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December 12, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau health chief urges public not to panic over rising COVID-19 cases after easing of curbs

Macau Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long has urged residents not to panic over the rising number of COVID-19 cases following the government's recent decision to ease its restrictions in the ongoing fight against highly infectious disease.Addressing a regular press conference about the COVID-19 situation in Macau yesterday, Lei pointed out that scientific data indicate that most of those infected with the prevalent Omicron variant don't get seriously ill.The Health Bureau recorded 85

December 11, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau govt to allow casinos to run gambling rooms for foreigners only from Jan 1

Starting on January 1, 2023 the Macau government will allow casino operators to run gambling rooms and issue chips for foreigners only, Executive Council spokesman Andre Cheong Weng Chon announced yesterday. Cheong, the government's policy secretary for administration and justice, said the measure was an incentive for gaming operators to attract foreign gamblers. The Executive Council is the government's top advisory body. The council ended yesterday its review of the government's

December 10, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau starts gradual easing of COVID-19 curbs, expects infection rate to rise to up to 80 pct

The Macau government announced today the gradual easing of COVID-19 restrictions from next week but warned that with the further relaxation of curbs between 50 and 80 percent of the population was expected to contract the novel coronavirus. Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U, whose portfolio includes the public health sector, announced the step-by-step easing of the curbs in a special press conference, accompanied by senior officials of the Health Bureau.Ao Ieong

December 8, 2022 | BY admin

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Residents give ‘positive’ views on govt’s policy of expanding LRT: transport chief

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San said yesterday that according to the findings of a three-month public consultation on the government’s draft of Macau’s land transport master plan for 2021 to 2030, which was carried out earlier this year, residents generally support the government’s policy of continuing to expand the city’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) network.“Residents [who gave their opinions during the consultation process] expressed positive views on the

December 8, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs 19 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday

Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday afternoon that Macau reported 19 new COVID-19 cases involving the community on Tuesday.The 19 cases were detected between 00:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.Yesterday’s statement also pointed out that as of 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Macau had reported a total of 78 COVID-19 cases since Monday last week.Some of the cases detected during Macau’s current COVID-19 situation were related to a cluster

December 8, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Room occupancy may see ‘uptick’ over holidays: Verschuren

The Macau Post Daily asked Area Vice President – Macau Operations for Artyzen Hospitality Group Rutger Verschuren yesterday about his expectations regarding the hotel room occupancy rate during this month’s holiday period, he predicted that “we will see an uptick in occupancy later this month, I’m quite confident”.Verschuren, who is also the vice-chairman of the Macau Hotel Association, made the remarks after a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau yesterday

December 8, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘2nd Albergue Lusophone Market’ to be held this weekend

The 2nd Albergue Lusophone Market will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Albergue SCM said in a statement yesterday.The event will be held at the Patio of Albergue SCM, which is located in Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro.According to the statement, there will be around 34 booths from exhibitors from Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) such as Portugal, Brazil and East Timor that will promote their products such as ceramics, fragrances and special delicacies.The

December 8, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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2022MIECF opens tomorrow

The “2022 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition” (2022MIECF) will take place from tomorrow through Sunday, with 420 online and offline exhibitors, including 144 from Macau, joining the event.Themed “Commitment to Green Development, Moving towards the Dual Carbon Goals”, the three-day event’s details were announced yesterday during a press conference at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo.During his speech, the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion

December 8, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Mosaic artist showcases her art at 2 Taipa restaurants

Candice Cepeda is a mosaic artist from Manila who has brought her art to Macau by creating pieces for the Barcelona and António restaurants in Taipa.In a recent email interview with The Macau Post Daily, Cepeda explained how she got into mosaic art and her inspiration for some of her work.Cepeda said that she first became interested in mosaic art when “I found a ‘how to’ mosaic book in a local bookstore. It was the lone mosaic book on the bottom shelf of the Arts and Crafts section but

December 8, 2022 | BY Lesley Wells

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Gang gouges prices, blackmails customers after ‘fixing’ water leakage

Police busted on Tuesday a gang involved in gouging prices and blackmailing customers, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.Ho identified the suspects as Liu, a 43-year-old jobless man who overstayed in Macau for two weeks; Sun, a 42-year-old jobless man; Sheng, a truck driver aged 37; Jiang, a renovation worker aged 30; and Sun, a local 54-year-old housewife. All male suspects are from the mainland. The Suns are siblings.According to Ho, a

December 8, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Cop shot & hurt in training course

A police officer attending an instructor training course at the Macau Public Security Forces’ (FSM) shooting range in Coloane was rushed to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital for emergency treatment at about 10 a.m. yesterday after he was shot and injured in the right thigh during the training course, according to an FSM statement.According to the statement, the victim, who joined the Public Security Police (PSP) in 1997, sustained lacerations on his right thigh. The statement added

December 8, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Locals’ overall physical fitness ‘slightly improved’: survey

The findings of the “Macau Population Physical Condition Assessment Survey 2020” show that compared with the monitoring results in 2015, the overall physical fitness level of local residents had slightly improved during the five-year period, among which the general physical fitness level of infants, children and adolescents (students) had decreased, while that of adults and the elderly had improved, Zhang Yanfeng, associate director of the National Institute of Sport Science’s Mass Sports

December 8, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Feast of Immaculate Conception holiday

Due to the Feast of Immaculate Conception (聖母無原罪瞻禮) a public holiday, the team of the print edition of The Macau Post Daily will be taking a day off today. However, our digital edition on our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ will be updated round-the-clock. Our local news and editorials as well as commentary by national media organisations are also available on various LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts. We wish all our readers, advertisers, distributors and

December 8, 2022 | BY admin

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