Retail sales drop 6.6 pct last year

The police have received many reports recently about locals receiving phone calls from “Papua New Guinea”, or with that country’s international direct dialling (IDD) code of “+675”, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.The statement urged the public to be wary of phone calls with the code “00” or “+”, since the suspects in previous phone scams in Macau managed to alter the display of a number with malicious software. The statement also asked the public not

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) responded in the first six months of this year to 455 fires, a year-on-year increase of 44 call outs, or 10.71 percent, of which 296 were occasioned by unattended cooking, electrical short circuits, embers from joss sticks, incense papers and other kindling items, as well as mechanical and electrical failures, accounting for 65.05 percent of the total.CB spokesman Lei Long Kit announced yesterday the bureau’s fire and rescue incident statics during a press