Sanctions won’t crush China’s hi-tech rise

China Daily Editorial        To further strangle China’s technology sector, the United States is reportedly considering banning all sales to Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei by US suppliers, including Intel and Qualcomm.Such a move would tighten the restrictions already imposed by Washington on sales to Huawei in 2019 on the unwarranted grounds of national security concerns. US suppliers have since then had to ask for government approval to sell their

February 2, 2023 | BY admin

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China’s economy off to good start amid new-phase COVID response

Commentary        BEIJING – China’s economy has gotten off to a good start in 2023, as shown by encouraging indicators ranging from tourism and box office revenues to the purchasing managers’ index (PMI).During the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, mainland China saw nearly 2.9 million cross-border trips, up 120.5 percent year on year, and 308 million domestic trips, up 23.1 percent and back to 88.6 percent of the 2019 level for the same period. The country’s box

February 2, 2023 | BY admin

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Washington’s WTO farce bane for global trade order

Commentary by Xinhua writer Dong Yue        BEIJING – The United States claims it cherishes “rules,” and has peddled a “rules-based international order.” But when it comes to rules inconsistent with American interests, the United States does not hesitate to break them.After the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled against the United States in December 2022, Washington has recently appealed those rulings to the Appellate Body. Although WTO members have the right of

February 2, 2023 | BY admin

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Gaming receipts shoot up 82.5 pct in January, 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) has announced today.Analysts said the huge increase - the biggest year-on-year growth since May 2010 when GGR rose 94.1 percent - was the direct result of the 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 22.1

February 1, 2023 | BY admin

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6th round of RAT kit purchase scheme to start on Friday

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday that the government’s sixth round of its rapid antigen test (RAT) kit purchase scheme will start on Friday.The same as previous rounds, the sixth round of the programme will run for 14 days, between Friday and February 16, during which each local resident, non-resident worker and non-local student enrolled in Macau’s higher education institutions will be entitled to buy a total of 10 RAT kits at the

February 1, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Promoter hopes locals pay more attention to shadow play & puppetry

Local shadow play promoter António M.L. Inácio told The Macau Post Daily in an online interview yesterday that a shadow play and puppetry artwork exhibition currently being held by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) was a good chance to strengthen residents’ understanding of Chinese folklore. However, he was quick to add he believed that the exhibition was not being publicised enough. Inácio is the president of the Macau Shadow Play Association. The exhibition, “Reflective

February 1, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau hotels log 5.1 million guests in 2022

Macau’s 123 hotels recorded 5.1 million guests last year, a year-on-year drop of 22.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.Mainland Chinese, whose number fell 28.1 percent to 3.8 million, accounted for three quarters of all hotel guests. The number of local staycationers rose 1.5 percent to 907,000. Staycationers accounted for nearly 18 percent of all hotel guests.Guests’ length of stay remained unchanged at 1.8 nights.Hotels’ average room occupancy rate dropped

February 1, 2023 | BY admin

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Grand Prix Museum draws over 4,000 visitors during CNY Golden Week: MGTO

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that during the Chinese New Year (CNY) Golden Week of January 21-27, the Macau Grand Prix Museum in Zape recorded 4,289 visitors, an increase of 235 percent over the same holiday period, some 83 percent of them non-local residents.The statement added that the highest number of visitors to the museum during the Golden Week was recorded on the fourth and fifth days of the CNY last Wednesday and Thursday, with more than 800

February 1, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Light Up Macao 2022’ to continue till Sunday

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that with the aim of extending the city’s festive atmosphere and injecting vitality into different neighbourhoods’ economies, parts of the installations of the “Light Up Macao 2022” event will be retained until the Lantern Festival on Sunday, enabling more residents and visitors to take photos and splash out in the neighbourhoods.The statement reconfirmed that the third firework display in celebration of this

February 1, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Tap Siac Craft Market calls for stall operators & handicraft workshops

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that it is calling for stall operators and creative handicraft workshops for the Tap Siac Craft Market in the spring, which is slated to be held from April 20-23 and April 27-30 in Praça do Tap Seac.“Tap Siac” is the bureau’s alternate spelling for “Tap Seac”.The craft market, the statement noted, will be held four days a week from Thursday through Sunday in the square for two consecutive weeks. It will have over 220

February 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local airport welcomes over 76,000 passengers over CNY

Macau International Airport welcomed over 76,000 passengers during the Chinese New Year from January 22-29 (the first to the eighth day of the Lunar Year), an 80 percent surge compared with the corresponding holiday period last year, Macau International Airport Company Limited (CAM) said in a statement yesterday.The statement noted that flight movements increased by 47 percent to 620. There are currently 20 routes connecting Macau to mainland destinations such as Beijing, Changzhou, Chengdu,

February 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau, HK & Jiangmen during the CNY holiday

MacauHong KongJiangmenPhotos taken by Rui Pastorin, William Chan and Ginnie Liang during the Chinese New Year holiday

February 1, 2023 | BY admin

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Observatory predicts cloudy & rainy weather on Fri-Sat

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday that with the weakening of a winter monsoon, an easterly airstream was expected to affect Macau in the mid to late part of this week, and that clouds would gradually increase leading to rain, adding that the precipitation would be more frequent on Friday and Saturday.While temperatures are predicted to rise later this week, the weather station forecast that it will be windy along the coast of Guangdong due to the

February 1, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Yourpay’ not an authorised app for financial activities: AMCM

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) announced in a statement on Friday that the “Yourpay” application is not an authorised app for conducting any regulated financial activities in Macau.According to its website, Yourpay is “a mobile banking service for Indonesian migrant workers overseas and their families”.Macau’s quasi-central bank noted in the statement that it was aware of the application’s use by members of the public to carry out money transfers from Macau to Indonesia and its

February 1, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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