Creative Macau celebrates 20th anniversary

Creative Macau-Centre for Creative Industries celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday at its headquarters on the ground floor of the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape, with the event also seeing the opening of a collective exhibition by Creative Macau members titled “Four Seasons”, and the launch of the 20th Anniversary book “DOCUMENTA 2023”.Lúcia Lemos, Creative Macau’s coordinator, told The Macau Post Daily that Macau’s creative industry has “changed a lot” in 20

August 29, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Editorial: Japan’s radioactive water release throws caution to the wind

Japan has thrown caution to the wind with the controversial release of radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. In my view, it is better to err on the side of caution, particularly concerning anything involving nuclear power and the world’s food supply chains. What is at stake in Fukushima is also the potential threat to public health on a global level – which, I am convinced, calls for extra caution. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom,”

August 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Local guzheng player Peggy Chan reaching new heights in Beijing

When The Macau Post Daily last interviewed Peggy Chan Pui Ian (formerly Peggy Chan Pui Yan) back in October 2020 she was in her third year at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (中央音樂學院; CCOM).Now almost three years later Chan is doing her master’s degree in Guzheng and composing music for the instrument which has been published and has even been asked to compose pieces by another ensemble. She has also performed for President Xi Jinping and been a judge for a

August 29, 2023 | BY Lesley Wells

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Loanshark duo holds, abuses debtor for over 71 hours in hotel room: police

Two mainlanders – a 40-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman – were arrested at a hotel in Taipa on Saturday for false imprisonment, extortion, threatening someone with a prohibited weapon, causing bodily harm and loansharking, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam and Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Sam Chi Nap announced at a special joint press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.Ho said that the male and female suspects, both overstayers in Macau, are surnamed

August 29, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police announce 2 cases involving fraud & money laundering 

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced separately yesterday in a special press briefing a fraud case and a money laundering case, in which PJ officers have arrested a male non-resident worker (NRW) from the mainland and a 25-year-old Hong Kong woman when entering Macau via different checkpoints for, respectively, cheating mainlanders out of over 100,000 yuan (about 110,840 patacas) and assisting a fraud gang in depositing about 600,000 patacas into her bank account.Fraud

August 29, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainlander burgles 3 flats in Mercado de S. Lourenço area: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainland man at a hotel in the city centre on Sunday afternoon for burgling three flats in a residential building in the Mercado de S. Lourenço neighbourhood in the wee hours of that day and stealing valuables worth over HK$9,000 in total, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Upon being notified by the Public Security Police (PSP) about a burglary at a flat in the neighbourhood early Sunday morning, PJ officers were

August 29, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Nam Kwong logistics centre project in Hengqin gets off ground

Construction of a logistics centre in Hengqin developed by Nam Kwong (Group) Company Limited got off the ground yesterday when a groundbreaking ceremony was held there.The logistics centre is scheduled to start operating in 2026.Macau Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong, who heads the Executive Committee of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, and Zhuhai Mayor Huang Zhihao attended yesterday’s ceremony.The ceremony was also attended by Nam Kwong executives as

August 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Macau records this year’s 2nd imported dengue case: Thai visitor

Macau recorded this year’s second imported case of dengue fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.According to the statement, the patient is a 24-year-old female Thai visitor who travelled from Bangkok to Macau alone on Thursday last week.After arriving in Macau, the statement said, the woman is staying at her friend’s home in Va Iec Building on Avenida de Sidónio Pais. The building is located opposite the entrance to Flora Garden.The statement said

August 29, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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No more COVID-19 tests for those from Taiwan, abroad entering mainland via Macau

Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement last night that from tomorrow those entering the mainland from Macau after arriving here from Taiwan or foreign countries will no longer be required to display a COVID-19 test result.The new measure will take effect at 00:00 a.m. tomorrow.Last night’s statement by the centre noted that in compliance with the mainland’s new entry measure for all arrivals, which was announced yesterday and will take effect

August 29, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Tropical Cyclone ‘Saola’ approaching Macau on Thursday: SMG

Tropical Cyclone “Saola”, which was near the Philippines yesterday, is forecast to move towards the area south of Taiwan in the next few days, and is expected to enter within 800 km of Macau in the early morning of Thursday and 400 km from Macau in the early morning of Friday, according to a Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) statement yesterday.As Tropical Cyclone “Haikui”in the Northwest Pacific is currently moving towards the East China Sea, it might interact with

August 29, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Monthlong 35th Macao Int’l Music Festival to start on Sept 30

The 35th Macao International Music Festival (MIMF) is slated to take place from September 30 to October 30 under the theme “Melodic Reconnections”.A press conference was held at The Londoner Macao yesterday to present the event’s programme details, with this year’s monthlong festival featuring 16 programmes, which will also have performers from various countries, and 14 outreach activities.Japanese film score giant, composer, musical director, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi is set

August 29, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MGTO to host ‘iconic’ int’l firework display contest from Sept to Oct

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will host the 31st Macao International Fireworks Display Contest from September 9 to October 7, with pyrotechnic companies from 10 countries participating in the contest, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandas announced in a press conference yesterday at Macau Tower.MGTO held a press conference to unveil details of the contest and its outreach programmes, and a Chinese traditional blessing ceremony for the event was also held earlier that

August 29, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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China fosters regional economic ties through expos

Analysis        CHANGCHUN – James Woo, a businessman from the Republic of Korea (ROK), is gearing up to launch a ginseng venture in the city of Changchun of Jilin Province, a leading production area for the renowned medicinal herb in northeast China.During the 14th China-Northeast Asia Expo, which concluded on Sunday in Changchun, he achieved significant progress in terms of business cooperation with various Chinese merchants.“This [China-Northeast Asia Expo] is a

August 29, 2023 | BY admin

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MGTO mulls adjusting travel alert for 10 Japanese areas

In response to the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, which started on Thursday and is planned to last intermittently for 30 years, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) would consider adjusting its current travel alert urging the public to plan their trips carefully when travelling to 10 Japanese areas comprising Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama and,

August 28, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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