Macau govt urges against travel, to HK in particular

A senior medical official today urged residents to refrain from travelling, to Hong Kong in particular.Lam Chong, who heads the Health Bureau's (SSM) Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, made the appeal during the daily press conference by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre about the COVID-19 pandemic. Lam also said that the government was assessing the possibility of imposing stricter border control measures for Macau residents visiting Hong Kong in view of the

March 21, 2020 | BY admin

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Inflation slows to 2.33 pct in February

Macau's consumer price inflation rose 2.33 percent year-on-year last month, a slowdown of 0.65 percentage points from the composite consumer price index (CPI) last month, which stood at 2.98 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According a DSEC statement yesterday, last month's composite CPI growth was mainly attributable to the higher cost of eating out, rising housing rents and higher prices of fresh pork, petrol and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).The price

March 21, 2020 | BY admin

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Ho meets Macau's NPC deputies, CPPCC members

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has met with Macau's deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to hear their opinions and suggestions on the special administrative region's development and drafting of the local government's policy programme for this year, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the NPC deputies and CPPCC

March 21, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau govt urges fuel suppliers to slash prices at once

The Macau government urged the special administrative region's fuel suppliers today to " immediately adjust" their prices in the wake of plunging international oil prices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and after early this year the world's oil producing countries failed to agree production cuts. The statement released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) pointed out that crude oil prices fell from around US$67 in January to about US$25 per barrel on

March 21, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau opens 5th 'quarantine hotel'

The Macau government opened this afternoon the city's fifth quarantine hotel, the 112-room Metropole in the city centre. According to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the government is temorarily using the Metropole "as the fifth hotel designated for medical observation starting from today." The statement pointed out that the hotel is situated on the Macau peninsula. It is located close to the currently vacant Old Courthouse and next to an office

March 21, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau opens 4th 'quarantine hotel'

The Macau government opened today the city's fourth "quarantine hotel", the 208-room Grand Coloane Resort near Hac Sa Beach in Coloane. According to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), "in the process of choosing designated hotels for medical observation, the government needs to take a diverse range of factors into careful considertion, as well as gain the consent of the designated hotels. "However, considering that it is a safe option for

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Visitor arrivals plunge 95 pct over COVID-19 crisis

Macau's number of visitor arrivals plunged 95.6 percent year-on-year to 156,394 last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced today. According to a DSEC statement, same-day visitors (81,090) and overnight visitors (75,304) fell 96.0 percent and 95 percent respectively. Visitors' average length of stay rose by 1.8 days to 2.8 days due to the longer stay of mainlanders who took up 46.2 percent of all visitor arrivals, the statement pointed out. Another factor,

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

People with their suitcases are seen outside Regency Art Hotel, which has been Macau’s third “quarantine hotel” since yesterday.Pedestrians walk past jewellery shops that have been closed since early last month. Photos taken yesterday by Iong Tat Choi and Monica Leong 

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt postpones class resumption due to ‘2nd wave’ of COVID-19 cases

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Wong Kin Mou, who heads the Educational Resources Department of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), announced that the provisional schedule for the phased resumption of school classes in Macau announced by his bureau last week will be postponed due to the latest COVID-19 developments in Macau – having confirmed seven imported COVID-19 cases since Sunday.The increase in imported

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Form 5 pupil shows her creative designs & paintings

An exhibition entitled “Designs & Paintings” showcases paintings by young local artist Loi Sin Tong at the Youth Art Exhibition and Performance Hall.According to information released on the website of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), Loi is a Form 5 pupil at Sheng Kung Hui Choi Kou School. She is a multi-talented young girl who has been very active in various kinds of performances and artwork.The exhibition features watercolours, sketches and designs which focus on food

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Calling coronavirus ‘Chinese virus’ absolutely absurd, inhumane: analyst

ISLAMABAD – Calling the novel coronavirus a “Chinese virus” is absolutely absurd and inhumane at a time when a globalized world needs cooperation, not denigration, a political and international relations analyst says.“Rather than making mockery of the Chinese nation or calling the virus ‘made in China’, the world must learn from the miraculous measures China has adopted to defeat this invisible enemy,” Yasir Masood, former director of media and publications at the Center of

March 20, 2020 | BY Raheela Nazir

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HK teens busted for drug trafficking

The police have cracked another drug trafficking case in which the suspects are Hong Kong residents, and this time, the duo are aged just 16 and 19, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.This is the third drug-trafficking case in 10 days the local police have busted that involves Hong Kong residents.The latest case saw the two young Hongkongers arrested in Taipa early yesterday morning for working for a Hong Kong drug-trafficking gang to

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Over 3/4 of citizens register for consumption smartcard in 2 days: AMCM

By 6 p.m. yesterday, 482,035 registrants – over three-quarters of local citizens – had submitted their details to apply for the government’s consumption smartcards in the first two days since the process started on Wednesday at 9 a.m., according to a statement by the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM).According to demographic figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) early this month, Macau had a population of 679,600 at the end of last year. The figure included 196,538

March 20, 2020 | BY admin

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FM office in Macau comments on local media association's remarks

A spokesperson for the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macau Special Administrative Region commented today on recent remarks by a local media association on the central government's countermeasures against measures by the United States against Chinese media organisations in the US. According to a statement by the office, the spokesperson was asked by the press to comment on local media reports "that a certain

March 19, 2020 | BY admin

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