Jewellery shop fined 400,000 patacas for illegal currency exchange

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) announced yesterday that it has fined a local jewellery shop 400,000 patacas for illegal currency exchange activities. Macau’s financial regulator made the announcement in a notice published in yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO). The announcement said that Lai Fu Jewellery and Chan Tak Meng, the person in charge, carried out the unauthorised activities “habitually with profit-making intentions.”In a separate notice published in yesterday’s

June 18, 2020 | BY admin

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Further 22 seafood samples tested negative for COVID-19: IAM

An additional 22 imported seafood samples from 10 countries and regions were given a nucleic acid test (NAT) on Tuesday, and the results were all negative for COVID-19, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday.On Monday, after 17 imported salmon samples tested negative, based on the principle of prudency, the bureau decided to expand the range of testing for imported seafood, the statement said.On Tuesday, the 22 additional seafood samples tested were from 10 countries

June 18, 2020 | BY admin

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Self-service permanent ID card renewal extended to 24/7: DSI

The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) said in a statement yesterday that the self-service application for local permanent ID cards’ renewal has now been extended to 24 hours every day.The extended self-service enables residents to renew their ID cards (officially abbreviated as “BIR”) at any time, the statement noted.According to the statement, any Macau permanent ID holder who has reached the age of 25 or over indicated on the latest issuance date of their ID card can use the

June 18, 2020 | BY admin

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‘Hush!! Full Music 2020’ to start on Sunday

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that the “Hush!! Full Music 2020” event will be held in conjunction with the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) from Sunday until August. According to the statement, a number of music activities will be held online and in different areas of the city, as well as a raft of music workshops and a short video competition – “HUSH!! 300 Seconds”. The first gig – “Music Day Online” – will be held online this

June 18, 2020 | BY admin

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Local artists show ‘Magical Feelings’

A fine art printmaking exhibition entitled “Magical Feelings” by six local artists is being hosted by Creative Macau – Centre for Creative Industries.According to an introductory text provided by Creative Macau, the collective exhibition shows the creative passion of the artists and the artistic process that requires laborious work on a matrix which involves much technical juxtaposition, resulting in countless magical moments, full of expectations, appeal, disappointment, but ultimately

June 18, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau imposes quarantine on arrivals from Beijing

The Macau government has imposed 14-day mandatory quarantine on all arrivals from Beijing, the Portuguese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM reported today. According to the report, the measure took effect at noon today, citing a source of the Macau Health Bureau (SSM). Beijing's airports cancelled more than 1,200 flights and schools in the nation's capital were closed again yesterday, as authorities rushed to contain a new novel coronavirus outbreak linked to a

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Difficult to find officials in Macau for senior positions: Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said yesterday that he has decided to appointed Cheong Sio Kei, who was acquitted of a power abuse charge by the Court of First Instance (TJB) last week, as the deputy director of the Mapping and Land Registry Bureau (DSCC), after considering that it’s difficult to find an official in Macau for senior positions.“In Macau, there are not many people who are capable [of assuming a senior government post],” the policy secretary

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for helping to smuggle cough syrup laced with codeine

A local woman was arrested on Friday for her involvement in the smuggling of cough syrup containing codeine into the mainland by a local man who holds a mainland residence permit and therefore is exempted from the COVID-19 medical quarantine in Zhuhai, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference on Monday.According to Ho, PJ officers were informed by their Zhuhai counterparts on Friday that a man from Macau holding a mainland residence permit was

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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MGTO launches subsidised Macau tours for locals to help virus-hit travel industry

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced yesterday that a subsidised programme for local residents joining tour groups organised by local travel agencies to travel around the city will run from next Monday until September 30.Each Macau resident – both permanent and non-permanent residents – will receive a subsidy of 280 patacas from the government’s Macau Foundation (FM) each time they join a tour group. They can receive a subsidy of up to 560 patacas for the programme so that

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau, a city of multi-cultures?

Commentary by Swallow Xu*First I was joyfully dining at a Chinese vegetarian eatery run by two Chinese ladies and three minutes later I was sampling yummy Portuguese pastries managed by a hospitable Filipina lady and owned by a Portuguese guy just next door, in the same hidden alley in the city centre.Is Macau a city of multi-cultures? Please pause and think about it.For me, it’s both ‘yes’ and ‘no’.Yes, because, historically, the city was truly China’s first window to the world and

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Artists showcase their lotus-themed creations

The 5th Macau International Lotus Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition entitled “Flourishing Lotus” taking place concurrently with the 20th Lotus Flower Festival and co-sponsored by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) and Macau Foundation (FM) is being held in Lou Lim Ieoc Garden, according to an introductory text provided by the organiser, the Delight Macau Artists Association.According to the text, the event showcases over 70 unique pieces of artwork from artists in Asia comprising

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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HK legislation to bring back stability

Commentary by Oriol Caudevilla*From 1923 to 1956, the city of Tangier in Morocco was jointly administered by several foreign powers as an “international city”. To some extent, China had this colonialist experience, too, through foreign concessions.Needless to say, these concessions were acquired under duress through unequal treaties.In the perception of some people, Hong Kong is some sort of international city or foreign concession. To them, it does not belong to China, even though China

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

Pedestrians wearing facemasks cross the road outside the Portuguese School.People, some wearing facemasks, stroll around the Guia Hill Fitness Trail.Photos taken yesterday by Iong Tat Choi and Monica Leong 

June 17, 2020 | BY admin

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Rivalry with China a no-win strategy for US

Commentary by Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng*      As governments worldwide confront the terrible choice between saving lives from COVID-19 and protecting people’s livelihoods, economic indicators highlight the intensity of the dilemma. Unemployment has skyrocketed, trade has plunged, and the global economy is facing its worst downturn since the Great Depression. There is only one way to limit the novel coronavirus pandemic’s economic fallout: Sino-US cooperation.But China and

June 16, 2020 | BY admin

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