2025 GEG Lusofonia Festival to kick off tonight

The two-weekend “2025 GEG Lusofonia Festival” will start tonight at 7 p.m. at Taipa Houses, again showcasing the culture of Portuguese-speaking communities in Macau through a raft of activities, cultural booths, gastronomy, dance and music performances in its colourful programme.This year marks the festival’s 28th edition. The event is sponsored by integrated resort operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG).Held in parallel with the 7th Encounter in Macau – Arts and Cultural Festival

October 24, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Artletics’ exhibition blends sport & sculpture at Macau's COD resort

Currently on view at integrated resort City of Dreams (COD) in Cotai, the exhibition “Artletics” by French artist Laurent Perbos* transforms everyday sports into contemporary art, aiming to offer exhibitors an experience that connects athletic movement with aesthetic expression.Drawing from the ancient Greek ideal where art and athletics reflected one another, the exhibition reinterprets modern sports through Perbos’s signature concepts of “displacement” and “distortion,”

October 24, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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CPC plenum concludes, adopting recommendations for China’s 15th Five-Year Plan

BEIJING – The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing from Monday to yesterday.Participants at the session deliberated over and adopted the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, according to a communique of the session released on Thursday.The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee presided over the meeting. Xi Jinping, general

October 24, 2025 | BY admin

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Communiqué of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC

   BEIJING – The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded its fourth plenary session yesterday in Beijing with a communiqué issued.   The following is the full text of the communique:   Communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China   Adopted at the fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on October 23,

October 24, 2025 | BY Xinhua

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Macau health promotion group urges govt to set up 24/7 centralised dementia care centre

The Healthy Macau Association (澳門健康協會) hosted a lunch banquet yesterday aiming to talk about the benefits of exercise for preventing dementia and maintaining hearing health, according to a statement released during the banquet.The banquet was held at Plaza Restaurant in Zape.The association’s president, Kong Wai Sam, acknowledged in a speech the usefulness of the government’s services for the elderly but also made a new proposal. Kong urged the government to plan and set up

October 23, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau police bust 2 illegal currency exchange dealers

The Judiciary Police (PJ) separately arrested two men from the mainland on Monday and Tuesday respectively for engaging in illegal currency exchange activities, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chong identified the suspects as a 33-year-old male surnamed Guan and a 32-year-old male surnamed Chen, both of whom claimed to be jobless.According to Chong, PJ officers on patrol in a casino in Cotai on Tuesday noticed that Guan was acting suspiciously. The

October 23, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Macau govt urges citizens not to install balcony grilles

According to a statement released yesterday by the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU), advertisements promoting balcony grille installation services have recently surfaced on social media and video platforms, openly endorsing illegal activities.Consequently, the bureau urged citizens not to take chances by engaging with these illegal services.The statement noted that the bureau has been closely monitoring advertisements for private engineering services. Recently, multiple

October 23, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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C-PLPEX, MIF & MFE triple fairs kick off at The Venetian Macao

The 2nd China-Portuguese-Speaking Countries Economic and Trade Expo (2nd C-PLPEX), the 30th Macao International Trade & Investment Fair (30th MIF) and the Macao Franchise Expo 2025 (2025MFE) all kicked off yesterday morning at The Venetian Macao, with the four-day event running through Saturday and featuring more than 1,100 exhibitors showcasing their products and services during the period.Among the guests officiating at yesterday’s joint opening ceremony were Chief Executive Sam Hou

October 23, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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CreatorWeek Macao 2025 ‘ambassadors’ gear up to showcase city’s creative ‘tourism +’

According to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) yesterday, with “CreatorWeek Macao 2025” kicking off tomorrow, 20 local “ambassadors” are preparing to welcome international creators and highlight Macau’s special blend of tourism, culture and creativity through immersive experiences and collaborative storytelling.Jointly organised by MGTO and international media production company Branded, CreatorWeek Macao 2025 will be held from tomorrow through next Tuesday,

October 23, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau police vehicle flips on its side in Cotai, driver slightly injured

A Judiciary Police (PJ) vehicle flipped on its side near a roundabout in Cotai yesterday, slightly injuring its driver, the authorities said.No passengers were in the vehicle when the accident occurred.According to statements by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) and the Public Security Police (PSP), the accident occurred near Rotunda Flor de Lótus (蓮花圓形地) at around midday yesterday, the roundabout near the Studio City casino-hotel resort and the Macao Union Hospital complex.No other

October 23, 2025 | BY admin

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'Contributing a Vivid Example of China’s Governance to the Development of the Global Women’s Cause'

By Liu Xianfa, Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative RegionThe Global Leader’s Meeting on Women with the theme of “One Shared Future: New and Accelerated Process For Women’s All-round Development”, was grandly held in Beijing from October 13th to 14th, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and discussing ways to promote the global women’s cause. President Xi Jinping

October 23, 2025 | BY admin

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Macau's cultural heritage centre to reopen with new exhibits next week

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Tuesday that the “Centre of Preservation and Transmission for Cultural Heritage of the Palace Museum in Macao” in Nape will be closed from tomorrow through Monday to show new exhibits of the “Forbidden City Architecture Conservation Exhibition”.The centre is located on the ground floor of the Macao Museum of Art (MAM).The current exhibition is the centre’s first since its inauguration in November last year. The centre itself is

October 23, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Over 3,700 fined in Macau for illegal smoking in Jan-Sept, up 30 pct year on year

Anti-smoking inspectors fined 3,744 people for illegally puffing away in the first nine months of this year, the Health Bureau (SSM) has announced.The number reported in the first three quarters of this year represented a year-on-year increase of 30.1 percent from the 2,877 recorded in the same period of last year.The bureau announced Macau’s anti-smoking data for the first nine months of this year in a statement on Tuesday.In Macau, smoking is banned in all indoor public venues and

October 23, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Zhuhai's Gongbei Customs seizes 49 plants, 55 kg of tobacco

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs announced in a statement yesterday that its officers at Jiuzhou Port seized 49 plants, including 12 listed as endangered. According to the statement, on September 3, customs officers at the Jiuzhou Port Export Cross-Border E-Commerce Channel discovered anomalies in the X-ray images while inspecting two packages declared as “artificial potted plants.” The inspection revealed 49 plants wrapped in multiple layers of toilet paper inside the

October 23, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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