Fashion shop manager embezzles HK$70,000 from Cotai branch: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday arrested a local man – who worked as the Macau regional manger of a chain of fashion shops– for stealing a total of HK$70,000 from a shop branch in the shopping centre of a gaming resort in Cotai over three occasions, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.The chain runs four shops in Macau. The suspect was the Macau regional manager supervising the operation of all the four shops in Macau, before being fired by the

August 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Pearl Horizon owners petition CCAC to probe Chan’s ‘broken promises’

Members of the Pearl Horizon Condominium Owners United Association petitioned the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) yesterday, urging the anti-graft body to investigate Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan, who didn’t, according to the petition, keep her promise to put out an open tender for the plot where the ill-fated Pearl Horizon project is located.The long-abandoned construction site is located near the Oriental Pearl roundabout, officially known as plot

August 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Brazil’s enthusiasm for BRICS continues beyond political change at home

Commentary by Donald GasperThe 11th BRICS summit – bringing together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – will be held on November 13-14 in Brasilia, the current Brazilian chairmanship of the grouping has reported on its website.Some people had speculated that the change of government in Brazil would dampen that country’s enthusiasm for economic cooperation within the BRICS framework, but this is not at all the case, as evidenced by stepped-up soya bean exports to China, for

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho wants Coloane to become tourism business district

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday that Coloane is the “lungs of the city” and there’s room to “appropriately” improve its business development with the aim of diverting the city’s visitor flows and sharing the economic benefits with the island’s residents.Ho said the ultimate aim was for Coloane to become a tourism business district.Ho and his campaign team members visited Coloane and met merchants and residents there yesterday morning to familiarise themselves

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau wins ‘Best MICE City – Asia’ award

The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) announced in a statement that Macau won the “Best MICE City – Asia” award at the “1st M&C Asia Stella Awards 2019” event in Singapore yesterday.The event was organised by the Northstar Travel Group, and the award was accepted by an IPIM delegate, the statement said.Northstar Travel Group describes itself as “the leading B-to-B information and marketing solutions company serving all segments of the travel industry

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Beijing wants Philippines to stop all online gambling

BEIJING – The central government wants the Philippines to stop all forms of online gambling, as it continues cracking down on a practice it says causes illegal outflow of money.While Beijing appreciates the move to halt the issuance of new licenses, “we hope the Philippines will go further and ban all online gambling,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said, according to the transcript of his regular presss briefing in Beijing on Tuesday posted on the website of the Chinese embassy

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Galaxy to sponsor Macau Int’l Marathon for 10.5 million patacas over 3 years

Gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) will sponsor the annual Macau International Marathon for 10.5 million patacas over three years, the co-organisers announced yesterday.The 38th Macau International Marathon, slated to take place on December 1, expects12, 000 runners to compete in the three different distances, the Sports Bureau (ID) announced at a press conference in Cotai.The joint organisers – the Sports Bureau (ID) and General Association of Athletics of Macau (AGAM) in

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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One-way LRT trip takes 20 minutes

During a media trip to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system yesterday, Transport Infrastructure Office (GIT) Director Ho Cheong Kei pointed out that a whole one-way trip on the LRT Taipa section takes about 20 minutes.Ho also said that his office will announce the LRT fare system in the near future. Ho also reaffirmed that the government aims for the Taipa section to come into service before the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland on December 20.Yesterday’s media trip

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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On-duty cop nabbed for DUI

An on-duty Judiciary Police (PJ) officer was caught driving under the influence (DUI) when the officer’s police car hit a motorcycle in April, according to a statement on the website of the Secretary for Security earlier this week.The PJ officer’s personal information was not revealed in the statement.According to the website, the accident happened in the afternoon on April 19. The officer was driving the police car to a junction between Rua de Londres and Alameda Dr. Carlos

August 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Police confirm 7 questioned over banned assembly, ‘but no arrests’

The Public Security Police (PSP) said yesterday that seven people were taken for questioning to a police station on Monday night from the city’s main square since their personal information needed to be further verified or because they could not provide identity documents at the scene, PSP spokesman Lei Tak Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters, adding that none of them were arrested.Lei also said that the police had checked the seven

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Home fire possibly due to overheating fan motor: firemen

A flat in a residential building in Taipa was on fire last night, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB), which said that firemen suspected that the fire was caused by the motor in an electric fan overheating.The fire broke out at around 7 p.m. in a flat on the 18th floor of Lei Man Building in Rua de Tai Lin.Firemen rushed to the scene and quickly extinguished the blaze. About 150 residents self-evacuated during the fire, firefighters said. No one was injured.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Gongbei Customs busts luxury goods smuggling gang

Gongbei Customs announced in a press conference yesterday that it has busted a gang that smuggled luxury products – including leather products and watches – from Macau to the mainland.The gang’s modus operandi was that some of its members travelled to Europe to buy the luxury products and sent them to Macau by express courier, after which the same or other members smuggled the products from Macau to Zhuhai via the Gongbei checkpoint by carrying only a small number of the products each

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho calls for Macau-Wanzai ferry route to divert visitor flow

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday there was a need to reopen the ferry route between Zhuhai’s Wanzai Port and Macau’s Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal, with the aim of relieving the pressure on various border checkpoints and diverting the flow of visitors.The shipping company operating at the Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal at that time announced in 2016 that all routes from the terminal to Wanzai had ceased following the cancelling of the ferry service.Ho attended a Q&A

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Dead female found in Nam Van Lake: police

A female body was found floating in Nam Van Lake on Monday evening, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement.The police said the woman was believed to have been in her twenties or thirties, Monday’s statement said.The body was found near the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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