Grinning HK diner touches waitress’s buttock

A Hong Kong diner was arrested for touching a waitress’s left buttock on Sunday, Public Security Police (PSP) Lam Keong said at yesterday’s regular press conference. Lam said that the suspect surnamed Chen, who is in his fifties, told the police that he’s jobless. The victim works at a hotel restaurant on Avenida da Nave Desportiva in Cotai.According to Lam, when the victim was leading Chen to his seat on Sunday night, Chen touched her left buttock with the back of his right hand.

November 10, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Drunk local man insults, shoves cop at hospital

A drunk local man was arrested for insulting and shoving a police officer, Public Security Police (PSP) Lam Keong said at a regular press conference yesterday. Lam said that the suspect surnamed Lam, who is in his thirties, works as a driver.According to the spokesman, Lam, the suspect, took his wife to the emergency department’s waiting room at Kiang Wu Hospital in the wee hours on Saturday. While waiting, Lam suddenly became emotional and started screaming at people around him. A

November 10, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Peeper ‘accidentally’ glances at colleague in toilet

A non-resident worker (NRW) was apprehended on Monday for peeping at his colleague in a staff toilet, Public Security Police (PSP) Lam Keong said at a regular press conference yesterday. Lam said the mainland suspect surnamed Zhu, who is in his thirties, works as a shop assistant in Avenida de Kwong Tung in Taipa. The victim is a local in her twenties.According to Lam, when the victim was using the unisex toilet on Monday at the mezzanine level of the shop where they worked, she suddenly

November 10, 2022 | BY William Chan

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39th ‘Macau Walk for a Million’ slated for next month

The 39th “Macau Walk for a Million”, organised by the Charity Fund from the Readers of Macao Daily News, will be held on December 12.Charity Fund President Ho Teng Iat said yesterday that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety of the general public, the association has decided to continue to hold this year’s charity walk online. However, Ho added, in response to people’s desire to take part in a physical walk, a “limited-scale” offline physical walk has tentatively been

November 10, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Singaporean scholar: Western perspective towards China ‘distorted’

Recently, a video of a Singaporean scholar rebutting Western journalists’ “smear-style” questions has gone viral.In the video, which was shot during a forum on China held in Singapore in 2021, a Western reporter claimed China’s success was based on “high-level repression” in his question. In response, Kishore Mahbubani, a Singapore-based scholar and former diplomat, said the question shows the “distorted perspective” of reality in the media’s perception of China.“If the

November 10, 2022 | BY Zhao Manfeng

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UK’s settlement proposal shameless sham

China Daily Editorial        The written ministerial statement that United Kingdom Foreign Secretary James Cleverly issued last week, saying that the UK seeks to reach a settlement in its territorial dispute with Mauritius early next year, appears to be a breakthrough that will help end the UK’s half-a-century occupation of the Chagos archipelago.But apart from the UK allowing for the return of the 2,000 or so former inhabitants of the islands who it forcibly displaced in

November 10, 2022 | BY admin

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Goa announces next Francis Xavier exposition

Goa’s archdiocese has announced that the next decennial exposition of the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier, which draws millions of people of all faiths from across the world, will commence on November 21, 2024.Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman (Damão), issued a special decree on Saturday announcing the seven-week-long exposition of the sacred relics of the 17th century Spanish Jesuit saint and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (SJ), one of the largest priestly

November 9, 2022 | BY admin

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China Telecom (Macau) to start 5G service before year-end

China Telecom (Macau) Company Limited, which has been granted a 5G licence by the local government, announced in a statement yesterday that it expects to start its 5G service in the city before the end of this year.The statement pledged that China Telecom (Macau) will develop various 5G applications in the city that are conducive to Macau’s social development and offers residents more convenience in their daily lives and entertainment, by making full use of the extensive experience of its

November 9, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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Man falls for ’50-pataca-refund’ scam, loses 74,326 yuan

A man in his fifties was defrauded out of 74,326 yuan (82,852 patacas) after a “logistics company staff member” told him that he was eligible for a “refund”, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a press conference on Monday.According to Chong, the victim received a call on Friday from a “female staff member” of a “logistics company” claiming that one of his parcels had been damaged, and he could request a “50-pataca-refund”. Chong noted that the

November 9, 2022 | BY William Chan

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Laptop scammer nabbed, accomplice on the run

A woman was arrested for scamming a laptop seller, while the police were still tracking down her accomplice, Public Security Police (PSP) Lam Keong said at a regular press conference on Monday. Lam said that the suspect surnamed Chen is a non-resident worker (NRW) from the mainland. She and her male accomplice are colleagues who worked as waiters.According to Lam, the female victim became acquainted with both on a social platform in March, and in late August the male scammer told the

November 9, 2022 | BY William Chan

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IAM clamps down on cyclists on walking trails

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement yesterday that it has recently joined forces with the police to patrol several hill-walking trails, such as Coloane Trail, Hac Sa Reservoir Family Trail and Ka Ho Height Family Trail, where groups of cyclists were found violating regulations banning cyclists from riding on walking trails.In order to avoid accidents and ensure that safety of other hillwalkers, the bureau urged people not to ride bicycles on hill-walking trails. Otherwise,

November 9, 2022 | BY Yuki Lei

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Reserves dip, investments go awry in H1: Wong

Lawmaker-cum-nurse Wong Kit Cheng, who heads the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, said yesterday that the government’s fiscal reserves amounted to 597.31 billion patacas as of June this year, a decrease of 45.85 billion patacas compared to that at the end of last year.During a press conference in the Legislative Assembly building after the committee’s closed-door meeting yesterday, Wong revealed details of a report about the government’s

November 9, 2022 | BY Ginnie Liang

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UM student wins China Youth Science & Technology Innovation Award

First-year PhD student Chan Pak Ian from the University of Macau (UM) has received the 13th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, one of the 89 awardees across the country and the only university student in Macau to win the award this year, the public tertiary education institution said in a statement yesterday.Chan is a PhD student at UM’s Faculty of Science and Technology’s (FST) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the State Key Laboratory of Analog and

November 9, 2022 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Health Code address measure implemented in phases from today

The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday that while the Macau Health Code will remove the option of agreeing to authorise the Health Bureau (SSM) to retrieve users’ registered address from the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) from today, the new measure – which was first announced on Tuesday last week – will only be implemented in phases from today according to the last digit of the users’ ID card number.Before today, Macau Health

November 9, 2022 | BY Tony Wong

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