Govt’s chosen location for ecological island ‘best possible’: eco-bureau

The local government has underlined that a maritime area about one kilometre off Coloane’s Hac Sa Long Chao Kok coast would be the “best possible” location for building an “ecological” island to be used for a construction waste landfill.The government underlined the need for a new construction waste landfill because the city’s only construction waste landfill in east Cotai is nearing saturation.The current landfill for construction waste, which has been used since 2006, is located

March 1, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt logs 5.2 pct gain of financial reserves’ investment in 2023

The local government earned 28.98 billion patacas last year from investing its financial reserves, representing an annual return of 5.2 percent, the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) has announced.At the end of last year, according to an AMCM statement on Wednesday, the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) financial reserves stood at 580.47 billion patacas, consisting of basic reserves of 152.06 billion patacas and extraordinary reserves of 428.41 billion patacas.According to the law on

March 1, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs this year’s 1st imported dengue case: worker from Malaysia

Macau recorded this year’s first imported case of dengue fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.According to the statement, the patient is a 26-year-old female non-resident worker who lives in Block 3 of the Kong Fok On Garden residential estate in Areia Preta district. She works at the nearby Bairro do Hipódromo Activities Centre, as well as the Kin Heng Long Plaza commercial building in Nape.Bairro do Hipódromo Activities Centre, one of the Education

March 1, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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IC to launch ‘Exchange Books with Books’ activity

An “Exchange Books with Books” activity will be held by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) for the first time next Saturday and Sunday with the aim of strengthening the reading atmosphere in the city and also kicking off reading resource-sharing in the community, helping to develop Macau into a “City of Reading”, according to an IC statement yesterday.The activity will be held at the Lok Yeung Fa Yuen Building sitting-out area in Fai Chi Kei district next Saturday (March 9) and in Iao Hon

March 1, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police warn public of airline phishing scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday warned members of the public in a statement of a phishing SMS scam involving an airline in Macau, where fraudsters running a platform purporting to be the airline’s, claim that the users’ reward points will expire soon but could be redeemed for gifts, so as to trick them into logging into the fake website to obtain their personal information and credit card details.The statement said that the Judiciary Police has confirmed that the respective airline has

March 1, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Hengqin lifts tariffs for most imports from Macau

GUANGZHOU –  Guangdong’s Hengqin island starts a new customs operation today that allows most goods to be moved there tax-free from the neighboring Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).The new operation became effective at 00:00 last night in the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, which is part of Zhuhai. The island covers 106 square kilometers.Under the new mechanism, tariffs will be generally lifted for goods entering Hengqin from Macau, while goods moving

March 1, 2024 | BY admin

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Building tariff castles will only entrench trade war

China Daily Editorial        According to a source at a major UK automaker cited by Politico, “the wheels have started turning” at the United Kingdom’s Department for Business and Trade on an investigation into Chinese state subsidies for its electric vehicle (EV) makers.Some UK automakers have been urging the UK government to launch such a probe with a view to getting protection. They are concerned that the Chinese-made EVs will be diverted to the UK market if the

March 1, 2024 | BY admin

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Forum Macao getting ready for 6th Ministerial Conference

The Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao) is focused on preparing the 10-nation organisation’s 6th Ministerial Conference later this year, its secretary-general, Ji Xianzheng, said yesterday. Ji made the remarks in a speech during a Spring Festival luncheon hosted by Forum Macao (the organisation’s short name) for Macau’s Portuguese- and English-language media at MGM MACAU. Ji delivered the speech

February 29, 2024 | BY Harald Brüning

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Macau logs 13,487 crimes last year, up 37.6 pct

Macau’s total number of reported crimes rose 37.6 percent year on year to 13,487 in 2023, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has announced.Wong also said that last year’s total number of reported crimes represented a 4.9 percent decrease from the pre-pandemic year of 2019, when 14,178 suspected crimes were recorded.Wong announced Macau’s 2023 crime statistics during a press conference at the S. Francisco Barracks yesterday.4 homicidesWong pointed out that four homicides were recorded

February 29, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Over 140 black pottery works on display at Tap Seac Gallery

Over 140 black pottery sets or pieces from the northern provinces of Shandong and Qinghai are on display in an exhibition at Tap Seac Gallery on Praça do Tap Seac, which is on until March 10.Titled “Tempering by Earth and Fire – Black Pottery Art Exhibition of Shandong and Qinghai Provinces”, the exhibition features black pottery works by masters from both provinces. These range from finely crafted pieces to daily utensils, a recent statement from the gallery noted.The statement said

February 29, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Lawmakers pass outline of bill proposing tougher penalties for illicit gambling

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill that proposes to raise the penalties for certain illicit gambling activities, specifically bar the operation of online betting, and clearly define parallel betting as an illicit gambling activity.The bill proposes to establish a new criminal law on illicit gambling to replace the current one enacted in 1996 when Macau was still under temporary Portuguese administration.Secretary for Administration and

February 29, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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CTT exhibit wins Silver in int’l contest

A stamp collection by the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) recently won the Silver Medal for Group C (countries issuing 70 or more postage stamps per year) in the 18th  International Competition Class for issuing postal authorities of Universal Postal Union (UPU) member countries and territories, the bureau said in a statement yesterday.Held in Bangkok from November 27 to December 2 last year, the contest was jointly organised by UPU and the Zürich-based International

February 29, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Observatory forecasts cold weather this weekend

The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) forecast yesterday that the weather will become cold from tonight, with the minimum temperature expected to be 10°C or below at the weekend, while the mercury next week will rise again.The statement urged members of the public, particularly seniors, children and people with chronic illnesses, to bundle up and stay warm.The bureau also suggested others measures to protect oneself from the freezing weather  such as being fully aware of

February 29, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Customs probes copyright breaches in 2 karaoke bars

The Macau Customs Service (SA) is investigating suspected copyright infringements in two local karaoke bars, but could not confirm right away whether there was any infringement of the copyright of certain songs, according to local media reports yesterday.Two karaoke bars located in a hotel in Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues and a commercial centre in Zape respectively, have been accused by “someone” of  the infringement of intellectual property rights, according to the reports.The

February 29, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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