Pupil number rises for 5 years: govt

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) said in a statement yesterday that the number of pupils of the city’s non-tertiary education has increased for five consecutive years.According to the statement, the bureau expects the number of pupils for the upcoming school year 2018/19 – which starts next week – to reach 80,556, a 1.9 percent increase from 79,092 in the previous school year 2017/18.The statement said that the number of pupils will have increased for five consecutive school

August 30, 2018 | BY admin

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Body found floating near Macau Tower

An unidentified man’s body wearing only underpants was found floating outside Macau Tower yesterday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said.According to a PJ statement yesterday, the Macau Customs Service transferred the case to the Judiciary Police for further investigation at midday.The man, about 1.60 metres tall, appeared to be in his twenties, the statement said. The man had sustained no apparent injuries.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

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Nicolas Cage named ‘talent ambassador’ for Macau film-fest

US actor, director and producer Nicolas Cage has been named as a “talent ambassador” of the 3rd Macau International Film Festival, which will be held in December, The Hollywood Reporter (THR) reported yesterday. According to the report, Cage joins Hong Kong singer, actor and dancer Aaron Kwok Fu-shing as the festival’s “talent ambassadors” this year. The report quoted unidentified organisers as saying that the pairing reflects this festival’s “ambition to bring together local

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Taxi passenger pilfers left mobile phone: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) caught a male mainlander yesterday for taking a mobile phone he found in a taxi, PSP spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Cheong, the suspect, surnamed Ye, is in his twenties, while the victim is a male mainlander whose surname was not provided.Cheong said that on Tuesday evening the victim was in a taxi heading for Cotai. After getting off, the victim realised that he had left his smartphone in the cab, so he

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Dad nabbed for assaulting 4-year-old son: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a father who assaulted his son multiple times last month and this month, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 35-year-old non-resident worker surnamed Hu, who works as a clerk. The suspect married his wife – a local resident – in 2013. The two have a four-year-old son and they live in a flat in San Kio district.Ho said that since last month, Hu had assaulted his sons three times

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Over 20 locals’ credit cards hacked: police

Since the beginning of this month, the Judiciary Police (PJ) have received reports from more than 20 local residents about their credit cards being used without authorisation, and all of them had made transactions on a foreign travel agency website before the hacking, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced during a regular press conference yesterday.Ho didn’t reveal the full name of the website – on which all the victims had made online payments – but said that the name began with the letter

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PLA garrison completes 19th troop rotation

According to a statement by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released through the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS), the local PLA garrison early yesterday morning completed its 19th troop rotation. The statement pointed out that the rotation was carried out in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Garrisoning the Macau Special Administrative Region and by order of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in Beijing.According to the statement, the rotation

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Macau-bound plane makes emergency landing in Shenzhen

A Macau-bound Capital Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Shenzhen yesterday, Xinhua reported. According to Xinhua and other media reports, two wheels were missing after the emergency landing. Shenzhen lies some 60 kilometres north-east of Macau. Shenzhen airport reportedly closed one of its two runways for about three hours to handle the emergency landing. The plane, which had taken off from Beijing with 157 passengers and nine crew on board, landed shortly

August 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Cabbie beaten by passenger over ‘detour’: police

A taxi driver was assaulted by a passenger yesterday morning during a dispute fuelled by the cabbie allegedly taking a detour, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the incident took place near ua de Coelho do Amaral at 9 a.m. yesterday. The passenger, who is from the mainland, suspected that the cabbie was taking a round-about route deliberately. The two quarrelled during which the cabbie was allegedly injured on the shoulder by the

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KK’s golden Asian Games dream ends prematurely

Local boxer Ng Kuok Kun aka KK aka The Macau Kid representing Macau in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, had his first and last fight in Jakarta on Monday night, ending his dream of a gold medal as soon as it started. Although KK is a professional boxer and has had 13 professional fights, which he has won with 7 KOs and successfully defended his China Professional Boxing Union (CPBU) belt, KK could still take part in the Asian Games alongside amateurs as he has not had 20 professional

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Taxi offences rise 42.2 pct in H1: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced yesterday that the police recorded 3,309 cases involving suspected regulatory breaches by taxi drivers during the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 42.2 percent – a whopping increase of 982 cases.According to Wong, 62.2 percent (2,058 cases) of the 3,309 cases concerned overcharging, while 22.9 percent were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers.Wong said that the remaining 494 cases concerned other violations. He did not

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HK man trespasses PLA Garrison’s Taipa barracks: police

A man from Hong Kong was arrested on Monday for trespassing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison’s Taipa barracks, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Choi, the suspect is a man in his fifties surnamed Lo, who is unemployed.Choi said that on Monday the Public Security Police (PSP) received a report from a Macau Garrison officer stationed at the Taipa barracks about a man trespassing the restricted

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Police probing state security cases: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the police are “investigating [suspected local] cases” concerning national security.Wong did not say how many such suspected cases were under investigation.Wong made the remarks during yesterday’s press conference on Macau’s crime statistics for the first half of this year at the S. Francisco Barracks.Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak speaks during yesterday’s press conference about Macau’s January-June crime statistics, at

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Macau gets new FM commissioner

The central government has appointed Shen Beili as the new commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in Macau, replacing Ye Dabo, Xinhua reported yesterday. According to previous media reports, Shen, 55, held the post of minister at the Chinese embassy in London from 2014 to 2016. A minister is a diplomat directly ranked below ambassador. Her most recent post was assistant minister of the International Department of Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, according to the website of the

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