Police bust Thai student with drugs worth 10.6 million patacas

A Thai university student has been arrested for smuggling 10,448 grams of marijuana buds and 60 gummy bears containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), with an estimated street value of 10.8 million patacas, according to senior investigator Lei Ka Wo of the Judiciary Police (PJ), who announced the case in a special press conference yesterday.The 23-year-old suspect is surnamed Kham Kham Kaew.According to Lei, PJ investigators stationed at Macau International Airport observed the suspect’s

May 9, 2024 | BY William Chan

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MUST develops app to confirm authenticity of Chinese herbal medicines

The Macau University of Science and Technology’s (MUST) Faculty of Chinese Medicine Assistant Dean Wu Qibiao said yesterday that it has developed an image database of traditional Chinese herbal medicines and a mobile app to distinguish the authenticity of the herbs.Wu made the remarks in a phone-in programme hosted by public broadcaster TDM’s Chinese-language radio station, Ou Mun Tin Toi.Wu added that in the past, members of the public were unable to distinguish the authenticity of

May 9, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Govt to lower age for denture fittings to 65: SSM

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday it has adjusted the minimum age for the beneficiaries of the government’s denture fitting programme from 70 to 65 years.According to the bureau, the programme aims to subsidise the fittings of dentures for those aged 65 and above who face financial difficulties, in order to give them better dental care and improve their quality of life. Those aged 70 and above have benefitted since the early stages of the programme.The programme was

May 9, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Police nab couple for sham marriage

A local woman and a man who married in 2008 and divorced in 2014 were taken to a police station for questioning about their sham marriage on Monday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said yesterday.The suspect, who is in his forties, surnamed Ngai, is a technician who is originally from the mainland, while the suspect, who is in her thirties, surnamed Lok, told the police that she works in the service sector. According to Lei, the pair became acquainted in 2007 when

May 9, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Mainlander steals phone left in cab: police

A man from the mainland has been arrested for stealing a smartphone left in a taxi, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said at a regular press conference yesterday.Lei said that the suspect surnamed Wu is in his thirties. According to Lei, the local victim forgot her phone, worth 8,200 patacas, when she got out of a taxi on February 13. After failing to retrieve the phone herself and suspecting that it had been stolen, she reported the case to the police. Police

May 9, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Schools face difficulties in enrolment, civic leaders call for action

Macau’s declining birth rate has contributed to there being fewer school-aged children, and civic leader Ao Ieong Kuong Kao urged the government yesterday to attract more non-resident students to study in Macau by opening up the non-tertiary education sector to tackle Macau’s current problem of under-enrolment, while The Chinese Educators Association of Macau Vice President Vong Kuoc Ieng urged the government to assist “disadvantaged” schools in enhancing their competitiveness to

May 9, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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330 living-alone seniors, ageing couples identified in 2020-23: IAS

Several civic leaders voiced their concern yesterday about senior citizens living alone, and the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said that it identified in 2020-23 about 330 elderly persons and ageing couples living alone. According to the bureau, it continues to cooperate with social welfare organisations in providing diversified services and support to living-alone senior citizens and elderly-couple households, while also providing them with a range of cultural, recreational, sporting and

May 9, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Artist duo hold ‘Calligraphy of Aphorisms in Portuguese & Chinese’ exhibition

An exhibition entitled “Calligraphy of Aphorisms in Portuguese and Chinese” by local artists Fernando António and Choi Chun Heng, hosted by the private Rui Cunha Foundation (FRC), is being held at FRC Gallery, displaying 60 works representing 30 pairs of calligraphy aphorisms in Macau’s two official languages.The exhibition opened on Tuesday evening.António is a local calligrapher and collector, president of the Supervisory Board of the Macau Orient Painting and Calligraphy Association

May 9, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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2 LRT trains crash, 4 staff hurt – ‘human error’ possible cause: govt

Two Light Rail Transit (LRT) trains crashed during a test of the system’s Seac Pai Van section in the wee hours of yesterday, slightly injuring four staff, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced in a statement.Due to the accident, train operation tests have been suspended on the Seac Pai Van section as well as on the Cotai-Hengqin section, yesterday’s statement said.The statement also said that the government does not rule out the possibility that the crash was caused by “human

May 9, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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UM scholar now associate editor of 3 electronics journals

University of Macau (UM) Associate Professor Lam Chi Seng has  recently been appointed associate editor of IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, now having the role in three journals in the power electronics field, UM said in a statement last week.In addition to the two journals, the statement noted that Lam, a local academic, is currently an associate editor of IEEE

May 9, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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MGTO attends UN tourism regional conference

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement on Tuesday that it attended the 2nd Regional Conference on the Empowerment of Women in Tourism in Asia and the Pacific in Bali earlier this month.Held from May 2 to 4, the event was organised by UN Tourism and is one of its major events in the Asia-Pacific Region, focusing on various challenges and opportunities faced by women in the tourism industry across the region, according to the statement.The statement said that MGTO Director

May 9, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Asia-Pacific risks being anvil under US hammer

China Daily Editorial        German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has used her just concluded one-week trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to hype up warnings against countries becoming too reliant on China.According to Australian media reports, Baerbock said her country has overhauled its strategic approach to China to avoid a repeat of its past mistake when the NATO member failed to realize the extent of its energy dependence on Russia.The top German diplomat

May 9, 2024 | BY admin

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Mainlander robs 3 women at knifepoint, rapes one of them within an hour: police

A 25-year-old mainland man holding a folding fruit knife robbed early Monday morning HK$4,000 in cash, a gold bracelet worth 25,000 yuan and HK$5,000 in cash separately from three middle-aged women at two hotels in Cotai within just an hour, raping one of them, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said yesterday.Lou announced details of the string of crimes by the suspect during yesterday’s special press conference, saying that after notifying the mainland police through the two

May 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local woman steals goods from pharmacy: police

A local woman has been arrested for stealing goods from a pharmacy in the northern district, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said at a press conference yesterday.The suspect in her thirties is surnamed Ng. She told the police that she’s jobless.According to Wong, on Thursday the police received a report from the pharmacy saying that Ng had exited the shop with goods, she had not paid for, worth 3,500 patacas. The stolen goods included medicines as well as health and

May 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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