Tourism chief targets 33 million visitors this year

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday her target was for Macau to welcome 33 million visitors this year.Speaking to the media after yesterday’s press conference at the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre about the upcoming “Celebrations of the 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Macau SAR – Parade for Celebration of the Year of the Dragon 2024”, Senna Fernandes said: “A target to welcome about 33 million

January 19, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Chef Henrique Sá Pessoa introduces Michelin-Starred menu at Chiado

Leading figure in the modern Portuguese culinary scene and celebrity chef Henrique Sá Pessoa has introduced a new six-course dinner tasting menu “Costa a Costa” Dégustation Journey to his contemporary restaurant Chiado at The Londoner Macao in Cotai, the integrated resort operator said in a statement yesterday.The statement noted that Chef Sá Pessoa’s restaurant, Alma in Lisbon, holds two Michelin stars, adding that the “Costa a Costa [Coast to Coast]” menu includes dishes also

January 19, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Hennessy launches limited-edition collection with Yang Yongliang

Hennessy said in a statement earlier this week that it has launched the limited-edition collection inspired by a digital art piece created by mainland Chinese artist Yang Yongliang called “Dragon’s Odyssey” to welcome the Chinese New Year (CNY).The statement noted that Yang combined traditional drawings with digital art, breathing life, movement, energy and fire into “a collective of metallic dragons dancing in and out of waves”. They feature a three-dimensional element that brings

January 19, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Galaxy Macau hosts ‘Auspicious 8’ Poon Choi Feast

Galaxy Macau hosted its “Auspicious 8” Poon Choi Feast on Tuesday at Oasis in Cotai, with the event celebrating poon choi (“big bowl feast”) variations created by eight different chefs from eight of its award-winning restaurants, along with their eight signature Lunar New Year dishes for the coming Year of the Dragon, according to a Wednesday statement from the integrated resort operator.Poon Choi is a traditional Cantonese dish originating from historic walled villages, the statement

January 19, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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TurboJET engine room catches fire, no injuries

The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) said in a statement that there was a fire in the engine room of a TurboJET passenger vessel from Hong Kong to Macau at sea at about 10 a.m. yesterday, pointing out that no injuries were caused.According to the statement, the vessel, which departed from Hong Kong’s Macau Ferry Terminal for Macau’s Taipa Ferry Terminal, was carrying 239 passengers and nine crew members on board.The statement said that the fire broke out when it was sailing in the waterway

January 19, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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SAFP launches new electronic platform for civil servants

In a statement released yesterday, the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) announced that a new electronic platform designed specifically for civil servants and workers in the public administration sector to manage internal affairs, was officially launched in a web version and as a mobile app on Monday, allowing for the “unification and standardisation” of public services.According to the statement, the platform, named “Assuntos Governamentais” (“Government

January 19, 2024 | BY Gabriel Tam

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Woman hangs herself in family flat: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) were notified by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) at 4:20 p.m. yesterday that a woman had hanged herself in her family flat in a residential building on Estrada da Areia Preta, according to a PJ statement yesterday.According to the statement, a preliminary investigation conducted by PJ officers at the scene confirmed that the victim committed suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom in the flat.The victim’s family members told the police that they discovered the victim

January 19, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Over 1,000 residents learn AED first aid in past 6 years: SSM

More than 1,000 residents participated in the government’s first aid courses in the local community to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use automated external cardiac defibrillators (AEDs) over the past six years, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in its recent reply to lawmaker Song Pek Kei’s written interpellation.Song called for expanding the coverage rate of AEDs in the city in her written interpellation released last month. Copies of the interpellation and the reply from the

January 19, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Public Health Building’s lifts to open from tomorrow, providing easy access to hospital

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement yesterday that from tomorrow a number of lifts in its new Public Health Building will open, making it more convenient for members of the public to visit the adjacent public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre.The government’s newly-completed Public Health Building, which is located next to the public hospital, was inaugurated in October last year.The Public Health Building, informally known as communicable disease building, is the

January 19, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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MGM to host CNY celebratory menus & activities

Integrated resort (IR) operator MGM will offer a range of festive menus and activities to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon, which begins on February 10.According to a recent MGM statement, Imperial Court, which specialises in Lingnan cuisine, at MGM Macau in Nape will serve its guests a Chinese New Year Set Menu featuring seafood and seasonal ingredients such as baked Boston lobster with glutinous rice cake and chanterelle mushroom, as well as the double-boiled abalone soup with

January 19, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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MICHELIN Star Studded event takes place tomorrow at GLP

The MICHELIN Star Studded Dinner – “Timeless Gastronomy” is slated to take place tomorrow at The Grand Pavilion of the Grand Lisboa Palace (GLP) integrated resort (IR) in Cotai, which will feature four distinguished chefs, each of them holding three MICHELIN Stars, for “a night of unparalleled gastronomic delight”, according to a recent statement by MICHELIN.The dinner event, which features six-courses alongside wine pairing, is a collaboration between IR operator SJM Resorts and

January 19, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Sands 10K to take place in March

The 2024 Sands China Macao International 10K is slated to take place on March 17, with registration to open from 9 a.m. on February 3, and at 9 a.m. on February 4 for the Fun Run category, the Sports Bureau (ID) said in a statement yesterday.The statement noted that there will be 3,000 places available for the Fun Run and 7,000 spots for the 10K, and will start at 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively at Sai Van Lake Square and finishing inside the Olympic Sports Centre’s stadium in Taipa. The

January 19, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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China emits fresh signals on building financial powerhouse

Analysis        BEIJING – China has sent fresh and strong signals on building itself into a financial powerhouse as part of its efforts to pursue high-quality development of the financial sector.The central financial work conference held last October called for accelerating the building of a nation with a strong financial sector, which elevates the importance of financial work to a higher strategic level.President Xi Jinping elaborated on this goal, explaining how China

January 19, 2024 | BY admin

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With recovery of Chinese economy on solid footing, it will remain a driver of global growth

China Daily Editorial        Given the giant size of the Chinese economy, about 17 percent of the global economy, and the tremendous headwinds it has had to overcome, that it sustained a 5.2-percent growth last year, 2.2 percentage points higher than the previous year, is undoubtedly a hard-won result.As the majority of the key indicators point to the recovery momentum of the world’s second-largest economy consolidating and strengthening, it can be said that China is

January 19, 2024 | BY admin

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