Talks only way to prevent trade war

China Daily Editorial        Although Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck does not represent the European Commission, his three-day visit to China, which concluded on Sunday, has helped ease tensions between China and the European Union over the issue to a certain degree.In his packed itinerary that consisted of stops in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, Habeck not only met with business leaders of both China

June 25, 2024 | BY admin

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Schools must choose textbooks meeting students’ learning needs: govt

The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) is urging local schools to carefully choose textbooks ensuring that they are suitable for their students’ psychological development and learning needs.The bureau also underlined that according to Macau’s official curriculum requirements, local schools should ensure that their students can write traditional Chinese characters while also becoming familiar with simplified Chinese characters.The bureau made the remarks in a statement on Friday

June 24, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Editorial: New guidelines put ‘diehard’ Taiwan separatists on final notice

The central authorities have put Taiwan’s hardcore separatists, those seeking foreign support in particular, on final notice, urging them to accept the “One China” principle or face the music, capital punishment in extremis. A set of guidelines was jointly released by the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the ministries of public security, state security and justice in Beijing on Friday. The guidelines impose criminal penalties on “diehard”

June 24, 2024 | BY admin

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MGM swimming event concludes, Macau team takes home prizes

MGM’s three-day “MGM Artistic Swimming Elite Extravaganza & Macao Open Artistic Swimming Competition 2024” concluded yesterday at the Aquatic Centre of the Olympic Sports Centre in Taipa, with the Macau team winning the free group championship for those aged 15 or under, among other prizes. The winners of the open competition’s different age categories were also awarded yesterday.A recent statement by integrated resort (IR) operator MGM noted that

June 24, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Firemen remove hornet nest after tree-trimmer stung

Estrada da Vitória was closed for a period of time after a tree trimmer was stung on his left hand by a hornet while he was working near the former Hotel Estoril, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.Firemen removed a nearby hornet nest from a tree shortly after the incident.The injured man is a 37-year-old non-resident worker (NRW) employed by a company contracted by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the statement noted.According to local Chinese-language media

June 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local beaches ‘unsuitable for swimming’: marine bureau

The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) reminded residents on Friday that the city’s two beaches, Hac Sa (“Black Sand”) and Cheoc Van (“Bamboo Bay”), both in Coloane, are unsuitable for swimming, after the amount of rubbish at both beaches was found to have increased significantly in recent days, as well as a test by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) showed excessive E. coli levels in both beaches’ waters last week.Cheoc Van remained closed to the public yesterday, as E. coli levels in

June 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police nab 2 local woman picking mulberry leaves outside PSP station

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday that PSP officers apprehended two women last night after a video circulating on the internet showed them picking leaves outside the PSP station in the northern district yesterday.According to PSP, police officers saw the two women picking mulberry leaves from branches overhanging the garden fence of the PSP station in the northern district at 9 p.m. yesterday.According to the police, both are Macau residents. They told the police

June 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Bosco Youth Service Network holds drug awareness campaign

The local Bosco Youth Service Network held yesterday a one-day drug awareness campaign at the Social Welfare Bureau’s (IAS) Healthy Life Education Centre in Areia Preta district, and FREEland Centre chief Dickson Tam Tek Sang told reporters that the centre, since last year, has come into contact with nearly 60 young people at risk of gambling and drug addiction in the community, a similar number year on year, mainly involving factors such as peer influence, “unmanageable” academic

June 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainlander given ‘fake job’ for illegal currency exchange deals in Macau: police

A mainland man spent 60,000 yuan on obtaining a local work permit through a fake employment contract in December last year when he started to engage in illegal currency exchange deals in Macau until he was arrested by Judiciary Police (PJ) officers at a hotel in Taipa on Thursday, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said on Friday.According to Friday’s special press conference, PJ officers on duty at a hotel in Taipa targeting illegal currency exchange dealers caught Ai, aged 35, who was in

June 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau sees rise in drug abuse among youths: PJ chief

Macau has seen a rise in drug abuse among youths under 21, with their officially recorded number having risen from just four in 2021 and 2022, respectively, to nine last year, Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng said on Friday.Sit underlined that the community must not take the problem of drug abuse by youths lightly: “While the number of young people involved in drugs is still in single digits in recent years, at four in 2021 and 2022, it rose to nine last year”. He noted that

June 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau under dark clouds, heavy rain and harsh sunlight

Macau’s weather has been as unpredictable as it can be over the past few weeks.There have been days where glimpses of sunlight would finally start to seep through dark clouds after a full day of heavy rain, perhaps signifying that the downpour is over. But within mere minutes of letting your guard down, you might find that the sky was only winding up to bring something much worse.Clear and sunny days are no better as heavy rain just might come out of the blue, leaving all those who thought to

June 24, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Ho takes first post-pandemic long holiday

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng is taking 13 consecutive days of holiday, which started on Friday and ends next Wednesday, according to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) on Friday.According to the order, which was signed by Ho on Thursday, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon is acting chief executive during Ho’s ongoing 13-day holiday.According to official records Ho, who took office on December 20, 2019, did not take any holiday during the

June 24, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Experts upbeat about win-win cooperation on solar industries between China, Europe

Analysis by Xinhua writers Che Yunlong, Huang Yan        MUNICH, Germany – Cooperation between Chinese and European solar industries is a “win-win” situation, said experts and business representatives from the photovoltaic (PV) industry during the just-concluded Intersolar Europe exhibition, the largest and most influential PV industry event in Europe.The exhibition, held alongside three other trade fairs from Wednesday to Friday in Munich, focused on energy

June 24, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau further enhances its e-governance incl ‘Easy Pickup’

Macau is further enhancing its e-governance by launching yesterday “Easy Pickup” smart lockers at the government’s six 24-hour self-service centres, expanding the functions on the “Macao One Account” and setting up new self-service kiosks of the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) and vending machines of the Printing Bureau’s (IO) publications, according to a joint press conference.The Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP), Commercial Services Bureau of the

June 21, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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