2 HK males, 2 local men busted for smuggling drugs

In two separate cases two Hong Kong male residents and two local men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs from Hong Kong to Macau and drug trafficking, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during two special press conferences yesterday.In the first case, the two Hong Kong male residents are an 18-year-old high-school student surnamed Lee and a 38-year-old man surnamed Cheng who told the police he’s a driver.According to Lou, the Judiciary Police were tipped off

June 29, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Macau Cultural Centre to stage ‘The Sound of Music’ in August

The Broadway musical, “The Sound of Music”, will be staged at the Macau Cultural Centre’s Grad Auditorium on August 10-22, according to a press conference hosted by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) yesterday, which noted that tickets for the 16 performances will be on sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow.The play will be on every day except Wednesdays, with two performances on Saturdays and SundaysAccording to the press conference at the Macau Cultural Centre in Nape, the play is under the direction

June 29, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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New black box theatre to open next month: Leong

Ginnie Liang        Cultural Development Consultative Committee Vice President-cum-Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man announced yesterday that the new Black Box Theatre – which will hold all performances and activities previously scheduled to take place in the Old Courthouse in Praia Grande – will be launched early next month.Leong made the remarks in a press conference after the committee’s regular closed-door meeting yesterday at the Cultural

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Black Box Theatre design ‘practical & functional’: CCM

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) organised yesterday a media-guided tour at the Black Box Theatre of the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape, during which CCM Acting Head Lei Lo Heng told reporters that the new three-storey theatre, with a total area of 3,110 square metres, has been designed with a special emphasis on “practicality and functionality”.Lei said the building space is fully utilised to hold two theatres, namely Box I and Box II, and a multi-purpose room, with a freight lift

June 29, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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IFTM students research smart tourism technologies’ effectiveness

The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies’ (IFTM) Hotel Management bachelor degree students recently conducted research on the effectiveness of smart tourism technologies at the Ruins of St. Paul through the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) virtual reality (VR) exhibition “Visiting the Ruins of St. Paul’s in Space and Time”, an IFTM statement said yesterday.Guided by Assistant Professor Fernando Lourenço, the students explored visitor attitudes towards VR/augmented reality (AR)/3D

June 29, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Wynn to host Macau Snooker Masters in December

The “Wynn Presents - 2023 Macau Snooker Masters” is slated to be held from December 25-29 at the Wynn Palace’s Grand Theatre, details of which were announced during a press conference at the property in Cotai yesterday.The four-day contest, which a recent statement from the gaming resort operator described as the highest-level snooker tournament and “most influential” professional snooker competition in the region, will have prize money of £150,000 (1.53 million patacas).The roster

June 29, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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IC to launch raft of summer cultural activities in July

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) will launch a string of cultural activities for Macau residents of all ages starting in July, covering history, reading, and music.Reading packs for babiesFrom Saturday, the bureau will launch its “Infant and Toddler Reading Programme” and distribute reading packs to infants and toddlers in Macau in a number of public libraries.According to the statement, eligible infants and toddlers must be under two years old to receive the reading pack, and they must

June 29, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Hotel guests rise 140 pct to 1.1 million in May

Macau’s 130 hotels recorded 1.1 million guests last month, a year-on-year growth of 140.3 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Guests from the Chinese mainland (793,000), Hong Kong (199,000) and Taiwan (17,000) grew by 133.0 percent, 818.3 percent and 357.9 percent respectively, while local staycationers (42,000) dropped by 51.8 percent.Mainlanders, Taiwanese and Hongkongers accounted for 91.4 percent of the total number of guests in May. Guests’

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Hiu Kok to host ‘The Perfect Memory Auction’

Interview by William Chan        Hiu Kok Drama Association (HKDA) executive producer and supervisor Ben Ieong (楊彬) has told The Macau Post Daily that the group will perform a show entitled “The Perfect Memory Auction” (完美·記憶拍賣會) today and tomorrow as part of its “Singularity·Future” (奇點·未來) project.The exclusive interview was held last week in a coffee shop near Tap Seac.The Hiu Kok Drama Association* is a non-profit drama group founded

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Japan’s Ocean Discharge Blatantly Tramples on International Laws and Human Conscience

By Liu Xianfa*        The Japanese government’s plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea has, from the very beginning, been questioned and opposed by the international community. Recently, news from Japan has said that the tritium-laced wastewater from the crippled plant will be released into the sea this summer. It is an extremely irresponsible move for Japan to ignore the professional and authoritative opinions of

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Observatory forecasts frequent showers

The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday that under the influence of a low-pressure area between the South China Sea and the Philippines hot weather with both showers and sunny periods is expected over the next few days, along with a high possibility of thunderstorms.Low-pressure areas have “lower atmospheric pressure than its surrounding areas,” according to the website of the University of Texas at Austin. The result of which “brings cloud,

June 29, 2023 | BY Lily Xiao Linzhi

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IC’s online book shop launches summer promotion

The Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) Online Book Shop will launch a special summer promotion from July 1-31, according to an IC statement yesterday.The statement noted that the discounts aim to encourage students to make the most of their free time during the summer holiday, learn more and “enrich their lives through reading”. Readers can get a 20 percent discount on all books on the website. They can also get a 50 percent and 10 percent discount on back issues and recent issues of the

June 29, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Xi sends congratulatory letter to forum on China-US people-to-people friendship

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday sent a congratulatory letter to a forum on people-to-people friendship between China and the United States.The event, titled “Bond with Kuliang: 2023 China-US People-to-People Friendship Forum,” is being held in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province.In the letter, Xi said that back in 1992, he invited Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner to Kuliang, helping her fulfill the wish of her late husband to return to his childhood home. In the following 30 years and more,

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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Fostering entrepreneurship for economic resilience, progress

Commentary        BEIJING – Accelerating global economic recovery necessitates stimulating business vitality in the world economy, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels innovation and advances social progress.Themed “Entrepreneurship: The Driving Force of the Global Economy,” the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as Summer Davos Forum, opened on Tuesday in Tianjin Municipality.Entrepreneurial spirit is the primary driver of innovative

June 29, 2023 | BY admin

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