Customs Service busts 5 smuggling cases

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement on Friday that its officers busted five smuggling cases earlier this month at the Barrier Gate border checkpoint.According to the statement, two local men and two female mainlanders were involved in the five cases. The contraband involved uninspected meat, cigarettes that no duty had been paid on and undeclared fishing rods.On July 19, local customs officers separately seized 32.5 kilogrammes of uninspected fresh fowl from a female mainlander and

July 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Canidrome applies to move greyhounds to Pac On: IACM

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement that it is studying a greyhound relocation proposal submitted by Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. yesterday evening which proposes to relocate the dogs left behind at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack to a “vacant” building on a privately-owned plot of land in Pac On in Taipa.According to the statement, Yat Yuen has applied to take back the greyhounds left at the racetrack’s kennels so that it can relocate the dogs.Yat Yuen had

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman nabbed for cheating traders of jade worth 1.2 million yuan

A woman was arrested on Monday for defrauding two jewellery traders from the mainland of 10 pieces of jade worth 1.21 million yuan, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 31-year-old mainlander surnamed Yang, who works as a bar hostess. The two victims are a mother and son, whose details were not provided by Ho.Ho said that the two victims recently met a man on the mainland, who told them someone in Macau

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Police show upgraded disaster relief equipment

Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun said yesterday that the government has upgraded its disaster relief equipment, based on the lessons learnt from last year’s deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Ma made the remarks in a speech at the end of a presentation of the government’s disaster relief equipment by three government entities – the Macau Customs Service, Fire Services Bureau (CB), and Public Security Police (PSP) – at the Marine Enforcement Department Building in Ilha

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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SJM launches scheme to help small eateries

Local gaming operator SJM has committed itself to helping small- and medium-sized restaurants and bakeries in the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro and Inner Harbour areas which were badly affected by Super Typhoon Hato last August.The gaming company held a press conference along with representatives of several government bodies and local businesses at Grand Lisboa yesterday.Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) Vice President Choi Tat Meng said that gastronomy was an indispensable element of Macau’s

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Health Bureau records 4th imported case of dengue

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement last night that it has recorded the fourth imported case of dengue fever this year.According to the statement, the patient is a 22-year-old local man who lives in Avenida da Amizade and works in Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues.The statement said that the patient visited Malaysia with his friends between July 9 and July 14. Last Thursday the patient came down with a fever and a headache, and he took medicine for the symptoms. On Monday he had rashes on

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt needs time to study top court’s ruling on LRT depot project: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that the government will study a ruling by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announced early this week – which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) – and “carry out tasks in line with the ruling”.Rosario also said he “did not know” whether the TUI ruling will affect

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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So much red tape, so little time to process greyhound adoptions

Kathleen Trainor, a Hong Kong businesswoman who has adopted four greyhounds from the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. has told The Macau Post Daily that there are still too many hoops to jump through to get the animals over to Hong Kong by the August 31 deadline. This is despite Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) agreeing to issue a special permit to import the dogs into Hong Kong.The Macau Post Daily met Trainor in Taipa last Sunday to discuss the

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Reporters visit greyhounds at Canidrome

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) arranged for the media to visit the 550 left-behind greyhounds at the now defunct Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome yesterday and talk to Anima board member Tinna Tang, widely known as Zoe.When the media representatives arrived at the Canidrome in Fai Chi Kei the greyhounds were being walked by the volunteers that have signed up to help Anima take care of the canines that were abandoned by the racetrack operator when it finally closed its doors at

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Shadow play: telling modern stories in a traditional way

Many people might have seen shadows of puppets projected onto the screen before, either on television or movies, but have you ever thought you can be holding those puppets and even making your own?The local Point View Art Association is reviving the shadow theatre tradition in Macau with a “Macau Shadow Play” project, promoting the long-lost tradition and bringing locals a special experience of shadow play – a traditional art and way of storytelling that seems to have never existed in the

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Galaxy introduces new brands to Macau

Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) is introducing some new brands to Macau, generating excitement amongst shoppers especially with the high-end streetwear label Off-White when it opened last week at The Promenade Shops at Galaxy Macau.The hoardings along the shopping mall are enough to create anticipation of what brands will be opening there, and last week, besides Off-White, French jeweller Fred also made its Macau debut at Galaxy integrated resort.Italian fashion label Off-White was founded by

July 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Pupil films women secretly in toilets: police

A male pupil was caught surreptitiously filming a woman in a toilet in the city centre on Monday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Choi, the local pupil, who is a minor, studies at a school in the city centre. Choi didn’t reveal the pupil’s age or surname.Choi said that on Monday afternoon, a Hong Kong woman went to a shopping centre in the city centre with her boyfriend. While the woman was using the toilet

July 26, 2018 | BY admin

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New sewage pumping station in Taipa starts

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement yesterday that a new pumping station for sewage in Taipa has recently come into operation, which the bureau said will increase the capacity to treat sewage in the area by 43 percent.The new pumping station, built on Rotunda Ouvidor Arriaga, replaced two old sewage pumping stations nearby, according to the statement, which noted that the two old pumping stations had insufficient capacity to treat the sewage produced in the

July 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Old Bridge to have rumble strips

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said yesterday that the central road markings on the Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge (commonly known as Old Bridge) will be changed to rumble strips.According to Wikipedia, rumble strips, also known as alert strips or audible lines, are a road safety feature to alert inattentive drivers of potential danger, by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the vehicle interior.The first peninsula-Taipa bridge – with one lane

July 26, 2018 | BY admin

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