MPU graduates upbeat about job prospects

The Macao Polytechnic University’s (MPU) 2022-23 graduation ceremony took place yesterday at the campus’s multi-sport pavilion in Zape, with over 800 students obtaining their respective certificates of doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees, and three of the graduates told reporters that they have a “positive” attitude towards their job prospects.A female graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Computer programme, surnamed Chan, said that she had accepted a job offer from a local

June 1, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sands China to present ‘Floral Princess’ Macau debut in July

The famed Cantonese opera “Floral Princess 65th Anniversary Macao 2023” is slated to be staged at The Venetian Macao’s theatre in Cotai from July 28-30, with details announced during a press conference at The Parisian Macao yesterday.Marking its Macau debut, the 65th anniversary edition was created by Utopia Cantonese Opera Workshop and celebrates “Floral Princess”, which a Sands China statement yesterday noted as “one of the most famous Cantonese operas of all time”.Sands China

June 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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FM launches campaign to collect pictures of locals’ childhood fun

The public Macau Foundation (FM) announced in a statement yesterday that it will organise a “Collection of Pictures of My Childhood Fun” online campaign on its “Memory of Macau” official website, inviting members of the public to share their pictures of childhood fun, aiming to record the changes that Macau has undergone.According to the statement, the collection will be conducted online, with calls for entries online, running from today to August 31.According to the statement, the

June 1, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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55-year-old unjabbed man dies of COVID-19, after no fatalities for 116 days

A 55-year-old unvaccinated man suffering from a raft of underlying diseases died of the novel coronavirus disease on Tuesday, which came after no COVID-19 fatalities had been recorded in Macau for 116 consecutive days.The fatality recorded on Tuesday, which raised Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll to 122, was announced in a statement by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre yesterday.Yesterday’s statement also announced that Macau recorded 520 COVID-19 infections on

June 1, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt launches tender for 12-shop lease at Anim’Arte Nam Van

The government announced yesterday that it has launched a public tender for the granting of a 60-month lease of 12 shops at Anim’Arte Nam Van, a lakeside commercial area on the side of Nam Van Lake aiming to promote cultural and arts activities.The Cultural Development Fund made the announcement in a statement yesterday.Potential bidders are required to submit their quotations by July 17. The fund will unseal the submitted bids the next day.According to the statement, the public tender only

June 1, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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One Central launches ‘Starry Night Garden’

A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) Art & Technology Exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) called ARTECH has recently been launched by One Central Macau, with the first exhibition being held titled “Starry Night Garden”.The exhibition, which runs until July 31, is curated by ART PRINCE ADVISORY in partnership with the shopping mall in Nape.The exhibition features a 360° immersive AI art space called Full Moon and Blossoming Flower (花好月圓大觀園) created

June 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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EU should not let itself be cat’s-paw of Washington’s worsening paranoia

China Daily Editorial        The fourth ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council was held in Lulea, Sweden, on Tuesday and yesterday. With the presence of their respective trade, commerce and diplomatic officials, the meeting should have focused on resolving the trade and technology disputes between the two sides. But thanks to the United States’ obsession with taking every opportunity to bolster its bid to contain China, the meeting was transformed

June 1, 2023 | BY admin

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90 pct of high school students have ‘low’ emotional support from parents: survey

A survey released yesterday shows that among 1,556 senior local high school students, 80 percent said that they felt “uncertain” about whether their parents would support their career development, with 90 percent saying they believed that the level of emotional support from their parents was “low”.The survey entitled “The Career Development of Macau’s Secondary School Students”, which was conducted by the Women’s General Association of Macau (commonly known as Fu Luen in

May 31, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Public entities’ 2024 budgets ‘shouldn’t’ exceed this year’s: Ho

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has ordered public entities to draft their respective 2024 budgets proposing expenditures that “should not” exceed those proposed for this year.Ho gave the instruction in an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The order states that as Macau’s economy is still recovering, public entities, when preparing their respective budgets for next year, “should prudently assess the necessity and reasonableness of their various budgetary

May 31, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt to subsidise overseas film crews shooting in Macau: Leong

Cultural Development Consultative Committee Vice President-cum-Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man said yesterday she hoped that through the government’s financial support, Macau could further encourage and attract foreign crews to film in Macau, so as to promote the development of the local film production industry and give the local industry more opportunities to participate.Leong made the remarks during a press conference after a closed-door meeting of the

May 31, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Footbridge project near Pousada Marina Infante & Galaxy Macau to start in Q4

The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) said in a statement yesterday that it expects the construction of a footbridge crossing the busy Avenida Marginal Flor de Lótus in Cotai, near the Pousada Marina Infante hotel on one side and the Galaxy Macau casino-hotel resort on the other, to get off the ground in the fourth quarter of this year.The government launched a public tender in late March for the footbridge project. Potential bidders were required to submit their quotations by Monday.A total of 14

May 31, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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3rd ‘929 Challenge’ to open for registration next month

The 929 Challenge startup competition marks its third edition this year, with interested teams able to submit applications between June and September.Details for the contest, which now has a prize pool of over US$20,000 (161,330 patacas), were announced in a press conference yesterday at the headquarters of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macau), aka Forum Macao, which is co-organising the event, in Nam Van district.Like the last

May 31, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Drunken cabbie hits barriers, runs red light & reverses

A taxi driver was arrested yesterday for drunk driving, hitting road barriers, running a red light and reversing against the flow of traffic, a Public Security Police (PSP) statement said.The suspect is a 65-year-old local man.According to the statement, a police officer saw a taxi reversing along Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida yesterday morning while he was on patrol. The officer immediately stopped the taxi and found that the male driver was reeking of alcohol, while the vehicle

May 31, 2023 | BY William Chan

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14th IIICF kicks off tomorrow 

Themed “Going Green, Digital and Smart, Financing Win-win Cooperation”, the 14th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF), co-organised by the China International Contractors Association and the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), is slated to be held from tomorrow through Friday at The Venetian Macao Cotai Expo, according to a press conference yesterday.Fang Qiuchen, chairman of the association, said in a speech during the press conference

May 31, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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