No letup in Beijing’s efforts to secure cease-fire and two-state solution of Palestinian question

China has never ceased making efforts to bring the conflict between Israel and Palestine to an early end, and promote the settlement of the Palestinian question under the framework of the two-state solution.It is seeking to work with all like-minded countries to this effect. With its Middle East envoy engaged in busy shuttle diplomacy in the region, Beijing is actively taking advantage of all multilateral occasions and platforms to do its part as a responsible major country to promote not only

November 22, 2023 | BY admin

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Full text of Xi's remarks during BRICS meeting on situation in Middle East, Gaza in particular

     Full text: Remarks by President Xi Jinping at the extraordinary joint meeting of BRICS leaders and leaders of invited BRICS members on the situation in the Middle East with particular reference to GazaBEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday addressed the extraordinary joint meeting of BRICS leaders and leaders of invited BRICS members on the situation in the Middle East with particular reference to Gaza. The following is the full text of his remarks:Working Toward a

November 22, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt to revise oath-taking law in line with amended national security law: Cheong

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said yesterday that the government will submit a bill to the legislature proposing amendments to the current law regulating the oath-taking of those in the executive, legislative and judicial organs of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).Cheong made the remarks during yesterday’s one-day Q&A session in the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) hemicycle about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.The current

November 21, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Drama ‘Get Lost, I’m Done’ to merge with visual art & music

Interview by Ginnie Liang        New local original drama “Get Lost, I’m Done”, presented by the Macau Experimental Theatre, will be shown in the Macau Cultural Centre Small Auditorium from Thursday to Saturday, and the drama’s actor and producer Tam Chi Chun in the theatre’s studio on Friday talked to The Macau Post Daily about this upcoming performance that will bring together drama, music, and visual art.The drama will star Wong Pak Hou, who had the leading role

November 21, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt to announce further details of sports park project next year

During yesterday’s one-day Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said that early next year the government will announce further details of its plan to build a sports park, i.e., a park featuring various sports facilities, on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack (Yat Yuen Canidrome) is located.Cheong pointed out that the government had announced

November 21, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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UM announces computer science breakthrough

A paper titled “Optimising Resource Management for Shared Microservices: A Scalable System Design” by a research team led by University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) Chair Prof. Xu Cheng-Zhong and FST Assistant Prof. Xu Huanle has made “significant breakthroughs” in the cloud computing field, according UM statement on Friday.The team, the statement noted, has designed an innovative resource management system called Erms, which can improve the efficiency of

November 21, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Submissions open for 1st Macau int’l shorts film fest, winner to get 40k

Submissions are now open for the “1st Macao International Shorts Film Festival” until December 15, welcoming submissions from local residents, with the winner to be awarded a trophy and 40,000 patacas, according to a statement from the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) on Friday.The festival will be held next year and is organised by the bureau in conjunction with integrated resort operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG), the statement noted. The statement said that the event aims to encourage

November 21, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Drunken driver flees car accident to take boss to terminal

A man has been arrested for hit-and-run and drunk driving, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Leong Chi Seng said during yesterday’s press conference.The 34-year-old suspect surnamed Kam told the police he’s a designer.According to Leong, the police received a report from a resident saying that there was a collision involving his car and another car on Thursday night in Avenida Padre Tomás Pereira in Taipa. However, the driver of the other car had fled the scene. The police were able

November 21, 2023 | BY William Chan

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2 gamblers cheated out of over 380,000 yuan in ‘practice banknotes’ scam: police

Two mainland men were arrested respectively at a hotel in Cotai and a resort in Taipa on Sunday for cheating two male gamblers out of 199,800 yuan (223,568 patacas) and 188,900 yuan (211,371 patacas) in separate “practice banknotes” scams, involving 400 HK$1,000 practice notes, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a special press conference yesterday.The Judiciary Police were notified by a security guard of the hotel and the Public Security Police (PSP) about the two

November 21, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police nab Indonesian maid for stealing phone left on staircase

A domestic helper from Indonesia has been arrested for stealing a smartphone, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Leong Chi Seng said at a regular press conference yesterday.The 45-year-old suspect is surnamed Siti. According to Lei, the Public Security Police received a report from a local man last Monday that he had left a phone worth 1,700 patacas on a staircase before going to a toilet at a petrol station on Avenida do Hipódromo. When he returned to pick up the phone, it had

November 21, 2023 | BY William Chan

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5 mainlanders cheat casino out of HK$1.2 million in fake chips scam: police

A casino in Cotai was cheated on Saturday by five mainlanders – a female and four males –who gambled with 24 fake gaming chips worth HK$50,000 each, incurring a total loss of HK$1.2 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said yesterday.Lei said during a special press conference that upon receiving a report from the casino at about 11 p.m. on Saturday that its security guards had caught several gamblers using fake chips earlier that day, PJ officers arrested the female suspect

November 21, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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GDP rises 116 pct in Q3

Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 116.1 percent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter of this year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. A DSEC statement on Friday attributed the strong growth “to the thriving exports of services, of which the growth in exports of gaming services and other tourism services accelerated to 781.4 percent and 255.4 percent respectively.” In addition, the statement noted, “domestic demand increased by 15.7

November 21, 2023 | BY admin

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Visitors rise 375 pct to 2.7 million in October

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose by 375.1 percent year-on-year to 2.75 million last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Same-day visitors (1.45 million) and overnight visitors (1.30 million) increased by 444.1 percent and 316.4 percent year-on-year respectively. Visitors’ average length of stay dropped by 0.6 day year-on-year to 1.2 days. On average, overnight visitors stayed for 2.4 days, down by 0.9 day year-on-year. Mainland Chinese

November 21, 2023 | BY admin

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Macau records 17 HIV infections in Jan-Sept

The Health Bureau (SSM) has announced that it recorded 17 HIV infections during the first nine months of this year.The 17 infections, all local residents, comprised 15 males and 2 females. According to an SSM statement on Sunday, 12 of the cases were infected through homosexual or bisexual contact, while four cases were infected through heterosexual contact. The remaining case was caused by blood transfusion, the statement said.According to the statement, the 17 cases comprised eight patients

November 21, 2023 | BY admin

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