Robber threatens to kill victim: police

A male mainlander was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Sunday for robbing a woman near a casino-hotel resort in Cotai early that morning, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Chan, the suspect is a 36-year-old surnamed Gu who claimed to be unemployed while the victim is a 38-year-old female insurance agent from the mainland. Both were visiting Macau.Chan said that at around 3 a.m. on Sunday, the victim was

July 17, 2018 | BY admin

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GP Museum project to cost 380 million patacas: tourism chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the government now expects the construction cost of its project to revamp the Grand Prix Museum in Zape to be 380 million patacas.Senna Fernandes made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a public event at the headquarters of the Alliance for Common People Building Up Macau (API) in Areia Preta district.The government said in 2016 that it was planning to turn the entire

July 17, 2018 | BY admin

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Boy gets girlfriend pregnant when both were under 14: police

A schoolboy and his girlfriend had sex earlier this year leading to the schoolgirl becoming pregnant – when both were under the age of 14, the Judiciary Police (PJ) have announced.PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai announced the case during a regular press conference on Friday.According to Choi, the sexual intercourse between the teens was consensual.According to Choi, the two schoolchildren were enrolled in the same primary school in the previous academic year. For the current academic year, she

July 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt to release report on kindergarten sex abuse probe this week

Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) Deputy Director Leong Wai Kei said on Saturday that her bureau had already finished its investigation into the alleged sexual abuse at the private D. Jose da Costa Nunes Kindergarten, adding that the bureau would release its findings and report this week.Leong made the remarks on the sidelines of a public activity at The Plaza Restaurant in Zape.On May 10, the Portuguese-language daily Hoje Macau broke the news about the alleged sexual abuse at D. Jose

July 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt stresses need to punish disaster rumour-mongers

A senior official from the Secretariat for Secretary (GSS) said during yesterday’s Macau Forum that Macau needs to create a new criminal offence category to punish those who start or spread rumours during an officially-declared state of emergency – such as when a typhoon is hitting the city.According to the official, the new category – that is being proposed by the government – could effectively prevent residents from starting or spreading rumours during a catastrophe, which he said

July 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Body found floating outside Fisherman’s Wharf

An unidentified man’s body was found floating outside Macau Fisherman’s Wharf on Saturday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) have announced.According to a PJ statement on Saturday, a female tourist saw what appeared to be a body floating near the waterfront outside Legend Palace Hotel at the theme park shortly after 12:30 p.m.According to the statement, officers of the Macau Customs Service pulled the body onshore at the adjacent Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal. They informed the Public Security

July 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Customs & police nab 2 scalpers

In two joint operations last week, the Customs Service and the Public Security Police (PSP) arrested two ticket scalpers, the two law enforcement agencies said in a joint statement on Friday.According to the statement, the two agencies conducted the two operations last Tuesday and Thursday against pick-pocketing and ticket scalping activities at the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal and Pac On Ferry Terminal. The operations included raids on 14 shops and the questioning of 52 men and women. A total

July 16, 2018 | BY admin

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7 nabbed in crackdown on illegal football betting: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested seven suspects in two flats in Taipa last Tuesday in a crackdown on a cross-border gambling syndicate, a PJ spokesperson said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape on Friday.The spokesperson said that last Tuesday, the Judiciary Police received a tip-off from their mainland counterparts about a number of mainlanders running an illegal football betting operation in Macau.According to the spokesperson, the mainland police took action

July 15, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass coastal waters framework bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed a government-drafted bill on the management of Macau’s coastal waters, slated to come into effect after its promulgation in the Official Gazette (BO), during a plenary session yesterday.The new law – the Maritime Areas Management Framework Law – states that no gaming projects are allowed on land newly reclaimed from the sea.The bill’s outline was passed during a plenary session of the legislature in January this year. The legislature’s 2nd Standing

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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2 jewellery thefts possibly committed by SE Asians: police

Two thefts took place within an hour at two jewellery shops in the city on Wednesday, with a total loss of over 300,000 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.Referring to the first case, Choi said that at about 5 p.m. on that day, three men of South East Asian appearance went into a jewellery shop in Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida. The trio were chatting to the shop owner and tried on

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Customs nabs 21 smuggling fake sports shirts

In an operation targeting counterfeit products last week, the Macau Customs Service caught 21 men and women for their involvement in the smuggling of counterfeit sports shirts, seizing a total of 3,879 fake sports brand shirts a low quality.The Customs Service made the announcement in a press conference in Ilha Verde yesterday.A customs spokesperson said that customs officers at the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Thursday stopped 15 people trying to smuggle 644 suspected counterfeit sports shirts

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Legislature passes bill banning off-duty gaming staff from casinos

A plenary session of the Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the outline of a government-initiated bill proposing a ban on off-duty gaming staff entering local casinos.Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac introduced the outline of the bill, which aims to reduce the risk of gaming staff becoming addicted to gambling, during a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.The government launched a one-month public consultation on the matter in September last

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Hato-hit Red Market Library to reopen next week

The Red Market Library whose facilities were severely damaged by floodwaters during the Super Typhoon Hato onslaught will reopen next Wednesday, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday.The library is located in Avenida Ouvidor Arriaga, near the Almirante Lacerda Municipal Market (also known as the “Red Market”).The statement said that the equipment and fixtures in the library, including its air-conditioning system, book cases and other library furniture, were severely

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Culture trip for Guangdong, HK & Macau youths starts

The Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) said in a statement that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Youth Cultural Trip for this year kicked off yesterday.In the statement, the office pointed out that around 110 students from colleges in the three places are taking part in the trip, among them 17 students are from Macau.The statement said the purpose of the trip was to promote mutual understanding between young people from the three places.GAES official Vong Lut Peng speaks yesterday to

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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