AFA Autumn Salon 2024 exhibition to open at The Parisian Macao

The AFA Autumn Salon 2024 will kick off at the Shoppes at Parisian in Cotai on Saturday, featuring 113 artists presenting over 200 artworks in a variety of mediums, while the winners of the annually presented “Orient Foundation Art Award” will also be awarded, according to a recent Art For All Society (AFA) statement.The opening ceremony is slated for 6:30 p.m.The upcoming exhibition is organised by AFA in conjunction with the Orient Foundation (FO), and sponsored by the Macao Cultural

December 11, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Ho inaugurates MPU Academic Building

The Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) held a ceremony yesterday morning in Zape to mark the inauguration of its new Academic Building (教研樓).MPU Rector Marcus Im Sio Kei highlighted that the 13-story building, covering an area of approximately 37,000 square metres, will host teaching and research facilities, such as an auditorium, multi-purpose activity rooms, laboratories, a research centre and simultaneous interpretation rooms. “These facilities aim to foster talent development,

December 11, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Observatory forecasts mercury to drop to 10°C this weekend

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday that it expects the temperature to significantly drop this weekend, to 12°C or even 10°C.According to the observatory, driven by the warming effects of the El Niño* phenomenon, the average Earth surface temperature from January to September this year was about 1.54°C (±0.13°C) higher than pre-industrial averages. As a result, 2024 is poised to become one of the hottest years on record, following 2023.As December

December 11, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police nab 3 local males for drunk driving

Three local men have separately been arrested for drunk driving, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said at a press conference yesterday.In the first case, the local suspect surnamed Leong is in his twenties. He works as an estate agent.At around 8 a.m. on Friday, the police found Leong sleeping in his car with the engine running in the Areia Preta district, with the front of his car damaged. A breathalyser test showed that his alcohol concentration was 1.19 grams of alcohol

December 11, 2024 | BY William Chan

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6 more local firms scammed by ‘schools’, lose 730,000 patacas

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said during a regular press conference yesterday that six local companies have been deceived into ordering bed frames and mattresses for a purported local school, losing a total of 730,000 patacas.The six companies comprise two advertising firms, an impresario, a decoration company, a design company, and a business system company.According to Lei, last week the police were notified by representatives of these companies that they had been swindled by

December 11, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Groups to pay up to 500,000 patacas per show at Cotai open-air performance venue

The government yesterday announced the fees for companies, organisations or acts to host shows in its newly-built Macau Open-Air Performance Venue in Cotai.The fees were announced in an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, which was signed by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U on Thursday last week.Construction of the facility used for hosting large-scale performances was completed last month. It was set up on a large plot, covering 94,000

December 11, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau Int’l Airport to build upstream cargo terminal in Hengqin

The government majority-owned Macau International Airport will build an upstream cargo terminal in the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, construction of which is slated to get off the ground in the first quarter of next year, airport operator CAM says.A CAM statement on Monday said that the upstream cargo terminal in in Hengqin will assist the local government in enhancing Macau’s aviation logistics capabilities and promoting regional economic development.The statement did

December 11, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Local musicians anticipate upcoming Xmas gig with European jazzers

Interview by William Chan        Zé Eduardo and the Jazz Mission Big Band will be performing the “Jazz Up for Christmas at Dom Pedro V Theatre” concert on the 21st, 22nd, 24th, and 25th of this month. Local musicians Amanda Chan (陳諾詩), Elisa Chan (陳倚俐), Lam Chak Seng (林澤誠), Chan Hon Chong (陳漢聰), and Gregory Wong (黃永豪), who are also participating in the performance, spoke about the upcoming concerts with the Post in online interviews.The

December 11, 2024 | BY admin

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Rotary Club of Macau celebrates 25th Joy to the World

The Rotary Club of Macau celebrated the 25th edition of its signature community service project “Joy to the World” at the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre on Saturday.The project, according to a recent statement from the club aims to provide a platform for youngsters with special needs to “showcase their talents, affirm their potential and contribute to their integration into society”. It gathered nearly 400 people from five local associations, namely co-organisers Fuhong

December 11, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Customs busts shop selling fake brand items worth 1.23 million patacas

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers on Monday busted a shop suspected of selling counterfeit brand items violating intellectual property rights (IP) of the South Korean brand “WE11DONE”, involving 729 bogus items worth 1.23 million patacas in total, according to the prices that the products would have fetched if they had been genuine, an SA spokesperson said during a press conference yesterday.A mainland female sales assistant working for the shop was arrested on Monday, according to the

December 11, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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A stint that lasts a lifetime: an American’s journey in a changing Macau

Timothy Simpson never expected his stay in Macau  would turn into such a long haul.He arrived in 2001, thinking of it as a good stepping stone to greater adventure in Asia. Two decades later, the American from Alabama is firmly rooted in the city that has become his home.“I came to Macau 18 months after its return to China in 1999,” Simpson recalls the days when he took up a job at the University of Macau (UM). “I thought I’d stay for just a couple of years.”But life had other

December 11, 2024 | BY Guo Likun

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Xi says China will continue to be biggest engine of world economic growth

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China has full confidence to achieve this year’s economic growth target and will continue to play its role as the biggest engine of world economic growth.Xi made the remarks during a meeting in Beijing with heads of major international economic organizations, who were in Beijing to attend the “1+10” dialogue.The foreign dignitaries included President of the New Development Bank (NDB) Dilma Rousseff, Managing Director of the

December 11, 2024 | BY admin

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CPC leadership holds meeting on 2025 economic, Party conduct and anti-corruption work

BEIJING – The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Monday held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work in 2025. A work report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision was heard at the meeting, at which work on Party conduct and the fight against corruption in 2025 was also studied and arranged. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chaired the meeting.It was emphasized

December 11, 2024 | BY admin

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UM’s 2nd campus project in Hengqin starts, aiming for 2028 operation

Construction of the University of Macau’s (UM) campus in the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin has got off the ground, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday.The new campus will be the university’s first campus outside the jurisdiction of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) and it will be the university’s second campus. Geographically, both campuses are located in Hengqin, but the first one is under Macau’s jurisdiction on a plot of land leased from

December 10, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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