Govt to send legislative election amendment bill to lawmakers

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s top advisory Executive Council, has announced that the government has finished drafting a bill amending the Legislative Assembly (AL) Election Law, which proposes that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) will be tasked with assessing whether legislative election candidates uphold the MSAR Basic Law and bear allegiance

November 13, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Britain's teen driver Arvid Lindblad wins F4 race at 70th Macau Grand Prix

British racer Arvid Lindblad from the SJM Theodore PREMA Racing team won the 12-lap Formula 4* race of the 70th Macau Grand Prix (MGP) yesterday, the second day of the two-weekend racing event.The 16-year-old Red Bull Junior Team Athlete, who started on pole position, had to defend his place from teammate Freddie Slater during the opening lap, going into the Lisboa Bend and locking his brakes in the process. At that same bend, Japanese racer Miki Koyama from the Super License team hit a wall,

November 13, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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CTT organises Shenzhen-Dongguan trip for cybersecurity pros

The Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) organised the “2023 Macao Cybersecurity Professionals Shenzhen Inspection and Exchange Delegation” on Friday, which sent a delegation of 30 cybersecurity professionals to related institutions in Shenzhen and Dongguan for an inspection and exchange visit, according to a CTT statement on Saturday.The statement noted that the activity, which was organised in conjunction with the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) and the Macau

November 13, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Govt to provide BioNTech XBB jabs from Wednesday

The Health Bureau (SSM) has announced that it will provide BioNTech mRNA jabs targeting the Omicron XBB subvariants from Wednesday.The bureau now recommends everyone reaching the minimum age for receiving BioNTech jabs, i.e., six months, to receive a dose of the new vaccine against XBB regardless of whether they have previously been inoculated against COVID-19.An SSM statement on Saturday pointed out that the Omicron XBB subvariants are the ones currently prevalent worldwide, adding that

November 13, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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IAM warns against eating HK-imported ‘dried lily bulb’

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Friday that it was recently notified by Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety that a prepackaged “dried lily bulb” product was found to be affected by excessive cadmium contamination, urging the public to stop consuming it.According to the statement, the problematic product, “Lily Bulb”, under the “HK JEBN Limited” brand, has a net weight of 303 grammes and the best-before-date of September 15, 2024.The statement pointed out

November 13, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Property & commercial registration to be done also via Macao One Account: Cheong

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s Executive Council (ExCo), said on Friday that the government has finished drafting a bill that would allow residents to process their property and commercial registrations through their “Macao One Account” mobile app.“The three existing laws – the Property Registration Law, the Commercial Registration Law and the Notarial Registration Law – have been in force for more

November 13, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Govt proposes easing home-purchase stamp duty

The government has announced that it has finished drafting a bill that proposes the easing of its cooling measures for the home market, informally known as “spicy” measures.Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s top advisory Executive Council, made the announcement during a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday. The bill will be submitted to the Legislative Assembly in due course for debate, review

November 13, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Indonesian room attendant touches female’s buttocks on bus: police

A male room attendant from Indonesia was arrested last Monday for touching a female passenger’s buttocks with his private parts on a bus earlier that day, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hon said during a regular press conference on Friday.According to Lai, the Public Security Police received a report from the victim, who is in her twenties, last Monday, pointing out that while she got onto a Taipa-bound bus in Rua do Guimarães at 1 p.m. that day, a man “intentionally”

November 13, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau’s Charles Leong ends first runner-up in F4 at 70th Macau Grand Prix

Macau driver Leong Hon Chio finished first runner-up in the Formula 4 race of the 70th Macau Grand Prix yesterday, after ranking fourth in the morning’s F4 qualification race.British driver Arvid Lindblad from the Red Bull Junior Academy won the race while Rashid Al Dhaheri from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) came in third.Leong, 22, won the Macau Grand Prix’s 2020 and 2021 F4 races during the COVID-19 pandemic.Leong told reporters after the post-race press conference at the Macau Grand

November 13, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HK’s O’Young wins Greater Bay Area GT Cup

On the second racing day of the 70th Macau Grand Prix (MGP) yesterday Hong Kong racer Darryl O’Young won the Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT3), 0.92 seconds ahead of the mainland’s Ling Kang.Chang Chien-Shang from Taipei finished in third place. A total of 13 drivers ended the eight-lap race, with O’Young, who started in pole position, having kept the lead the whole way.O’Young, 43, told the media at a post-race press conference that “it is not easy for [drivers] to win the race [Greater

November 13, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGP booth retailers say sales ‘beyond expectations’

The six-day 70th Macau Grand Prix (MGP) kicked off on Saturday, and several booth owners selling MGP merchandise told The Macau Post Daily yesterday that their sales over the weekend were “beyond expectations”.The male owner of the Triangle Sport Macau booth, who set up a MGP booth for the first time, said that thanks to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic the 70th Macau Grand Prix has attracted more visitors, adding he believed that the event’s last two racing days (next Saturday and

November 13, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Parallel auto, yacht & plane fairs end with deals worth 300 million patacas: Nam Kwong

Three concurrent expositions incorporated into the “2023 China Macau Distinguished Gathering” (濠江盛匯) campaign concluded yesterday evening, having drawn a total of 140 exhibitors from the yacht, automobile and business aviation industries to showcase their latest products and services over the past four days, according to a statement by Nam Kwong Logistics Company Limited (Nam Kwong), one of the organisers.The three expositions were the 13th China Macau International Yacht Import

November 13, 2023 | BY Gabriel Tam

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2nd day of 70th Macau Grand Prix generates lots of excitement

            2nd day of 70th Macau Grand Prix generates lots of excitement Photos taken yesterday by Rui Pastorin

November 13, 2023 | BY admin

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China-US cooperation essential for respective development, common prosperity

Commentary        BEIJING – “Peace and progress between China and the US is in the self-interest of each country and of the world,” former US Secretary of State Dr. Henry A. Kissinger has said.In stark contrast to the previous rhetoric of so-called “decoupling” or “de-risking” from China peddled by some US politicians, recent new trends continue the positive interaction between China and the United States that has been going on for some time.Starting with US

November 13, 2023 | BY admin

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