Coro Perosi holds celebratory anniversary concert

Coro Perosi (“Perosi choir”) sang three choral pieces by Lorenzo Perosi, as well as Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei Deus, two choir members’ compositions, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s show tune “You’ll never walk alone” and Mendelssohn’s “As the Hart Pants” on Sunday night.The Macau Post Daily published an interview with the two conductors and three members of Coro Perosi on November 23.After receiving thunderous applause close to the end of the concert at St. Dominic’s (S.

November 30, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Macao Percussion Association performs 16th anniversary concert 

The Macau Post Daily interviewed Yukie Lai U Kei, vice director of the Macao Percussion Association (MPA), earlier this month about its 16th anniversary concert, held on Friday and Saturday night at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) in Nape. The interview was published in The Macau Post Daily on November 8.The association cooperated with calligrapher Elvis Mok (饉悅) and multimedia artist Raymond Nogueira to offer audiences a mixed experience.Established in 2004, the Macao Percussion

November 30, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Police urge public to be wary of ‘guess who I am’ phone scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged members of the public in a statement yesterday to be wary of their phone’s messaging software being hacked for a “guess who I am” phone scam.According to the statement, the Judiciary Police recently received a report from a resident about the “guess who I am” phone scam, in which scammers hacked into the phone’s messaging software of their victims’ relatives and called them by using the invaded messaging software. The statement said that the

November 30, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man hangs himself at home

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report from the Fire Services Bureau (CB) on Monday at 7:25 p.m. that a man was believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself at his home on Travessa do Bem-Estar near the Red Market, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement that night.The deceased was a 72-year-old local man surnamed Lam.According to the statement, when Lam’s son got home from work at 6:45 on Monday, he found that his father had hanged himself with a rope on the balcony. He

November 30, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Crime drops 16.7 pct in Jan-Sept: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced yesterday that between January and September the police recorded 7,329 suspected crimes, a year-on-year decrease of 16.7 percent.The crime figures were announced in a statement by Wong’s office.The number of reported computer crimes fell by nearly 70 percent in the first three quarters of this year, but there was an increase in the number of cyber-related fraud cases, up 22.5 percent year-on-year to 462 cases, according to the statement. By the

November 30, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Organisers choose proposal for 18th int’l architecture exhibition in Venice

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has announced the team and exhibition proposal for the “18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – Collateral Event from Macao, China”  in Venice, northeastern Italy, next May, according to a statement from the bureau yesterday.Commonly used in the art world to refer to large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions, biennale is Italian for “biennial” or “every other year” and refers to any event that

November 30, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Long COVID’ exposes long-term challenges

World Insights        LONDON – The increasing reports of people getting “long COVID” have exposed the challenges in combatting the pandemic.Experts say that long COVID is likely to result in growing pressure on social and medical resources, a shrinking labor force and economic downturn in the long run.UNDERESTIMATED FIGUREPost COVID-19 condition, also known as long COVID, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an illness that occurs in individuals with a

November 30, 2022 | BY admin

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China launches Shenzhou-15 spaceship, aiming for first in-orbit crew rotation

JIUQUAN – China launched the manned spaceship Shenzhou-15 last night, with three astronauts onboard due to meet with their colleagues on the country’s space station and conduct a work handover.The spaceship, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 11:08 p.m., according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).About 10 minutes after the launch, Shenzhou-15 separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit. The crew members

November 30, 2022 | BY admin

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Why Chinese Dream matters to global economy

Analysis        BEIJING – A decade after the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation was first put forward as a concept, China has taken great strides toward this goal, making unremitting efforts to build a great modern socialist country.The development of the world’s second-largest economy not only benefits China itself, but also injects a strong impetus into the global economy and provides enormous opportunities for the rest of the world.Below are some key figures that

November 30, 2022 | BY admin

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11th Macau Literary Festival starts on Friday

The 11th edition of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival will be held over the first two weekends of December: from December 2 to 4, at the Portuguese Bookshop; and from December 9 to 11, at Macau Art Garden. The event will pay tribute to several literary geniuses from the past, while showcasing the latest works by local authors, such as Cheong Kin Han, Lawrence Lei, Rui Rocha and Carlos Morais José.The 11th edition of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival opens on Friday,

November 29, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau reports 4 more COVID-19 cases, community risk ‘still manageable’: Health Bureau

Macau reported four COVID-19 cases yesterday, a taxi driver, his grandson who is a schoolboy and lives with him, and a couple who are relatives of the cabbie, while the local government acknowledged yesterday that Macau is now facing an increased risk of the occurrence of COVID-19 community transmissions but insisted that the risk level was “still manageable”.The boy is a F3 student of Pui Ching Middle School, which runs kindergarten, primary and secondary classes on the same campus located

November 29, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt lowers minimum age for BioNTech jabs to 6 months

The Macau government has lowered the minimum age for the administration of BioNTech mRNA vaccines to six months, after jabs for children aged from six months to four years were delivered to Macau on Friday.The announcement of lowering the minimum vaccination age was made through an executive order by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday. The executive order takes effect today, which means that the administration of the BioNTech mRNA doses for kids aged

November 29, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt to raise investment in education resources: Ao Ieong

The government will spend 1.58 billion patacas on education resources next year, an 18 million pataca increase compared to this year’s budget, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U said during a plenary session in the hemicycle of the local legislature yesterday.Ao Ieong made the remarks during a Q&A session about her portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year, following Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s 2023 Policy Address on November 15.Ao Ieong said that the

November 29, 2022 | BY Ginnie Liang

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HK retiree & mainland student fall for ‘guess who I am’ scam

Two people reported to the police on Sunday separately that they had been cheated in similar fraud scams, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said in a regular conference yesterday.Chan identified the scam tactic as “guess who I am”, which usually involves swindlers pretending to be a relative or a friend of the victim.According to Chan, a retiree from Hong Kong who is in his seventies received a phone call on Thursday from a man claiming to be his nephew in Hong Kong. The male

November 29, 2022 | BY William Chan

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