Xi urges advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics on 120th birth anniversary of Deng Xiaoping

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping lauded the “outstanding contributions” of late leader Deng Xiaoping and urged advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics initiated by Deng, as the country marked Deng’s 120th birth anniversary yesterday.Addressing a meeting held to mark the anniversary, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said the country must continue to thoroughly study and apply Deng Xiaoping

August 23, 2024 | BY admin

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Ho says won’t seek second term ‘due to health concerns’

Nearly five years after taking the helm of the local government on December 20, 2019, Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat Seng announced yesterday that he will not seek a second term as chief executive “due to health concerns”.Ho’s current term ends at midnight on December 19. His successor’s term will start immediately afterwards.The Government Information Bureau (GCS) issued yesterday afternoon a statement announcing Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s decision not to run in the election for

August 22, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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SmarTone to cease operations in Macau, CTM to take over

Telecom operator SmarTone – Mobile Communications (Macau), Limited announced in a statement yesterday that it will cease the provision of mobile communication services in Macau, and CTM will provide customers’ communication services for their remaining contract period.The statement said that SmarTone’s decision was made after its “business consideration”, adding that SmarTone has reached an agreement with CTM to ensure that customers’ mobile communication services “are not

August 22, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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3 mainlanders steal donation box cash: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested three male mainlanders on Saturday for stealing money from a charity organisation’s donation box, PSP spokesman Lei Chan Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lam identified the three suspects as a farmer surnamed Chen and two men surnamed Le and Lu. Le and Lu told the police that they’re jobless. The trio, from Guangxi, are aged between 30 and 50.According to Lei, while patrolling a religious site on Estrada Governador Albano de

August 22, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Mainland woman falsely accuses man of rape

A woman from the mainland falsely reported to the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Sunday, that she had been raped in a hotel guestroom in Cotai by a man with whom she met in a casino, PJ spokesman Ho Wai Lok said in a regular press conference yesterday.The 32-year-old suspect surnamed Liu told the police that she’s jobless. The victim is a middle aged non-local man.According to Ho, the two met on August 10 at a local casino, after which they engaged in sexual activity and the man gave Liu 2,500 yuan

August 22, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Tickets for WTT Champions Macau 2024 available from tomorrow

Tickets for the WTT [World Table Tennis] Champions Macau 2024 presented by Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) are set to go on sale from tomorrow, with more details of the upcoming event presented during a press conference yesterday at the Galaxy International Convention Centre (GICC) in Cotai.The event, which marks the fifth time that it will be held in Macau, is slated to take place from September 9 to 15 at the Macau East Asian Games Dome - Coliseum in Cotai, where a total of 64 competitors,

August 22, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Macao Week in Shaanxi•Xi’an’ kicks off today

The five-day “Macao Week in Shaanxi•Xi’an” will kick off today, launching a raft of activities including presenting over 38-million-yuan worth of special travel offers covering air tickets, hotels and restaurants, in order to attract more tourists to Macau, according to a statement from the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) yesterdayThe statement noted that various Macau government entities, enterprises and businesses will run different themed booths, showcasing Macau’s

August 22, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HKMAO praises MSAR’s 25-year ‘brilliant’ achievements

The State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO) released a statement on its WeChat account yesterday evening praising Macau’s “brilliant” achievements over the past 25 years since its return to the motherland, believing that the new and sixth-term chief executive who will be elected later this year and his or her government, based on the solid foundations laid over the past 25 years, will “definitely be able to continued to write a splendid chapter” of the successful

August 22, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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29 young violinists showcase achievement at CCM

The 1st Macao International Children’s Arts Festival – Music Camp held yesterday its achievement concert at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape, with 29 young violinists from different regions performing with professional musicians.Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man said during her opening remarks that the 1st Macao International Children’s Arts Festival had provided a “summer paradise” for parents and children to get in touch with the arts in close proximity,

August 22, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local athlete to compete in Paris Paralympics

The six-member Macau delegation for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, which will open on Wednesday next week, bid farewell to Sports Bureau (ID) Acting President Luís Gomes yesterday, according to a report by public broadcaster TDM.While Macau is unable to compete in the Olympic Games as it is not a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it can compete in the Paralympic Games, in the name of “Macao, China”.According to yesterday’s report, the Macao, China delegation will

August 22, 2024 | BY admin

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Around 20 works on display in Un Lok I’s ‘Experimental Ideas’ exhibition

Around 20 works are on display in an ongoing solo exhibition by young local artist Un Lok I entitled “Experimental Ideas”, which is being held at the 10 Fantasia gallery in the S. Lázaro district until August 30.Born in 1999, Un is an artist who has won several awards, according to information displayed at the free-admission exhibition, which is held at the gallery’s room A02. Un, the statement noted, graduated from the public Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) in 2021 from its visual

August 22, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MAICC gains ‘positive’ insight into future development after Singapore-Malaysia trip

The delegation of the Macao ASEAN International Chamber of Commerce (MAICC) concluded its business trip to Singapore and Malaysia’s Johor Bahru yesterday, and MAICC Chairman Kelvin Tan Hai Ching said that he believed that members of the delegation will have gained a “positive” insight on their future development from various angles through the six-day visit to the two nations.Organised by the MAICC, over 40 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Grater Bay Area (GBA) enterprise representatives set off

August 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 golden snub-nosed monkeys to return to mainland: IAM

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced in a statement yesterday that two male golden snub-nosed monkeys living in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van Park will be returned to the mainland to enable them to continue to be part of the authorities’ conservation programme.The two male monkeys, one is named “Three Blacks” (“三黑”) and the other is named “Lotus Born” (“蓮生”).“Three Blacks” is “Lotus Born’s” father, and the latter was born in 2022 in March, while the former

August 21, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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3 HK men hired by ‘guess who I am’ gang to pick up cash in Macau: police

Three Hong Kong men were instructed by a “guess who I am” telecom fraud gang to come to Macau to pick up 150,000 patacas from a local elderly woman and promised a “commission” of 3,000 to 5,000 patacas each, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Wai Lok said at a special press conference yesterday.According to the victim’s report, Ho said, she received on Monday morning calls from a man claiming to be her “son-in-law” on her fixed-line telephone at home, telling her that he had been

August 21, 2024 | BY William Chan

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