No. of gamblers seeking help rises 50 pct in Jan-Sept: IAS

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November 7, 2024 | BY admin

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Councillors greenlight villas on Small Taipa Hill

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November 7, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau confirms 3 more local dengue cases & 1 another imported case: SSM

Macau recorded three more locally transmitted cases of dengue fever on Tuesday and yesterday, and one more imported case on Tuesday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in separate statements.According to the SSM’s Tuesday statement, the patient is a 61-year-old retired local man who lives in a flat on Rua do Tarrafeiro (沙欄仔街), a family member of whom was diagnosed with dengue fever on Sunday.SSM staff found the man had symptoms of dengue fever during its dengue fever prevention and

November 7, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau's first sandwich-class housing project to start soon: govt

The Public Works Bureau (DSOP) said in a statement yesterday that construction of the government’s first sandwich-class public housing high-rise, to be located on a plot in Iao Hon district which is currently used as a temporary sitting-out area, will get off the ground soon.The statement pointed out that four dilapidated residential buildings on the plot were demolished in 2009, after which a temporary low-rise building was constructed on a part of the area and used as the office of a

November 7, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Police bust 2 illegal currency exchange cases

The Judiciary Police have separately arrested a man from the mainland, two local women, as well as a female mainlander for engaging in illegal currency exchange transactions, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference yesterday.In the first case, the male mainlander, identified as Gao, was reportedly luring customers to the two local suspects, sisters surnamed Hong in their fifties, who were providing funding for the illicit currency exchanges. Police

November 7, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Amagao Gallery hosts ‘New Horizons of Chinese Contemporary Art’ exhibition

An exhibition entitled “New Horizons of Chinese Contemporary Art” is on at the Amagao Gallery in Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau hotel in Nape, showcasing the works of 17 artists from the mainland.The free-admission exhibition, which kicked off on October 26, is presented by the hotel operator in conjunction with SOEMO Fine Arts, which marks its first exhibition in Macau, according to a recent Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau statement.SOEMO Fine Arts, which has held various exhibitions across Hong Kong,

November 7, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Donald trumps Kamala

Trump gains sweeping victory, makes stunning comebackWASHINGTON – Donald Trump gained a sweeping victory in the US presidential election yesterday, defeating Kamala Harris in a stunning political comeback.The Republican’s win, following one of the most hostile campaigns in modern US history, was all the more remarkable given an unprecedented criminal conviction and a near-miss assassination attempt.“It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before,” Trump told a victory

November 7, 2024 | BY admin

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Trump wins US presidency amid deep public concerns

WASHINGTON –  Multiple major US media outlets projected yesterday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has garnered enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency, drawing public concerns.Earlier in the day, Trump took the stage at West Palm Beach County Convention Center in the US state of Florida to speak to supporters and declare victory.In the US presidential election, the candidate who receives more than half of the 538 electoral votes wins the presidency. His

November 7, 2024 | BY admin

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MNN to host racing carnival on Nov 16

A free-admission racing carnival is slated to take place at the Macau New Neighbourhood (MNN) in Hengqin, with the event set to feature a raft of activities, according to a statement yesterday from the local government-owned company Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR).Titled “Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China and the 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region – MNN Racing Carnival”, the one-day event

November 6, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Police bust 2 illegal currency exchange cases

Two men from mainland China have been separately apprehended for engaging in an illegal currency exchange transaction, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference yesterday.According to Chong’s report about the first case, PJ officers saw the suspect, a 31-year-old surnamed Jiang involved in an illegal currency exchange deal with a mainland male gambler in a Cotai casino lobby on Sunday. After the gambler transferred 28,500 yuan by scanning the QR

November 6, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Taiwanese tries to rob local gambler: police

A man from China’s Taiwan region has been arrested for attempting to rob a local female gambler near a Light Rapid Transit (LRT) station in Taipa, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said during a special press conference yesterday. The 64-year-old suspect surnamed Chen told the police that he works as a driver.According to Chong, Chen gambled away all his money in a Cotai casino on Sunday, after which he started observing the victim who had won money gambling. Chen followed

November 6, 2024 | BY William Chan

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2 nabbed for loan-sharking, falsely imprisoning gambler: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted a casino loan-sharking case on Sunday, arresting two mainlanders, PJ spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a special press conference yesterday.The two male suspects, surnamed Peng and Li, are in their forties and told the police that they’re jobless.According to Chong, the male victim borrowed HK$100,000 from Peng and another accomplice for casino gambling on Saturday. He was required to pay 50 percent of his winnings under certain conditions as “interest.”

November 6, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Sports Bureau to enhance subsidies for local athletes

The government-appointed Sports Committee held a closed-door plenary meeting yesterday at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion, after which Sports Bureau (ID) President Luís Gomes told the media that the bureau will enhance several of its financial support programmes next year, with one of them aiming to explicitly protect athletes – for both elite and team athletes – with different training needs through clearly defined standards and systems.This year’s second plenary meeting was chaired by

November 6, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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‘Everyone can be each other’s gatekeeper in life’: IAS chief

The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) and Macau Federation of Social Workers jointly held a seminar yesterday at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf, during which IAS President Wilson Hon Wai reminded members of the public that “everyone can be each other’s gatekeeper in life”.Delivering a speech during yesterday’s opening ceremony of the one-day seminar, Hon noted that this year, as of end of September, the bureau, in conjunction with more than 40 local social service organisations, had organised more

November 6, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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