MGP Museum logs monthly average of 11,000 visitors

    Yuki Lei     The Macau Grand Prix Museum (MGPM) in Zape has received a monthly average of 11,000 visitors so far this year, about 90 percent of them tourists, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday, adding: “The Macau Grand Prix Museum has gradually become a must-visit tourist spot in Macau”.The Macau Grand Prix Museum is co-operating with LEGO HK for the first time to present a special exhibition at the

April 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local civil aviation market faces 4 challenges: MIM chief 

Macau’s civil aviation market is facing four major challenges, namely insufficient internal demand, slow pace of market liberalisation, failure of professional training to keep pace with development needs, and increasingly fierce regional competition, Macau Institute of Management (MIM) President Samuel Tong Kai Chung said yesterday. Tong’s institute held a press conference regarding its “Strategies for the Development of Macau’s Civil Aviation Market in the Context of the

April 25, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sakura Cultural Festival Kicks off at Galaxy

Galaxy Macau’s Sakura Cultural Festival kicked off at the integrated resort’s East Square in Cotai yesterday, with the 12-day event celebrating Japanese gastronomy, artistry and traditions until May 5.A number of booths are offering Japanese culinary delights in the East Square, run by exhibitors from different regions of Japan, as well as local businesses. Workshops on Japanese crafts and wagashi* are also set to be held, while Taiko** drum performances will take place at certain times. At

April 25, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Tamagnini Barbosa pool temporarily closes

Failing to meet the government’s water quality standards, the swimming pool at the Tamagnini Barbosa Sports Centre has been closed until further notice, with disinfection and cleaning to be carried out, according to a statement by the Sports Bureau (ID) yesterday.Refunds for those who have already bought tickets to swim there via the online booking system will be refunded to their online account through the relevant electronic payment method.The bureau “regrets any inconvenience caused by

April 25, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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China to deepen blue economy cooperation with PSCs: vice-minister of commerce

The three-day 6th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, aka Forum Macao, concluded yesterday when an entrepreneurs’ conference was held, during which Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting said in her opening speech that China will deepen cooperation with the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) in marine renewable energy and the protection of marine resources.Yesterday’s entrepreneurs’ conference, which was

April 24, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Editorial: Mutuality, amity set Forum Macao apart

This week’s 6th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, also known as Forum Macao, has shown, once more, that mutuality and amity continue to be the globe-spanning forum’s most salient characteristics. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said in a speech during the ministerial conference at its Sai Van service platform complex – its de-facto headquarters – that all the nine participating

April 24, 2024 | BY admin

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Macao Orchestra to perform Disney’s Aladdin concert

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that the Macao Orchestra is slated to perform “Disney’s Aladdin in Concert Live to Film” on June 1-2 at the MGM theatre in Cotai.Presented by integrated resort (IR) operator MGM, the event is part of the Macao Orchestra Concert Season and will feature songs from the 1992 animated film and family favourite “Aladdin”, which will also be shown simultaneously on the theatre’s indoor LED screen, the statement noted. Tickets

April 24, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Teacher, student nabbed for currency exchange fraud

A teacher and a university student from the mainland have separately been arrested for their involvement in two currency exchange-related fraud cases, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a regular press conference yesterday.In the first case, the teacher is a 30-year-old man surnamed Yu.According to Chong, the male victim met Yu in late February and engaged in a currency transaction, where the victim agreed to give HK$42,000 in casino chips to Yu while the latter was

April 24, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Macau SAR govt, FM Commissioner’s Office slam US ‘human rights report’

The government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) and the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in the MSAR yesterday expressed their strong opposition to the content relating to Macau in the so-called “2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” issued by the Department of State of the United States recently.The MSAR government noted that the amendments to Macau’s Law on Safeguarding National Security have been meticulously crafted.

April 24, 2024 | BY admin

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Local woman steals food from supermarket: police

A local woman has been arrested for stealing food from a supermarket on Rua de Brás da Rosa, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect in her fifties is surnamed Chan. She told the police that she’s jobless.According to Cheong, on Sunday evening the police received a report from the supermarket saying that Chan placed vegetables, fruit, meat and other items into her shopping bag, but at the checkout counter she only paid for a box

April 24, 2024 | BY William Chan

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DSEDJ stresses boy sitting in fast-food outlet overnight found on day he went missing

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced on Friday afternoon that a junior high school student sitting alone in a fast-food outlet overnight had not returned to a residential care home in Mong Ha for several days before he was found on Friday morning, but Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) Deputy Director Wong Ka Ki told the media yesterday: “We already found the student on that day [the day he had left the care home and not returned to his family home]”, adding that “our various

April 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘4.23 Reading Day in the City of Macao’ kicks off

The annual “4.23 Reading Day in the City of Macao” event kicked off yesterday at the Macau Cultural Centre’s Black Box Theatre, and Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Leong Wai Man said that her bureau was committed to promoting the concept of “Reading Enriches Life” and thus transforming Macau into a “City of Reading”.Yesterday marked the annual World Book Day commemorated every April 23 since 1995.According to the ceremony, about 150 reading activities, including the

April 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Uni student addicted to gambling cheats classmates out of 110,600 patacas

A 19-year-old male local student has swindled at least eight of his classmates out of a total of 110,674 patacas in currency-exchange scams after he had gambled away 90,000 patacas borrowed from friends in mid-2023, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a special press conference yesterday. The Judiciary Police, according to Chong, received separate reports from the victims – a local, six mainlanders and a South American – between February and this month about their

April 24, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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SSM records one more Vibrio vulnificus infection case; one critical COVID-19 case

A 74-year-old local man was diagnosed with Vibrio vulnificus yesterday after being injured by a fish fin on the second toe of his left foot when swimming at Hac Sa Beach on Sunday, according to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) statement yesterday.According to the statement, the male resident with a history of chronic illness, had chills, fever and swelling and pain in his left foot after swimming at the beach in Coloane on Sunday, and went to a hospital in the mainland the same day where he was

April 24, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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