Govt launches tender for green promenade’s 2nd phase

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has launched a public tender for the second phase of its green promenade project along the peninsula’s southern shore, according to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) last week.According to the announcement, potential bidders are required to submit their quotations by August 7. The bureau will unseal the submitted bids the next day.The bureau said early this year that it expected the green promenade’s second phase to get off the ground

July 9, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Local journalists visit world-famous Tsingtao Brewery

Maria Chiang Ut Meng in Qingdao         A local English- and Portuguese-language media delegation organised by the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) visited yesterday the world-famous Tsingtao Brewery in the northern port city of Qingdao.“Tsingtao” is the former spelling of Qingdao, a city of 10 million inhabitants. During the visit, Jessie Xiao Yue, business manager of International Headquarters

July 9, 2024 | BY admin

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Plants take on different shapes in lensman’s ‘Nocturnal’ exhibition

Local lensman Rusty Fox (Wang Lap Wong) is showcasing his works in an exhibition titled “Nocturnal”, which is on at the Taipa Village Art Space until August 24 and showcases “body-like forms of plants” growing in Macau, according to a recent statement from the art space.“Nocturnal” is also the title of Fox’s latest photobook.The statement noted that the photographer, who has a master’s degree in documentary photography from the University of South Wales and a bachelor’s degree

July 9, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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UM hosts 38th Portuguese Language Summer Programme

The University of Macau (UM) is hosting its 38th Portuguese Language Summer Programme, with this year’s edition being joined by 342 participants.The on-campus opening ceremony was held yesterday to kick off the programme, which will last until July 26. Most of the programme’s participants are from the mainland, while 59 are from Macau, six from South Korea, four from Hong Kong and one from Vietnam.In his speech, UM Vice Rector Prof. Rui Martins said: “I have been witnessing the

July 9, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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School of the Nations celebrates 3rd IB full-score

The School of the Nations (SON) said in a statement yesterday that its class of 2024 achieved outstanding International Baccalaureate (IB) results, with the school celebrating its third IB full-score and the 15th anniversary of becoming an IB World School.The IB is “a global leader in international education – developing enquiring, knowledgeable, confident, and caring young people”, according to IB website. Yesterday’s SON statement noted that the school “believes in affording all

July 9, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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HK woman loses HK$2.1 million in online gambling scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) received a report on Saturday from a Hong Kong woman about losing HK$2.1 million in an online gambling scam, in which a man claiming to work for a casino in Macau lured the victim into placing bets on a website by claiming he had found a loophole in a casino’s information technology (IT) network and computer system and that gambling on the website was a guaranteed win, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a regular press conference yesterday.Chong said: “She said

July 9, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Illegal currency exchange activities drop in recent months: PJ chief

But gaming-related cases rise 75.5 pct in Jan-MayThe Judiciary Police (PJ) investigated 579 gaming-related cases in the first five months of this year, a year-on-year growth of 75.5 percent, of which gaming-related fraud cases increased by 66.7 percent year on year and were “closely” related to currency exchange gangs, PJ Director Sit Chong Meng said in a speech on Friday, adding that the total number of suspected crime cases the Judiciary Police probed between January and May this year

July 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainland police bust illegal currency exchange deals, safeguarding stability of public security: MPS

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced on Friday that Guangdong police had cracked down on three currency exchange gangs involving practice banknotes, busted five illegal currency exchange cases, smashed six underground banks and arrested 101 suspects involving 1.47 billion yuan, pointing out that the number of suspects involved in illegal currency exchange activities in Macau has increased “significantly”, leading to a rise in crimes such as fraud, robbery, theft, false

July 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Court sentences ex-IPIM chief to 8 years, businessman to 24 years behind bars

Macau’s Court of Second Instance (TSI) has sentenced the former president of the government’s Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), recently renamed Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute but still using IPIM as its acronym, Jackson Cheong Chou Weng, to eight years behind bars for bribe-taking, money laundering and other crimes.Not only did the court dismiss Cheong’s appeal against a lower court sentence but is also increased his prison term from five to eight years.

July 8, 2024 | BY admin

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Liaison Office deputy director Yan Zhichan leaves post

The State Council recalled Yan Zhichan on Friday from the post of a deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).The State Council has still to announce who will succeed Yan, who had been a deputy director of the liaison office in Macau since March 2020.The Liaison Office in the MSAR has four deputy directors in its organisational structure.After Yan left her post, the Liaison Office in the MSAR now only has two

July 8, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Police urge public to be wary of ‘online part-time job’ scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged the public yesterday in a statement to remain vigilant against an “online part time job” scam, which caused 10 residents to lose a total of 140,000 patacas earlier this month.The statement noted that the Judiciary Police were recently informed about the scam by a number of residents who had applied for an online part-time job on a social media platform that required “employees” to click “likes” on designated websites.After clicking “likes”, the

July 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Gongbei Customs seizes 19 endangered turtles from mainland woman

Gongbei Customs said in a statement on Saturday that its officers have recently intercepted a mainland woman at Zhuhai’s Gongbei checkpoint, as they found she was carrying 19 live turtles in the plastic carrier bags she was carrying when she entered Zhuhai from Macau through the “nothing to declare” channel.According to the statement, customs officers intercepted the woman acting suspiciously while walking past the X-ray machine for baggage inspection on June 20.The 19 terrapins found in

July 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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‘Annie the Musical’ comes to town in August

Broadway classic “Annie the Musical” is set to take to the Macau Cultural Centre’s (CCM) stage from August 2 to 14, with the “must-see summer show for all ages” being part of the 1st Macao International Children’s Arts Festival, according to a Friday statement from the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC).The statement noted that the musical is one of the “world’s best-loved shows” and features popular music numbers such as “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard Knocked Life”. The

July 8, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Orbis Raffle Charity Sales 2024 raises over 848,000 patacas

Orbis Macau said in a statement yesterday that its Orbis Raffle Charity Sale 2024 has raised over 848,000 patacas throughout its two-month run.This year’s charity sale, which aimed to raise vital funds to fuel the non-profit’s paediatric sight-saving initiatives, came to an end on June 30, according to the statement. Each raffle ticket was priced at 10 patacas, with the NGO thanking the public for their support.Meanwhile, the statement noted that this year’s “impressive list of

July 8, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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