Drugs worth 90,000 patacas seized from 4 locals

A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday that four locals were caught on Sunday for selling and taking drugs, adding that drugs with an estimated street value of 90,000 patacas were seized.According to the spokesperson, the suspects are aged between 40 and 52. Three of them are men.The spokesperson said the police received a tip-off a week ago that a man was smuggling drugs into Macau from the mainland via the Lotus Flower Bridge border checkpoint in Cotai, and that the man was also

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Drug-dealing cases surge 43 pct last year: PJ chief

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said yesterday that drug-dealing cases recorded by his criminal investigation force rose to 122 last year from 85 in 2015, an increase of 43.5 percent.Chau revealed the figure during a Chinese New Year gathering and lunch for the media at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to Chau, the overall number of cases the Judiciary Police recorded last year increased by 9.2 percent to 12,340.Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong addresses

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Bangladeshi falsely accuses 3 Filipinos of bomb plot: police

A male suspect from Bangladesh was arrested on Saturday for falsely accusing three Filipinos of planning to plant bombs in Macau, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The spokesperson said the suspect, surnamed Gaurab, is 45 years old.According to the spokesperson, the police received a number of emails between August and October last year sent by someone who claimed to be from the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). PLEASE READ

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Group calls for new bus stop in Ha Van

The government should set up a bus stop near Fong Son San Chun, a block of residential buildings in Rua do Almirante Sérgio, Ha Van District Welfare and Mutual Help Association Vice President Cheong Lai Chan said yesterday.Ha Van is the Chinese name for the Praia do Manduco neighbourhood in the Inner Harbour area.Cheong made the remarks on the sidelines of an event organised by her group in which Chinese New Year gifts were handed out to senior citizens at the group’s office in Rua do

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Plans for smart city lagging behind: group

Local think tank Collective Wisdom Policy Centre yesterday slammed the government for failing to come up with plans and concrete measures to achieve its objective of transforming Macau into a smart city.The government laid out a string of plans and measures aiming to convert Macau into a smart city in the long term, in its first-ever Five-Year Development Plan, which was released in September last year.The association hosted a press conference yesterday at its office in Avenida de Horta e

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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Trio nabbed for cheating 3 elderly women

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday the arrests of three male suspects from the mainland for cheating three elderly local women out of a total of HK$83,000 this month.A PJ spokesperson briefed reporters about the case in front of the International Centre complex in Zape where the suspects were staying in a flat which was being run as an illegal inn.The spokesperson said the suspects, aged between 55 and 66, cheated two local women in Fai Chi Kei and Toi San respectively earlier this

January 17, 2017 | BY admin

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1st animal abuse suspect caught under new law: police

A non-resident worker from Vietnam was caught on January 4 for abusing a cat, the first case under the city’s first-ever animal protection law with took effect on September 1 last year, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson has announced.According to the spokesperson, the suspect, surnamed Pham, is in his twenties.The spokesperson told a press conference on Friday that the owner of a car repair shop found a pool of blood on the ground outside his garage in Travessa dos Prazeres on

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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Owners plan to re-apply for Imperial Palace licence

The owners of Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel said in a statement on Friday that that they would return the licence to run the hotel in Taipa to the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), because they could not finish the necessary work required to meet the building’s necessary fire safety regulations before the deadline – January 22 – set by the government – six months after the government announced the temporary closure of the hotel in July.The operator, known as Macau Hotel Investment

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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Zhejiang University rep urges local pupils to improve

A representative of Zhejiang University, traditionally known as Zheda, yesterday urged local pupils to improve their academic abilities.Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of the nation’s oldest, most selective and most prestigious institutions of higher education, according to Wikipedia.Jin Ru, a staff member of the university’s admissions office, made the remarks at Kao Yip Middle School in Nape, where the Ministry of Education and the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES)

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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Lawmaker calls for timetable to amend labour law

The government should come up with a timetable to amend the Labour Relations Law concerning employees’ holiday entitlements and paternity leave, lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I said yesterday.Lei made the remarks on the sidelines of a two-month 2017 Union Day campaign, which started yesterday, organised by the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, at Macau Kung Luen Vocational & Technical Middle School.The federation is widely known as Gung Luen (also spelt Kung Luen) in

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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Insufficient places for special needs pupils in mainstream education: survey

A survey released yesterday shows that more than 70 percent of parents think that there are not enough places for pupils with special needs to receive a mainstream education in local schools.According to Wikipedia, mainstreaming, in the context of education, is the practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes based on their skills.The survey was conducted by the Macau Special Education Study Association (SESA), a group founded in 2015.Macau Special Education Study

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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Forum questions local air pollution standards

Panellists at yesterday’s Macau Forum questioned the city’s air pollution standards and expressed concern about the government’s measures to tackle pollution.The weekly open-air debate is hosted by government-owned broadcast TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday. Less than a dozen audience members were present at the forum.Government-appointed Central Districts Community Service Consultative Council member Ron Lam U Tou, one of the five panellists, said he had doubts as to whether the

January 16, 2017 | BY admin

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72-year-old woman tests positive for H7N9

A 72-year-old local woman tested positive for the H7N9 avian influenza, Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said yesterday during a special press conference at the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre late last night.Lei said the patient lives mainly in Zhongshan, about 40 kilometres north of Macau. She went to a hospital in Zhongshan on Sunday because she had a high temperature and had been coughing. After entering Macau on Tuesday with her family, the woman was taken to the

January 13, 2017 | BY admin

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Group urges govt to control inflation

Ilha Verde District Welfare and Mutual Help Association President Cheong Chit urged the government yesterday to carry out specific measures to control the city’s soaring inflation.The city’s inflation rate stood at 1.53 percent in November, according to the latest available official statistics.Cheong, who is also the principal of Ilha Verde School, made the remarks on the sidelines of a press conference at the association’s premises.Cheong Chit, who heads the Ilha Verde District Welfare

January 13, 2017 | BY admin

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