Eighty-five people were injured when a Macau-bound jetfoil carrying more than 110 passengers and crew hit an unknown object off Hei Ling Chau early today. A government spokesman said three men were in a serious condition and 46 others – 25 men and 21 men – were in a stable condition in six public hospitals. […]
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The disaster relief operations in the Philippines’ typhoon-hit areas got an added boost Thursday with the donation of five million patacas from the Macau government. According to Philippine media reports cited by The Macau Post Daily, the amount will be remitted directly by the Macau government to the foreign donation account of the Philippine government’s […]
Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Wong Sio Chak said Thursday that the city’s rising numbers of phone scams was of great concern. He also said that the three main forms of telephone scams were “guess who!”, “extortion” and “naked-chat”, adding that it was difficult to combat these crimes despite collaboration with foreign law enforcement counterparts, particularly […]
The Public Police Security Police (PSP) announced Wednesday the arrest of 34-year-old PSP officer suspected of taking ketamine. The case has already been transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for further investigation, according to the announcement. The PSP said in a statement the officer, surnamed Lou, who began serving in the PSP in 1998, […]
Macau’s visitor arrivals increased by 2 percent year-on-year to 2,394,195 in October 2013, according to figures released on Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Of all the arrivals in October, 53 percent spent only one day. The average length of stay of visitors held stable from a year earlier at 1.0 day, […]
The Housing Bureau (IH) announced Wednesday a list of 12,098 applicants for just 1,544 one-bedroom home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats in Seac Pai Van in Coloane, an oversubscription of about eight times the number on offer. The bureau said in a statement cited by The Macau Post Daily that it accepted 12,098 applicants from the 15,031 […]
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has caught an unemployed South Korean gambler for threatening the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) that he would go on a killing spree if the office did not give him a flight ticket to South Korea after losing all his money in local casinos. A PJ spokesperson said in a special […]
The number of criminal cases uncovered by police authorities in Macau rose by 8.9 percent between January and September this year. In a press conference held on Friday, the Secretary for Security, Cheong Kuok Va, also revealed that drug trafficking crimes have increased by 94.7 percent, with 89 more registered cases in comparison to last […]
The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a report Thursday that the city’s three bus operators are operating “illegally,” based on a service provider system set up by the government in 2011 that, according to the report, amounted to a “serious violation” of the public interest. The graft-buster urged the government to void the city’s […]
Macau’s 98 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 7.99 million guests in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 13.9 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Thursday. At the end of September, Macau’s hospitality industry provided 27,807 guestrooms, up 6.7 percent from a year earlier, of which 5-star hotels accounted for […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday that the price of private property was high which, however, could not just be linked to “some basic factors”. Chui also said it was a fact that the local property market is currently ruled by emotions, luxury flatsdominate the market, and buyers prefer to invest in property […]
The Macau Customs Service announced Wedensday in a press conference that officers had seized 1,430 counterfeit Dove body lotions from five pharmacies and a storage lock-up, collaring three men and five women. A Customs Service spokesperson told The Macau Post Daily that the Consumer Council referred complaints from the general public to officers, indicating that […]