Chinese economy set to deliver steady recovery in 2023

Analysis        BEIJING – While the global growth outlook is clouded by uncertainty in 2023, economists and experts are upbeat about the prospects for mainland China, expecting stronger policy support and domestic demand to buoy a steady recovery of the world’s second largest economy.Though China’s optimized epidemic response may disrupt economic activity in the short term, it is set to shore up growth for the year as a whole, said Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director

January 5, 2023 | BY admin

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Nation in grassroots mobilization to ensure medical supplies

Analysis        SHIJIAZHUANG – Before dawn, Zhang Xuefeng was already driving his car along the rugged mountain roads in Hebei province to deliver medicines to villagers.The recent surge in COVID-19 cases has kept the village doctor busy. Every day, he travels from one village to another to provide consultations and deliver medicines so that villagers with mild symptoms need not flock to packed hospitals in cities.“The advice I always gave after prescribing medicines is

January 5, 2023 | BY admin

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Marcos’ visit chance for neighbors to consolidate friendly relations

China Daily Editorial        In his meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. yesterday, President Xi Jinping once again highlighted the great significance China attaches to its neighborhood diplomacy, and its pursuit of mutual understanding and win-win cooperation with regional partners such as the Philippines.Noting that China observes bilateral ties from strategic heights bearing the whole picture in mind, President Xi said that China appreciates

January 5, 2023 | BY admin

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Teachers & students must have daily RAT when school resumes Jan 9: DSEDJ

The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) announced yesterday that all teachers and students are required to upload their negative rapid antigen test (RAT) results to their Macau Health Code before returning to school every day when classes resume next Monday, while those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after November 28 will not be required to undergo a RAT.A DSEDJ statement underlined that RAT kits have been distributed to schools for use by teachers and students alike.The

January 4, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt completes drafting trade union bill

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s top advisory Executive Council, has announced that the government has finished drafting the city’s first-ever trade union bill.Cheong made the announcement during a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday. The bill will be submitted to the Legislative Assembly (AL) in due course for debate, review and vote.Cheong underlined that the government has drafted its trade

January 4, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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4 more COVID-19 fatalities, raising death toll to 56

Four more people died of the novel coronavirus disease on Monday, raising Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll to 56, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced yesterday.According to a statement by the centre, the four male victims, aged between 61 and 98, had all suffered from underlying diseases.None of the four fatalities had been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, the statement said.The first six of the 56 COVID-19 fatalities were reported during Macau’s

January 4, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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CTT to issue ‘Annual Album 2022’ tomorrow

The Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) will release its “Annual Album 2022” tomorrow, consisting of a local edition and an overseas edition, according to a statement by the bureau yesterday.The statement noted that the local edition of the album comprises all 17 sets of stamps and 14 souvenir sheets issued in 2022. It is only sold in Macau and through the CTT’s philatelic agent in the mainland. The overseas edition, meanwhile, features 16 sets of stamps and 13 souvenir sheets.

January 4, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Excavator on construction waste disposal site catches fire

An excavator near Avenida do Aeroporto at the east Cotai construction waste disposal site caught fire yesterday, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement.According to the statement, workers had already put out the fire with an extinguisher when firefighters arrived at the scene. The firefighters subsequently removed the battery so that the vehicle could cool down.No one was injured, and the incident was suspected to have been caused by a malfunction. 

January 4, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Rider crashes, 2 fingers severed

A male motorcyclist in his seventies crashed into a car yesterday at the junction of Rua dos Pescadores and Avenida de Venceslau de Morais, according to a Fire Services Bureau (CB) statement.Last night’s statement said that two of the victim’s fingers were severed, while his left leg was bruised. He was taken to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre for treatment. No further details were provided. 

January 4, 2023 | BY William Chan

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2022 philatelic album supplements to go on sale

The Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) said in a statement yesterday that its 2022 Macao Philatelic Album Supplements will be released next Tuesday and will go on sale at the General Post Office’s Philatelic Shop in Largo do Senado and at the Communications Museum. The album pages, the statement noted, are pre-printed with all the 2022 stamps’ images, where stamp collections and souvenir sheets from last year can be put. The album is priced at 390 patacas. This image

January 4, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Govt mulls lower ABV for booze minors can’t buy: lawmakers

Directly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 1st Standing Committee, said yesterday that the government was considering lowering the alcohol by volume (ABV) of drinks that those under the age of 18 cannot buy.According to the current version of a government-drafted bill on the issue, the minimum ABV stands at 1.2 percent for drinks that minors are banned from buying.Lei made the remarks during a closed-door meeting of the Legislative

January 4, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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MPU holds high-tech seminar

The public Macao Polytechnic University’s (MPU) Centre for Gaming and Tourism Studies recently hosted its High Technology Seminar Series, with two lecture sessions conducted by Paradise Entertainment Limited Chairman Jay Chun (陳捷) and Zhao Kuo, aka Kuo Zhao, a computer science associate professor at Jinan University, according to an MPU statement late last month.According to the statement, the seminars explored the development of advanced technology such as big data and the metaverse and

January 4, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Light Up Macao 2022’ to continue till Jan 31

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement on Sunday that with the aim of enabling more residents and visitors to visit local neighbourhoods, while also injecting economic vitality into the areas at night and adding a festive atmosphere to the New Year and Lunar New Year holidays, parts of the installations of the “Light Up Macao 2022” will be retained through January 31.The light installations in the Macau peninsula to be kept operating comprise the “Everything is

January 4, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Lai Chi Vun revitalisation project to be competed in 1st to 2nd quarters: IC

Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council member Wong Leong Kuan quoted Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) officials as saying yesterday that the government’s project of revitalising part of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun shipyards area, covering plots X11, X12, X13, X14 and X15, was carried out in the third quarter of last year, and it was now expected to be completed in the “first to second” quarters of this year.The Lai Chi Vun shipyards area was listed as a cultural heritage site in

January 4, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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