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The Macau Customs Service (SA) busted on Wednesday afternoon a shop on Rua do Bocage in the Praça de Ponte e Horta neighbourhood selling illicit cigarettes, seizing about 434,000 sticks of illicit cigarettes worth 220,000 patacas, involving 651,300 patacas in unpaid tobacco duty.Senior customs officer Ip Lap Pun said during a joint press conference with the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape that after notification by the Judiciary Police on Wednesday afternoon

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday that as Super Typhoon “Doksuri” would remain a certain distance away from Macau with its strong wind zone being “unlikely” to have a direct impact on the city, there’s a “relatively low” probability of hoisting the No.3 tropical cyclone signal early this morning.The No.1 standby signal, hoisted at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, remained in effect last night, the weather station said in the statement.According to