Police nab NRW for assisting overstayers

A male non-resident worker (NRW) from the mainland has been arrested for assisting two overstayers to rent a hotel guestroom, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a press conference yesterday.The 33-year-old NRW surnamed Shan is a cleaner. The two overstayers, both aged 32, are a male surnamed Wang and a female surnamed Chen. Wang had overstayed since last August while Chen since February this year.According to Cheong, the police received a report on Thursday of a

April 18, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Ho to start visit to Portugal, Luxembourg, Belgium today

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng will pay a working visit to Portugal, Luxembourg and Belgium from today to next Thursday, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced yesterday. According to a GCS statement, Ho will lead both a local government delegation and a local business delegation on his trip to Lisbon until Saturday.The government delegation includes two of Ho’s five policy secretaries – Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong and Secretary for Transport and Public

April 18, 2023 | BY admin

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Economy firmly on recovery track as market expectations improve

Analysis        BEIJING – Multiple signs indicate that mainland China’s economy has been recovering with stronger impetus and improved market confidence since the beginning of this year, and analysts expect more growth potential to be unleashed in the coming quarters.Both foreign trade and credit growth beat market forecasts in the first quarter, and manufacturing activity and consumption continued to pick up, official data has revealed.As the impact of COVID-19 subsided

April 18, 2023 | BY admin

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China and Brazil – friends oceans away

Analysis        BEIJING – “I’ve gotten a job, bought a sofa and a refrigerator with the money I earned, plastered the exteriors of my house with cement, have access to the Internet at home, and learned how to make business contacts, purchase and market online. All my dreams have come true,” Marlene Araújo Dias told Xinhua.Living in a forested village in the northern Brazilian state of Tocantins named Malhadinha, Araújo Dias is one of the many locals feeling their

April 18, 2023 | BY admin

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Biden hijacks world with Ukraine dragnet

China Daily Editorial        It seems that it has become a compulsive habit for the Joe Biden administration to say one thing while doing another.A group of senior officials from the US Department of Commerce visited Beijing and Shanghai last week as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for a potential trip to China by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo later this year. But even as they were doing so, the Department of Commerce imposed export controls on 12 Chinese

April 18, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt to announce updates on ‘1+4’ economic diversification in June: Ho

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng says that his government expects to announce details in June about the updated version of its “1+4” model aiming to appropriately diversify Macau’s economy.Ho said that the government had decided to revise its 1+4 plan, which was drafted last year, because of the city’s new economic landscape that came after the government scrapped almost all COVID-19 border entry curbs early this year.The local government abandoned its long-running dynamic zero-COVID

April 17, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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The importance of time & effort in learning a skill

I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror as I gripped my father’s clippers, which were old and missing a tooth in the clipper guard. It was during the time when most barbershops were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and I was in desperate need of a haircut as my hair had become lifeless and overgrown.With no practice or even any sort of training except for hours of YouTube videos, I spent 20 minutes bouncing between saying “this is a horrible idea” and “social media said I

April 17, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Learn something new every day

We start learning from the day we are born and hopefully until the day we die. It may be something simple like learning to change a light bulb or something more complicated like taking a PhD. Learning should always be enjoyable because if it feels like a chore, it is extremely difficult to retain the information and easy to be distracted.Many people seem to think that learning something only involves academic subjects, which is not at all true. Learning something new, whether it be a

April 17, 2023 | BY Lesley Wells

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Firm cheated out of over 600,000 patacas by employee: police 

A couple of friends, who had cheated a property management company out of more than 600,000 patacas since 2019, were arrested on Thursday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference on Friday.The spokeswoman said that the local suspects, aged 72 and 67, are surnamed Fan and Lei respectively, adding that the former headed the company’s service operations, while the latter is a retiree.The Judiciary Police received a report from the firm on March

April 17, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man cheats shop out of Moutai worth 2,130 patacas: police

A 60-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for cheating a shop on Estrada dos Cavaleiros out of a bottle of Moutai worth 2,130 patacas, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.Moutai (aka Maotai) is a style of baijiu, a distilled Chinese liquor, made in the town of Maotai in Guizhou province.According to the spokesperson, the Public Security Police received a report from the shop on February 19 that a man, who went to the shop to buy Moutai on

April 17, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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MICE industry recovers as over 200,000 attend events in Q1: IPIM

The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) announced in a statement yesterday that over 200,000 people participated in local MICE events in the first quarter, including 15,000 business tourists who attended local meetings.IPIM said it expected over 20,000 business tourists to visit Macau for MICE events in the second half of the year, the statement noted.The statement went on to say that in order to turn Macau into an ideal MICE destination, IPIM continues to work with the local

April 17, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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IAM reminds takeaways to register before opening

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced in a statement that more than 3,500 takeaways had registered with IAM for authorisation to run their business, reminding them that they must formalise their registration before opening, as violators face a fine of 5,000 to 35,000 patacas.Takeaways are eateries that do not provide on-site dining services.IAM reminds the restaurant trade that the certificate of registration or the registration number must always be displayed to the public for

April 17, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Self-care & social skills of the mentally rehabilitated ‘significantly’ affected: survey

The findings of a survey conducted by the Richmond Fellowship of Macau with the help of a research team from Hong Kong Shue Yan University last year, which was released on Friday, show that the self-care and social skills of many rehabilitees have been “significantly” affected by their mental illness.A statement by the fellowship said that the survey, in which 262 quantitative questionnaires were collected from rehabilitees, who developed a disease such as schizophrenia and delusional or

April 17, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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IAM to treat ailing hackberry tree this week

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Friday that a course of treatment will be launched tomorrow and on Wednesday for a celtis occidentalis (commonly known as hackberry) tree infected with wood-decay fungus, on Praça de Luís de Camões.Hackberry is a large deciduous tree native to North America, according to Wikipedia.According to the statement, the hackberry tree reinforced with rope years ago was found with cavities and decay in the trunk’s base during a recent IAM

April 17, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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