Macau confirms serious COVID-19 case: 80-year-old woman

Macau recorded a serious COVID-19 case on Monday, an 80-year-old woman suffering from underlying diseases, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the woman, who has received just one COVID-19 jab, has been put on a ventilator. The statement did not say which type of COVID-19 vaccine she received.Yesterday’s statement also announced that Macau recorded 124 COVID-19 infections on Monday, an increase of 244.4 percent

July 5, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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HK, Zhuhai & Macau orchestras, choir to hold joint concert

Interview by William Chan        Zhuhai Youth Symphony Orchestra (ZHYO) conductor Tony Yeh Cheng-Te has told The Macau Post Daily in an online interview that a joint concert will be held by the Hong Kong String Orchestra, the choir and orchestra from the Zhuhai No.1 High School, the ZHYO and the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) at the Huafa & CPAA Grand Theatre on Sunday.During the interview last week, Yeh, who is from Taiwan, said that he and the Zhuhai youth

July 5, 2023 | BY admin

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Xi attends SCO summit, calls for unity, coordination

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping said yesterday that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) must rise to the call of the times, keep in mind its founding mission, and stay in unity and coordination to bring more certainty and positive energy to world peace and development.Xi made the remarks when addressing the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) via video conference from Beijing.SCO GROWTHXi said ten years ago, in view of the

July 5, 2023 | BY admin

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CPTTM launches subsidy scheme for SMEs’ digitalised operations

The public Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) has launched a financial support programme for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to digitalise their back-office operations.The CPTTM is jointly funded by the Macau government and various companies and businesspeople in the private sector.The new programme came after CPTTM operated a programme in 2021 and 2022 that offered a subsidy to restaurants and other eateries for digitalising their operations including

July 4, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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MGM Macau Tennis Masters to take place in December

The inaugural MGM Macau Tennis Masters invitational event is slated to take place on December 2-3, with confirmed participation from “Swiss sensation” Belinda Bencic and “American powerhouses” Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe, according to a joint statement from MGM and IMG, a “global leader in sports, fashion, events and media”, recently.The statement noted that the hard-court mixed event is set to take place at the Macao East Asian Games Dome and will feature four Association of

July 4, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Police nab 2 for drunk driving

Two local men have been separately arrested for drunk driving, one of them for a hit-and-run offence as well, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lam identified the suspect in the first case as a 57-year-old man surnamed Lok in his forties. He told the police that he’s jobless.According to Cheong, the police received a report of a traffic accident on Thursday at 11 p.m. involving a collision of two motorcycles at the junction

July 4, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Viral video shows fight between local & HK man: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) issued a statement regarding a viral video showing a fight between a local and a Hong Kong man that erupted yesterday morning near Rua do Mercado de Iao Hon.According to the statement, the suspect in the incident is a 60-year-old local man who was shopping when he got into an argument with the shop owner, a 48-year-old Hong Kong resident. The argument escalated and turned physical, with both men pushing each other. During the scuffle, the suspect grabbed a

July 4, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Mock Bodh Tree branch breaks off after heavy rain: IAM

Responding to a recent incident alongside Estrada Nova in which an about 70-centimetre-long dry branch of a Ficus rumphii (commonly known as Mock Bodh Tree), with a diameter of about five to eight centimetres broke off, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that the branch was believed to have broken off due to the downpours lately.The statement noted that the recent high temperatures and torrential rain accelerated the ageing of the branch, causing it to break

July 4, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police urge public to beware of theft of communication software accounts

The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged the public in a statement yesterday not to click on any unknown links, so as to avoid their communication software account being stolen.According to the statement, the Judiciary Police have lately discovered that members of the public were induced to click on the links sent with a text message to access a phishing website with contents and layout very similar to that of an official website by claiming that “their communication software account was restricted

July 4, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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UM hosts inaugural Big Data Analytics in Law Enforcement Symposium

The inaugural Big Data Analytics in Law Enforcement Symposium was recently held by the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), according to a UM statement yesterday.The statement noted that the symposium was an “academic platform” for senior law enforcement officers in Macau and Hong Kong to exchange views on “state-of-the-art research findings and practical experiences informed by empirical evidence”.It was attended by a delegation from the Hong Kong Customs and

July 4, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Shaoguan Data Centre Cluster to serve Macau & HK by 2025

Yuki Lei in Shaoguan        Shaoguan Municipal Bureau of Development and Reform Director and Level ll Bureau Rank Official Guo Xiangui told a media delegation from Macau yesterday that the Shaoguan Data Centre Cluster – one of the eight national hub nodes in the integrated nationwide computing network – will cover Hong Kong and Macau by 2025.Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong province bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast.

July 4, 2023 | BY admin

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36 COVID-19 infections recorded on Sunday

Macau recorded 36 COVID-19 infections on Sunday, a decrease of seven from the 43 infections recorded on Saturday, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, one new COVID-19 patient was admitted to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre on Sunday for treatment.Consequently, a total of 206 new COVID-19 patients were admitted to treatment facilities between May 1 and July 2.Macau’s current peak of COVID-19

July 4, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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MGM hosts 1st World Cities Branding Conference

The first World Cities Branding Conference was held at MGM COTAI yesterday, and Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong described the event as an important initiative to deepen the “MICE Experience Tour” in Macau.Lei made the remarks during the opening ceremony of two-day conference, adding that it was of great significance that the first conference is taking place in Macau, as it is one of the central cities of the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which could highlight Macau’s unique

July 4, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Registration for MGP 70th Anniversary Memories Collection opens

Registration for the Macau Grand Prix (MGP) 70th Anniversary Memories Collection started yesterday, encouraging residents to participate in “sharing collective memories and passing on the Grand Prix’s cultural heritage” according to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO).The MGTO has organised the competition, the statement noted, which invites Macau residents aged at least 18 to submit items related to the Macau Grand Prix from its inception in 1954 to last year’s

July 4, 2023 | BY Lily Xiao Linzhi

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