SJM Macao Int’l Dragon Boat Races slated for June

The 2023 SJM Macao International Dragon Boat Races are slated to take place from June 17-18 and on June 22 at the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre.The organising committee held a press conference to reveal the details of the event at Grand Lisboa yesterday. The upcoming races are jointly organised by the Sports Bureau (ID), the Dragon Boat Association of Macao, China (DBAMC), and SJM Resorts that covers the expenses.In his speech ID President Pun Weng Kun said he believed that the collaboration

March 16, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MGTO holds ‘Islamic Culture in Tourism Workshop’

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) held an Islamic Culture in Tourism Workshop yesterday, which had the imam of the Islamic Association of Macau, Ding Shaojie, as the key speaker, according to an MGTO statement.According to the statement, MGTO sought to familiarise travel industry personnel with the religion through the workshop to enable them to provide “more thoughtful services” that suit Islamic visitors’ needs.Moreover, the statement noted that the workshop was also held to

March 16, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Consumption Carnival’ final lucky draw has 78 winners

The results of the final lucky draw of Macau’s first-ever citywide “Consumption Carnival” were released yesterday in a session hosted by the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM – popularly known as Chung Chung) and other sponsors, with the 78 awardees winning a total between them of one million patacas in cash as well as food and staycation prizes totalling three million patacas.The final lucky draw and the closing ceremony for the “Consumption Carnival” was held at the Ho Yin Memorial

March 16, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HK man murders local prostitute ‘for insulting him’ during sex: police

Suspect homeless in Macau for a year, victim aged 45A jobless Hong Kong man murdered a local prostitute in a guesthouse in the city centre last week because, he claims, she insulated him, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said in a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.The 45-year-old victim was found dead in a guestroom of the three-star Pensão Residencial Flórida (known as “Fu Dou” – “rich metropolis” in Cantonese) inn with multiple

March 15, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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15 UM papers accepted at 70th ISSCC conference in SF

A team from the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI and Institute of Microelectronics (IME) recently presented its research findings at the 70th International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) held in San Francisco, according to a UM statement last Thursday, received by The Macau Post Daily yesterday.The conference took place on February 19-23.A total of 15 papers from the local

March 15, 2023 | BY admin

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Consumers Int’l announces World Consumer Rights Day theme

Macau’s Consumer Council (CC) said in a statement yesterday that Consumers International (CI), an independent and non-governmental organisation with over 200 member organisations in more than 100 countries, has announced the theme of today’s World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) as “Empowering Consumers Through Clean Energy Transition”.WCRD is celebrated annually by the global consumer movement on March 15. The Macau Consumer Council became a full member of Consumers International in

March 15, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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9th round of RAT kit purchase scheme to start on Friday

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday that the government’s ninth round of its rapid antigen test (RAT) kit purchase scheme will start on Friday.As in previous rounds, the ninth round of the programme will run for 14 days, between Friday and March 30, during which each local resident, non-resident worker and non-local student enrolled in Macau’s higher education institutions will be entitled to buy a total of 10 RAT kits at the fixed price

March 15, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Responsible entrepreneurship awards slated for March 25

Winners of the Deignan Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship will be announced in a prize giving ceremony slated for March 25 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), with three small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Hong Kong and Macau respectively chosen as finalists, according to a recent statement from the organisers.The statement noted that the award, which was launched in April last year, is named in honour of Alfred Deignan, who devoted his life to education and social

March 15, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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3 women cheated out of 5.5 million patacas in online-dating scam: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received separate reports from three local women between September last year and January this year that they had been cheated out of a total of 5.5 million patacas between them in an online-dating scam, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Chong, the three victims, aged 18, 41 and 69, reported that they had met a netizen claiming to be a foreign man on the internet, and they later became online lovers, resulting in

March 15, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 parallel traders falsely claim to be fraud victims

Two local men falsely accused a parallel trading shop of cheating them after the mainland Customs Services had seized the central processing unit (CPU) they were attempting to smuggle to Zhuhai, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said in a regular press conference on Monday.The suspects are surnamed Iun and Lao, both being in their sixties. Iun told the police that he’s jobless while Lao is a renovation worker.According to Chong, Iun and Lao told the police that they had been

March 15, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Woman, 60, dies after ‘falling from height’: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) were notified by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) at 4:32 a.m. yesterday morning that a 60-year-old woman, who had been rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, was pronounced dead after “falling” from her flat, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said in a statement.According to the statement, the local victim surnamed Wu lived alone in a flat on Avenida de Lok Koi in Coloane. The statement said that after entering the victim’s flat for investigation, PJ officers

March 15, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Police bust man for receiving 2 drug parcels from UK

A local man surnamed Gonçalves was arrested on Monday in Zape for receiving two parcels containing 11.1 grammes of methamphetamine (aka ice) and 7.8 grammes of heroin respectively sent by mail from the UK to Macau via the mainland, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference yesterday.Chong pointed out that during a follow-up investigation on a drug case that was busted in January when they seized 24.8 grammes of ice, the Judiciary Police received a

March 15, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Fishing, fishing gear not allowed in fairways: DSAMA

The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) reminded the public in a statement yesterday that it is prohibited to fish or place any fishing devices in Macau’s fairways and their surrounding waters, so as to ensure safety of navigation, warning that offenders could be fined up to 15,000 patacas.Offenders will also face civil liability and double fines if marine accidents are caused as a result, the statement added.During a recent routine inspection of Macau’s fairways, DSAMA officials found two

March 15, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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IPIM delegation visits Indonesia to boost investment

The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) took a delegation to Indonesia on Monday on the first stop of its 11-day Southeast Asia tour to promote the Guangdong Macau In-depth Economic Zone in Hengqin and trade cooperation between Macau and Indonesia.Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia, the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest economy in Southeast Asia, the statement pointed out.The statement said that IPIM carried out a string of investment

March 15, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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