Hotel occupancy has strong outlook for July & August: Macau Hotel Association (MHA) VP Roger Verschuren

Macau Hotel Association (MHA) Vice President Rutger Verschuren was yesterday asked by reporters about Macau’s hotel occupancy this summer, saying that while June was “challenging”, this month and the next look “fantastic”.Verschuren made the remarks after yesterday’s official presentation ceremony for receiving the LEED for Operations and Maintenance (O+M) Gold Certification held at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau in Nape.“I think none of us need to worry about occupancy. The typhoon

July 23, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau gastronomy-fest draws record foot traffic: MGTO

The “2025 International Cities of Gastronomy Fest, Macao” concluded at the weekend after attracting about 100,000 attendees over nine days, according to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) yesterday.The culinary event, originally scheduled to run until Sunday, ended a day early due to Typhoon “Wipha”, which triggered the hoisting of Macau’s highest Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal, No.10, on Sunday.The statement noted that this year’s festival set a new

July 23, 2025 | BY Kristina Vallesteros

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Candidacy groups must submit lists of campaign materials before legislative electioneering starts

The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEAL) said yesterday that the candidacy groups for the upcoming direct and indirect legislative elections will be required to submit lists laying out details of all publicity materials and items that they intend to distribute during the two-week official election campaign period, including the items’ respective quantities and costs.The requirements for the candidacy groups aim to enable the commission to ensure that their campaign

July 23, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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UM’s state key lab hosts 3rd summer camp

The State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC) at the University of Macau (UM) has recently held its third SKL-IOTSC Summer Camp for Outstanding University Students, attracting top-performing students from over 20 universities across the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and overseas, according to a Monday statement from the public tertiary education institution.   Designed to blend academic exchange with hands-on learning, the programme featured research

July 23, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Health Bureau checks 7,400 potential mosquito breeding sites in H1

The Health Bureau (SSM) held a press conference titled “Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Prevention and Control” yesterday, revealing that it carried out 7,400 inspections targeting potential mosquito breeding sites across the city in the first half of the year.The press conference was held at the Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre complex.Leong Iek Hou, who heads the bureau’s Disease Control and Prevention Centre (CDC), said that to eliminate mosquito breeding, 1,220 chemical mosquito

July 23, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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2 locals lose HK$13 million in investment scams: police

A middle-aged local man and a middle-aged local woman have separately fallen victim to online investment scams, resulting in a total loss of HK$13 million (13.3 million patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Cheong, the male discovered an investment advertisement on social media in May. After clicking on the link, he joined an investment group where members frequently discussed investment news. Soon afterwards,

July 23, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police arrest 2 mainlanders for pimping

Two men from the mainland were arrested on Friday for procuring, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspects as two males surnamed Zhao and Wu, both in their forties who claimed to be jobless. The Public Security Police (PSP) received a report early Friday morning about someone accosting passers-by outside a hotel in Cotai. Upon arrival, the police officers apprehended Zhao and a Thai man surnamed

July 23, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Mainlander smuggles Maotai from Macau to Zhuhai in juice boxes: Gongbei Customs

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs announced yesterday that its officers nabbed a male mainlander for smuggling four bottles of Maotai liquor from Macau to Zhuhai hidden in four juice boxes.Gongbei Customs said that the incident happened on Monday night. Customs officers intercepted a mainland man at a “Green Channel” who was acting suspiciously, and found him carrying four juice boxes in a plastic carrier bag, none of which showed signs of having been opened for use, but the boxes appeared

July 23, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Art of Jingdezhen porcelain presented at Wynn Palace exhibition

The art of Jingdezhen porcelain is being showcased at Wynn Palace through artworks and technology at the integrated resort operator’s exhibition titled “Hello China, Hello Macao - The Odyssey of Jingdezhen Porcelain: A Heritage Voyage from Macao to the World”.Jingdezhen City is located in Jiangxi Province.Inaugurated last week, the exhibition is one of the Special Exhibitions organised by the six integrated resort operators for Art Macao and is divided into two sections, one being at the

July 23, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Time for China, EU to broaden consensus on navigating next 50 years of relations

Commentary        BEIJING – The upcoming China-EU Summit presents a valuable opportunity to reflect on the experience and insights gained from 50 years of bilateral ties. It offers a platform to build consensus and chart a stable and healthy path forward that benefits both sides and the world.The summit comes at a time when geopolitical tensions, protectionism and unilateralism are increasingly fragmenting global relations. Furthermore, China-EU relations are at a critical

July 23, 2025 | BY admin

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Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen-3

BEIJING – China’s first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen-3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of returning no less than 500 grams of Martian samples to Earth by around 2031, according to the mission’s chief scientist.Hou Zengqian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the Tianwen-3 mission, together with his collaborators, recently published an article in Nature Astronomy, systematically outlining the overall plan and scientific

July 23, 2025 | BY admin

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Tech industry to inject new impetus into local economy: Sam

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai said yesterday that he expects the growth of Macau’s tech industry to inject new impetus into the city’s economic development and to create high-quality employment opportunities while underlining that the tech industry will become an important chapter in Macau’s future development.Sam made the remarks in a speech while chairing this year’s first plenary meeting of the government-appointed Science and Technology Council at the Services Platform Complex for

July 22, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Pet Pet Loving Festival’ highlights animal-friendly message, charity effort

Lisboeta Macau H853 Fun Factory and Find Macau co-launched the “Pet Pet Loving Festival” on Saturday at Lisboeta Macau’s Old Macau Street, drawing over 1,000 pet lovers and their “furry friends” on Saturday, the resort in Cotai said in a statement that day.   Originally, the festival was supposed to last over the weekend, but because of Typhoon “Wipha” it was cut short by a day.Featuring themed booths, pet play zones, and adoption parades, the event promoted pet-friendly

July 22, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Typhoon ‘Wipha’ damages old house in Chi Lam Village

Chi Lam Village residents told the Post yesterday that at about 6 a.m., when all typhoon warning signals had just been lifted, an over 80-year-old house collapsed in their ancient neighbourhood.The structure of the long-abandoned house was mostly wooden, with outer walls made of bricks. The villagers said they were deeply saddened, as yet another place full of memories had been damaged.Chi Lam Chuen (茨林村), a 400-year-old, formerly walled village with a centuries-old history where some

July 22, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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