Plot P seniors’ rental housing’s public carpark to open tomorrow

The underground public carpark of the government’s high-rise rental residential building for senior citizens on Plot P in Areia Preta district will open tomorrow, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) announced in a statement yesterday.The government expects the first batch of the building’s tenants to be able to move into their flats next month at the earliest.According to yesterday’s statement, the public carpark of the Plot P seniors’ rental residential building has three underground levels,

September 25, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Digitalization streamlines mainland’s exports to Macau

GUANGZHOU – The first batch of plant products exported from the Chinese mainland to Macau was declared with digital customs clearance on Monday by the Gongbei Customs in Zhuhai City, which borders the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).On Monday, all exports of plant products via Gongbei Customs started to undergo paperless customs clearance of inspection and quarantine certificates after the customs inked a cooperation agreement with the MSAR government on animal and plant quarantine

September 25, 2024 | BY admin

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10 Fantasia presents Picture Book Festival 2024

10 Fantasia gallery, which is located on Calçada da lgreja de S. Lázaro, is presenting its Picture Book Festival, bringing a local annual event centred around picture book reading to visitors.A statement at the gallery noted that through exhibitions, lectures, booth displays and workshops, it aims to facilitate interactions between picture book creators and readers, promoting the development of Macau’s picture book industry and enhancing citizens’ sense of identity with local culture.The

September 25, 2024 | BY William Chan

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US tariffs cannot halt Chinese innovation, risk backfiring

Commentary        BEIJING – The United States using tariffs to limit imports from China, specifically targeting tech-intensive products, is a strategic misstep that will not only fail to halt China’s innovation, but also inflict harm on its own economy.The tariff hikes on tech-intensive products and other imports from China, including a 100 percent duty on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), 50 percent on solar cells and 25 percent on steel, aluminum, EV batteries and key

September 25, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau preparing digital pataca with PBOC’s aid: Ho

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM), with the support of the People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) digital currency research institute, is advancing the research and development of the digital pataca issuance, and it is planning to conduct a public demonstration of the e-Mop’s prototype system by the end of the year, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said yesterday at the opening ceremony of the 2nd China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Central Banks and Financiers Conference in Cotai.E-Mop is another

September 24, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Police probing ‘robbery’ case nab thief stealing friend’s money

In the course of investigating a purported “robbery case”, Judiciary Police (PJ) arriving at a hotel in Cotai discovered that a 32-year-old mainland man had stolen a backpack containing HK$95,000 entrusted to him by a friend and used the money for gambling, while also lying to the friend by telling him that “an unknown person had entered his guestroom and snatched the backpack,” PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the jobless

September 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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11 females cheated out of 52,670 patacas in ticket scam

Eleven mainland women have fallen victims to a ticket scam, in which they purchased early this year tickets for a sports event in Macau online for between 2,800 yuan and 8,000 yuan and were instructed to enter the venue through the staff entrance on the day of the event, but were discovered by security guards to have been defrauded during the second ticket check, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.“The Judiciary Police received

September 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Taiwanese tour guide nabbed for stealing ‘booze’ after losing money

A Taiwanese woman was arrested last Wednesday for stealing a bottle of an alcoholic beverage valued at 3,280 patacas after “feeling down” about recent gambling losses, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said in a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Hsu is in her fifties and holds an ID document from China’s Taiwan region, where she reportedly works as a tour guide.According to the spokesperson, the owner of a shop on Estrada do Istmo reported to the police

September 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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CDF to launch subsidy scheme for cultural & arts admin staff

The Cultural Development Fund (FDC) will launch its “2025 Cultural and Arts Administrative Staff Internship Subsidy Programme” today, with the aim of encouraging local cultural and arts organisations and business owners to provide internship opportunities, fostering talent in areas such as planning, coordination, administration and technical support for cultural activities, according to the fund’s statement.The programme will accept applications from today until October 18, with a total

September 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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‘Macau Consumer Grand Prix’ brought forward to Sept 30

The Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) announced in a statement yesterday that it has brought forward the start of the “Macau Consumer Grand Prix”, a large-scale consumer sales promotion campaign, which originally was slated for early October, to the end of this month, with a new budget of up to 110 million patacas.During the 13-week campaign from next Monday, September 30, to December 29, all authenticated e-wallet users will have three times per week the chance to win

September 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Entries open for Autumn Salon, Orient Foundation Art Prize

Entries are open for both the “Autumn Salon 2024” and the “Orient Foundation Art Prize 2024”, with October 31 as the deadline for registration, according to the Art For All Society’s (AFA) website.Now in its 15th year, Autumn Salon is annually organised by AFA in conjunction with the Orient Foundation (FO). The statement on AFA’s website notes that the works selected are slated to be exhibited this year, with the date and duration to be confirmed in due course. Autumn Salon, the

September 24, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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August visitor arrivals set monthly record of 3.65 million

The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday that a new monthly record of 3.65 million visitor arrivals was set during the August summer holidays, representing a year-on-year increase of 13.3 percent and a rise of 0.8 percent from the same month in pre-pandemic 2019.Last month saw 3,651,731 visitor arrivals, while in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019 the previous monthly record figure stood at 3,623,116.The statement noted that same-day visitors (2.041 million) and

September 24, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Sam officially launches candidacy website

As Sam Hou Fai has been officially accepted as the sole candidate for next month’s chief executive election, his election campaign website was officially launched yesterday.Sam’s election campaign office noted in a statement yesterday that Sam submitted his candidacy nomination form with endorsements from 386 electors of the 400-member Chief Executive Election Committee during the chief executive candidacy nomination period, after which the Chief Executive Electoral Affairs Commission

September 24, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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17th Universal Productivity Forum to be held in Hengqin on Friday

In response to the national strategy for innovation-driven development and to promote technological and economic exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as Hong Kong and Macau, the 17th Universal Productivity Forum will take place on Friday in the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, according to a statement from the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) yesterday.Organised by the China Association Of Productivity Promotion Centres

September 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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