all over the world having been invited to explore the

March 18, 2024 | BY admin

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Foreign Ministry Commissioner Liu briefs diplomats, journalists on 'two sessions'

       The Commissioner's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) held yesterday afternoon a briefing on the spirit of this year's "two sessions" in    Beijing, i.e., the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the one of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) earlier this month. The nearly 3,000-deputy NPC is China's unicameral

March 16, 2024 | BY admin

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All 30 permanent vehicle inspection channels at Hengqin checkpoint to open on Monday

The Macau government announced yesterday that the last 15 of the Hengqin joint border checkpoint’s 30 permanent vehicle inspection channels will come into service on Monday next week.The first 15 of the 30 channels came into service on September 26 last year on a trial-operation basis. Since then, vehicles are required to pass border controls only once when completing their departure and arrival formalities.Before September 26 last year, only temporary vehicle inspection channels had been

March 15, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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