Indonesian consul warns against loan sharks, withholding passports

In the light of a recent case where a Hong Kong loan shark was found to have kept hundreds of Indonesian and Filipino passports belonging to his victims, Indonesian Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macau Tri Tharyat has once again urged his fellow citizens in the two special administrative regions not to entrust their passport to anyone – for whatever reason.“Once again, I’m calling for all Indonesian citizens in Hong Kong and Macau not to entrust your passport to other parties as it is

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Ikea recalls water dispenser for pets

Ikea is recalling the Lurvig water dispenser for pets due to risk of dogs and cats getting their heads stuck in the dome of the water dispenser with possible suffocation as a consequence, the Swedish retailer said in a recent statement.The statement urged customers to stop using the water dispenser and return it to any Ikea store for a full refund.According to the company, they have received reports of two incidents where dogs got their heads stuck in the dome of the Lurvig water dispenser and

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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4 major prizes for MAC robotics team in Seattle

Beating 8,000 students from 30 countries Macau Anglican College’s (MAC) underwater robotics team, Fish Logic scooped four major prizes last month at the 2018 MATE International ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Competition in Seattle in the US.The team of five local pupils won the All-Around Champion, Top Engineering Presentation; Top Product Demonstration for and Top Technical Documentation in the title in the ranger class.While for the second consecutive year Cerys Chan, studying in Form 5 at

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Terrazza Italian restaurant gets homey with new menu

Italian restaurant Terrazza is getting homey with a new menu featuring the classics, dishes for sharing and original recipes all created by Executive Chef Andrea Fioravanti.The new menu shows Fioravanti combining his culinary skills and experiences to serve homey and authentic meals, a change from its original fine dining menu.Some of the new dishes include “The ‘Secret’ Pork”, a classic suckling pig that has been reimagined where the crisp-tender Italian Porchetta wraps a juicy,

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Rock gig in N Korea as opening film for docu-fest

A confusingly bizarre film about a rock band, Laibach, from the former Yugoslavia as they arrive by invitation in North Korea to perform there, will open this year’s 3rd Macau International Documentary Film Festival at Cinematheque Passion tomorrow.This year’s festival, themed “Envision/the World”, will feature a total of 28 documentary films from different countries over a three-week period, with “Liberation Day” as the opening film, complemented with a rock party and informal

July 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Operator wants to keep Canidrome kennels for 4 more months – applies to house dogs at Jockey Club

The operator of the city’s greyhound racetrack – Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. – has applied to use the kennels at the Fai Chi Kei property for an additional 120 days after the official closure of the racetrack on July 21, for the company to be able to complete the relocation of the dogs, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) said in a statement yesterday.The racetrack operator made the request in a letter submitted to the gaming regulator on Tuesday, the deadline

July 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Customs seizes beauty products & CPUs

The Customs Service busted two smuggling cases, on Monday and Tuesday respectively, and seized a large amount of beauty products and computer CPUs, involving two suspects, a local male driver and a Hong Kong female visitor.According to a statement yesterday, customs officers seized 187 boxes of undeclared beauty products worth around 22,000 patacas from the driver when he was driving a dual-plate vehicle through the Barrier Gate on Monday.According to the statement, the driver was prosecuted

July 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Elderly women fall victim to phone scam: police

Two elderly women fell victims to a phone scam this week, losing a total of 30,000 yuan, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the victims are a 72-year-old woman from Hong Kong surnamed Ko, who stays in Macau often, and her 62-year-old sister, a local woman.Choi said that on Monday Ko received a call from a Cantonese-speaking man on a local mobile phone number. The man, who sounded like

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Govt expects central library project to be completed in 2022

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said yesterday it aims for its new central library project in Nam Van to be completed in 2022.Ophelia Tang Mei Lin, who heads the bureau’s Public Library Management Department, made the remarks while speaking to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of a session to announce the quotations proposed in the nine submitted bids for the detailed design of the government’s long-delayed new central project.The bureau unsealed bids submitted by nine architecture

July 12, 2018 | BY admin

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Police nab suspected arsonist

A local resident was arrested over a suspected arson case in a residential building in Avenida de Kwong Tung in Taipa that occurred on Sunday night, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape.On Sunday evening, a resident living on the 16th floor of the Kam Keng Kok building of Tak Fok Hoi Keng Fa Un estate saw smoke coming from the staircase. Firefighters rushed to the building where they discovered that a

July 12, 2018 | BY admin

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‘Mission impossible’ – accomplished!

MAE SAI – The final five members of a young football team were rescued from a flooded Thai cave yesterday after spending 18 harrowing days trapped deep inside, completing an astonishing against-the-odds rescue mission that captivated the world.Elite foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALs extracted the final batch of four boys, plus the 25-year-old coach, yesterday afternoon via a treacherous escape route that required them to squeeze through narrow, water-filled tunnels in darkness. “All 12

July 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Audio recorder data in taxis ‘to be kept by taxi operators’

Lawmaker-cum-lawyer Vong Hin Fai, who heads the legislature’s 3rd Standing Committee, quoted government officials as saying yesterday that the government “was considering” proposing – for its taxi bill currently under review – that the sound recorded in a taxi should be kept by the company holding the taxi’s operation licence.Vong briefed the media after a closed-door meeting of his committee which is reviewing a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s taxi sector, the

July 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau, HK reach deal to facilitate greyhound adoptions

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) announced in a statement yesterday that it has reached an agreement with Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) for Hong Kong people to go through easier quarantine procedures than normal for the adoption of greyhounds from the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd.Under the special arrangement for the greyhounds, the racing canines with Macau-issued export health certificates that have been taken to Hong Kong will not

July 11, 2018 | BY admin

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Man ‘vents anger’ by pushing over scooters: police

A local man vented his anger by pushing over several scooters parked in a street in Toi San district on Monday night after drinking, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lam, the 50-year-old man went to a police station yesterday morning and admitted that it was him who had pushed over the scooters.According to Lam, the police received a report at around 10:45 p.m. on Monday that a number of scooters parked in Rua do

July 11, 2018 | BY admin

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