Visits to care homes & rehabilitation centres to resume tomorrow

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement yesterday that in response to the development of the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes in the government’s prevention and control measures tackling the novel coronavirus, visits to the city’s care homes for senior citizens and rehabilitation centres for different kinds of users will gradually resume from tomorrow.Due to the different conditions of the COVID-19 patients’ physical recovery and the actual COVID-19 prevention and control

January 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Customs seizes parallel trading haul worth 1 million patacas

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers raided a parallel-trading den yesterday at a shop in Vong Kam Shopping Centre on Rua Dois do Bairro Iao Hon, where they seized one million patacas worth of goods, including ginseng and dried seafood, and arrested a 53-year-old Hong Kong man who had operated the illegal business for about one and a half months.Wong Weng Meng, a senior customs officer, told reporters yesterday that the suspect, surnamed Chan, who rented the shop, had taken two suitcases with

January 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Lawmakers ask govt to include ART in residents’ publicly funded treatment

Lawmakers asked the government yesterday whether assisted reproductive technology (ART) be added to residents’ publicly funded treatment, lawmaker-cum-restaurateur Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who heads the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 2nd  Standing Committee, told reporters yesterday.Chan made the remarks after chairing a closed-door meeting of the committee, which is reviewing in detail a government-initiated bill regulating ART services, aiming to allow childless couples to use ART but

January 10, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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MGTO hosts 10 KOLs from HK

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) invited 10 Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) from different backgrounds to a two-day trip to Macau between Sunday and yesterday to experience “tourism+” as part of its promotional plan targeting Hong Kong as a tourist market, MGTO said in a statement yesterday.The invited KOLs included TV and radio programme hosts, a magician and a travel blogger, with the statement noting that some of them have thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram. They came

January 10, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Visitor arrivals reach 39,606 on Sunday: MGTO

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that the number of visitor arrivals on Sunday reached 39,606, which was close to the daily record of 41,000 last year (April 30), and was also the highest single-day number since the “618” COVID-19 outbreak.”618” refers to Macau’s COVID-19 outbreak that began on June 18 last year and began to subside in late July.With a raft of Chinese New Year (CNY) events to be held, the MGTO believes that the number of visitor

January 10, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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2023 MGM Macao Int’l Regatta concludes

The four-day 2023 MGM Macao International Regatta concluded on Sunday, with the final races for the Macao Cup International Regatta (Beneteau First 40.7 unified design group) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cup Regatta (IRC group), the Sports Bureau (ID) said in a statement on that day.According to the statement, the Big Boys Sailing Team, Zhongshan Sailing Team and LC Sailing Team were respectively named “overall champions” in the Macao Cup International Regatta, the

January 10, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Mel Cheong exhibits works in ‘Reality & Fantasy’

Local artist Mel Cheong Hoi I is showcasing her prints and art installations in an exhibition titled “Reality and Fantasy” at the UNESCO Centre of Macao in Nape.Cheong told The Macau Post Daily during the exhibition’s opening ceremony last week that she designed the exhibits from 2019 to 2020, with the exhibition being about the “progress of making woodblock*”.Cheong said that making a print requires wood to be carved, with its outcome or “reality” only to be seen at the “last

January 10, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Criticism of changes to China’s pandemic policies doesn’t fly

China Daily Editorial        China’s implementation of its adjusted protocol for international travel on Sunday has spurred a handful of US politicians and media outlets to misinterpret it in order to smear the country’s effective epidemic prevention and control measures.The sour grapes they are serving will find few customers, as all reasonable minds will acknowledge that China has made great efforts to adjust its policies, including its quarantine policies for

January 10, 2023 | BY admin

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20 COVID-19 fatalities in 3 days, official death toll rises to 83

COVID-19 now endemic in Macau: govt Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll has risen to 83, after 20 people died of the novel coronavirus disease in just three days, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced.According to three latest daily statements by the centre, which were released from Friday to yesterday, Macau recorded nine COVID-19 fatalities on Thursday, six on Friday, and five on Saturday.The 20 victims, 13 males and 7 females, aged between 69 and 99, had

January 9, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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Learning to cohabit with the Dragon King in the new phase

Editorial        Yesterday was an extraordinarily happy day for many in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau as for the first time in nearly three years the three Chinese regions opened their borders to basically unrestricted travel among them. When I was watching the Cantonese-language channels of TDM and TVB yesterday morning travellers’ joy was clearly visible, and two of the most frequently uttered words by border crossers talking to reporters were “hoisam”

January 9, 2023 | BY admin

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Govt curbs quantity of anti-COVID-19 medicines that can be taken out of Macau

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng issued Executive Order No. 3/2023 on Saturday, which limits four types of “anti-epidemic medicines and supplies” that can be taken out of Macau in “excessive quantities” for personal use or as consumer goods, the Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau said in a statement on the same day.The executive order took effect yesterday, with the statement noting that the restrictions are necessary to ensure that enough anti-COVID-19 medicines and supplies will meet

January 9, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau jail to resume weekly visitation today

The Macau Correctional Services Bureau (DSC) said in a statement yesterday that with the end of Macau’s COVID-19 transition period, weekly visitations to the prison and juvenile detention centre will be resumed today.All visitors and lawyers entering the prison and the juvenile detention centre must strictly comply with the COVID-19 prevention measures, including presenting a negative rapid antigen test (RAT) result within two hours, wearing a facemask and speaking to prisoners and juvenile

January 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt discontinues special bus routes to community treatment centre & outpatient clinic

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said in a statement on Saturday that after evaluating the needs of people infected with the novel coronavirus to take public transport to the community treatment centre at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai and the city’s community outpatient clinics, as well as adjustments to the operation of the outpatient clinics, the special bus routes C02-C07 en route to the treatment centre and the outpatient clinics were discontinued

January 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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HK visitors find relaunch of Taipa-Sheung Wan ferry route convenient

With the restart of sailings between Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan and Taipa yesterday, Macau welcomed its first group of 130 Hong Kong visitors at 8:45 a.m. at the Taipa Ferry Terminal in Pac On, and passengers interviewed by local reporters said they found the resumption of the ferry service convenient, with one of them describing the easing of COVID-19 travelling restrictions between Hong Kong and Macau as the “best policy by the two governments in the past 170 years”. He did not

January 9, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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