50 suicides in 9 months: official

Four male mainlanders were arrested over the weekend at the Barrier Gate checkpoint for a pickpocketing spree on public buses since the middle of last month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Lai, the four suspects, aged between 33 and 41, are all from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Two of them are peasants and one is a labourer while the fourth suspect claimed to be unemployed.Lai said

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheng Weng Chon admitted yesterday that Macau’s rainwater drainage network is “very old”, rendering it incapable of tackling a long period of torrential rain, adding that this was the reason the city’s low-lying areas have been hit by flooding in recent years whenever there is a downpour.Cheong also said that the government was planning to build a rainwater pumping station in the southern area of the Inner Harbour, as well as another