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Trio nabbed over HK$33 million Ponzi scheme: police
Three local men were arrested in the last few weeks for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme which they started in 2014 involving at least HK$33 million, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.According to the spokesperson, the trio are shareholders of a group of companies which ran a real-estate agency in Macau.According to Wikipedia, a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organisation, pays returns to its investors from new capital
June 1, 2016
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Lawmakers raise food safety concerns
Lawmakers yesterday raised concerns over food safety if the government goes ahead with its plan to issue more licences for the selling of fresh meat, fish and vegetables.The legislators raised the issue during a Q&A session with government officials.Directly-elected lawmaker Ho Ion Sang, a vice-president of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (commonly known as Kai Fong), said he worried about food safety after fresh meat, fish and vegetables can be sold in more
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Security chief vows to improve staff language skills
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that the city’s law enforcement agencies have always encouraged their staff members to enrol in language courses to improve their fluency in various languages.  Wong made the remarks during a Q&A session in the Legislative Assembly (AL). Lawmaker-cum-unionist Leong Veng Chai said during the session that some public security officers whose first language is Portuguese had told him they felt that their superiors did not always
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Good Shepherd Centre to hold ‘Celebration Walk’ over domestic violence law
The Good Shepherd Centre said in a statement yesterday that it will organise a “Celebration Walk” on Sunday “to congratulate the Macau government for listening to the voices of the people and especially to the voices of so many who have been victims of domestic violence.”The statement pointed out that the Legislative Assembly passed a “just” domestic law on May 20, “which we are very happy about.”According to the statement, Sunday’s walk will set off at 3 p.m. from Victoria
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Gaming union urges govt to push for wage rise
Gaming Professionals Association President Cloee Chao Sao Fong urged the government yesterday to get actively involved in getting the city’s gaming operators to increase their employees’ wages based on the rate of inflation.Chao made the plea before meeting officials of the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) at the bureau yesterday.Chao said that due to the current inflation rate many low-level gaming employees were struggling to earn a decent living wage, even though the six gaming operators
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Councillor calls for ‘Macau Nobel Prize’
The local government should set up the “Macau equivalent” of the Nobel Prize, Ieong Chi Wa, a member of the Tourism Development Committee, said yesterday, adding the proposed prize would be a good way to “nurture talents” for the city. Ieong, a board member of the Macau Tourist Guide Association, made the remarks during a consultation session on the draft of the government’s first Five-Year Development Plan for advisory body members under Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Vehicle imports drop 52.1 pct in Jan-April
Macau’s imports of motor vehicles – cars and scooters – dropped by 52.1 percent year-on-year to 434 million patacas in the first four months of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Imports of mobile phones fell by 54.7 percent year-on-year to 1.6 billion patacas. Imports of gold jewellery dropped by 24.3 percent to 1.79 billion patacas. Imports of watches went down by 37.1 percent to 1.4 billion patacas. Construction material imports decreased
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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4 trees illegally removed in Fai Chi Kei: police
The Judiciary Police (PJ) are investigating the illegal removal of four trees in Fai Chi Kei, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said yesterday. Announcing the case during a regular press briefing at the PJ headquarters, Ho said the four trees planted by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) in Rua Nova do Patane were worth about 52,000 patacas. According to Ho, IACM officials told the police on Monday that the four-metre tall trees had been dug up and removed. He also said that during
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Hotel guests rise 11.5 pct in April
Macau’s 106 hotels and inns recorded 917,000 guests in April, an increase of 11.5 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Mainlanders accounted for 66.5 percent and 12.5 percent of all guests respectively. While the number of guests from the mainland grew 16.7 percent year-on-year, the number of those from Hong Kong fell 8.2 percent. Guests’ average length of stay dropped by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.3 nights. Please read the full
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Union urges govt to consider delivery drivers when planning bus lanes
Macau Federation of Transportation President Tong Chak Sam urged the government yesterday to consider the interests of delivery drivers when planning the city’s public bus lanes. The union, an affiliate of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen), held a press conference at Gung Luen’s headquarters in Areia Preta.The press conference was organised in response to some groups’ request for more non-local drivers. The union proposed that rather than importing
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Govt vows to check whether transfer of phone bets is illegal
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said yesterday the government will check whether local junket operators breach the law when transferring telephone bets to their VIP rooms operating outside the city. The policy secretary also said the government’s clear stance was that telephone betting in local casinos is illegal. Leong made the remarks after attending a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle when asked by reporters about a recent online message by
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Disabled make up only 0.2 pct of public sector staff: official
At the end of last year, there were only 73 disabled people, or around 0.2 percent of Macau’s over 30,000 public sector workers, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Celeste Vong Yim Mui said yesterday.Responding to legislator-cum-educator Chan Hong’s remarks during a Q&A session in the legislature that it was “rather difficult” for Macau’s disabled people to get a job in the public sector, Vong said most of the 73 disabled worked as “service assistants”.However, responding
June 1, 2016 | BY admin
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Construction quality worse than 15 years ago: Rosario
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said yesterday that the quality of the city’s private and public construction projects was “worse than 15 years ago”, adding that both the constructors and the government were responsible for the deterioration.  The outspoken policy secretary made the remarks during a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle after several lawmakers complained about “serious” quality problems found in a string of public
May 31, 2016 | BY admin
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Man cheats victim out of HK$3 million: police
A 31-year-old unemployed local man cheated another local man out of HK$3 million in 2013, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said yesterday.Speaking during a regular press briefing, the spokesperson said that in May 2013 the suspect told the victim that a junket VIP room he was “working for” had an investment opportunity open for its staff, which would pay 1.2 percent interest per month.The spokesperson said that the police found that the VIP room the suspect claimed to be working for had
May 31, 2016 | BY admin
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Bus lane to operate daily from July
Transport Bureau (DSAT) Traffic Planning and Construction Department head Kuong Vai Cheok said yesterday that a special public bus lane connecting Barra and Lam Mau Tong in Fai Chi Kei will be used daily from July.Kuong made the announcement after attending a meeting of the government-appointed Traffic Affairs Council at the bureau.Earlier this month the bureau started a trial run of the special lane for public buses during peak hours from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4.p.m. to 7 p.m. on
May 31, 2016 | BY admin
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