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Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the general outline of the government’s domestic violence prevention bill Tuesday, with developer Fong Chi Keong, a government-appointed lawmaker, abstaining. Many lawmakers voiced their concerns on how authorities will determine the level of the severity of a domestic dispute. They also raised questions on the definition of minor offences as defined in […]

Six suspects who allegedly ran a prostitution ring involving 96 sex workers in one of the city’s best known hotels were taken to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for questioning Monday morning, one day after the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced their arrests. On Monday, government-broadcaster TDM identified the crime scene in question as Hotel Lisboa […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have busted the largest prostitution ring in Macau since the 1999 handover, nabbing six suspects, including senior hotel executives, for their alleged involvement. The arrests, which were made on Saturday evening, were announced on Sunday. According to a special press conference last night, the six suspects comprise a 68-year-old local male […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) picked up 30 suspects for drug-related crimes on Thursday while Zhuhai police arrested seven suspected kingpins, which supplied the local suspects with drugs. A PJ spokesperson said at a press conference on Friday that the 30 people caught in Macau included locals, Hongkongers and mainlanders aged between 19 and 60. Their […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) announced on Thursday in a joint press conference that they busted an “underground bank” in Areia Preta where two male mainlanders, a 26-year-old surnamed Wang and a 30-year-old surnamed Lu, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the illegal financial operation. PJ spokesman Suen Kam […]

The findings of an annual survey about Macau conducted by the Public Opinion Programme (POP) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and released on its website yesterday show that – using a one-in-three choice method – political issues were of least concern to local residents, coming after economic and livelihood problems. The findings show […]

The Supporting Office to the Permanent Secretariat to the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries will get a new coordinator and assistant secretary-general in March. Rita Santos, who simultaneously holds both positions, confirmed in a letter to the media yesterday that she will retire from the civil service on March […]

Macau’s Chief executive Chui Sai On, called for cooperation with the Chinese city of Zhongshan, in Guangdong province, as a priority in two-way relations, according to a statement from the Government Information Bureau. Following a meeting with officials from Zhongshan municipality, Chui said regional cooperation had been addressed with the central government and that work, […]