China champions global cooperation on wetland conservation at COP15

Analysis by Xinhua writers Xu Zheng, Tafara Mugwara        VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe – Amid growing global attention to wetland conservation, China’s efforts and achievements in this field are particularly eye-catching at the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15), which concluded at the Victoria Falls yesterday.From building the world’s largest number of international wetland cities to achieving

August 1, 2025 | BY admin

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Pacific Ocean should not be turned into a sea of zero-sum disturbances

China Daily Editorial        When asked how he proposed to balance his country’s ties between the United States and China when facing the media in his meeting with the US president at the White House on Tuesday last week, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr apparently intended to take advantage of his reply to curry favor with his US host.But before Marcos finished his I-am-always-on-your-side ingratiation, his US counterpart’s abrupt interjection obviously caught

August 1, 2025 | BY admin

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14-year-old schoolboy hired to smuggle electronic products to mainland: Macau customs

Macau Customs Service officers have caught a 14-year-old schoolboy who was hired to smuggle used electronic products from a parallel-trading den in Macau to the mainland.According to a statement released on the customs’ website on Tuesday night, customs officers put a suspected parallel-trading den in the peninsula’s northern district under surveillance on Monday afternoon, where they saw the student leaving the den and then walking to the Barrier Gate border checkpoint.Afterwards, the

July 31, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Over 1/3 of Macau's newly registered vehicles in H1 are EVs

Some 37.6 percent of Macau’s newly registered motor vehicles in the first half of this year were electric ones, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.A DSEC statement yesterday noted that the proportion of newly registered electric vehicles (EVs) in relation to all newly registered motor vehicles in the first six months of this year represented an increase of 7.1 percentage points from the 30.5 percent in the same period of last year.According to the statement, the

July 31, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau police nab Judiciary Police (PJ) officer, local retiree for drunk driving

The Public Security Police (PSP) separately arrested a Judiciary Police (PJ) officer and a local retiree on Saturday for drunk driving, with their blood alcohol concentrations standing at 2.13 grams per litre and 1.26 grams per litre, respectively, PSP spokeswoman Kong Chi Ian said during a regular press conference yesterday.Kong identified the PJ officer as a male surnamed Fong in his thirties.According to Kong, the Public Security Police (PSP) received a report early Saturday morning about an

July 31, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Liaison Office in Macau gets new PR chief

Liu Yu (劉煜) has been appointed as the director of the Public Relations Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), succeeding Yin Shuhua (殷樹華), according to a brief report published by the Chinese-language Macao Daily News on its online instant news platform yesterday.Macao Daily News is Macau’s top selling Chinese-language newspaper, which also runs online instant news.Yesterday’s report by the newspaper

July 31, 2025 | BY admin

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Artists bring joy in ‘Dopamine: Fountain of Happiness’ at The Venetian Macao

Interview by Rui Pastorin        As guests walk up to The Venetian Macao Cotai, they’ll be greeted with characters and elements from the widely popular children’s programme Sesame Street, each presented with a unique twist for “Dopamine: Fountain of Happiness”, a Special Exhibition in this year’s Art Macao.From Big Bird and Elmo to Bert and Ernie, nine outstanding artists from Asia, Europe and the US each gave their unique spin on the different characters, using

July 31, 2025 | BY admin

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DSA competition aims to promote Macau’s sci-tech development

Interview by Armindo Neves        The DSA International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition organiser told the Post yesterday that the contest aims to promote the development of science and technology in Macau.DSA stands for domain-specific architecture.*Organised by the RISC-V** Domain-Specific Architecture (RDSA) Industrial Alliance and the Macao Institute of Industrial Technology (MIIT) – and funded by the Macao Industrial and Commercial Development Fund, guided

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Macau Health Bureau urges vigilance against ‘chikungunya’ with key mosquito prevention tips

The Health Bureau (SSM) issued a public reminder on Tuesday to stay alert for symptoms of chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne disease marked by fever, rash and joint pain, according to a SSM statement on that day. Residents are encouraged to follow the “3 Tips for Mosquito Prevention” to help stop the spread, the statement noted.According to the statement, chikungunya is caused by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito and does not spread between people,

July 31, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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HK ‘triad gangster’ blackmails local student out of HK$6,500 through WhatsApp: Macau police

A local male secondary student was blackmailed when visiting Hong Kong, resulting in a total loss of HK$6,500 (6,700 patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Wai Lok said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the police received a report on Tuesday morning from the student, who said that when he was visiting Hong Kong last Saturday afternoon he received a WhatsApp message, in which the sender claimed to be the member of a triad gang and sent three photos depicting

July 31, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Mould found on S Korean packaged cakes: Macau Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM)

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced in a statement that it issued yesterday an immediate food safety alert to local businesses after its food safety risk monitoring system identified potential mould on two packaged cake products imported from South Korea.The problematic products are Orion Corporation’s “Cham Carp (Bungeo) Cakes” (original and honey flavours), sourced from South Korea, with all batches produced before July 23, 2025 and still within their shelf life. The products

July 31, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Cristina Leiria urges Macau's Kun Iam Ecumenical Centre to be ‘nurtured’

After nine months in Macau, Cristina Maria de Faria Rocha Leiria, who designed the Kun Iam Statue and Ecumenical Centre, said in an Instagram statement earlier this month that she was “filled with gratitude and at the same time filled with expectations as I prepare to return to my homeland.”The Portuguese architect and sculptor also said in the Portuguese-language statement translated by the Post: “The deepest desire I have is to ensure that the legacy I built here, the Kun Iam Ecumenical

July 31, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau’s ‘Rainy Moments’ wins Asia-Pacific Regional Films Selection Award in HK

Local short film “Rainy Moments” (等雨) won the Asia-Pacific Regional Films Selection Award at the 62nd Asia-Pacific Film Festival at Hong Kong’s Shangri-La Hotel on July 9, according to a statement released by Sina Corporation earlier this month“Rainy Moments” explores pressing social issues through interconnected stories set in Macau’s historic Chi Lam Vai (茨林圍 – Chi Lam Walled Village, known in Portuguese as Pátio do Espinho – “Thorn Courtyard”) neighbourhood

July 31, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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China: fear or FOMO?

Ben Buckler, Investment SpecialistAnalysis published by Baillie Gifford*Key Points:Focusing on China’s risks could lead investors to miss out on plentiful growth opportunities in key industries.The Chinese government is swinging back to supporting the private sector to achieve the growth the country needs.Although geopolitical tensions are inevitable, the country’s world-beating growth companies are pioneering the disruptive trends of the futureQuestions persist about the role of the

July 31, 2025 | BY admin

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