4 caught in cocaine bust: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two local men and two men from Hong Kong in a cocaine bust yesterday, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to the spokesperson, the two suspects from Hong Kong are surnamed Chan and Lau, aged 19 and 22 respectively, both claiming to be unemployed. The two locals are a 39-year-old surnamed Tou, who works in public relations, and a 44-year-old surnamed Lei, who is a salesman.The spokesperson

May 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt proposes temporary housing on Pearl Horizon site

The government announced yesterday that it will repossess the plot of land where the mothballed Pearl Horizon residential project is located – based on a ruling by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) which turned down the project developer’s appeal against the government’s cancellation of the site’s provisional land concession.The government also said in the announcement that it planned to develop a temporary housing project on the site with some of the temporary housing project’s units

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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The St. Regis Zhuhai to open in September

The sky-scraper in Zhuhai’s Wanzai, which can be clearly seen from Sai Van and Sai Van Bridge in Macau, especially when it is illuminated with a rainbow of colours in the evening, is the location of St Regis Zhuhai that is set to open in mid-September.A media lunch with St Regis Zhuhai representatives yesterday took place at the local Ritz-Carlton hotel, which belongs to Marriot International that now owns Starwood hotel group which operates the St Regis brand.The St. Regis Hotel & Office

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Lawmaker calls for more psychotherapy internships

Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng, a vice-president of the Women’s General Association of Macau (commonly known as Fu Luen), urged the government yesterday to offer more psychotherapy internships.Wong made the appeal during a press conference presenting a summary of the activities of the association’s psychotherapy centre services last year.The press conference was held at the centre in Rua da Barca.Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng, a vice-president of the Women’s General Association of Macau (commonly

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Auditor slams ‘chaotic’ management of public libraries

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has failed to properly carry out processing tasks for its purchased books – such as their registration in its library catalogue system, sorting and cataloguing – so that a large number of books are still not on the bookshelves in its libraries for residents to use despite being purchased many years ago, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a hard-hitting report yesterday.The report described the bureau’s library management as “chaotic”.The commission

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt to draft various urban renewal-related bills: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that while the government will not draft a framework bill on the city’s urban renewal, it will, however, draft separate bills for different matters concerning the city’s urban renewal process.Rosario made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the Urban Renewal Council at the Transport Bureau (DSAT) Building yesterday.Earlier this month, Rosario told lawmakers during a plenary session

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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Amax says hotel takeover by Suncity ‘untrue’

Hong Kong-listed Amax International Holdings said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange yesterday that reported claims by junket operator Suncity that it was now controlling the mothballed Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel in Taipa are “untrue”. The Hong Kong and Macau media reports, including by the Portuguese-language Jornal Tribuna de Macau, said that Suncity boss Alvin Chau Cheok Wa had “confirmed” that he was the new owner of the hotel, formerly known as New Century Hotel, and

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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FM to donate 40 million yuan to poor county in Guizhou

According to a news report by government-owned broadcaster TDM, Macau Foundation (FM) President Wu Zhiliang announced yesterday that the public foundation will donate 40 million yuan (50.6 million patacas) to Congjiang county in Guizhou province for poverty alleviation measures. Wu also said that 30 million yuan of that amount would be used to build a primary school in the county, one of the poorest in the province, adding that the foundation would also provide 15 scholarships for

May 24, 2018 | BY admin

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United Front vice-chief stresses Macau’s national development integration

The deputy director of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Tan Tianxing, yesterday stressed the importance of Macau’s integration into the nation’s development, according to a statement released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS). Tan made the remarks in a meeting with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On before the opening ceremony of the Macau Global Media Industry Development Conference 2018 at the Macau

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Man steals HK$870,000 from uncle: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the mainland yesterday for allegedly stealing a bag containing HK$870,000 in cash from his uncle in a hotel room, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Lei identified the suspect as a 20-year-old surnamed Sun.According to Lei, the victim came to Macau to gamble on May 12. Sun, who was already in Macau at that time, met his uncle and booked the guestroom in a casino-hotel resort in Cotai for him.Judiciary Police

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Macau & Zhuhai police bust parcel of khat smuggled across borders

The Judiciary Police (PJ), in collaboration with the Macau Customs Service, the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau and Gongbei Customs, have busted a case of drug-smuggling by parcel delivery in which 16.44 kilos of khat was seized, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.Gongbei is Zhuhai’s land border checkpoint with Macau.Two male mainlanders were arrested in Zhuhai in connection with the case earlier this month, Lei said, who identified the duo as a

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Police nab US manager for hiring illegal staff

A non-resident worker from the United States has been arrested for hiring three illegal employees, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a press conference yesterday.Fong identified the suspect as a 48-year-old man surnamed Montaina, who works as a general manager of a construction company.Fong said that last Wednesday morning police officers and Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) officials raided the company’s office in Avenida Comercial de Macau. During the

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Scooter rider injured in bus crash

A male scooter rider was injured in a crash with a Transmac bus in the city centre yesterday afternoon, the police said.According to the police, the crash happened at about 5:30 p.m. at the junction of Avenida da Praia Grande and Avenida do Infante D. Henrique. The bus was travelling towards Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.The police identified the injured scooter rider as a local man in his sixties surnamed Wan. No one was injured on the bus.A police officer walks next to a Transmac bus while a

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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Woman cheated out of 1.75 million yuan in phone scam

A local woman has been cheated out of 1.75 million yuan (around 2.22 million patacas) in a telephone scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lei, the victim is in her forties.Lei said that in the afternoon of April 27, the victim received a phone call from a Putonghua-speaking man who claimed to be a delivery company staff member. He told her that a parcel she had sent had been seized by the mainland’s Public Security

May 22, 2018 | BY admin

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