No. of new COVID-19 patients continues to drop: govt

Macau’s daily number of new COVID-19 patients admitted to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) isolation and treatment facilities continues to be on the decline, recent and yesterday’s official figures indicated.Official figures released yesterday showed that 17 new COVID-19 patients were admitted to the facilities on Tuesday. Recent official figures showed that the new daily number of COVID-19 patients admitted to the isolation and treatment facilities began to decline over last weekend.From Friday

January 12, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Mainlander nabbed for spreading rumours on social media: police 

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday that a mainland businessman was arrested when entering Macau through the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Monday evening for spreading rumours on a social media platform about a robbery-murder case involving an illegal currency exchange deal in a hotel in Cotai.The 44-year-old suspect, who frequently travelled to and from Macau for business, is surnamed Yang, according to Chan.Chan noted that on August 8, a

January 12, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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CCM to host ‘Coco Zhao Jazz Concert’ & ‘Track’ dance performance

The Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) will host the Coco Zhao Jazz Concert at its Grand Auditorium next month, while a contemporary dance performance titled “Track” created by renowned  mainland Chinese choreographer Hou Ying is set to be held in March, according to the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC).Slated for February 25, the statement noted that Coco Zhao (趙可) and his six-piece band will aim to recreate the atmospheres of the 1920s Shanghainese cabarets and “American speakeasies of

January 12, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Iao Hon carnival aims to create ‘good & stable’ environment

The annual “Jointly Creating a New Environment for the Community” carnival will be held in Iao Hon Market Park from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, with the aim of further enhancing public awareness of crime prevention and strengthening cooperation between the government and residents to jointly create a good and stable living environment, as well as to build a safe, healthy and harmonious community through a raft of interesting activities, the organisers said during a press conference

January 12, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local orchestras to play classic tunes at São Domingos Church from tomorrow

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that it will be launching a new programme titled “Unforgettable melodies in St. Dominic’s Church”, which will have the Macao Orchestra, the Macao Chinese Orchestra, local musicians and groups performing classic tunes at the church known in Portuguese as São Domingos and in Cantonese as “Muihgwai Tong” (“Rose Church”).The statement noted that the church, which is located near the city’s main square, Largo do Senado,

January 12, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local artist Benson Lam displays his ‘paper engineering’ artwork

Local artist Benson Lam Iam Sang is holding an exhibition sponsored by the Centre for Creative Industries at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) complex, entitled “Geometric and Tetrahedron in paper engineering”, until Saturday next week.The exhibition brochure issued by the organiser, states that in geometry a tetrahedron, also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges and four vortex corners.The Macau Post Daily spoke to Lam at the

January 12, 2023 | BY Lesley Wells

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Rider steals card holder he found on street: police

A man has been arrested for finding and keeping a card holder containing a MacauPass in the street, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Leong is in his twenties.According to Lai, a resident reported to the police on October 18 last year that he had lost a black card holder containing his MacauPass two days before in Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira. The victim reported an estimated loss of 2,300 patacas.After

January 12, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Indonesian NRW busted for selling cocaine

An Indonesian woman was arrested on Tuesday night for selling cocaine and money laundering, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said at a special press conference yesterday.Chan identified the 42-year-old suspect as a hotel room attendant surnamed Diyanti. She had been working in the hotel for eight years.According to Chan, the Judiciary Police were tipped off recently that a South Asian woman was selling drugs in Rua do Campo. PJ officers took action on Tuesday and intercepted the

January 12, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Govt explains newborns’ breastfeeding situation at public hospital during COVID-19 wave

Responding to some residents’ concerns about mothers currently being unable to breastfeed their newborns or to see them for over 24 hours after giving birth at the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that in order to effectively deal with the recent COVID-19 wave, the hospital has been forced to adjust its medical resources and increase the number of beds to treat COVID-19 patients. Consequently, the statement said, the

January 12, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man cheats 19-year-old out of HK$50,000 by ‘guaranteeing’ casino winnings

A mainlander has been arrested for scamming a 19-year-old male by claiming that he could help him enter a casino and guarantee that he would win money for him, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.Chan said the 56-year-old jobless suspect is surnamed Sun.According to Chan, the victim, 19 years old at the time, gave Sun HK$50,000 in May 2019 as he believed him. Later on, the two attempted to enter a casino in Cotai, but the victim was

January 12, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Driver without licence ignores roadblock, traffic lights: police

A local man has been arrested for refusing to stop at a police roadblock and jumping three traffic lights during a car chase, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said at a press conference yesterday.Lai said that the suspect surnamed Ku is in his twenties.According to Lai, Ku refused to stop at the roadblock in Rua das Lorchas about 2 a.m. on Sunday after police officers had signalled him to pull over, adding that Ku immediately crossed into the opposite lane and sped away from

January 12, 2023 | BY William Chan

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China’s optimization of COVID response seen as science-based, effective

Analysis        BEIJING – China has changed its COVID response in light of the evolving situation, coordinating epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development.The optimization of China’s COVID response policies is science-based, effective and consistent with the country’s reality, overseas experts and scholars have told Xinhua.They also said that China, in the past three years, has made remarkable achievements in fighting the epidemic, making

January 12, 2023 | BY admin

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Justified response to neighbors’ discrimination

China Daily Editorial        At the G20 Summit in November, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called on China to lift its COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures.Yet on December 27, after China adopted provisional measures to step up cross-border travel, Japan introduced discriminatory entry measures targeting arrivals from the Chinese mainland, who must undergo a nucleic acid test upon arrival. Those testing positive will be quarantined for seven days.The low

January 12, 2023 | BY admin

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COVID-19 fatalities, new cases falling

Macau’s number of new COVID-19 fatalities and newly confirmed cases is on the decline, official figures showed yesterday. Two more people died of the novel coronavirus disease on Monday, raising Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll to 91, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced yesterday.Six people had died of the disease on Sunday, while a total of 20 fatalities was reported between last Thursday and Saturday. According to a statement by the centre,

January 11, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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