Unleashing private sector’s dynamism for high-quality development

Analysis        BEIJING – Half a month before the annual sessions of China’s top legislature and political advisory body, a high-level symposium on private enterprises was convened, sending a signal of strong support for private businesses.The symposium, attended by President Xi Jinping, underscored the Chinese authorities’ latest endeavor to bolster confidence and boost the development of the private sector, which is key to the country’s high-quality

February 26, 2025 | BY admin

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Sam urges revamp of civil service team, ‘Macau + Hengqin’ promotion

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai yesterday convened the first meetings of the two leadership groups he set up earlier this month, namely the Leadership Group for Public Administration Reform and the Leadership Group for Promoting the Development of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, underlining that the establishment of the two leadership groups aims to ensure the implementation of the spirit of the various important speeches made by President Xi Jinping during his inspection

February 25, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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IAM to remove 2 withered candlenut trees in Guia Hill Municipal Park

Two old candlenut trees affected by brown root rot in Guia Hill Municipal Park will be removed by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) early next month in order to ensure public safety, the bureau said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the two trees were found to be infected with the disease years ago, and the bureau afterwards  invited dendrologists from the Guangzhou Institute of Forestry and Landscape Architecture to conduct inspections of both trees and provide advice

February 25, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Gongbei Customs seizes contraband worth 1 billion yuan in Pilot FTZs

Gongbei Customs announced yesterday in a statement that it has cracked a series of cases involving smuggled alcoholic beverages in the mainland’s Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs)*, in which a total of eight criminal cases were filed, and a total of more than one million bottles of bonded wine and spirits were seized, with a total value of more than 1 billion yuan (1.1 billion patacas).According to the statement, Gongbei Customs busted a number of supply chain service companies that declared the

February 25, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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‘Short-circuit’ fire breaks out in Lago Building, landing 2 in hospital

A fire broke out at a flat in Block 5 of Lago (“Lake”) Building in Taipa yesterday morning, resulting in two residents having to be rushed to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre for emergency treatment, with 54 firefighters and 12 emergency vehicles deployed – and the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) stated that “no residents were in need of temporary rehousing”.The accident scene was a flat on the 7th floor of Block 5 of Lago Building – a subsidised home-ownership scheme

February 25, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Car loses control during film shoot, 12 hurt incl 4 kids

The driver of a car being filmed by a mainland crew lost control during a film shoot yesterday in the city centre, injuring 12 people including four children.The incident occurred around 2:30 p.m. Traffic police spokesman Ma Chio Hong told reporters at the scene that the crew was filming on a closed section of road when the vehicle, which had intended to turn from Rua do Seminário (三巴仔橫街) into Largo do Aquino (亞堅奴前地), crashed into a roadside metal barrier instead and

February 25, 2025 | BY William Chan

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USJ Int’l Cultural Carnival 2025: A Celebration of Diversity

The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) will host its International Cultural Carnival 2025 this Saturday, March 1, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at its Ilha Verde Campus.According to the statement, the one-day event will showcase over 30 cultural booths run by USJ staff, students, and alumni from over 50 nationalities, inviting members of the public to partake in a vibrant cultural experience. The statement noted that its main aim is to open the university to members of the public and enable them to

February 25, 2025 | BY Adrian Vallesteros

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Police bust 4 mainlanders for loansharking

The Judiciary Police have separately arrested three men and a woman from the mainland for engaging in loansharking activities, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.In the first case, there are three suspects. A 37-year-old woman surnamed Jiang, two 29-year-old men surnamed Zhang and Wan, told the police that they are jobless.According to Cheong, the police received a report about a loan-sharking activity from the security department of

February 25, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police bust illegal currency exchange dealer

A man from the mainland was arrested on Saturday for engaging in an illegal currency exchange deal, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.The 29-year-old suspect surnamed Gan told the police that he is jobless.According to Cheong, the police received a report about an illegal currency exchange activity from a casino in Cotai on Saturday. Gan approached a male gambler in a smoking lounge of the casino and offered a currency exchange

February 25, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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3,941 fined for illegal smoking in Macau last year

Anti-smoking inspectors fined 3,941 people for illegally puffing away in 2024, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.The number reported last year represented an increase of 27.1 percent from the 3,101 recorded in 2023.In Macau, smoking is banned in all indoor public venues and facilities, except smoking lounges in casinos and at the airport. In addition, smoking is also prohibited within a 10-metre-area of all public bus stops.Illegal smoking carries a fixed fine of 1,500

February 25, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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‘The Cherry Orchard’ to be staged at CCM, Isabel Huppert in lead role

French actress Isabelle Huppert is set to perform the lead role of Lyubov for the play “The Cherry Orchard” reimagined by Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues, which will be staged at the Macau Cultural Centre’s (CCM) Grand Auditorium on April 4 and 5, according to a recent statement by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC).Cherry Orchard was the last play that Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote and premiered in 1904, Wikipedia notes. The IC statement pointed out that the reimagining

February 25, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Medical graduates, private clinics face competition

Interview by Yuki Lei        During a plenary session of the Legislative Assembly (AL) on Friday, Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long said he expects medical graduates to face employment pressure in the next three years – in response to which a medical graduate admitted in an interview with the Post yesterday, “I feel that the reward for my hard efforts is not proportional”, while lawmaker-cum-physician Chan Iek Lap pointed out that the government’s free

February 25, 2025 | BY admin

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2025 Women’s Sports Carnival to be held next month

The Sports Bureau’s (ID) Sports Development Department Chief Chao Kuok Wai announced yesterday during a press conference at the bureau’s headquarters in Zape that the 2025 Macau Women’s Sports Carnival is slated to be held on March 22 in Largo do Senado (議事亭前地) and on March 23 at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion, aiming to encourage women to participate in physical exercise in various ways.The two-day event, which is jointly hosted by the bureau and the Macau Women’s General

February 25, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local comic association gathers GBA artists for exhibition

At the basement level of Livraria Portuguesa (“Portuguese Bookshop”), The Greater Bay Area Manga Artists’ Exhibition 2025 is being presented, with those interested able to view the works of six artists until Sunday.The exhibition kicked off on Saturday.The 2025 edition of the exhibition, organised by the Association of Promoting Macau Comics and Animation Cultural Exchange (APMCACE), once again gathers artists from Macau, Hong Kong and the mainland, presenting over 30 works.Concerning

February 25, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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