5 more community outpatient clinics to open this week

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said in a statement yesterday that five more outpatient clinics are slated to open this week.According to the statement, the former Escola Luso-Chinesa de Coloane opened as a community outpatient clinic yesterday, while three more clinics will open today, namely the sites of the former Escola Primária Luso-Chinesa do Bairro Norte, Largo do Pagode do Bazar and Luís Camões Garden.The community outpatient clinic at Travessa Central da Praia

December 20, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Mutual respect and sincerity can reset relations between China and Australia

China Daily Editorial        The news that Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will visit China this week can be seen as a sign that relations between the two countries, which had deteriorated under the previous Australian government, are beginning to improve.It will be the first visit to Beijing by an Australian minister since 2019. Wong will meet State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and attend the sixth Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue tomorrow,

December 20, 2022 | BY admin

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Xi charts course for Chinese economy at new starting point for modernization

Analysis       BEIJING – Following a key meeting that set its economic policy priorities for 2023, China is poised for stronger and healthier growth as Xi Jinping leads the world’s second-largest economy to navigate risks and challenges at a critical juncture.Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, delivered an important speech at the annual Central Economic Work Conference, held in Beijing on Thursday and Friday. His speech

December 20, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau logs 97 new COVID-19 cases, death toll rises to 13

Macau's Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced today two more COVID-19 fatalities - a 56-year-old fully vaccinated male and a 63-year-old unvaccinated male, which raised the city's novel coronavirus death toll 13.According to a statement by the centre, both victims had suffered from underlying diseases.The 56-year-old victim had suffered from high blood pressure, stroke, secondary epilepsy, and oesophageal cancer. He had been vaccinated three times against COVID-19. The

December 19, 2022 | BY admin

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4 COVID-19 deaths in 2 days – all victims unjabbed

Macau’s COVID-19 death toll has risen by four to 11 at the weekend, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced.The four fatalities were announced in two statements by the centre, on Saturday and yesterday.The city’s eighth and ninth COVID-19 fatalities were announced in Saturday’s statement, while the 10th and 11th fatalities were announced in yesterday’s statement.None of the four victims had been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.All four victims had

December 19, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Limited visitation to care homes resumes today

Taking into account “the most intense desire and most accentuated need” of family members to visit the users of the city’s residential care homes for senior citizens, rehabilitation centres and detoxification facilities with the arrival of the Winter Solstice, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement yesterday, after consulting the Health Bureau (SSM) and considering the needs of the respective family members and the demands of COVID-19

December 19, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police bust gang for stealing toiletries

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Friday that three male non-resident workers (NRWs) and two local men were arrested for stealing 230,000 patacas worth of toiletries from a local hotel provided for its guest rooms.Chan noted that the three mainland suspects, surnamed Xu, He, and Lin, who worked as hotel room attendants, are aged 31, 34, and 40 respectively, while the two suspects who own a cosmetics shop in the Barrier Gate checkpoint area,

December 19, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man beats underage son over quarrels with wife: police

A 47-year-old jobless man was arrested on Thursday for repeatedly beating his underage son since May to vent his anger over quarrels with his wife, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Friday.Chan said that the local suspect, surnamed Pun, who often argued with his wife over financial matters, lives with his spouse, daughter and son in the mainland, adding that the two children had recently begun to attend school in Macau.According to Chan, the

December 19, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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MPU wins prize at ‘APQN Quality Awards’

The Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement on Friday that it recently won the “APQN [Asia-Pacific Quality Network]– Best Practice of QA [Quality Assurance] during [the] COVID Pandemic” at the APQN 2022 session, which was held in Singapore.According to the statement, MPU is the only tertiary education institution in Macau to win the award.The statement noted that APQN is the “largest and most influential international organisation” in the higher education quality

December 19, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Critical infrastructure operators’ websites & apps ‘temporarily unavailable’ due to Alibaba flop

Critical infrastructure operators’ websites & apps ‘temporarily unavailable’ due to Alibaba’s cloud failure: policeThe Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that the websites of ”critical infrastructure operators” such as the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM), hotel-casino resort operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG), Lotus TV Macau and Macau Cement Manufacturing Company Limited, food delivery platforms such as Aomi and mFood, and local media mobile apps such as

December 19, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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San Ma Lou to be pedestrianised for Christmas & New Year

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Chan Wai Man said on Friday that the “Strolling through Almeida Ribeiro – Pilot Scheme for a Pedestrian Area” will take place from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. on December 24-25 and on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, when the stretch of Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro (known as “San Ma Lou” in Cantonese) between Rua do Guimarães and Rua Central will “put on new clothes”, bringing a new and special cultural travel experience to residents and tourists

December 19, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei & interview by Ginnie Liang

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CTT to launch new Lunar Year of the Rabbit greeting card

The Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) said in a statement on Friday that with the coming Chinese New Year, the bureau will launch a Lunar Year of the Rabbit greeting card on December 28.According to the statement, the new card will be available for sale at the General Post Office (GPO) on Largo do Senado and all post offices. Priced at 15 patacas, the statement noted that the card can be sent to any part of the world without stamps. This image provided by the Macau Post and

December 19, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Ho inks new concession contracts with 6 incumbent gaming operators

The Macau government announced on Friday the final results of its public tender for the special administrative region’s six new gaming concessions.The government published a raft of executive orders on the new gaming concessions on that day in the Official Gazette (BO).Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng signed the six gaming concession agreements one by one with the enterprises’ top representatives at Government Headquarters on Friday.A statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS)

December 19, 2022 | BY admin

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Lives protected to utmost in China’s three-year battle against COVID-19

Commentary        BEIJING – China has shifted the focus of its COVID-19 response strategy from infection control to case treatment with the objective of preventing severe cases.The shift was made in accordance with the weakened pathogenicity of the virus. It does not run counter to the hard truth that China is one of the world’s best achievers in terms of saving lives from the COVID-19 pandemic.Over the past three years, China has withstood waves of the pandemic and

December 19, 2022 | BY admin

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