Visitors rise 58.9 pct in Jan-April

 Macau’s visitor arrivals in the first four months of the year rose by 58.9 percent year on year to 11.47 million, recovering to 83.2 percent of the level in the same period of pre-pandemic 2019, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Same-day visitors (6.14 million) and overnight visitors (5.33 million) increased by 80.3 percent and 39.8 percent year on year respectively.Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.1 day to 1.2 days, with that of overnight

May 23, 2024 | BY admin

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BEYOND Expo opens with 3 themes

Organised by the Macau Technology General Association, the three-day BEYOND Expo held its formal opening ceremony at The Venetian Macao yesterday afternoon.More than 1,000 exhibitors, including multinational enterprises, unicorns and startups, are participating in the event.A unicorn is a startup whose valuation has exceeded US$1 billion, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.A number of guests, including Chinese People’s Political Consultative

May 23, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Student in 20s ‘attracted’ by woman, touches her buttocks: police

A local male student in his twenties was arrested on Monday for touching the buttocks of a South Korean woman in her thirties in Calçada da Feitoria in the Praia do Manduco area last Friday afternoon, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Kong Chi Ian said during a regular press conference yesterday.Kong identified the suspect, thanks to CCTV footage and the police forces’ citywide CCTV surveillance system, as a young person surnamed Ng.According to Kong, the Public Security Police

May 23, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Company owner’ cheats woman out of 1.3 million patacas

A mainland man purporting to be the owner of an engineering company cheated a compatriot, whom he got to know at a local casino in May last year, out of a total of 1.3 million patacas by claiming that “after he exchanged foreign currencies, his mainland bank account was frozen by the mainland police, resulting in about 100 million yuan in his account not being available for use, but that he was in urgent need of money to pay emergency compensation for a workplace accident”,  Judiciary

May 23, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Public hospital uses new technique for heart valve repair surgery

The public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre has completed a heart valve repair operation after learning the technique from doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University (JNU) last month, marking a successful example of collaboration among medical institutions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.The surgery applied an advanced minimally invasive thoracoscopic small incision approach, which featured only three small chest

May 23, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Public servant steals 3 antiques worth 120,000 patacas: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrest of a male public servant in his fifties, who stole on May 4 three Chinese antiques worth a total of 120,000 patacas from a jewellery shop in the city centre.According to yesterday’s special press conference hosted by PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong, upon receiving a report from the jewellery shop’s owner on May 6 about his loss of three Chinese antiques worth 120,000 patacas in total, the Judiciary Police identified and arrested on

May 23, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Macau, Hengqin ink cooperation pacts with battery giant CATL

Macau and Hengqin each signed a cooperation framework agreement with the nation’s largest automotive lithium-ion battery maker CATL yesterday, according to which the Macau and Hengqin governments will make good use of CATL’s leading advantages in the global new energy industry with the aim of promoting the two places’ green and low-carbon development.Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) is headquartered in Ningde city in Fujian province. Founded in 2011, CATL has ranked

May 23, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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USJ to host English poetry recital contest Saturday

The recital contest and award ceremony for the “3rd Macao-wide English Poetry Writing and Recital Contest 2024” will be held on the University of Saint Joseph’s (USJ) Ilha Verde campus on Saturday.The contest, according to USJ’s website, themed “Macao, The Garden Of Life” had participants submit original poems for one of three categories: “Beauty in the eye of the beholder”, “Wisdom of the ages” and “Emotions running over”, with submissions made between March 16 and

May 23, 2024 | BY admin

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Whatever support secessionists get, ‘independence’ ain’t going to happen

China Daily Editorial        By announcing a new round of sanctions on three US companies for their involvement in arms sales to China’s Taiwan island on Monday, Beijing has sent an unmistakable message to the United States that it has both the resolve and the means to counter any challenge to the one-China principle.Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security unit, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, and General Dynamics Land Systems have been added to China’s Unreliable

May 23, 2024 | BY admin

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China makes headway on biodiversity protection

Analysis        BEIJING –  As one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, China is moving towards the symbiosis of economic development and environmental protection, supporting global efforts on biodiversity conservation.Yesterday marked the International Day for Biological Diversity, with this year’s theme being “Be Part of the Plan,” in a call for action from all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity.Here are some notable facts and

May 23, 2024 | BY admin

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Xi'an's sci-tech industry is flourishing, Chinese & foreign media teams visit 4 top enterprises

      News feature by Megan Wang Ziqi       A delegation of local and foreign journalists conducted in-depth interviews in Xi'an on April 24, fousing on the national civil aerospace industry base in Xi'an, such as Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an Zhongke Tianta Technology Co., Ltd. and other leading enterprises in the science and technology industry. Through this visit, the journalists aimed to gain a deeper understanding of Xi'an's

May 22, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau Printers Association hosts dinner banquet

Chao Sao Seong, chairman of The Macau Printers Association, addresses its 2024-2026 dinner banquet at The Plaza Restaurant last night. The dinner was attended by about 300 people from the local printing industry as well as printing sector representatives from Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), as well as local officials such as Macau Foundation (FM) President Wu Zhiliang and several local newspaper directors. Chao, general manager of Welfare Printing Ltd, reaffirmed the sector’s

May 22, 2024 | BY admin

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FM encourages associations to organise Hengqin day trips, participants to get F&B vouchers

The public Macau Foundation (FM) has launched a new financial support programme, encouraging local associations to organise 40-member tour groups to the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, in hopes of spurring local residents to become a part of the integrated development of Macau and Hengqin, while, at the same time, promoting the revival of Macau’s small- and medium-sized (SMEs) businesses in the catering sector by giving the participants food and beverage (F&B)

May 22, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘English Without Borders’ contest takes place at MPU

The three-day “Hippo ‘English Without Borders’ Olympiad (China National Finals)” competition recently took place at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), with the event attracting parents and students from provinces and cities across the nation, according to a statement yesterday from the public university.The event was organised by MPU in conjunction with the Global Hippo Association and ASDAN (Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network) China. Both are non-profit

May 22, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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