Lawmakers pass cybercrime law amendment bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill amending the existing cybercrime law, which proposes that the local police will be allowed to gain access to information stored by criminal suspects on cloud servers outside Macau, after obtaining permission from a local judge.The amendment bill also proposes a new crime category of operating fake base stations. The bill proposes that offenders face a prison term of up to three years.Secretary for Security

October 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Collages that give you pause for thought

In the Portuguese Bookshop in the city centre Belgian artist Burry Buermans is holding an exhibition, entitled “Retrospectiva”, of his thought-provoking and intricate collages until the end of the month.The exhibition has been organised by Vera Paz, the artistic director of D’As Entranhas Macau – Cultural Association.“Retrospectiva” is Portuguese for “retrospective” – and Buermans uses old books and magazines, from as far back as 1874, to form his intricate collages to draw in

October 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Leong vows to improve MICE capabilities

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac promised yesterday that the government will continue to improve Macau’s MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) service standards and international competiveness.Leong underlined that at the same time Macau will use the advantages of its close relations with the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs), Southeast Asian countries, and the European Union (EU) to serve the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area’s (GBA)

October 18, 2019 | BY admin

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Liaison chief says SOEs are cornerstone for China-PSCs collaboration

Mainland China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are “undoubtedly the cornerstone” for economic collaboration between China and Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) and the construction of the Macau-based China-PSCs platform, the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, Fu Ziying, said yesterday.Fu made the remarks in a speech at the 2019 Summit on Chinese Central SOEs Supporting Macau as a Cooperation Platform between China and PSCs. The one-day summit

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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920 can vote on Nov 24: CAEL chief

A total of 920 voters can cast their ballots in the legislature’s indirect by-election on November 24, Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEL) President Tong Hio Fong announced yesterday.Tong, a judge by profession, made the announcement after a regular meeting of the government-appointed commission.According to Tong, the registration of the voters representing associations from the industrial, commercial and financial sector ended last Thursday.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Filipina bitten by snake on UM campus

A non-resident female worker from the Philippines was bitten yesterday by a small snake on the lawn on the University of Macau (UM) campus.Fire Services Bureau (CB) spokesman Lao Hou Wai told The Macau Post Daily last night that the victim is about 40 years old. Due to privacy reasons, the victim’s personal information was not released by the spokesman.According to Lao, the Filipina was walking near Avenida da Saúde (“Avenue of Health”) when a little green snake suddenly appeared from a

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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New passports & travel documents to be launched on Dec 3

The 2019 versions of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) passport and MSAR travel document permit will be launched on December 3, Identification Services Bureau (DSI) Director Ao Ieong U announced during a press conference at China Plaza yesterday afternoon.While the passports are for permanent residents, the travel document permits are for non-permanent residents.According to Ao Ieong, about 426,000 MSAR have been issued. The number of travel document permits stands at over

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Police nab 2 locals ‘renting’ flats for mainland gang to run fake base stations

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two local men separately yesterday for pretending to rent two residential units where a mainland gang was operating four fake base stations, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press briefing last night.A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then receive messages from the bogus one instead.The gang operating the fake base stations in

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainlander steals HK$1.28 million cash & valuables from 6 gamblers: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a male mainlander on Tuesday for stealing cash and valuables such as gaming chips worth a total of about HK$1.28 million from six gamblers in local casinos since late May, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.In each of the six cases, the suspect succeeded in stealing the victims’ cash and other valuables when they were deeply engrossed in gambling.Ho identified the suspect as a 48-year-old surnamed Feng who told the

October 17, 2019 | BY admin

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10 lose over 2.3 million patacas in beauty salon fraud

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local woman on Monday for defrauding 10 people out of 2,334,300 patacas between 2016 and this year by claiming that her beauty salon was making a profit and persuading them to invest in the business, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is a 55-year-old woman surnamed Leong. She told the police that she’s the former owner of the salon. She sold the business in April. The 10 victims comprise

October 16, 2019 | BY admin

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27th occupational health & safety conference aims for better solutions: DSAL

About 450 participants comprising government officials, professionals, representatives of associations from the occupational health and safety sector, management personnel and guests from the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau have been invited to the four Chinese jurisdictions’ joint 27th Occupational Health and Safety Conference which aims to find better solutions to occupational health and safety (OHS) issues as well as promote the latest safety measures and different industries’ OHS

October 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Student steals 2 mobile phones from basketball courts: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested a local male university student in his twenties on Saturday for stealing at least one mobile phone from each of two outdoor basketball courts in Areia Preta district that their respective owners had left with their personal belongings while playing a game, a PSP spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.The police meanwhile also arrested the owner of a mobile phone shop in Toi San district, a local man in his forties, who admitted

October 16, 2019 | BY admin

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IPIM chief stresses Macau’s role as ‘precise liaison window’

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) President Irene Lau Kuan Va stressed yesterday’s Macau’s role as a “precise liaison window” in a press conference about this week’s Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF).The 24th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (24th MIF) and the 2019 Portuguese Speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macau) (2019PLPEX) will be held concurrently from tomorrow until Saturday at the Venetian in Cotai. .Lau

October 16, 2019 | BY admin

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Elderly in wheelchair tries to smuggle 3,200 cigarettes into Macau: customs

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that a 70-year-old local man in an electric wheelchair attempted to smuggle 3,200 cigarettes into Macau via the Barrier Gate border checkpoint on Monday, with some of the cigarettes hidden in different parts of his wheelchair, while the remainder were concealed in his bag and around different parts of his body.At around 8 a.m. on Monday, customs officers found that the man, who was passing through the green channel in his electric

October 16, 2019 | BY admin

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