HK man caught red-handed receiving fraud money: police

A 24-year-old Hong Kong man was caught red-handed on Thursday while collecting 200,000 patacas from his male victim, who is in his seventies, of a “guess who I am” scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during a special press conference on Friday.According to Lou, the local victim received a call on his home land line from a man whose voice resembled his son’s at about 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, who claimed that “he had been arrested for attacking others and was being

September 18, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Construction worker falls to his death from ladder

A 53-year-old construction worker from the mainland who fell from a ladder yesterday near a bus stop in Coloane was confirmed dead after being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, according to a Public Security Police’s (PSP) statement.According to the police, the incident happened at around 10 a.m. yesterday. The non-resident worker (NRW) was not breathing and had no heartbeat when he was taken to hospital.The police believe that the victim fell from the ladder after receiving an

September 18, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Govt to improve pavement facilities in Nape park

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has announced that it expects to start a project today to improve pavement facilities surrounding Dr Carlos D’Assumpção Park in Nape, with the aim of resolving the current situation in which pedestrians have to make a “detour” to cross the road there.The project will also include the removal of the park’s fences that currently separate the park from the streets.According to an IAM statement on Thursday, the improvement work will make it easier for

September 18, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Registration for int’l marathon full: ID

Registration for all three categories for the 2023 Galaxy Entertainment Macao International Marathon are full, the Sports Bureau (ID) said in a statement yesterday.Registration for the marathon and half marathon opened on Saturday, while registrations for the mini marathon category started yesterday, the statement said, with the places for each being filled within the same day.The marathon event is slated to take place on December 3, starting and finishing at the Olympic Sports Centre’s

September 18, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Lawmaker slams Sports Bureau decision to axe swim classes at Lin Fong

Directly-elected lawmaker-cum-vice president of the Macau Synergy Association Ron Lam U Tou criticised the Sports Bureau (ID) yesterday for cancelling all swimming classes, both the bureau’s Sports for All classes and China-Macau Swimming Association’s training classes, at the Lin Fong Sports Centre “at the same time” without notifying the public in advance, impacting ​​a large number of participants in the Sports for All classes and training classes, as well as the training team

September 18, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 Thailand-made milk products found to contain banned preservative: IAM

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) recently received an announcement from the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety warning that two products – “Almond Milk Original” and “Walnut Milk Original” – manufactured by 137 Degrees in Thailand have been found to contain salicylic acid – a banned preservative in food, urging the public on Friday to cease drinking them while ordering local retailers to remove the products from their shelves and stop selling them.According to the statement, the

September 18, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau logs this year’s 4th imported dengue case

Macau has recorded this year’s fourth imported case of dengue, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced at the weekend.According to an SSM statement on Saturday, the patient is a 27-year-old local man who works as a hotel manager. He lives in Kou Weng Building on Rua das Estalagens.The man travelled to Yunnan province’s Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture on September 1 for a working visit and returned to Macau on Thursday night last week, the statement said.According to the statement, the

September 18, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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English Learning as a Nuisance

Commentary by Jason Chan*        There are many acronyms in my area of work, which is TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).  For example, ELT (English Language Teaching), EAP (English for Academic Purposes), ESL (English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign Language), to name a few.Personally, I am not a big fan of jargons and/or acronyms as they unnecessarily mystify the profession, creating a knowledge disparity between the so-called professionals

September 18, 2023 | BY admin

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G77+China summit concludes with emphasis on empowering Global South

Analysis        HAVANA – The two-day Summit of the Group of 77 (G77) and China concluded on Saturday with a call for more participation and say of the Global South in the global governance system.The event was attended by delegations from more than 100 countries, including over 30 heads of state and government.First established in 1964, G77 now has over 130 members, with its chairmanship rotating among member countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America based on regional

September 18, 2023 | BY admin

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Chinese wisdom aids sustainable development of new World Heritage Site

Interview        BEIJING – The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, southwest China, embodies the wisdom of China’s agrarian culture and is an example of positive interaction between people and nature, and of their sustainable development, a Chinese official has said.Li Qun, deputy minister of culture and tourism and head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, made the remarks in a recent interview with Xinhua. The site was

September 18, 2023 | BY admin

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CE vows to enrich Macau’s industrial structure to facilitate GBA development

Addressing the opening ceremony of the first-ever “Business Conference on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Development” yesterday, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said that “Macau is working hard to implement the decision to position the special administrative region, in terms of its development, as “One Centre, One Platform and One Base” and pragmatically promote its appropriate economic diversification under its ‘1+4’ development strategy, enriching Macau’s industrial

September 15, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Int’l business community optimistic about GBA development: survey

The findings of a survey, released yesterday by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) during a press conference about the two-day “Business Conference on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development”, show that the international business community was “optimistic” about the development of the Greater Bay Area (GBA), with 63.08 percent of respondents expressing “full confidence” in the future development of the GBA, and more than 90 percent

September 15, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Customs busts 4 shops selling clothing violating copyrights

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers on Tuesday busted four shops suspected of selling fake products infringing on the respective brands’ intellectual property rights (IP), involving 816 bogus items worth 510,000 patacas in total, according to the prices set by the retailers.Four suspects aged between 32 and 52, comprising one local female shop owner, one local worker and two non-resident workers from the mainland and the Philippines respectively, were arrested during Tuesday’s

September 15, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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3 local bands to perform at Lai Chi Vun Shipyards

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that three local bands are slated to perform evening gigs at Lai Chi Vun Shipyards - Plots X11-X15 in Coloane tomorrow between 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.The featured bands for the free-admission events are Catalyser, GIMME5 and Single Path, with the upcoming performances following in the footsteps of the “lively and poetic melodies” gig in August, according to the statement. Evening concerts at the shipyards are set to be held in the

September 15, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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