Staff pockets HK$5 million from VIP room by faking accounting records

A 30-year-old man who works for a VIP room’s accounting department doctored accounting records and managed to pocket HK$5.1 million, all of which he said he has gambled away, a Judiciary Police (PJ) press conference on Friday revealed.According to a PJ spokesman, the company that operates the VIP room reported the case to the police last week after auditing the accounting records of five transactions made between March and May.The spokesman said that the suspect, a local resident surnamed

October 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Indian scams job-hunting compatriots out of 120,000 patacas

An Indian man scammed three of his fellow countrymen out of a total of 120,000 patacas for supposedly help them get a hotel job but then disappeared once he got the money.The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced the case during a press conference on Friday.According to the spokesman, the suspect, surnamed Chouham, is a Macau resident aged 38, who claims to be a businessman. He was stopped at the airport as he was about to leave Macau on Thursday.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

October 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Illegal provision, storage of vaccines by private clinics has become ‘serious’: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) has announced that in its inspections of the city’s private medical institutions so far this year, SSM inspectors discovered that six of them were illegally storing and providing vaccines, describing the situation as “serious”.The bureau has also said that Macau’s “rigorous” supervision mechanism concerning the use in vaccines has attracted “a large number” of mainlanders to come to Macau and receive vaccines in private medical institutions, such as HPV

October 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Chui to present budget bill to lawmakers next month

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will present his government’s work report for this year and budget bill for next year to lawmakers in the middle of next month, the Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement on Friday.According to the statement, Chui will present the 2019 work report and 2020 budget bill in a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle on November 12, slated to commence at 3 p.m., to be followed by a press conference at Government Headquarters starting

October 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Firefighters announce findings of big blaze probe

In a statement yesterday, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced the findings of an investigation into the failure of the functioning of the fire hydrant system of the Kong Fok Cheong Garden residential estate in Areia Preta – which was hit by a huge blaze earlier this month, according to which the system’s insufficient water pressure during the fire-fighting operation on the day of the fire – October 20 – was due to various kinds of damage in the system.It took firefighters a long

October 28, 2019 | BY admin

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UK police believe all 39 found dead in truck were Chinese

GRAYS – British police said yesterday that all the 39 people found dead in a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case that has triggered international outrage over the people trafficking business.Emergency workers discovered the bodies early Wednesday (local time) inside the refrigerated container of a truck parked in an industrial area east of London, shortly after it had arrived on a ferry from Belgium.Police are conducting the country’s largest murder probe in

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Vice Premier Han meets, praises 3 groups from Macau

BEIJING – First Vice Premier Han Zheng met yesterday with a delegation from Macau at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.The delegation consisted of representatives from the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, the General Union of Macau Neighbourhood Associations and the Women’s General Association of Macau. Locally, the three influential groups are customarily known by their abbreviated names in Cantonese - Gung Luen, Kai Fong and Fu Luen respectively.Han, also a member of the Standing

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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National Day Golden Week bus passengers rise 3 pct: govt

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) announced in a statement yesterday that 4.5 million public bus passengers were recorded during the mainland’s seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday period from October 1 to 7, a three percent increase compared to the same period last year.The statement also said that the number of bus passengers a day hit a record high of 762,000 on October 4.According to a previous DSAT statement, the new daily record replaced the previous record on May 2 this year, when

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Cotai hospital nursing college completed: govt

The construction of the nursing college building of the public hospital project in Cotai, officially known as Cotai Health Complex, has been completed, the Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) announced on its website yesterday.The nursing college, the construction of which started in 2017, is the first and only building completed in the complex.The Cotai hospital project comprising seven buildings was first announced in 2010 but its design and construction have been repeatedly delayed.

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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18 pct of travellers using Macau’s HZMB checkpoint are locals: police

Local residents have made up 18 percent of the travellers using the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) since the opening of the mega-bridge on October 24 last year, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.The statement said that over 13 million travellers have passed through the Macau checkpoint since the delta bridge opened a year ago, adding that Hong Kong residents accounted for 36 percent of them, while mainlanders accounted for 38 percent.

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Festival goes ‘Back to the Future’ with underground art

Underground art is getting the “Back to the Future” treatment in the three-day Outloud International Street Art Festival kicking off today with graffiti artists making their marks on a train installation in Si Ta Hau in the Inner Harbour area.It is the third year the festival is taking place, and also marks the finale of the city’s first-ever Art Macao event that has gathered and promoted different forms of art from various countries and regions over six months.Based in the quaint Praça

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Gang helps mainlanders enter Macau illegally via construction site: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau have jointly busted a people-smuggling gang which helped mainlanders enter and leave Macau illegally via a construction site near the Zhuhai-Macau land border in Ilha Verde, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.In a joint operation on Tuesday night, the local police arrested a suspected member of the gang and caught four illegal immigrants at the construction site, while the Zhuhai police

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau & S Korea sign accords on fugitive offenders’ transfer, mutual legal assistance

Macau and South Korea signed yesterday an agreement on the transfer of fugitive offenders and an agreement on mutual legal assistance, enhancing judicial cooperation between the two sides, according to a statement by the Secretariat for Administration and Justice.The signing ceremony of the Agreement on the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders and the Agreement concerning Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People’s Republic of

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Over 560 kg of undeclared & unquarantined seafood seized: customs

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers cracked a case of seafood smuggling at the customs station in Rua das Lorchas earlier this week, seizing 562.3 kilogrammes of undeclared and unquarantined seafood from the mainland.According to the statement, the station’s coastal patrol conducted an inspection operation to monitor and inspect imported seafood on vessels docked in the Inner Harbour in the early hours of Monday morning, the statement noted.During the

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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