HONG KONG // Macau police have arrested 150 people in raids at casinos and hotels across the territory following a rash of violence that raised fears of a revival of gang warfare in the world's biggest gambling market.
Police said that 1,300 people were questioned in an exercised codenamed "Operation Thunderbolt 2012" carried out with authorities in Hong Kong and mainland China.
The operation follows a spate of murders last month in the Chinese territory, including the deaths of two mainland Chinese men at a five-star hotel and the killing of a mainland Chinese woman.
A casino boss was assaulted in another incident.
The former Portuguese colony was rocked in the late 1990s by car bombings and assassinations as triads battled for control of lucrative casino VIP rooms.
Trump v Khan
2016: Feud begins after Khan criticised Trump’s proposed Muslim travel ban to US
2017: Trump criticises Khan’s ‘no reason to be alarmed’ response to London Bridge terror attacks
2019: Trump calls Khan a “stone cold loser” before first state visit
2019: Trump tweets about “Khan’s Londonistan”, calling him “a national disgrace”
2022: Khan’s office attributes rise in Islamophobic abuse against the major to hostility stoked during Trump’s presidency
July 2025 During a golfing trip to Scotland, Trump calls Khan “a nasty person”
Sept 2025 Trump blames Khan for London’s “stabbings and the dirt and the filth”.
Dec 2025 Trump suggests migrants got Khan elected, calls him a “horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor”
Name: Peter Dicce
Title: Assistant dean of students and director of athletics
Favourite sport: soccer
Favourite team: Bayern Munich
Favourite player: Franz Beckenbauer
Favourite activity in Abu Dhabi: scuba diving in the Northern Emirates
KILLING OF QASSEM SULEIMANI
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha
Starring: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shantanu Maheshwari, Jimmy Shergill, Saiee Manjrekar
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Rating: 2.5/5
