Jobless man cheats childhood friend out of 2 million patacas: police

A local man was arrested on Friday in the mainland for cheating his friend out of two million patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kam Fai said at a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect is a 44-year-old jobless local man surnamed Iek.According to Cheong, a 46-year-old man reported to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) through his lawyer on June 22 that he had been cheated by his friend, Iek, out of two million patacas. The victim had known Iek since childhood and Iek knew

September 15, 2020 | BY admin

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Ice hidden in toys sent by express mail to Macau

Police say case first of its kind locallyTwo men were arrested on Saturday for their alleged involvement in an express mail drug case in which the Judiciary Police (PJ) seized 14 grammes of Ice hidden in toys with an estimated street value of 42,000 patacas, PJ spokesman Cheong Kam Fai said at a special press conference yesterday.The two jobless suspects are a 23-year-old Hong Kong man surnamed Lau and a 30-year-old local man surnamed Chio.According to Cheong, PJ officers received intelligence

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Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

Workers take a rest on the benches beside a rabbit-shaped installation in a pedestrianised area near Sai Van Bridge in Taipa.Pedestrians wait for the bus in Avenida de Horta e Costa. Photos taken yesterday by Monica Leong and Camy Tam

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Jobless man nabbed for sexually coercing wife awaiting divorce

Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kam Fai said yesterday during a regular press conference that an unemployed man, surnamed Zheng, was arrested on Saturday for the sexual coercion of his wife – who is divorcing him for the second time – at her flat earlier this month.According to Cheong, the suspect is a 33-year-old non-resident from the mainland, while his wife is a 28-year-old local resident.Cheong said the couple got married in 2013 and have three children aged between one and six.

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Macau Forum secretary-general returns to Beijing

The secretary-general of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macau), Xu Yingzhen, ended her secondment from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) to Macau and returned Beijing on Sunday, the secretariat said in a statement yesterday. Informally, the entity overseen by the ministry in Beijing is known as “Macau Forum”.The statement pointed out that Xu, who was posted to Macau in July 2016, presided over a

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UM study on social media in Bhutan to be published in top journal

A paper on the use of social media for Buddhist rituals for Bhutanese families, co-authored by Associate Professor Todd Sandel in the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Macau (UM), and his PhD student Dorji Wangchuk, will be published in the November issue of Language & Communication, one of the top journals in the fields of communication and linguistics, the public university said in a statement yesterday. The paper is one of the few studies in the

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Local 18-year-old musician composes music inspired by life & science

An 18-year-old musician, Cannan Wong Hou Wang, told The Macau Post Daily in a recent interview that he performed 10 pieces of his own compositions, which were inspired by his life experiences and science, at the Clube Militar Restaurant in front of 60 people last month.Cannan said that he started playing the piano when he was three or four years old, adding that he only started composing music four years ago. When asked if he thought that he was gifted in music, he replied that he would not say

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Post-pandemic era calls for greater China-EU contributions

Commentary by Xinhua writer Wang Lei            BEIJING – President Xi Jinping held a virtual meeting with German and European Union (EU) leaders yesterday, a timely and critical gathering to steer the China-EU partnership toward a more stable and mature future in a world where uncertainties abound.It was the second China-EU leaders’ meeting in three months, and the latest episode of frequent high-level exchanges between the two sides, demonstrating an earnest

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Macau Legend Development halts trading

Macau Legend Development Limited said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this morning that at its request "trading in the shares of the Company on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited has been halted with effect from 9:00 a.m. on 14 September 2020, pending the release of an announcement of inside information of the Company pursuant to the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers."The statement was issued by order of the Board of Macau Legend Development Limited with

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Duo cheats local man out of over 13 million patacas in online dating scam

A local man and a woman were arrested on Friday for cheating a local man out of over 13 million patacas in an online credit-for-sex scam, according to a special press conference held by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Saturday.The suspects are a 27-year-old jobless woman surnamed Mak and a 31-year-old man surnamed Chan who told the police that he works as a chauffeur, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said at the press conference. According to Chan, the victim surnamed Ng reported to the Judiciary Police

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Flying over Macau in a chopper for around 10 minutes

Ever since the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) launched the “Helicopter Ride Experience”, residents had been fighting over a spot on the 10-minutes chopper ride over Macau to appreciate the city’s view from the air.The route is one of the most popular tours of the “Macau Ready Go” subsidy scheme. The popularity of the ride caused the registration system to crash on the first day it began to accept applications. A lucky draw had to be implemented in the end, where 31,333 joined

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Gaming tax receipts fall 70 pct in Jan-Aug

The government’s receipts from gross gaming revenue taxes in the first eight months fell by 70.2 percent year-on-year to 22.8 billion patacas (US$2.87 billion), the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) announced last week.Gaming tax receipts accounted for 70.3 percent of the government’s total current revenue between January and August.The government’s total revenue dropped by 14.7 percent to 74.9 billion patacas. While its total current revenue dropped 64.6 percent to 30.27 billion patacas,

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New central library should be functional & exude dignity--Editorial

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Mok Ian Ian made my day when she announced on Thursday that the government will finally get its long-delayed new central library project off the ground. As a die-hard bibliophile I have been attracted to libraries since my childhood. I spent much of my university years in Munich in the colossal but poorly-lit reading hall of the Bavarian State Library. Well, I must admit that I spent large part of my presence in the library’s ground-floor café because I

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Cheong reaffirms Macau’s executive-led system without separation of powers

Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon has reaffirmed that Macau’s political system does not include the – Western – concept of separation of powers, and instead its executive authorities, the legislature and the judiciary complement each other and exercise checks and balances of each other, but with the emphasis on a cooperative relationship between the three organs.Cheong made the remarks during Friday’s regular Executive Council press conference when asked

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