Two men were arrested on Tuesday for cheating a mainland woman out of 500,000 yuan in a gambling scam.
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Two men were arrested on Tuesday for stealing and fencing goods worth more than MOP 350,000.
A 24-year-old local man with a criminal record for sexual harassment in Macao and the mainland was arrested last Friday for committing the same crime involving another local schoolboy in the city’s northern district.
The Macao government aimed to purchase 1.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines covering the city’s whole population – two shots for each person.
A mainland woman was arrested on Monday for stealing her friend’s casino cash chips worth HK$37,000 from his hotel guest room in October last year.
A 29-year-old clerk was arrested for filling the keyhole of a shop’s roller shutter with superglue.
A 52-year-old local man has been arrested for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl
Gaming operator SJM Holdings said on Thursday that while it has been “severely impacted” by the COVID-19 outbreak and Macao’s ongoing restrictions on entry from the mainland, Hong Kong and other places, as well as the curtailment of transportation channels and quarantine requirements, it has seen “the beginnings of recovery in visitation, hotel occupancy and visitor spending.”
A total of 31 suspected members of a credit card data scam gang including 13 university students and two secondary school pupils were arrested in Macao this week.