Int’l Cultural & Food-Fest to start in September

The 10th International Cultural and Food Festival will be running from September 27 to October 6, and businesses can now register to take part.The announcement was made at the Macau Fisherman’s Wharf Exhibition Centre by Frederick Yip Wing Fat, who heads the festival’s preparatory committee, during a press conference yesterday.There will be 115 food stalls set up at the fair, which will be located outside wharf’s Colosseum, with over a third likely to be local restaurants which had

July 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Crime cartels – some based in Macau’ – wield ‘unprecedented influence’ in SEA: UN

SINGAPORE – Transnational crime syndicates are raking in tens of billions of US dollars a year selling everything from drugs to counterfeit goods as cartels outpace law enforcement to expand their influence across Southeast Asia, the United Nations has found.Major crime groups operating in the region – some based in Macau, mainland China and Hong Kong –have achieved “unprecedented influence” working in tandem with corrupt government officials and private enterprises, according to a

July 19, 2019 | BY admin

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‘Bienrick K JO Tablets’ to be withdrawn: Health Bureau

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced yesterday that batch No. 7006 of the Japanese prescription drug “Bienrick K JO Tablets”, a remedy for rhinitis, will be withdrawn from the local market with immediate effect.According to the announcement, the Health Bureau detected during a routine inspection of medicines that the microbial limit of “Bienrick K JO Tablets”, manufactured by Yoneda Yakuhin Co. exceeds the bureau’s pharmacological criteria, and thus has ordered the importer of the drug

July 19, 2019 | BY admin

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200 new radio taxis to hit the roads in phases

Macau Radio Taxi Services Limited General Manager Kevin U Kin Lung told reporters yesterday that 200 new radio taxis will gradually come into service before June next year, promising that the success rate of calling a radio taxi will increase to 90 percent.Macau Radio Taxi Services Limited and the Bank of China (BOC) held a signing ceremony about mobile payment cooperation at the headquarters of the local BOC branch in Praça de Ferreira do Amaral yesterday. It was attended by about 80

July 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Gongbei Customs says kids used to smuggle goods

Gongbei Customs said yesterday that there is a trend in which Shenzhen-Hong Kong parallel traders are shifting their smuggling activities to Gongbei, exploiting so-called “cross-border” children over the summer holidays to smuggle goods.A statement from Gongbei Customs District said that parallel traders between Shenzhen and Hong Kong are shifting their smuggling activities to the Gongbei land-border checkpoint and the Zhuhai checkpoint at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB).In

July 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Kou elected president of legislature with over 90 pct of votes

Veteran lawmaker-cum-business executive Kou Hoi In was elected president of the Legislative Assembly (AL) by his peers yesterday, with 90. 6 percent of the votes cast, succeeding chief executive hopeful Ho Iat Seng who resigned from the legislature early this month.Following Ho’s resignation, the legislature currently has 32 members.Yesterday’s plenary session, in which the 32 lawmakers elected their new president, was chaired by Legislative Assembly Vice President Chui Sai

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Man admits to groping woman’s bottom on bus

A local woman in her twenties reported a man to the police after he had allegedly groped her buttocks while on a bus, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Ho Ka Kit said at a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the incident took place on Monday while the woman was on the bus heading from Avenida de Horta e Costa to Avenida do Almirante Lacerda.Ho said that the suspect, surnamed Chen, is a non-resident worker from the mainland in his thirties, who told the police that he’s a

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Wong fires officer for slot machine fraud

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has ordered the dismissal of a Public Security Police (PSP) officer for cheating a casino out of money by modifying slot machines in the casino with a blank card so that he or she could always win money, according to an announcement released by Wong’s office yesterday.The announcement did not name the casino.The rogue cop had worked as a slot machine technician before joining the police, according to the announcement, which did not mention when he joined

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Fire incidents drop 3.88 pct in 1H

The number of fire incidents decreased 3.88 percent between January and June year-on-year, illustrating the increase in fire safety awareness, Fire Services Bureau (CB) Assistant Chief Cheong Chi Wang told a press conference about the fire brigade’s work in the first half of the year.Cheong pointed out that most common causes of fire are electrical equipment short circuits and people forgetting to turn off gas stoves.The bureau held the conference at its headquarters in Sai Van district.Fire

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Police arrest 2 pimps of Russian & Venezuelan ‘masseuses’

The police arrested two suspected pimps from the mainland of three “masseuses” working in local saunas, one from Russia and two from Venezuela, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Ho Ka Kit said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the first suspect is surnamed Qiao who is in his twenties. The second suspect is surnamed Li who is about 35-years-old. The three “masseuses” are in their twenties and thirties.Ho referred to the women as “masseuses”.This

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Schedule of by-election procedures is ready: govt

The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission Elections (CAEAL) announced yesterday the schedule for the by-election of a vacant business-sector seat in the Legislative Assembly, according to a statement by the Government Information Bureau (GCS).The statement was released after the commission’s first regular meeting. The commission was set up on Tuesday.According to the statement, the by-election is scheduled to be held on November 24 to fill one of the four indirectly-elected seats

July 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt vows to continue crackdown on online gambling

The government has been cracking down on illegal online gambling and will continue to do so, resulting in over 300 websites being shut down between 2016 and last year, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) Director Paulo Martins Chan said yesterday.Chan pointed out that many of the now defunct websites had illegally used the name of Macau.Chan’s bureau, the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) and the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming (ISCG) at University of Macau (UM)

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Shop manager steals HK$1.65 million from own shop, female friend helps

A jewellery shop manager was questioned at a police station on Monday about the theft of HK$1.65 million in cash from his shop in Zape, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Lei, the 34-year-old local suspect is surnamed Chan. He told the police that he works as a manager of a jewellery shop in a shopping mall of a hotel in Zape. The female accomplice is from Jiangxi province. Her personal information was not

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt launches mobile app for extreme weather warning

The government’s civil protection structure introduced a mobile application and an official WeChat account yesterday for users to receive details of weather hazards and information about public transport, shelters and schools during extreme weather conditions.The announcement for the new application was made by Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun yesterday during a press conference by the government’s civil protection structure – which consists of 29 government

July 17, 2019 | BY admin

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