WeChat Mini Programme challenge engages over 500 students in Macau

The WeChat Mini Programme’s Global Innovation Challenge Macau Region Competition was held yesterday, with around 30 schools and over 500 schoolchildren participating and 278 entries submitted, according to a statement released by the organiser yesterday.The competition was held yesterday at Colégio Diocesano de São José (CDSJ) 5th Branch, displaying 16 finalists’ work at the venue, with the aim of helping young people grow and connect with the nation’s future through the enhancement of

January 21, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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SJM Resorts, Melco raise staff wages

SJM Resorts and Melco Resorts and Entertainment said in separate statements last night that their eligible staff will be receiving salary increases, both effective from April 1.SJM Resorts said that their salary increment is set to benefit around 99 percent of the integrated resort operator’s workforce, adding that staff earning a monthly salary of 16,000 patacas or below will receive a salary increase of 600 patacas, while eligible staff earning over 16,000 patacas will receive a 2.5 percent

January 21, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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IC to hold CNY celebratory events in local community

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) announced yesterday that it will hold a raft of Chinese New Year (CNY) celebratory events including performances, workshops and exhibitions at various Macau’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, cultural venues and the city’s six revitalisation districts, with special emphasis on folkloric performances and booths from Hebei and Guizhou provinces in various local communities on January 29-31, i.e., from the first to the third CNY day.The announcement was made by IC

January 21, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police warn public of mCoin redemption phishing scams

The Judiciary Police (PJ) warned the public of MPay phishing SMS scams in a statement yesterday, in which residents are asked to click on a link to redeem gifts with their MPay points and an additional payment that requires one’s credit card information.The statement said that this kind of scam exploits victims through fake MPay SMS messages containing phishing links, where victims are informed that their MPay points – known as mCoin – are about to expire, and they could redeem gifts by

January 21, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Crystal Chan displays 17 acrylics at ‘Subtropical Romance’

Local artist Crystal Wai Man Chan is presenting her emotional connection and fascination with travel through 17 acrylics at an ongoing exhibition titled “Subtropical Romance” at the Taipa Village Art Space.Featuring scenes of tropical plants, fruits, places, along with paintings of people, exhibitiongoers may view the works at the free-admission art space until February 8.On the creation of Chan’s works for her latest exhibition, a statement by the Taipa Village Cultural Association, the

January 21, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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An exhausted empire

        Without the ‘safety valve’ of sustained outward expansion, political and social decay is accelerating in the USSamuel Huntington’s book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has retained significant influence. However, it also continues to face criticism for its broad generalizations and controversial assumptions, along with the rising global interconnectedness of economies and cultures that challenge the inevitability of Huntington’s

January 21, 2025 | BY Commentary by Li Xing*

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Student on zebra crossing run over by bus in Iao Hon

A 19-year-old secondary school student was rushed to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre yesterday after he was run over by a bus injuring his right leg while crossing a road in the northern district, in response to which the Public Security Police (PSP) said that the 60-year-old male driver was fined for failing to yield at a zebra crossing, while the Transport Bureau (DSAT) said that the driver had meanwhile been suspended from his duties.The accident occurred at the junction

January 21, 2025 | BY ​Yuki Lei

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Banned driver uses phone while driving: police

A local man banned from driving was arrested on Thursday for disobedience after being caught using a phone while driving, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Cheong Im Sim said at a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Lao is in his forties. He told the police that he’s jobless.According to Cheong, on Thursday afternoon a police officer on patrol in Rua de Corte Real (噶地利亞街) saw Lao using a phone while driving. The officer promptly intercepted him and upon

January 21, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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17 fall for concert ticket scams last week

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chao Teng Hin said in a regular press conference yesterday that 17 people have fallen victim to concert ticket scams in the past week.The victims, comprising two males and 15 females, include four local residents and 13 mainland Chinese, 14 of them under the age of 30.According to Chao, the fraudsters offered concert tickets to the victims on social media, with some even pretending to be staff members of the events to make the victims trust them. Some scammers

January 21, 2025 | BY William Chan

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2 local shops fall for fake order scam from ‘school’

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chao Teng Hin said in a regular press conference yesterday that the local owners of a retail shop and a hardware store have separately been defrauded by scammers claiming to be “school teachers”.According to Chao, the owners received a call last week from someone claiming to be a “teacher” from a local school. The female retail shop owner later told the police that the “teacher” wanted to order servings of a traditional Chinese dish, known as “big

January 21, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Xia urges Macau to launch new measures to foster Hengqin’s development

Xia Baolong, who heads both the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO), has met with Macau Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the permanent deputy director of the management committee of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, in Beijing where he urged the local government to study and roll out new policies and

January 20, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Local Filipinos celebrate another vibrant Sinulog Festival

The sound of Sinulog* beats echoed across Praça da Amizade (友誼廣場) yesterday as members of the local Filipino community danced in vibrant costumes in celebration of the highly anticipated Sinulog Festival Macau. The festival is celebrated in Cebu on the third Sunday of January to honour “Santo Niño” – the child Jesus. Its local iteration, which is organised by the Associação do Santo Niño de Cebu em Macau, was first held in 2003.Marking 22 years of celebration in the

January 20, 2025 | BY Interviews by Rui Pastorin

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Sam urges public servants to work in line with spirit of Xi’s speeches

The Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement yesterday that Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai convened and chaired seven sessions over a 10-day period earlier this month briefing high-level political appointees and senior public servants in different portfolios about the spirit of President Xi Jinping’s various speeches during his visit to Macau last month and how they should apply the spirit in their work.According to the statement, the seven sessions were held at Government

January 20, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs record 803,000 entries & exits on Saturday

Macau recorded 803,000 entries and exits on Saturday, breaking the previous highest single-day number of people entering and exiting the city record, a 6.6 percent increase over the 753,000 border crossings made on August 24 last year, Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement yesterday.Among Saturday’s record number of locals and visitors crossing Macau’s border checkpoints, 53.7 percent of the entries and exits were made through the Barrier Gate checkpoint, or 430,000 border

January 20, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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