MGP museum unveils new race car exhibit

The Lynk & Co 03 TCR race car that once raced around the Guia Circuit is now a regular exhibit at the Macau Grand Prix Museum in Zape, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday.The statement noted that the car was driven by mainland racer Ma Qinghua during the 68th Macau Grand Prix in 2021 when he secured the first and second places in Race 1 and Race 2 of the Galaxy Entertainment Macau Guia Race respectively.High-end brand Lynk & Co was jointly created by

February 8, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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The ‘Beautiful Bus’

 On  a “Beautiful Bus”, “passengers” witnessed a most extraordinary sight in a very ordinary context.As one of the outreach activities of the recent Macau City Fringe festival, the programme invited the audience to dress up to the nines while taking a special sightseeing tour on the “Beautiful Bus.”The programme’s director Un Iat Hou talked to the Post on the sidelines of the show last month.According to Un, the setting was on a hired bus, which set off from the

February 8, 2024 | BY Interview and review by Ginnie Liang

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JLL urges govt to lift all cooling measures to ‘salvage’ fragile housing market

The Macau real estate market is getting more fragile due to recent fluctuations in US interest rates and stock market performances, Oliver Tong Wai Lok, general manager at JLL in Macau and Zhuhai said yesterday, urging the local government to “consider lifting its cooling measures entirely to salvage the fragile housing market”.Commercial real-estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle Limited (JLL Macau) announced during a press conference at its local office in the Finance and IT Centre

February 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Pharma bureau urges consumers not to drink slimming coffee, chocolate containing sibutramine

The Pharmaceutical Supervision and Administration Bureau (ISAF) said in a statement yesterday that the Hong Kong Health Department has announced recently that two kinds of slimming drink under the product name “HOTCHA Botanical Beverage Mix Chocolate with Morosil” and “HOTCHA Botanical Beverage Mix Hazelnut Coffee with Morosil” contain sibutramine, because of which the bureau is urging residents not to buy either beverage.The statement didn’t mention the name of the company that

February 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Mother & daughter dead at home for a year: police

The dead bodies of a mother and daughter were found yesterday at their home on Estrada do Cemitério, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Kam Fai said in a statement, adding that the duo was estimated to have died about a year ago.According to the statement, the body of the elderly victim was skeletonised, while the body of the middle-aged victim was mummified due to environmental factors, estimating that both had been dead for over a year and nearly a year respectively.The Judiciary Police

February 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Cold shelter opens as mercury drops

The city’s temporary cold shelter located in E1 Bairro da Ilha Verde Building on Rua Leste da Ilha Verde opened at 6 p.m. yesterday, the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement.The shelter is open in response to the hoisting of the “yellow” cold weather alert by the observatory, which said yesterday it expected the weather over the next couple of days to “be continuously cold”.According to the weather station forecast yesterday, the temperature today and tomorrow is expected

February 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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AMCM warns public of bogus BNU website & social media platform

The Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) said in a statement yesterday that members of the public should be vigilant about a fraudulent website and social media pages impersonating Macau-based Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) to avoid being cheated and suffering unnecessary lossesThe statement said that the local Portuguese bank has issued a notice on its website, noting that the fraudulent website and social media pages are using express loan services as a means of solicitation to attract

February 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police nab 2 illegal immigrants, 4 for aiding them

Four people from the mainland have been arrested for aiding and abetting two illegal immigrants, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leong, the Public Security Police in an ongoing investigation into an illegal immigration case discovered two illegal immigrants from the mainland staying in a Cotai hotel. The police apprehended the duo, a couple, surnamed Liu and Peng.Leong noted that the couple had been banned from

February 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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6 women swindled out of 2.5 million patacas in fake police scam

14 locals fell for same SMS fraud Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday that six female victims were separately scammed out of a total of 2.5 million patacas between them in fake police scams. According to Lou, the victims received phone calls from individuals claiming to be staff members of “China Telecom” and mainland police officers. These calls occurred in the last two months. The callers made preposterous allegations,

February 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Police nab female cabbie for theft-by-finding

A local woman who works as a taxi driver has been apprehended for stealing 300 patacas she found in the street, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Leong is in her fifties.According to Wong, a female resident reported to the police in November last year that she had lost 300 patacas while walking along Rua de Seng Tou in Taipa. Following the report, the police identified Leong as the person who had picked up the money,

February 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to non-CPC members

BEIJING – Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, yesterday extended festive greetings to people from non-CPC political parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), personages without party affiliation, and other members of the united front ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent the greetings when he took part in an

February 8, 2024 | BY admin

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Police expect up to 6 million CNY entries & exits, 3 pct more than in 2019

The police said yesterday that they expect Macau to record 5.5 to 6 million entries and exits at its border checkpoints during the 10-day period between February 9 and 18 in the upcoming Chinese New Year (CNY) period, at least around the same level recorded in the corresponding period of pre-pandemic 2019, or even 3 percent more than at that time. The Year of the Dragon begins on Saturday, February 10.This year’s mainland Spring Festival Golden Week holiday lasts for eight days, running

February 7, 2024 | BY Staff Reporter

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Pro-golfers García & McDowell to tee off at Int’l Series Macau

The inaugural International Series Macau is slated to take place from March 14-17 at the Macau Golf & Country Club, with professional golfers Sergio García from Spain and Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell set to tee off at the event presented by Wynn Macau, according to a joint statement by the organisers.The statement noted that the tournament is “the second of 10 elevated events on the Asian Tour that offer increased prize funds, world-class destinations, and a pathway to the LIV

February 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Blood donation vehicle to run 2 extra days, outside Taipa Central Park

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement yesterday that its mobile blood donation vehicle, which normally provides services every Tuesday afternoon, will also operate tomorrow and Friday.According to the website of the bureau’s Blood Transfusion Centre, the vehicle, which provides services between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. every Tuesday, is parked at different locations in different weeks. On the first Tuesday of every month, it provides services outside Luso International Bank Building and

February 7, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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