Briefs | Fu Luen school new campus inaugurated

Fu Luen School organized a ceremony to celebrate the inauguration of its new campus. The school’s new facilities are located at the Avenida do Dr. Francisco Vieira Machado. The campus has been operating since the beginning of this academic year. The new facilities can provide around 1,000 places to kindergarten and primary school students. It is composed of 12 stories and two underground levels, occupying a total area of 22,000 square meters. The sports field and library will open to the public soon.

Mobile library’s books burnt in blaze

A blaze took place at the back end of Edf. Mei Lok Garden, at the Estrada Marginal da Ilha Verde, yesterday in the early morning. Forty people were evacuated and no injuries were reported. The fire then spread to a nearby mobile library, burning some of its books. The Fire Services Bureau says the fire is suspicious and it has already forwarded the case to the Judiciary Police. The Cultural Affairs Bureau assessed the damage. The department announced that the library will still resume operations tomorrow.

Four Macau residents bought counterfeit show tickets

Earlier this week, four Macau residents fell for an online fraud system and have lost a total of MOP92,100, according to the Judiciary Police. The authority believes the crimes were conducted by a single person, but a suspect has not been arrested yet. A female profile claimed to be able to provide tickets for two concerts which would take place in Macau and Hong Kong. A 26-year-old Macau resident paid the suspect MOP55,460 in exchange for a total of 82 tickets, which is the most serious single case in the series of crimes. A 28-year-old Macau male driver also lost MOP31,720.

Imports decrease 19.3pct year-on-year

Total merchandise for October 2016 amounted to MOP759 million, according to a statement issued by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), down by 0.7 percent year-on-year. The value of re-exports (MOP618 million) for the month slid by 1.6 percent, but that of domestic exports (MOP141 million) rose by 3.3 percent. Meanwhile, total merchandise import decreased by 19.3 percent year-on-year in October to MOP6.09 billion, of which imports of motor cars and mobile phones decline by 54.6 percent and 35 percent respectively. Subsequently, the merchandise trade deficit amounted to about MOP5.33 billion. From January to October 2016, total value of merchandise import fell by 18.2 percent to MOP58.12 billion.

EUAP-M showcase local shorts

The European Union Academic Programme in Macao (EUAP-M) will present the EU Short Film Challenge 2016 tomorrow, where 20 short films will be screened from 7 p.m. in the Student Activity Center Theater (E31) at the University of Macau (UM) campus. This is the third edition of this competition, which involves more than 60 students from the video workshop of the Department of Communications at UM. For this year’s competition, students were challenged to produce short films around the theme “#Migrations”. Students have used documentary and narrative approaches to explore topics related to Macau. The EU Short Film Challenge 2016 is one of the activities organized by the EUAP-M. Established in 2012, the EUAP-M is a partnership between the UM and the Institute of European Studies of Macau, co-financed by the European Union.