Woman, with fake passport, withdraws chips from casino account: police

A mainland woman was arrested on Saturday for using a fake passport to withdraw chips worth HK$50,000 from a casino account in Zape earlier this month, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson Ho Chan Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to the Ho, the suspect is a 44-year-old surnamed Wang, who works as a doorwoman.Ho said that in the afternoon of July 10, Wang, along with another suspect at large at the time of the press conference, went to a casino in Zape. Wang presented

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Top court orders govt to reassess quotations for LRT depot project

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement yesterday that it has rejected an appeal by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On against a ruling by the Court of Second Instance (TSI) in March, which determined that the government would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven construction companies for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT).The TSI ruling in March annulled the government’s contract with a company for the construction of the LRT

July 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Local youths’ gambling problems increase over past decade: survey

The findings of an annual survey released yesterday conducted by the Bosco Youth Service Network (BYS) show that increasingly more young local people had gambling problems during the last decade.The latest annual survey on young local people’s gambling problems was conducted last year, which was the ninth time the group conducted the survey.The group yesterday hosted a press conference at Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) College near Avenida do Coronel Mesquita yesterday about a comparison of the nine

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Junket shareholder defrauds friend of HK$17 million: police

A local man was arrested last Thursday in the local airport’s immigration area for cheating a female friend out of HK$17 million, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 49-year-old surnamed Cheang, who is a shareholder of a junket operator in Macau, while the victim is a local businesswoman in her forties, whose surname was not revealed. Ho said they were friends.Ho said that in April 2015, Cheang

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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S Korean visitors drop 2.2 pct in H1

The number of South Korean visitor arrivals, Macau’s number-one foreign visitor segment, fell 2.2 percent year on year to 424,000 in the first half of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday. In June, 57,800 South Koreans visited Macau, down 13.4 percent year on year. The first half of the year recorded 16.81 million visitor arrivals, up 8.0 percent year on year. Overnight visitors accounted for 52.1 percent of all visitor arrivals. Overnight visitors’ average

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Family row reveals S Korean overstaying for over 7 years: police

While investigating a family dispute, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered that a South Korean has been overstaying in Macau for over seven years, PSP spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape.According to Choi, the suspects are a local woman in her thirties surnamed Lei, who works as a clerk, while the other is her partner, a South Korean man also in his thirties, surnamed Kim. Choi said that the couple met

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Firework contest returns after Hato suspension

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced yesterday that the 29th Macau International Firework Display Contest will take place in September as well as on National Day, with this annual event coming back following its cancellation last year after Macau had been devastated by deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Addressing a press conference at Wynn Palace in Cotai yesterday about the event, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes noted that the annual firework contest was cancelled for the

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Short circuit causes fire in Mong Ha

A 44-year-old man was injured in a fire at his flat in Rua de Kun Iam Tong yesterday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to the spokesman, the bureau received a report at about at 4:20 p.m. that a flat on the ground floor of Block II of Iau Hei Building was on fire. After arriving at the scene, the bureau’s firefighters rescued the man, who sustained minor injuries, and extinguished the flames.The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.The

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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No. 3 signal unlikely: observatory

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said last night it was unlikely that it will hoist the No. 3 signal today for a tropical depression that was approaching the far western coast of Guangdong province.The weather station hoisted the No. 1 signal at 3:45 p.m. yesterday.According to the bureau’s website, the tropical depression was located at about 360 kilometres west-southwest of Macau at 2 a.m. today and was moving towards the western coast of Guangdong province at a speed of

July 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Forum strongly slams Canidrome for abandoning dogs

Guest speakers and members of the audience at yesterday’s Macau Forum strongly slammed Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. for deliberately abandoning its greyhounds at the Fai Chi Kei racetrack and passing its duty of taking care of the dogs to the government, considering that the government told the company two years ago that it must vacate the property before July 21, 2018.The weekly debate programme is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in its studio at Macau Forum in Zape every

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Anima chief vows ‘yes we can’ rescue all greyhounds

In an email message on Saturday, Anima President Albano Martins told The Macau Post Daily that the “next steps are hard, but yes we can [rescue all the greyhounds]” left behind in the kennels of the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. racetrack after its closure on FridayThe animal protection activist also said in his message that “now is not the time to concentrate only on thanking Anima and its partners for having successfully closed the Canidrome and also having succeeded in convincing

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt ‘unable’ to recover 212 million pataca Viva Macau loan

The Economic Services Bureau (DSE) said in a statement yesterday that it was unable to recover a 212 million patacas loan granted to locally incorporated airline Viva Macau in 2008-09 and the latter’s Hong Kong-registered Eagle Airways as guarantor. The loan was granted by the bureau’s Industrial and Commercial Development Fund (FDIC) after the airline hit financial turbulence in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-08. The DSE statement that the fund had been unable to

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for repeatedly calling crime-reporting hotline

A local man repeatedly called the Judiciary Police’s (PJ) crime-reporting hotline 993 many times in May, using foul language in one of the calls, as he was unhappy with life and with his previous arrest by the police, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Friday.Chan identified the suspect as a 59-year-old surnamed Leong.According to Chan, Leong dialled the 993 hotline 10 times in May, mostly claiming that he needed ambulance services and other kinds of

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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Illegal immigrant attacks wife with knife: police

A male mainlander, who had entered Macau illegally, was arrested at a casino on the peninsula last Thursday for assaulting his wife with a knife earlier this month, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.According to the spokesperson, the suspect is a 43-year-old businessman surnamed Song. The victim is his 40-year-old wife who is a local resident and works at a casino.The spokesperson noted that Song has a criminal record for various offences in

July 23, 2018 | BY admin

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