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.
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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 of the surveyed youths aged 14 to 21 gambled last year, down from 48 percent a year ago. The survey also reveals that 1.5 percent of local youths display symptoms of gambling disorders, a 1.5 […]
The police recorded 308 false imprisonment cases in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year surge of 135.1 percent, from just 131 in the same period last year, announced the Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced. Wong said that the total number of recorded crimes, however, saw a 2.2 percent year-on-year drop, […]