Mixed bag of results for Macau boxers in 1st local all pro event

An enthusiastic crowd on Saturday saw local boxers Cheong Lap Cheong, Michael Olfindo and Andre (Jay) Angelo Adangla Fernandez fighting opponents from Yunnan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong respectively, ending in a mixed bag of results – a win for Cheong, while Olfindo and Fernandez had their fights stopped.Local gym Macao Boxing House held the “Guangdong-Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday, the first time that an all professional boxing

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Gaming revenue slips 8.6 pct on HK protests, junkets woes

Macau’s casino revenue in August dipped for a second consecutive month as Macau faced headwinds from protests in Hong Kong and regulatory uncertainty over high-roller junkets.Gross gaming revenue for Macau casino operators was 24.26 billion patacas in August, down 8.6 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau (DICJ). That missed the median analyst forecast of a 4 percent fall, following a 3.5 percent drop in July.Month-on-month, gross

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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Typhoon signal No. 8 ‘unlikely’

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said late last night on its website that it expects the storm warning signal No. 3 to remain in effect at least until 10 a.m. today, adding that the hoisting of the typhoon signal No. 8 was unlikely for the – unnamed – tropical depression, which was moving towards the southern island province of Hainan.According to the website, the tropical depression was located about 340 kilometres south-southwest of Macau at 1 a.m. today and was moving west

September 2, 2019 | BY admin

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852 Peppa Pig kidswear items seized by Customs

A total of 852 counterfeit children’s items of clothing and swimwear depicting famous British cartoon character Peppa Pig were seized by customs officers from four clothing shops near Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro on Monday.Seven suspects were taken in for questioning.The city’s latest infringement of intellectual property rights was announced during a press conference held at the Macau Customs Service headquarters in Rua de São Tiago da Barra yesterday.According to Cheang Wa Kam, chief

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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PLA garrison completes 20th troop rotation

According to Xinhua, the local People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison completed its routine annual rotation early morning yesterday.It was the 20th troop rotation since the PLA began garrisoning Macau in 1999, Xinhua said.Xinhua noted that the Hong Kong PLA garrison completed its 22nd rotation also in the wee hours of yesterday.According to Xinhua, the rotation was approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC) in Beijing, pointing out that the move was a “normal routine” annual

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Drunk motorcyclist sleeps on road for 2 hours after skidding: police

A drunk male motorcyclist skidded and fell near the Ponte 16 casino-hotel in the Inner Harbour area in the early hours of Wednesday, and then slept on the street for two hours before being discovered by a passer-by who reported the case to the police, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The police received a report at around 6 a.m. on Wednesday about an incident that appeared to be a traffic accident in Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos.

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Disclosing hidden craft talent around the city

There are many skilful and creative craftsmen in Macau who have joined an up-and-coming sector – the cultural and creative industries.The cultural and creative industries were popularised in Taiwan in recent years. However, the existence of arts and crafts is perennial. In Greek myths, the goddess Athena was known to be the patron of the arts and crafts. If Athena were real, then the goddess did shower Macau with grace and blessings because in the city there are secretly talented arts and

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Okura’s Chinese lunch set features dim sum essentials

The local Hotel Okura has rolled out a five-course meal featuring signature dim sum dishes typical of a traditional Chinese lunch.The new dim sum lunch set served at the hotel’s 28th floor is to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 13 this year.The five-course set lunch begins with the quintessential southern Chinese dish – char siu, or barbeque pork glazed with honey sauce served with jellyfish.This is followed by a dim sum platter featuring a rabbit-shaped dumpling for

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Cashier embezzles 180,000 patacas from supermarket by cancelling purchase records: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a female non-resident worker on Wednesday for embezzling some 180,000 patacas from her employer – a local chain of supermarkets – on every working day since early April, by deleting customer purchase records from the company’s cash registers, and then stealing the related cash from the tills shortly before finishing her work, Judiciary Police (PJ) Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect, who worked as a

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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IAM worker discovers human skeleton in Taipa

A human skeleton was discovered by a Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) worker near the Taipa Houses Museum yesterday morning – which has been provisionally identified as a male’s skeleton, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the worker found the skeleton by chance when testing the water quality in the lotus pond near the Taipa Houses Museum. The worker then phoned the 999 emergency hotline.Public Security Police (PSP) officers cordoned off the

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Local gym to hold 1st all professional boxing event tomorrow

Local gym Macao Boxing House will hold the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday. This will be the first time that an all professional boxing event organised and hosted by a local gym has been staged in the city.There will be six bouts with fighters from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and Yunnan at the Macao Boxing House Gym in Fat Lei Industrial Building in Areia Preta with local fighters Cheong Lap Cheong, who is aiming for his

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Landlord held by renter in money row: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Wednesday for illegally imprisoning his landlord for half an hour inside a flat in Rua de Pequim over a 20,000 pataca dispute, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect and the victim are both from the mainland. The male suspect, 49, surnamed Cai, told the police that he is unemployed. The male victim’s personal information was not released.Ho said that Cai and the victim were

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Scooter rider has hand run over by car: firemen

A collision between a scooter and a car occurred near The Riviera Macau residential building in the Inner Harbour area yesterday afternoon, after which the 20-year-old female rider told firemen that her left hand had been run over by the car, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The accident happened at around 4 p.m. near the residential building in Rua do Dr. Lourenço Pereira Marques, according to the bureau.After the collision, the scooter fell to the ground. The rider, who had her

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab trio for illegal plastic surgeries, beauty treatments in hotel

A local woman and two Taiwanese were taken to a police station for questioning on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in unlicensed plastic surgery and beauty treatments in a hotel in Nape, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters yesterday.According to Ho, the local suspect surnamed Lei is 35 years old. She told the police that she is the public relations director of a VIP room in a local casino. The two Taiwanese

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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