Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

Firefighters yesterday remove a signboard that was damaged by Typhoon Higos and hanging loosely from a building in Nam Van. Photo: Iong Tat ChoiSenior citizens wearing facemasks exercise on fitness equipment installed at Sao Francisco Garden yesterday. Photo: Monica Leong

August 21, 2020 | BY admin

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TikTok case reflects bitterly on US

    Commentary by Zhen Youli* Last Friday, US President Don-ald Trump gave Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular short video-sharing app TikTok in the United States. Before that, he had ordered sweeping but vague bans on US companies’ dealings with TikTok owner ByteDance and messaging app WeChat owner Tencent, saying they pose a threat to US national se-curity, foreign policy and economy.Earlier, the US administration

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau spared major damage despite signal No. 10 during Typhoon Higos

Floods less severe than forecast, residents find Higos ‘scarily noisy’Macau hoisted signal No. 10 – its highest typhoon warning signal – for the first time this year in the early hours of yesterday as Typhoon Higos heading towards Guangdong was moving close to Macau, toppling many trees across the city and causing up to 0.8-metre-high floods in the Inner Harbour area.Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng personally oversaw the government’s civil protection operations which involved Macau’s

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Survey shows about 66 pct feel stressed about COVID-19

A subgroup of the Women’s General Association of Macau known in English as Association for the Joint Effort of Building a Good Home (ACCBL) carried out a survey late last month the findings of which show that about 66 percent of the respondents felt stressed about the COVID-19 pandemic, according to ACCBL Vice President Chau Wai I.The association announced the research results at a press conference yesterday at the Family Service Centre of the Women’s General Association of Macau in Rua da

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Cinematheque•Passion to reopen on Sept 1: IC

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that the Cinematheque•Passion located in Travessa da Paixão will reopen on September 1. The cinema has been temporarily closed for maintenance and renovation since July, according to the statement. The statement said that the façade, interior walls, stairs, drainage pipes were under renovation and the internal equipment was being repaired, adding that “a comprehensive cleaning and disinfection was carried out in the

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Bus driver steals colleague’s smartphone left on bus

A 61-year-old bus driver was arrested on Tuesday for stealing his colleague’s smartphone which she had left on a passenger seat of a bus, Public Security Police (PSP) Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday. The local suspect surnamed is Lao.According to Wong, a 50-year-old female bus driver reported to the police on July 2 that she had lost her smartphone worth about 2,370 patacas on a bus. She told the police that she parked the bus around noon on that day at a bus

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Police nab women’s toilet ‘peeping Tom’

A suspected peeping Tom was arrested on Monday over an incident in a women’s toilet of a fast-food eatery in Rua da Bacia Sul in Fai Chi Kei on Sunday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a press conference yesterday. The 58-year-old local suspect surnamed Chong told the police that he’s unemployed.According to Wong, a 30-year-old woman reported to the police on Sunday that she saw a man in the restaurant’s women’s toilets at about 8:15 p.m. on that day and

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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Typhoon Higos spares Macau major damage & serious injuries

Typhoon Higos spares Macau major damage & serious injuries – Civil Protection Operations Centre (COPC) keeps havoc to a minimum Photos taken yesterday by Iong Tat Choi, Prisca Tang, MPDG

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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US pulls out of 3 bilateral pacts with HK: report

The US State Department said it had notified the Hong Kong government yesterday that Washington had suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with the special administrative region following the recent enactment of a new national security law, public broadcaster RTHK reported late last night.The deals comprise an agreement on the surrender of fugitives and a separate pact on the transfer of sentenced persons. The third agreement covers reciprocal tax exemptions on income derived from

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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How cold-blooded Washington politicians reduce sole superpower to super coronavirus tragedy

Commentary by Xinhua writer Jiang Li           BEIJING –As this year’s World Humanitarian Day took place yesterday, the dense blood-red dots symbolizing the COVID-19 victims scattered across the United States on an online map maintained by Johns Hopkins University are flashing an alarm over a humanitarian tragedy engendered by a bunch of cold-blooded Washington politicians.As of late Tuesday night (local time), the number of confirmed cases in the United States

August 20, 2020 | BY admin

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All typhoon warning signals down in Macau

The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) lowered all its typhoon warning signals at 3:30 p.m. today. The observatory also cancelled a thunderstorm warning at 3:52 p.m. According to an SMG statement, Typhoon Higos was estimated to be about 190 km north-west of Macau at 3 p.m. Storm warning signals were hoisted in Macau between 8 p.m. on Monday (standby signal No. 1) and 3:30 p.m. today (signal No. 3). Signals No. 8, 9 and 10 were up between 11:30 p.m. yesterday and 11:30

August 19, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau spared major damage despite signal No. 10 during Typhoon Higos

Macau appears to have escaped major damage and injuries during Typhoon Higos even though storm warning signal No. 10, the highest typhoon signal, remained hoisted for 2 1/2 hours, between 5:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. today.Residents said that while they didn't notice major damage they still found Typhon Higos "very scary" and "very noisy". They praised the weather station and civil protection authorities for their constant flow of information about the typhoon. "I was quite

August 19, 2020 | BY admin

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Serious flooding forecast for today in low-lying areas, evacuations since last night

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) issued the third level of a storm surge warning (“orange”) at 8:30 p.m. yesterday – indicating that the flood level is forecast to reach between 1 metre and 1.5 metres above the road level in the Inner Harbour area, before hoisting the typhoon signal No. 8 at 11:30 p.m. yesterday.This was the first time that the weather station had hoisted the typhoon signal No. 8 this year.The government’s Civil Protection Operations Centre (COPC) held a

August 19, 2020 | BY admin

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Typhoon signal No. 8 hoisted for the 1st time this year

Possibility of signal No. 9 ‘medium to relatively high’The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) hoisted the typhoon signal No. 8NE at 11:30 p.m., last night which replaced signal No. 3 which was hoisted earlier in the day.It was the first time that it had hoisted the signal No. 8 this year.The bureau said it expexted the signal No. 8 to “remain in effect this morning.”The bureau also said late last night that the possibility of hoisting signal No. 9 was “medium to

August 19, 2020 | BY admin

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