Septuagenarian tries to exchange fake HK$100,000 casino chip for cash: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Wednesday for robbing a prostitute, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.The 37-year-old mainland suspect surnamed Lao told the police that he is a non-resident textile worker. The 32-year-old female victim is an illegal immigrant from Zhuhai. Her surname was not released.According to Chan, Lao paid the victim HK$1,400 for her sex service at a hotel guestroom in Cotai on Monday where the victim stayed.

A security guard working at England Marina Club Hotel in Cotai, which is used as an isolation facility to accommodate asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers, tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week, the government has announced.The case, which was detected on Thursday, was announced by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre in a statement on Friday.The security guard, a 47-year-old male non-resident worker (NRW) subject to “closed-loop management”, was tasked with