The number of reported robbery cases and rape cases increased 29.8% and 68.4% respectively in the first three quarters of this year.
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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.
Two locals in their twenties are suspected to have breached the General Regulations Governing Public Places.
A local bus driver was detained for the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl.
Local woman had five Chinese box turtles wrapped around her abdomen and in her trouser pockets when going through security checks at Gongbei Customs.