Cotai hospital nursing college completed: govt

The construction of the nursing college building of the public hospital project in Cotai, officially known as Cotai Health Complex, has been completed, the Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) announced on its website yesterday.The nursing college, the construction of which started in 2017, is the first and only building completed in the complex.The Cotai hospital project comprising seven buildings was first announced in 2010 but its design and construction have been repeatedly delayed.

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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18 pct of travellers using Macau’s HZMB checkpoint are locals: police

Local residents have made up 18 percent of the travellers using the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) since the opening of the mega-bridge on October 24 last year, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.The statement said that over 13 million travellers have passed through the Macau checkpoint since the delta bridge opened a year ago, adding that Hong Kong residents accounted for 36 percent of them, while mainlanders accounted for 38 percent.

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Festival goes ‘Back to the Future’ with underground art

Underground art is getting the “Back to the Future” treatment in the three-day Outloud International Street Art Festival kicking off today with graffiti artists making their marks on a train installation in Si Ta Hau in the Inner Harbour area.It is the third year the festival is taking place, and also marks the finale of the city’s first-ever Art Macao event that has gathered and promoted different forms of art from various countries and regions over six months.Based in the quaint Praça

October 25, 2019 | BY admin

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Gang helps mainlanders enter Macau illegally via construction site: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau have jointly busted a people-smuggling gang which helped mainlanders enter and leave Macau illegally via a construction site near the Zhuhai-Macau land border in Ilha Verde, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.In a joint operation on Tuesday night, the local police arrested a suspected member of the gang and caught four illegal immigrants at the construction site, while the Zhuhai police

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau & S Korea sign accords on fugitive offenders’ transfer, mutual legal assistance

Macau and South Korea signed yesterday an agreement on the transfer of fugitive offenders and an agreement on mutual legal assistance, enhancing judicial cooperation between the two sides, according to a statement by the Secretariat for Administration and Justice.The signing ceremony of the Agreement on the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders and the Agreement concerning Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People’s Republic of

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Over 560 kg of undeclared & unquarantined seafood seized: customs

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that its officers cracked a case of seafood smuggling at the customs station in Rua das Lorchas earlier this week, seizing 562.3 kilogrammes of undeclared and unquarantined seafood from the mainland.According to the statement, the station’s coastal patrol conducted an inspection operation to monitor and inspect imported seafood on vessels docked in the Inner Harbour in the early hours of Monday morning, the statement noted.During the

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Illicit encashments face up to 5 million pataca fine: AMCM

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) said in a statement yesterday that any individual or entity engaging in financial activities that are subject to supervision without official authorisation commits “a particularly serious offence”, warning that illicit encashments are punishable by a fine of up to 5 million patacas.According to the statement, AMCM officials recently noted that there are individuals distributing posters that are promoting illegal encashments in Macau, using the Chinese

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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HK boy nabbed for smuggling & taking drugs: police

A 16-year-old boy from Hong Kong was hired by a gang to smuggle and sell drugs in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Leng, the teenager surnamed Ho told the police that he has dropped out of school in Hong Kong.According to Leng, the Judiciary Police were recently tipped off that someone had been hired by a Hong Kong gang to smuggle and sell drugs in night entertainment venues in Macau. After investigating, PJ

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Police bust ‘drug party’ in hotel room

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a Taiwanese woman and four men and women from the mainland on Tuesday for participating in a “drug party” in a hotel room in Taipa, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.Leng identified the Taiwanese woman as a 29-year-old who told the police that she works for an airline. The four mainlanders in their twenties and thirties comprise two men and two women. One of the quartet was found to have overstayed in Macau.The

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau’s 1st Ikea store to open in Taipa next year

The first local Ikea store will open in Taipa in the first quarter of next year, a statement from the Swedish furniture retailer said yesterday.The brand currently only has a pick up point at Macau Tower for local customers to collect their purchases made through its online website, while customers also can pay extra for home delivery.The statement did not specify where in Taipa its 90,000-square-foot (8,361-square-metre) store will be located.This undated handout photo provided by Ikea shows

October 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt collects views on eco-assessment of Macau-Taipa tunnel

The government started to collect opinions and suggestions from the public yesterday on a draft report of the ongoing environmental assessment of an undersea tunnel between the peninsula and Taipa, the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement yesterday.According to a previous DSSOPT statement, the local government has commissioned CCCC Highway Consultants Company Limited – a subsidiary fully owned by China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC) – to

October 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Expandable baton found in tourist’s backpack at airport: police

The police arrested a tourist from the mainland on Friday at the local airport for carrying an expandable steel baton, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference yesterday.Choi said the 33-year-old suspect surnamed Tong told the police that he works as a manager in a local hotel. Tong was about to take a flight with a female friend, Choi added. Her personal information was not revealed by the spokesman.According to Choi, the incident was

October 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Footbridge lift installation near Triangle Garden to start in H1 next year: govt

The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement yesterday that it expects a project to install lifts at the three access points of the footbridge near Triangle Garden in Areia Preta district to get off the ground in the first half of next year.The bureau unsealed bids submitted by 14 construction companies for the project yesterday. All bids were accepted.According to the statement, the quotations proposed by the 14 bidders range from 13.65 million patacas to 23.94

October 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Jobless gambler cheats 2 friends out of HK$450,000: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained a mainlander on Sunday for allegedly cheating two friends out of HK$450,000 in winnings which they had won in a local casino while gambling together, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.The case was reported to a police station by a mainlander in June.Leng said the 30-year-old suspect surnamed Zhao told the police that he is unemployed. He also told the police that he visited Macau with two male friends in May. The

October 23, 2019 | BY admin

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