PLA garrison completes 20th troop rotation

According to Xinhua, the local People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison completed its routine annual rotation early morning yesterday.It was the 20th troop rotation since the PLA began garrisoning Macau in 1999, Xinhua said.Xinhua noted that the Hong Kong PLA garrison completed its 22nd rotation also in the wee hours of yesterday.According to Xinhua, the rotation was approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC) in Beijing, pointing out that the move was a “normal routine” annual

August 30, 2019 | BY admin

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Drunk motorcyclist sleeps on road for 2 hours after skidding: police

A drunk male motorcyclist skidded and fell near the Ponte 16 casino-hotel in the Inner Harbour area in the early hours of Wednesday, and then slept on the street for two hours before being discovered by a passer-by who reported the case to the police, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The police received a report at around 6 a.m. on Wednesday about an incident that appeared to be a traffic accident in Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos.

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Disclosing hidden craft talent around the city

There are many skilful and creative craftsmen in Macau who have joined an up-and-coming sector – the cultural and creative industries.The cultural and creative industries were popularised in Taiwan in recent years. However, the existence of arts and crafts is perennial. In Greek myths, the goddess Athena was known to be the patron of the arts and crafts. If Athena were real, then the goddess did shower Macau with grace and blessings because in the city there are secretly talented arts and

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Okura’s Chinese lunch set features dim sum essentials

The local Hotel Okura has rolled out a five-course meal featuring signature dim sum dishes typical of a traditional Chinese lunch.The new dim sum lunch set served at the hotel’s 28th floor is to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 13 this year.The five-course set lunch begins with the quintessential southern Chinese dish – char siu, or barbeque pork glazed with honey sauce served with jellyfish.This is followed by a dim sum platter featuring a rabbit-shaped dumpling for

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Cashier embezzles 180,000 patacas from supermarket by cancelling purchase records: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a female non-resident worker on Wednesday for embezzling some 180,000 patacas from her employer – a local chain of supermarkets – on every working day since early April, by deleting customer purchase records from the company’s cash registers, and then stealing the related cash from the tills shortly before finishing her work, Judiciary Police (PJ) Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect, who worked as a

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IAM worker discovers human skeleton in Taipa

A human skeleton was discovered by a Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) worker near the Taipa Houses Museum yesterday morning – which has been provisionally identified as a male’s skeleton, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the worker found the skeleton by chance when testing the water quality in the lotus pond near the Taipa Houses Museum. The worker then phoned the 999 emergency hotline.Public Security Police (PSP) officers cordoned off the

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Local gym to hold 1st all professional boxing event tomorrow

Local gym Macao Boxing House will hold the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) Professional Boxing Championship” on Saturday. This will be the first time that an all professional boxing event organised and hosted by a local gym has been staged in the city.There will be six bouts with fighters from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and Yunnan at the Macao Boxing House Gym in Fat Lei Industrial Building in Areia Preta with local fighters Cheong Lap Cheong, who is aiming for his

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Landlord held by renter in money row: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a mainlander on Wednesday for illegally imprisoning his landlord for half an hour inside a flat in Rua de Pequim over a 20,000 pataca dispute, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect and the victim are both from the mainland. The male suspect, 49, surnamed Cai, told the police that he is unemployed. The male victim’s personal information was not released.Ho said that Cai and the victim were

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Scooter rider has hand run over by car: firemen

A collision between a scooter and a car occurred near The Riviera Macau residential building in the Inner Harbour area yesterday afternoon, after which the 20-year-old female rider told firemen that her left hand had been run over by the car, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The accident happened at around 4 p.m. near the residential building in Rua do Dr. Lourenço Pereira Marques, according to the bureau.After the collision, the scooter fell to the ground. The rider, who had her

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Police nab trio for illegal plastic surgeries, beauty treatments in hotel

A local woman and two Taiwanese were taken to a police station for questioning on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in unlicensed plastic surgery and beauty treatments in a hotel in Nape, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday at the PJ headquarters yesterday.According to Ho, the local suspect surnamed Lei is 35 years old. She told the police that she is the public relations director of a VIP room in a local casino. The two Taiwanese

August 29, 2019 | BY admin

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HK & Macau trade unions cooperate to help members join GBA: rep

The chief representative of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions’ Guangdong Office, Jimmy Lee Chong Cheng, said yesterday that his federation is cooperating with its Hong Kong counterpart by providing members of both federations with reciprocal welfare benefits and services, adding that his federation will further expand its collaboration with Guangdong’s trade unions soon with the aim of help members in integrate themselves into the Greater Bay Area (GBA).The GBA comprises nine cities in

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CTT aims to complete 5G base stations in 2020

The government is trying to complete the city’s 5G base stations next year, Lau Wai Meng, director of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT), said yesterday.Lau made the comments during a press conference held at the bureau’s headquarters in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, where her bureau launched two new stamp collections.Lau said that the legislative process for the 5G service was still going on, and that the bureau was striving to complete the 5G base stations for next year. She did

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Grand Lisboa Palace to open in H2 of next year: So

SJM Director Ambrose So Shu Fai said yesterday that the construction of Grand Lisboa Palace in Cotai would be completed by early next month, but would open its doors only in the second half of next year.So made the comments on the sidelines of attending the 15th Annual SJM Scholarship Award held at Grand Lisboa hotel on the peninsula. The gaming operator awarded scholarships to 38 children of its staff yesterday, including new scholarships to 10 outstanding students of 2019 and the renewal of

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Standby signal No. 1 hoisted

The No. 1 typhoon standby signal remained hoisted late last night, according to a statement by the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG). Tropical Storm Podul was moving west-northwest towards Hainan province last night, the statement said, adding that under its influence showers and thunder were expected in the next two days in Macau. The statement also warned that flooding would occur in the Inner Harbour every morning between today and Saturday.

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