Teen lovers busted for selling drugs: police

A 16-year-old boy was hired by a Hong Kong gang to sell drugs in Macau and travelled to Macau with his girlfriend, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.The male suspect is surnamed Lam, while the female suspect is a 17-year-old surnamed Tse. Both told the police that they are unemployed and addicted to drugs, Lei said. Both are from Hong Kong.According to Lei, the local police received a tip-off earlier this month that someone had been

November 13, 2019 | BY admin

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Man set alight after arguing with protesters in HK

HONG KONG – Hong Kong police said yesterday that a man was set alight following a heated argument with radical anti-government protesters during a day of widespread clashes across the city, as videos of the brutal attack went viral online.Three videos were posted on messaging channels used by protesters showing a middle-aged man in a green T-shirt arguing with protesters on a footbridge.A masked man dressed in black then throws a liquid over the man and sets him ablaze as crowds scatter.

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Cultural sector has become real business: Tam

In a regular meeting of the Cultural Industries Council yesterday, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said that Macau’s cultural industry has developed in a way that it has gradually joined the business sector, a development that he said has been caused by a synergistic effect based on constant cooperation between the government, the business sector, universities and research institutions.Yesterday’s meeting, which took place at the World Trade Centre Macau (WTCM)

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Woman blackmails student over porn video: police

A student has been blackmailed out of 3,431 yuan (3,945 patacas) over a porn video in which his face had been superimposed after he met and talked to a woman online, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the victim is a mainlander in his twenties. He is currently studying in Macau. Neither his name nor where he is studying was revealed by the spokeswoman.According to Lei, the incident happened at about 4 p.m. on Sunday.

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt vows to ensure Friendship Bridge safety

The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) reaffirmed in a statement yesterday that the government has been constantly carrying out “regular and necessary” maintenance and repairs on the Macau-Taipa Friendship Bridge, including the ongoing repairs to the support pedestals of the bridge.The statement also said that the bureau has introduced a structural health monitoring system (SHM) for the Friendship Bridge “in recent years”, which monitors its structural status 24/7, so

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Daisy Ho says gaming revenue might drop this month

SJM Board of Directors Chairman Daisy Ho Chiu Fung said yesterday there might be a year-on-year drop in gaming revenue this month due the fact that there aren’t any public holidays and the external situation is unclear.Ho made the comments while speaking to reporters after presiding over a press conference introducing this year’s SJM Prema Theodore Racing Team that will see its F3 drivers Robert Shwartzman, Marcus Armstrong and Frederik Vesti competing in the Macau Grand Prix which takes

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Population rises by 4,100 in a quarter

Macau’s population – comprising local residents and non-resident workers – rose by 4,100 to 676,100 between the second and third quarters of this year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.Females accounted for 53.2 percent of the total.Based on the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) land area of 32.9 square kilometres, its population density amounted to 20,550 people per square kilometre in the third quarter, one of the highest in the world.PLEASE READ

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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2 HK men nabbed for online gambling investment fraud

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two Hong Kong men for allegedly cheating a male mainlander out of 140,000 yuan (161,105 patacas) by claiming that they were running an online gambling website with a high rate of return, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the first suspect surnamed Chow, aged 61, told the police that he works in illegal money exchange activities in local casinos. The second suspect is a 65-year-old man surnamed Wong,

November 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Crack on viaduct to Friendship Bridge doesn’t affect structural safety: govt

The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement that a crack that appeared on the connecting viaduct in front of the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal leading to the Macau-Taipa Friendship Bridge in the early hours of yesterday does not affect its structural safety.The statement, which was issued in the afternoon, said that the crack would be repaired overnight.According to a statement by the Transport Bureau (DSAT), which was also released yesterday afternoon, the

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Mother tried to enter Macau with fake Senegal passport: police

A mother from the mainland flew from Malaysia to Macau in an attempt to enter the city with a fake Senegal passport last week as she wanted to stay with her daughter, a local resident, in Macau for a prolonged period of time as her genuine passport only allows her to stay in Macau for seven days, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.Her daughter and a male mainlander were also arrested in the case last Tuesday. Both were arrested in the

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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No bias when treating 2 graffiti cases in Travessa da Paixão: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said that its officers did not show any bias when treating a case in which a schoolboy scrawled graffiti on a wall in Travessa da Paixão – a cultural heritage site next to the St. Paul’s Ruins landmark – late last month and another graffiti case in the alley confirmed by the authorities earlier this year, adding that the situations of the two cases were “completely different”.The Judiciary Police issued a statement on the matter on Friday, saying that the

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Mongolian nabbed for attempted murder in 2005

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a man from the Republic of Mongolia for attacking his girlfriend, lifting her up and throwing her into the sea from a footbridge at the waterfront outside the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) complex in Nape in 2005, after they had had a heated argument over their relationship and the victim demanded that the man return US$3,000 he had borrowed from her, during their visit to Macau at that time, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau-issued credit cards rise 9.4 pct to 1.4 million in Q3

The total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau rose by 9.4 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, while the credit card turnover and total repayments also recorded growth, Macau’s monetary regulator has announced.Friday’s report from the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) showed that the total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau stood at 1,403,472 at the end of September, equivalent to an increase of 3 percent quarter-to-quarter and 9.4 percent

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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CIIE expands mainland market for Macau firms: entrepreneurs

SHANGHAI – Ivy Tsang, director of business development of Macau Yeng Kee Bakery, was surprised that the sales of the 91-year-old company on the Chinese mainland tripled in the past year, thanks to an agent they found at the 1st China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai last year.This year, Yeng Kee brought Macau treats like egg rolls, almond cookies and sesame cookies to the second expo. “The expo is a super platform to develop our market on the mainland,” Tsang added.More than

November 11, 2019 | BY admin

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