Daily Archives: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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CE tours Luxembourg Stock Exchange and meets Prime Minister
Continuing his tour of Luxembourg, the Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat Seng yesterday visited the Luxembourg Stock Exchange as well as meeting with the country’s Prime ... -
Police arrest suspects in phone fraud syndicate case
The police have apprehended a telephone fraud syndicate pretending to be a government department. The syndicate used about 3,500 local and overseas phone cards through gateway ... -
Suspicious Transaction Reports from casinos grow in Q1 2023
The number of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) registered with the Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2023 has reached 817, an increase ... -
Finance in Greater Bay Area aims for higher quality development
The Fifth Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Financial Development Forum recently opened in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, gathering around 300 guests to discuss ... -
Lawmaker insists on sex work criminalization
Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng is again insisting on changing the law to criminalize all sex work in Macau. Wong has previously made similar calls, and recently ... -
India will be most populous country by month’s end, UN says
India will be the world’s most populous country by the end of this month, eclipsing an aging China, the United Nations said yesterday [Macau time]. The ... -
Zhuhai to drop cross-border quota restrictions May 1
The Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Commerce will discontinue restrictions on the number of passes at the Zhuhai-Macau border crossing, according to the Macao Customs Service. The ... -
City carnival for int’l museum day
To celebrate International Museum Day on May 18, the city’s 20 museums will organize a range of activities, including carnivals and workshops. The events will be ... -
Durian delivery marks milestone for China-Laos-Thailand railway
A cross-border cold-chain freight train arrived in Guangzhou, Guangdong province early this week, completing its first heavy-laden return trip via the China-Laos-Thailand railway. The train’s arrival ... -
Guangdong and Macau products fair calls for local participants
The 2023 edition of the “Guangdong and Macao Branded Products Fair,” which aims to help Guangdong and Macau enterprises promote their products and services, will be ... -
Macau New Neighborhood construction expected to conclude by 2H
The Macau New Neighborhood project in Hengqin, which commenced in 2021, is currently in the fit-out and external wall works phase and expected to be finished ... -
Library Week promotes series of reading activities
Macao Library Week 2023 is promoting a series of reading activities until May 14. During the promotional week, the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Associação de Publicações ... -
GP family carnival to be held this weekend
The 70th Macau Grand Prix Family Carnival will take place at the Coloane Karting Track for the first time on April 29 and 30. For the convenience ... -
UM delegation visits universities in Europe
A delegation from the University of Macau (UM) led by Rector Yonghua Song recently visited the Technical University of Munich, Constructor University and Leibniz University ... -
Wynn eyes diversification of visitor sources, stable occupancy rate
Wynn Macau hopes efforts to diversify its sources of visitors will start producing results during the May First Golden Week. “I hope that everyone’s hotel occupancy ... -
Tourism More than 70k daily visitors expected for Labor Day Golden Week
As the Labor Day Golden Week starts May 1, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has forecast average daily visitor arrivals of at least 70,000 and ... -
Coronation gives businesses boost, but UK economy still reeling
Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the ... -
Sands China team members tour National Security Education Exhibition
A delegation of Sands China’s senior executives and department heads went on a guided tour of the 2023 National Security Education Exhibition at the Complex of Commerce and Trade ... -
Wynn holds SME procurement partnership meeting
Wynn Resorts held the “2023 Wynn local SME Procurement Partnership Meeting and ‘M-Mark’ Promotion” yesterday, attracting almost 400 representatives from local SMEs in its business networking ... -
Guatemala leader in Taiwan expresses ‘rock-solid friendship’
The president of Guatemala appealed to other governments to respect Taiwan’s sovereignty during an official visit yesterday at a time when China’s ruling Communist Party is ... -
Lee plans electoral overhaul for district councils
Hong Kong is planning to overhaul its last major political representative body that is mostly comprised of popularly elected seats, its leader said yesterday. The move ... -
Australians and New Zealanders recall war dead on Anzac Day
Hundreds of thousands of Australians gathered at dawn services and veterans’ street marches across the nation yesterday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day as ... -
Ban Ki-moon urges army to end violence
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday urged Myanmar’s ruling military to take the initiative in finding a way out of the country’s violent political crisis, including ... -
1984 Reagan arrives in China
The US President, Ronald Reagan, has landed in China at the start of a six-day visit – the first by an American president since Nixon in ... -
Cities reviving downtowns by converting offices to housing
On the 31st floor of what was once a towering office building in downtown Manhattan, construction workers lay down steel bracing for what will soon anchor ... -
UEFA, top coaches team up to urge easing of handball law
Expect to see fewer penalties awarded for handball in the Champions League next season. After gathering elite coaches including Zinedine Zidane and Jürgen Klinsmann to discuss ... -
Atalanta eyes return to Europe after beating Roma
Atalanta boosted its chances of returning to Europe after beating visiting Roma 3-1 in Serie A yesterday [Macau time]. Mario Pasalic put Atalanta ahead before the ... -
Glimpses of a changing Earth, as seen from above
Charred, drained or swamped, built up, dug out or taken apart, blue or green or turned to dust: this is the Earth as seen from above. ... -
Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists: report
A recent, rapid heating of the world’s oceans has alarmed scientists concerned that it will add to global warming, BBC News reported yesterday. This month, the ... -
Genocide resisters, long overlooked by history, step into the spotlight
The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were ... -
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 – edition no. 4233
* Macau, Luxembourg bonds — Ho Iat Seng visits Luxembourg Stock Exchange, meets Prime Minister before heading to Brussels, final stopover of his European tour * ...
