2 men nabbed for currency exchange fraud

Two men from the mainland have separately been arrested for their involvement in two currency exchange-related fraud cases, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.In the first case, the 45-year-old suspect surnamed Wu told the police that he’s a businessman.According to Leng, on Thursday the victim wished to exchange Hong Kong dollars he had won in a casino into yuan and deposit the amount into his mainland bank account. The victim then

October 22, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Uni student touches bus passenger’s arm with his groin: police

A university student from the mainland has been arrested for repeatedly touching a female passenger’s arm with his groin, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a male surnamed Yeh in his twenties. According to Wong, Yeh and the female local victim, also a university student, got on the same bus on Wednesday near the Hengqin checkpoint, after which the victim sat near the bus door, while Yeh

October 22, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Wynton Marsalis’s big band receives mixed feedback

Review by William Chan        The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by renowned US trumpeter Wynton Marsalis held a series of performances in China earlier this month, with shows in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, as well as on Saturday in Macau where they performed at the Macau Cultural Centre’s (CCM) Grand Auditorium.Throughout their tour, the big band garnered mixed reviews on mainland social media. In Shenzhen, where they collaborated with a symphonic orchestra—a

October 22, 2024 | BY admin

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Registration open for ‘Starry Symphony at the Lawn’

The Macao Orchestra is slated to have its “Starry Symphony at the Lawn” concert on Saturday, November 16, for which ticket registration is open until 11:59 p.m. tomorrow, according to a Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) English-language statement yesterday.The upcoming concert slated to start at 7:45 p.m. on that day, will mark the orchestra’s first outdoor concert at the Macao Cultural Centre Plaza lawn, the statement noted.With a combination of pop classics and jazz, the free-admission

October 22, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Ascendance’ exhibition blends new tech, traditional culture

On the third floor of The Parisian Macao in Cotai, a shop venue houses works of local artist Kit Lei Ka Ieng for her latest exhibition, where visitors can find several moving images featuring traditional cultural elements created through new media technology.Entitled “Ascendance - Kit Lei Ka Ieng’s New Media Art World”, the near month-long exhibition kicked off on Friday and comprises 13 digital animations and interactive installations. It is the second part of Art For All Society’s

October 22, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Free trade or not? Washington calls the shots

Commentary        BEIJING – ASML, the Dutch semiconductor giant, is grappling with the harsh reality of manipulated “trade freedom” in an “America First” era.As revealed in its earnings report last week, the company’s third-quarter orders plummeted to roughly 2.6 billion euros (US$2.8 billion), less than half of the previous quarter’s 5.6 billion euros, triggering a nosedive in its stock price and stripping it of the title of Europe’s most valuable tech

October 22, 2024 | BY admin

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Editorial: Sam Hou Fai – our ‘down-to-earth’ CE-elect

I must admit that when I first heard a rumour in late August about Macau’s top judge, Sam Hou Fai, going to run for the special administrative region’s top executive post and the current chief executive, Ho Iat Seng, would not be seeking a second term, I was flabbergasted.  Well, a study released by the US-based science advancement online journal PlosOne in 2016* found that rumours that are ultimately proven true tend to be resolved faster than those that turn out to be false.In this

October 21, 2024 | BY admin

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5 artists show works at ‘The One Less Traveled By’ exhibition

A group of artists are presenting their works at the Humarish Club at Lisboeta Macau’s H853 Fun Factory in Cotai, with the works on display until November 17.The exhibition kicked off last week.Entitled “The One Less Traveled By: Group Exhibition of Asian Emerging Artists”, the free admission exhibition showcases the works of five artists: Wang Jinbo, Minami Kitabayashi, June Hee, Wu Shi, and Shek. Except for Minami who is from Japan, all the other artists are from the mainland, with each

October 21, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Kiang Wu’s assisted reproductive services benefit 300 couples, ‘on par with int’l standards’

The private Kiang Wu Hospital in 2018 launched its assisted reproductive services, having benefited about 300 couples, an overall success rate of 48 percent, “basically on par with international standards” – and the hospital’s deputy director Chan Tai Ip said on Saturday he hoped that the government would introduce specific policies in response to the city’s low fertility.The hospital held on Saturday the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Reproductive Endocrinology Symposium 2024”, with

October 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainland man robs female gambler’s chips worth HK$210,000

Thanks to the notification mechanism between the police and the hotel sector, the Judiciary Police (PJ) solved on Thursday a robbery within just an hour, in which the victim was bound up in a hotel guestroom for a short period of time and robbed of HK$210,000 in casino chips, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a special press conference on Friday.The incident happened at a casino hotel in Zape on Thursday night, according to Cheong, when the female victim from the mainland met a man, aged

October 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Housing Bureau HQ project set to be completed in 2025

The redevelopment of the Housing Bureau’s (HI) headquarters in Patane, which was demolished and rebuilt on the same site in 2019 due to its inadequate capacity, was expected to be completed next January, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) has noted, with a total cumulative sum for the whole project to be more than 470 million patacas.According to the DSOP website last week, the piling work for redevelopment of the building, which had been used for nearly 30 years, was completed in January 2022,

October 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Impurity detected in Apo-Amitriptyline tablets: pharma bureau

The Pharmaceutical Supervision and Administration Bureau (ISAF) has warned the public about 12 batches of Apo-Amitriptyline tablets manufactured by Canadian-based Apotex Inc., following the detection of an impurity known as N-Nitrosonortriptyline (NNORT) in the product.According to an ISAF statement on Thursday, the problematic products, a type of medicine used to treat clinical depression, include Apo-Amitriptyline Tablets in both 10mg and 25mg formulations in, respectively,

October 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGTO chief says campaign to attract foreign tourists ‘relatively satisfactory’

The government has earmarked 235 million patacas for expanding its international tourism market this year, and its tourism chief told reporters yesterday that “more than half of the amount has already been spent”, describing the effectiveness of the promotion drive to attract foreign tourists as “relatively satisfactory”.According to Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the ongoing promotion campaigns include the provision of a wide range of

October 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sustainability & biotech innovation forum at MIF focuses on circular economy

As part of 29th Macao International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), the “Biotech Innovation and Sustainability Forum”, aiming to signal Macau’s circular economy ambitions, debuted at the Venetian Cotai Expo on Friday, according to a statement released by a representative of the event.The forum supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) and jointly organised by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) Faculty of Business and Law, Sustainable Development Association,

October 21, 2024 | BY Lesley Wells

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