Macau CE Sam Hou Fai on 5-day visit to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai met with Communist Party of China (CPC) Zhejiang Provincial Committee Secretary Wang Hao in the provincial capital of Hangzhou yesterday during his ongoing five-day working visit to Hangzhou, Shanghai Municipality, and Jiangsu Province’s capital of Nanjing, which started on Saturday, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) yesterday.Sam is scheduled to return to Macau on Wednesday night.According to the statement, Sam and Wang

August 18, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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2 casino staff shuttle buses collide on Macau's Friendship Bridge, 30 passengers hurt

A casino staff shuttle bus crashed into the back of another casino staff shuttle bus on the Macau-Taipa Friendship Bridge on Saturday night, slightly injuring 30 passengers on the two vehicles, the authorities said on Saturday night.According to statements by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) and the Public Security Police (PSP) on Saturday night, the crash occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday when the two casino staff shuttle buses were travelling on the bridge from Taipa to the

August 18, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau sports park project on ex-dog racetrack to start in Q1 next year, 1st phase to cost around 1.3 billion patacas

The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) said yesterday that the first-phase construction of its project to build a sports park, i.e., a park featuring various sporting facilities, on the plot of land where the now-defunct greyhound racetrack (Yat Yuen Canidrome) and its adjacent, currently still in-use Lin Fong Sports Centre are located is scheduled to get off the ground in the first quarter of next year.According to yesterday’s DSOP announcements, the project’s first-phase construction is slated to

August 15, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs this year 7th chikungunya case

Macau recorded this year’s seventh imported case of chikungunya fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.According to the statement, the patient is a 10-year-old local boy who lives in Block 6 of the Kin Wa Building residential estate in Areia Preta district.The boy participated in a training camp in Guangzhou’s Baiyun District between August 2 and 11. After returning to Macau, the statement said, he came down with a fever, a rash on his face and right

August 15, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Guangzhou-based entrepreneurship contest launched in Macau

The 2025 edition of a technological innovation and entrepreneurship competition, jointly organised by the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which is accepting innovation projects submitted by teams from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, was launched in Macau yesterday, aiming to source good-quality projects from the three regions with their commercial applications to get off the ground in Guangzhou.The organisation of

August 15, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Black Rainstorm’ triggers severe flooding in Macau, Taipa hardest hit – no injuries

The Meteorological and Geophysics Bureau (SMG) hoisted the “Black Rainstorm” warning signal at 2 p.m. yesterday, the highest of its three-level rainstorm warning system – yellow, red, black. The rainstorm triggered severe flooding, hitting Taipa the hardest. According to public broadcaster TDM, the floods started at 2:11 p.m. and continued in the afternoon. At 6:35 p.m., all rainstorm warning signals were cancelled.No injuries were reported. Typhoon “Podul” made

August 15, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Guangdong, HK & Macau promote AI and robotics collaboration with Yangtze River Delta in Shanghai

The “2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area–Yangtze River Delta Economic and Trade Co-operation Exchange Conference (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Session)” was held on Tuesday in Shanghai, bringing together nearly 200 representatives from research institutions and tech companies to deepen regional collaboration, according to Macau’s Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) statement on Wednesday.Jointly organised by the Department of Commerce of

August 15, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Police bust 3 illegal exchange cases

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers busted three illegal currency exchange cases on Wednesday, PJ spokesman Cheong Sio Keong said in a special press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect in the first case as a 26-year-old female surnamed Xia; in the second case a 61-year-old female surnamed Liu; and in the third case a 41-year-old male surnamed Liu. All of them told the police that they are from the mainland and unemployed.In the first case, according to Cheong, on Wednesday morning, PJ

August 15, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau exhibition aims to showcase young people’s inner voices

Review by Armindo Neves        The Cardinal Newman Centre for Culture and Arts Performance of Macau (CCCN) is hosting an exhibition whose Chinese name “我唔出聲，其實我諗緊好多嘢……” translates as “I may be silent, but my mind is full of thoughts......”, aiming to showcases young people’s inner voices.The exhibition had been organised by the Macao Diocese Performance Arts and Culture Association.Chan Sio Fong, curator of the exhibition, writes in a

August 15, 2025 | BY admin

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Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) students explore Huawei’s sports tech lab

Faculty and students from the Master’s Degree Programme in Sports and Physical Education at Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) have recently visited the Huawei Health and Sports Science Laboratory in Dongguan to deepen their understanding of intelligent wearable technology and its role in sports science, according to a MPU statement yesterday.The driving distance between Macau and Dongguan is about 120 km. Dongguan is one of the 11 cities of the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The statement said

August 15, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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China strengthens all-round efforts to counter climate strains

Analysis by Xinhua writer Gao Zhu        BEIJING – The summer of 2025 has tested China with familiar yet intensifying climate challenges, from heavy rainfall in some northern areas to persistent inland heat, with global warming adding to the variability.While shifting climate patterns have posed challenges, the country’s responses have reflected long-term efforts in ecological protection, green development and disaster preparedness, positioning it well to manage a season

August 15, 2025 | BY admin

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Beautiful China vision has sown the seeds for the blossoming of an ecological civilization

China Daily Editorial        It is the right actions based on the right answers to the right questions that determine whether progress can be achieved or not.This is exactly the case when it comes to the development of China’s environmental protection and ecological conservation.Twenty years ago on Aug 15, 2005, President Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Communist Party of China provincial committee of Zhejiang, made the now well-known remark that lucid waters and lush

August 15, 2025 | BY admin

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China to launch new type of visa for young science, technology professionals

BEIJING – China will introduce a new visa category for young science and technology talent, following a decision by the State Council.Premier Li Qiang has signed a State Council decree to promulgate the decision to amend the country’s regulation on the administration of foreigners’ entries and exits.According to the decision, China will add a K visa to its ordinary visa categories, available to eligible young science and technology professionals.Applicants for this visa must meet the

August 15, 2025 | BY admin

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Kazakh family donates historical materials on Xian Xinghai to Macau’s eponymous museum

The local museum dedicated to commemorating Xian Xinghai (冼星海) yesterday received historical materials about the nation’s renowned composer, such as music sheets, documents and photos, donated by Baldyrgan Baikadamova, daughter of Xian’s cherished friend, Kazakh musician Bakhytzhan Baikadamov, who invited Xian to stay with him when he was stranded in Kazakhstan in the 1940s.Baikadamova has come to Macau where she handed the materials to Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Vice President Choi

August 14, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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