11th Int’l Lion Dance Championship 2024-MGM Cup ends with 4 winning teams

Integrated resort (IR) operator MGM’s two-day “11th International Lion Dance Championship 2024 – MGM Cup” concluded yesterday, with winning teams across the competition’s four categories announced.The “Lion Dance Troupe of Qiaotou, Fuhai, Shenzhen, China” took home the top prize in the “Freestyle Lion Dance Championship”, while the “MGM Golden Lion Troupe – A” won the “Women’s Traditional Lion Dance Championship”. Meanwhile, the “Macau Lo Leong Sport General

October 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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UTM team wins awards at 47th WorldSkills Competition

The Macao University of Tourism (UTM) team won three “Medallions for Excellence” during last month’s 47th WorldSkills Competition.According to a statement from the public university on Friday, the competition took place from September 10 to 15 in Lyon, central-eastern France and had over 1,400 young competitors from around the world. The three competitors from Macau, all of whom have been trained by UTM, comprised students Huang Wenyi and Chan Chi Lek, along with University of Macau (UM)

October 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Nearly 40 pct of young people suffer moderate-to-severe depression: survey

The findings of a survey show that nearly 40 percent of young people aged between 18 and 34 suffer moderate-to-severe depression, with their major stressors arising from work, family and financial concerns.The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and Macau (MHAHK Macau) and the Faculty of Medicine of the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) released their joint “Macau Mental Health Survey 2024” on Friday at the Emperor Hotel in Zape.The survey was conducted between April and

October 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Youth Affairs Committee to set up task force on mental health, well-being

The government-appointed Youth Affairs Committee will set up a task force on young people’s mental health and well-being with a view to gradually launching services to meet the needs of young people, based on the feedback collected, but Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) Non-Tertiary Education Department Chief Choi Man Chi underlined on Friday that “this is not due to a sudden increase in the physical and mental health-related condition of young people”.The committee held on

October 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Salmonella infections increase ‘significantly’, SSM warns

The Health Bureau (SSM) received 86 Salmonella infection reports between August 19 and Friday, more than doubling the 41 cases recorded in the same period last year, as well as three foodborne illness outbreaks of Salmonella enteritidis, all resulting from the consumption of contaminated, raw or undercooked eggs and egg products.According to an SSM statement on Friday, the number of Salmonella infection cases recorded by the bureau has exceeded the alert level, with an average of 12 cases per

October 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Seminar focuses on rule of law for Hengqin’s high-quality development

The Alliance for Common People Building Up Macau (API), in conjunction with the Association for the Promotion of Public Legal Services, held yesterday afternoon a seminar themed “Rule of Law Guarantees for High-Quality Development of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin”, in a bid to contribute to the enhancement of national security education and the development of the rule of law.The seminar was attended by over 60 legal experts and scholars from Macau and Guangdong

October 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainlander nabbed for robbing friends’ chips worth HK$450,000

A 31-year-old mainland man was arrested for cheating and robbing a friend out of HK$450,000 in chips on Wednesday, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said in a regular press conference on Friday.The suspect told the police that he is a businessman surnamed Lai.According to the spokesperson, the suspect met one of the victims several months ago, and after losing HK$400,000 in casino gambling, the suspect contacted the victim on Wednesday, claiming he wanted to borrow HK$450,000 in casino

October 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local man arrested for damaging motorbike while parking his own

A local man in his sixties was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Wednesday for damaging another person’s motorcycle while parking his own, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said in a regular press conference on Friday.The suspect told the police that he is a businessman surnamed Ng, the spokesperson said.According to the spokesperson, PSP received a report from a local man in early August that when he parked his motorcycle in a legal parking space on Rua dos Açores in Taipa,

October 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Teenage girl commits suicide by taking poison

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau yesterday at 11:54 a.m. stating that a teenage girl committed suicide by taking poison in a flat on Avenida 1 de Maio, the Judiciary Police said in a statement.The victim was identified as a female local minor.According to the girl’s mother, she saw her daughter enter her bedroom at around midnight and turn off the lights to go to sleep, the statement said.However, when she looked in on her daughter at around 11:30 a.m.

October 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Sam vows to enhance Macau’s competitiveness in GBA development

During Saturday’s public hearing with residents, chief executive candidate Sam Hou Fai acknowledged that Macau’s competitiveness is lower than the other three designated “core cities” in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), namely Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, despite the fact that Macau has various unique advantages in the GBA development, which he said Macau has failed to leverage.The GBA consists of nine cities in Guangdong Province and the nation’s two

October 7, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Drunk Russian crashes stolen motorbike into fire engine: police

A drunken Russian man stole a motorcycle, the key of which had been left in the ignition by its owner, parked on the street on Wednesday and drove it away, but soon afterwards he crashed it into a fire engine parked in a fire station as he was too drunk, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.The Russian passport holder surnamed Dmitrii has entered Macau as a visitor. The man in his thirties told the police that he is a member of a

October 4, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Airport’s expansion to start by year-end

Macau International Airport operator CAM said in a statement last night that its land reclamation project to expand the airport is now scheduled to get off the ground before the end of this year and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2030.The statement also underlined that the expansion will raise the number of the airport’s annual passenger-handling capacity to 15 million.The statement noted that the local government formally granted CAM yesterday the necessary land concession

October 4, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Support measures needed to help local businesses: Sam

Macau’s sole candidate for the sixth-term chief executive Sam Hou Fai has been visiting various neighbourhoods to listen to people’s views, aiming to gauge public sentiment, and after yesterday’s walkabout in San Kio district, he said that the government should consider introducing support measures through online and offline marketing campaigns to improve different neighbourhoods’ business situation.The chief executive election will be held on October 13.  Accompanied by Women’s

October 4, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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New Macau Bridge promotes economic diversification: Ho

Macau Bridge, which officially opened to vehicular traffic at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, National Day, was inaugurated by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng three hours earlier where he said that the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge’s operation would help improve the population’s well-being and promote the city’s appropriate economic diversification.Macau Bridge is the city’s fourth sea crossing connecting the Macau peninsula and Taipa island, after Sai Van Bridge, Friendship Bridge, and the Governor Nobre

October 4, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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