OCBC Macau stops issuing credit cards

OCBC Bank (Macau) has ceased accepting new applications for four services: credit cards, residential mortgage loans, car loans, and personal loans.The bank will also gradually discontinue its credit card business.The cessation, which took effect on Monday, was announced in a notice on the bank’s website that day.The notice said that the bank regularly reviews and optimises its business and product portfolio in response to evolving customer needs, market conditions, and strategic priorities.

September 16, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau ranks 6th globally, 2nd in Asia for services trade

Macau ranks 6th globally and 2nd in Asia in the Global Services Trade Development Index Report 2026, according to a statement by the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) on Monday. The top 10 economies in the global ranking are listed in the index as follows: the US, Luxembourg, Ireland, the UK, Singapore, Macau, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Sweden. The report was released at an academic exchange meeting in Beijing during the 2026 China International Fair for

September 16, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau's Na Tcha exhibition highlights folk belief’s history & culture

An exhibition commemorating the history and culture of the popular Na Tcha folk belief in Macau kicked off yesterday at Barra Kitchen as part of the ongoing inaugural “World Na Tcha Folk Belief Culture Festival”.The festival is on until Friday and is a collaboration between the city’s two Na Tcha temple associations, which are based near the Ruins of St Paul’s and Calçada das Verdades respectively. According to event information by the organisers, its programme also gathers temple

September 16, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Macau, Beijing launch major Chinese cultural exhibition and contest

The launch ceremony for the “Me and Chinese Culture – Macau’s History through Cultural Creativity” competition and its raft of exchange activities, as well as the “Ancient China in Cultural and Creative Products” exhibition, was held yesterday, aiming to showcase about 800 outstanding cultural and creative artefacts from museums nationwide and encourage professionals and young locals to unleash their creativity.The launch ceremony for the competition and major exhibition,

September 16, 2026 | BY Ida Cheong

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Ung Si Meng calligraphy exhibition opens at The Parisian Macao

An exhibition featuring nearly 100 calligraphy works by local veteran artist Ung Si Meng opened yesterday at The Parisian Macao in Cotai, marking the 70th anniversary of the Macau Artist Society (MAS) and celebrating the artist’s decades-long dedication to calligraphy and community service.Co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and MAS, in conjunction with Sands China Ltd, “A Heart for Community and Motherland: Calligraphy by Ung Si Meng” runs until October 15 at the integrated

September 16, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau's GLSTF 2026 draws timber industry reps from 49 countries & regions

According to a statement by the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) yesterday, the Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2026 (GLSTF 2026) is slated to be held next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Galaxy International Convention Centre in Cotai, striving to bring together timber and home furnishing industry representatives from 49 countries and regions.Co-hosted by IPIM and the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), and organised by the Secretariat of the Global

September 16, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Zhuhai Customs seizes 516 invasive live fish at Gongbei Port

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs announced in a statement yesterday that its officers seized 516 live fish of an invasive species at Gongbei Port (checkpoint) in June.The statement identified the 516 live fish as Otocinclus species, and the smuggler involved was fined 100,000 yuan (120,346 patacas).The statement noted that this marks the largest administrative penalty case handled by customs across the Chinese mainland – in terms of the number of implicated species from the Catalogue of Key

September 16, 2026 | BY Ida Cheong

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Student arrested for illicit filming in university toilets: Macau police

Suspect blames academic stress The Public Security Police (PSP) have arrested a university student from the Chinese mainland for secretly filming female students in the toilets at a local university, PSP spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a man surnamed Chen, in his 20s, who is studying at a university on one of Macau’s offshore islands.According to Wong, police received a report on Saturday from a mainland female

September 16, 2026 | BY Sherwin Hng

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Macau police arrest mainlander for sexually harassing girl

A man from the Chinese mainland was arrested on Friday for sexually harassing a local girl at a restaurant, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a jobless man in his 40s, surnamed Liu.Wong did not reveal the girl’s age, merely saying that she is a local secondary school student.According to the victim’s statement to the police, she was in a restaurant on Avenida do Nordeste

September 16, 2026 | BY Sherwin Hng

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University of Macau (UM) students bring home 1 gold, 2 silver at ‘SynBio Challenges’

Undergraduates from the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Medicine (FMD) have brought home one gold and two silver medals from the recent 5th SynBio Challenges*.According to its Facebook page, the event took place in Shenzhen from August 21 to 23.The challenge, organised by the Chinese Society of Biotechnology and hosted by institutions including the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, drew 512

September 15, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Sneaker Con returns to China with Macau debut

According to a statement by integrated resort operator SJM on Friday, Sneaker Con will make its local debut on October 10 and 11 at Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau’s The Grand Hall in Cotai, marking the convention’s return to the nation’s market after a three-year hiatus.Organised by Yue Seng Sports Culture Co., Ltd. and local streetwear brand MACCREW, and title-sponsored by SJM Resorts, S.A., the event will feature former NBA (National Basketball Association) player Metta

September 15, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Mainlander nabbed for 370,000-pataca currency exchange scam: Macau police

A 33-year-old Chinese mainland man has been arrested for defrauding a couple out of 321,077 yuan (370,000 patacas) in a bogus currency exchange deal, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the couple were approached by a man at a hotel shopping mall in Cotai on Friday afternoon. They agreed to exchange 321,077 yuan for HK$360,000 in cash, and the couple transferred the yuan to a designated mainland bank account as

September 15, 2026 | BY Sherwin Hng

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Non-local woman loses 1.9 million yuan in ‘fake police’ scam: Macau police

A non-local woman lost 1.965 million yuan (about 2.369 million patacas) after falling victim to a “fake police” scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the Judiciary Police received a notification from their Shenzhen counterparts last Wednesday according to which a mainland man had been arrested for involvement in a telecommunications fraud case. Investigators discovered that the man had previously met a woman in

September 15, 2026 | BY Sherwin Hng

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Commentary: An Asia-Pacific Community: Our Shared Choice for Regional Prosperity

Commentary by Zhao Ruixi*        Connected by the waters of the Pacific, the economies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have, over the past 37 years, prospered through openness and flourished through cooperation, creating an “Asia-Pacific miracle” that has captured the world’s attention.Today, changes on a scale unseen in a century are unfolding at an accelerating pace. The world economy is experiencing anemic growth, and the World

September 15, 2026 | BY admin

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