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The penalty for Internet crimes was in the spotlight Sunday at the weekly Macau Forum show – a one-hour open-air debate programme hosted by government broadcaster TDM – as some audience members suggested that the current punishment was not harsh enough. In the programme in Areia Preta Park, several audience members – mostly pupils – […]

Macau’s Customs Service said Thursday that its officers had seized 3,700 kg of untaxed tobacco and 2,130,000 untaxed cigarettes amounting to about 1.06 million patacas in unpaid tax. A customs spokesperson announced the haul to the media  in a factory in Ilha Verde, where the untaxed tobacco and cigarettes were discovered by customs officers earlier […]

The Macau Customs Service announced Wednesday they seized about 34 kg of raw ivory disguised as 583 “chocolate bars”, with an estimated street value of about 580,000 patacas. Mak Vun In, a senior customs officer, announced the case in a special press conference held in Barra. She was quoted by The Macau Post Daily as […]

The Legislative Assembly Election Affairs Committee (CAEAL) held a press conference Tuesday to announce the locations of the 31 polling stations in September’s Legislative Assembly (AL) elections. They include the Macau Stadium for Taipa residents, Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Service Centre in Areia Preta, the Macau Forum in Zape. The remaining polling stations are […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Wong Sio Chak said Tuesday that PJ officers investigated 308 alleged cyber crimes between June last year and May this year, an increase of 78 percent on the same previous period. According to The Macau Post Daily, Wong revealed the figure during a speech at an award ceremony marking the 53rd […]

The Audit Commission (CA) has criticised the government’s Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) for its failure to come up with an overall budget for the Taipa Pac On Ferry Terminal project for   which its 2005 budget was 580 million patacas that increased to 3.2 billion patacas after the original project was enlarged. The hard-hitting report also […]

The recent hacking of 34 CTM clients e-mail addresses included several email accounts of local government bureaus, Chief Executive Chui Sai On told reporters Wednesday. Chui made the comment on the sidelines of a public function. The 34 e-mail addresses were attacked by hackers whose IP addresses were in the United States and Hong Kong, […]