Macau Women’s Sports Carnival draws over 1,000 participants: ID

The 2026 Macau Women’s Sports Carnival held its recreational sport competitions yesterday, also featuring a disease prevention and health consultation booth set up for women, where doctors provided health services, aiming to enhance women’s health awareness and safeguard their physical and mental well-being.The Macau Sports Bureau (ID), which organised the event, said that about 1,000 people were in attendance. The two-day event, which started on Saturday in the city’s main square,

March 23, 2026 | BY Ida Cheong

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Macau Customs seizes 70 terrapins worth 35,000 patacas

Macau Customs Services announced in a statement last week that its officers seized 70 terrapins* worth 35,000 patacas, or 500 patacas per reptile, on TuesdayBased on trends observed in smuggler activities, the statement said that customs officers identified and monitored a flat suspected of serving as a parallel-trading den, adding that on Tuesday, during surveillance, they observed three women leaving the flat and heading towards the Barrier Gate checkpoint, the statement said.According to the

March 23, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau youth spend more time on social media: Sheng Kung Hui survey

Macau’s Sheng Kung Hui Macau Social Services Coordination Office hosted a press conference on Friday about the findings of its surveys showing that young people spend more time on social media, from around 1.64 hours a day in 2022 to around 3.53 hours a day last year.The press conference was held at its service centre in Fai Chi Kei. The two surveys are titled “Survey on Youth Digital Literacy and New Technology Application in Macau 2025” and “Building a Healthy Macau – Survey on

March 23, 2026 | BY Armindo Neves

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Macau Basic Law promotion events to feature seminars, speech contests & carnival

The Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) announced in a statement yesterday that in order to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People’ s Republic of China (PRC), a raft of “vibrant” activities will be held from this month through December, including seminars, speech contests, carnivals, and training sessions.The MSAR Basic Law was promulgated by the nation’s then-president Jiang Zemin in Beijing on March

March 23, 2026 | BY Ida Cheong

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Macao Orchestra to perform Bach’s St. John Passion at S. Domingos Church

The Macao Orchestra will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion on Maundy Thursday, according to a Friday statement by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC).The concert will start on April 2 at 8 p.m. at S. Domingos Church, a UNESCO World Heritage site.The orchestra will be joined by British conductor Laurence Cummings, several European early music vocalists, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus, the statement said. The performers include tenor Nicholas Watts, soprano Miriam Allan, bass

March 23, 2026 | BY Kristina Vallesteros

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Japan’s Utsunomiya Brex win EASL Finals in Macau

Japan’s Utsunomiya Brex defeated Taoyuan Pauian Pilots from China’s Taiwan region with a score of 90-81 to win the EASL Finals Macau 2026 at Studio City Macau’s Event Centre in Cotai yesterday, securing the championship in their debut home-and-away season structure.EASL stands for East Asia Super League.The Japanese side established control early in the game with a dominant first quarter, converting a high volume of three-point shots to build a decisive lead. Taoyuan Pauian Pilots

March 23, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Macau's Kun Iam Ecumenical Centre marks 27th anniversary with community activities

The Kun Iam Ecumenical Centre (KIEC) in Nape marked its 27th anniversary on Saturday with a series of cultural and wellness activities, bringing together residents and volunteers at the site.The event, initiated by the centre’s designer Cristina Leiria and organised by volunteers, featured a programme focused on mindfulness, movement and cultural appreciation. Activities began in the afternoon with an indoor monochord performance titled “Embracing Inner Peace” by a local musician

March 23, 2026 | BY Khalel Vallo

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Thai wellness brand opens first Macau boutique with tea-inspired concept

Thai holistic wellness brand PAÑPURI* has opened its first sensorial boutique in Macau, located at The Venetian Macao in Cotai, according to a statement from the company.The Teahouse of Scent draws inspiration from Macau’s tea culture and heritage. According to founder and CEO of PAÑPURI Vorravit Siripak, Macau represents an important chapter in the brand’s regional expansion. Siripak was quoted in the statement as saying: “It [Macau] is a city shaped by cultural exchange,

March 23, 2026 | BY Kristina Vallesteros

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Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai vows alignment with Guangdong’s 15th Five-Year Plan

Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai has pledged that his government will align the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) third Five-Year Plan with Guangdong Province’s 15th Five-Year Plan, elevating Guangdong-Macau cooperation to higher levels, and together making greater contributions to Chinese modernisation and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.Sam made the remarks while delivering a speech during the 2026 Spring Festival Banquet of Guangdong Province (Macao) on Friday.The

March 23, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau’s newest 1-MICHELIN Star winners highlight team for success

After the Michelin Guide Ceremony was held on Thursday night* at the Grand Lisboa Palace (GLP) in Cotai, English-speaking media interviewed chefs of Macau’s newest One-MICHELIN starred restaurants, along with one that retained the distinction, with all highlighting the team effort that goes towards winning the award.The newly awarded restaurants comprise “Palace Garden” and “Don Alfonso 1890”, both of which are located in GLP and were promoted from previously being “MICHELIN

March 23, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Galaxy Macau’s Grand Resort Deck to reopen on April 3

Integrated resort operator Galaxy Macau announced in a recent statement that its Grand Resort Deck is scheduled to reopen on April 3. Accredited by Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia as “Macau’s Best Hotel Pool 2025”, the Grand Resort Deck spans 75,000 square metres, the statement said, and boasts the world’s largest Skytop Wave Pool at 8,000 square metres and generates surfable waves up to 1.5 metres high. It also features 150 metres of white sand beaches while a raft of

March 23, 2026 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Committee for Macau’s Safeguarding National Security’s secretariat to have 34 personnel

After the Legislative Assembly (AL) passed a government-initiated bill establishing a law regulating the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) Committee for Safeguarding National Security on Thursday, the local government announced on Friday the completion of its drawing-up of an administrative regulation governing the organisational structure and operation of the committee’s secretariat, comprising 34 officials. Government-drafted bills must be passed by the legislature to

March 23, 2026 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Silent Radiance of Unity’ arrives at University of Macau (UM) with salon series

The “Silent Radiance of Unity – Macao in Harmony” religious art exhibition, presented by Macau’s religious communities and launched last November at Kun Iam Temple, has now moved to the University of Macau’s (UM) Centre for Macau Studies. It coincides with a series of four multicultural salons this month.The exhibition features dozens of religious works by artists from Macau and abroad, all of whom aim to express shared spiritual values through media such as calligraphy, sculpture,

March 23, 2026 | BY William Chan

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Macau visitor arrivals in Feb rise 32.6 pct to 4.17 million

   Macau recorded 4.172 million visitor arrivals in February, a year-on-year increase of 32.6 per cent, driven by the Chinese New Year holidays, the Statistics and Census Bureau said in a statement today.    The daily average of visitor arrivals reached 149,033 last month. Same-day visitors (2.676 million) and overnight visitors (1.496 million) rose by 41.8 per cent and 18.8 per cent, respectively.Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.2 days year-on-year to 0.9

March 20, 2026 | BY Staff Reporter

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