China’s ‘twin miracles’ of growth & stability – Editorial

Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech during a meeting with the press in Beijing yesterday contained a raft of upbeat messages but also some broad hints – for the West in particular. Xi, who started yesterday his third five-year term at the helm of the world’s largest and one of its oldest political parties, underlined that thanks to four decades of “relentless” reform and opening-up, China “has created the twin miracles of fast economic growth

October 24, 2022 | BY admin

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Xi reaffirms complementarity between overall jurisdiction and high degree of autonomy – Editorial

Editorial        Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s reaffirmed on Sunday in his speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the opening session of the Party’s 20th National Congress the complementarity between the nation’s overall jurisdiction over Macau and Macau’s high degree of autonomy. “We will ensure both the central government’s overall jurisdiction and a high degree of autonomy in the special administrative

October 18, 2022 | BY admin

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Thanks for your trust and support – Editorial

Editorial        The Macau Post Daily – Macau’s oldest English-language newspaper and one of our city’s top circulation dailies – celebrated its 18th anniversary on Saturday.In Chinese numerology, 18 (“shi ba”) is deemed a lucky number due to the similarity of its pronunciation with “shi fa” – getting rich for sure.Well, we haven’t got rich but we have been lucky in gaining our readers and advertisers’ trust and support since we launched our newspaper

August 29, 2022 | BY admin

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Solid bids needed to turn adversity into opportunity – Editorial

Editorial        Macau’s financially indispensable gaming industry has entered a new phase at a time of great adversity – an invitation to tender.  Of course, local casino operators have been used to periods of adversity and serendipity since Macau’s then Portuguese rulers authorised Macau’s first gaming business – a fantan joint – in 1849.*Fantan (“repeated divisions”) is played by placing two handfuls of buttons or other small objects on a gaming table

August 15, 2022 | BY admin

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Pelosi’s trip to ‘Beautiful Island’ is gratuitously provocative – Editorial

Editorial        US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to China’s “Beautiful Island” is political arson that can be expected to leave Sino-US relations disfigured by burn scars for years to come. I read an article yesterday morning by Taipei-based former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy in the online Foreign Policy news magazine about the controversial visit, headlined “What Does Nancy Pelosi Think She’s Doing in Taiwan?”Like Mike I would like to know her

August 3, 2022 | BY admin

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Let’s all be avid consolidators to trounce BA.5.1 – Editorial

Editorial        I greeted the start of our city’s consolidation period in fighting the current outbreak of COVID-19 by having a haircut at 1 a.m. on Saturday.That’s our treasured Macau.I had heard through the grapevine in the middle of last week that some business-savvy hairdressers were planning to reopen their salons at the stroke of midnight on Saturday, the official start of the consolidation period. Then an acquaintance told me that one of the 50-pataca-per-haircut

July 25, 2022 | BY admin

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Extra stamina needed for final spurt – Editorial

Editorial        The latest epidemic statistics indicate that Macau is finally entering the final stretch of vanquishing its monthlong outbreak of the particularly contagious Omicron BA.5.1 outbreak.As in any race, extra stamina is needed for the final spurt.As I wrote in my editorial a week ago – just let’s tough it out. And that’s what, according to what I observed last week, almost all of us did.That’s why the government’s first three phases in its ongoing

July 18, 2022 | BY admin

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Let’s just tough it out – Editorial

Editorial        This week will see Macau’s toughest anti-COVID-19 control and prevention measures since the nasty virus began to impact our daily lives back in early 2020. Let’s be realistic, practical and pragmatic when dealing with this week’s predicament – let’s just tough it out. Moaning, wailing and whining about it doesn’t help. It only makes this unfortunate condition – which is trying enough – even worse. That’s the last thing that we need

July 11, 2022 | BY admin

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Xi’s HK speech reaffirms long-term durability of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ – Editorial

Editorial         President Xi Jinping reaffirmed the long-term durability of the “One Country, Two Systems” principle in his address at a meeting in Hong Kong celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the 6th-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday. The speech was both programmatic and pragmatic. Its English-language version consists of about 3,000 words,

July 4, 2022 | BY admin

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Maskless menaces must be dealt with – Editorial

Editorial        Even though our city is in the midst of its most serious COVID-19 crisis since the pandemic started to rear its ugly head some 2 ½ years ago, there are still quite a lot of people who don’t wear a facemask at all or wear it incorrectly. It’s shocking, ridiculous and, most of all, irresponsible. It should be a punishable offence, considering that maskless menaces are morons endangering public health. In a worst-case scenario, their behaviour can

June 27, 2022 | BY admin

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Swift response the right way to tackle COVID-19 outbreak – Editorial

Editorial         The government’s decidedly swift response to this weekend’s COVID-19 outbreak is absolutely the right way to come to grips with the nasty virus.I have only heard praise from friends, acquaintances and strangers about the government’s quick action to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. Mass nucleic acid testing stations were speedily set up on Sunday and many, if not most, restaurants have heeded the government’s advice to refrain from

June 21, 2022 | BY admin

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Congratulating Ta Kung Pao – Editorial

Editorial        Ta Kung Pao, reputed to be the world’s oldest existent Chinese-language newspaper, hosted a grand ceremony at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Sunday to celebrate the 120th anniversary of its founding. President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter, which was read out at the ceremony by Luo Huining, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong. As reported by our newspaper on Monday, Xi

June 16, 2022 | BY admin

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Wang Yi’s Pacific tour proves China’s equality-based diplomacy – Editorial

Editorial         In my view, Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent 10-day tour of seven Pacific island nations, which included Timor-Leste, proved, once again, China’s long-standing practice of equality-based diplomacy. While some Western governments and media tried hard to play up the marathon tour’s allegedly ulterior security designs, its outcome shows that it turned out to be remarkably consensual and pacific. All of the Pacific island nations were

June 13, 2022 | BY admin

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Dynamism – the right way to fight COVID-19 – Editorial

Editorial        World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated last week his controversial claim that China’s dynamic zero-COVID approach was “unsustainable” because of the highly infectious nature of the Omicron variant. However, this time he qualified his remarks by quickly adding that it was up to every country to decide what policy [to fight the novel coronavirus] to pursue. Yes, indeed. Actually, zero-COVID is a public

May 23, 2022 | BY admin

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