China’s Spring Festival spending boosts business for global markets

Analysis        BEIJING – During the Chinese New Year holiday, China’s consumer market has remained vibrant, with bustling shopping malls and heavy travel flows reflecting robust domestic demand and growing global appeal.More notably, the holiday spending surge is generating opportunities far beyond China’s borders. From upgraded imported goods to booming cross-border tourism, global businesses and destinations are actively engaging with the Chinese market and sharing

February 25, 2026 | BY admin

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Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai urges local NPC deputies & CPPCC members to help Macau reach new heights

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai hosted a dinner last night for Macau deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Macau members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), where he underlined in a speech that his government is steadily advancing its administration and governance and vigorously drawing up Macau’s third five-year socioeconomic development plan, urging the local NPC deputies and CPPCC members to, due to their profound

February 24, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Resort operator SJM to present ‘Classics on Strings’ with Macao Orchestra, int’l virtuosos

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), Macao Orchestra Company, Limited and SJM Resorts, S.A. will jointly present the concert “Classics on Strings” on March 14 at the Macau Cultural Centre’s (CCM) Grand Auditorium in Nape, featuring the Macao Orchestra (OM) under the baton of Lithuanian violinist Julian Rachlin, according to a statement by the bureau on Friday.Scheduled for 8 p.m., the concert will showcase a programme of celebrated string pieces, including Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture,

February 24, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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University of Oxford’s Dame Jessica Rawson visits Macao University of Tourism (UTM)

University of Oxford Prof. Dame Jessica Rawson visited the Macao University of Tourism (UTM) on February 5, where she met with Rector Fanny Vong Chuk Kwan and engaged in academic exchanges with faculty and students, according to a statement by the public university yesterday.A scholar in Chinese art and archaeology, the statement noted, Rawson is a former Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum and former Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The

February 24, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Young man falls victim to prostitution scam, loses 86,000 yuan: Macau Judiciary Police (PJ)

A male non-resident worker (NRW) fell victim to a prostitution scam and lost 86,000 yuan (99,800 patacas), PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said in a regular press conference yesterday.On December 8, Cheong said, the victim came across an online advertisement offering commercial sex. After contacting the individual as directed, he was told that he needed to complete an online game first before the “date” could be arranged, Cheong said, adding that the victim was a young man. The scammer

February 24, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau police arrest mainlander for cheating illegal currency exchange dealer

The Judiciary Police nabbed a man from the Chinese mainland on Saturday for defrauding an illegal currency exchange dealer, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during yesterday regular press conference.Cheong identified the suspect as a 26-year-old man surnamed Wu who claimed to be jobless.According to Cheong, Wu recently met a fellow mainlander engaged in illegal currency exchange activities in a local casino.On Saturday evening, Cheong said, Wu and the victim arranged to meet at a casino in

February 24, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Market aims to boost cultural tourism & economic vitality in Macau's Mong Ha neighbourhood: organiser

A four-day event, called “MONG-HA VILLAS CULTURAL AND CREATIVE MARKET SERIES ACTIVITIES”, started yesterday, and the event organiser, Otto Ieong Hong Wai, CEO of 369 Co-op Town Ltd., said that the market aims to boost the cultural tourism and economic vitality in the neighbourhood.The market is being held at Mong-Ha Villas on Avenida do Coronel Mesquita (美副將大馬路).The market opening ceremony was also attended by Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of the Macau Government

February 24, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau's ‘My Library’ app now features more payment tools

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Friday that more e-payment methods for the “My Library” app have been introduced in addition to the payment tools currently available.The statement noted that Alipay (Macau, the Chinese mainland), BNU App, CGB Pay, ICBC e-Payment, Luso Pay, Tai Fung Pay, UnionPay App and WeChat Pay, among others, are now available for making online payments. This supplements BOC Pay of Bank of China (Macau) and MPay. The added methods are aimed at

February 24, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Man, 89, becomes Macau's 1st Legionnaires’ disease patient this year

Macau recorded this year’s first case of Legionnaires’ disease yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.According to the statement, the patient is an 89-year-old local man with a history of chronic illness, smoking, and a long-standing cough. During the incubation period, the statement said, he had a history of living in both Macau and neighbouring Guangdong Province’s Zhongshan City.While in Zhongshan, the statement said, the man came down with hoarseness

February 24, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau's FRC gallery rings in Year of the Horse with CNY exhibition

The Rui Cunha Foundation (FRC) gallery continues to celebrate the Chinese New Year (CNY) and ring in the Year of the Horse with an ongoing exhibition that features a display of chosen artworks from the FRC Collection.Titled “Riding the Year of the Fire Horse” and having kicked off a few days before the start of the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday, members of the public dropping into the free-admission gallery in the city centre will find a variety of works of different disciplines. Among

February 24, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) tries to rescue 2 sick banyan trees near waterfront Kun Iam Statue

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that its tree maintenance workers are trying to rescue two Chinese banyan trees, scientifically known as Ficus microcarpa, infected with brown root rot disease in the Kun Iam Statue Waterfront Leisure Area in Nape.The statement said that during a routine inspection of trees’ conditions across the city last year, IAM tree maintenance workers observed that the two banyan trees in the recreational area, located between the Macau

February 24, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Superintelligence development: Better slow than sorry

Analysis by Jin Ding/China Daily        Editor’s note: As tech giants and research institutes across the world are racing to develop artificial general intelligence and even aiming to usher in the future of superintelligence, an open letter issued months ago and calling for temporary “prohibition” on the development of superintelligence has garnered support from some scientists, including artificial intelligence pioneers. Zeng Yi, a researcher at the Institute of

February 24, 2026 | BY admin

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Macau’s CNY visitors exceed 1.2 million in 7 days

Macau recorded some 1.21 million visitor arrivals during the first seven days of the Chinese mainland’s nine-day Chinese New Year (CNY) “Golden Week” holiday period this year, representing a daily average of 173,212, according to data released by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) yesterday.This year, the Chinese mainland’s Spring Festival holiday period lasts nine days for the first time, beginning on February 15, the day before the eve of the Chinese New Year of the Horse.The

February 23, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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CNY holidays lead to mixed reactions: Macau vox pop

Yesterday, the sixth day of the Year of the Horse, the Post interviewed three locals and a foreign tourist to gauge whether their expectations of the holiday period matched reality.While visitor numbers appeared to be very strong across major tourist areas, spending patterns and crowd distribution told a more nuanced story.The Chinese New Year (CNY) began last Tuesday. The Chinese mainland’s nine-day CNY public holiday ends tonight. Macau’s three-day CNY public holiday lasted between

February 23, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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