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

March 28, 2018 | BY admin

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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

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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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Police probe pawnshop robbery

The Judiciary Police (PJ) are investigating a pawnshop hold-up in Nam Van that occurred in the early hours of yesterday in which about HK$300,000 in cash was taken, according to a PJ statement yesterday.The pawnshop is located behind Grand Lisboa Hotel.During a regular press conference yesterday, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said that a Putonghua-speaking man went into the pawnshop at around 2:30 a.m. yesterday, telling a staff member that he wanted to exchange yuan into Hong Kong dollars and buy a

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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SJM gives staff pay rise of up to 8.3 pct

Gaming operator SJM will give a salary increase of between 2.5 and 8.3 percent to eligible staff, effective from April 1, the company said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, all eligible employees whose monthly salaries are below 16,000 patacas will have a 600-pataca rise, representing increases of up to 8.3 percent; while employees earning monthly salaries of 16,000 patacas or above will receive salary increases of 2.5 percent.The statement also said that the Grand Lisboa

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TIS celebrates its 15th anniversary

The International School of Macao (TIS), which was established in 2002, celebrated its 15th anniversary yesterday on its campus in Taipa.Head of School Howard Stribbell said in his speech that TIS has grown from having a mere 58 pupils in the beginning to over 1,200 pupils today while 100 percent of the graduates have received offers from universities worldwide.According to TIS, its pupils are from around 40 different counties or regions, ranging from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12.Pupils of The

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Labuan Bajo chief wants Macau investors

Originally a small fishing village, the town of Labuan Bajo has become internationally known as the launching point to the world-famous Komodo National Park, but the so-called “new Bali” and the remaining areas of West Manggarai Regency are still rather underdeveloped, and the regent is urging foreign investors – including from Macau – to help with the development.“Of course we want to have investors from Macau too,” West Manggarai’s regent Agustinus Christoforus Dula told The

March 27, 2018 | BY admin

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Galaxy’s purchase of Wynn shares is legal: official

Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) Director Paulo Martins Chan said yesterday that Galaxy Entertainment Group’s purchase last week of a 4.9 percent stake in Wynn Resorts, the majority shareholder of Wynn Macau, doesn’t violate the law regulating the local gaming industry.Chan made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a charity run yesterday on the campus of the University of Macau (UM) on Hengqin Island.New York-listed Wynn Resorts announced last week

March 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Boy playing with lighter sets home on fire: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) suspect that a fire in a residential unit in Areia Preta yesterday morning was caused by a boy playing with a lighter, according to a PJ statement yesterday.According to the statement, a woman in the flat had one of her hands burnt in the fire in Mei Lin Building in Avenida Leste do Hipódromo. The four-year-old boy was not injured.According to the statement, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) received a report at around 9:30 a.m. yesterday that a fire had broken out in the

March 26, 2018 | BY admin

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