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Beijing appoints Macau CE-designate Sam Ho Fai's 9 top officials, chief prosecutor

2 policy secretaries, police head reappointed Tony Wong The State Council has appointed today the nine principal officials and the chief prosecutor of the incoming government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), which will be headed by Sam Hou Fai from December 20, with only three reappointed, among them two of the government’s five policy secretaries.The three reappointed officials are Secretary for Administration and Justice André

November 30, 2024 | BY admin

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State Council appoints principal officials of Macau SAR’s 6th govt

BEIJING - The State Council in Beijing has appointed 9 principal officials of the sixth-term government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) and the prosecutor general of the Public Prosecutions Office. The appointments were made in accordance with the Basic Law of the MSAR of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and based on nominations by Sam Hou Fai, the sixth-term chief executive of the MSAR, said the State Council in a statement.Sam, the former

November 30, 2024 | BY admin

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12 million guests check into Macau's 146 hotels in Jan-Oct

Macau's 146 hotels with 44,000 guestrooms recorded 12.07 million guests in the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 9.3 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According to a DSEC statement on Wednesday, compared with the same 10-month period of last year, guests' average length of stay remained at 1.7 nights. Last month, the number of hotel guests dropped by 5.8 percent year on year to 1.17 million,

November 29, 2024 | BY Staff Reporter

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Cultural heritage preservation centre run by Palace Museum inaugurated in Macau

The Macau Palace Museum Cultural Heritage Preservation and Inheritance Centre was jointly inaugurated by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng and Palace Museum Director Wang Xudong yesterday afternoon, with the new facility aiming to further enhance Macau’s ability to ensure the protection of its cultural heritage sites, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement last night.Jointly established by the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) government and the Ministry of Culture and

November 29, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Man steals palm payment device from hotel’s reception ‘just for fun’: police

A local man was arrested earlier this week for stealing a palm payment device from the reception of a hotel in Cotai early last month, telling the police that he did it “just for fun”, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.The man surnamed Leong in his twenties told the police that he is jobless.According to Lei, the hotel reported to the police early last month that its staff found that a palm payment device at its reception

November 29, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Jan-Sep crime situation ‘generally stable’, but fraud up 31.5 pct: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the crime situation from January to September was “generally stable”, adding, however, that the increase in fraud cases accounted for 43.9 percent of the increase in the overall crime volume.According to official data cited by Wong, the number of fraud cases rose by 31.5 percent year on year to 2,160 in the first nine months of the year.No. of crimes rises to 10,831Releasing the first three quarters’ crime statistics during a press

November 29, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Mainland duo cheat casino & gambler out of HK$150,000 with fake chips: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two mainlanders in their thirties on Wednesday for using fake gaming chips to cheat a casino in Cotai and a gambler out of at least HK$150,000, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the duo are siblings surnamed Wang, with the man aged 34 and the woman aged 37. Both told the police that they are jobless.The casino fraud, according to the spokesperson, was not discovered until Tuesday by an on-duty

November 29, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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UIM Macao Grand Prix MotoSurf World Championship ends

The “Melco Style Presents: 2024 UIM Macao Grand Prix MotoSurf World Championship Finale” concluded on Sunday, with the women’s category champion Eliška Matoušková, 16, from the Czech Republic becoming the first official qualifier of the 2025 Chengdu World Games, according to a Melco Resorts & Entertainment statement last night.A celebration dinner was held at City of Dreams (COD) in Cotai on Sunday.The three-day MotoSurf* event marked the Macau debut of the MotoSurf World