MITE wraps up with fruitful results

The just-concluded 12th Macao International Travel (Industry) Expo (MITE) witnessed the signing of 55 projects and facilitated 13,386 on-site and 1,482 online business matchmaking meetings, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement on Wednesday.According to the tourism office, the signed projects involve 107 domestic and foreign enterprises, covering such sectors as tourism, healthcare, and wedding planning businesses.The latest edition of MITE attracted more than 37,000

May 3, 2024 | BY admin

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DSAL to give workers portable fan against heat

The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) said in a statement yesterday that it will provide free portable fans to those who need to work in a hot and humid environment for a long time, such as construction workers and other outdoor workers, as well as indoor workers close to heat sources. The new measure is to prevent the occurrence of heat stroke in the summer in Macau, and improve workers’ comfort, as well as work efficiency and productivity, the statement said. According to the

May 3, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau’s health e-vouchers extended to Hengqin

Local residents can now use their health e-vouchers at clinics in Hengqin, a new measure which took effect on Wednesday.Sticking to the same modus operandi as in the past several years, the 2024 round of health e-vouchers worth 600 patacas is valid for two years.The administration regulation on the new 2024 round of the Macau government’s annual medical subsidy programme was promulgated in the Official Gazette (BO) on Monday. Beneficiaries can use their health e-vouchers until April 30,

May 3, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Police nab 2 thieves, one with 4-theft criminal record

Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon announced yesterday the separate arrests of two male thieves, one of whom, a local resident in his sixties, has a criminal record for four thefts carried out between 2009 and 2013.According to Wong, a mainland man reported to the Public Security Police last Friday that 2,000 patacas in cash had gone missing from his trouser pocket after shopping at a shop on Rua da Tribuna, suspecting that someone had picked his pocket and then left.The

May 3, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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DSAT slams passenger’s violence against bus staff

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday that it condemns the violent behaviour that occurred on a public bus yesterday where a female bus-stop attendant was attacked by a male passenger while she was trying to maintain order at the stop.According to the statement, the passenger wanted to board the bus at a bus stop on Rua do Coronel Ferreira (非利喇街) at about 4 p.m. yesterday.The statement said that the attendant tried to maintain order when she saw the man

May 3, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Casino loses HK$1.8 million over fake chips: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have busted a gang using fake chips to cheat a casino and other gamblers out of at least HK$1.8 million in just one hour of gambling, seizing a total of 585 counterfeit HK$10,000 gaming chips, according to a special press conference yesterday. PJ Gaming-related and Economic Crimes Investigation Department Chief Tang Kam Va said during the press conference that the gang started operating in March, with the kingpins in the mainland giving orders to their key

May 3, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Maritime community of shared future sets sail

Analysis        Editor’s note: More than 30 experts from different research institutions and universities shared their views on the need to build a maritime community with a shared future at the Third Future Ocean Forum: Theoretical Innovation and Practical Exploration of the Maritime Community with a Shared Future that was held in Qingdao, Shandong province, on April 20-21. Excerpts from the speeches of three of the experts follow:Chances of potential flashpoints flaring

May 3, 2024 | BY admin

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Casino receipts rise 26 pct to 18.5 billion patacas in April

Macau's 30 casinos produced gross gaming revenue (GGR) of 18.54 billion patacas (US$2.28 billion) in April, a year-on-year growth of 26.0 percent, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has announced today.However, GGR was down by 4.9 percent month on month.GGR in the first four months rose 53.7 percent year on year to 75.87 billion patacas.Macau's government-concessioned gaming industry is run by six rival integrated resort operators - Sands, Galaxy, SJM, Melco, Wynn, and MGM.In

May 1, 2024 | BY admin

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IC plans to turn Rua da Felicidade pedestrianisation ‘long-term’

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is studying the feasibility of turning the ongoing “Rua da Felicidade” pedestrianisation trial run into a “long-term” project.IC President Leong Wai Man said yesterday that since the commencement of the trial run of the Rua da Felicidade (“Street of Bliss”, home to Macau’s fabled “ladies of the night” in the past) pedestrianised area in September last year, the bureau has been listening to the views of all parties and reviewing the trial

May 1, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 officers cheat Customs Service out of sick-leave salaries citing back pain: anti-graft body

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has discovered that two customs officers, separately, had fraudulently managed to be granted sick leave for several years by exaggerating their lower back pain conditions when seeing doctors, thereby defrauding the Macau Customs Service of salaries amounting to 1.7 million patacas and 1.3 million patacas respectively.The anti-graft body announced the two separate but similar cases in a statement yesterday.Both cases have been transferred to the Public

May 1, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Foreign visitors talk about their experience in Macau

Macau logged 8.88 million visitors in the first quarter of the year, with 585,000 being foreign visitors. To know more about the experience of foreign visitors in Macau, the Post interviewed some in the city centre yesterday, with interviewees remarking on what they liked and the improvements they hoped to see.Most of the interviewees said they were only here for a day, with many visiting from Hong Kong.‘Mega-superb’A Hungarian man and woman, both 46 and living in Germany, said they overall

May 1, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Most young internet users go to YouTube for entertainment: survey

Findings of the Macao Residents’ Internet Usage Trend Report 2024 released yesterday showed that local residents’ internet access rate was maintained at 93 percent, while the main purpose of internet access was for leisure and entertainment, with YouTube being the most frequently used by minors aged 6-17, while almost all internet users used social media, with WeChat being the social media used by the largest number of internet users.The Macau Internet Research Association (MAIR) released

May 1, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Macau, mainland police bust gang using fake banknotes

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and their counterparts in the mainland have jointly busted a cross-border fraud gang which used bogus banknotes in currency exchange scams, in which the mainland’s Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested 26 members, including two male kingpins, while PJ officers nabbed 88 members and seized a total of 19,752 practice banknotes and 2,000 prop notes, according to a special press conference at the PJ headquarters yesterday.Kou Peng Hong, who heads the PJ Economic Crimes

May 1, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Myanmar maid embezzles 10,000 patacas from compatriot

A 40-year-old female domestic helper from Myanmar, surnamed Hnin, has been arrested for embezzling 10,000 patacas from a fellow Myanmar domestic helper, according to Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon during a regular press conference yesterday.In 2022, the victim entrusted Hnin with 6,000 patacas and HK$4,000 to send to the victim’s mother in Myanmar. However, the victim’s mother had not received the money by early 2023. When questioned, Hnin admitted to spending all the

May 1, 2024 | BY William Chan

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