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FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MONDAY T. 25º/ 31º Air Quality Good MOP 8.00 3618 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 14 Sep 2020 HKD 10.00 THE GOVERNMENT DEFENDED A NOW- SEPARATION OF POWERS HAS NO A LARGE EXPLOSION IN ZHUHAI ABANDONED PLAN FOR THE CENTRAL PLACE IN MACAU’S POLITICAL THAT ROCKED A HOTEL AND LIBRARY PROJECT, SAYING IT WAS THE NEARBY BUILDING HAS LEFT THREE RIGHT DECISION AT THAT TIME SYSTEM, SAYS ANDRÉ CHEONG INJURED AND NO FATALITIES P6 P3 P2 AP PHOTO India has registered a single-day spike of 94,372 new coronavirus cases, driving the country’s overall Responding to Covid-19 demands, the Macau Grand Prix is dropping tally to 4.75 million. The A NEW FORMULA Health Ministry yesterday P5 also reported 1,114 deaths its F3 race in favor of the Chinese Formula 4 series in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities up to 78,586. Even as infections are growing faster in India than anywhere else in the world, the number of people recovering from the virus has also risen sharply. The SPORTS BUREAU COURTESY country’s recovery rate stands at 77%. AP PHOTO Philippines A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a Filipino transgender woman was deported yesterday after a presidential pardon cut short his detention in a case that renewed outrage over a pact governing American military presence in the Philippines. AP PHOTO Iran State TV on Saturday reported that the country’s authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man, after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man’s life to be spared. State TV BLOOMBERG quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Threat to Mousavi, as saying: “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the world peace killer of Hassan Torkaman, was carried out this Beijing blasts back at a US report critical morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.” of China’s military saying Washington Nepal A landslide triggered poses the bigger threat P7 by overnight rainfall swept through three Nepalese villages yesterday, killing at least six people while 26 were reported missing and believed to be buried by debris, officials said. Rescuers managed to pull out the six bodies from underneath houses and were searching for the others, government administrator Baburam Khanal said. More on backpage page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 14.09.2020 mon MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER 56-year-old woman falls CRIME for romance scam A 56-year-old local woman lost nearly Man accused of assaulting HKD200,000 to a love scam. At this stage, no one has been arrested, but investigation is ongoing, the Judiciary and raping ex-girlfriend Police assured. In December 2018, the victim came across a male user on a JULIE ZHU social media platform. The user claimed that he worked in the chemical business. 27-year-old man is facing They got along well and communicated Acriminal charges for mul- continuously and later became a couple. tiple offenses he committed MARQUES RENATO In January 2019, the suspect claimed against his girlfriend, the Judi- that he needed money to go on a ciary Police (PJ) reported during business trip to Thailand and wanted Friday’s joint police press confe- to borrow HKD200,000 from her. She rence. eventually transferred HKD194,000 The suspect, surnamed Ng, is worth of Thai baht to the suspect. Later, an unemployed Macau resident. when she spoke with her son, she was He and his girlfriend have an told that she might have been scammed. 11-year-old daughter. The three of them live in an apartment in Couple investigated for the central district. fake marriages In July, the victim attempted to break up with the suspect and Hoping to receive money to repay requested Ng move out of their gambling debts, a local couple apartment. At that time, the sus- masterminded two fake marriages with pect refused. two mainland residents for remuneration Ng and the victim later enga- of more than 100,000 patacas, ged in a dispute in August, whi- according to the police. The police have ch led to the woman reporting three suspects in the case: Iong, who the incident to the Public Se- is in his 60s, and Chang and Zeng, both curity Police Force (PSP). After females in their 40s. Iong and Chang this incident, Ng stopped going the police department, however ment for help. The Judiciary Police charged are a couple. Five years ago, in order to to their apartment. the suspect seized the phone Shortly after, the PSP officers the man for rape and other cri- repay gambling debts, Chang married However, at 4 a.m. on Wed- and damaged it. intercepted Ng near his ex-girl- mes, and has handed him over Xie, a mainland resident, to help Xie and Xie’s son obtain Macau residency. nesday morning, when the vic- After that, the man preven- friend’s apartment. to the prosecution authority. The Identification Bureau suspected tim returned home, she found ted the woman from leaving the During the police interroga- In June, a 24-year-old local an abnormality and requested a police that Ng had snuck into the hou- apartment. tion, Ng claimed that he did not man was accused of crimes in- investigation. During the investigation, se and was hiding in the kitchen. Approximately 20 minutes sexually assault the woman and cluding aggravated assault, rape the police also unearthed that Iong was When he was spotted, he im- later, the victim convinced Ng that his only intention was to re- and unlawful detention of his in a fake marriage with Zeng, so that mediately attacked the victim, to let her out of the apartment pair their relationship. girlfriend who had decided to Zeng and her two children could get covered her mouth with tape to buy food. As she was walking However, judging from the break up with him. Macau residency. The trio have already and tied her hands up with rope. outside, the suspect followed superficial injuries on the vic- In May, a civil servant from received their Macau IDs. Then he allegedly raped her. her. However, the woman ma- tim’s body, the PJ believes there the Health Bureau was charged The victim fought Ng and naged to get to a friend’s house is strong evidence indicating with raping his wife and accused Man loses 13 million tried to reach a phone and call and called the police depart- that the man had raped her. of domestic violence. patacas in romance scam The police have identified two suspects believed to be connected to a romance scam three years ago in which a local man claimed to lose 13 million patacas. Explosion at Zhuhai hotel The two suspects in the case were recently arrested in an Areia Preta apartment but refused to cooperate, injures three bystanders the Judiciary Police said. Three years large explosion at a Firefighters rescued mainland media reports. ago, a female suspect told the victim A Zhuhai hotel on Fri- nine people, three of Some of the bystan- over a mobile messaging app that she day injured three bystan- whom were spectators ders who were inter- was willing to offer paid sex. The victim ders, according to official who were standing near- viewed reported hearing accepted the offer and “prepaid” her 5 reports from the main- by observing the fire and four explosions on Friday million patacas in the form of gaming land press. the first few explosions. morning. vouchers. Later, a man who claimed to At about 9 a.m. on Two sustained mild inju- Video footage also be the “sex provider’s” manager, who Friday, a group of explo- ries while one sustained shows that multiple ex- This still made from video shows the scene after an explosion is believed to be the male suspect, asked the victim for 7 million patacas in sions occurred near and burns. plosions occurred. Se- Bitcoin. Later, the male suspect asked at Zhuhai OYO Teng Hu According to a report veral video clips spread pacted the ground and broke out on the ground the victim to give him HKD1.15 million in Grand Hotel, which is lo- by the People’s Daily, a on Weibo showed that first floors of two buildin- floor of a residential bui- cash, which the suspect intended to use cated in the Bai Teng Tou preliminary inspection crowds were witnessing gs. The first floor of one lding which accommo- to buy Bitcoin. Eventually, the suspect area of Doumen district. indicated that an explo- the aftermath of earlier of the buildings is mostly dates 10 residential units was unable to buy Bitcoin and decided It took six fire squads, ding LPG bottle caused explosions when sud- comprised of businesses, overlooking the scene of to leave the money at a police station, 19 fire trucks and 55 fire- the disaster. The official denly another one deto- including a children’s art the accident. Other fires from which the victim was instructed to fighters one hour to put account is that the disas- nated, causing bystan- center. were observed on the retrieve the money. That was when the out the fire, which cove- ter was caused by human ders to flee. Judging from the vi- hotel’s ground and first police were alerted to the case. red 150 square meters. accident, according to The blasts heavily im- deo footage, one fire floors. JZ www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Daniel Beitler [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Leanda Lee, Severo Portela, Sheyla Zandonai ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Anthony Lam, Emilie Tran, Irene Sam, OFFICE MANAGER Juliana Cheang [email protected] REACHING OUT! Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F.

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