Man arrested for raping friend: police

A 26-year-old woman has allegedly been raped by a male friend in a hotel room in Cotai, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said yesterday at a regular press conference.Both the suspect and the alleged victim are from the mainland.The 51-year-old suspect, surnamed Zhu, told the police that he is a businessman. The alleged victim’s surname was not released. They first met at a dinner on the mainland in October last year.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

March 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Septuagenarian tries to exchange fake HK$100,000 casino chip for cash: police

A Hong Kong man was arrested on Friday for attempting to exchange a bogus HK$100,000 gaming chip for cash in a casino in Cotai earlier that day, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect surnamed Lao is a 71-year-old unemployed man from Hong Kong.The suspect came to Macau at around 5:15 p.m. on Friday and went to the casino’s cage, trying to exchange a HK$100,000 casino chip for cash at 6:45 p.m.PLEASE READ

March 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Loan shark takes nude photos & video of defaulting borrower: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a mainlander allegedly involved in a loan-sharking case who forced a defaulting borrower to pose in the nude for photos and a video to blackmail him into paying up, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said yesterday at a regular press conference.According to Ho, the suspect is a 32-year-old man from the mainland surnamed Chen. He told the police that he is unemployed. Other suspects were still at large at the time of the press conference, Ho said.In October last

March 12, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau has ‘important & unique’ position but is ‘too dependent’ on gaming: Zhang

Although Macau is not a big place, it has an “important and unique position” in the successful implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” principle, apart from having many other highlights, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council Director Zhang Xiaoming says. Zhang made the remarks during a press briefing on the sidelines of the current annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. His remarks have

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Kai Fong promotes civic education for Indonesians

The Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong) celebrated International Women’s Day and promoted civic education with a “Learn about Macau” carnival yesterday afternoon.Dozens of Indonesian non-resident workers and local citizens attended the opening ceremony of the celebration and participated in the activity held at the Pak Wai Performance and Event Venue in Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida.The theme of yesterday’s celebration was

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Sports Bureau’s website not hacked: spokesman

The Sports Bureau (ID) announced yesterday that its website, which includes an online sports venue rental service, was fully restored on Saturday night after initially suspecting that it had been hacked.An ID spokesman told The Macau Post Daily last night that an issue with the bureau’s server had caused the website to go down.The ID website including its venue rental online service were back to normal at about midnight on Saturday.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Local casinos boom despite Sino-US trade spat

The Sino-US trade spat may have sent ripples of uncertainty through the world’s second-largest economy but one corner of China has so far remained steadfastly buoyant – Macau.The city’s fortunes depend mostly on its gaming industry, which in a single week rakes in more gaming revenue than Las Vegas makes in a month.The trade row between Washington and Beijing – and the general slowing down of mainland China’s economy – has hit businesses hard across Asia.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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562 illegal money changers nabbed in February: police

A total of 562 illegal money changers were arrested last month, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement on Friday.The arrests are the result of 208 raids on illegal currency exchange activities, according to the statement.The 562 illegal money changers have meanwhile been deported to the mainland, and 407of them have been banned from entering Macau for a period of time.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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More HK drug dealers come to Macau since opening of delta bridge: Wong

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the police have noted that the number of Hong Kong people smuggling drugs into Macau has been on the rise since the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) in late October last year.Wong made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an annual community day hosted by the Public Security Police (PSP) in Praça do Tap Seac.The event marked the 328th anniversary of the establishment of the police force on March

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Hundreds protest against reciprocal driving-licence deal

Hundreds of residents took part in a protest jointly organised by the grassroots Macau Community Development Initiative (MCDI) group and the non-establishment New Macau Association on Saturday against the government’s plan to sign a reciprocal driving-licence recognition deal with the mainland, while also urging the government to strengthen its law enforcement measures on the illegal hiring of non-local drivers.The two organisers told reporters that about 1,100 people took part in the

March 11, 2019 | BY admin

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PBOC studies Brexit, EU for GBA integrated financial market

BEIJING – People’s Bank of China (PBOC) researchers are watching the UK’s impending exit from the European Union to see what kind of arrangements are put into place to allow regions with separate economic and regulatory policies to have an integrated financial market.The future of the UK as a European financial services hub after Brexit is of interest as China seeks to develop a cross-border economic union of Hong Kong, Macau, and cities in Guangdong province, according to Xing Yujing,

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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‘Jabbawockeez’ in town for a show of love, music & light

US hip-hop dance crew Jabbawockeez are electrifying local audiences with their high-octane routines laced with humorous interludes, as they take up their first-ever Macau residency at MGM Cotai.Jabbawockeez, which an MGM statement described as one of the world’s most influential dance crews, is famous for plain white masks for their performance and have worked with big stars like Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift and Black Eyed Peas.The show entitled “Jabbawockeez – true to yourself” has the

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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Woman steals chips worth HK$290,000 from couple: police

A 27-year-old female gambler from the mainland stole gambling chips worth HK$290,000 from a couple – also from the mainland – in a guestroom of a casino-hotel on Wednesday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the suspect surnamed Huang is from Guangdong province.Lei said the couple came to Macau and checked into a guestroom of a hotel in the city centre last Friday, when they first met Huang in the hotel’s

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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No timetable for inking reciprocal driving-licence deal: transport chief

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San said yesterday that the local government still does not have a timetable as to when the planned reciprocal driving-licence recognition deal with the mainland authorities will be signed, adding that the administrative procedures by both sides for inking the deal were still underway.The transport chief also reaffirmed that the planned reciprocal driving-licence recognition scheme aims to benefit local residents by making it more convenient for

March 8, 2019 | BY admin

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