HK gang hires jobless woman, 17-year-old boy to sell drugs in Macau: police

A 17-year-old boy and a 59-year-old woman from Hong Kong were hired by a gang to sell drugs in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference yesterday.Both suspects were caught when they were dealing drugs on Sunday night in the Rua de Campo neighbourhood. The male suspect is surnamed Kwok. The unemployed teenager, who has dropped out of school, told the police that he had been hired by the gang for a payment of HK$1,500 per day, Choi said. The

September 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Beijing horticultural expo marks ‘Macau Day’

BEIJING – Macau Day, featuring a lotus-themed garden and celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland and the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), are being observed at the ongoing International Horticultural Exhibition in Beijing.Diverse activities are organized during the three-day event, which ends today, including lion dance performances, Portuguese folk dance, and an exhibition of Chinese painting and calligraphy at the

September 24, 2019 | BY admin

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‘Subdued’ restaurant business in July, but ‘stable’ retail sales: govt

Macau’s restaurateurs reported “subdued” business in July, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday.According to the DSEC statement, the proportion of restaurants reporting a year-on-year rise in receipts decreased by 6 percentage points from June to 34 percent. The corresponding proportion of Chinese restaurants (35 percent) decreased by 11 percentage points, whereas the share of Japanese and Korean restaurants (30 percent) went up by 8 percentage points. On the other hand,

September 24, 2019 | BY admin

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Visitors rise 6.5 pct to 3.6 million in August

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 6.5 percent year-on-year to 3.62 million in August, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.According to the DSEC data, the daily average of visitor arrivals reached 116,875 last month.Same-day visitors, which accounted for 53 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals, increased 20.2 percent, while overnight visitors dropped 5.7 percent.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 24, 2019 | BY admin

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‘Very unlikely’ that US gaming operators will leave Macau over trade spat: scholar

Liang Ming, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, an affiliated institution under the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), said in Macau yesterday that in the “very unlikely” case that Macau’s US gaming operators exit the local gaming industry if the China-US trade war worsened even further, local or mainland Chinese-funded companies could take over the respective hotel-casino resorts to run the gaming businesses.Liang reaffirmed that such a

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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20th imported dengue case confirmed this year: govt

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has confirmed this year’s 20th imported case of dengue fever.According to the statement, the patient is a 31-year-old female tourist from the Philippines. The statement merely said that the woman stayed in Calçada da Vitória – a sloped street in the Guia Hill area – and did not say when she came to Macau. The statement did not say what kind of accommodation she stayed in.The woman came down with a fever, muscle and joint

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Fernando Chui leaves lasting legacy

Establishing a lasting legacy is a key motive of public officials. Politicians are widely perceived to lose significance upon leaving office, yet media often highlight politicians’ legacies as a source of influence that endures even after they retire. Fernando Chui Sai On, Macau’s outgoing chief executive, is leaving a legacy of hard work, honesty and integrity.Chui, who holds a PhD from the University of Oklahoma, started his post of chief executive as a highly qualified candidate. Based

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Eco bureau to set up plastic bottle recycling machines, collected bottles to be exported to Thailand

Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man said last week that his bureau has bought about a dozen recycling machines for the colletction of used plastic bottles which will come into use at different locations in the city before the end of the year, adding that his bureau has “provisionally” decided to export the collected bottles to Thailand for recycling.Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters in Iao Hon Market Park on Saturday on the sidelines of a

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Macau & Zhuhai together bust people-smuggling gang

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau (PSB) have jointly busted a gang smuggling illegal immigrants from the mainland to Macau, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference on Saturday.According to Leng, PJ officers detained three suspected members – all of them male – of the gang, which had been operating for six months, and caught three illegal immigrants – two males and a female – outside the Macau Science Centre in Nape on Friday night.

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Reunification & development are ‘founding aspiration’ of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ principle: schol

The president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macau Studies, Xu Ze, said at the weekend that “reunification and development are the founding aspiration” of the “One Country, Two Systems” principle, and “we must uphold it unwaveringly”.Xu made the remarks in his opening speech at a seminar held at the Mr. and Mrs. Lau Chor Tak Lecture Theatre at the public University of Macau (UM) on its Hengqin Island campus on Saturday.According to its Chinese title, the one-day

September 23, 2019 | BY admin

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Economic development & people’s livelihoods remain ‘main axis’ of governance: Chui

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said yesterday that the local government would continue to regard developing the economy and improving people’s livelihoods as the “main axis” of its governance, according to a statement by Economic Development Council (CDE).The statement underlined that Chui also emphasised the need for the government to “walk on two legs”, to improve Macau’s self-development capabilities and strengthen regional cooperation at the same time, in order to ensure

September 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Govt sets up website for National Day celebration

The government yesterday launched a website dedicated to news and information in different formats related to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), according to a statement by the Government Information Bureau (GCS).The website, https://guoqing.gcs.gov.mo, features official news and information in three languages – Chinese, Portuguese and English, as well as pictures and videos. The website aims to provide members of the public with

September 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Gongbei Customs stops woman smuggling endangered ‘golden turtles’

A local woman was recently found to have five Chinese box turtles, also colloquially known as “golden turtles” in Cantonese, wrapped around her abdomen and in her trouser pockets when she went through security checks at Gongbei Customs.Also known as yellow-margined box turtles and golden-headed turtles, the reptile formally known as Cuoraflavomarginata is an endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The

September 20, 2019 | BY admin

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Charity night planting seed for Cantonese opera to grow

More people seem to be taking an interest in Cantonese opera, but without training from professional masters and assessments, enthusiasts fear that the authenticity of the traditional art form will gradually fade, and eventually lose its cultural appeal.Caritas Women Centre representatives Chan Wai Peng made Cantonese opera the main performance for Caritas Macau’s charity night 19 years ago when she urged families to buy tickets to see a Cantonese opera performance and then have dinner as a

September 20, 2019 | BY admin

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