Lawmakers ask govt to clarify weapon-free areas

Lawmaker-cum-restaurateur Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing Committee, said that the committee asked the government yesterday to clearly define the areas where weapons cannot be carried.The weapons bill proposes to prohibit carrying weapons and related items in certain locations.Addressing a press briefing after yesterday’s closed-door meeting, Chan said that the committee members suggested that the government assess whether any risks exist in certain

August 9, 2023 | BY Lisa Li Chi Mang

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Public buses to accept ‘Simple Pay+’ from Friday

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) and the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) jointly announced yesterday that starting from Friday, the city’s two public bus operators will accept the payment of fares via the “Bus Payment QR Code” generated by any means of payment integrated into “Simple Pay+”, namely, Alipay Macau, BOC Mobile Banking Macau, Guangfa Mobile Payment Wallet, ICBC ePay, LusoPay, MPay, Tai FungPay, UePay Macau E-Wallet and BNU Pay, as well as the “UnionPay APP” mobile app,

August 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police launch 1st post-pandemic anti-drug campaign in northern district

With the aim of preventing youths from using drugs by enhancing their anti-drug awareness through peer pressure, the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday organised 20 local participants in their two ongoing training programmes, titled Youth Safety Community Leaders and Young Crime Fighters, as well as several visiting members of the Safety Pioneers of the Juvenile Police Academy in Weifang city in Shandong province, to conduct an anti-drug campaign in the Ilha Verde district, explaining to the

August 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local artists to perform at Macao Alternative Music Festival 2023

Interview by William Chan        Local composer Lam Lai Keng and local percussionist Yukie Lai U Kei have told The Macau Post Daily that they will perform “Between the Space” at the Macao Alternative Music Festival 2023 on Sunday at the 20Hz Art Lab in Fai Chi Kei district.The exclusive interview was held last week at the venue of the Macao Percussion Association (MPA) in the Avenida de Horta e Costa neighbourhood.The festival, co-organised by the Macao Contemporary

August 9, 2023 | BY admin

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‘Diva of Asia’ Kelly Chen to stage 2 concerts at Galaxy

Cantopop star Kelly Chen Wai-lam (陳慧琳), known as the “Diva of Asia”, will return to Macau to hold two concerts next month. The concert announcement was met with great enthusiasm, especially online, and fans have been giving her gifts ever since she arrived in Macau, Chen said during a press conference about the concerts at the Galaxy International Conference Centre (GICC) yesterday.The concerts, titled “KELLY CHEN Season Two Macau Live”, will be held at the Galaxy Arena, which

August 9, 2023 | BY Leong Ian Kio

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UM’s MT research presented at ACL 2023

The University of Macau’s (UM) Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory (NLP2CT) Prof. Wong Fai and his team presented several papers at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023) recently, according to a UM statement yesterday.According to ACL 2023 website, the meeting was held in Toronto on July 9-14.ACL is widely regarded as the top academic conference in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field, the

August 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Science & Technology Fund delegation visits MPU

The Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement on Friday that a delegation from the Science and Technology Development Fund’s (FDCT) Administrative Committee visited MPU’s campus in Zape on July 27.The delegation was led by the FDCT Administrative Committee’s Acting President Cheang Kun Wai.The statement noted that MPU Rector Im Sio Kei introduced the public university’s latest scientific research developments and its diversified education system for its undergraduate,

August 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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West’s stranglehold on tech has spillover effects

China Daily Editorial        Exports to China made up 6.2 percent of Germany’s total exports in the first half of this year, their lowest share since 2016. Some are attributing this to the weakening of the Chinese economy, saying that this has reduced its demand for exports from Germany.Others suggest otherwise. They believe that China is increasingly able to produce goods it previously bought from Germany, which is weighing on Germany’s exports. As trade expert Vincent

August 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Biden administration needs to put money where mouth is to get floor under relations

China Daily Editorial        In what is being widely perceived to be the first tangible signs that progress is being made in stabilizing relations, Beijing and Washington are reportedly working on opening new lines of communication to tackle contentious issues.According to a Financial Times report, two working groups are being formed to focus on Asia-Pacific issues and maritime issues, and a third group is apparently being considered that will focus on broader areas. That

August 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Police training programmes raise students’ awareness of social responsibility & patriotism: Sit

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng announced yesterday that a total of 200 participants graduated from their two training programmes, each of which lasted a year, with the aim of strengthening local students’ awareness of their social responsibility and the rule of law, while also cultivating their sense of belonging to the nation.Directly translated from their Chinese names, the two programmes are titled “youth safety community leaders” and “young crime fighters”

August 8, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainland quartet rob compatriot of HK$90,000: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two illegal currency exchange dealers from the mainland separately at two casinos in Cotai on Saturday for allegedly robbing HK$90,000 in cash, together with two other fellow gang male members still at large, from a fellow mainlander at a guestroom of a hotel in Cotai, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the two male suspects, aged 34 and 40, are surnamed Tu and Dai respectively, while the male victim,

August 8, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police nab drunken driver blocking traffic

A local man has been arrested for drunk driving and blocking traffic, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Lai is in his twenties. He told the police he’s jobless.According to Lam, while police officers were patrolling in Avenida do Doutor Rodrigo Rodrigues at around 7 a.m. on Friday, they discovered a private car was stuck half way across the avenue. Lam noted that the front driver’s side of the car was

August 8, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Man steals razors & blades worth 10,800 patacas: police

A local man in his sixties stole 10,800 patacas worth of razors and razor blades from a supermarket in the city centre between July 24-26, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said in a regular press conference at the Macau Public Security Forces Academy yesterday.The theft suspect, surnamed Cheang, is jobless. He stole around 10 packets of razor blades, valued at over 3,000 patacas in total, and more than 30 razors, valued at over 7,000 patacas in total.Supermarket staff noticed 42

August 8, 2023 | BY Leong Ian Kio

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Police nab local man for theft-by-finding

A local man has been apprehended for stealing a smartphone he had found in the street, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Tai, who is in his forties, told the police that he’s a construction worker.According to Lam, on May 11, a motorcyclist told the police that his phone, worth 10,000 patacas had fallen out of his pocket when he was riding along Avenida do Aeroporto earlier that day and he could not find it when he went

August 8, 2023 | BY William Chan

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