HK man cheats pawnshops out of HK$110,000: police

A Hong Kong man was arrested on Wednesday when entering Macau through the Taipa Ferry Terminal checkpoint for defrauding two pawnshops in Zape out of HK$110,000 by hocking counterfeit luxury-brand watches, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.Leng said that one of the pawnshop owners reported to the Judiciary Police on Monday that he had been cheated by a customer with a fake luxury-brand watch, resulting in a loss of HK$50,000.The

March 3, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Moxibustion treatment causes CO1 poisoning: SSM

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement that a local woman, who had been rushed to the private Kiang Wu Hospital earlier yesterday, was diagnosed with carbon monoxide (CO1) poisoning.According to the statement, the 57-year-old victim, who received moxibustion treatment in her bedroom in Regal Seaview Garden on Rua de Choi Long in Taipa, was found unresponsive on the bed by her family yesterday afternoon.The statement said that the victim was in stable condition after undergoing hyperbaric

March 3, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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LRT Barra station completed

The construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) station at Barra was completed last month, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) has announced on its website.The Barra station will enable the LRT Taipa section to link up with the Macau peninsula.Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário told lawmakers late last year that with the project of building the LRT Barra station to be completed in 2023, the government aimed for the LRT section connecting Taipa and Barra at the

March 3, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Crusade of 21st Century – America’s attempt to maintain global dominance

Commentary by Yi Fan*        Some 1,000 years ago, during the medieval period, Pope Urban II of the crumbling Holy Roman Empire ordered a religious war, also known as the First Crusade, to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims. The Crusades, which went on for over 200 years, strained relations between the East and the West and had a lasting impact on politics in the region and beyond.Now almost a millennium later, the United States is launching a modern-day crusade against

March 3, 2023 | BY admin

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Studied silence on Nord Stream report belies freedom of the press in the West

China Daily Editorial        Nearly one month after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in a report that the United States planted remotely triggered explosives during a covert operation in June 2022, that subsequently damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipelines in September, there has basically been an eerie silence in the West on the matter, except for a perfunctory dismissal by the White House stating the report was “utterly false and complete

March 3, 2023 | BY admin

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Citywide CCTV system’s 5th phase comes into use today

The fifth phase of the police forces’ citywide CCTV surveillance system comes into operation today, the Unitary Police Service (SPU) announced in a statement yesterday.The fifth phase consists of the installation or replacement of 300 cameras on the system’s existing poles across the city.Before today, the citywide CCTV camera system had a total of 1,620 cameras, which had been installed in four phases.The cameras in the first phase, which came into operation in September 2016, are located

March 2, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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8th round of RAT kit purchase scheme starts tomorrow

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday that the government’s eighth round of its rapid antigen test (RAT) kit purchase scheme will start tomorrow.The same as in previous rounds, the eighth round of the programme will run for 14 days, between tomorrow and March 16, 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

March 2, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Transport bureau urges vehicle owners to pay road tax by March 31

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday that as of 9 a.m. on Tuesday over 110,000 vehicle owners had not yet paid their annual road tax, with more than 80 percent of 126,000 vehicle owners having paid the tax online, urging drivers and riders to pay the tax for their respective vehicles by March 31.The statement pointed out that considering that all the city’s banks and Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) have stopped collecting road tax on behalf of the Transport

March 2, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt proposes to allow pet boarding in hotels: Vong

Lawmaker-cum-lawyer Vong Hin Fai, who heads the legislature’s 3rd Standing Committee, said yesterday that the government is now proposing that hotels would be allowed to provide pet boarding.Vong briefed the media after a closed-door meeting of his committee which has concluded its review of the government-initiated bill regulating the city’s veterinarians and their commercial activities with the aim of improving animal protection and animal health control, the outline of which was

March 2, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Filming of Macau part of ‘When we met’ starts at Lisboeta

A film titled “When we met” (“與你相遇的日子”), co-produced by Guangzhou Sanxitang Film and Television Media Company Limited, Guangzhou Garfield Films Company Limited, the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known in Cantonese as Kai Fong –UGAMM), Macao Internet Creative and Development Association (MICDA), and UTV Macau Internet Media Company Limited, held its lensing ceremony yesterday at Lisboeta Macau in Cotai.A lensing ceremony marks the formal

March 2, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Hugo Teixeira presents ‘Involuntary Landscapes’

Involuntary Landscapes, a photography exhibition by artist Hugo Teixeira, is being held at Creative Macau on the ground floor of the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) until Saturday.Through the exhibits, a statement from the gallery said, Teixeira, who is a linguist by training currently teaching at the University of Macau (UM), attempts to construct a “historical and cultural consciousness” that was lost when his family emigrated from Portugal to California in the 1970s.The works feature photos

March 2, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MGTO launches online complaint-handling videos for catering industry

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that it has launched a series of six online learning videos themed and titled “Complaint Handling and Mediation Skills – Catering Industry” aimed at the industry’s employees, with the first video released yesterday and the rest to be released progressively until May.Aside from catering industry employees, the videos are also tailored for Quality Tourism Services Accreditation Scheme-recognised catering businesses,

March 2, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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FHH permanent secretariat to be set up at UM

The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement yesterday that the Western Pacific Regional Forum for the Harmonisation of Herbal Medicines’ (FHH) permanent secretariat will be established on its campus, aiming to assist the local government in promoting economic diversification by developing the Chinese medicine industry into a signature industry in Macau.The statement noted that according to the “Second Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the Macau SAR (2021-2025)”,

March 2, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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40 kids come down with stomach flu: Health Bureau

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement yesterday that four cases of collective gastroenteritis (colloquially known as stomach flu) were recorded involving 40 children in two schools, a kindergarten and a nursery.According to the statement, the first case involved 14 students from Escola dos Moradores de Macau on Avenida do Nordeste in Areia Preta. The statement noted that 10 boys and four girls, aged between eight and 12 years, came down with gastroenteritis.The second case, the

March 2, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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