2nd Macau Int’l Comedy Festival kicks off in Hengqin

The 2nd Macau International Comedy Festival kicked off yesterday when its opening ceremony was held at the Hengqin Culture and Art Centre.The five-day festival is being held until Sunday with comedies, film screenings, forums, workshops and other related activities at cultural facilities in Macau including the public Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape and those run by three of Macau’s six gaming operators – MGM, Sands and Melco, as well as in Hengqin.The 2nd Macau International Comedy

April 10, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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USJ, SCUT ink cooperation deal

The private University of Saint Joseph’s (USJ) Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the public South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou signed a memorandum of cooperation at USJ’s Ilha Verde Campus on March 27.A delegation, led by Secretary of the Party Committee of SCUT Zhang Xichun, visited USJ’s Ilha Verde Campus on March 27, the Catholic university said in a statement earlier this week, during which exchanges on academic cooperation and the development of the Greater Bay

April 10, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Two paths, shared future: China-Africa dialogue on modernization

Commentary by Peter Kagwanja        Modernity must be homegrown. Models of modernization imported or imposed without regard for local realities could have calamitous results.In this context, the Hong Ting Forum, hosted by Xinhua News Agency Africa Regional Bureau on April 2, offered a timely platform to reflect deeply on two important concepts, important in charting a future of peaceful global development.The first concept is dialogue. In its broadest sense, dialogue would

April 10, 2025 | BY admin

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Drier lunar far side offers insight on Moon’s evolution: Chinese scientists

Analysis        BEIJING – The latest discovery from rock samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission reveals that the Moon’s mantle contains less water on the far side compared to the near side, suggesting that the “hidden hemisphere,” which always faces away from Earth, tends to be much drier.Published in the journal Nature yesterday, a new study by Chinese scientists found that the water content in each gram of the thick rocky layer beneath the Moon’s

April 10, 2025 | BY admin

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Editorial: Bazooka may be needed to avoid economic nuclear winter

US President Donald Trump is well known for his bombastic style but his unashamedly hegemonic tariff policy announcement last week surpasses all that he has done so far on the global stage. In Macau, Trump’s “Liberation Day” – what a misnomer! – statement on April 2 – hard on the heels of All Fool’s Day pranks – was initially met with sheer bewilderment but quickly turned into great concern that even our tiny territory, which as a special administrative region (SAR), free

April 9, 2025 | BY admin

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Fire alerts drop 15 pct in Q1

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced yesterday that the number of fire alerts in the first quarter of this year dropped by 15.35 percent to 215 from the same period of last year.The bureau held its quarterly press conference yesterday at its headquarters next to Sai Van Lake, near Macau Tower, where Wong Si Tim, acting chief of the bureau’s Education Campaigns and Public Relations Division, announced the bureau’s statistics on fire alerts, ambulance call-outs, and other rescue incidents

April 9, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Police bust illegal currency exchange dealer

A woman from the mainland was arrested on Monday for engaging in illegal currency exchange activities, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chong identified the suspect as a 37-year-old female surnamed Huang who told the police that she is jobless.According to Chong, the police received a report about an illegal currency exchange activity from a casino in Cotai on Monday. Security staff of the casino discovered that Huang was engaged

April 9, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police arrest mainlander for casino loansharking

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland on Monday for engaging in casino loansharking activities, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chong identified the suspect as a 36-year-old man surnamed Li who told the police that he is jobless.According to Chong, police officers on patrol received a report about an illegal loansharking activity from the security department of a casino in Cotai on Monday. A middle-aged female gambler from

April 9, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police nab mainlander for theft by finding

A man from the mainland was arrested on Friday for theft by finding after stealing a backpack that had been left in a taxi, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a man surnamed Zhang, who is in his thirties. He told the police that he is jobless and holds an Exit-Entry Permit for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macau.According to Cheong, the Public Security Police (PSP) received a report on

April 9, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Entries open for Macau Grand Prix illustration contest

Macau residents can submit entries for the “Champion Car of the First Asian Grand Prix Macau – Illustration Competition” themed around the Triumph TR2 driven by the champion of the Macau Grand Prix (MGP) in 1954, according to a statement from the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO).The theme will revolve around the Macau Grand Prix Museum exhibit and have it featured as the core subject.Organised by the museum and the Macau Creations Limited, the competition is split into the

April 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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China ready to fight till end if US is bent on tariff war: FM spokesperson

BEIJING – China is ready to fight till the end if the United States is bent on waging a tariff war or trade war, a foreign ministry spokesperson said in Beijing yesterday when commenting on the US threat of an additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese imports.In response to a relevant query at a daily press briefing, spokesperson Lin Jian said that the indiscriminate imposition of tariffs by the United States seriously violates the legitimate rights and interests of other countries, seriously

April 9, 2025 | BY admin

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CPC Publicity Department praises Macau’s patriotic education achievements

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Wallis O Lam has recently paid a four-day working visit to Beijing where Hu Heping, the executive deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, acknowledged the significant achievements Macau has made in its patriotic education, according to a statement by O’s office last night.O led a delegation comprising officials under her portfolio to the national capital between March 29 and April 1 where they

April 9, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Locals reveal why they choose to leave Macau or not at weekends: Vox pop

Leading up to the weekend, it is not uncommon to hear about plans to go for a quick trip outside of Macau. Whether it’s Zhuhai or elsewhere nearby, people have different reasons, and the Post was keen to understand what they might be through street interviews yesterday.‘A natural escape’Chan likes to go to the mainland twice a month for a haircut and to watch a movie at a cinema, likening those moments to an escape from her busy work life in Macau. “It’s a different experience”,

April 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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UTM, SJM host culinary masterclass featuring chef José Avillez

A culinary demonstration workshop was hosted on Thursday at the Macao University of Tourism’s (UTM) Mong Ha campus, with the event joined by over 30 Year 4 students from the public university’s Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts Management programme, featuring José Avillez, the first chef who garnered two MICHELIN Stars in Lisbon.The event, according to a UTM statement yesterday, was co-hosted by the tertiary education institution in conjunction with industry partner SJM Resorts,

April 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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