MGTO launches Phase 2 of special offer on HK-Macau tickets

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement on Saturday that it launched the second phase of its “Macao Treat” special offer yesterday, which is now extended to Taiwanese and international visitors in Hong Kong, in addition to Hong Kong residents who were already covered by Phase 1.MGTO launched the “Macao Treat”, the buy-one-get-one-free special offer in the first quarter of this year, which ended on March 31, and was aimed at Hong Kong residents.The statement noted

April 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Man, 39, dies after ‘falling from height’: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) were notified by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) at 2:45 a.m. yesterday morning that a 39-year-old man, who had been rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, was pronounced dead after “falling” from his flat, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said in a statement.According to the statement, the local victim surnamed Wong lived in a flat on Istmo de Ferreira do Amaral.The statement said that after entering the victim’s flat for investigation, PJ officers suspected that

April 11, 2023 | BY William Chan

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4 mainlanders rob HK$410,000 from 2 men in hotel guestroom: police 

Four mainland men were arrested on Thursday for robbing two compatriots of HK$410,000 at a hotel guestroom in Taipa, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during a special press conference on Saturday.According to Lou, the four suspects, aged between 25 and 33, are surnamed Chen, Li, Yi and Zhang, while the two male victims, both surnamed Huang, are aged 21 and 23.Lou added that Chen, a purchaser, Li, who owns a ski resort, and Yi, who is in charge of a media company, as well as the

April 11, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Flu peak still affecting Macau: Health Bureau

The Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday that Macau is still being affected by a peak of influenza infections. Lei Wai Seng, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, made the remarks when speaking to reporters at the hospital.Lei said that children have accounted for most of the influenza infections during the current peak.Lei said that the current flu peak has not started to subside.Lei also said that the level of influenza infections this year is expected

April 11, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Police tackle 3 taxi violations in as many days

The Public Security Police (PSP) announced on Saturday that their officers continued to crack down on taxi violations between last Wednesday and Friday, ticketing three drivers while referring nine cases involving taxi drivers for being disrespectful to passengers to the Transport Bureau (DSAT) for follow-up.According to a PSP statement, among the three alleged breaches, two were related to refusal of carriage.The statement noted that PSP officers also dealt with an illegal taxi case involving

April 11, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGTO holds final stop of ‘Experience Macao, Unlimited’ roadshow in Zhaoqing

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) had restarted its “Experience Macao, Unlimited” caravan roadshow across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), attracting more than 2.5 million visitors from cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau GBA to participate, so as to expand Macau’s source of tourists and boost the recovery of the local tourism industry, according to an MGTO statement on Saturday.The final stop of the roadshow in Zhaoqing was held at the weekend, with its first post-pandemic stop

April 11, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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MyLand presents ‘Twenty Exercises for the Body to Be the Soul’s Companion’

Local art organisation MyLand Culture presented an art exhibition titled “Twenty Exercises for the Body to Be the Soul’s Companion” on Friday at the At Light Art Gallery on Avenida da Praia Grande, according to a statement released by the organisation on Sunday.The exhibition features an artist book and a series of participatory artworks conceived by local artist Joein Leong Chou In (梁祖賢), the statement noted.The project began in 2021 as a collection of simple body exercises

April 11, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Macau to host ‘Experience Macao Unlimited’ in Lisbon

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is slated to hold its weeklong “Experience Macao Unlimited – Macao Promotion in Lisbon” from this coming Saturday, being Macau’s first in-person tourism promotion event in Europe after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the statement.The statement noted that the promotional event is being done in conjunction with Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s upcoming working visit to Europe.The April 15-22 event will showcase Macau’s new travel experience

April 11, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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1st batch of registration-based IPOs start trading on main boards of Shanghai, Shenzhen bourses

Analysis        BEIJING – The first batch of 10 shares under the Chinese mainland’s registration-based initial public offering (IPO) system started trading yesterday on the main boards of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.The move signifies that the authorities have applied the registration-based IPO system across the board, providing solid institutional support for accelerating the building of a standardized, transparent, open, dynamic and resilient capital

April 11, 2023 | BY admin

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Macau logs 93,253 visitor arrivals on Easter Eve, almost back to pre-pandemic level

Macau recorded 93,253 visitor arrivals yesterday, Easter Eve, almost reaching its pre-COVID-19 daily average pandemic level, or 93.7 percent, according to immigration statistics released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) today.In December 2019, Macau's last full pre-pandemic month, the daily average of visitor arrivals stood at 99,465, according to data from the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case on January 22, 2020.At the end of last

April 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Man in HK jailed for 10 weeks over cat meat sale

Hong Kong's Kwun Tong Court yesterday handed a 10-week jail sentence to the owner of a shop, where samples containing feline DNA were seized by officials, for selling cat meat.Wu Siyuan, 40, earlier admitted to selling restricted food, and using or permitting the use of cat flesh as food at a shop on Reclamation Street in Yau Ma Tei.In sentencing, deputy magistrate Charles Kwok said it was disturbing that the defendant could only produce a receipt for chicken meat, which raised doubts of the

April 7, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt to adjust COVID-19 booster jab advice, to focus on bivalent jabs

The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) has announced that it will adjust its COVID-19 booster vaccination recommendations, in reference to the latest recommendations made by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and health agencies in various countries and regions worldwide.For instance, according to the announcement, the Health Bureau will recommend those aged between 18 and 59 without a high risk of being affected by COVID-19 receive a total of only three COVID-19 jabs.The announcement also said that if

April 7, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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A meeting needed like a hole in the head – Editorial

Editorial        Taiwan’s pro-independence leader Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California’s Simi Valley on Wednesday was needed like a hole in the head.I wonder what Reagan would have thought about the meeting. When the Republican stalwart paid the second state visit by a US president to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in April 1984 (Richard Nixon paid the first state

April 7, 2023 | BY admin

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Easter holiday

Due to it being the Easter holiday  (耶穌受難日) this weekend most of the members of The Macau Post Daily’s editing team will be taking the holiday off and will return to work on Monday  so the print edition of your favourite newspaper will only be on the newsstands again on Tuesday. However, our digital edition on our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ will be updated round-the-clock. Our local news and editorials as well as commentary by national media organisations are

April 7, 2023 | BY admin

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