Woman falls for SMS fraud: police

A local woman has fallen victim to a phishing scam via a fraudulent text message purportedly sent by a telecommunications company, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said in a press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the victim told the police on Saturday that she had received a text message on the previous day claiming that her reward points from a local telecommunications company were about to expire and urged her to redeem them for gifts.The phishing text contained a link

March 5, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Indian NRW steals phone found on street: police

A non-resident worker (NRW) from India has been arrested for stealing a smartphone he found on the street, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said at a regular press conference yesterday.Wong said that the suspect, surnamed Happy, a gardener, is in his twenties.According to Wong, the victim dropped her phone, worth 9,500 patacas, when she got out of her friend’s car near Praça de Ponte e Horta on Saturday. After failing to retrieve the phone herself and suspecting that it

March 5, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Loan shark holds gambler for 37 hours: police

A young gambler visiting Macau was falsely imprisoned at a flat in the city centre by a loan shark for 37 hours after he had failed to repay his gambling debts of HK$50,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said yesterday, adding that PJ officers arrested a 22-year-old mainland man on Saturday when he re-entered Macau via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) checkpoint.According to a PJ report, at around 1 a.m. on November 5 last year, the victim asked for a loan of HK$40,000

March 5, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Male quartet cheat casino loan shark out of HK$138,000: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) cracked a fraud case involving HK$138,000 on Sunday, in which a Hong Kong man and three mainland men were arrested early that morning at a casino in Cotai for defrauding a casino loan shark, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the foursome, aged between 29 and 36, are surnamed Lam, Li, Yuan and Feng respectively.The Judiciary Police received a referral from the Public Security Police (PSP) at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday about

March 5, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Pool wisdom to better explore Chinese path to modernization

China Daily Editorial        This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the 70th anniversary of the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, and the 75th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s political advisory body. The lawmakers and political advisers have every reason to carry on their good traditions and work style that have seen the country develop to

March 5, 2024 | BY admin

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China opens ‘two sessions’ with resolve to solidify economic recovery

Analysis        BEIJING – China’s annual “two sessions,” a highly anticipated event on the country’s political calendar, began yesterday with the opening of the second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).As the world’s second-largest economy endeavors to solidify the momentum of economic recovery in its pursuit of Chinese modernization, the sessions carry immense significance for China and

March 5, 2024 | BY admin

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NPC deputies, CPPCC members arrive in capital for ‘two sessions’

The second session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) and the second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open tomorrow and today respectively, and a number of local deputies to the NPC and members of the CPPCC arrived in Beijing yesterday to attend the meeting.Macau has 12 NPC deputies and 38 CPPCC National Committee members.Both annual plenary sessions taking place around the same time are known as the

March 4, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Student plumps for monochrome & nature drawings

 Form 5 student Elvis’s drawings are generally from his imagination in monochrome or colourful scenes from nature. In a recent interview with the Young Post at a private flat on Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga, he said that “It was hard to find my own style at first.”Elvis said that he when he was asked if he would like to have drawing lessons when he was about three years old he decided to give it a try. “It took me a little while to decide if I really liked it, and I remember a

March 4, 2024 | BY Lesley Wells

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Lawmaker urges govt to raise effectiveness in attracting foreign visitors

In her written interpellation released yesterday, lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I urged the government to assess and review its current measures aiming to diversify the city’s sourcing of visitors, considering that the percentage of foreign visitors to Macau in relation to the total number of visitors is still low.Lei noted that according to official data, visitor arrivals from the three Chinese regions of the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan accounted for 94.8 percent of last year’s

March 4, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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4 suspects nabbed for people-smuggling last week: customs

The Macau Customs Service (SA) nabbed four men involved in a people-smuggling case on Thursday, according to an SA statement yesterday.The four suspects from the mainland are aged between 32 and 44.The case occurred last Thursday, when customs officers noticed a suspicious motorised wooden boat in the Outer Harbour at night. Customs officers intercepted a man suspected of trying to illegally enter Macau on the shore at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf and three people on a boat – the skipper, a

March 4, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Flu kills 79-year-old local man: SSM

A local man, aged 79, died from influenza A on Friday, according to a statement by the Health Bureau (SSM).This is the second flu death reported by the bureau this year.Friday’s SSM statement said that the chronically ill victim developed symptoms including fever, cough and runny nose on Wednesday, adding that he was admitted to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre’s emergency department the following day due to the persistence of the symptoms and the onset of fatigue,

March 4, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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IAM urges public not to eat Patak’s Aubergine Pickle that may contain shards of glass

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) urged the public in a statement on Saturday not to eat a UK-made aubergine pickle product which may contain shards of glass. The statement did not say whether the products of the problematic batch have been found to be on sale in Macau.The statement did not identify the exact area in the UK where the products were manufactured.According to the statement, the bureau was informed by the UK’s Food Standards Agency that a 312 gramme aubergine pickle product,

March 4, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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LRT daily passenger average rises to 16,700 last month, exceeds free-ride Jan 2020

The average daily number of Light Rail Transit (LRT) passengers increased to 16,700 last month, exceeding the average of 16,000 per day recorded in January 2020 when LRT rides were still free.Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case in January 2020. This was also the second highest average daily number of passengers in a month since the LRT opened in pre-pandemic December 2019, when the system recorded a daily average of 33,000 passengers.The government-owned LRT operator, Macau Light Rapid

March 4, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Police nab Indonesian man, mainland woman for theft-by-finding

The Public Security Police (PSP) have transferred an Indonesian man and a mainland woman to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for their separate theft-by-finding charges, involving 20,000 patacas and a mobile phone worth 17,200 patacas respectively, according to PSP spokesman Cheong Heon Fan.According to police reports, a female local victim withdrew 20,000 patacas from an ATM in the lobby of a hotel in Cotai at 2:45 p.m. on December 18 last year. She walked away forgetting to take the cash,

March 4, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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