Paddlers to vie for WTT medals in Sept

Macau is set to host the 2024 WTT (World Table Tennis) tournament at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai in September, gathering 32 male and 32 female players for another “high-level international table tennis event” following April’s International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Men’s and Women’s World Cup, according a statement from the Sports Bureau (ID) on Friday.Scheduled to take place from September 9 to 15, the World Table Tennis Champions Macao 2024 marks the fifth time

June 12, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Service centre for persons with disabilities in Ilha Verde to open this month: Ao Ieong

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U said that a new integrated service centre for persons with disabilities in Ilha Verde district will open this month, providing people with intellectual disabilities and autism with services such as work ability assessment, career planning, sheltered work training and on-the-job employment support.Ao Ieong made the remarks while responding to an oral interpellation during a plenary session in the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday,

June 12, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Rekindling Sino-US education cooperation

Commentary by Denis Simon*        Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reply to a letter from Lamont Repollet, president of Kean University in New Jersey, could not have occurred at a more opportune time.The letter was written against the backdrop of the 50,000-student initiative announced by President Xi at a welcome dinner by friendly organizations in the United States in November 2023.That initiative, which involves an offer by the Chinese government to host 50,000 American

June 12, 2024 | BY admin

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Over 200 teams from Asia and beyond compete at Macau dragon boat races

    The 2024 Macau International Dragon Boat Races took place at the peninsula's Nam Van Lake between Saturday and yesterday with over 200 teams from Asia and beyond taking part.   Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng attended the races. Ho performed the traditional eye-dotting ceremony and presided over the award presentation ceremony.  Zheng Xincong, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the MSAR, Liu

June 10, 2024 | BY admin

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The Macau Post Daily wishes everyone a Happy Dragon Boat Festival

    The Macau Post Daily wishes all its readers, advertisers, contributors and distributors  a Happy Dragon Boat Festival.    The Macau Post Daily《澳門郵報》祝廣大讀者、廣告商、經銷商端午節快樂。    The Macau Post Daily deseja a todos os seus leitores, anunciantes, colaboradores e distribuidores  um Feliz Festival do Barco-Dragão.

June 10, 2024 | BY admin

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Nearly half of young residents unwilling to marry, have kids: survey

The Women’s General Association of Macau has conducted a survey about young residents’ attitudes towards marriage and childbearing, the results of which show that nearly half of the 925 respondents aged between 18 and 34 explicitly stated that they have no plans to get married within five years, while the average score of the respondents’ fertility intentions stood at 4.76 out of a maximum of 10.Fertility intention refers to people’s desire to have children and pursuit of childbirth.The

June 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Dragon Boat Festival holiday

Due to it being the Dragon Boat Festival (Tung Ng Festival) holiday on Monday most of The Macau Post Daily’s editing team will be taking Sunday and Monday off, returning to work on Tuesday so the print edition of your favourite newspaper will be on the newsstands again on Wednesday. The office will be closed on Monday. However, our digital edition on our website https://www.macaupostdaily.com/ will be updated round-the-clock. Our local news and editorials as well as special news stories and

June 7, 2024 | BY admin

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Local restaurateur gets 80,000 patacas to give mainlander ‘fake job’

The Public Security Police (PSP) have once again uncovered a “fake employment” scam, in which a local man, who owns an eatery on Rua do Almirante Sérgio, received 80,000 patacas to help a mainland man fraudulently obtain a local work permit through a fake employment contract as a chef, PSP spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said yesterday.Cheong said during a regular press conference that the Public Security Police recently discovered that the entry and exit records of the mainland suspect surnamed

June 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Prosecutors probe 224 juveniles in 17 months

The Public Prosecutions Office (MP) said in a statement yesterday that between January last year and May this year, i.e., during a 17-month period, it laid charges against 41 juveniles aged 16 and over, while it imposed educational supervision or social protection measures on 183 minors below the age of 16.The office urged the public to enhance their legal awareness, care and education of minors, so as to prevent them from being taken advantage of by “lawless elements” and committing crimes

June 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sports chief expects over 16,000 spectators for ‘2024 Macau Int’l Dragon Boat Races’

Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun told reporters yesterday he believed that the number of spectators at the 2024 SJM Macao International Dragon Boat Races will reach 16,000, or even more, which would be similar to last year, despite the weather not being stable these few days.The annual races, which start tomorrow and end on Monday, will take place at the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre.Pun made the remarks on the sidelines of the blessing ceremony for the 2024 SJM Macao International

June 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Registered drug users rise 40 pct last year: govt

Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Wilson Hon Wai said yesterday that the number of registered drug users in Macau last year was 119, an increase of 40 percent compared to 2022, including five young people under the age of 21, according to an IAS statement yesterday.Hon made the remarks during this year’s first plenary meeting of the government-appointed Narcotics Control Committee yesterday, adding that methamphetamine (commonly known as “ice”) was the most used drug, followed by

June 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Man nabbed for cheating gambler out of HK$96,000

A mainland man was arrested on Wednesday when entering Macau via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) checkpoint for cheating a gambler out of casino chips worth a total of HK$96,000 at a casino in Cotai on the previous day, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said yesterday.According to yesterday’s regular press conference, the mainland victim got acquainted with the 39-year-old suspect surnamed Zhao through an illegal currency exchange dealer, after which, based on a deal to

June 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Orbis Raffle Charity Street Sale’ set for tomorrow

“Orbis Raffle Charity Street Sale” events are set to be held tomorrow and next Sunday, with the raffle aimed at raising funds for the non-governmental organisation’s (NGO) global paediatric sight-saving programmes and sustainable training in low-and-middle income communities, Orbis Macau said in a statement yesterday.The charity raffle, which this year offers 96 prizes, is among the nonprofit’s annual key campaigns and marks its 15th edition this year. The campaign, according to Orbis

June 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Participants immerse themselves in ‘Sands Children’s Day for Music and Arts’

Integrated resort (IR) operator Sands China said in a statement earlier this week that its Sands Cares Ambassadors hosted local families from the local Children’s Dream Alliance on May 29 at the permanent teamLab Supernature Macao exhibition at The Venetian Macao in Cotai in celebration of International Children’s Day.The event was titled “Sands Children’s Day for Music and Arts” and was held as part of Sands Cares Ambassador programme’s 15th anniversary and had 70 participants,

June 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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