IPM launches online summer training courses for Portuguese-language teachers

The Centre for Portuguese Studies (CPCLP) of the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) has been providing summer training courses for Portuguese-language teachers of higher education institutions in the mainland to meet the high demand of Portuguese-language learning there over the years, IPM said in a statement yesterday.Due to the COVID-19 situation, the training courses this summer will be carried out online and free of charge to Portuguese language teachers in Asia, the statement said.The

June 5, 2020 | BY admin

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Hospitals’ inpatients rise 3.9 pct to 62,000 last year

Macau’s five hospitals provided a total of 1,628 in-patient beds last year, up by 24 year-on-year, while their number of inpatients rose 3.9 percent to 62,000, with the average hospital stay up by 0.2 day to 7.4 days, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.The occupancy rate of in-patient beds grew 3.9 percentage points to 78.3 percent.Outpatient attendance rose 5.8 percent to 1.89 million, of which consultations in Internal Medicine (312,000) accounted for 16.5 percent,

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Govt to turn 5 idle plots of land in northern district into leisure space

Five plots of idle land in Fai Chi Kei and Areia Preta areas will be transformed into leisure spaces, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday.The bureau said it hopes to start work as soon as possible so that the public can enjoy better quality recreational facilities, and that employment opportunities for local workers are created.According to the statement, four plots of land covering a total area of about 6,220 square metres near Avenida Marginal do Lam Mau in Fai

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Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

People wearing facemasks line up around a school in Taipa to pick up their children. A notice saying “No government mask” is shown outside a pharmacy in the Nam Van. As part of the government’s epidemic prevention measures, it has been allocating the sale of its stock of facemasks to designated pharmacies so that Macau residents and non-resident workers can each buy 10 facemasks for 8 patacas every 10 days. Non-designated pharmacies such as the one seen in the picture do not sell

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Guangdong-HK-Macau entry restrictions can only be lifted conditionally: clinical director

Addressing yesterday’s press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, said that the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau have not changed their aim of restoring travel among the three regions, but the Macau government can only announce the gradual relaxation of the current border entry curbs and quarantine measures among the three regions after the three governments

June 4, 2020 | BY admin

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Ho meets top officials in Guangzhou to boost ties

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng met with the top officials of Guangdong province this week to exchange views on a wide range of topics, such as boosting Guangdong-Macau ties, speeding up preparations for the setting-up of the Guangdong-Macau Intensive Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, and resuming normal cross-border travel in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement yesterday. Ho visited Guangzhou on Tuesday for a meeting with the secretary

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UNESCO internship application extended to June 22: govt

The annual internship application period for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has been extended to June 22, the Talent Development Committee (SCDT) said in a statement yesterday.The original deadline was yesterday. The programme started in 2017.The internship is co-organised by the SCDT and the public Macau Foundation (FM), the statement noted.According to the statement, each internship post has its own application criteria, any permanent local

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Vietnamese attacks tenant with cleaver: police

A Vietnamese non-resident worker was arrested early this week for attacking a tenant with a cleaver when he was viewing a flat, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday. The 40-year-old suspect surnamed Tran told the police that he had worked as a cleaner in Macau for about five years.According to Choi, Tran works for a cleaning company in Taipa on weekdays and recently had to move flats. He was informed by a fellow Vietnamese about a

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4 nabbed for gambling at illicit mahjong parlour

A 60-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning for operating an illegal mahjong parlour in his flat in Toi San district, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheuk Kou Chi said during a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect is a jobless mainlander holding a Two-way Permit surnamed Chen. Three gamblers – two men and a woman, aged between 60 and 70, were taken in for questioning at the scene. According to Cheuk, the police received a report from a resident on Tuesday morning

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Macau’s successful ‘One Country, Two Systems’ sets example for Taiwan: Yan

Central People’s Government Liaison Office Deputy Director Yan Zhichan yesterday said that steadily promoting the “One Country, Two Systems” principle with Macau characteristics in Macau would set an example for Taiwan compatriots.Yan made the remarks during a speech at a seminar for the 15th anniversary of the implementation of the Anti-Secession Law at The Plaza Restaurant in Zape.The seminar was organised by the Macau Region China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National

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Driver, passenger fight on bus

The Public Security Police (PSP) received a report at 8:20 p.m. yesterday about a fight on a public bus at a bus stop in Avenida do Almirante Lacerda near the Red Market, according to a PSP text message last night.According to a preliminary investigation, a male passenger in his forties reeking of alcohol was upset about a local bus driver in his fifties who let passengers get off through the front door, which hindered him getting on the bus, according to the message.Normally, passengers are

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Authorities enhance health system to ensure people’s development goals

CommentaryBEIJING – The central authorities have stepped up efforts to build a strong public health system and improve the nation’s capacity for disease prevention and treatment to better protect its people’s health.The measures, laid out at a high-level symposium presided over by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, cover all the key aspects of public health. These include more effective early-stage epidemic warning, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine,

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Washington should ditch sanctimonious double standards on human rights

Commentary by Zhang XinBEIJING – Washington has long been accustomed to lecturing others on human rights, yet the current mass street protests sweeping across the United States against racial discrimination and police brutality, as well as the raging novel coronavirus pandemic rocking the country have slapped the self-proclaimed guardian of human rights in the face.The tragic death of George Floyd is just the tip of the iceberg of human rights violations at home, notably against minority

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Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

Passengers wear facemasks  on a bus in Rua do Campo. Facemasks are still required on public transport and taxis.Two men sitting outside a building in the Outer Harbour have a chat without wearing facemasks.A broken toilet and a coffee table are dumped in the street in Nam Van.Photos taken earlier this week by Camy Tam and Monica Leong 

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