Investment institute chief under criminal investigation: official

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) president Jackson Cheong is under criminal investigation and has been suspended from office, the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a statement today. The CCAC – Macau’s graft-busting agency – also said that an unnamed IPIM executive board member and a former deputy director of the institute’s Legal and Residency Office and current head of a department of the Pension Fund have also been suspended.IPIM is a government-owned

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau to be restructured, expanded

The government will rearrange and expand the organisational structure of the Macau Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau (DSFSM), with the aim of allowing the city’s law enforcement agencies to better cope with their increased workload resulting from the rising number of the city’s border checkpoints and from the growing application of advanced information technology (IT) for the police’s law enforcement tasks, Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced yesterday.Addressing a

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Broadway Macau offers 60 hotpot options

With the weather getting cooler, restaurants are starting to prepare hotpot dishes.At Broadway Macau, its food street is turning into a hotpot street with restaurants offering different kinds of hotpot and clay pot meals.There are 60 types of hotpot to choose from; among them is the classic Braised Lamb Brisket Casserole offered at Lei Ka Choi restaurant, which uses grass-fed Chinese black lamb with water chestnuts, bean curd skin and secret sauce prepared in a clay pot over a charcoal flame to

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Writing on the wall: street art gets ‘out loud’ at festival

The street art scene seems to be alive and kicking in the old neighbourhood of Praça de Ponte e Horta as a handful of graffiti is popping up in the back alleys and roller shutters around the area.Those graffiti are the result of the Outloud International Street Art Festival that was held for the first time last year, with just a part of a wall which the artists were allowed to spray paint on and a shop unit for street dance battles.This year, the festival will take place on November 3-4 also

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Japanese visitors drop 19 pct

Macau’s number of Japanese visitor arrivals dropped by 19.1 percent year-on-year to 24,900 in September, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced this week. According to DSEC statement, the number of South Koreans decreased by 4.4 percent to 58,200 last month, when the number of Hong Kong visitor arrivals declined by 1.6 percent to 444,000 and the number of Taiwan visitors fell by 3.7 percent to 83,000.The number of mainland Chinese visitor arrivals rose 5.7 percent to 1.82 million

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Man nabbed with dagger at airport: police

The Public Security Police (PSP) picked up a male mainlander on Wednesday afternoon at the local airport carrying a dagger, PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun said during a regular press conference yesterday.Fong identified the suspect as a 26-year-old from Sichuan province surnamed Chen, who works as a computer programmer.According to Fong, Chen was set to depart from the local airport for Wuhan that afternoon. When he was going through the airport’s security check, security guards discovered a

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Police arrest Vietnamese casino loan shark

A 48-year-old female domestic helper from Vietnam surnamed Vu has been arrested for casino loan sharking, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced at a press conference yesterday.PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said that a Hong Kong man reported the case to the police on October 10, saying he had borrowed around 10,000 patacas in total from Vu on two occasions between May and July 2017.Vu first loaned him 5,000 patacas and HK$5,000 on the second occasion. Ho also said that Vu told him that he would have to

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Flyover project linking Pac On with Zone E2 to start in Q1 next year: govt

The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) said in a statement yesterday that it expects the construction of a flyover connecting Pac On in Taipa with the land reclamation area officially known as Zone E2 to get off the ground in the first quarter of next year.Zone E2 lies off the northern coast of Taipa between the Taipa Ferry Terminal and the airport.The office unsealed bids submitted by 14 construction companies for the construction of the project yesterday. All bids were

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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What the future holds for Christianity in China

The Holy See and the People’s Republic of China have recently signed a provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops. The Vatican said the deal would contribute positively to the life of the Catholic Church in China. The agreement, according to the Vatican, also aims to promote the proclamation of the Gospel and to establish unity in the Catholic community of China.The Vatican has so far not released the full text of the deal, but says it “concerns the nomination of bishops, a

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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Professional snooker contest debuts in Macau

The first Macau Masters snooker competition was held on Wednesday and yesterday at JW Marriott Macau hotel. It started with a team competition on Wednesday which involved Team A consisting of Welshman Mark Williams, aka “The Welsh Potting Machine”, mainland China’s Zhang Anda, aka “Mighty Mouse”, Englishman Joe Perry, aka “The Fen Potter” and “The Gentleman Professional”, Hongkonger Marco Fu Ka-chun, aka “Hong Kong Fury”, and Team B with Englishman Barry Hawkins, aka

October 26, 2018 | BY admin

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HK woman abandons toddler in hotel room

A Hong Kong woman abandoned her little daughter in a hotel room early this week so that she could gamble in a local casino, the Public Security Police (PSP) announced yesterday.According to PSP spokesman Fong Cheong Chun, the Public Security Police received a report from a hotel manager in Zape on Monday at around 11 p.m. that a toddler had been left alone in a guestroom.According to Fong, at around 8 p.m. when the hotel staff usually do a routine room check, a staff member heard a baby crying

October 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Local man tries to sell daughter’s flat: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a local man who tried to sell a flat – which he didn’t own – to a woman, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, the suspect is 54-year-old surnamed Cheong who works as a driver, and the victim is a local woman whose surname was not revealed.Ho didn’t reveal the location of the flat, but noted that the suspect had owned the flat until in 2008 – when he transferred the flat’s ownership to his

October 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Police warn public not to carelessly dispose of ciggie ends

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that several recent fires were caused by the careless disposing of cigarette ends, warning the public that offenders face criminal charges.The statement pointed out that causing a fire by negligence is a criminal act. It noted that according to the Macau Penal Code, causing a fire by negligence is punishable by up to five years behinds bars. If the fire puts others’ life in danger, it is punishable by up to eight years in prison, and if

October 25, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui to deliver 2019 Police Address on Nov 15

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will deliver his 2019 Policy Address in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, November 15, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced yesterday. Customarily, the chief executive gives a press conference at Government Headquarters about the annual policy address shortly after delivering it in the legislature’s hemicycle. On the day after the Policy Address, the chief executive customarily attends a question-and-answer session at the

October 25, 2018 | BY admin

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