Two online scams and one phone scam were reported by residents on Saturday with their losses ranging from over MOP 300,000 to more than MOP 2 million, over MOP 5.6 million in total.
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Macao Customs Service officers on Wednesday searched a cargo truck and found 541 kilogrammes of undeclared fruit and vegetables being smuggled through the Barrier Gate checkpoint.
Macao Customs Service officers found 40 counterfeit luxury-brand handbags in two stores in the same mall in Iao Hon district.
A local feng shui master was arrested last Saturday for cheating a trainee out of more than HK$863,000 in a scam to buy a residential flat and set up a joint venture to open a columbarium in the mainland.
Macao’s annual wealth-sharing handout next year will once again be paid out in cash, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong has told lawmakers.
Macao’s general unemployment rate and local residents’ jobless rate of local residents for August-October remained unchanged at 2.9% and 4.1%.
Macao’s exports and imports in the first 10 months of the year fell by 18.1% and 7.1% to MOP 8.6 billion (US$1.08 billion) and MOP 67.4 billion respectively.
The police recorded 46 extortion cases related to online naked chats in the first three quarters of this year, 42 more than the same period of last year, according to crime statistics released by the Secretariat for Security (GSS) on Thursday.
The number of meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition (MICE) events held in Macao in the third quarter and the total number of participants both increased quarter-to-quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Thursday.