Fifty-nine-year-old wanted to ‘stab a foreigner’ with a knife in revenge for 10-year losing streak; damage assessed at MOP 1.34 million.
Many relatives shoulder the financial burden and unwilling to seek outside help, according to poll by Sheng Kung Hui.
A local man borrowed a government-issued consumption subsidy smartcard – popularly known as “green card” – from his septuagenarian neighbour and “sold” it together with his own card for a total of 4,800 patacas which he then gambled away.
Percentage of local residents who are gambling and are affected by a gambling disorder has been “continuously declining” this year.
Crown Resorts Ltd. said its staff held in China have been charged with gambling-related offenses, the most significant development in the case since the employees were rounded up by mainland authorities in October.
The Judiciary Police arrested 11 men and women from the mainland on Tuesday for alleged membership of a loan-sharking gang which for six months had offered casino patrons gambling loans.
A survey conducted by the Bosco Youth Service Network (BYS) between September and December last year shows that 34.3 percent
The police recorded 308 false imprisonment cases in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year surge of 135.1
