Stench affecting Plot P seniors’ rental housing mitigated: govt

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) and the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in joint statement yesterday evening that the stench issue affecting the area near the government’s high-rise rental residential building for senior citizens on Plot P in Areia Preta district has now been “improved” after the completion of the sewer cleaning work for its adjacent newly completed temporary housing project.According to yesterday’s brief statement, DSPA and IAS officials have concluded that

January 9, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Youngsters showcase raft of works at youth pavilion

A variety of works of different mediums is being shown at the Pavilhão de Exposições e Espectáculos Artísticos para Jovens (“Pavilion of Exhibitions and Artistic Shows for Young People”) in Praça do Tap Seac (塔石廣場), with the presented artworks created by youngsters after participating in recent workshops.On until January 19, the exhibition is entitled Veja-se em 360 - Exposição dos trabalhos dos alunos participantes na actividade “Contacto com a Artes Visuais” (“See

January 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Uni student nabbed for involvement in online fraud

A local university student has been arrested for his alleged involvement in an online scam case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said in a special press conference yesterday.The 19-year-old male suspect is surnamed Chu.According to Cheong, a local woman read a post about an online “part time” job last month and contacted the website staff. The staff told her that she could get a return for “liking” and writing comments for various posts on a certain website. She then

January 9, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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IAM bans poultry from Hungary, Portugal & S Korea over bird flu outbreak

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has banned the entry of poultry imported from Hungary’s Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Portugal’s capital Lisbon, and South Korea’s Jincheon-gun of Chungcheongbuk-do province and Yeoju-si of Gyeonggi-do province, in response to the outbreaks of bird flu there.According to a statement by the bureau on Tuesday, the import curbs on poultry meat and products from the four regions was imposed in response to notifications from the Ministry of Agriculture of

January 9, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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3 Indonesians busted in drug case: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested three Indonesians for their alleged involvement in drug deals, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a special press conference yesterday. Cheong said that upon receiving a tip-off that an Indonesian was selling drugs, PJ officers identified a 42-year-old female surnamed Heni as a possible suspect, and later put her home in the city centre under surveillance. Cheong added that the police intercepted Heni when she returned to her flat on

January 9, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Burglar’s failed attempt leads to his arrest

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a male mainlander on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to burgle a flat near Forte Dona Maria II (馬交石砲台), PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Cheong identified the suspect as a 48-year-old surnamed Yin who told the police that he’s jobless.When the owner of the flat, a local elderly woman, was sleeping in her bedroom in the wee hours of Tuesday, she was awakened by a noise in another room and went to the

January 9, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Sam expresses sorrow about all those affected by Xizang quake

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai has sent a letter to the authorities of the Xizang Autonomous Region* expressing his profound sorrow regarding those affected by the earthquake that occurred in the Himalayan city of Xigaze, Dingri county, on Tuesday morning.The Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) issued a statement on the letter on Tuesday.In the letter sent on Tuesday to the Secretary of the Xizang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Wang Junzheng, and the

January 9, 2025 | BY admin

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CE visits Guangzhou for joint conference, Raymond Tam serving as acting CE

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai is leading today a delegation to the Guangdong-Macau Cooperation Joint Conference 2025 in Guangzhou, during which Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raymond Tam Wai Man is serving as acting chief executive.The announcement was made in a statement by the Government Information Bureau (GCS) on Tuesday.According to the statement, co-chaired by Sam and Guangdong Governor Wang Weizhong, the one-day meeting will carry out an in-depth study in order to ensure the

January 9, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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MUST hosts Int’l forum on space & planetary sciences

A three-day Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences kicked off yesterday at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), with the participation of nearly 200 scholars from all over the world – and Zheng Guan Wei, member of the Administrative Committee of the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund, underlined in his opening remarks that “space exploration is a complex and challenging task that requires countries and regions to work together to overcome

January 9, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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6 UM students win awards at translation contest

The public University of Macau (UM) said in a statement earlier this week that six students from its Department of Portuguese of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) have garnered prizes in the recent 3rd Chinese-Portuguese Translation Contest for Higher Education Institutions in China.The contest finals were simultaneously held at UM and the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). The statement said that it was divided into “Undergraduate Group” and “Postgraduate Group”,

January 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Police nab mainland trio for theft, bust illegal inn in Zape

The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested three mainland men on Tuesday for stealing a wallet from a tourist, and on the same day busted an illegal inn in Zape, where the trio were nabbed, PSP spokeswoman Kong Chi Ian said during a regular press conference yesterday.The suspects in their fifties are a man surnamed Deng who told the police that he’s a businessman, a man surnamed Tang who claimed to be jobless, and a farmer surnamed Liu.Tang and Liu were arrested for their alleged involvement

January 9, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Eco bureau denies rumours that ‘all waste collected for recycling is incinerated’

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) was invited to attend a closed-door meeting of the Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council yesterday to brief the government-appointed council members on its waste reduction and recycling measures – and Choi Seng Hong, deputy convener of the council, quoted DSPA officials as denying rumours in the community that all the waste collected by the bureau for recycling was being incinerated right away, insisting that “the bureau handles

January 8, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Big Taipa Hill Tunnel to cost up to 1.55 billion patacas: govt

The government’s Big Taipa Hill Tunnel project will cost up to 1.55 billion patacas in total, according to calculations based on its announcements released yesterday and previously.The tunnel project will be carried out in two phases, based on separate tenders. The first phase will consist of the construction of a 600-metre-long tunnel under Big Taipa Hill and two flyovers with a total length of 400 metres, leading to Avenida Wai Long (偉龍馬路) and Avenida do Aeroporto (機場大馬路)

January 8, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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2 more critical flu cases: 38-year-old woman & 57-year-old man

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night that two more critical cases of influenza were reported yesterday, a 38-year-old woman and a 57-year-old local man, with the latter suffering from chronic diseases.According to last night’s statement, the 38-year-old local woman came down with a fever and cough last Sunday and sought treatment at a private medical institution where she was diagnosed with Influenza B virus.On Monday, she was admitted to the public Conde de São

January 8, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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