The number of regulatory breaches by taxi drivers recorded last year decreased by 48.2% from the previous year.
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Three male and thirty female local residents aged between 26 and 65 have been conned by an international internet love scam ring, in which they lost around 13.7 million patacas in total.
A loan-sharking gang controlled by a local kingpin jointly busted by the Judiciary Police and the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau.
The number of reported robbery cases and rape cases increased 29.8% and 68.4% respectively in the first three quarters of this year.
The criminalisation of the operation of illegal inns would not be an effective method of solving the long-standing problem, concludes a report published by the government.
Loan-sharking gang controlled by a criminal organisation busted, with 76 suspects arrested.
A people-smuggling gang that helped mainlanders enter and leave Macau illegally via a construction site near the Zhuhai-Macau land border in Ilha Verde was jointly busted by the Judiciary Police and Zhuhai Public Security Bureau.
A male tutor from Hong Kong has been sentenced to a prison term of 18 years and six months for repeatedly sexually abusing at least six schoolboys.
A local man was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for burning and blinding his wife — four months short of the maximum sentence.