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Judiciary Police (PJ) officers have caught another drug swallower from Tanzania on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine via Macau into the mainland, this time swallowing 1.091 kg of the drug with an estimated street price of roughly HK$900,000. In a press conference held at the PJ headquarters on Saturday, a PJ spokesperson said that […]

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement Thursday that they seized 78 tiger fangs weighing 1.7 kg and 69 tiger claws weighing 190 grammes disguised as egg rolls on Wednesday. According to the statement cited by The Macau Post Daily, the fangs and claws were discovered in the luggage of a mainland man in […]

Deputy Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in Macau Zhang Jingfeng said Tuesday the commission was firmly against any outside forces interfering in Macau’s internal affairs, referring to the direct and indirectlegislative elections in September. According to The Macau Post Daily, Zhang made the comments while speaking to about 100 secondary school pupils who were visiting […]

The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday that rising residential rents contributed to last month’s inflation rate of 5.31 percent year-on-year. However, the bureau did not say by how much the rental rates were up last month, merely saying that the composite consumer price index (CPI) of housing and fuels rose 8.91 percent. A […]

The new campus of the University of Macau (UM) on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province was handed over to Macaugovernment on Saturday, in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing. In 2009, the government signed a leasing contract for the land where UM will now operate, at a cost […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) Information Technology Crimes Division Head Chan Kin Hong urged citizens yesterday to immediately notify authorities if they suspect that their phones have been tapped or their conversations with others are being illegally monitored. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chan made the appeal on the sidelines of the weekly open-air Macau Forum […]

The penalty for Internet crimes was in the spotlight Sunday at the weekly Macau Forum show – a one-hour open-air debate programme hosted by government broadcaster TDM – as some audience members suggested that the current punishment was not harsh enough. In the programme in Areia Preta Park, several audience members – mostly pupils – […]

Macau’s Customs Service said Thursday that its officers had seized 3,700 kg of untaxed tobacco and 2,130,000 untaxed cigarettes amounting to about 1.06 million patacas in unpaid tax. A customs spokesperson announced the haul to the media  in a factory in Ilha Verde, where the untaxed tobacco and cigarettes were discovered by customs officers earlier […]

The Macau Customs Service announced Wednesday they seized about 34 kg of raw ivory disguised as 583 “chocolate bars”, with an estimated street value of about 580,000 patacas. Mak Vun In, a senior customs officer, announced the case in a special press conference held in Barra. She was quoted by The Macau Post Daily as […]