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.
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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.
A gambler has been cheated out of HK$1.1 million by a mainlander who failed to bring the victim his money that he had asked the suspect to take from the victim’s VIP room account.
A local man was arrested on Tuesday for cheating at least nine women out of over MOP 240,000 in a handbag purchase scam to pay off his gambling debts.