Police nab hired arsonist from HK

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from Hong Kong in the early hours of Sunday for setting fire to two cars parked in the car park of Block 9 of the luxury residential estate Star River Windsor Arch in Taipa, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.Leng said that the suspect was hired by someone in Hong Kong to come to Macau to set fire to the two cars for a “fee” of HK$20,000.Leng identified the suspect as a 26-year-old surnamed Lai a construction

January 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Taxi overcharging rises 20.9 percent last year: police

A total of 6,126 offences by taxi drivers were recorded last year, an 11.6 percent increase from 2017, the Public Security Police (PSP) announced on its website yesterday.The annual taxi violation figures for last year were announced in the police’s 2018 traffic statistics uploaded on their website yesterday.According to the website, 62.8 percent (3,846) of the 6,126 cases concerned overcharging, while 21.8 percent (1,336) were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers.PLEASE READ THE FULL

January 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt open to discuss tourist entry fee, wants ‘better tourists’: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday the government was open to discussing lawmaker Agnes Lam Iok Fong’s recent proposal to charge tourists an entry fee in an attempt to control the number of visitor arrivals. Tam told reporters on the sidelines of the International Gastronomy Forum Macau at Galaxy Macau’s JW Marriot Hotel that he found Lam’s proposal “interesting”, but acknowledged that as there existed different opinions about her suggestion,

January 22, 2019 | BY admin

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Motorcyclist flees after hitting 3-year-old boy in street: police

A motorcyclist fled the scene after hitting a three-year-old boy when he was walking with his father and his father’s friend in a street near Praça de Ponte e Horta on Sunday night, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday.The police located the motorcyclist later that night and took him to a police station for questioning; where he admitted to having hit the boy but then fled the scene, according to Cheong. The boy lost a front

January 22, 2019 | BY admin

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UM says student rents out on-campus accommodation

The University of Macau (UM) confirmed yesterday that a postgraduate student rented out an on-campus accommodation unit to others via an online home rental platform, according to government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday.The public university has ordered the student to move out of the unit, the TDM report said.Yesterday’s UM confirmation came after a report by Orange Post – an online media outlet run by the Communication Society of the University of Macau Students’ Union (UMSU) –on

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Flu patient in critical condition after giving birth

A 31-year-old flu patient who gave birth prematurely on Friday was in critical condition yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday. The woman is suffering from influenza with pneumonia. According to the statement, the woman has never had a flu shot in her life. She came down with a fever, cough and shortness of breath last Monday. She was given outpatient treatment by the University Hospital of the University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the private Kiang Wu

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Tam denies knowing main suspect in investment scam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said at the weekend that he did not know the real-estate agency and the main suspect allegedly involved in a massive investment scam announced by the police last week.Tam also said that his colleagues in the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) did not know the real-estate agency and the female suspect either. He also said that he and his MGTO colleagues did not have any knowledge about the cultural and creative projects that the

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Female scooter rider dies after crashing with taxi on Friendship Bridge

There were two major traffic accidents on Friday, one where a woman riding a scooter died after crashing with a taxi on Friendship Bridge, and the other in which 10 passengers were injured after two buses collided in the Areia Preta area.According to a Public Security Police (PSP) statement, the fatal accident took place at about 6 a.m. when a woman, a local resident in her fifties riding her scooter and a taxi crashed on Friendship Bridge heading towards the peninsula.Firemen at the scene said

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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Power cut shuts down Ponte 16 casino for 10 hours

A power outage occurred at Ponte 16’s casino on Saturday, causing the gaming venue to shut down for 10 hours, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) confirmed on the same day, saying that the casino had reported the incident to them.According to reports confirmed by the bureau on Saturday, the casino had a power cut at about 5 to 6 a.m. due to faulty electricity supply. Although the casino said it had immediately switched on its secondary electricity supply, it wasn’t enough

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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2 cars set on fire over money row: police

Two private cars were set alight at a residential car park in Taipa yesterday shortly after midnight, according to the Judiciary Police (PJ).The owner of the two cars is believed to be involved in a financial dispute, the suspected motive for arson attack, according to a PJ statement yesterday.The statement said the suspect believed to have set fire to the two cars parked in two different parking spaces in Block 9 of the luxury residential Star River Windsor Arch high-rise in Taipa is a Hong

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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2 boys set rubbish alight in 3 places in 1 night: Firemen

Two boys committed three cases of arson when they started fires in the Iao Hon area early Saturday morning, according to the Fire Service Bureau (CB).A CB official said on Saturday that the bureau received a report at around 2 a.m. on that day that paper and plastic bags inside a rubbish bin at Seng Yee residential building in Iao Hon district were on fire. The fire was extinguished by a resident, who also reported seeing two children at the site.Firemen later that night discovered a burnt pile

January 21, 2019 | BY admin

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National anthem won’t affect press freedom: Chan

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan reassured the public yesterday that the government-drafted national anthem bill – which is currently under review by a standing committee of the legislature – will not affect Macau’s press freedom after the bill becomes law.Chan made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending a committee meeting in the Legislative Assembly (AL).Chan’s remarks came after the Macau Journalists Association had urged the government to

January 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Local scams 172 mainlanders over job vacancies: police

A local man told a mainland man last year that he could provide jobs on a local construction site for a fee that he never returned, aside from failing to secure any of the promised jobs, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said at a regular press conference yesterday.Choi said that the suspect surnamed Chan, a 26-year-old local driver, and the 54-year-old mainlander met in January last year when Chan had told the victim that he was able to arrange jobs for a fee of 8,000 yuan per

January 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab local over dual registration plate fraud

A local man cheated a person by fraudulently promising to secure dual registration plates for the victim’s vehicle, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said at a regular press conference yesterday.Choi said that the suspect surnamed Lei, a 37-year-old businessman, and the victim met in June last year. Lei told the victim, who is in his or her fifties, that he could assist in applying for dual Macau-mainland registration plates and told the victim that it would cost 650,000 yuan with

January 18, 2019 | BY admin

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