Police bust unlicensed kitchen with illegal workers

The Public Security Police (PSP) raided an unlicensed food factory that had hired illegal workers on Friday morning. The kitchen, selling about a thousand boxed
meals to workmen from nearby construction sites each day, had been operating for half a year at a venue in Taipa that allegedly belongs to grassroots labor group, the Macau Steel-fixing Association.
According to the PSP, the kitchens had been producing 800 to 1,200 meal boxes each day and selling them to a number of large-­scale construction sites at the price of MOP20. The venue’s hygiene conditions were extremely poor and did not meet the standards for producing and operating food products, as confirmed by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM)’s Food Saftey Centre.
The unlicensed kitchen was raided in the PSP’s surprise inspection of the labor group’s venue, based on intelligence. Eight illegal workers and one local employer under suspicion were arrested in the bust. The kitchen was shut down immediately and the food products destroyed.
The PSP checked a total of 14 people’s identification documents and detained eight. BY

Statistics | Residents’ deposits increase by 3.2 pct

Residents’ deposits increased 3.2 percent in April over the preceding month, data released by the Monetary Authority of Macau shows. MOP, HKD and CNY and other foreign currencies’ deposits increased at respective rates of 0.6, 6, 0.4 and 4.4 percent, while USD deposits decreased by 1.8 percent. Non-resident deposits grew 0.8 percent to reach MOP238.4 billion. Public sector deposits with the banking sector increased 8.4 percent to MOP123 billion.
Total deposits within the banking sector rose 3.2 percent from the previous month to MOP824.4 billion. Domestic loans to the private sector increased 1.7 percent from the previous month to MOP360.1 billion. External loans grew 1.2 percent to MOP358.7 billion.