Govt urges residents to use up their e-consumption funds by Feb 28

The government is reminding residents to use up any cash left from the third round of its e-consumption benefits scheme by February 28, as the amount not used by the deadline would be returned to the public coffers, the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) and the Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) said in a joint statement yesterday.The e-consumption benefits scheme, consisting of a start-up fund of 5,000 patacas and a discount grant of 3,000 patacas on resident’s e-consumption

February 14, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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IFTM faculty members win ‘JHTM Highly Commended Paper Award’

The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) said in a statement yesterday that four of its faculty members received the 2022 JHTM Highly Commended Paper Award from the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (JHTM) for their research article.According to the statement, the winning article is titled “Destination governance in times of crisis and the role of public-private partnerships in tourism recovery from Covid-19: The case of Macao”. The awardees are Penny Wan Yim King, Li

February 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Rainwater pumping station project’s 2nd phase at Inner Harbour starts, affecting traffic

Vehicular traffic in the southern area of the Inner Harbour district is being affected as the second phase of the government’s ongoing construction of a rainwater pumping station and box culverts there, which also includes improvements to the rainwater drainage network, began yesterday.The project is being carried out in three phases in total. The first phase got off the ground late last year.During a press conference on Friday, officials acknowledged that the pressure on traffic is expected

February 14, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Police warn public to beware of phony text messages from ‘telecom firms’

The Judiciary Police (PJ) are warning the public to beware of fraudulent text messages sent by purported telecom companies.According to a PJ statement on Saturday, the Judiciary Police have recently received several reports from residents that criminals claiming to be staff members of a local “telecom company” had sent them fraudulent text messages with links to a website, which falsely claimed that their bonus points were due to expire soon, so as to lure the victims to log into the bogus

February 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Observatory says today’s temperature to drop ‘significantly’

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement on Friday that as a cold front reaches the coast of Guangdong today, Valentine’s Day, the weather will change markedly, and that today’s temperature was expected to drop “significantly”, especially at night when a strong northerly wind is forecast.The observatory predicted that the mercury will drop to around 12 degrees Celsius in the middle of this week, and the weather is forecast to be mainly dry and clear in the

February 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police nab 2 for sham marriage

A man and a local woman who married in 2005 and divorced in 2011 were taken last week to a police station for questioning for their alleged involvement in a sham marriage, Public Security Police (PSP) Leong Chi Seng said at a regular press conference yesterday. According to Leong, the 52-year-old male suspect surnamed Cen is the owner of an electrical appliance shop, while the local female suspect surnamed Chan works in a restaurant. Cen was originally from the mainland but obtained a

February 14, 2023 | BY William Chan

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2 women fall for ‘fake police’ scams

In separate cases, two women from the mainland fell victim to “fake police” scams and have been defrauded out of a total of over 80,300 yuan (95,100 patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said at a regular press conference yesterday.The first victim is a university student in her twenties, while the second victim is a non-resident worker (NRW).According to Leng, the university student received a call on Friday from a man speaking Putonghua claiming that he was a police

February 14, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Portuguese lensman’s exhibition shows glimpses of Macau’s past & present

An exhibition and photo documentary project titled “O que foi não volta a ser...” by Portuguese photojournalist Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro is being held at the H2H Gallery on Estrada de Nossa Senhora de Ka-Ho, enabling the past and present to meet through 18 images of Macau.The title is translated as “what was doesn’t come back”.According to a recent statement by the gallery, Pinheiro acquired or borrowed old photographs of Macau from between 1930 and 1990. The photos were captured in

February 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Delegation from Cabo Verde visits UM

The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement yesterday that the public university was recently visited by a delegation from the Republic of Cabo Verde (aka Cape Verde), which was led by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Regional Integration Rui Figueiredo Soares.The delegation, the statement noted, also included Nuno Miguel Melo Furtado, “representative of Cape Verde to the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and

February 14, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Comuna de Pedra’s documentary underlines importance of inclusive art

Review by William Chan        Local art organisation Comuna de Pedra’s (“Stone Community”) documentary “On The Road”, directed by local filmmaker Kinkuan Chao, was shown on Saturday afternoon at Casa Garden on Praça Luis de Camões.“On The Road’’ features the life experiences of Ngai Tong Loi and Tang Kuai Lan, both suffering certain degrees of disability. The documentary features interviews with Ngai and Tang, as well as people around them.In the

February 14, 2023 | BY admin

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Over 16 million purchases to join ‘Consumption Carnival’ lucky draw next month: DSEDT

The Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) said in a statement yesterday that as of last Wednesday, more than 23,000 businesses had participated in the city’s first-ever citywide “Consumption Carnival”, generating about 1.33 billion patacas through the participants’ e-coupons, with over 16 million purchases to be automatically entered into the lucky draw for a one million pataca cash prize, and food and staycation prizes totalling three million patacas.The statement

February 14, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Hysteria on full show in the Hollywoodly hyping up of nonexistent espionage threat

China Daily Editorial        The United States is living its dream. Well a Hollywood one, at least. Defending itself from an invasion by UFOs. A US fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday in the fourth such downing in little more than a week. The unprecedented air defense activity in peacetime was triggered in late January when a Chinese meteorological research balloon transited the United States before fighter jets downed it off the

February 14, 2023 | BY admin

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Fight against virus should not slacken, it's not gone away

China Daily Opinion Page Harald Brüning        In traditional Chinese culture, the rabbit is regarded as the luckiest of the Chinese zodiac signs. It represents peace, longevity, prosperity, which all reasonable and sensible people look forward to.Chinese folklore considers the rabbit, the fourth in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac signs, a particularly gentle, kind, tender and particularly alert creature. All this appears to predict 2023 to be a year of hope.I

February 13, 2023 | BY admin

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Macau inks deal with Peking Union Medical College Hospital

The Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) government has signed an agreement with Peking Union Medical College Hospital (aka Beijing Xiehe Hospital) formalising the latter’s upcoming operation and management of the public hospital complex in Cotai, officially known as Islands Healthcare Complex.The agreement was signed by both sides at Government Headquarters on Friday, according to a Government Information Bureau (GCS) statement that day.“Islands” is the official term for Taipa,

February 13, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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