Travel trade can now access MGTO services in ‘Macao One Account’

The local travel trade can access the Macau Government Tourism Office’s (MGTO) online services through the “Macau One Account” starting today, according to an MGTO statement yesterday.The statement noted that licence holders of MGTO-regulated businesses such as hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and travel agencies can log onto the Macao One account to access MGTO’s online services that are on the “Macao Tourism Industry Net”.The statement said that they then can conduct licence

March 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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TikTok target of anti-China paranoia

China Daily Editorial        The furor in the United States over so-called Chinese spying, sparked by the Joe Biden administration’s botched response to an errant Chinese meteorological research balloon, has been given a new lease on life, with the White House on Monday giving government agencies 30 days to remove the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from all federal devices and systems, alleging that it poses national security risks.Canada, which always toes the US’

March 1, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt announces facemask-wearing guidelines for public servants & public admin premises

The Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP), which is tasked with overseeing the government’s public servants, has announced that public servants are no longer required to wear a facemask when working in their “internal” offices or workplaces, i.e., office spaces or areas where services are not provided to members of the public.Concerning all other indoor venues where public servants meet service users, according to the SAFP announcement, it is up to the respective bureaus

February 28, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Sands Gallery displays 60 works by Zhaoying Zhang & Sisi Wong

An exhibition titled “Illumination – Zhaoying Zhang & Sisi Wong Dual Solo Exhibition” is currently showcasing nearly 60 works by the two artists at Sands Gallery, a permanent art space on the 6th floor of the The Grand Suites at Four Seasons.According to a statement by the gallery, Zhang and Wong were first-prize winners in the painting and photography categories respectively in the “Time is on My Side – 2021 Greater Bay Area Young Artists Scheme” launched by Sands China in

February 28, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local man steals crash helmet left on motorbike: police

A local man was arrested on Friday for stealing a crash helmet left on a motorcycle, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a 62-year-old man surnamed Chan. He told the police that he’s jobless.According to Wong, the police received a report from a resident on February 17 that her crash helmet, worth around 800 patacas, had been stolen. The victim said that she had left the helmet buckled to the

February 28, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Govt suspends imports of live oysters with norovirus from US

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that it has suspended imports of problematic live rock oysters after detecting norovirus genes in a shipment from a US source exported to Macau via Hong Kong.​According to the statement, the live rock oysters found to contain the norovirus gene were exported by Peale Passage WA-0295-SP, an oyster farming area in the United States.Peale Passage is a channel in the southern part of Puget Sound in the US state of Washington.The

February 28, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Pair & their mums nabbed for sham marriage

A man and a woman, as well as their respective mothers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a sham marriage, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong said the male mainland suspect is surnamed Wang, aged 29. He told the police that he’s a businessman. Wang’s 52-year-old mother, surnamed Chong, is a local accountant. The third local suspect surnamed Kat, aged 22, told the police that she’s jobless. Kat’s

February 28, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Lawmakers pass bill allowing non-residents to work as CSOs

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed a government-initiated bill aiming to protect construction workers’ rights, which states that non-residents can work as construction safety officers (CSOs) where there is appropriate justification for their employment.During yesterday’s plenary debate in the legislature’s hemicycle, Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong said that as construction technology is changing rapidly, it could not be ruled out that complex construction

February 28, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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People voice different views on easing of facemask-wearing rules: vox pop

People in Macau are no longer requested to wear a facemask outdoors, and The Macau Post Daily interviewed some of them yesterday to hear their views on the matter.The Macau government announced the easing, which took effect yesterday, on Sunday.‘Wearing facemask has become a habit’Yu, a male casino employee who wore a facemask yesterday, said that he would continue to put on a facemask for at least the next two weeks. Yu was quick to add that he was not worried about COVID-19, but “just

February 28, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei, Rui Pastorin

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Garden burials to be available from tomorrow: IAM

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that in order to continue to promote the local development of eco-friendly funeral services and to provide a wider range of eco-friendly funeral options for the public, the bureau will launch “garden burial services” tomorrow.The garden burial services will be available at the Garden of Remembrance in the Taipa Sa Kong Municipal Cemetery on Estrada Almirante Magalhães Correia, providing about 400 graves, according to the

February 28, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Horta da Mitra market closes today for renovation

The acting chief of the Municipal Affairs Bureau’s (IAM) Hygiene Supervision, Leong Cheok Man, announced yesterday that the Horta da Mitra wet market will close today for a renovation project starting next month, during which all stallholders will suspend their business operations.All stallholders will move out of the market by today, Leong added.The Horta da Mitra Municipal Market (Jeuk Jai Yun – “Little Bird Garden” – in Cantonese), built in 1939, is located near Rua do Campo.Leong

February 28, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Coco Zhao’s musicians deliver spectacular sound

Review by William Chan        Coco Zhao and six of his music friends completed their performance at the Grand Auditorium of the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape on Saturday. It has been many years since the CCM has held a jazz concert with non-local musicians at its auditoria.Inspired by Shidaiqu [“songs of the era”] in 1920s Shanghai, Zhao fused Western and Chinese elements into his music and created exciting, impressive and spectacular sounds that won the

February 28, 2023 | BY admin

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Hotel guests in Jan rise 59 pct to 819,000

Macau’s 125 hotels and inns received 819,000 guests last month, a year-on-year growth of 59.6 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday. The number of guests from the mainland (646,000) and Hong Kong (105,000) rose by 54.9 percent and 484,4 percent respectively. The number of local staycationers fell by 31.0 percent to 47,000. Mainlanders accounted of 78.9 percent of all guests. Guests’ average length of stay decreased by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights. The

February 28, 2023 | BY admin

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Countries clinging to Cold War mentality are prolonging the conflict in Ukraine

China Daily Editorial        On Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets in central Berlin to protest against the German government’s decision to supply more weapons to Ukraine and to urge it to de-escalate the crisis by paving the way for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia instead. Similar protests also took place in other German and European cities over the weekend.The protests are a clear indication of the fact that more and more people in Europe now

February 28, 2023 | BY admin

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