Studio City designated as Macau’s 1st Certified Autism Centre

Studio City has been designated as the first Certified Autism Centre (CAC) in Macau for its attractions such as Golden Reel, Super Fun Zone and Studio City Water Park by the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), according to a Melco Resorts & Entertainment statement earlier this week.The statement said that the designation recognises organisations that have successfully completed extensive training from leading autism experts, while each centre

April 26, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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2 injured in blaze in flat at Lago HOS estate: firemen

A fire broke out in a flat in Block 4 of Lago (Lake) Building, a subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) estate in Taipa, in the wee hours of yesterday, injuring two residents of the building, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement yesterday.The statement said that a short circuit in the flat was the possible cause of the fire.According to the statement, the blaze broke out at around 5 a.m. yesterday in the flat on the ninth floor of Block 4 of the HOS estate comprising six blocks

April 26, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Customs busts illegal medicine distribution point near Horta e Costa

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers raided an illegal medicine distribution point in a daily necessities shop in the Avenida de Horta e Costa neighbourhood on Wednesday for illegally importing and supplying medicines without a licence, according to an SA statement yesterday.According to the statement, the Pharmaceutical Supervision and Administration Bureau (ISAF) received a report on a social media platform recently that the shop was distributing drugs in bulk.The customs officers in a joint

April 26, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Blinken’s visit seeks to stabilize relations

Experts expect little breakthrough but see Washington’s desire for dialogueAnalysis by Yang Ran and Yifan Xu        US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China is not anticipated to yield breakthroughs in bilateral relations, given Washington’s unchanged strategy toward Beijing. However, experts note that such visits will play a role in maintaining stability between China and the United States.“The visit to China can be seen as a follow-up on the consensus

April 26, 2024 | BY admin

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Talks can be fruitful if Washington bears in mind it takes two to tango

China Daily Editorial        Both Beijing and Washington have said that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s ongoing visit to China is a follow-up to the earlier agreement between the leaders of the two countries on the need to sustain communication and manage the frayed bilateral ties.There is little doubt about the importance of the two sides continuing to talk. But there is a huge question mark over what the discussions between the top US diplomat and his hosts can

April 26, 2024 | BY admin

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SSM urges parents to disregard rumours about ‘ineffective & unsafe’ MMR jabs

The Health Bureau (SSM) urged parents in a statement yesterday not to believe a common misconception of associating the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine with autism, as well as false rumours circulating from time to time that the vaccine is ineffective and unsafe, stressing that it is important for parents to vaccinate their children against life-threatening and health-threatening diseases.The statement noted that many studies conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and around the

April 25, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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3 women cheated out of 4.4 million patacas in fake police scams

Two local women and a female university student from the mainland, all under the age of 30, have separately been defrauded out of a total of 4.4 million patacas in fake police scams, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said yesterday during a regular press conference.In one of the reported cases, the victim’s mother contacted the police on Monday to report that her daughter had been defrauded out of 1 million patacas. In March, the victim had asked her mother to provide HK$270,000

April 25, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Revamped Hotel Central aims to boost people flow to historic centre

Interview by Yuki Lei        Having experienced Macau’s rise and decline for nearly a century, the revamped Hotel Central – once Macau’s first-ever flagship all-in-one entertainment and gambling centre on the city’s main thoroughfare – will have its soft opening next Tuesday, and the developer has told the Post he hopes that “the tallest, largest and the most important building on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro” will boost people flow to the city’s historic

April 25, 2024 | BY admin

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Vietnamese loan shark exploits 18 compatriots: police

A Vietnamese male non-resident worker (NRW) has been arrested for exploiting at least 18 Vietnamese compatriots through predatory lending, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said yesterday during a special press conference.The 35-year-old suspect surnamed Tran is a worker.According to Chong, a local Vietnamese woman reported to the police in January that she had borrowed 50,000 patacas from the suspect in 2023, under the condition that she had to pay monthly “interest” of 5,000

April 25, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Loan-shark trio hold gambler for 27 hours: police

A gambler from the mainland was falsely imprisoned in a hotel guestroom by three mainland loan sharks for 27 hours after he had failed to repay his gambling debts of HK$200,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said yesterday during a special press conference.The suspects are a 32-year-old man surnamed Liu and a 38-year-old man surnamed Zhang. Both told the police that they’re jobless. An accomplice was still on the run at the time of the press conference, Chong added.According

April 25, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Tipsy driver flees after hitting jaywalker outside airport

A local drink driver was arrested after he ran into a jaywalker on the upper level outside the local airport on Avenida Wai Long on Tuesday night and fled the scene, according to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday, noting that the 68-year-old victim was unconscious when she was admitted to hospital.A video circulating online that night shows a crash involving two jaywalking pedestrians in Avenida Wai Long, one of whom was knocked down by a car and seriously injured.In

April 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Ex-convict masturbates behind female passenger: police

A local man with a criminal record for sexual harassment and exhibitionism has been arrested for masturbating while standing behind a female passenger on a bus, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said at a regular press conference yesterday.The 29-year-old suspect surnamed Ng works in an engineering company. The victim is in her twenties.According to Cheong, on Monday morning the victim was standing on a bus when she felt something repeatedly bumping into her buttocks.

April 25, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Traveller tries to smuggle 121 smartphones in wheelchair: Gongbei customs

Zhuhai’s Gongbei customs said in a statement yesterday that a woman attempted to smuggle 121 smartphones from Macau to the mainland last week by hiding them inside her electric wheelchair’s battery that had been modified.According to the statement, the woman was on her way through the “nothing to declare channel” in her electric wheelchair at around 6 p.m. last Thursday when she was travelling from Macau to Zhuhai via the Gongbei checkpoint. Customs officers intercepted the woman after

April 25, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Nepali attacks compatriot with knife over debt: police

A Nepali slashed his compatriot with a knife after failing to collect a debt from him in Taipa yesterday evening, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement last night.The man fled the scene after the attack before he turned himself in to the police a few hours later.According to the statement, both the attacker and victim are non-resident workers, aged 30 and 40 respectively.According to the statement, the case occurred on the street near Nam San Garden and Hipódromo Garden in Taipa

April 25, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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