Gongbei Customs busts luxury goods smuggling gang

Gongbei Customs announced in a press conference yesterday that it has busted a gang that smuggled luxury products – including leather products and watches – from Macau to the mainland.The gang’s modus operandi was that some of its members travelled to Europe to buy the luxury products and sent them to Macau by express courier, after which the same or other members smuggled the products from Macau to Zhuhai via the Gongbei checkpoint by carrying only a small number of the products each

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho calls for Macau-Wanzai ferry route to divert visitor flow

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday there was a need to reopen the ferry route between Zhuhai’s Wanzai Port and Macau’s Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal, with the aim of relieving the pressure on various border checkpoints and diverting the flow of visitors.The shipping company operating at the Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal at that time announced in 2016 that all routes from the terminal to Wanzai had ceased following the cancelling of the ferry service.Ho attended a Q&A

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Dead female found in Nam Van Lake: police

A female body was found floating in Nam Van Lake on Monday evening, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement.The police said the woman was believed to have been in her twenties or thirties, Monday’s statement said.The body was found near the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Urban renewal public consultation to be held by year-end earliest: Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said yesterday he expects the government to carry out a public consultation at the end of this year at the earliest on how the city’s urban renewal process should go ahead.Rosário made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the Urban Renewal Council which lasted two hours.The current government’s five-year term ends at midnight on December 19.Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do

August 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Student loses 28,504 patacas in credit-for-sex-scam: police

A student in his twenties fell for a credit-for-sex scam on Friday, losing a total of 28,504 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during in a regular conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Lei, the victim is a local student. The spokeswoman did not reveal whether he is a university student or secondary school pupil.According to Lei, the victim befriended a female online on Friday afternoon. She later told the victim through a social messaging

August 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Plastic bag law to start on Nov 18

According to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, in accordance with Law No. 16/2019 on Restrictions on the Distribution of Plastic Bags, the anti-plastic bag law will take effect on November 18, i.e. 90 days after the date of the law’s promulgation.Violators of the law will be fined 1,000 patacas.The aim of the law is to reduce the adverse impact on the environment with the use of plastic carrier bags in the retail sector, according to the Official Gazette.PLEASE

August 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Including disabled in minimum wage would reduce their job opportunities: Ho

During a visit to the Pou Lei Centre of the Fuhong Society of Macau yesterday, chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng told reporters that including employees with disabilities in the city’s future minimum wage system would reduce their employment opportunities.The Pou Lei Centre in Areia Preta district, established in 2003, provides occupational rehabilitation and employment support services for people with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities aged at least 16. The services include work

August 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho calls for more big events during low tourist seasons to divert visitor flows

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday that the current government’s practice of organising big events during the city’s peak tourist seasons has put further pressure on the city’s tourism carrying capacity.Ho attended a Q&A session with members representing the industrial, commercial and financial sector – known as the first sector – on the Chief Executive Election Committee. The 400-member committee has 120 members from the first sector. Yesterday’s session at

August 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Police question 7 over banned assembly in main square

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement that seven people – six males and a female – were taken in for questioning at a police station last night for acting suspiciously in the city’s main square, Largo do Senado.According to the statement, the septet comprised four locals, two mainlanders and a Hong Kong resident.The statement also said that the police had deployed “additional” forces in Largo do Senado last night to maintain public order.People, most of them in white

August 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Ho pledges to spend public money ‘wisely’

Chief executive candidate Ho Iat Seng said yesterday that his future government will spend public money “wisely” with the aim of ensuring that public expenditure is always on the right track.Ho, 62, made the remarks during a Q&A session with residents –a public meeting hosted by his campaign office – at the headquarters of the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) in Zape.Yesterday’s session was the second and last public meeting. The first session was held on Saturday at the same

August 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Residential property price rises 9.7 pct in Q2

The average price per square metre of usable area of existing residential units rose 9.7 percent quarter-to-quarter to 105,575 patacas in the second quarter, on account of an increase of 13.7 percentage points in the proportion of higher-priced new residential buildings built within five years, which reached 27.8 percent of the total, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.According to a DSEC statement on Friday, the average price per square metre of pre-sale residential units

August 19, 2019 | BY admin

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HK man in wheelchair smuggles 208 mobiles & 95 chipsets: customs

The Macau Customs Service (AM) said in a statement yesterday that a man in a wheelchair from Hong Kong was found smuggling 208 mobile phones and 95 mobile phone chipsets at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Barrier Gate checkpoint when he was entering Macau.According to the statement, the Macau Customs Service was tipped off by the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department on Friday that a man using a modified electric wheelchair as his cover would try to smuggle old mobile phones and phone components

August 19, 2019 | BY admin

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Restaurant’s cake contaminated with Salmonella: IAM

The Municipal Affairs Bureau’s (IAM) Department of Food Safety said in a statement on Friday that a mango mousse cake sample from the Sky 21 restaurant at AIA Tower was found to have been contaminated with Salmonella bacteria.The department has reported the case to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the statement said, adding that there were no immediate reports of any Salmonella infections among the restaurant’s patrons.The statement said that the

August 19, 2019 | BY admin

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UM instructor focuses on ‘dark history’ of relations between humans & animals

Che Hio Ieong, a senior instructor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau (UM), has recently published a book titled ‘Discipline and Desire – The Dark History of the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals’, according to a UM statement last week.In the Chinese-language book, Che discusses various aspects of the relationship between human and animals from a historical perspective, the statement says.According to the statement, the book covers various topics

August 19, 2019 | BY admin

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