Airport passengers rise 27 pct during National Day holiday

The Macau International Airport recorded about 144,000 passengers during this year’s seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday, an increase of 27 percent from the corresponding period of last year, the airport operator CAM announced in a statement yesterday.The mainland’s 2024 National Day Golden Week holiday officially lasted seven days, from October 1 to 7.The number of passengers recorded during this year’s National Day Golden Week holiday returned to 82 percent of the level recorded

October 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs this year’s 8th imported dengue case

Macau recorded this year’s eighth imported case of dengue fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.This came after two imported cases of dengue fever were reported in a day, on Tuesday.According to last night’s statement, this year’s eighth dengue fever patient is a 53-year-old local woman who lives in Lok Man House (樂民樓) of the Lok Fu Garden (樂富新邨) residential estate on Avenida da Longevidade (長壽大馬路) in Iao Hon district.The

October 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Heritople’ documentary to premiere on Saturday

Interview by Rui Pastorin        A trilingual documentary entitled “Heritople” will premiere at Cinematheque•Passion on Travessa da Paixão (戀愛巷) on Saturday, with the film aiming to expand the connection between people and local heritage.Lasting just over an hour, the film features testimonies from eight interviewees that aim to help audiences understand the importance of cultural legacy, as well as preserving and continuing it, according to a statement

October 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Police nab HK man collecting ‘guess who I am’ scam proceeds

A Hong Kong man was arrested on Tuesday for assisting a gang in collecting fraudulently obtained money through a “guess who I am” phone scam in Macau, in which the suspect pretending to be a “lawyer” collected 250,000 patacas from an elderly local woman earlier that day in the northern district, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, PJ officers identified the “lawyer” as a Hong Kong man in his twenties,

October 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local dies after hit by car in Zhuhai: SPU

An 18-year-old local woman was hit by a car at around midnight between Tuesday and yesterday in Zhuhai and died on the spot, a statement issued by the Unitary Police Service (SPU) said yesterday.According to the statement, the SPU was informed by the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department yesterday afternoon that a car accident occurred at about midnight between Tuesday and yesterday in Zhuhai’s Xiangzhou District.According to the statement, a car collided with pedestrian at the

October 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Annual Encounter in Macau – Arts & Cultural Festival kicks off

The sixth edition of the “Encounter in Macau – Arts and Cultural Festival between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries” kicked off yesterday outside the Taipa Houses museum complex, marking the start of nearly 70 activities to be held between this month and December.Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Deland Leong Wai Man delivered a speech during the launch ceremony, saying that the bureau expects the “rich and colourful programme event” to help residents and tourists alike

October 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt has no plans yet for revitalising Jockey Club site: IC chief

A Legislative Assembly (AL) member has urged the government in a written interpellation to revitalise the site of the erstwhile Jockey Club in Taipa as a multi-purpose venue for leisure, recreation and sports activities, but Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Deland Leong Wai Man said yesterday that “there are no plans yet” by the government for the site’s revitalisation.Lawmaker-cum-civil engineer Leong Hong Sai raised the issue in a written interpellation in late August, with three

October 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Loan shark ‘imprisons’ gambler for 8 hours: police

A young local gambler was falsely imprisoned in a flat in the city centre by a loan shark for eight hours last Tuesday after he had failed to repay his gambling debt of HK$50,000, and only was able to escape due to a fire near the flat, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman said yesterday, adding that PJ officers arrested the 30-year-old mainland male suspect on Monday when he re-entered Macau via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) checkpoint.According to a PJ report, a woman reported last

October 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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It’s time US woke up and smelled the coffee

China Daily Editorial        That Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao held a “candid, in-depth and pragmatic” conversation on bilateral trade and economic ties with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on the phone on Tuesday shows the two sides are maintaining close contact on different levels under the Sino-US communication mechanism agreed to by the two heads of state during their meeting in San Francisco in November.Although the full details of the conversation are

October 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Jewish refugees in Shanghai: an unforgettable chapter in history

Commentary by Gao Zichen        In the 1930s and 1940s, more than 20,000 Jews took refuge in Shanghai. For the Jewish refugees, a whole new way of life awaited them in a land with radically different customs and rules. Meanwhile, the Chinese, suffering from the Japanese aggression, had tolerated the influx of these “uninvited” Europeans who had nowhere else to go. A new mode of cultural exchange of “blending in adversity” started in Shanghai, reflecting the warmth of

October 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Pilot Macau-HK ambulance scheme to start with HK-bound patients: Lo

Macau, Hong Kong and Guangdong Province have studied the feasibility of implementing a pilot cross-border ambulance transfer service between the three places since the middle of last year, and regarding the possible cross-border service between Hong Kong and Macau, Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long said late last month that in accordance with a plan being considered by the nation’s two special administrative regions (SARs), the door-to-door service would start initially with

October 9, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau logs almost 1 million visitors during 7-day National Day holiday: MGTO

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced in a statement yesterday evening that Macau recorded nearly one million visitor arrivals during the seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday from Tuesday last week through Monday, representing a daily average of about 141,000, hitting the previous average daily record in the National Day Golden Week holiday in pre-pandemic 2019.The mainland’s 2024 National Day Golden Week holiday officially lasted seven days, from October 1 to

October 9, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs 2 imported dengue cases in one day, 7 cases so far this year

Macau recorded two imported cases of dengue fever yesterday, raising the number of this year’s cases so far to seven, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.Macau reported seven imported cases of dengue fever last year.According to the statement, this year’s sixth dengue fever patient is a mainlander who works in Macau and lives in Zhuhai.The workplace of the 36-year-old male non-resident worker is located near Rua de Coelho do Amaral (連勝街), the main street

October 9, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Sam interacts with Taipa residents, vows to enhance infrastructure for citizens

Macau’s sole candidate for its sixth-term chief executive, Sam Hou Fai, has been visiting various neighbourhoods since last week to listen to people’s views, aiming to gauge public sentiment.Accompanied by Macau Federation of Trade Unions (MFTU – Gung Luen) President Ho Sut Heng and other community leaders, Sam exchanged views with residents and shop owners in Taipa, and visited Taipa Central Park and Flower City Park.Wrapping up yesterday morning’s walkabout in Taipa, the 62-year-old

October 9, 2024 | BY William Chan

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