3 nabbed over continuing education subsidy scam: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday that two local men – a father and son – and a male mainlander have been arrested for their involvement in an alleged scam in which an education centre had fraudulently obtained 3.1 million patacas in continuing education subsidies from the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) by asking at least 200 residents if they could borrow their ID cards and used then to enrol in courses that did not exist.PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon made the

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Cabbies oppose bill only allowing firms to bid for taxi licences

Macau Taxi Drivers Mutual Help Association President Tony Kuok Leong Son said yesterday that the local taxi sector wants the government to implement a taxi licence bidding procedure in which half of the new taxi operation licences are granted to companies while the other half are granted to individual bidders every time the government launches a tender for taxi licences.Kuok made the remarks while speaking to reporters after attending a closed-door meeting of the legislature’s 3rd Standing

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Film fest with Nicolas Cage to cost 55 million patacas: MGTO

This year’s International Film Festival & Awards Macau (IFFAM), with a line-up of stars such as two-time Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ Aaron Kwok Fu-shing from Hong Kong, will cost about 55 million patacas, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.According to Senna Fernandes, the amount is about the same that the organisers spent on each of the two previous festivals.Senna Fernandes, who is also

November 9, 2018 | BY admin

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Mother arrested for beating son for not eating his breakfast: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a local woman for beating her four-year-old son as he refused to eat his breakfast, resulting in bruises on the boy’s head, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Leng identified the suspect as a 43-year-old casino dealer surnamed Choi, who lives with her husband and son in a flat in Rua de D. Belchior Carneiro, a street near the St Paul’s Ruins.On Sunday morning, Choi beat her son on the palms of his hands with a

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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5 Vietnamese IIs caught swimming to Macau

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers caught five Vietnamese illegal immigrants (IIs) who swam to Macau in the early hours of TuesdayThis undated handout photo provided by the Macau Customs Service yesterday shows a customs officer watching the five IIs from Vietnam lined up in front of a vehicle outside the Marine Inspection Department Building in Ilha Verde.Four of the IIs were caught in the waters off Ocean Gardens in Taipa, while the other was later

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Gongbei Customs busts 6 cash smuggling cases

Gongbei Customs said in a statement yesterday that its officers busted six cash-smuggling cases at the border checkpoint between the Macau peninsula and the neighbouring city of Zhuhai last week, involving HK$748,000 and 996,500 patacas in total, equivalent to a total of 1.51 million yuan.According to the statement, the six cash smugglers comprise four mainlanders and two local women. The four mainlanders comprise three non-resident workers and a tourist.The first three cases were busted on the

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust 3 ‘members’ of Malaysian credit card fraud gang

Three suspected members of a Malaysian credit card fraud gang were arrested on Monday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced at a special press conference yesterday.A total of HK$300,000 was transferred by one of the three suspects to the gang’s mainland bank accounts, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said.Among the trio, a Malaysian man was arrested for receiving around 30 mobile phones from the gang that its members had bought with fake credit cards since July 2017, according to Leng.Cash and mobile

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Credit cards issued by local banks reach 1.28 million

The total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau increased by 10.3 percent year-on-year at the end of September, Macau Monetary Authority (AACM) said in a statement yesterday.The quasi-central bank said due to the increasing use of dual-currency and triple-currency cards, the total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macau stood at 1,282,732 at the end of September, equivalent to a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.2 percent and a 10.3 year-on-year growth.The

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Wynn Resorts board gets new chairman

Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas announced yesterday a change at the helm of its board of directors. According to a statement by the US-Macau gaming company, its board of directors unanimously voted Philip G. Satre chairman of the board during a regular meeting in Las Vegas yesterday. The statement noted that Satre, an independent director of the company, joined the board in August as vice-chairman. He succeeds D. Boone Wayson, who is retiring from the board. Undated file photo of Philip G. Satre

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt plans to build special needs school on ex-Canidrome plot

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that the government plans to build a special needs school on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack is located.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a religious ceremony for the upcoming four-day Macau Grand Prix that will start next Thursday. The ceremony took place at the Macau Grand Prix Building near the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal.The government told the operator of

November 8, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman has HK$3 million nicked by 4 men: police

A woman from the mainland reported to the police yesterday evening that HK$3 million in cash that she had put in a bag had been stolen by four men – including her friend – at a pawnshop in Zape, the Public Security Police (PSP) said.Last night, PSP officers set up roadblocks in various areas of the city with the aim of catching the four men. No immediate arrests were reported. The case has been transferred to the Judiciary Police (PJ) for further investigation.Following a provisional

November 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Police bust 2 suspected loan sharks

Two mainland men who lent a gambler HK$250,000 last Sunday were arrested on Monday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press briefing yesterday.The two suspects are surnamed Huang and Chen, aged 25 and 22 respectively, lent the instant gambling loan to the victim, a 37 year-old man from mainland, on Sunday, based on the condition that for every bet that the victim won he had to pay 15 percent “interest” and also sign an IOU of the HK$250,000, according to the

November 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Security forces, PLA garrison to conduct joint anti-terror drill

The local government announced yesterday that the Macau Unitary Police Service (SPU) will carry out a large-scale anti-terrorism exercise at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai tomorrow afternoon in collaboration with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison.According to a SPU statement yesterday, the exercise named “Spirited Dog” will simulate that a terrorist attack using chemical and radiological weapons occurs during a large-scale concert.The exercise will simulate that

November 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Police nab man for sexually coercing woman

A woman from the mainland was sexually coerced by a male compatriot in a hotel room near Ponte 16 last Sunday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said at a regular press briefing yesterday.According to Leng, the 38-year-old male suspect surnamed Tong claims to be a businessman, and the woman aged around 30 met in August this year and became friends, after which they went out to gamble together. On October 29, the woman came back to Macau and both went gambling again.Last Sunday, the

November 7, 2018 | BY admin

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