MSAR reserves reach 570 billion patacas

Two elderly local women were separately cheated last week out of a total of 70,000 patacas by a purported “grandson” in a “guess who I am” scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Chan, the victims received calls on their fixed-line telephones at home last week respectively, mistakenly believing the scammers to be their “grandsons”.Chan said that the scammers said that they had been arrested for attacking

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday rejected a peer’s two “protest motions”, one against how the government tackles the issue of illegally employed non-local professional drivers, and the other against the government’s plan to sign a reciprocal driving licence recognition agreement with the mainland authorities in due course.The motions were presented by directly-elected lawmaker-cum-political activist Sulu Sou Ka Hou. Both motions were roundly condemned by several lawmakers.