Macau’s securities depository links up with HK’s Moneymarkets Unit, promoting both sides’ bond markets

Macau’s central securities depository (CSD) and Hong Kong’s Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) were directly linked to each other yesterday with the aim of promoting the development of the two cities’ respective bond markets, with the new measure’s launching ceremony held in Macau yesterday.The measure was announced in a joint statement by the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).Yesterday’s statement announced the official launch of the direct

January 22, 2025 | BY admin

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MGM announces staff salary rise

Integrated resort (IR) operator MGM announced a salary increase for its staff in a statement yesterday, effective from March 24.According to the statement, 99 percent of eligible staff will receive a 2.5 percent increment. The statement added that staff with a monthly salary of or less than 16,000 patacas will get a standard salary adjustment of 600 patacas, representing a 2.5 percent to 5.5 percent increment.Chairperson and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited Pansy Ho Chiu King

January 22, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Citywide e-coupon consumption campaign boosts 1.1 billion patacas spending: govt

Economic chief stays mum on campaign’s possible relaunchThe Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) announced yesterday that the government has spent 227 million patacas on its 13-week citywide e-coupon consumption stimulation campaign, which ended late last month, generating consumer spending worth over 1.1 billion patacas for businesses across the city, underlining that the drive has achieved the desired results in boosting local consumption.When asked by reporters yesterday,

January 22, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Make a wish at bucolic Albergue SCM compound

The annual Albergue SCM* Wishing Well and Love Tree are again open in Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro (瘋堂斜巷).Having kicked off earlier this week and staying open until March 10, one can drop a coin into a wooden bucket and make one’s wishes for the Chinese New Year, while one can also write a message down on a heart-shaped paper and hang it up around the well or on the tree.According to information displayed at the venue, the event organised by CAC – Círculo dos Amigos da Cultura

January 22, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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'Old Taipa' to be pedestrianised during CNY holiday, govt to arrange shuttle bus service

The “Old Taipa” area will be pedestrianised during the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday from January 29 to February 4, with a shuttle bus service to be provided for people with limited mobility living there, Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) Director Yau Yun Wah said yesterday.Yau made the remarks during a press conference announcing the arrangement for the upcoming temporary pedestrianisation of “Old Taipa” district during the festive period, and representatives from

January 22, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Customs busts 2 shops selling bogus watches worth 72,000 patacas

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers on Monday busted two shops suspected of selling fake watches infringing on various brands’ intellectual property rights (IP), involving 19 bogus items worth 72,000 patacas in total, according to the prices set by the retailers, an SA spokesperson said during a press conference yesterday.Two local male shop owners, surnamed Van, aged 46, and Sou, aged 53, were arrested on Monday, according to the spokesperson, adding that SA officers did not rule out that

January 22, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police nab local man for theft by finding

A local man was arrested on Saturday for theft by finding, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said in a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Ieong is in his sixties. He claimed to be jobless.According to Cheong, the police received a report from a man on Thursday saying that he had left his wallet with 6,800 patacas inside on a shop counter. After scrutinising their citywide CCTV camera system, the police identified Ieong as the suspect who had picked up

January 22, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Filipina maid & local tutor steal spirits from same boss: police

A domestic helper from the Philippines and a local tutor were arrested on Friday and Saturday respectively for stealing expensive spirits from their employer, the Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chao Teng Hin said in a regular press conference yesterday.The female suspect is a 39-year-old woman surnamed Ortiz, while the 21-year-old male suspect is surnamed Ieng. Their employer is a local woman.According to Chao, on January 6, the employer discovered that over 14 expensive bottles of alcohol had

January 22, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Four from HK hired by ‘guess who I am’ gang to pick up cash in Macau: police

Three Hong Kong men and a Hong Kong woman were instructed by a “guess who I am” telecom fraud gang to come to Macau to pick up cash from elderly victims, Judiciary Police (PJ) investigator Lei Chi Wai said at a special press conference yesterday.According to Lei, an elderly man reported to the police last September that he received calls from a man claiming to be his “son-in-law”, telling him that he had been arrested for beating someone up and requesting he hand HK$150,000 in cash

January 22, 2025 | BY William Chan

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DSAT launches diagonal crossing in Areia Preta

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has announced that the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Rua Nova da Areia Preta (黑沙環新街) and Rua de Ma Kau Seak (馬交石街) has been converted into a diagonal crossing, which started operating yesterday morning.A diagonal crossing refers to the arrangement when pedestrians are permitted to cross a street or junction at an angle, rather than following the straight lines of zebra crossings.The adjustment was made after considering the road conditions,

January 22, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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UN Holocaust Memorial Day held in HK

On Monday evening, a commemoration ceremony for the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day (UNHMD), which fell this year on the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, was held in Hong Kong at the Jewish Community Centre. January 27th is the day chosen to commemorate the memory of the Jewish victims murdered during the Holocaust. On this day every year, the world remembers the six million lives slaughtered, simply because they were Jewish. It marks the day when Soviet troops

January 22, 2025 | BY admin

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Artists reimagine ‘Operation Dragon’ and Macau’s ties to Poland

Macau-Poland artist duo Cheong Kin Man and Marta Stanisława Sala are showcasing their inaugural exhibition in Poland, paying homage to the 1990 “Operation Dragon” and accentuating connections between Polish historical figures and Macau. The exhibit, titled “Flora Macanensis,” is on display at Katowice’s City Library (MBPK) at Bogucice until February 28.Artist talk on Macau BiennaleDescribed as a “magic evening” by MBPK on Facebook, the opening took place on January 7 and featured

January 22, 2025 | BY admin

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Window Cleaning Service features video game & anime music

Local band Window Cleaning Service hosted a Video Game & Anime Music Concert at Sifang Art Space on Saturday night, comprising six young local musicians under the age of 18, all from Macau Anglican College (MAC).The Post published an interview with the band last Wednesday. *The show attracted over 70 attendees, featuring a range of video game and anime music including Mario Kart 8 main theme, Cruel Angel’s Thesis from Evangelion and Merry Go Round of Life from Howls Moving Castle.Girl

January 22, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Lang Lang performs with Macao Orchestra in Galaxy

The nation’s top pianist Lang Lang performed with the Macao Orchestra (OM) under the baton of its principal conductor Lio Kuok Man at the Galaxy International Convention Centre on Sunday.The show attracted a full house. The show commenced with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, after which Lang Lang took centre stage to perform Frédéric Chopin’s 12 Mazurkas, a collection of piano works that capture the spirit of Polish folk music and dance.The highlight of the evening was the

January 22, 2025 | BY William Chan

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