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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Locals’ jobless rate rises to 2.5 pct

The unemployment rate of local residents rose 0.1 percentage point to 2.5 percent in the July-September survey period from the June-August period, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.Macau’s general unemployment rate comprising local residents and non-resident workers remained unchanged at 1.8 percent.The total labour force amounted to 394,400 and the labour force participation rate stood at 70.2 percent in July-September. Total employment was 387,100, while the number

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Mainlander steals donation box cash: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested a mainlander last week for stealing money from a church donation box near Largo de Santo Agostinho, PSP spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.Lam identified the suspect as a 33-year-old tourist surnamed Meng. He told the police that he comes from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and arrived at the local airport on Thursday, according to Lam.The police received a telephone call from a member of the public about a man

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Beijing approves Macau jurisdiction over checkpoint in Hengqin

BEIJING – The nation’s top legislature has approved a proposal by the central government to transfer Macau’s Lotus Flower checkpoint from Cotai to Hengqin and to grant the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) jurisdiction over the checkpoint on the adjacent island.The proposal was reviewed during last week’s bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC). It was approved by the committee on Saturday, the session’s last day.According to

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UM & Huafa Group open joint laboratory in Hengqin

An inauguration ceremony for the University of Macau-Huafa Group Joint Laboratory and Zhuhai UM Science & Technology Research Institute was held in Hengqin on Friday, according to a statement by the University of Macau (UM).“The establishment of the joint laboratory and the research institute is an example of cross-border industry-academia collaboration to align Macao’s development with national development,” the statement said, adding that “by bringing together innovative people

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