Drunken civil servant’s car turns turtle, refuses breathalyser

A civil servant who works for the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) whose car crashed into another car on Friday was arrested after refusing to be breathalysed, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheuk Kou Chi said at a press conference yesterday. Cheuk identified the suspect as a local man surnamed Choi in his fifties.According to Cheuk, Choi’s car crashed into a car parked at the kerb in Largo da Companhia near the Ruins of St Paul’s on Friday night, causing his

February 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Money changer hits & robs counterpart: police

A currency exchange dealer from the mainland was arrested on Monday for attacking and robbing another money changer, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai and Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheuk Kou Chi said at a special press conference yesterday.The 40-year-old suspect surnamed Lo came to Macau on February 1 with another currency exchange dealer surnamed He and they shared a hotel guestroom in Zape. The victim surnamed Chao is also from the mainland. According to Cheuk,

February 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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HK lecturer lies about stolen backpack

A Hong Kong university lecturer has been arrested after he falsely reported to police that his backpack had been stolen by a man when he was taking a rest in Largo de Monte Carlo in the wee hours of Sunday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheuk Kou Chi said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Chen is in his thirties.After the police received Chen’s report, they began scrutinising their CCTV citywide camera system but could neither see Chen nor the purported thief

February 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Local man pilfers camera & bag left in taxi

A local man has been arrested for stealing a camera bag with a camera inside that he found in a taxi, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheuk Kou Chi said at a press conference yesterday.Cheuk said that the 30-year-old suspect surnamed Ho is a clerk. According to Cheuk, a man reported to the police recently that he had forgotten to take his camera bag containing a camera with him when he got out of a taxi at a hotel on the peninsula. He said that the camera bag, the camera and the

February 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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UM student wins 1st prize in postgrad maths contest

Postgraduate student Huang Hongliang from the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology’s (FST) Department of Mathematics recently won the first prize at the ‘Huawei Cup – the 19th China Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling’, the public university said in a statement on Tuesday.The contest, the statement noted, drew a total of 17,970 teams from over 400 universities and research institutes worldwide.The statement said that each team had three members, with

February 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau logs just 2 new COVID-19 patients on Tuesday

Just two new patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease were admitted to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) isolation and treatment facilities on Tuesday, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced yesterday.According to the Health Bureau’s COVID-19 website, which was updated yesterday, Macau’s official cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stood at 3,505, of which 3,371 had meanwhile been cured.Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll has remained unchanged

February 9, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Mainlander nabbed for involvement in online currency exchange scam

A man from the mainland has been arrested for his involvement in an online currency exchange scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said at a press conference on Monday.The 41-year-old suspect surnamed Yeh is a hairdresser. The victim was a local man in his thirties.According to Lou, the victim was introduced to a WeChat user named “Lung Ng” [龍五] by his friend in early January, after which they stuck a deal to exchange NT$400,000 (107,690 patacas) into HK$100,290 in cash.

February 9, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Residential property price index drops 4.8 pct in 2022

Macau’s overall average residential property price index dropped 4.8 percent year on year in 2022, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. The indices for existing residential units and pre-sale residential units fell 5.3 percent and 0.1 percent respectively year on year. The overall residential property price index in the fourth quarter of last year decreased 1.3 percent from the previous quarter. The indices for existing residential units and pre-sale

February 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Venetian Theatre to show famed ballet ‘Yimeng’

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that the ballet titled “Yimeng” (沂蒙) by the National Ballet of China (NBC) will be staged at the Venetian Theatre of The Venetian Macao resort in Cotai from February 18-19 at 8pm.According to Wikipedia, NBC is also known as the “Central Ballet Troupe” and was founded in 1959.The statement noted that Yimeng is a Chinese story in an “elegant and eloquent presentation of western ballet”, adding that during the war, many

February 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau Int’l 10K race slated for March: sports chief

The “2023 Sands China Macau Internal 10K” race, co-organised by the Sports Bureau (ID) and the General Association of Athletics of Macau, will take place on March 19, ID President Pun Weng Kun said in a speech during a press conference yesterday at The Londoner Macao in Cotai.Pun pointed out that the race has become another major sports event in Macau, adding he believed that the race will fully play its role in promoting the city and its “sports tourism”, attract runners from different

February 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGTO sets aside 118 million patacas for tour groups’ subsidies

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has reserved a budget of 650 million patacas this year for expanding the local tourism industry, which will be allocated according to market conditions, MGTO Deputy Director Cheng Wai Tong said yesterday, adding that part of the budget, 118 million patacas, has been set aside for its subsidy programme for group tours, including those from the mainland, Taiwan and foreign visitors, the effectiveness of which will be reviewed early next month.Cheng noted

February 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Principal guest conductor Yeh Tsung helms Macao Chinese Orchestra

Interview by William Chan        Yeh Tsung, who has joined the Macao Chinese Orchestra (OCHM) as the principal guest conductor and artistic advisor recently, told The Macau Post Daily last month in an online interview about his experiences and perspectives – as well as visions for leading the Macao Chinese Orchestra.Born in Shanghai in 1950, Yeh started to learn piano at the age of five and studied Piano and Conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory for 14 years. Yeh then

February 9, 2023 | BY admin

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US will never win competition with China through dirty tricks

China Daily Editorial        In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden reiterated that the United States seeks competition not conflict with China.Although that makes his administration’s China policy appear more focused and balanced than the administration’s earlier clarion call based on competition, cooperation and confrontation, it is fundamentally unchanged. For that reason, the US’ competition with China is essentially different from

February 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Highlights of new regulations of Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone

The new regulations for promoting the development of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin were officially released by the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress in Guangzhou today and will take effect at the beginning of next month (March 1). The regulations cover the zone's administration system and its planning, construction and management, as well as industrial development. The nine infographics below show the regulations'

February 8, 2023 | BY admin

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