IAM worker discovers human skeleton in Taipa

A human skeleton was discovered by a Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) worker near the Taipa Houses Museum yesterday morning – which has been provisionally identified as a male’s skeleton, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the worker found the skeleton by chance when testing the water quality in the lotus pond near the Taipa Houses Museum. The worker then phoned the 999 emergency hotline.Public Security Police (PSP) officers cordoned off the

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Local gym to hold 1st all professional boxing event tomorrow

Local gym Macao Boxing House will hold the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday. This will be the first time that an all professional boxing event organised and hosted by a local gym has been staged in the city.There will be six bouts with fighters from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and Yunnan at the Macao Boxing House Gym in Fat Lei Industrial Building in Areia Preta with local fighters Cheong Lap Cheong, who is aiming for his

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Landlord held by renter in money row: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Wednesday for illegally imprisoning his landlord for half an hour inside a flat in Rua de Pequim over a 20,000 pataca dispute, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect and the victim are both from the mainland. The male suspect, 49, surnamed Cai, told the police that he is unemployed. The male victim’s personal information was not released.Ho said that Cai and the victim were

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Scooter rider has hand run over by car: firemen

A collision between a scooter and a car occurred near The Riviera Macau residential building in the Inner Harbour area yesterday afternoon, after which the 20-year-old female rider told firemen that her left hand had been run over by the car, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The accident happened at around 4 p.m. near the residential building in Rua do Dr. Lourenço Pereira Marques, according to the bureau.After the collision, the scooter fell to the ground. The rider, who had her

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab trio for illegal plastic surgeries, beauty treatments in hotel

A local woman and two Taiwanese were taken to a police station for questioning on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in unlicensed plastic surgery and beauty treatments in a hotel in Nape, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters yesterday.According to Ho, the local suspect surnamed Lei is 35 years old. She told the police that she is the public relations director of a VIP room in a local casino. The two Taiwanese

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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HK & Macau trade unions cooperate to help members join GBA: rep

The chief representative of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions’ Guangdong Office, Jimmy Lee Chong Cheng, said yesterday that his federation is cooperating with its Hong Kong counterpart by providing members of both federations with reciprocal welfare benefits and services, adding that his federation will further expand its collaboration with Guangdong’s trade unions soon with the aim of help members in integrate themselves into the Greater Bay Area (GBA).The GBA comprises nine cities in

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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CTT aims to complete 5G base stations in 2020

The government is trying to complete the city’s 5G base stations next year, Lau Wai Meng, director of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT), said yesterday.Lau made the comments during a press conference held at the bureau’s headquarters in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, where her bureau launched two new stamp collections.Lau said that the legislative process for the 5G service was still going on, and that the bureau was striving to complete the 5G base stations for next year. She did

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Grand Lisboa Palace to open in H2 of next year: So

SJM Director Ambrose So Shu Fai said yesterday that the construction of Grand Lisboa Palace in Cotai would be completed by early next month, but would open its doors only in the second half of next year.So made the comments on the sidelines of attending the 15th Annual SJM Scholarship Award held at Grand Lisboa hotel on the peninsula. The gaming operator awarded scholarships to 38 children of its staff yesterday, including new scholarships to 10 outstanding students of 2019 and the renewal of

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Standby signal No. 1 hoisted

The No. 1 typhoon standby signal remained hoisted late last night, according to a statement by the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG). Tropical Storm Podul was moving west-northwest towards Hainan province last night, the statement said, adding that under its influence showers and thunder were expected in the next two days in Macau. The statement also warned that flooding would occur in the Inner Harbour every morning between today and Saturday.

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Over 4,800 use mobiles while driving in Jan-July: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) said yesterday that its officers recorded 4,842 cases of drivers using mobile phones while driving between January and July this year, an enormous year-on-year increase of 47 percent compared with the same period of last year.Sam Chi Lap, a senior officer with the PSP Traffic Department, made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a police operation near StarWorld Hotel in Nape to nab drivers using mobile phones while driving.Sam said that

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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100 CCTV cameras will have facial & vehicle number plate recognition next year: police

The police said yesterday that 50 cameras of the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system will be equipped with facial recognition technology and that another 50 cameras will be equipped with the automatic number-plate recognition technology on a trial basis in the first quarter of next year.João Augusto da Rosa, an assistant to the commissioner-general of the Unitary Police Service (SPU), made the remarks yesterday when attending a current affairs phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt removes 2 tonnes of rubbish from Sai Van waterfront

The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) said in a statement that cleaners removed two tonnes of rubbish along the waterfront near Macau Tower and near the peninsula’s entrance to Macau-Taipa Sai Van Bridge yesterday morning, pointing out that the rubbish even included a fridge dumped in the sea.The statement said that because of yesterday morning’s low tide of just one metre most parts of the levee along the waterfront were above the water surface, an ideal situation for workers to remove

August 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Eco-activist urges govt to restrict single-use plastics

of a plastic carrier bag charge was not an efficient way to reduce plastic use, local eco-activist Annie Lao Ka Weng told The Macau Post Daily during her talk on plastic pollution at Ponte 9 in the Inner Harbour area last week, urging the government to impose restrictions on disposable plastic.The Legislative Assembly (AL) this month passed a government-initiated bill on the implementation of a plastic carrier bag charge scheme for retail businesses in Macau.Macau’s anti-plastic bag law will

August 28, 2019 | BY admin

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Man breaks into supermarket with screwdriver & steals 31,000 patacas

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man for breaking into a supermarket near Hotel Lisboa with a screwdriver – which he used to pry open the door and stealing 31,000 patacas from a cash register, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 37-year-old mainlander surnamed Li. He told the police that he works as a chef.When a member of staff arrived for work in the supermarket 8 a.m. on July 29, he found that the door had been

August 28, 2019 | BY admin

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