Gaming mogul Okada arrested, released on bail in HK

TOKYO – Controversial Japanese gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada was arrested in Hong Kong over alleged and unspecified “corruption-related” offences, his former company in Tokyo said yesterday.Universal Entertainment Corporation said the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) had arrested Okada and released him on bail earlier in the day.Contacted by AFP, the ICAC was not able to confirm the information immediately, citing a policy of not commenting on individual

August 7, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Govt proposes bill ‘localising’ national anthem law

Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng has announced that the government has finished drafting local legislation for the country’s National Anthem Law to be applied in Macau, following its inclusion in Annex 3 of the Macau Basic Law as one of the national laws to be applied in the special administrative region.Addressing a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday, Leong said that the council, the government’s top advisory body, has completed its discussion of the bill

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

IPM to sue ex-staff over ‘inauthentic allegations’

The public Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) announced on Friday that it plans to sue David Quartermain, a former deputy director of the tertiary education institution’s MPI-Bell Centre of English, over his “exaggerating and inauthentic allegations”The institute made the announcement during a press conference at on its Zape campus. The conference was attended by several IPM officials including retiring IPM President Lei Heong Iok and MPI-Bell Centre of English Director Lin Ziyu.The press

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Police nab 5 cabbies involved in brawl

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested five local men in relation to a brawl amongst a group of taxi drivers which took place outside a resort hotel in Cotai last Wednesday.PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon announced details of the case during a special press conference on Friday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.Last week, footage circulating online showing more than 10 taxi drivers brawling beside several black taxis in Avenida Cidade Nova went viral. In the video clips, some of the cabbies were

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Govt proposes adding municipal body members to CE election committee

The Executive Council has announced that the government has drafted a bill to amend the Chief Executive Election Law, which proposes that two members of the Chief Executive Election Committee will come from the city’s future municipal organisation.The government is proposing the chief executive election law amendment bill, after the Legislative Assembly (AL) last month passed a government-initiated bill on the establishment of a non-political municipal organisation in Macau. The new law was

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Frenchman burgles beauty salon twice: police

A Frenchman burgled a beauty salon in the city centre twice in four days at the end of last month due to gambling losses, leading to a total loss of valuables worth around 30,000 patacas, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference on Friday at the PJ headquarters in Zape.According to the spokesperson, the suspect surnamed Sellu is a French national aged 38. He entered Macau at the beginning of June.At 8:45 p.m. on July 23, the spokesperson said, a female

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Mothers breastfeed in park to promote cause

Yolanda Leong Sok Man, president of the Macau Breastfeeding Association, said yesterday in Flora Garden that her group “wants to let the public know the legitimacy of breastfeeding and that mothers breastfeeding in public areas should not be driven away.”Leong made the remarks on the sidelines of a breastfeeding promotion activity held by the association in the public park.It is currently “World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2018” and the theme this year is “Breastfeeding: Foundation of

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Doorman found hanging by colleague: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement on Saturday that a doorman was found hanging in a meter room by a colleague in a building in Estrada da Areia Preta.The statement did not say what kind of building it is.According to the statement, the deceased was a 62-year-old local man surnamed Lei who worked as a doorman at the building.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Greyhounds may be airlifted to US, Europe: Anima

Animal protection group Anima is studying the feasibility of sending the over 500 greyhounds left behind at the Canidrome to the US and Europe by charter planes, its president, Albano Martins, said in a statement yesterday. Martins said that lawmaker-cum-gaming executive Angela Leong On Kei, who ran the now defunct greyhound racetrack operation, “has informed me that she will pay all the costs”. The racetrack run by Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. closed for good on July 20. The

August 6, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Councillor urges govt to tackle reservoir suicides

The government should upgrade the security set-up at the Outer Harbour Reservoir as there are recurring cases of people committing suicide by leaping into the man-made lake, Northern District Community Service Consultative Council member Hong Wai Tong said yesterday.Hong made the remarks during a regular meeting of the government-appointed council in Areia Preta.Hong said that two suicides happened at the reservoir this year, with both taking place during the daytime. He underlined that both

August 3, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Police nab 18-member gang of thieves

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested 18 mainlanders for at least half a dozen cases of theft in Macau, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters yesterday. The spokesperson said that an Indonesian female tourist reported to the police last Friday that her handbag had been stolen at a casino in Cotai.The handbag contained three mobile phones, jewellery and a total of 152,000 patacas cash.Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the 18 suspected mainland

August 3, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Health Bureau records 2nd imported case of measles

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has recorded the second imported case of measles this year.According to the statement, the patient is a 41-year-old local man who visited Phuket with his family on July 18-24. After returning to Macau, he came down with a fever on July 25 and a rash all over his body last Saturday. He went to the Island Emergency Station of the public Conde de S. Januário Hospital Centre in Taipa for treatment the next afternoon.He consulted a

August 3, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

No plan to change proposed locations for hazardous materials warehouses: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that “for the time being” the government will not change its proposed locations in Coloane’s Concordia Industrial Park for two warehouses for hazardous materials, adding that the government will go ahead with designing the two projects.Rosario was, however, quick to add the government has not yet made a final decision on whether it will build warehouses for hazardous materials on the two plots.Rosario made the

August 3, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0

Govt has just started to discuss future bus deals: Rosario

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario admitted yesterday the government has only recently started discussing with the city’s two public bus operators the fine print of their future service provider contracts.Rosario made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a plaque-unveiling ceremony that marked the official opening of the Fai Chi Kei Post Office.The Transport Bureau (DSAT) announced in a statement on Monday that the government has renewed its

August 3, 2018 | BY admin

Comment: 0