4 women’s volleyball teams to compete in Macau

Four women’s volleyball teams will compete in Macau in May, the organisers announced yesterday.Details of the competition were announced during a press conference at Galaxy in Cotai.The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Women’s Volleyball Nations League – Macau 2018 tournament will take place at Macau Forum in Zape from May 22 to 24.Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Director Philip Cheng Yee Sing (left) hands Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun a ceremonial sponsorship

March 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Ex-weather chief gets pension of over 70,000 patacas per month

The former director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), Fong Soi Kun, will be paid a monthly pension of 865 salary points (equivalent to 73,525 patacas) after he applied to retire, according to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The amount of one salary point for a public servant’s salary or pension increased to 85 patacas – from 83 patacas last year – starting from January this year.The announcement was approved by Secretary for

March 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Trio nabbed for running fake base stations: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested three suspects from the mainland and Vietnam earlier this week for operating fake base stations for about six months, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, in addition to operating fake base stations in five residential units, the gang members also ran a “mobile” fake base station that was inside a suitcase.Ho identified the trio as a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman surnamed Tran, a 49-year-old man surnamed

March 29, 2018 | BY admin

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Pawnshop robber nabbed in less than a day: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said that the suspect of a pawnshop robbery on Monday inAvenida da Praia Grande was arrested yesterday in Zhongshan, some 40 kilometres north of Macau, by the Public Security Bureau (PSB).The announcement was made by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday in a special press conference.PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam identified the suspect as a 39-year-old man surnamed Zhang from Jilin province, some 2,600 kilometres north of Macau, who claimed to be unemployed.The robbery

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Police question duo for attempted fraud for post-Hato aid

The Judiciary Police (PJ) questioned two local men on Monday for attempting to defraud the government out of a subsidy and an interest-free loan for businesses affected by the deadly Super Typhoon Hato which hit Macau in August last year, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.Ho identified the two suspects as a 28-year-old casino host surnamed Chan and a 28-year-old businessman surnamed Ieng.After Hato pummelled Macau on August 23, which caused massive

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Govt to invite bids for urban renewal study

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that the government planned to launch a tender late next month or in early May for the drafting of a research report about the city’s urban renewal.Rosario made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the Urban Renewal Council which lasted two hours.The meeting of the council, chaired by Rosario, was held at the Transport Bureau (DSAT) Building. The government-appointed council is tasked

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Police arrest 8 men, 2 women in drug bust

The police have arrested eight men and two women from Macau, Hong Kong, and Vietnam in a drug bust on Monday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Ho noted that the 10 suspects include six local men, a local woman, a man from Hong Kong, a Vietnamese man, and a Vietnamese woman. The suspects are aged between 21 and 52, with occupations ranging from cleaner to masseuse and unemployed.According to Ho, the police recently received a tip-off

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Elderly woman falls to death: police

A 68-year-old local woman fell to her death from a high-rise in the Seac Pai Van public housing estate in Coloane yesterday morning, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.The statement excluded the possibility of suspicious circumstances.According to the statement, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) received a report yesterday morning that the body of a woman was lying on a road in the sprawling housing estate. Firemen rushed to the scene and suspected that the woman, surnamed

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Thailand’s Gaggan named best restaurant in Asia

Indian eatery Gaggan in Bangkok topped this year’s list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, and consequently also bagged the best restaurant accolade in Thailand, it was announced during an awards ceremony last night at Wynn Palace in Cotai.It’s the fourth year in a row that Gaggan Anand’s restaurant has been named Asia’s No. 1 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants organisation.Anand was one of many top chefs from Asia who took part in collaborating and networking pop-up activities as part

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Shenzhen to upgrade urban management with mega-investment

SHENZHEN – The nation’s southern innovation hub Shenzhen said yesterday that it would invest about 111.8 billion yuan by 2020 to improve the environment and social governance.According to a sustainable development plan published by the city, it will integrate technologies such as waste recycling, sewage treatment, ecological restoration, biological treatment, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.The city will also improve its service sector and cultivate more talent to

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Macao Water profit rises 20 pct, investment up 256 pct

Macau’s water utility SAAM – commercially known as Macao Water – reported yesterday an after-tax profit of 77.5 million patacas for last year, a year-on-year increase of about 20 percent.According to a statement by the water supply concessionaire, 50.6 million patacas was profit generated by its major business of supplying tap water, a year-on-year decrease of 3.3 percent.The utility’s total investment stood at 233 million patacas last year, up 256 percent from the 65.4 million patacas

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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Liaison chief calls for Macau to acknowledge CPC leadership

Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau Director Zheng Xiaosong yesterday urged Macau residents to respect and acknowledge the leadership held by the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the nation.Zheng made the remarks while delivering a speech during a seminar which assessed the “spirit” that emanated from the recently-completed “two sessions” (“liang hui”) – the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Police nab phone scam mastermind from Taiwan

The police have arrested a suspect from Taiwan behind at least 16 phone scams last year involving about one millions patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.Ho identified the suspect as a 38-year-old man surnamed Lu, a salesperson.According to Ho, last year the police received phone scam reports from three local residents between July and August. They had received phone calls in which the person on the line claimed to be a police

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Police alert public of ‘Papua New Guinea’ calls

The police have received many reports recently about locals receiving phone calls from “Papua New Guinea”, or with that country’s international direct dialling (IDD) code of “+675”, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.The statement urged the public to be wary of phone calls with the code “00” or “+”, since the suspects in previous phone scams in Macau managed to alter the display of a number with malicious software. The statement also asked the public not

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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