MSAR flags to fly at half-mast to mourn Li Peng today

A mainland man purporting to be the owner of an engineering company cheated a compatriot, whom he got to know at a local casino in May last year, out of a total of 1.3 million patacas by claiming that “after he exchanged foreign currencies, his mainland bank account was frozen by the mainland police, resulting in about 100 million yuan in his account not being available for use, but that he was in urgent need of money to pay emergency compensation for a workplace accident”,  Judiciary

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 6.5 percent year-on-year to 3.62 million in August, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.According to the DSEC data, the daily average of visitor arrivals reached 116,875 last month.Same-day visitors, which accounted for 53 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals, increased 20.2 percent, while overnight visitors dropped 5.7 percent.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.