HK CE John Lee congratulates Sam Hou Fai on election as Macau's next CE

      HONG KONG – John Lee Ka-chiu, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), has congratulated Sam Hou Fai on being elected as the sixth-term chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) today.   Lee noted in a statement that Sam had served as the president of Macau’s Court of Final Appeal (TUI) since the establishment of the MSAR, leading Macau’s various levels of courts in performing their judicial

October 13, 2024 | BY admin

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Ho congratulates Sam on election as Macau CE-elect

        Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has “cordially” congratulated Sam Hou Fai on his election today and on becoming the sixth-term chief executive-elect of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS). Ho noted that Sam had secured a “significant” number of nominations from Chief Executive Election Committee members in order to qualify as a candidate; and he had also garnered a

October 13, 2024 | BY Staff Reporter

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Liaison Office director congratulates Sam on election as Macau CE-elect

      The director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region, Zheng Xincong, has congratulated Sam Hou Fai today on his election as chief executive-elect of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).Sam received 394 of the 398 votes cast by the 400-member MSAR Chief Executive Election Committee, or 98.99 percent of the secret ballots cast, at the Forum Macao Complex in Nam Van this morning. Two of the electors were

October 13, 2024 | BY Staff Reporter

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Sam Hou Fai elected Macau's sixth-term chief executive with 98.99 pct of votes cast

Former Macau chief judge Sam Hou Fai has won the special administrative region’s chief executive election today, garnering 394 of the 398 votes cast by a 400-member election committee, or 98.99 percent of the ballots cast. There were four blank and no invalid votes. Two electors were absent. To be elected, Sam needed to receive more than half of the votes, i.e., at least 201, cast by the 400-member committee representing a wide range of local, business, labour community and religious

October 13, 2024 | BY Staff Reporter

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Sam visits Seac Pai Van, vows to improve public housing quality

Sam Hou Fai, the sole candidate for Macau’s sixth-term chief executive, has embarked on a series of walkabouts in various neighbourhoods recently.Sam visited the Seac Pai Van public housing estate in Coloane yesterday, accompanied by about half a dozen community leaders. During his walkabout, he spent most of the time talking with senior citizens to understand their living conditions.Sam’s first stop was outside Seac Pai Van Health Centre, where he spoke with two elderly residents and

October 10, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Asia’s manga artists present works in Macau

A variety of works are currently on display at the ongoing 2nd Asia Manga Artists Exhibition in the basement of the Portuguese Bookshop on Rua de São Domingos (板樟堂街), presenting the work of eight artists until tomorrow.From Hong Kong to Malaysia to Vietnam, members of the public can find works that showcase the respective style of each artist of different backgrounds. Among those presenting their artworks is Japanese manga artist Miyako Cojima, who told the Post, with translation by

October 10, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Double Ninth Festival holiday

Due to it being the Chong Yeong Festival, aka Double Ninth Festival, public holiday tomorrow The Macau Post Daily’s editing team will be taking today off and will return to work on Sunday so the print edition of your favourite newspaper will be on the newsstands again on Monday. However, our digital edition on our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ is being updated 24/7. Our local news and editorials as well as commentary by national media organisations are also available on various

October 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Airport passengers rise 27 pct during National Day holiday

The Macau International Airport recorded about 144,000 passengers during this year’s seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday, an increase of 27 percent from the corresponding period of last year, the airport operator CAM announced in a statement yesterday.The mainland’s 2024 National Day Golden Week holiday officially lasted seven days, from October 1 to 7.The number of passengers recorded during this year’s National Day Golden Week holiday returned to 82 percent of the level recorded

October 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs this year’s 8th imported dengue case

Macau recorded this year’s eighth imported case of dengue fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.This came after two imported cases of dengue fever were reported in a day, on Tuesday.According to last night’s statement, this year’s eighth dengue fever patient is a 53-year-old local woman who lives in Lok Man House (樂民樓) of the Lok Fu Garden (樂富新邨) residential estate on Avenida da Longevidade (長壽大馬路) in Iao Hon district.The

October 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Heritople’ documentary to premiere on Saturday

Interview by Rui Pastorin        A trilingual documentary entitled “Heritople” will premiere at Cinematheque•Passion on Travessa da Paixão (戀愛巷) on Saturday, with the film aiming to expand the connection between people and local heritage.Lasting just over an hour, the film features testimonies from eight interviewees that aim to help audiences understand the importance of cultural legacy, as well as preserving and continuing it, according to a statement

October 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Police nab HK man collecting ‘guess who I am’ scam proceeds

A Hong Kong man was arrested on Tuesday for assisting a gang in collecting fraudulently obtained money through a “guess who I am” phone scam in Macau, in which the suspect pretending to be a “lawyer” collected 250,000 patacas from an elderly local woman earlier that day in the northern district, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, PJ officers identified the “lawyer” as a Hong Kong man in his twenties,

October 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local dies after hit by car in Zhuhai: SPU

An 18-year-old local woman was hit by a car at around midnight between Tuesday and yesterday in Zhuhai and died on the spot, a statement issued by the Unitary Police Service (SPU) said yesterday.According to the statement, the SPU was informed by the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department yesterday afternoon that a car accident occurred at about midnight between Tuesday and yesterday in Zhuhai’s Xiangzhou District.According to the statement, a car collided with pedestrian at the

October 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Annual Encounter in Macau – Arts & Cultural Festival kicks off

The sixth edition of the “Encounter in Macau – Arts and Cultural Festival between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries” kicked off yesterday outside the Taipa Houses museum complex, marking the start of nearly 70 activities to be held between this month and December.Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Deland Leong Wai Man delivered a speech during the launch ceremony, saying that the bureau expects the “rich and colourful programme event” to help residents and tourists alike

October 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt has no plans yet for revitalising Jockey Club site: IC chief

A Legislative Assembly (AL) member has urged the government in a written interpellation to revitalise the site of the erstwhile Jockey Club in Taipa as a multi-purpose venue for leisure, recreation and sports activities, but Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Deland Leong Wai Man said yesterday that “there are no plans yet” by the government for the site’s revitalisation.Lawmaker-cum-civil engineer Leong Hong Sai raised the issue in a written interpellation in late August, with three

October 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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