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Liu Fengming, a member of the Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council, said yesterday that as teenagers who spend a lot of time in internet cafés tended to neglect their studies and become obsessed with online games, the government should raise the legal age for those entering them.Liu, a senior member of the Federation of Trade Unions (known as Gung Luen in Cantonese), made the remarks during a monthly meeting of the government-appointed council at the Islands District Public

In response to Tropical Storm Mulan, the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) issued Tropical Storm Signal No.8 at 7 a.m. for six hours yesterday, during which a 10-minute mean wind speed was recorded at Ponte da Amizade (“Friendship Bridge”) at the lower limit of the signal, indicating a “weak” No.8 condition, according to an SMG statement.As Mulan made landfall in Zhanjiang city in Guangdong province at around 11 a.m. yesterday and gradually moved away from Macau, the bureau