Lawmakers want to clarify scope of state secrets: Lei

Directly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 1st Standing Committee, said yesterday that her committee is urging the government to clarify the definition and the scope of state secrets, as her committee is reviewing a government-drafted bill defining state secrets and regulating their protection in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).Lei made the remarks during a press briefing after yesterday’s closed-door meeting by the

February 3, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Customs busts parallel-trading den, seizes 1.9 million-patacas worth of beauty products

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers raided a parallel-trading den yesterday at a shop in U I Kok Building in Toi Sa district, where they seized 5,600 beauty products worth about 1.9 million patacas and arrested a 43-year-old man allegedly involved in the den’s operation.The suspect failed to provide import licences and certificates of origin of the goods stored at the shop.A senior customs officer told reporters after inviting the media to witness customs officers busting the parallel-trading

February 3, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Enlarged AUKUS would fuel confrontation in the Asia-Pacific

China Daily Editorial        Responding to a question about the UK House of Commons Defence Select Committee raising the possibility of expanding AUKUS to include India and Japan at a routine briefing on Wednesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman called it an attempt to “provoke military confrontation through military cooperation”.The trilateral security partnership established by the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia is typical Cold War thinking,

February 3, 2023 | BY admin

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Casino revenue leaps 82.5 pct in Jan, after easing of COVID-19 curbs

Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) skyrocketed 82.5 percent year on year to 11.58 billion patacas last month, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) announced yesterday.Analysts said the steep increase – the biggest year-on-year growth since May 2010 when GGR rose 94.1 percent – was the direct result of the local government’s decision to abolish almost all COVID-19 restrictions from early last month.Last month’s GGR was the highest since January 2020, when it amounted to

February 2, 2023 | BY admin

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IC publishes book about memories of French travellers in Macau

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) announced in a recent statement that it has published a book in Portuguese titled “Memórias, Viagens e Viajantes Franceses por Macau (1609-1900)” by Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, which the bureau translated as “French Memories, Travels and Travellers in Macau (1609-1900)”.According to the statement, the book is the result of nearly a decade of primary research in central, regional, and private libraries and archives in France. It is divided into four volumes,

February 2, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Airport Post Office to reopen tomorrow

The Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) said in a statement yesterday that the Airport Post Office, which is located in Macau International Airport’s departure hall, will reopen tomorrow.The statement noted that the office will be open from Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and can be contacted by calling 2886 1465.For more enquiries, the statement said that one can call the CTT’s Sales and Retail Division on 8396 8815 during office hours.The post office was closed due to

February 2, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Internships launched for local graduates in Fuzhou: DSAL

The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) and Fuzhou-based Newland Technology Group have jointly launched an internship programme open to applications from Macau residents, aged 35 or below, who graduated from a tertiary education institution between 2019 and 2022, providing 30 vacancies involving the technologies of digital, automatic identification, payment systems, and communications.The applications are being accepted from now through February 15, according to a press conference that was held

February 2, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Car turns turtle on Lotus Flower Bridge

A car turned turtled on the Lotus Flower Bridge yesterday evening when it was travelling from Cotai to the Hengqin border checkpoint, causing the driver to be slightly injured, the authorities said.According to statements from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) and the Public Security Police (PSP), the accident occurred at around 7 p.m. yesterday, when the car crashed into road barriers and then flipped over.The 29-year-old driver managed to get out of his car unaided, and told paramedics that he

February 2, 2023 | BY admin

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Macau has fewer lawyers than before COVID-19 pandemic: legislator

Indirectly-elected lawmaker Vong Hin Fai, the newly-elected president of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), said yesterday that around 440 people are currently registered as lawyers in Macau, a decrease from the around 500 before the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect Macau in early 2020.Vong made the remarks while speaking to reporters during yesterday’s Spring Festival Lunch hosted by the legislature for local Chinese-, English- and Portuguese-language media representatives at MGM Macau in

February 2, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau just logs 1 new COVID-19 patient admitted to isolation & treatment

Just one new patient diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease was 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 3,488, of which 3,357 had meanwhile been cured.Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll has remained unchanged at

February 2, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Buskers perform during Chinese New Year

Local pop musicians GINNIE* and Alex Chan, multi-instrumentalist Ao Chon Fai and pop duo mImIfAfA told The Macau Post Daily last week about their busking experiences during the Chinese New Year.The busking programme, launched by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) in 2016, allows certified artistes to perform in four designated areas – the Taipa-Houses Museum, Mount Fortress Garden, Barra Square in front of Ma Kok Temple, and Anim’Arte Nam Van.The street performance programme aims to provide a

February 2, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Noise complaint leads to restaurateur’s bust for selling booze

A restaurant owner was arrested for selling alcoholic beverages without the proper licence, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a 37-year-old local man surnamed Iun.According to Chong, the Public Security Police received a report from a local resident at 11 p.m. on Tuesday that there was too much noise coming from a restaurant in Rua de Espectação de Almeida. Police officers who arrived at the

February 2, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Police nab HK septuagenarian for 200,000 pataca scam in 2018

A 71-year-old Hong Kong woman was arrested on Monday for her alleged involvement in scamming a local teenager in 2018, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a regular press conference yesterday.Ho identified the suspect as a woman surnamed Lui who told the police she’s jobless.According to Ho, the female victim, 15 years old at the time, fell for a phone scam on January 14, 2018 about an “unsuccessful parcel delivery” as it had purportedly been confiscated by “mainland

February 2, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Customs catches 25-year-old mainlander smuggling 1,800 ‘bear-bile dripping pills’

The Macau Customs Service (SA) said in a statement on Tuesday that its officers caught a 25-year-old mainland man carrying a large cardboard box earlier that day at the Qingmao checkpoint in Ilha Verde during his attempt to smuggle 30 boxes containing 1,800 “bear-bile dripping pills” (“熊胆滴丸” in Chinese).According to the statement, the ingredients of the medicine contain items listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and

February 2, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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