Govt to issue new generation of ID cards in Q4 2023

Identification Services Bureau (DSI) Deputy Director Chao Wai Ieng told lawmakers yesterday that the government will commence issuing a new generation of Macau ID cards in the fourth quarter of next year, adding that residents can renew their ID cards before their respective cards expire.He also said that the new generation of smart ID cards will feature a wider range of uses for government services.Chao made the remarks during a one-day Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle where

November 22, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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China-PSCs Pavilion, ‘Macao Ideas’ open today: IPIM

The “Pavilion of China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform” and “Macao Ideas” exhibition has opened, according to a statement by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM).The statement noted that in conjunction with the Complex of Commerce and Trade Cooperation Platform for China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (informally known as Forum Macao Complex), both aim to further expand Macau’s role as a platform between China and

November 22, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Taxi critically injures pedestrian on zebra crossing

A taxi driver was arrested for critically injuring a male pedestrian in his thirties who was walking across a zebra crossing on Thursday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said at a press conference yesterday.Wong said the 32-year-old suspect surnamed Sou told the police that he has worked as a taxi driver for seven years. Wong said that the victim was still in coma at the time of the press conference.According to Wong, when the victim was walking across a zebra crossing near

November 22, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Postmark cancellation for Macau SAR’s 23rd anniversary: CTT

The Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) said in a statement yesterday that it will set up a temporary post counter at the General Post Office’s Philatelic Shop in Largo do Senado on December 20 to provide commemorative postmark cancellation services for the “23rd Anniversary of the Establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region”.The statement noted that the counter will be open on the day, a public holiday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., while a commemorative envelope priced

November 22, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Sister of tourist from Suzhou also tests positive for COVID-19 during quarantine: Macau govt

A 58-year-old woman who entered Macau from the mainland as a tourist on Monday last week with her sister, a 60-year-old whose COVID-19 infection was detected in Macau on Saturday, also tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday during quarantine, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement.The 60-year-old woman’s case was detected by the Macau Health Bureau (SSM) in the early hours of Saturday. She flew from Suzhou to Zhuhai with her husband and younger sister

November 22, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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NRW steals phone left in motorbike fairing pocket

A non-resident worker (NRW) from the mainland stole a phone left in the fairing pocket of a motorcycle, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect, surnamed Liu, is in his forties working as a labourer, Wong said.According to Wong, a woman reported to the police on Wednesday that earlier that day she forgot her phone, worth 7,000 patacas, in the front-fairing pocket of her motorcycle in Rua Quatro do Bairro Iao Hon, and when she

November 22, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Govt mulls upgrading abattoir: Cheong

The government is considering upgrading the local slaughterhouse as rebuilding it could be “a huge cost overrun and loss of money”, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said during a plenary session in the hemicycle of the local legislature yesterday.Cheong stressed that if a new slaughterhouse were to be built, the estimated cost would be around 600 to 700 million patacas.Cheong made the remarks during a Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines

November 22, 2022 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Customs busts parallel-trading den, seizes 200 old bicycles

The Macau Customs Service (SA) busted a parallel-trading den yesterday in a unit on the third floor of Keck Seng Industrial Building on Avenida de Venceslau de Morais, where its officers seized nearly 200 old bicycles, including 15 electric bikes, with an estimated total value of about 23,000 patacas.José Pou Ka Meng, acting chief of the Operational Management Department, told reporters yesterday, after customs officers had raided the parallel-trading den, that the Macau Customs Service had

November 22, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Bank of China (Macau) Limited opens

Bank of China (Macau) Chairman Li Ruiqiang said in a speech yesterday during a press conference at the Bank of China Building on Avenida Doutor Mário Soares that after more than three years of preparations, Bank of China (Macau) Limited was now officially open for business.Bank of China is widely known as BOC.Li Ruiqiang pointed out that the opening of the company is not only a “strong demonstration” of BOC’s efforts to appropriately diversify Macau’s economy and promote the

November 22, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local CPM gets Guangdong Drug Registration Certificate

Guangdong-Macau Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park Development Company Limited (Industrial Park) said in a statement yesterday that a type of “Pain Relief Cream”, a Chinese patent medicine (CPM) for external use that has been in the local market for many years, successfully obtained the Drug Registration Certificate issued by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration on November 11.With the “strong support” of the administration, the statement said, the

November 22, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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UM & BOC promote science education through ‘STEM Challenge’

The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement yesterday that it has promoted science education at various secondary schools through the “BOC STEM Talent Challenge” event’s “On-the-Go Project”.STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, a broad term used to group together these academic disciplines, according to Wikipedia.The challenge, according to the statement, is an ongoing event co-organised by the Macao Base for Primary & Secondary STEM Education, a

November 22, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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UM Symphonic Band to present rhythmic, dance music at outdoor gig

Interview by William Chan        University of Macau Symphonic Band (UMSB) conductor Ng Sa and the band’s captain Michelle Lao Hio Chao told The Macau Post Daily in an exclusive interview that they will be performing in the plaza near the public university’s Student Activity Centre (E31) on Friday.The interview was held in the band’s practice room on the campus earlier this month.UMSB was founded in April 2007, aiming to provide formal music training for students. Led

November 22, 2022 | BY admin

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Right choices, concrete actions in dire need for a better world

Analysis by Xinhua writer Guo Yage        BEIJING – As world leaders gathered in Asia last week for two back-to-back major multilateral meetings, one thing was clear: they were willing to sit down together to search for ways to address many of the world’s most pressing challenges although differences remain.Prior to the Group of 20 (G20) summit which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, there was some pessimistic talk that obstacles

November 22, 2022 | BY admin

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AUKUS’ murky nuclear cooperation should spur IAEA to fulfill its duty

China Daily Editorial        Should the budget of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) be used for safeguard activities related to nuclear submarine cooperation of AUKUS? This should not be a question. But it is now.In September 2021, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia established the AUKUS alliance, under which the US and the UK will provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarine technology. This is an act of nuclear proliferation and poses a

November 22, 2022 | BY admin

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