Lisboeta Macau, L’Arc Macau volunteer teams visit Lar de Idosos da Obra das Mães

Lisboeta Macau and L’Arc Macau said in a recent joint statement that their volunteer team visited “Lar de Idosos da Obra das Mães” (“Nursing Home of the Mothers’ Work”) on May 28 in celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival.The statement said that the team organised activities such as health care knowledge discussions, warm-up exercises and games for seniors to enjoy and get closer to each other, while gifts were also presented. In addition to bringing warmth and care to seniors, the

June 6, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Rise of ‘painless’ tourism set to transform China’s travel landscape

Analysis        NANNING – For Chen Zhixin and his family, this year’s mountaineering trip at the Panwang Realm scenic spot in the Dayao Mountains, a tourist attraction reaching about 1,000 meters above sea level in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, felt like a leisurely stroll compared to what they had experienced in the past.“No trekking up the steep and winding path toward the peak,” said Chen. “And this did not prevent us from enjoying the awe-inspiring

June 6, 2025 | BY admin

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China is driving force in global logistics innovation: expert

Interview        MUNICH – The Chinese logistics sector is highly innovative and tech-oriented, contributing significantly to global logistics innovation, said an industry expert in an exclusive interview with Xinhua this week.Dr. Robert Schönberger, the global industry lead at the international trade fair company Messe München GmbH, said during the ongoing Transport Logistic 2025 exhibition in Munich that Chinese companies are quick to implement and transform technology,

June 6, 2025 | BY admin

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Central District meeting discusses residents’ mental health, smoking issues

The government-appointed Central District Community Service Consultative Council held its monthly regular meeting yesterday, where various concerns were raised, including issues such as residents’ mental health and smoking problems.The first part of the meeting was open to the media, during which committee members raised various issues in their speeches. The meeting then proceeded behind closed doors. It included Lam Chong, who heads the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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Govt proposes fine for those moving away others’ legally parked motorbikes

The revised version of the government’s new Road Traffic Law bill, which is being reviewed by the legislature’s 1st Standing Committee, proposes that those who move a motorcycle that is legally parked by others in the street will face a fine of 1,500 patacas, lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I, who chairs the committee, said yesterday.Lei briefed reporters after the committee held a closed-door meeting yesterday to review the bill, which was attended by government officials.Lei quoted

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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Macau logs over 390,000 visitors during Dragon Boat Festival holiday

Macau recorded a total of 390,422 visitor arrivals during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday period, which started on Saturday and ended on Monday, amounting to a daily average of 130,141, according to immigration statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Tuesday.The Dragon Boat Festival takes place on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This year, the Dragon Boat Festival fell on May 31.According to PSP data released previously, the daily number of visitor arrivals

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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Childcare allowance to cover kids born in or before 2027

The government has announced that its new childcare allowance to be launched next month on a provisional basis will cover permanent local residents under the age of three born in or before 2027 while underlining that it will study whether the allowance should continue after its three-year implementation.Each beneficiary will receive an annual allowance of 18,000 patacas for up to three years. The programme’s application period will start on July 16.After Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai announced

June 5, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau greyhounds from race track to heaven (Part 3)

On July 20, 2018, the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome greyhound race track closed down for good after 63 years of operation, leaving 533 greyhounds to be adopted into loving homes around the world, locally and in Hong Kong.Sadly, in the years since many have died of old age, cancers or did not make it after operations to be desexed or teeth extractions because of the awful state their teeth were in. One Fancy Fay even died at the airport on arrival in the US.Over the years this reporter has been in

June 5, 2025 | BY Lesley Wells

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Police nab mainlander for ‘currency exchange’ fraud

A man from the mainland was arrested on Sunday for defrauding two local women of a total of 1,600 patacas, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a male surnamed Li in his seventies who told the police that he’s jobless.According to Lei, the police received two reports on Saturday and Sunday respectively from two local women who said that they were approached by Li in the Barrier Gate Plaza,

June 5, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Gongbei Customs nab female trying to smuggle 490,000 yuan in cash to mainland

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs has announced that its officers have caught a female attempting to smuggle 490,000 yuan (540,000 patacas) in undeclared cash from Macau to the mainland at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge border checkpoint, exceeding the official maximum amount of cash that a traveller is permitted to carry when entering the mainland.Gongbei Customs announced the case, which was detected last Wednesday, in a statement yesterday, adding that the female did not submit a customs

June 5, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Police nab duo for stealing chips worth HK$45,000 from gambler 

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two men from the mainland on Tuesday for stealing chips worth HK$45,000 from a gambler from the mainland, PJ spokesman Cheong Kam Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspects as a 45-year-old man surnamed Cheng and a 43-year-old man surnamed Zhang who told the police that they are jobless.According to Cheong, on Monday evening, PJ officers patrolling a casino in Cotai noted that Cheng was acting suspiciously. At the

June 5, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Tourism consumption attests to vitality of China’s economy

Commentary        BEIJING –The three-day Dragon Boat Festival break has offered the latest glimpse into the vitality and potential of China’s tourism sector, which is emerging as a strategic pillar industry for the world’s second-largest economy.During the holiday from May 31 to June 2, tourism expenditures reached 42.73 billion yuan, up 5.9 percent compared with the same holiday last year, official data showed.As part of its high-quality development strategy, China is

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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Tariff policy fails to produce ‘endless wins’, only perpetuates self-inflicted harm

China Daily Editorial        The recent announcement that the United States is doubling the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has been met with widespread concern and objections from many of its key trading partners around the world.The move, purportedly aimed at safeguarding the US steel industry, was announced on Friday while US President Donald Trump was visiting the US Steel Corporation – Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The higher tariff, effective on

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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California businesses committed to China as trade partner despite tariffs

Analysis by Julia Pierrepont III and Gao Shan        LOS ANGELES – “Trade relations between California and China are really important for us,” noted Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, during the 2025 China-California Business Forum on Monday.The forum drew nearly 500 entrepreneurs and officials from China and the US state of California to promote deeper economic, trade and cultural exchanges.“China is a big trading partner,” said Wunderman,

June 5, 2025 | BY admin

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