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Grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong has urged the government to improve its outsourcing procedures and put a mechanism in place allowing the legislature to analyse and discuss the outsourced services “that will cost the public coffers a great deal of money”.The lawmaker made the appeal in a written interpellation submitted to the legislature yesterday. Copies of the interpellation were sent to the media.Ng says in the interpellation that the Commission of Audit (CA) has pointed out

A local woman was arrested for stealing two Thai Buddha amulets worth about 8,000 patacas (US$1,000), Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during yesterday’s regular press conference.The 32-year-old suspect surnamed Lo told the police that she is jobless.According to Wong, a Buddha amulet shop owner reported to the police on July 5 that a woman had stolen two Buddha amulets from her shop that day. The victim told the police that the suspect had visited her shop with a