TikTok becomes political football, again

China Daily Editorial        FBI director Christopher Wray said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday that TikTok “is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government – and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns”.In the same hearing, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, claimed that the agency’s future will be defined by the United States’ ongoing technology race with China.The remarks followed

March 10, 2023 | BY admin

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Medical centre owner detains, beats wife: police

A medical centre owner has been arrested for illegally detaining and beating his wife, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.The 49-year-old local suspect surnamed Lio owns a medical centre in the city centre where his 32-year-old local wife also works. They married in 2014 and have an 8-year-old son who lives in the mainland.According to Chan, the victim reported to the police on Monday that her husband had frequently abused her at the

March 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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IPIM gets new president

The government has appointed Vincent U U Sang, who had been acting president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) since May last year, as the institute’s president effective from yesterday.According to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong, who oversees the institute, has appointed U for a one-year term effective from yesterday. Lei signed the executive order on Tuesday last week.U had been

March 9, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Pui Ching to be 1 of 2 new int’l schools in Coloane

Pui Ching Middle School will run an international school in a new building in Coloane, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday and recent government announcements.According to yesterday’s executive order, which was signed by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U last week, Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) Director Kong Chi Meng will sign an agreement with Macau Pui Ching Middle School Education Promotion Association

March 9, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Senior leader joins discussion with political advisors from HK, Macau

BEIJING – Senior leader Wang Huning yesterday joined discussions with national political advisors from Hong Kong and Macau, who are attending the first session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, called for efforts to strengthen confidence in the development of Hong Kong, Macau and the whole country, and give full

March 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Gov’t launches latest version of ‘Macau GeoGuide’ app

The latest version of the “Macau GeoGuide” app has recently been launched with enhanced travel route planning and map browsing functions, according to a statement from the Mapping and Land Registry (DSCC) yesterday.The statement noted that the new features of the app, which is version 2.6, include the walking and driving routes, as well as light rapid transit (LRT) routes added to route planning function. Five travel route schemes are provided including the shortest walking, leisure, bus,

March 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Tulip Garden installations on display at The Parisian Macao

Tulip Garden installations created by renowned artist Xuan Qing are on display at The Parisian Macao in Cotai as spring is in full bloom.A recent Parisian Macao statement noted that Tulip Garden at the property’s Rotunda features around 50 five-metre-tall tulips around the Fontaine des Mers, each hand-painted by Xuan, who is from the mainland, and brings “romance and the charm of springtime” to the property’s French architecture.The Floating Magic Tulip Garden, which is a “matrix of

March 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Residential property price index drops 0.8 pct

Macao’s overall residential property price index in the period from November 2022 to January 2023 decreased by 0.8 percent over the previous period from October to December 2022 to 245.2, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.According to a DSEC statement, the index for the peninsula dropped by 1.3 percent from the previous three-month period, while that for Taipa and Coloane rose by 1.1 percent.The index for existing residential units decreased by 0.8 percent from the

March 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Fake DSAT official cheats 2 women out of 600 patacas: police

A jobless man in his fifties was arrested last Friday for pretending to be an official of the Transport Bureau (DSAT) to cheat two women out of 600 patacas in total, Public Security Police (PSP) Leong Chi Seng said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leong, the local suspect is surnamed Kuan.The Public Security Police received reports from the two victims in their sixties last Friday that they had been “fined” 300 patacas each by a man claiming to be a DSAT official in

March 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sexagenarian loses 6.7 million patacas in love scam

A local woman has been defrauded out of 6.7 million patacas after trusting her online “boyfriend” and investing in cryptocurrencies on his advice, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chan said that the victim claimed to be jobless and is a divorcee.According to Chan, the victim met a male on a social media platform last December. In early February, the man successfully persuaded the victim to invest in “cryptocurrencies” in an

March 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Police nab mainland man stealing wallet from passer-by

A 62-year-old mainland man was arrested on Saturday when he was caught red-handed stealing a brown wallet worth about 8,000 patacas from a man in the Barrier Gate checkpoint area, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Leong Chi Seng said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leong, PSP officers carried out an anti-theft operation on Saturday in the Barrier Gate checkpoint area, where they saw the jobless suspect surnamed Tan walking close to the victim and taking the wallet

March 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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7 locals cheated in concerts ticket scam: police

Seven locals, comprising six women and a man aged between 18 and 23 have been cheated out of a total of 48,000 patacas after failing to receive concert tickets they purchased online, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said in a regular conference yesterday.Chan said that six of the victims attempted to buy tickets for concert of a foreign music group whose name starts with a B.According to Chan, after the victims purchased the tickets on websites, which turned out the fake,

March 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Police warn residents about phone text scams

The Judiciary Police (PJ) issued a statement yesterday to warn residents of phone message scams where fraudsters send out messages posing as a consumer reward and points platform, claiming that the victims’ reward points will expire soon and can be redeemed for gifts, so as to trick victims into logging on to a fake website to obtain their personal information and credit card details.The statement noted that the reward points platform involved is available at some retail outlets in Macau and

March 9, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Privacy office logs 60 ‘doxxing’ cases in 2020-2022

Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) Deputy Director Iao Hin Chit said yesterday that between 2020 and last year his office had launched 60 investigations into cases relating to “doxxing”, in which 23 people have been fined a total of 195,000 patacas.Doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organisation, usually via the internet, according to Wikipedia.Iao pointed out that the problem of “doxxing” has always existed, in

March 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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