The fastest growing areas of criminal activity are telecommunications fraud – including phone scammers impersonating government officials – and illegal currency exchange activities.
Wong Sio Chak
The city’s critical infrastructure was hit by an average of 5,800 cyberattacks a day in the first nine months of this year. Just 0.12 percent of those resulted in a security breach.
The move comes as security officials warn of an uptick in illicit drug use in Macao, particularly among tourists and visitors to the territory.
Macao must prepare for storms beyond the scale of Saola – which let the city off lightly – meteorologists say.
The spike, to be expected with Macao’s post-pandemic reopening, appears mostly fuelled by online scams and gaming-related offences.
Malaysia should have used ‘international police cooperation’ before asserting that the fugitive was hiding in the territory, security officials say.
The CPPCC vice chairman, who is the central government’s top official on Macao affairs, winds up his four-day fact-finding tour of Macao today.
Social isolation and the sharp fall in visitors to the territory, as a result of Covid-19, brought about a major reduction in crime during 2022.
New iris-recognition technology, to be introduced later in the year, looks set to make leaving and reentering Macao as seamless as possible.