GBA comic artists showcase their works at FRC gallery

“Comics 2024 + ArmourMan 2024” GBA Manga Artist’ Exhibition is taking place at the Rui Cunha Foundation (FRC) gallery, showcasing the works of comic artists from the Greater Bay Area (GBA), while also promoting cultural artistic exchanges.Co-organised by the Association of Promoting Macao Comics and Animation Cultural Exchange (APMCACE) and curated by its President Howard Chan (陳兆銘), the exhibition is split into two parts. The first part of the exhibition, the collective “Comics

August 15, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Xi steers China into sweeping green transition

Analysis by Xinhua writer Zhu Shaobin        BEIJING – “Protect the ecological environment, and it will reward you.” This statement by President Xi Jinping is vividly exemplified by the people of Anji County in Zhejiang Province, where a shift in perception has successfully driven a green transition.Locals recall a time in the 1980s and 1990s when paper mills stained creeks reddish-brown, mining left the mountains barren, and wind-blown rubbish littered the

August 15, 2024 | BY admin

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Meeting holds potential to help navigate Sino-US relations onto smoother course

China Daily Editorial        Such is the state of relations between China and the United States that it may seem to some that there has been a complete communication breakdown between them. But that is far from the reality. There are many fruitful exchange mechanisms at various local levels that help anchor cooperation between the two sides. Even at the higher level, regular talks still take place.So, despite the increasing trade tensions between China and the US, a group of

August 15, 2024 | BY admin

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Melco launches 3rd Melco Star Youth Talent Competition

A launch ceremony for the 3rd Melco Star Youth Talent Competition was held yesterday at Studio City in Cotai, with preliminary rounds set to take place in October, while the final and prize-giving ceremony is slated for November.Details of the contest, which is co-organised by Melco Resorts & Entertainment and the National Conditions Education (Macau) Association, were announced at the ceremony.First held in 2019, the competition, which a Melco statement yesterday said is organised “to

August 14, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Foreign visitors leap 122 pct in Jan-July: MGTO

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that according to its provisional data, Macau recorded 1.34 million foreign visitors in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 122.0 percent, returning to 68.1 percent of the level recorded in the same period of pre-pandemic 2019.An MGTO statement last week said that according to its provisional data, Macau recorded 19.74 million visitor arrivals in the first seven months of this year, a

August 14, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Undeveloped plot in Seac Pai Van earmarked for hotels, residential, office buildings

A plot next to the sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing community in Coloane will be earmarked for a development project comprising residential buildings, retail outlets, office buildings and hotels, according to the proposed legal development conditions for the plot published by the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) yesterday.After the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau has drafted the legal development conditions for particular plots, for both public and private projects, they

August 14, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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4 feel unwell after dining in Cotai hotel eatery

Four mainlanders felt unwell yesterday after eating at a restaurant in a Cotai hotel on Monday, according to a Fire Services Bureau (CB) statement yesterday.According to the statement, the quartet are family members, aged between 18 and 53, comprising three women and one man.The bureau received a report at 4:40 p.m. yesterday afternoon that four people in Rua Cidade de Santarém in Zape felt unwell after eating, the statement said, and they told firefighters that they started to have

August 14, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HK man hangs himself in hotel room

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) on Monday night stating that earlier that day a Hong Kong man committed suicide by hanging himself in a hotel room in Cotai, the Judiciary Police said in a statement.The statement said that the deceased was a middle-aged Hong Kong man.According to the statement, the man had stayed in the hotel room since Sunday afternoon and never left it. When the hotel staff noticed that he hadn’t checked out, they entered the

August 14, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Non-resident worker loses 15,000 yuan in online loan scam

A mainland non-resident worker reported to the police on Monday that he was cheated out of 15,000 yuan in an online loan scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said at a press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the victim told the police that on Monday he received an SMS message offering a personal cash loan. He clicked onto a link embedded in the message, after which he filled in his personal information and bank account details in the website to borrow 30,000 yuan.Later, the

August 14, 2024 | BY William Chan

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List of paddlers in next month’s WTT available

The list of paddlers set to compete in the WTT [World Table Tennis] Champions Macao 2024 tournament, which this time is slated to take place at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai from September 9 to 15, is now available on the official event website.The week-long contest will see paddlers from different parts of the world vie for a slice of the US$800,000 prize money. The champion will receive a US$35,000 prize alongside 1,000 ranking points, according to the event website.Among the

August 14, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MGTO raises Israel travel alert

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) raised yesterday its travel alert for Israel to Level 3, indicating an “extremely high” level of threat to personal safety for local residents visiting the Middle Eastern nation.The update comes amid the increasing frequency of travel for Macau residents along with social and tourism activities’ return to normalcy after the three-year COVID-19 pandemic, according to an MGTO statement yesterday, which noted that it has adjusted its Level 2 travel

August 14, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Teachers reflect on students’ journey in Macao Young Musicians Competition

Interview by William Chan        The 42nd Macao Young Musicians Competition, being hosted by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), will run until tomorrow. The contest, dedicated to both Chinese and Western instruments, includes solo and ensemble sections for participants to compete in.Local musicians Alex Cheng Chun Chong and Yukie Lai U Kei spoke to the Post online about their students’ involvement in the competition.Lai said that she had 16 percussion students

August 14, 2024 | BY admin

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‘Oxfam TowerRun’ to seek donations for left-behind kids

The 11th Oxfam TowerRun will take place at Macau Tower on October 20, in the hope of raising donations of over 500,000 to 600,000 patacas to support and help left-behind children in the provinces of Guizhou, Gansu and Shaanxi lacking care and attention improve their life skills through the expected participation of 800 people from all over the world taking up the challenge of running up 1,298 steps from the ground floor of the tower to its adventure deck on the 61st floor, the event organiser

August 14, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt to delay transferring Inner Harbour’s cargo business to Ka Ho Port: lawmaker

The government will delay its plan to transfer the Inner Harbour’s cargo business to Ka Ho Port in Coloane, as the plan’s implementation would increase logistical costs and involve employment issues, Zheng Anting, who heads the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs, said on Monday.Zheng, an entrepreneur, made the remarks after a closed-door meeting of the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) Follow-up Committee for Public Adminstration Affairs  at

August 14, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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