MGP organising committee vows to ensure smooth traffic flow

In response to public concern about traffic jams during the upcoming six-day Macau Grand Prix (MGP), Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun said yesterday that the organising committee will ensure smooth traffic flows around the Guia Circuit, which will be closed to normal traffic during the daylight races. Pun insisted that “the reopening of the track to the public is getting faster and faster” thanks to the experience that the organising committee has accumulated over the

November 7, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau wins gold in qiangshu in Guangxi

Local student athlete Wong Weng Ian won the gold medal in the women’s qiangshu category at the nation’s 1st Student (Youth) Games in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday, Macau’s first gold medal in the campus group, according to a statement by the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) yesterday.Qiangshu (“red-tasselled spear skill”) is a wushu form where the participant uses a spear as the main element of the routine.According to the statement, the competition took

November 7, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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hush! music marathon draws sizeable crowd

Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) in conjunction with integrated resort operator MGM, the “hush! Beach Concerts x Urban Yo~gaWellfest 2023” event was held between October 27 and this past Sunday.The free-admission event offered both music performances and non-music activities that, among other things, promoted wellness. The event, which drew a sizeable crowd, featured over 50 groups from Macau and elsewhere in a music marathon of various genres for two consecutive

November 7, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Badmouthing China benefits no economies

Commentary by Otton Solis*        It is achievable: you can bring to a standstill a 400-meter-long fully loaded oil tanker cruising full throttle in the open sea. But for that, you first need to catch up with the ship with fast, small boats, climb up the vessel using sophisticated devices and innovative techniques, tie all its tools and resources with ropes and cables, and then transfer them to an even bigger ship or lots of smaller ships.It can be achieved, but at a very

November 7, 2023 | BY admin

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‘Debt trap’ claim nothing but a myth

China Daily Editorial        US President Joe Biden pledged to increase US investment in the Americas and the Caribbean at the first Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Leaders’ Summit in Washington on Friday. Yet in his opening remarks, he unnecessarily alluded to China which drove home the point that the event is another front to counter China’s influence in the Western hemisphere rather than to help regional countries meet their urgent infrastructure

November 7, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt fines eatery for serving 2 minors alcoholic drinks as new law starts

The Health Bureau (SSM) fined a restaurant for serving two minors alcoholic drinks yesterday as the new Law on the Prevention and Control on Minors’ Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages just took effect.The bureau organised a media briefing yesterday morning when it arranged for reporters to cover its inspectors’ work on checking whether a supermarket and two restaurants in Nape were complying with the new law. Briefing reporters after the inspections, Lam Chong, who heads the bureau’s

November 6, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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4,000 runners join 2nd MGP circuit fun run

Around 4,000 runners participated in yesterday’s 6.2 km “Bank of China Proudly Sponsors: 70th Macau Grand Prix Celebration – Guia Circuit Fun Run”, with Wang Kun winning the men’s category, while Chio Tong Tong was crowned champion in the women’s category, according to a Sports Bureau (ID) statement.The event marked the second Guia Circuit Fun Run after it was first held in 2018.The statement noted that Wang completed the race with a time of 19:42, beating runners Biru Rai and

November 6, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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54th Caritas Macau Charity Bazaar draws big crowd

The two-day Caritas Macau Charity Bazaar at the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre, which ended at 10 p.m. yesterday, drew a large crowd.The bazaar featured a variety of music and dance stage performances, as well as 73 game booths and 14 food booths run by more than 90 participating organisations and associations, including government entities, schools, enterprises and student associations, with the aim of raising funds for developing new social services and optimising existing social work projects,

November 6, 2023 | BY Gabriel Tam

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Local student cheated out of 170,000 patacas in phone scam: police

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference on Saturday that a local female university student fell victim to a phone scam, in which a scammer purporting to be “an officer of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB)” transferred 170,000 patacas from the victim’s bank account after claiming that “she had been engaged in a serious criminal case in the mainland”.According to Lei, the victim in her twenties reported to the police that she had

November 6, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Fong Chong (Taipa) Nursery to close year end, kids to be transferred: IAS

The Fong Chong (Taipa) Nursery will cease operations at the end of the year following the death of a local baby girl there, who was found unresponsive and later died on October 19, while its remaining 70 kids  will be transferred to other nurseries in the city, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Deputy Director Daniel Tang Iok Wa told reporters on Saturday.“Fong Chong” means “residents”. The nursery is owned by the General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau (UGAMM), colloquially

November 6, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Chestnut Festival at Broadway aims to promote Macanese culture

Celebrating the annual Feast of Saint Martinho (colloquially also known as “Festival das Castanhas” in Portuguese) on November 11, this year’s event will take place at Galaxy’s Broadway Macau in Cotai this coming weekend, featuring Portuguese folk dance, Macanese delicacies including “serradura” (Macanese “sawdust pudding” listed as one of Macau’s intangible cultural heritage items) and a ceramic tile painting workshop, among other attractions.The Feast of Saint Martinho, a

November 6, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local swimmer wins Macau’s 1st gold at 1st Student (Youth) Games

The nation’s inaugural Student (Youth) Games formally kicked off in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday, and local athlete Lancy Chen Pui Lam has won Macau’s first gold medal at the ongoing event, in the women’s 50m breaststroke, clocking up 31.62 seconds, according to a statement by the Sports Bureau (ID) on Saturday.While the Games held their official opening ceremony last night, the competition began on Saturday. Chen, a Form 4 student at Sacred Heart Canossian College

November 6, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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4.3-magnitude earthquake hits Jiangmen & Enping, felt in Macau

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck Enping and Jiangmen in Guangdong province on Saturday at 7:24 p.m. at a depth of 8 km, and it was felt in Macau, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Maoming, Yangjiang, Zhanjiang Zhongshan and Zhuhai, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). No casualties or property damage have been reported.Enping is about 127 kilometres west of Macau, Jiangmen is about 63.5 kilometres northwest of Macau. The epicentre was located about 136

November 6, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau logs this year’s 7th imported dengue case: local back from KL

Macau has recorded this year’s seventh imported case of dengue fever, the Health Bureau (SSM) has announced.According to an SSM statement on Friday, the patient is a 32-year-old local woman who lives in a flat in Nam Ngon Garden in Nape. She works at a Cotai casino.The woman visited Kuala Lumpur with her friends between October 16 and 21. After returning to Macau, the statement said, the woman came down with a fever, chills and headache on October 27, before developing bleeding gums and

November 6, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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