MSAR passport holders granted visa-free access to Argentina

Holders of Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) passports will be granted visa-free access to Argentina, the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, MSAR passport holders can stay visa-free in Argentina for up to 30 days. Likewise, passport holders of Argentina will enjoy 30 days’ visa-free access to the Macau.The reciprocal measure will take effect on November 13.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

October 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Jobless man busted for taking & selling drugs: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man on Saturday for taking and selling drugs, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the 44-year-old suspect surnamed Song told the police that he is unemployed.The police were tipped off recently that a local man was selling drugs in various districts. After investigating, police identified Song as the suspected drug pusher.Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded drug-trafficking suspect to

October 15, 2019 | BY admin

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2 Taiwanese caught smuggling heroin via Macau: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two men from Taiwan who were attempting to smuggle heroin with a street value of 170,000 patacas from their island to the mainland, when they arrived at the local airport on Sunday on a flight from Cambodia – where they had picked up the drugs after departing from Taiwan for the Southeast Asian country, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Ho identified the two suspects as a 48-year-old surnamed Liu and a 51-year-old

October 15, 2019 | BY admin

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Tourism chief expects close to 40 million visitors this year

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes says her office expects Macau’s number of visitor arrivals this year to reach almost 40 million – another record and an increase of 438 percent compared to 1999, the year of the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).Senna Fernandes made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Rotunda de Carlos da Maia – popularly known as “Three Lamps” – on Saturday on the sidelines of the

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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HK tutor sentenced to 18 1/2 years for sexual abuse of schoolboys in Macau

The Court of First Instance (TJB) has sentenced a male tutor from Hong Kong working at a local private tuition centre to a prison term of 18 years and six months for repeatedly sexually abusing at least six schoolboys enrolled in the centre since he started working there in 2016 until he was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) in November last year.The 36-year-old defendant, surnamed Tam, was found guilty of sexual abuse of children and sexual coercion on Friday when the court announced the

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Gov‘t plans to remove all 29 dog toilets

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) plans to remove all dog toilets and eventually replace them with dog excreta collection bins, IAM Vice Chairman Lei Wai Nong said during a regular meeting of the bureau’s Consultative Committee at its headquarters in Largo do Senado last week.According to Lei, the setting-up of the dog toilets took a relatively long period of time but the outcome was not as expected. Therefore, the bureau plans to remove the dog toilets and replace them with dog excreta

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Regulator says securities market ‘still under study’

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) said in a statement yesterday that the possible establishment of a yuan-denominated securities market in Macau “is still under study.”Macau’s quasi-central bank also said in the statement that it had commissioned international consultancies to carry out different studies on the feasibility of such a market in Macau.The statement did not identify the consultancies.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau-Dongguan ferries set sail

A ferry route between Macau’s Taipa Ferry Terminal and Humen town of Dongguan city was launched on Friday, with two round trips per day.A one-way trip on the new route takes 100 minutes.The new route is jointly operated by locally registered Yuet Tung Shipping Co. Ltd. and Dongguan City Humen HK/Macau Passenger Ferry Co. Ltd. – a fully-owned subsidiary of Dongguan Communications Investment Group Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Dongguan government.This combo photo shows Marine and Water

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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2 smuggling cases busted in one day: customs

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement on Saturday that its officers busted two separate smuggling cases on the previous day.The first case happened at the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB), while the second case occurred at the airport, according to the statement.In the first case on Friday morning, customs officers intercepted a Hong Kong woman entering Macau at the Macau checkpoint of the delta bridge. They put her shopping trolley through an X-ray scanner,

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau again to host int’l badminton event

An international badminton event sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) as part of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300 tournaments will be held at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion from October 29 to November 3.The event is organised by the Badminton Federation of Macau in conjunction with the Sports Bureau (ID). The equipment is sponsored by Protech Sports of Malaysia. A total of 18 countries and regions and 282 players from around the world will take part.Kong Tat Choi, who heads

October 14, 2019 | BY admin

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Man gets 13 years for burning, blinding wife

A local man was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment by the Court of First Instance (TJB) yesterday for burning and blinding his wife, just four months short of the maximum sentence for the heinous crime.According to the ruling, the defendant was sentenced for causing grievous physical harm to his wife.The case of domestic violence happened on July 12 last year. The victim, Lao Mong Ieng, sustained second- and third-degree burns to more than 40 percent of her body and suffered nearly total

October 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Singapore Sands sued by gambler claiming US$6.6 million

SINGAPORE – A Chinese gambler at Marina Bay Sands Pte is suing the Singapore-based casino operator to recover S$9.1 million (US$6.6 million) he claims was transferred to other casino patrons without his authorization.Wang Xi discovered in July that the money was missing as a result of 22 transfers allegedly made from his casino deposit accounts between October and December of 2015, according to a September 26 statement of claim filed in the High Court in Singapore. Wang doesn’t know the

October 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Portugal recognises Macau’s higher education degrees & diplomas

The Portuguese government has announced the automatic recognition of the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) higher education degrees and diplomas, the Higher Education Bureau (DSES) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the recognition of higher education degrees and diplomas will not only facilitate cooperation between the two places in the field of higher education, but also raise the international recognition of Macau’s academic qualifications.The move

October 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Liaison Office gets new vice-director

The State Council has appointed Luo Yonggang one of the four vice-directors of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, according to a statement by the office in Macau yesterday.Luo succeeds Sun Da, who was appointed a vice-director of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine earlier this month, the statement said.Luo Yonggang, born in 1966, has a master’s degree in Education from Inner Mongolia Normal University. Before his appointment to Macau, he was a

October 11, 2019 | BY admin

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