Woman pawns fake Rolex for HK$60,000

A woman from the mainland has been arrested for hocking a fake Rolex watch in a local pawn shop, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said during a regular press conference yesterday.The 26-year-old suspect surnamed Yang told the police she’s a saleswoman.According to Lou, last August Yang went to a pawnshop in Nape and pawned a purported Rolex watch for HK$60,000. The staff later re-inspected the watch and discovered that it was a fake, leading them to report the case to the

May 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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PJ warn public about Kiang Wu Hospital order scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that they have received reports from the persons in charge of a bookshop and a pharmacy saying that that they received calls from scammers pretending to be “staff members” of the private Kiang Wu Hospital ordering a large number of books or medical equipment from the shops concerned.The scammers also sent purported confirmations of their respective payment transfers to the shops.According to the statement, after the fraudsters received

May 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Gongbei Customs nabs man trying to smuggle HK$1.2 million to mainland

Zhuhai’s Gongbei Customs has announced that its officers have caught a man attempting to smuggle HK$1.2 million (1.11 million yuan) in undeclared cash from Macau to the mainland through the border checkpoint, exceeding the official maximum amount of cash that a traveller is permitted to carry when entering the mainland.Gongbei Customs announced the case, which was detected on Sunday, in a statement yesterday, adding that the man did not submit a customs declaration when entering the arrival

May 8, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Govt to increase parking spaces in Taipa open-air public carpark

The number of parking spaces for cars in Macau’s first and only open-air public carpark, located on Taipa’s Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira near its junction with Avenida de Kwong Tung, will be increased by 20 to 61 from next Tuesday, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) has announced.Correspondingly, the number of parking bays for heavy vehicles there will be decreased by 7 to 10, the bureau said in a statement on Friday.The open-air public carpark, located outside the former Macau Jockey

May 8, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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‘Airship Orchestra’ installed at One Central Macau

Local organisation MyLand Culture* is curating a 16-piece custom art installation entitled “Airship Orchestra” at One Central Macau throughout May, a female representative of the organisation recently told the Post.The representative noted that the art installation, created by ENESS, a Melbourne-based art and technology company founded in 1997, consists of six characters named Blobby, Bun, The Bunny, Mozart, Panda, Ripple and Tree, with a total of 16 variations. These characters

May 8, 2024 | BY William Chan

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UTM holds TOEFL & TOEIC Certification Seminar for high schools

The Macao University of Tourism (UTM), in conjunction with Smart Education Co. Ltd., co-hosted yesterday a “TOEFL and TOEIC Certification Seminar” on the Mong Ha campus, aiming to deepen the understanding of about 20 local secondary schools’ representatives of the two English-language proficiency tests, thus encouraging their students to improve their English proficiency and obtain their language certificates.UTM set up a TOEFL iBT test centre in September last year on its Mong Ha campus,

May 8, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Airport passengers rise 66 pct during May Day holiday

The Macau International Airport recorded a total of 109,592 passengers during the mainland’s five-day Labour Day Golden Week holiday from Wednesday last week through Sunday, an increase of 66 percent from last year’s corresponding period, airport operator CAM announced in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the local airport recorded a total of 908 aircraft movements during the five-day period, an increase of 59 percent from last year’s corresponding period.Last year’s

May 8, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Xi highlights stronger cooperation, dialogue during France trip

Analysis        PARIS – President Xi Jinping on Monday underscored the importance of bolstering cooperative ties between China and France as well as the European Union (EU), calling for dialogue and understanding amid escalating protectionism and raging conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.Xi, who is on a six-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary through Friday, said China regards Europe as an important dimension in its major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics and an

May 8, 2024 | BY admin

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Strong spending highlights vitality of China’s economy

Commentary        BEIJING – China’s May Day holiday witnessed a surge in tourism and robust consumer spending, underscoring the resilience and dynamism of the world’s second-largest economy.This vitality is evident from encouraging growth figures. Official data has revealed that about 295 million domestic tourist trips were taken during the five-day holiday, a 7.6 percent year-on-year increase and a substantial 28.2 percent surge from the same period in 2019. Domestic

May 8, 2024 | BY admin

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Macau welcomes 1st multiple-round-trip Hengqin-Macau tour group

Mainlanders joining Hengqin-Macau tour groups are now able to make multiple round trips between the two places within seven days using the same group travel permit via the Hengqin checkpoint, and Macau received yesterday its inaugural tour group composed of 16 members embarking on a three-day visit to Macau and Hengqin during which they will enter Macau twice. The National Immigration Administration (NIA) announced on April 28 that starting from May 6, i.e., yesterday, mainland Chinese

May 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Mainlander uses other’s passport to enter Macau: police

A man from the mainland who was barred from entering Macau has been caught after he had used a passport he claimed to have picked up on the street in the mainland so that he could enter Macau through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) vehicular checkpoint, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said in a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect in his twenties surnamed Sou told the police that he’s jobless. Wong said that last month Sou was banned for three years

May 7, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Naked male body found floating at Hac Sa Beach: police

A naked man was found floating at Hac Sa Beach in Coloane by an on-duty security guard on Sunday night, according to a statement by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday morning.The statement by PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man identified the body as a non-local middle-aged victim.According to the statement, the Judiciary Police received separate calls from the Macau Customs Service (SA), the Public Security Police (PSP) and the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre at about 8:25 p.m. on

May 7, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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Man accuses bus driver of skipping stop, kicks partition divider

A local man has been arrested for kicking the protective partition divider beside the bus driver and disturbing the driver when driving, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said in a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect in his sixties surnamed Si told the police that he’s jobless.According to the bus driver’s report, no one alighted when the bus was travelling along Avenida da Amizade, so he continued to the Friendship Bridge, during which Si approached the driver

May 7, 2024 | BY William Chan

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Over 1,700 seek help to stop smoking last year: SSM

A total of 1,726 people received counselling and assessment services at smoking cessation outpatient clinics last year, representing an increase of about 31 percent year on year, and the success rate was satisfactory, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday, on the eve of this year’s World Asthma Day today.Under the theme of “Asthma Education Empowers”, today’s World Asthma Day aims to enhance people’s understanding of asthma, while raising patients and the general

May 7, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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