Duo cheat HK woman out of HK$1.01 million deposited in VIP room account

A mainlander was arrested on Saturday for cheating a Hong Kong woman out of HK$1.01 million who had asked a friend to deposit the money in a casino VIP room account, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Chio Hong said at a regular press conference yesterday.The male suspect is a 24-year-old non-resident worker surnamed Wu who told the police that he works as a sales assistant.According to Lai, a local businessman in his twenties reported to the police on behalf of his Hong Kong female friend on

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Man cheats friend out of 50,000 yuan, gambles most away

A man was arrested on Saturday for cheating his friend out of more than 50,000 yuan (58,600 patacas), and the suspect later confessed that he lost most of the ill-gotten money gambling in a casino in Zape, Judicial Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Chio Hong said at a regular press conference yesterday.Lai said the suspect, a mainlander surnamed Zhuang, told police he is a 43-year-old private driver. According to Lai, a man in around his twenties reported the case to the police on December 19 last

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Senna Fernandes gets 1 more year as MGTO chief

Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes will remain at the helm of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) for one more year, the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture announced yesterday. The one-year extension of the MGTO director’s term will take effect on December 20, according to an order, dated September 2, issued by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U. The order, officially termed “renewal of secondment”, was published in the Official Gazette (BO)

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Health Bureau orders casino staff to wear facemasks until March 22

The Health Bureau (SSM) yesterday ordered all casino employees to continue wearing facemasks until March 22 next year. The order signed by Health Bureau Director Lei Chin Ion and published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday states that the half-year extension of the mandatory wearing of facemasks by casino staff is due to the “evolution of the novel coronavirus disease”. The obligatory wearing of facemasks by casino workers was imposed by the government on January 22, when

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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TNR plan ‘not suitable’ for Macau: IAM official

Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) Vice-President Lo Chi Kin told reporters yesterday that the so-called trap-neuter-release (TNR) method for waifs and strays was not suitable for Macau.Lo made the remarks yesterday after taking part in a current affairs phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin Toi, the Chinese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM.Lo said that IAM officials equated stray feeding with animal abandonment earlier this month because they were “anxious about the

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Chinese ambassador calls for mutual respect in ties with EU

BERLIN – Chinese Ambassador to Germany Wu Ken has called for mutual respect in China’s relations with the European Union (EU).Wu made the remarks during a video interview with Germany’s dpa newswire days after the China-Germany-EU leaders’ meeting.German Chancellor Angela Merkel made China-EU relations a priority after Germany took over the rotating EU presidency in July, Wu pointed out.The recent China-Germany-EU virtual meeting was vital for China-EU relations, he noted, adding that

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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China firmly opposes US smears at UN

      BEIJING – China firmly opposes the United States’ fabrication of lies and groundless accusations against China, motivated by shady political purposes, on the United Nations podium, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday.“Facts have proven once again that unilateralism and bullying are the most serious threats facing the world,” Wang Wenbin said at a press briefing in response to a US leader’s remarks about China at the general debate of the 75th session of

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Xinjiang: What the media never reports

Commentary by Md Enamul Hassan*            There is a popular idiom, if you want to kill a dog, you start by giving it a bad name. The application of this strategy by belligerent parties, especially the power being exerted to contain their opponents, has been seen over the years.Following this strategy, politicians have first given a bad name to their targets, with the media following with uncritical coverage, taking the stance of the politicians to create a ground

September 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Xi sums up lessons from pandemic, calls for joining hands

Urges countries to reject unilateralism & protectionismBEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday summed up four lessons the COVID-19 pandemic brought to human society and called on countries to join hands and prepare to meet even more global challenges.“First, COVID-19 reminds us that we are living in an interconnected global village with a common stake,” Xi said when addressing through video link from Beijing the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Mainland group tour visitors can only cross Macau-Zhuhai border via Hengqin or HZMB

The local government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement last night that from today group tour visitors from the mainland can only cross the Macau-Zhuhai border via the Hengqin border checkpoint or the Macau-Zhuhai checkpoint on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB).Visitors with other tour permits – i.e. Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) tour permits – can cross the Macau-Zhuhai border via all major Zhuhai-Macau border checkpoints, namely 1) the

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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China rejects ‘baseless accusation’, opposes ‘political virus’, says nation’s UN envoy

UNITED NATIONS – China resolutely rejects the “baseless accusation” against it and opposes the US spreading a “political virus” at the United Nations, said China’s permanent representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun yesterday following US President Donald Trump’s criticism of China’s handling of COVID-19 at the UN General Assembly.In his pre-recorded message, Trump said: “We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China.”Introducing

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of city’s daily life during COVID-19

People take photos on the steps of Ruins of Saint Paul’s while they can still enjoy the city’s landmark without the usual big crowds.A woman wearing a facemask and carrying suitcase and a shopping bag stands outside a shop full of customers in the city centre.A man wearing a facemask arranges tools to clean a jewellery shop in Nam Van.Photos taken by Iong Tat Choi and Monica Leong

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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4 nabbed for involvement in people-smuggling

Case involves fake nucleic acid test certificateA male mainlander was arrested for illegally entering Macau and three suspects were arrested for assisting him in obtaining false documents and a fake nucleic acid test (NAT) certificate so that he could gamble in local casinos, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said at a regular press conference on Monday.The illegal immigrant suspect surnamed Yuan, who is in his twenties, is from the mainland. The other three suspects are

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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‘Unreturned Wanderer?’ showcases his creations

An exhibition entitled “Unreturned Wanderer?” by artist Leong Chi Mou at the Macau Art For All Society (AFA) gallery is part of the latter’s “Urban Identity – New Immigrants Artists” series this year, according to a statement by curator Lei Lai.According to the statement, Leong Chi Hou is the original name of the artist who uses Chi Mou as his pseudonym. Leong was born in 1991 in Jiangmen, a city some 65 kilometres north-west of Macau, and moved to the Macau Special Administrative

September 23, 2020 | BY admin

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