Lawmakers pass animal disease control bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated animal disease control bill.The bill proposes that owners of veterinary clinics and vets who confirm or suspect the outbreak of an animal disease in the pursuit of their duties shall report the situation to the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) within 24 hours, while if the confirmed or suspected outbreak comes to their notice outside normal working hours of the public administration, they shall report it to the

October 31, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau police transfer loan-sharking suspects to Zhuhai

The Judiciary Police (PJ) transferred 40 mainlanders allegedly involved in loan-sharking cases in Macau to the Zhuhai police yesterday.PJ spokesman Lai Man Vai briefed reporters about the case after the transfer of the suspects in the area between Zhuhai’s Gongbei and Macau’s Barrier Gate border checkpoints.Lai said that the transferred suspects had also been involved in other crimes on the mainland, stressing that the transfer was carried out in accordance with the law.Judiciary Police

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Camping by tour groups is legal: MGTO

In a statement jointly issued by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) yesterday, MGTO said that “it is not illegal” for travel companies to arrange for members of tour groups to stay at campsites, adding that camping “is also a kind of tourism experience”.In the statement, the Municipal Affairs Bureau said that its inspectors did not find any violations by those staying at the campsite in Hác Sá Beach Park during the mainland’s seven-day

October 31, 2019 | BY admin

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Bullet found in tourist’s clutch bag: police

The police took a tourist from the local airport to a police station for questioning on Tuesday as the man was discovered to have a bullet in his clutch bag, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lam said the 32-year-old suspect is surnamed Chen, who told the police that he is a businessman from the mainland.According to Lam, the incident was reported by the airport’s security guards at about 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday.This undated handout

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Macau, Zhuhai police nab 76 loan sharks in joint operation

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau (PSB) on Monday jointly busted a loan-sharking gang controlled by a criminal organisation and arrested 76 suspects, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said in a special press conference yesterday.According to Lai, the local police received a tip-off from their mainland counterparts in April about a loan-sharking gang operating in Macau and the mainland. The gang started operating in October 2017. Lai said the gang’s

October 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Schoolgirl falls while sliding down banister

A 14-year-old schoolgirl fell to the first floor from the third floor while sliding down the staircase banister in Hou Kong Middle School, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said yesterday.The girl, who sustained injuries to her head and arms and legs, was rushed to the private Kiang Wu Hospital for emergency treatment, the bureau said. She was in a stable condition.

October 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Liaison deputy chief suggests Macau also translate German & Japanese laws

Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau Deputy Director Zhang Rongshun has suggested that in additions to laws in Portugal, local legal experts, in collaboration with their counterparts on the mainland, could also translate laws from other jurisdictions such as Germany and Japan, which he said could help Macau’s “legislative work”, according to a statement by the Macau Foundation (FM) yesterday.Zhang made the remarks on Monday during a seminar about the “Macau Special

October 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Angry man damages 4 motorbikes after quarreling with girlfriend: police

The Public Security Police (PJ) questioned last week a local man for damaging four heavy motorcycles in Rua Nova à Guia after quarreling with his girlfriend, PSP spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Wong, the suspect is a 30-year-old man surnamed Pun who told the police that he works as a customer service assistant in a casino VIP room.According to Wong, the incident happened at about 5 a.m. on October 18. Pun and his girlfriend went for drinks

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Govt renews Transmac, TCM deals for 14 months

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement yesterday that the government has renewed the service contracts with the city’s two public bus operators – Transmac and TCM, which will expire tomorrow, for another 14 months.Following the 14-month extension, the two operators’ current contracts will expire on December 31 next year, the statement noted.The statement said that the government signed the contracts with the two companies’ representatives yesterday.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE

October 30, 2019 | BY admin

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SJM profit rises 9.6 pct in Jan-Sept

SJM Holdings announced yesterday that its net profit rose 9.6 percent year-on-year to HK$2.4 billion in the first nine months, while its net profit in the third quarter grew 4.5 percent year-on-year to HK$738 million.Adjusted EBITDA rose 3.4 percent to HK$950 million in the third quarter, while the figure increased 5.2 percent to HK$3.03 billion in the first nine months of the year.Macau’s oldest gaming company announced the upbeat figures in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.PLEASE

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Ex-wife & boyfriend cheat ex-husband out of HK$3 million

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local woman and her boyfriend for cheating her ex-husband by selling the former couple’s flat for HK$3 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lai, the suspect is a 33-year-old woman surnamed Chang. She told the police that she works as an insurance agent. No information on the suspect’s boyfriend, who was still at large at the time of the press conference yesterday, was released

October 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Time is ripe to consult public on urban renewal bill: Chan

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan insisted yesterday that “the time is ripe” for the government to launch a public consultation on the drafting of a bill regulating the city’s urban renewal process, after having studied the matter for a number of years, even though there are only two months until the term of the current government ends, with the aim of meeting civil society’s strong demand for Macau’s urban renewal process to finally get off the ground.The

October 29, 2019 | BY admin

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IAM busts illegal food vendor near footbridge in Cotai

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that its inspectors busted an unlicensed food vendor, a non-local who was soliciting passers-by to buy cooked food including meal boxes near a footbridge in Cotai last week.The statement did not mention the vendor’s gender, not where he or she came from.The statement said that the bureau launched an operation to bust unlicensed vendors selling food in Cotai last Thursday, when IAM inspectors found that the person was soliciting

October 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Non-resident workers rise 3.8 pct to 193,470

The number of non-resident workers rose by 3.8 percent year-on-year to 193,470 at the end of September, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) announced yesterday.Mainlanders (120,493) accounted for 62.3 percent of the total number. The number of workers imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan stood at 4,758 and 1,655 respectively.The number of Filipino and Vietnamese non-resident workers amounted to 32,954 and 14,983 respectively, making up the second and third biggest segments of the imported labour

October 29, 2019 | BY admin

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