35-pataca hourly minimum wage to start in Macau on Jan 1

Macau’s statutory minimum wage will increase from the current 34 patacas an hour to 35 patacas per hour from January 1 next year, representing an increase of 2.94 percent, after the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed a government-initiated bill amending the city’s overall minimum wage law.The implementation of Macau’s overall minimum wage system started on November 1, 2020. Since then, all employees in the private sector, except domestic helpers and those with disabilities, had

December 19, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Sands China Asian Youth Elite Fencing League – Macao’ returns

The Sands China Asian Youth Elite Fencing League – Macao competition will take place at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo from December 26 to 28, featuring new categories and 1,200 youth fencers from around the world, according to a joint statement by co-organisers Sands China in conjunction with Asia Sports Development Ltd.This year’s free-admission event will feature new categories including individual events for the U6 age group and team events for the U8 and U12 age groups, the

December 19, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme gains expert backing at first committee meeting: University of Macau (UM)

The University of Macau’s (UM) Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) held its first expert committee meeting on Tuesday to review and advise on the newly launched ‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme, an initiative aimed at advancing innovation and technology transfer in the Big Health sector, according to a UM statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the meeting focused on the direction and development of the ‘Health+’ Accelerator Programme, which is funded by

December 19, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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University of Macau (UM) hosts first GBA Immunity & Disease Summit

The University of Macau (UM) announced in a Wednesday statement that it hosted its first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Immunity and Disease Summit last month, bringing together leading experts from across the region to explore new frontiers in immunology and human health. Held under the theme “Immunity and Human Health: New Frontiers”, the summit provided a high-level platform for academic exchange on basic immunology research, the prevention and control of immune-related

December 19, 2025 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) seminar discusses low-altitude economy standardisation

The “2025 International Symposium on Standardisation-Enabled Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and the Low-Altitude Economy” was held yesterday, with the aim of driving the standardisation of the low altitude economy (LAE)* into a new phase characterised by institutionalisation, platformisation, and internationalisation, according to a statement by the organisers.The one-day seminar took place at the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Taipa. It focused on the

December 19, 2025 | BY Ida Cheong

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Local youngster falls victim to online naked chat blackmail: Macau police

A local youth fell victim to blackmail after chatting in the nude with a “female netizen”, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Leng, a male reported to the Judiciary Police on Wednesday night that after meeting a woman on a social platform, he was induced into engaging in a nude chat. Subsequently, the woman blackmailed him for money, resulting in a total loss of around 19,350 yuan (22,030 patacas), Leng said.On Wednesday morning,

December 19, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Hainan evolves as gateway to global markets

FTP hits new milestone with launch of island-wide special customs operations         On April 13, 2018, when President Xi Jinping announced that China would support Hainan, a tropical island about the size of Taiwan province off China’s southern coast, in exploring the creation of a free trade port (FPT) with Chinese characteristics, the message traveled far beyond China’s southern shores.It reached Atyrau, a city on Kazakhstan’s Caspian coast, where Ruslan

December 19, 2025 | BY Analysis by Mo Jingxi and Chen Bowen

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‘China surplus anxiety’ mirrors West’s ‘rationality deficit’

Commentary        BEIJING – In recent weeks, some Western media headlines have fixated on China’s goods trade surplus, often portraying it in stark terms and as a threat to industries in the West. This narrative strips international trade of its economic context, weaponizing a single metric into a story of Chinese economic aggression.Yet, this framing reveals less about China’s trade practices and more about a growing anxiety within the West – anxiety over its own

December 19, 2025 | BY admin

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Macau SAR Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai vows to overcome all reform challenges by fully implementing Xi’s instructions

Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai yesterday pledged his government’s commitment to overcome all challenges expected to arise during its ongoing governance reform campaign, through the full implementation of President Xi Jinping’s instructions for Macau.Sam also said that his government has decided that investments made in Hengqin by Macau’s gaming operators can also be regarded as part of the total amounts of non-gaming investments that they have

December 18, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau's CEM shareholders contribute another 30 million patacas towards upgrading communal electrics in old buildings

Power utility CEM said in a statement yesterday that following its well-received “Safety Upgrade Subsidy Programme for Communal Electrical Installations in Low-rise Ageing Buildings” launched at the end of 2020, CEM shareholders will again contribute 30 million patacas in 2026 to “subsidise the safety upgrade of communal electrical installations in old buildings”.The statement said that the focus will be on improving “high risk” electrical installations such as main

December 18, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau Judiciary Police (PJ) call on citizens to beware of phishing SMSs posing as WhatsApp

Statement by Judiciary PoliceThe Judiciary Police (PJ) have recently discovered that scammers are once again sending out phishing SMSs impersonating the messaging app WhatsApp.The messages falsely claim that the recipient’s account has been reported and urge users to log in via a link included in the message before a certain deadline, or risk being blocked by the system. When users click the link, they are redirected to a counterfeit website that closely resembles the official WhatsApp site,

December 18, 2025 | BY admin

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Programme aims to boost Macau's transformation & upgrading of catering sector: CPTTM chief

The public Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) co-hosted a press conference with the United Association of Food and Beverage Merchants of Macau (UAFBMM) yesterday about their “Macau Catering Industry Smart Upgrade Programme”, and CPTTM Director-General Victoria Alexa Kuan Chan said in a speech that the programme aims to enhance the transformation and upgrading of the local catering industry.The press conference was held at CPTTM’s Creative Fashion and Image

December 18, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau police nab gambler for robbing currency exchange dealer of HK$500,000

The Judiciary Police (PJ) apprehended a man from the Chinese mainland for robbing a middle-aged woman of HK$500,000 in cash and chips in an illegal currency exchange deal, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Wai Lok said during a special press conference yesterday.Ho identified the suspect as a 38-year-old male surnamed Bi who claimed to be jobless. The victim is a non-resident worker (NRW) from the Chinese mainland moonlighting as an illegal currency exchange dealer in Macau.According to Ho,

December 18, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Young mainlander loses 1.2 million yuan in ‘fake police’ scam: Macau police

A young woman from the Chinese mainland has fallen victim to a “fake police” scam, resulting in a total loss of 1.2 million yuan (1.3 million patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Wai Lok said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the Judiciary Police (PJ) received a notification from the Chinese Mainland Anti-Fraud Centre on Friday about a possible victim of a “fake police” scam. The police immediately contacted the victim that same day in Cotai.Ho noted

December 18, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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