Having pets is the best medicine Adopt, don’t shop

If you have had a bad day coming home to a pet is the best medicine around, in no time at all a cuddle or a silly antic will make you smile and generally banish the blues. They are also great companions for people who live alone.People have all kinds of animals as pets apart from the obvious cats and dogs, you can welcome birds, fish, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, snakes, lizards, tortoises and turtles into your home. Whichever is your choice of pet, you have to realise the care and attention

November 7, 2022 | BY Lesley Wells

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The benefits of having a pet

Before starting middle school, I used to visit a family friend’s house quite often as she was my summer maths tutor. She had two beautiful cats that were polar opposites of each other. Guy, a 14-year-old tabby with a mackerel pattern (grey with black stripes) was probably the friendliest and most laid-back cat that I have ever interacted with. With his striking green eyes and subtle hints for affection, he always made sure that you fell in love with him. Meanwhile, Mindy, whose fur was as

November 7, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Premier Li calls for enhanced mutually beneficial cooperation with Germany

BEIJING – Premier Li Keqiang yesterday held talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Beijing.Noting that China attaches great importance to ties with Germany, Li said China is ready to work with the German side to promote the stable and sound development of China-Germany relations on the basis of mutual respect and mutual benefit, so as to add more impetus to the global economy and better safeguard regional and global peace and stability.Li said that economic and trade cooperation is the

November 5, 2022 | BY admin

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Remarks by President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the 5th CIIE - full text

BEIJING – The following is the full text of the remarks made by Chinese President Xi Jinping via video at the opening ceremony of the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) held in Shanghai today. Working Together for a Bright Future of Openness and Prosperity Remarks by H.E. Xi JinpingPresident of the People's Republic of China At the Opening Ceremony of the Fifth China International Import Expo4 November 2022 Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government,Your

November 4, 2022 | BY admin

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President Xi meets German Chancellor Scholz

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on his official visit to China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing today.Xi noted that Scholz is the first European leader to visit China after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and that it is also his first visit to China as the Federal Chancellor.Xi said the visit will further enhance the mutual understanding and trust between the two sides and deepen practical cooperation in

November 4, 2022 | BY admin

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Macau business delegates head for CIIE in Shanghai

Delegates from 35 Macau-based enterprises headed for Shanghai today to attend the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE).AThe enterprises cover industries ranging from conventions and exhibitions, finance, science and technology, e-commerce and catering to manufacturing and logistics, according to a statement by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM).About a quarter of the 35 enterprises are attending the expo for the first time, the government-run institute notedThe

November 4, 2022 | BY admin

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Smear campaign against Xinjiang doomed to fail: Xinhua analysis

BEIJING – Deaf and blind to the undeniable facts, the United States, Canada, and a few other countries have once again attacked and smeared the human rights situation in Xinjiang recently. Their attempts to politicize and weaponize human rights, however, have been defeated.At a meeting of the Third Committee of the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly this week, over 60 countries, in a joint statement, expressed support for China's position on issues related to Xinjiang,

November 4, 2022 | BY admin

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Another round of mass tests aims to ensure COVID-19 community risk has been ‘basically cleared’

Another round of mass tests aims to ensure COVID-19 community risk has been ‘basically cleared’: LeongThe Macau government has launched another round of citywide nucleic acid tests (NATs), which starts at 7 a.m. today, with the aim of ensuring that the COVID-19 community risk connected to Macau’s current novel coronavirus situation that began last week has been “basically cleared”.The mass NAT campaign this time will end at 6 p.m. tomorrow.The citywide NAT drive covers everyone in

November 4, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Gongbei Customs seizes 3 geckos from vehicle entering Zhuhai

Gongbei Customs said in a statement yesterday that its officers at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint have seized three geckos from a vehicle driver entering Zhuhai.According to the statement, two of the three lizards are crested geckos, while the other is a mniarogekko.The two species of lizards originate from the French colony of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.At about 4 p.m. on Sunday, the statement added, the customs officers saw that the driver’s trouser pockets were

November 4, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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MASDAW president & founder talks about group’s challenges

Interview        The founder and president of the Macau Association for Stray Dogs and Animal Welfare (MASDAW), Fátima Galvão, spoke to The Macau Post Daily this week in an exclusive interview about the association, the challenges that they have been facing and details of its upcoming raffle.Set up to protectCreated in 2014, Galvão said that MASDAW was set up to help fil a gap in terms of protecting and helping stray animals, with a focus on dogs as they are “animals

November 4, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Lawmakers pass outlines of 2 bills: water leakages & finance system

Lawmakers passed yesterday the outline of a government-initiated bill which proposes to establish a compulsory arbitration system to deal with disputes over water leakages in buildings.Leakage is a sustained water flow over a long period of time that has no operational function or usage.Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said that with the introduction of the system, the time taken to deal with water leakages will “certainly be significantly reduced”.He made

November 4, 2022 | BY Ginnie Liang

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More than 3,000 takeaway shops licensed: IAM

Northern District Community Service Consultative Council vice deputy convener Kou Ngon Fong quoted Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) officials yesterday as saying that since November 16 last year the bureau had received more than 4,000 applications for the mandatory registration for takeaway businesses, 3,290 of which have already been licensed by the bureau.The registration system was announced by the government last August and came into force on November 15 last year, which required takeaway

November 4, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Observatory lowers all storm signals & storm surge warnings, Nalgae spares Macau

Macau’s observatory lowered all tropical cyclone signals at 8:30 a.m. yesterday, as Tropical Cyclone Nalgae had moved away from Macau and weakened to a tropical depression that made landfall in Zhuhai, diminishing its threat to Macau.The weather station cancelled Tropical Cyclone Signal No.3 at 8:30 a.m. yesterday which it had hoisted at 7:00 a.m. that morning to replace Signal No.8 which had taken effect at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday.The Blue Storm Surge warning was cancelled at 6 a.m.

November 4, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Customs seizes about 40,000 patacas worth of frozen beef offal from parallel trading den

The Macau Customs Service (SA) last night raided a parallel trading den in a unit on the 11th floor of Yau Seng Industrial Building on Rua Quatro do Bairro Iao Hon, where its officers seized 63 boxes weighing 756 kilogrammes of frozen beef offal worth about 40,000 patacas.Customs officer Ip Lap Pun told reporters at the scene after 9 p.m.  that the officers intercepted a local man in the morning at the Barrier Gate checkpoint, suspected of being involved in parallel trading, adding that

November 4, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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