Businessman loses over 2.2 million yuan in procurement scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained a local man on Thursday for allegedly cheating a mainland businessman in a procurement scam in 2015, PJ spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.According to Lai, the 58-year-old suspect is surnamed Kou. He told the police that he works as a project manager for a local construction company. The victim’s personal information was not released.According to Lai, Kou committed the fraud in July 2015. Kou told the victim that

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Health Bureau issues warning over water heaters’ exhaust pipes

In a statement yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) urged residents not to connect the exhaust pipes of their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) water heaters to the shared exhaust ducts running vertically along bathrooms in residential flats of different floors in their residential buildings.The statement came after a carbon monoxide poisoning case last week in a residential building involving a woman and her daughter, which was caused by this kind of exhaust pipe connection.According to the

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Police confirm PSP officer killed in Australian car crash

A Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson confirmed yesterday that one of the two local women killed in a traffic accident in Western Australia near Perth on Sunday was a PSP officer, the Chinese-language Macao Daily News reported last night, citing a statement by the spokesperson.According to the spokesperson, the victim had joined the Public Security Police last year. The Public Security Police expressed its deepest condolences to the victim’s family. The spokesperson was also quoted as

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Eco-bureau to plant mangroves along Areia Preta coast to tackle stench

Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man said yesterday that his bureau will remove some of the silt polluted by wastewater along the northern coast of Areia Preta district, and plant mangroves in the remaining silt, so as to solve “once and for all” the waterfront stench that has been affecting residents in the area for years.Tam made the remarks during a press conference at the bureau in Estrada de D. Maria II yesterday.Tam revealed on Friday that a project to

September 18, 2019 | BY admin

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2 Macau women die after car, bus collide in Australia

SYDNEY – Two women from Macau were killed and another from Macau was seriously injured following a collision between a car and a tourist bus in the state of Western Australia on Sunday, Xinhua and Australia’s state broadcaster ABC reported yesterday.Officials from the Chinese Consulate General in Perth told Xinhua that the injured woman was in a stable condition and would remain in hospital for observation.ABC reported that the woman, aged 23, was in a critical but stable condition in

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Woman dies after being hit on zebra crossing by bus

A 71-year-old local woman died on Friday after being hit by a casino staff shuttle bus on a zebra crossing in Ilha Verde, the Public Security Police (PSP) said on Friday.The police said that the driver, who passed a breathalyser test, failed to give way to the woman on the zebra crossing.The vehicle is a TCM bus used as a casino staff shuttle bus driven by a TCM public bus driver. The city’s two public bus operators – Transmac and TCM – use some of their buses to run casino staff shuttle

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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19th imported dengue case confirmed this year: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement on Saturday that it has confirmed this year’s 19th imported case of dengue fever.According to the statement, the patient is a 22-year-old male tourist from Japan. The statement merely said that the man stayed in Avenida Doutor Mário Soares in Nam Van and did not say when he came to Macau. The statement did not say what kind of accommodation he was staying in.The man came down with a fever, a headache and a rash last Monday. He went to the public

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho says that ‘One Country’ first, then ‘Two Systems’

BEIJING – “When we talk about ‘One Country, Two Systems,’ we cannot only focus on the ‘Two Systems’ and ignore that the ‘One Country’ is the precondition,” Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s Chief Executive-designate said in an exclusive interview with China Media Group (CMG), state-broadcaster CGTN reported yesterday.Ho said that the “One Country, Two Systems” principle must not be messed with and people should be aware of what the nation’s bottom line is.Thanks to the mainland’s

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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1st cabbie to have licence axed since new law: police

A taxi driver will have his taxi-driving licence cancelled for refusing to pick up passengers or overcharging them four times since the new taxi law came into force in early June, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.The police have transferred the cabbie’s latest case – his fourth, which happened early this month, to the Transport Bureau (DSAT), which will cancel his taxi-driving licence in due course after officially confirming his

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Mid-Autumn visitor arrivals rise 12.8 pct: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement yesterday that they recorded some 341,000 visitor arrivals during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period from Friday to Sunday, a 12.8 percent increase compared to the corresponding period last year.The previous three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period was between September 22 and 24, the statement noted.The statement said that visitor arrivals at the Barrier Gate checkpoint, the Lotus Flower Bridge checkpoint in Cotai and

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Gambler loses over 100,000 patacas in illegal money exchange: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained a man on Thursday for cheating a gambler out of 92,000 yuan (104,870 patacas), local Chinese-language media reported yesterday, quoting a PJ spokesperson.According to the spokesperson, the 49-year-old suspect is surnamed Huang. He told the police that he was running an – illegal – currency-exchange business in local casinos. The victim is a 40-year-old male gambler from the mainland. He told the police that he is a businessman. His surname was not

September 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Holiday Notice

September 13, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho vows Macau to continue ‘One Country, Two Systems’ with local characteristics

In a roundup of his three-day visit to Beijing yesterday, Chief Executive-designate Ho Iat Seng pledged that he will solve the “historical issue” of the current gaming concession and sub-concession model – the gaming industry’s so-called “3+3” system.Addressing a press briefing at the Representative Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in Beijing yesterday morning before returning to Macau, Ho also said he was determined to “take the first step” to get the

September 13, 2019 | BY admin

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Mid-Autumn Festival: Families & friends reunite under full moon

It’s Mid-Autumn Festival today when the moon is the fullest and brightest, pulling families and friends together for a meal with mooncakes and lanterns.The festival each year falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is the biggest. It is also considered the second grandest festival after Chinese New Year.SymbolicThe “round” moon means completeness and reunion in Chinese, and as with festive food that goes with Chinese traditions, they are mostly

September 13, 2019 | BY admin

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