Govt to build public housing on sitting-out area in Iao Hon

The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced on its website yesterday that the government will build a public housing high-rise on a plot in Iao Hon district, which is currently used as a temporary sitting-out area.The plot was converted into a sitting-out area several years ago, after four dilapidated residential buildings on the plot were demolished over a decade ago.According to the DSOP website, the plot, located at the corner of Rua Oito do Bairro Iao Hon and Avenida da Longevidade, covers

August 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Various shops in Hengqin MNN to open later this month: MUR

Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR) underlined in a statement yesterday that after a number of shops in the Macau New Neighbourhood (MNN) residential estate on Zhuhai’s Hengqin island have started operating one after another since June, various other shops there are now expected to open later this month.The MNN commercial space, covering around 5,000 square metres, comprises a few dozen shop units in total.According to previous local media reports, the first shop in the MNN commercial space

August 2, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Glass falls from building, hits bus, man injured

Glass fell from a building on Avenida do Nordeste in Areia Preta yesterday, hitting a bus at the bus stop and a male passenger who was getting off the bus, according to a statement by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) yesterday.The injured is a 22-year-old resident, the statement said, adding that he suffered from a cut to his left ear by pieces of the broken glass and was conscious when he was taken to the private Kiang Wu Hospital.Firemen suspect that the glass fell from the 5th block of the Hoi

August 2, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Building world-class armed forces for China

Analysis        BEIJING –The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) celebrated its 97th founding anniversary yesterday.The past few days have seen President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), engage in a string of activities concerning the military.He convened a Party leadership study session, calling for modernizing border, coastal and air defense. He wrote

August 2, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau casino receipts rise 11.6 pct to 18.59 billion patacas in July

Macau's 30 casinos produced total gross gaming revenue (GGR) of 18.59 billion patacas (US$2.3 billion) in July, a year-on-year growth of 11.6 percent, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has announced today.GGR was up by 5.0 percent month on month.Last month's GGR was the fourth highest in the first seven months of the year. However, it recorded the lowest year-on-year growth between January and July. GGR in the first seven months rose 36.7 percent year on year to

August 1, 2024 | BY admin

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Cross-platform interchange between LRT Taipa & Hengqin sections completed

Construction of a cross-platform interchange connecting the current Lotus Station on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Taipa-Cotai section and its adjacent station on the soon-to-open LRT Cotai-Hengqin section has been completed, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced on its website yesterday.The 2.2-kilometre-long Cotai-Hengqin section’s construction was “basically” completed earlier this year, after which train operation tests on the line started.According to the DSOP website, the

August 1, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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China’s Reform in the New Era: Opportunities for the World

By Commissioner Liu Xianfa       The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has just successfully concluded its third plenary session in Beijing. The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization is the most important outcome of the Session, which is a new blueprint for China’s reform and opening up, sending a strong message to the world on

August 1, 2024 | BY admin

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MIMF to feature Valery Gergiev, Herbie Hancock & Wynton Marsalis

The 36th Macao International Music Festival (MIMF) is slated to take place from October 4 to November 4 under the theme “And the Stars Shine”.The festival comprises 12 programmes, showcasing the well-known Mariinsky Theatre from Russia under the distinguished classical music conductor Valery Gergiev, alongside jazz icons Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis as its key highlights.A programme presentation was held yesterday at The Londoner Macao. Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) Director Leong Wai

August 1, 2024 | BY William Chan

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CTS Macau receives 1,700 foreign permanent residents’ mainland travel permit applications

Starting July 10, non-Chinese, i.e., foreign permanent residents of Macau can apply for ID card-like travel permits to enter mainland China on multiple trips for up to 90 days each time within a five-year validity period, and China Travel Service (Macao) Limited Entry Permit Centre Department Deputy General Manager Conny Chan Kit Mui told the Post that as of 5 p.m. yesterday, the number of online applications received by the agency had reached about 1,700, mostly Portuguese nationals.The

August 1, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Catch a glimpse of Macau history at ‘Old Meets New’ exhibition

The “Old Meets New: A Historical Photo Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Macao’s Return to the Motherland” is currently on at the Macau Museum, presenting nearly 120 photos and objects until September 8.The exhibition is located in the gallery on the third floor of the museum.The objects and photographs, both old and new, are exhibited across five sections: “Historical Buildings”, “Everyday Life”, “Scenes of the Past”, “Celebrating the Return”

August 1, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Lawmakers pass insurance intermediary business bill

The Macau Legislative Assembly (AL) passed an amendment bill on insurance intermediary business in its second and final reading yesterday in the legislature’s hemicycle.The new law will replace a decree-law that was enacted in 1989.Traditionally, insurance intermediaries have been categorised as either insurance agents or insurance brokers, according to the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers based in Washington, DC.During yesterday afternoon’s debate in the legislature’s hemicycle,

August 1, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Man cheats gambler out of HK$50,000 by using ‘transfer record’

A mainland man, claiming to have “a way to convert casino chips into cash and transfer them to mainland bank accounts”, cheated a compatriot early this month out of a casino chip worth HK$50,000 in a casino in Cotai by using a forged screenshot of a transfer record, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Long said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng quoted the middle-aged male victim as noting that he had met the suspect – a 31-year-old surnamed Du – at a casino in Cotai.

August 1, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 locals lose over 1 million patacas in investment scams

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon announced in a regular press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape two separate investment scams victimising two middle-aged local women with their losses amounting to 260,000 yuan (289,000 patacas) and 799,000 patacas respectively.Each victim met a male “friend” on social media who claimed to share their interest in investing in stocks. The “friends” then introduced the victims to an investment app where they could buy stocks,

August 1, 2024 | BY Leong Ian Kio

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Heath Bureau warns of upward trend in COVID-19 cases

The percentage of patients with an influenza-like illness caused by COVID-19 has increased from 7 percent in early June to 24 percent of flu cases in the past week, showing an increasing trend in the activity of COVID-19 viruses, Leong Iek Hou, who heads the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Division said yesterday.Speaking on the sidelines of yesterday morning’s current affairs phone-in programme, Ou Mun Gwong Cheuhng, hosted by the Chinese-language radio

August 1, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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