Hotel guests rise 21 pct to 1 million in Oct

Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said yesterday the government may consider a blanket ban on e-cigarettes if there is sufficient evidence proving their health risk.Lei made the remarks on the sidelines of the opening session of two-day 8th Cross-Strait Conference on Tobacco Control, at the Macau Science Centre in Nape. The annual conference draws experts and government officials from relevant fields in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to discuss a different topic every year,

Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Kam Ka Kit said during a regular press conference on Friday that a local couple in their forties received 22,600 patacas from a Malaysian man to “fake hire” him by using the quota of the local man’s car wash premises, adding that the trio were arrested on Tuesday.Kam noted that the male suspect, surnamed Chan, is the car wash’s owner while the female suspect surnamed Lam told the police that she works as a casino public relations (PR) worker. Kam