MGTO chief briefs local hoteliers on 2Q tourism

The Macau Hotel Association (MHA) recently held its regular meeting at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau, where Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes gave its members an overview of the tourism industry’s development in the second quarter of this year, according to a statement by the organisers yesterday.Senna Fernandes noted in the statement that Macau’s tourism industry is continuing to grow as the number of visitors arrivals is growing. In the first

July 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Cidade do Nome de Deus’ showcases local Catholic World Heritage & history

The Macao Catholic Culture Association (ACCM) launched a new online video series titled “Cidade do Nome de Deus” – Macao‘s Catholic World Heritage on Friday, which aims to raise public awareness of the city’s “Catholic World Heritage” and the history behind it, according to an ACCM statement.Denoting Macau, “Cidade do Nome de Deus” means “City of the Name of God”.The series is sponsored by the Cultural Development Fund, the statement noted.According to the statement, the

July 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Cluster munitions move a nasty piece of business

China Daily Editorial        Well, well, well. On February 28 last year, then White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the use of cluster munitions “would potentially be a war crime”. But then, such things have rarely troubled the White House, which considers the United States to be a law unto itself.It was demonstrated once again by US President Joe Biden, who approved the inclusion of cluster munitions in the US’ latest US$800 million military assistance

July 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Chinese firm praised in Angola for donating rural school

LUANDA – Construction started last week on a primary school donated by Sinohydro, a Chinese company, in the rural area of Xangongo, in Angola’s southern province of Cunene.The school, named “Eko” after the community, is slated to be completed by the end of this year. It will feature 12 classrooms and can accommodate 840 students in two shifts.During a ceremony to mark the commencement of the construction last Wednesday, Angola’s Minister of Energy and Water João Borges expressed

July 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Portuguese parliamentary group leader says Chinese investment is welcome

LISBON – Chinese investments in Portugal are key to the country’s speedy economic recovery and a steady improvement of the livelihood of Portuguese citizens, the chairman of the Portugal-China Parliamentary Friendship Group (PCPFG) said n Lisbon last week.Fernando Ferreira made the statement at a lunch meeting attended by representatives of the Portuguese and Chinese business communities.Among the attendants were Zhao Bentang, the Chinese ambassador to Portugal, PCPFG members, the

July 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Ho vows to join hands with fellow PPRD members for developing Hengqin

During the 2023 Pan-Pearl River Delta (PPRD) Regional Cooperation Chief Executive Joint Conference, which was held in Guizhou’s provincial capital of Guiyang on Friday morning, Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng pledged that Macau will join hands with its fellow PPRD members to participate in the ongoing development of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) that day.Ho also underlined during Friday’s

July 10, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Editorial: The proof is in the pudding

Editorial        US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s four-day official visit to Beijing started on Thursday with a symbolically important rainbow over the airport and ended yesterday with a press conference at the US embassy during which she said that her high-level talks had helped put ties between the two economic giants on “surer footing”.Off course, that’s good news but – as any realist knows – the proof is in the pudding.* Let’s see how the Biden

July 10, 2023 | BY admin

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Batavia cassia replaced by camphor trees in main square: IAM

Two camphor trees – a species of evergreen tree that is native to South China – were planted on Thursday in the city’s main square – Largo do Senado, from where two ailing Cinnamomum burmanni trees (aka Batavia cassia) had earlier been removed, according to a statement by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) on Friday.The statement pointed out that the camphor tree, one of the native species in Macau, is a large evergreen tree with a straight and graceful shape, a unique fragrance, and a

July 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Zhuhai islands-Macau ferry tourist routes to start soon: MGTO chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes told reporters yesterday that ferry routes for tourists between Macau and some islands in Zhuhai will soon be launched, adding she believed that the routes can meet the public’s demand for diverse tourism products that further enrich Macau’s leisure tourism while, at the same time, enhancing the tourism linkages between Macau and Zhuhai, as well as other mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater

July 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau records this year’s 1st imported dengue case

Macau has recorded this year’s first imported case of dengue fever, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced at the weekend. According to an SSM statement on Saturday, the patient is a 30-year-old female mainlander who lives in San Cheong Building on Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida.The woman visited Thailand and Malaysia with her husband between June 18 and July 5, during which she came down with a fever, headache and fatigue on July 2, the statement said.After returning to Macau on

July 10, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Malala – a role model for all ages

You are highly likely to have heard of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani who is an activist for education, especially girls. Yousafzai was already advocating for girl’s education at the age of 11 and at the age of 15 in October 2012 was shot in the head by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP; sometimes called Pakistani Taliban) on her way home from school.Yousafzai’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai is an education activist who inspired his daughter with his work in education. After surviving the

July 10, 2023 | BY Lesley Wells

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To Kill a Mockingbird: a story that is still a must read

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”– Harper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdIn 1960, a book titled “To Kill a Mockingbird” by American novelist Harper Lee (1926-2016) was published. The novel has since won the Pulitzer Prize and become a modern classic that, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, has been translated into around 40 languages and so far sold over 40 million copies worldwide. This is for good reason – it

July 10, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Police warn public about renovation scams

The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged members of the public in a statement on Friday to beware of renovation scams, noting that quite a few residents have filed complaints with them on the matter.According to the statement, the residents employed workers through online platforms to renovate their homes and solve leakage problems. However, upon the start of the renovations, the statement noted, the workers “used various excuses” to significantly increase the price, such as increasing materials’

July 10, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Regular customer cheats jade shop owner out of goods worth 8,300 patacas: police 

A regular customer who cheated the female owner of a jade shop in San Kio district out of valuables worth 8,300 patacas last December was arrested at the Barrier Gate border checkpoint on Wednesday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference on Friday.Cheong added that the local male suspect, aged 72, is surnamed Leong.Cheong quoted the victim who reported the case to the Public Security Police on April 24 this year as saying that Leong, who

July 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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