Portuguese restaurant Chiado adds new dishes to menu

Portuguese restaurant Chiado, located in Sands Cotai Central, has added new dishes to its menu.Headed by celebrity chef Henrique Sá Pessoa, the restaurant is known to offer Portuguese cuisine in a fine dining setting.Some of the new dishes that the chef has added to the menu include shellfish from the Portuguese coast in a citrus marinade with herb and seaweed salad, seared scallops with green peas, chouriҫo sausage and Hollandaise mustard, salted cod “A Brás” with slow cooked egg yolk

January 3, 2020 | BY admin

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Mainlander tells ex-girlfriend to pay HK$30,000 ‘breakup fee’

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a male mainlander on Tuesday for demanding a “breakup fee” of HK$30,000 from his former girlfriend, also a mainlander, late last month, threatening that otherwise he would release photos and video clips showing her only wrapped in towels, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.The suspect came up with the extortion plan after the victim, who had meanwhile got a new boyfriend, refused his demand early last month that they

January 3, 2020 | BY admin

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IPIM to stop accepting applications for Guangdong-Macau Industrial Park projects

The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) announced yesterday that the local government and the Hengqin government will stop accepting applications after January 16 from local companies which plan to invest in projects in the Guangdong-Macau Cooperation Industrial Park on the adjacent island administered by Zhuhai.IPIM President Irene Lau Kuan Va made the announcement during a press conference, which was also attended by Hengqin New Area Administrative Committee Director Yang

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Airport logs record 9.6 million passengers in 2019

Macau International Airport handled a record 9.6 million passengers last year, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent, its operator CAM announced yesterday.According to a CAM statement, the number of aircraft movements (takeoffs and touchdowns) rose 18 percent year-on-year to 77,580 in 2019.The statement pointed out that last year’s number of passengers exceeded by 14 times the local population, which stood at 676,100 at the end of September, according to official statistics.PLEASE READ THE

January 3, 2020 | BY admin

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Diocese publishes fascinating 2020 ‘Catholic Calendar’

Macau’s Roman-Catholic Diocese has published a beautiful calendar with a dozen fascinating pictures of important churches in the territory. The picture of the Ruins of Saint Paul’s Church – also known as “Mater Dei” – has been given a prominent place in the calendar pages for the church provides a unique testimony to the lasting encounters between China and the West.In the year 1991, my friend Dr. P. P. Shirodkar, director of the archives and archaeology section of the Museum of Goa

January 3, 2020 | BY admin

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Xi delivers 2020 New Year speech, vowing to achieve first centenary goal

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday delivered a New Year speech in Beijing to ring in 2020, pledging to achieve the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in the “milestone” year.Xi pledged to lift all rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty and eliminate poverty in all poor counties.“The year of 2020 is crucial in winning the anti-poverty battle,” Xi said. “The clarion has sounded. We must work together and

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Ho’s New Year’s message highlights Xi’s ‘strategic vision’

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has highlighted President Xi Jinping’s “strategic vision” that he expressed in the “very important” speeches during his three-day working visit last month for the 20th anniversary celebrations of Macau’s return to the motherland.Ho also expressed his deep appreciation for Xi’s “four expectations” about Macau’s future development in his New Year’s message, which was released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) yesterday.In a speech

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Xi’s speech at gathering marking Macau’s 20th return to motherland anniversary published

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping’s speech at a gathering in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland has been published by the People’s Publishing House.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), delivered the speech in Macau on December 20 when the inauguration ceremony of the fifth-term government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) was also held.The

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FM commissioner pledges joint effort with MSAR to build ‘beautiful home’

In her New Year message released yesterday, Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Macau Shen Beili says that the commissioner’s office will strive together with the local government to build Macau into a “beautiful home” enjoying prosperity and stability.Shen’s message was released via the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) yesterday evening.Shen said that in his visit to Macau last month, President Xi Jinping met people from all walks of life in the city, comprehensively summarised

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Liaison chief urges Macau to implement spirit of Xi’s anniversary visit speeches

In his New Year message released yesterday, Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau Director Fu Ziying called for Macau to “earnestly” implement the spirit of the important speeches made by President Xi Jinping during his three-day visit last month in the run-up to and during the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland on December 20.Fu’s message was released on the liaison office’s website yesterday evening.Fu noted that last month marked the 20th

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Pension fund payments & allowances rise today

All pension payments and allowances paid out by the Social Security Fund (FSS) have been increased from today, according to a statement by the government-run fund yesterday.According to Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s Order No. 212/2019 which was published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, the increase in allowances and pensions takes effect on New Year’s Day.The old-age pensions and disability pensions have both been increased to 3,740 patacas per month, with both having been increased

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt reaffirms safety of e-tables as casino staff fear radiation

Electronic gaming tables approved for use at local casinos meet the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) safety standards, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) said in a statement yesterday after casino workers raised concerns that the e-tables were emitting radiation.The statement said that in addition to regular occupational safety and health inspections at casinos, the bureau also requires gaming operators to provide independent third-party evaluation reports to ensure their

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DUI driver causes 3-car pileup, refuses medical attention

Three vehicles were involved in a collision in Avenida da Ponte da Amizade on Monday night injuring eight people, according to an on-site media briefing by spokesmen for the Public Security Police (PSP) and Fire Services Bureau (CB) at the scene early yesterday morning, as reported by The Macau Post Daily on its front page yesterday.The three vehicles comprise a seven-seater people carrier, a Mercedes-Benz and a taxi. The people involved comprise three drivers and six passengers. All of them

January 1, 2020 | BY admin

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Free LRT trips for one more month after 3rd glitch

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon announced yesterday that the government has decided to extend the trial run of the Taipa section of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) for another month until January 31, and passengers can continue to take free LRT rides during this additional one-month period.The government’s decision came after the LRT was hit on Sunday by its third glitch since it came into service on December 10.Cheong made the remarks during a press conference

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