Local track-and-field athlete Samuel Ip shines in Portugal

Macau track-and-field athlete Samuel Ip Seng Tou was runner-up at the 2024 Coimbra Provincial Track and Field Championships held in Portugal on Saturday, his proud father, Sam, told The Macau Post Daily yesterday.At the same time, his father pointed out, he broke the 16-year-old Macau indoor track-and-field record of 1,500 metres in 4:12:73. The record time was 4:14:11, set by Ieong Chio Wa at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games.According to his father, Samuel, who is currently studying in Portugal,

January 8, 2024 | BY admin

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Horta da Mitra wet market to reopen tomorrow

The Horta da Mitra wet market will reopen tomorrow, after its renovation was completed at the end of last year, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has announced.The renovation has kept the market’s architectural façade intact, restructured its internal layout, and installed various new equipment and facilities.The 13 stalls that were operating before the renovation will resume their business tomorrow, while five extra stalls will only start operating after the completion of the bureau’s

January 8, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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GEG, Wynn & Melco to pay staff discretionary bonus

Eligible staff members working for Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG), Wynn Macau, Limited and Melco Resorts & Entertainment are set to receive their discretionary bonuses, the three integrated resort (IR) operators have recently announced in separate statements.GEG noted in their statement that eligible staff at Senior Manager grade and below will receive a discretionary bonus equivalent to a month’s base salary and guaranteed tips (if applicable), benefitting around 98 percent of its

January 8, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Gambler snatches chips from same gambling table twice: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a male gambler from the mainland for snatching casino chips worth a total of HK$118,500 from the same gambling table on two occasions at a casino in Cotai, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference on Saturday.According to Chong, in the first incident, the 33-year-old suspect, surnamed Guo, snatched chips worth HK$100,000 from the gambling table, after the casino dealer in charge of the table failed to stop him. Chong added that Guo

January 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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IAM urges public to be wary of sick Camphor tree near Lou Lim Ioc Garden

An endangered camphor tree (Camphora officinarum) was found to still have signs of disease and pest infestation after months of treatment, and all the crown leaves of the tree are withered which could endanger pedestrians walking under the tree, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Friday.According to the statement, the tree is located on Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida outside Lou Lim Ioc Garden.The statement noted that the tree has been on the government’s

January 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Toy shop owner gambles away customers’ money: police

A local toy shop owner cheated 50 customers out of a total of 495,000 patacas, and gambled away the money, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a special press conference on Saturday.The Judiciary Police received separate reports from 50 locals – 49 males and a female – between December 15 and Thursday, saying that they had ordered toys from a toy shop near Luís de Camões Garden and paid the shop owner between 700 patacas and 257,300 patacas each for the orders, but

January 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Public hospital bed scorched in suspected arson: police

A fire broke out in a ward on the third floor of the inpatient building of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre early Saturday morning, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said in a statement on Saturday.According to the statement, no one was injured or required hospitalisation in the suspected arson.The Fire Services Bureau (CB) was notified at around 2 a.m. on Saturday that a hospital bed had caught fire, but when the firefighters arrived, the blaze had already been put

January 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Illegal currency exchange dealers falsely imprison fraud gang member: police

Four illegal currency exchange dealers falsely imprisoned a fraud gang member at a guestroom of a hotel in Cotai on Thursday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said on Saturday, adding that the quartet told the police that they had been defrauded by the gang out of 140,000 yuan in a “practice banknote” scam.The four male suspects from the mainland, aged 39, 35, 30 and 29, are surnamed Chi, Tong, Shang and Li respectively, according to Chong, who hosted Saturday’s special

January 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Legislative Assembly Open Day draws 2,340 visitors

The Legislative Assembly (AL) Open Day on Saturday recorded 2,340 visitors, according to an AL statement.Located in Nam Van (Praia Grande), the building was open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, its first Open Day after the three-year COVID-19 pandemic.During the Open Day, there was a photo exhibition of the lawmakers’ activities, booth games, guided tours, and performances by students from the Macau Conservatory, the statement said.Legislative Assembly President Kou Hoi In

January 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Inaugural Festival of Young Cinema gathers young Asian & European film makers

Jointly hosted by five media and entertainment organisations from Macau and mainland China, the inaugural edition of the weeklong Asia-Europe Festival of Young Cinema kicked off on Friday at the Emperor Cinemas of Lisboeta Macau in Cotai.The festival runs until this Friday, with the aim of fostering a platform for cultural exchanges between East and West, and for dialogues between the older and younger generations of filmmakers, according to a statement released by the organisers on

January 8, 2024 | BY Gabriel Tam

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Lid must be kept on Korean Peninsula tensions

China Daily Editorial        Both Pyongyang and Seoul have good reasons to be pessimistic about the prospect of inter-Korea relations in 2024. The present state of affairs on the peninsula does not allow for the kind of optimistic anticipations that generally accompany the start of a new year.The exchange of artillery fire near the disputed maritime border of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea on Friday and Saturday marked the return of

January 8, 2024 | BY admin

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US should not mistake restraint for weakness

China Daily Editorial        Although the sanctions the United States has imposed on Chinese entities citing baseless “national security” concerns have had a substantial impact on China’s high-tech research and industry, Beijing has shown restraint with its countermeasures, both in terms of their number and the damage they can do the US.Beijing announced yesterday sanctions on five US defense-related companies – BAE Systems Land and Armaments, Alliant Techsystems

January 8, 2024 | BY admin

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2023 airport passengers reach 54 pct of pre-pandemic level

The Macau International Airport recorded a total of 5.15 million passengers last year, reaching around 54 percent of the number of passengers recorded in pre-pandemic 2019, airport operator CAM announced in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the local airport recorded a total of 42,504 aircraft movements in 2023, representing around 55 percent of the 2019 level.The statement said that passengers on mainland China routes accounted for 58 percent of last year’s total passenger

January 5, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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SAFP to launch ‘Business & Associations Platform’ this month

The Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) said yesterday that it aims to launch a new “Business & Associations Platform” mobile app and website, offering three major functions, namely, “single-item service”, “licence renewal service” and “one-stop service”, this month, aiming to enable business operators and associations to deal with their services more centrally.The single-item service function is defined as an administrative procedure on a matter involving

January 5, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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