Youth Career Expo to offer over 1,700 jobs in nearly 14 sectors next week: DSAL

This year’s Youth Career Expo themed “Youth Employment Starts Now” will take place next Wednesday and Thursday at the Galaxy International Convention Centre (GICC), offering more than 1,700 jobs in nearly 14 sectors, the Labour Affairs Bureau’s (DSAL) Employment Department Chief Lei Lai Keng said yesterday, adding that 18 seminars will be held during the expo.The Labour Affairs Bureau, Association of Chinese Students of Macau (AECM) and Macau New Chinese Youth Association (MNCYA)

September 21, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Northern district’s zebra crossings need to be improved: survey

Nearly 40 percent of the respondents surveyed believe that the zebra crossings in the northern district need to be upgraded to X crossings (aka pedestrian scramble or diagonal crossing), and 65 percent of the respondents agreed that the diagonal X crossing would make it easier for pedestrians to cross the road more quickly, according to findings of a survey conducted by the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong in Cantonese) in June.Government-appointed

September 21, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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15th IFTM-UNWTO programme holds closing ceremony

The closing ceremony for the 15th IFTM-UNWTO Training Programme was held yesterday at the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies’ (IFTM) in Pousada de Mong Ha, where certificates were awarded to participants.The event was attended by a delegation led by United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Secretary General Zurab Pololikashvili.This year’s programme, themed “Leveraging the Meetings Industry and Gastronomy to Champion the Agenda of Sustainable Tourism Development”, was tailored

September 21, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘3X3 Greater Bay Area Basketball Tournament’ slated for October

The finals of the annual “3X3 Greater Bay Area Basketball Tournament”, co-organised by the Sports Bureau (ID) and StarMac Entertainment & Production Limited, will take place in Macau from October 25-29, ID President Pun Weng Kun announced during a press conference at his bureau in Zape yesterday.The event, sponsored by Wynn Resorts (Macau), aims at further strengthening sporting exchanges between cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) and thus promoting the

September 21, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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CTT to offer postmark cancellation service for National Day

A Temporary Post Counter will be set up at the General Post Office’s (GPO) Philatelic Shop in Largo do Senado on October 1, National Day, to provide the commemorative postmark cancellation service for the “Celebration of the 74thAnniversary of the Establishment of the People’s Republic of China”, according to a Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) statement yesterday.The counter will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A commemorative envelope priced at 4 patacas will also be

September 21, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MPU’s Centre for Continuing Education to launch new courses

The Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement yesterday that its Centre for Continuing Education is slated to launch nine different programmes with over 20 professional certification courses in the fourth quarter of this year in response to the “strong demand for practice-orientated training”.The courses, according to MPU’s website, are taught in Cantonese.The statement noted that practice-orientated training covers financial management, conventions and exhibitions,

September 21, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Typical tricks Western media employ to discredit China’s economy

Analysis        BEIJING – A slew of sensational yet biased Western media reports about China’s economy have raised eyebrows recently, drawing attention to some of the old tricks employed by those media outlets to disgrace the Chinese economy.Double standards, selective blindness, false narratives, manipulation of statistics, to name just a few, are among the handy tricks some Western media employ in depicting China’s economic landscape, as they scheme to tarnish the

September 21, 2023 | BY admin

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EU anti-subsidy probe hurts an open market

China Daily Editorial        The anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles that the European Union announced last week is supposedly to protect Europe’s own industry through fair competition. It is speculated that the probe, likely to last nine months, could ultimately lead to tariffs of about 10-15 percent being levied on imported Chinese EVs if it determines that China has kept prices of its cars artificially low by providing huge subsidies to the

September 21, 2023 | BY admin

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28 govt entities accept appointments via ‘Macao One Account’, incl 7 in Hengqin

The government’s “Macao One Account” app has been upgraded, with its “Appointment for Counter Service” function having been increased from just nine public entities in the past to the 28 now, covering more than 600 services, amongst which seven are services provided by the Government Affairs Service Centre of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, “facilitating the life of Macau residents who study, work, engage in business and live in the cooperation zone”,

September 20, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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HK man caught for phishing messages

A Hong Kong man has been arrested for spreading phishing messages in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said in a special press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Cheang told the police he works as a driver.According to Lei, the police received a report from a local telecom company earlier this month saying that a number of residents had lodged complaints about receiving phishing messages impersonating the telecom company. A PJ investigator said during the conference

September 20, 2023 | BY William Chan

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CCAC invites HK counterpart to conduct 4-day training

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement yesterday that it has invited Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) to send its staff to Macau to launch a “continuous training programme on anti-corruption work for the CCAC’s investigators”.The four-day programme, which aims to further enhance the law enforcement capacity and skills of investigators, started yesterday and covers a raft of investigative approaches and techniques in the fight against

September 20, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Privacy office records 2 healthcare entities breaching Personal Data Protection Law

The Office for Personal Data Protection (GPDP) announced yesterday two referrals from the Health Bureau (SSM) about breaching the city’s Personal Data Protection Law, in which a healthcare entity has been fined 6,000 patacas for not properly protecting the images from its CCTV system and sending, inappropriately, video footage captured to third parties other than the person concerned, while the other has been transferred to the Judiciary Police (PJ) for electronically sending clinical file

September 20, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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IFTM celebrates 28th anniversary

The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) celebrated its 28th anniversary on Friday, during which a ceremony was hosted on its Mong-Ha campus, the tertiary education institution said in a statement on Monday.The statement noted that IFTM teaching staff, leaders and supervisors, students and alumni representatives were invited to join the event.The statement said that IFTM President Fanny Vong Chuk Kwan thanked all IFTM members for their dedication and efforts, which have laid a solid

September 20, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Int’l scientific symposium at UM discusses eco-impact of pollutants

The 17th International Symposium on Persistent Toxic Substances & Health (ISPTS), jointly organised by the University of Macau (UM), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as well as UMTec Limited, kicked off yesterday morning at the Multi-Function Hall on the first floor of the UM Guest House.The ISPTS, dating back to 2004 when it held the first seminar, is an international event for scientists to

September 20, 2023 | BY Gabriel Tam

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