Macau holds commemoration for Nanjing Massacre victims

The Macau government held a ceremony yesterday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre.Vice Chairman of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Ho Hau Wah, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region Zheng Xincong attended the ceremony together with around 300 people, among them local and central government officials, local deputies to

December 14, 2022 | BY admin

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Loosening curbs brightens 2023

Commentary by Yi Xiong*        The key presumption for the 2023 Outlook is that China will continue to relax its pandemic prevention and control policy. Major adjustments are already underway, with the National Health Commission issuing 20 easing measures in November and 10 further measures last Wednesday. In the near term, we expect mainland China’s COVID cases will increase further and mobility will stay subdued. Once the pressure on health care systems starts to ease

December 14, 2022 | BY admin

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Tired old trick to paint China in bad light

China Daily Editorial        The United States is fond of portraying itself as a champion of human rights and pointing an accusing finger at what it alleges are human rights abuses in countries that are in its bad books.Thus it will have surprised few, if any, that US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns issued a statement on Saturday, which was International Human Rights Day, criticizing the human rights conditions in China and in particular expressing the now cliched

December 14, 2022 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass ‘sandwich-class’ housing bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill regulating “sandwich-class” housing projects, which proposes that an individual applicant for buying a flat must be aged at least 23, while the applicant must be aged at least 18 if he or she applies for a flat with family members.According to the bill, sandwich-class housing projects will only cover applicants who are permanent local residents.Government-built sandwich-class housing projects aim to

December 13, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs 204 new COVID-19 cases in a day, highest daily record, on Sunday

Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday that Macau reported 204 new COVID-19 cases related to the community on Sunday.The 204 cases were detected between 00:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.The 204 cases reported in day hit the previous highest record of daily new cases related to the community, on July 5 this year, when 146 cases were detected. Macau’s previous COVID-19 outbreak, colloquially known as 618 outbreak in Cantonese, began on

December 13, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Lawmakers pass private tutorial centre bill

The Legislative Assembly passed a government-initiated bill regulating local private tutorial centres in its second and final reading yesterday afternoon, the outline of which was passed by a plenary session last year.Private tutorial centres are officially known as private supplementary education support centres.The new law, which will take legal effect a certain period after its promulgation in the Official Gazette (BO), states that entities that provide tutorial services to more than five

December 13, 2022 | BY Ginnie Liang

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IC conducts restoration on Mount Fortress’s west wall

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that it is conducting restoration work on Mount Fortress’s west wall, with sections of the pavement to be temporarily closed to install scaffolding.The sections, according to the statement, will be closed between tomorrow and Saturday, with the bureau also placing on-site instruction signs.For enquiries, one can contact the Cultural Affairs Bureau by calling 2836 6320 during office hours. This photo downloaded from the Macau

December 13, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Gang makes fake slips for mainland overstayers

Police arrested on Friday three mainlanders involved in fabricating fake Slips of Authorisation to Stay (colloquially known as “slips”) with the purpose of allowing mainlanders to stay longer legally in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said at a special press conference yesterday.Chan identified the suspects as Gu, a 32-year-old jobless man who overstayed in Macau for 17 days; You, a 53-year-old jobless man; and Wu, a female cleaner working in the mainland.According to

December 13, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Jewellery salesman cheats in crypto trading

A local jewellery salesman was arrested for his alleged involvement in a crypto trading swindle, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said at a special press conference yesterday.Chan identified the suspect as a 48-year-old man surnamed Wong. The male victim is from the mainland. According to Chan, the victim came to Macau on Friday to help a friend exchange HK$1 million into 132,035 USDT cryptocurrencies. They agreed to do the deal at the jewellery shop in Nape where Wong

December 13, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Local artists to tell stories with visuals & music

Interview by William Chan        Three musicians, an artist and a writer will join together to co-create the performance “Season f/w – Wander with the Wind” this coming Saturday, the performers told The Macau Post Daily at their practice room in Areia Preta district last week.The exclusive interview was with musicians Hong Iat U, Akitsugu Fukushima and Ivan Wing; artist Fan Sai Hong; as well as curator and writer Pal Lok.The Macau Post Daily published an interview with

December 13, 2022 | BY admin

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9 sitting local NPC deputies re-elected, 3 newbies succeed in election bid

The election of 12 local deputies to the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) took place yesterday morning at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex in Nam Van, with all nine current local NPC deputies who sought re-election succeeding in their bid, while three among six candidates who ran in the election for the first time became the local newcomers to the nation’s top legislature.The election took place during the second plenary session of

December 13, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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VR tours available for 5 more heritage sites: IC

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has introduced online virtual reality (VR) tours for five more of Macau’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, the bureau said in a statement yesterday.The newly available sites comprise the Ruins of St. Paul’s, the Old City Walls (section at Calçada de S. Francisco Xavier), Lou Kau Mansion, Na Tcha Temple (next to the Ruins of St Paul’s), and IC’s Na Tcha Exhibition Room, the statement noted. The pilot project for online virtual tours was launched last year

December 13, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Graft busters probe 2021 election bribery

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement yesterday that it had completed investigations into an alleged bribery case concerning the provision of free local trips, meals and gifts by trustee of a nominating committee for the 2021 elections of the 7th Legislative Assembly (AL) to more than 200 residents in order to collect enough voters’ signatures to submit the nomination application form for the group to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEAL).The

December 13, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Gardener touches female bus passenger’s buttocks, gets ‘excited’

A local man touched a female passenger’s buttocks on a bus three times last Monday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a 68-year-old local man surnamed Ieong. He told the police that he works as a gardener. The victim is a local woman in her thirties.According to Wong, Ieong and the victim got on the same bus last Friday at Avenida Marginal Flor de Lótus in Taipa, after which a bump caused their

December 13, 2022 | BY William Chan

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