Police arrest farmer-turned-robber

The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) said in a statement yesterday that the increase of application appointments available, which sees the offices open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day until March 31, has been “well-received by residents”, with over 80 percent of increased appointments reserved on the first day.The statement noted that appointments can still be made to file applications at China Plaza yesterday, with the closest available appointment date at the Government Services

A local jobless man purporting to be a local casino’s financial director cheated his two male mainland friends out of about 230,000-yuan (270,526 patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Lon said during a regular press conference on Friday.Chong said that the suspect, surnamed Wong, is aged 56, while the two victims who work as chefs in the mainland are aged 51 and 40.Chong said that the two victims reported to the Judiciary Police that through the introduction of a friend in 2008,