Xi, Abbas announce China-Palestine strategic partnership

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing yesterdayThe two leaders announced the establishment of a strategic partnership between China and Palestine.Xi said China and Palestine are good friends and good partners who trust and support each other. He pointed out that China was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the State of Palestine.China has all along firmly supported the Palestinian

June 15, 2023 | BY admin

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Qin Gang urges US to respect China’s position on Taiwan, stop undermining China’s interests

BEIJING – The United States should respect China’s position on the Taiwan question, stop interfering in China’s internal affairs and stop undermining China’s sovereignty, security and development interests in the name of competition, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang said yesterday.Qin made the remarks in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during which Qin expounded on China’s solemn positions on the Taiwan question and other core

June 15, 2023 | BY admin

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IAM paying close attention to Japan’s nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge: O Lam

Responding to local media queries about the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant having recently started a trial operation of discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea through an undersea tunnel, Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) Administrative Committee Vice President O Lam said yesterday that she was paying close attention to Japan’s planned discharge of radioactive wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean.O also said that the bureau has

June 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Huafa Music to host bassoon workshop

Interview by William Chan        Bassoonist Zhu Wukun told The Macau Post Daily in an online interview last week that Huafa Music will hold a bassoon workshop this Sunday at the Huafa & CPAA Grand Theatre in Zhuhai.Zhu studied at Minzu University of China (MUC) and the Zurich University of the Arts, and served as a bassoonist for several orchestras in Switzerland. In 2010, Zhu returned to China and was a bassoonist for the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the China NCPA

June 14, 2023 | BY admin

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Foreign visitor arrivals in Macau hit 3,000-5,000 a day: MGTO chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the recent daily number of foreign visitor arrivals to the city ranged between 3,000 and 5,000, reaching 20 to 30 percent of the pre-COVID-19 level, adding that the number is more than double the daily average of foreign visitor arrivals of over 1,000 in the first quarter of this year.According to Senna Fernandes, Macau has recently recorded an average of over 60,000 visitor arrivals daily,

June 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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UM holds ‘science popularisation talks’ for over 300 students

The University of Macau (UM) recently held science popularisation talks at Xin Hua School for over 300 students, according to a statement from the public tertiary education institution yesterday.The event, which was also related to UM’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) 10th anniversary, featured talks by FHS Associate Professor Tam Kin Yip and FHS Research Assistant Professor Li Bei to enrich students’ knowledge and “broaden their horizons in science”, the statement noted.Tam presented

June 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau Int’l Travel (Industry) Expo slated for June 30-July2

Themed “MITE connects the World”, the 11th Macau International Travel (Industry) Expo (MITE) is slated to take place from June 30 through July 2 at the Venetian’s Cotai Expo Halls A and B with free admission, featuring six attractions, including four new highlights – “1+4” Pavilion, The Cellar, Macau Creative Pavilion and Macau Educational Tour Development Forum, according to a press conference at the Macau World Trade Centre (MWTC) in Nape yesterday.The press conference noted that

June 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 NRWs nabbed for people smuggling, aiding & abetting illegal immigration

Two male non-resident workers (NRWs) have been arrested for smuggling three people out of Macau and aiding and abetting illegal immigration, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a special press conference yesterday.The two suspects are from the mainland employed as chefs in Macau. They are colleagues and are surnamed Chen and Wu, aged 33 and 28 respectively. The three illegal immigrants are aged between 33 and 44. One of them is a woman who had previously been involved in a

June 14, 2023 | BY William Chan

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2 locals fall for sweepstakes scam: police

A local man and a local woman have separately fallen for sweepstakes scams, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a regular press conference on Monday.According to Chong, the victim in the first case is a 65-year-old male retiree. He told the police that last Wednesday he received a message from a friend on Facebook, inviting him to register for a prize draw on a Hong Kong online shopping platform.Believing it to be true, he provided a verification code received on his phone

June 14, 2023 | BY William Chan

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MUST team develops new AI-based model for clinical diagnostics

A research team led by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Taipa has developed a new AI-based model as a clinical diagnostic aid that processes multimodal input in a unified manner.The model IRENE, presumably the first such approach, was designed to help make medical decisions by jointly learning holistic representations of medical images, unstructured chief complaint* (CC) and structured clinical information, according to the team, which also included researchers

June 14, 2023 | BY admin

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IAM invites experts to discuss food safety issues

The Macau Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) held the “Experts Talks on 2023 World Food Safety Day and Food Safety” yesterday, which was attended by over 400 representatives from the local food sector, related associations, academic institutions and government departments, according to an IAM statement.The event, according to the statement, was held to promote “technical exchanges and cooperative development” between Macau, the mainland and Hong Kong in the area of food safety, and invited

June 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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CEM, DSAL organise ‘Certification Course for Electrical Technicians’

Power utility CEM and the Macau Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) have partnered to organise the ‘Certification Course for Electrical Technicians’, which received an “overwhelming response from the industry”, with registrations exceeding capacity, according to a CEM statement yesterday.The opening ceremony for the course was recently held at the CEM headquarters.The statement noted that DSAL Acting-Director Chan Chon U said in a speech that the bureau places great importance on cultivating

June 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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IAM urges public to watch out for tree maintenance

The Macau Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that it will commence tree maintenance work in the Guia Hill Municipal Park later this month to remove vines that are affecting the growth of trees and to remove diseased trees that have rotted and are at high risk of collapse, urging members of the public to watch out for the bureau’s arboricultural activities to avoid accidents.According to the statement, the work is to protect the park environment and safeguard public

June 14, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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SSM urges public to donate blood in today’s World Blood Donor Day

To mark the annual World Blood Donor Day, the Health Bureau (SSM) has held a raft of activities, including an award ceremony for blood donors who donated blood more than five times last year, giving out special souvenirs for people donating blood today at the Macau Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS), according to an SSM statement yesterday.Today is World Blood Donor Day, which is celebrated every year on June 14, started in 2005 by the World Health Assembly (WHA), with this year to be themed

June 14, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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