Sands China unveils company-funded Aoyi Primary School

Sands China said in a statement on Wednesday that its senior executives led 20 Sands Cares Ambassadors to Jiangxi Province’s Xiushui County on Tuesday for the handover and unveiling ceremony of Aoyi Primary School, for which construction was jointly funded by the integrated resort (IR) operator and China Civil Engineering Construction Company (Macau) Ltd. (CCECC).Aoyi is a town located in Xiushui County. The area is characterised by its rural landscape, agricultural activities, and local

September 13, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Woman nabbed for reselling Mark Six tickets

A Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman announced yesterday the arrest of a local woman in her sixties on Tuesday for reselling Hong Kong’s Mark Six lottery tickets.The Public Security Police, according to yesterday’s regular police press conference, were tipped off about the illegal sale of Mark Six lottery tickets in Taipa before they took action.PSP officers dispatched to the scene found a woman selling tickets of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Mark Six Lottery at a newspaper stand in

September 13, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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No more 3G services from June next year: telecom chief

Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) Director Derby Lau Wai Meng said yesterday that there will be no more 3G services in Macau from June next year.Lau made the remarks during a press conference at the bureau’s headquarters in the city centre about the bureau’s issuance of new stamps.Lau noted that the current 3G licences of the city’s current telecom operators are slated to expire in June next year. Lau noted that the telecom operators were required to apply for the renewal of the

September 13, 2024 | BY admin

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Newly replaced street name signs of poor quality, IAM tells police

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM), which had hired a company to replace worn street signs in the city, has discovered that the newly replaced street name signs are of poor quality, failing to meet the project’s contractual requirements, according to an IAM statement yesterday.The statement said that the bureau has preliminarily concluded that the company has committed fraud, because of which it has reported the case to the police.The statement said that a number of older street name signs

September 13, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Short-sighted US tech blockade will not stop China’s innovation

Commentary        BEIJING – The planned US restrictions on exports of advanced technologies, including those in the fields of quantum computing and semiconductor manufacturing, will not stop China’s sci-tech innovation. On the contrary, they will reinforce China’s determination to pursue independent innovation.The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security recently announced its intention to tighten export controls for quantum computing items, advanced

September 13, 2024 | BY admin

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China, Latin America share vision for global human rights governance

Commentary by Xinhua writers Chen Weihua and Xuan Liqi         RIO DE JANEIRO – Senior officials, experts and scholars in the field of human rights from China and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) exchanged their views on respecting and protecting human rights during the first China-Latin America human rights roundtable held in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.In a world often dominated by Western narratives on human rights, the participants called for

September 13, 2024 | BY admin

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Observatory expects Macau’s sea level at end of century to rise by 0.64 metres

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday it estimates that Macau’s sea level in the period from 2081 to 2100 will increase by 0.64 metres compared to the average level from 1995 to 2014.According to the statement, Macau’s observatory has made projections of the city’s climate situation for the middle and the end of this century based on the latest models developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an intergovernmental body of the

September 12, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau hosts ‘2024 China Cybersecurity Week’ sub-forum

Responding to the national “2024 China Cybersecurity Week” which is being held from Monday to Sunday in Guangdong’s city of Nansha, the Macau Cybersecurity Incident Alert and Response Centre (CARIC) and the Office for Personal Data Protection (GPDP) organised the “2024 China Cybersecurity Week - Macau sub-forum” yesterday and today at the World Trade Centre Macau in Zape.The forum featured experts and scholars delivering lectures on a range of cybersecurity and personal data

September 12, 2024 | BY William Chan

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HK man hired by ‘guess who I am’ gang to pick up cash in Macau: police

A Hong Kong man was hired by a “guess who I am” telecom fraud gang to travel to Macau to pick up a total of 250,000 patacas separately from a man and a woman, both local elderly, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said at a special press conference yesterday.According to the male victim’s report, Lei said, he received last Thursday a call from a man, claiming to be his “son-in-law”, on his fixed-line telephone at home, telling the victim that he had been arrested for

September 12, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Mainlander’s bank account frozen after illegal currency exchange deal: police

A mainlander’s bank account has been frozen after exchanging Hong Kong dollars into yuan with an illegal currency exchange dealer at a casino in Cotai last month, resulting in a loss of 340,000 yuan, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said at a special press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the victim is a woman from the mainland, and the suspect is a 43-year-old male mainlander surnamed Jiang who works as a driver.According to Lei, last Thursday the victim wished to exchange

September 12, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Redemption of Chinese zodiac banknotes to start Monday

The redemption period for the previously issued Rat, Ox, Tiger and Rabbit Zodiac banknotes will start next Monday at all participating banks, the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) said in a statement yesterday.The period runs until December 6.According to the statement, each registered Macau resident can redeem 15 notes each of the Rat, Ox, Tiger and Rabbit Zodiac banknotes, totalling 120 banknotes worth 1,200 patacas.The redemption for the four banknotes from Macau’s two issuing banks (BOC and

September 12, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum kicks off

The two-day Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF 2024) kicked off yesterday at MGM Cotai, marking the second consecutive year that the event is being held in Macau.The forum is themed this year “Together Towards Reliable and Effective Global Timber Supply Chains” and features around 700 guests from 40 countries and regions, according to a Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) statement yesterday.Organised by the Secretariat of the Global Green

September 12, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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CEM EV Trunk Eco Market returns Saturday

The “CEM EV Trunk Eco Market” will take place in Praça do Tap Seac on Saturday, with the one-day event set to feature a raft of activities and a chance to check out electric vehicles (EVs) sold in Macau, among others.CEM first held its Eco Market featuring EV trunks last year, according to a statement from the utility yesterday.This year’s market will be held from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. and features 30 participating units, the statement noted. It is set to have various free green workshops

September 12, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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China News Service, TDM ink strategic cooperation deal

The China News Service (CNS) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Macau’s public broadcaster TDM yesterday to enhance collaboration in media content, resource sharing, and talent exchanges.The signing ceremony was held yesterday at the TDM Forum II Studio in Zape, with CNS representative Qi Bin and a member of TDM’s board of directors, Un Weng Kuai, signing the agreement.Un highlighted the longstanding and productive partnership between CNS and TDM, as since 2018, both have

September 12, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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