Only 6,000 visitors use Qingmao checkpoint a day over Golden Week

Northern District Community Service Consultative Council Deputy Convener Kou Ngon Fong quoted Public Security Police (PSP) officials as saying that the average daily number of entries and exits during the mainland’s recent five-day Labour Day Golden Week holiday was 598,000, of which 52,000 were visitors through the Barrier Gate checkpoint while only 6,000 visitors used the Macau-Zhuhai Qingmao pedestrian border checkpoint.Kou made the remarks during a press briefing after the council’s

May 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Population rises to 686,400 – 20,612 per sq.km

Macau’s population rose by 2,700 to 686,400 between last year’s fourth quarter and this year’s first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. According to a DSEC statement, the increase was mainly due to a rise in the number of non-resident workers (NRWs) living in Macau.Based on Macau’s land area of 33.3 sq.km, its population density reached 20,612 per sq.km at the end of March, one of the world’s highest. Females accounted for 53.4 percent of

May 10, 2024 | BY admin

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PATA summit to kick off next week

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Annual Summit 2024 is slated to take place at Grand Lisboa Palace from Wednesday to Friday, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday.The event, held annually at different destinations, is set to gather around 400 tourism industry delegates from the Asia Pacific region for a string of meetings, several of which will also be attended by MGTO and other Macau PATA tourism industry members, while an international tourism

May 10, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Sands China hosts City Nature Challenge activities

Integrated resort (IR) operator Sands China said in a statement yesterday that it had organised activities last month that aimed to educate, inspire and raise awareness of the City Nature Challenge (CNC) among staff and the local community.Among the activities were two seminars by local scientist Leong Chi Man at The Venetian Macao on April 11. Attended by 120 participants, the statement noted that the seminars were about the importance of biodiversity and its relationship to the 17 UN

May 10, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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GEG launches Health Monitoring Stations for staff

Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has recently set up Health Monitoring Stations in the back-of-house areas of its different properties for staff members in support of the Healthy Enterprise Programme organised by the Health Bureau (SSM) and the Macao Healthy City Committee, the integrated resort (IR) operator said in a statement yesterday. The statement said that the stations feature various health monitoring devices that enable staff to measure their own physical health parameters on site

May 10, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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SJM hosts Mother’s Day workshop

SJM Resorts said in a statement earlier this week that it organised a half-day parent-child arts and culture outing on May 4 for nearly 20 mothers and children from the Integrated Service Centre for Family Support – Source of Happiness and Energy, run by Caritas Macau, in the run-up to Mother’s Day.Mother’s Day will be celebrated this Sunday. The arts and culture outing was held at Grand Lisboa Palace (GLP) in CotaiThe statement noted that the event started with a parent-child workshop,

May 10, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Govt to carry out ‘comprehensive’ checks & repairs at Barrier Gate terminal

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has said that the government will continue to carry out “comprehensive” examinations and the necessary repairs to the ceiling of the Barrier Gate underground public bus terminal which was severely affected by water leakage last Saturday when Macau was pummelled by torrential rain.Macau’s observatory issued this year’s first black rainstorm signal on Saturday last week, which was in force for 38 minutes between 11:37 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. It was also the first

May 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt finishes assessing bids for 10 taxi-operating company licences

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday that it has completed assessing the accepted bids for its public tender for the granting of 10 eight-year company licences, each of which will be allowed to operate up to 50 common taxis, i.e., the government has chosen the 10 winners.The granting of the 10 company licences will enable up to 500 new taxis to hit the roads.The tender for the 10 company licences was launched on October 25 last year. The 40 submitted bids were unsealed by

May 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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2 more locals fall victim to phone scams, lose over 230,000 patacas: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday details of two more telecom fraud losses, totalling over 230,000 patacas.  PJ spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during yesterday’s regular press conference that two young local women received calls from fraudsters posing as “China Mobile Customer Service” staff and “Mainland Public Security Bureau (PSB)” officers in October last year and on Tuesday this week respectively. The scammers told one of the women that she was suspected of

May 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Indonesian maid steals gold ring: police

A domestic helper from Indonesia pretending to be a customer stole a gold ring worth 4,000 patacas from a jewellery shop in San Kio district on Monday, according to a regular police press conference yesterday.Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during the press conference that PSP officers arrested the female non-resident worker (NRW) surnamed April just one day after the theft, at a flat in San Kio district, where the officers retrieved the stolen ring.According to Wong,

May 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local man cheated out of 13,000 patacas in online job scam: police

A local young man has fallen victim to an online part-time job scam, losing 13,000 patacas in the process, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday.The Judiciary Police, according to Lou, received the victim’s report about his loss of 13,000 patacas on Wednesday afternoon, saying that on Tuesday night he had read a post on a social media group offering a part-time employment opportunity. Afterwards, he contacted the post’s sharer and

May 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Bottled water found to contain excessive pathogen

Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a bacterium that can cause infections in humans, mostly in hospital patients – in a bottled water sample taken from a bottling plant in Macau has been found to exceed the legal limit, and the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) called yesterday for an immediate stop to the consumption and supply of the problematic product. An IAM statement said that its staff, through routine food sampling and testing, detected Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a bottled water sample taken

May 10, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Old Bridge’ to reopen to pedestrians tomorrow: DSOP

The pavements on both sides of the Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge (colloquially known as “Old Bridge”) will reopen to pedestrians tomorrow, according to a Public Works Bureau (DSOP) statement yesterday.The Old Bridge had been under maintenance since October last year, the bureau’s statement last month noted.According to the Public Works Bureau, among the substructure maintenance to be carried out on the bridge, the maintenance work of the main bridge piers has been completed, the

May 10, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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If the logic of ‘overcapacity’ holds, the US is the world’s largest ‘overcapacity’ country

Commentary by Jin Ruiting        BEIJING – Recently, American politicians and the media have fabricated a theory claiming overcapacity in China’s new energy industry. This theory is nothing but applying old cliches to a new industry. It is a continuation and replication of many negative views about China, such as the “China threat” or “peak China” rhetoric.Similar statements have long been hyped up. In 2016, the United States ignored the fact that China’s steel

May 10, 2024 | BY admin

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