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CEM to upgrade 100 substations this year for flooding defence
Power utility CEM is upgrading 100 of its customer substations in the city’s low-lying areas this year, with about 80 of them already completed, CEM Transmission and Distribution Department Senior Manager Billy Chan Hon Keong said yesterday.Chan made the remarks during a press conference about the company’s anti-flood measures, at the CEM System Dispatch Centre in Zape.Last August, Super Typhoon Hato pummelled the city resulting in 10 fatalities and 244 injuries, causing damage officially
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Filipino carries bullet at airport: police
During a security check, an airport security guard found a bullet in a Philippine man’s luggage on Friday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspect is a 26-year-old surnamed Subaba, who is self-employed.The suspect was about to return to Manila from Macau on Friday. The security guard found that he had a bullet in his hand luggage when it went through
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Vietnamese maid runs fake base stations: police
A Vietnamese maid was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday morning for running fake base stations in Toi San district, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 37-year-old surnamed Pham, who has worked as a domestic helper for a family in Iao Hon district for two years.A fake base station consists of telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in a
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Activist stands trial for defamation
High-profile non-establishment activist Jason Chao Teng Hei was tried yesterday by the Court of First Instance (TJB) in absentia for alleged defamation of Wang Jianwei, ex-director of the University of Macau’s Department of Government and Public Administration. Wang continues to be a professor with the department. Chao, 31, is reported to be in the UK where he is said to be enrolled in a master’s degree course. He is a former president of the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). He once
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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‘Navy Yard No. 2’ to be new venue for music-fest
An area known as “Navy Yard No. 2” near Barra will be the new venue for one of the performances of the 32nd Macau International Music Festival (MIMF) that will be held from September 28 to October 28, Ieong Chi Kin, the acting president of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), said yesterday.Ieong made the remark during an MIMF press conference at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) where he announced that the budget for this year’s festival is roughly 30 million patacas.According to Ieong, the
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Police bust 2 drug-selling cases
The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted two drug-selling cases yesterday, in which two male mainlanders and a local man were arrested, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Concerning the first case, Ho identified the two suspects as a 27-yaer-old man from the mainland surnamed Tang, who said he is unemployed, and a 31-year-old local man surnamed Fok, who said he works as a builder and decorator.According to Ho, the Judiciary Police were tipped off recently that a
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Woman, with fake passport, withdraws chips from casino account: police
A mainland woman was arrested on Saturday for using a fake passport to withdraw chips worth HK$50,000 from a casino account in Zape earlier this month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson Ho Chan Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the Ho, the suspect is a 44-year-old surnamed Wang, who works as a doorwoman.Ho said that in the afternoon of July 10, Wang, along with another suspect at large at the time of the press conference, went to a casino in Zape. Wang presented
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Top court orders govt to reassess quotations for LRT depot project
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that it has rejected an appeal by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On against a ruling by the Court of Second Instance (TSI) in March, which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT).The TSI ruling in March annulled the government’s contract with a company for the construction of the LRT
July 25, 2018 | BY admin
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Local youths’ gambling problems increase over past decade: survey
The findings of an annual survey released yesterday conducted by the Bosco Youth Service Network (BYS) show that increasingly more young local people had gambling problems during the last decade.The latest annual survey on young local people’s gambling problems was conducted last year, which was the ninth time the group conducted the survey.The group yesterday hosted a press conference at Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) College near Avenida do Coronel Mesquita yesterday about a comparison of the nine
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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Junket shareholder defrauds friend of HK$17 million: police
A local man was arrested last Thursday in the local airport’s immigration area for cheating a female friend out of HK$17 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 49-year-old surnamed Cheang, who is a shareholder of a junket operator in Macau, while the victim is a local businesswoman in her forties, whose surname was not revealed. Ho said they were friends.Ho said that in April 2015, Cheang
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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S Korean visitors drop 2.2 pct in H1
The number of South Korean visitor arrivals, Macau’s number-one foreign visitor segment, fell 2.2 percent year on year to 424,000 in the first half of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday. In June, 57,800 South Koreans visited Macau, down 13.4 percent year on year. The first half of the year recorded 16.81 million visitor arrivals, up 8.0 percent year on year. Overnight visitors accounted for 52.1 percent of all visitor arrivals. Overnight visitors’ average
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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Family row reveals S Korean overstaying for over 7 years: police
While investigating a family dispute, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered that a South Korean has been overstaying in Macau for over seven years, PSP spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspects are a local woman in her thirties surnamed Lei, who works as a clerk, while the other is her partner, a South Korean man also in his thirties, surnamed Kim. Choi said that the couple met
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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Firework contest returns after Hato suspension
The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced yesterday that the 29th Macau International Firework Display Contest will take place in September as well as on National Day, with this annual event coming back following its cancellation last year after Macau had been devastated by deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Addressing a press conference at Wynn Palace in Cotai yesterday about the event, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes noted that the annual firework contest was cancelled for the
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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Short circuit causes fire in Mong Ha
A 44-year-old man was injured in a fire at his flat in Rua de Kun Iam Tong yesterday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to the spokesman, the bureau received a report at about at 4:20 p.m. that a flat on the ground floor of Block II of Iau Hei Building was on fire. After arriving at the scene, the bureau’s firefighters rescued the man, who sustained minor injuries, and extinguished the flames.The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.The
July 24, 2018 | BY admin
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