W Macau opens at Studio City

The W Macau hotel opened at the Studio City gaming resort on Friday, Melco Resorts & Entertainment has announced.The opening ceremony was held at Studio City on Friday, marking the debut of the W Hotels brand in Macau.According to the statement, the W Hotel consists of 430 guestrooms and 127 suites, four restaurants and bars as well as indoor pool areas, along with 1,100 square metres of MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) space, and also featuring a professional

September 11, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Pharma bureau responds to unregistered Cheong Kun Pain Reliever Oil sold in HK

Macau’s Pharmaceutical Supervision and Administration Bureau (ISAF) said in a statement yesterday that it has been informed by the Hong Kong Department of Health that the latter has found an unregistered patented Chinese medicine (TCM) called “Cheong Kun Pain Reliever Oil” in the Hong Kong market.ISAF said it has confirmed that “Cheong Kun Pain Reliever Oil” is manufactured in Macau, and its registration number is MAC-C00001, adding that no abnormal conditions have been found in the

September 11, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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MGTO hosts ‘Learn to be an ambassador’ session

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that it hosted its “Macao Courtesy Campaign: Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year – Learn to be an Ambassador” Sharing Session on Friday, which was attended by over 70 participants.According to the statement, the session aims to spread the Macao Courtesy Campaign’s key message to schools to inspire youngsters and students to “treat others with respect and courtesy” from an early age and build up Macau’s

September 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Drunken’ passenger attacks bus driver with umbrella: DSAT

A passenger who claimed to have been drunk attacked a bus driver by hitting him in the stomach, shoulders and feet with an umbrella at about 11 p.m. on Friday after the driver urged him to get off the bus at the terminus near the Zhuhai-Macau Cross-border Industrial Zone in Ilha Verde, according to a statement by the Transport Bureau (DSAT) on Saturday.In response to the passenger’s violence, the bureau said in the statement that it would fully cooperate with the police investigation.The

September 11, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Tourist coach crashes into motorbike due to ‘bus obstructing traffic lights’: police

A tourist coach crashed into a motorcycle at traffic lights at the junction of Rua do Almirante Sérgio and Travessa do Dr Lourenço Pereira Marques in the Inner Harbour area at about 9 a.m. on Saturday, causing two injuries, according to a Public Security Police (PSP) statement.The statement said that the tourist coach driver, suspected of not having seen the traffic lights as they were obscured by a large public bus, ran a red light and crashed into the motorbike coming from the left after he

September 11, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Motorbike rider dies after being hit by tractor truck on Friendship Bridge

A motorcycle rider died on Saturday after being hit by a tractor truck on the Macau-Taipa Friendship Bridge earlier that day, the authorities have announced.According to statements from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) and the Public Security Police (PSP) on Saturday, the accident occurred at around 5:20 p.m. on Saturday when both vehicles were travelling from Taipa to the peninsula.The PSP statement identified the victim as a 62-year-old local man surnamed Leong.The PSP statement said that when

September 11, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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MUST, CTM launch ‘5G Smart Campus’

The private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) and telecom operator CTM jointly established Macau’s first Smart Campus Private Network, for which an on-campus launch ceremony was held on Friday, CTM said in a statement.The statement noted that their cooperation aims to meet the need for the development of a smart campus in the city.CTM’s Commercial Vice-President Ebel Cham Pou I was quoted in the statement as saying: “We joined hands with MUST to establish the first 5G

September 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Car owner catches thief red-handed: police

A jobless local man has been arrested after being caught red-handed stealing valuables worth 32,000 patacas from a car parked in Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga by the vehicle’s owner, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.According to the spokesperson, while the 58-year-old suspect surnamed Wong was stealing a black crossbody bag from the car that was left unlocked last Tuesday, the male owner was returning to the car, on discovering that his

September 11, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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31st Int’l fireworks contest finally set to start today

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement on Friday that the 31st Macao International Fireworks Display Contest, which was originally scheduled to start on Saturday evening but was postponed due to the inclement weather conditions, is finally slated to commence tonight.The contest is now set for the nights of September 11,16, 23, as well as October 1 and 7.The statement noted that tonight’s show, weather permitting, will feature Australian company Cardile International

September 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Journey to the West, and Back

Op-ed by Jason Chan*        The title of my first newspaper op-ed submission pays homage to my roots: Journey to the West, one of the Four Greatest Classical Novels of Chinese literature, written and published by Wu Cheng’en in the 16th century – Arthur Waley’s abridged version is known in English-speaking countries as Monkey.  The novel is an extended fictionalized account of the trials and tribulations encountered by the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuan Zang

September 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Echo Programme – Music Creation Camp: My 4 days and 3 nights experience

Impressions by Ginnie Liang        The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) organised a four-day music creation camp at the Seac Pai Van Vocational Training Centre in Coloane from August 31 to September 3 and invited renowned Hong Kong lyricist Chow Yiu-fai and veteran music producer Eward Chan Ho Yin as mentors, with singer-songwriter Yoyo Sham as a guest speaker.Known for their popular works in the Hong Kong music industry, as well as their teaching positions at Hong Kong Baptist

September 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Unity, cooperation path forward for G20

China Daily Editorial        This may not be the most promising time for the Group of 20 as geopolitical tensions threaten internal divide. The first-stage meeting of the 18th G20 Summit in New Delhi, however, offered at least two consolations.First, by including the 55-member African Union as the 21st member, the G20 has significantly boosted its representativeness, which correspondingly will increase its impact.And second, by eventually managing to issue a joint communique

September 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Inciting conflict by sailing warships raises possibility of head-on clashes

China Daily Editorial        In an attempt to raise tensions and flex their military muscles at China’s doorstep, the US and Canadian navies sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.The fact that this is their second provocative “joint mission” since June shows Washington is hell-bent on playing the Taiwan card and mounting strategic pressure on Beijing. But Washington should be cautioned that there is a limit to Beijing’s patience.The US Navy’s

September 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Food delivery riders’ mental health needs more attention: survey

Nearly 40 pct of riders are degree holders The Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen in Cantonese), local think tank Choi In Tong Sam and the Macao Observatory for Social Development of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) have jointly carried out the city’s first-ever survey of Macau’s growing food delivery industry and the working conditions of its motorbike riders, with nearly 37 percent of the respondents saying that they often feel physically or emotionally

September 8, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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