Home fire possibly due to electrical fault: firemen

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in a statement yesterday that it has received 47 applications for its ongoing scheme that offers a subsidy to owners for scrapping their old diesel-powered vehicles, since its launch at the middle of last month.The statement also said that the bureau’s Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Fund has completed assessing 36 out of the 47 applications.The statement did not say whether any of the applications have been rejected. The

Macau police continued today their investigation into an arson attack yesterday afternoon outside the front gate of a local middle school by a young man reportedly suffering from a mental disorder.According to police and local Chinese-language media reports as well as video footage by passers-by, at about 4 p.m. yesterday the 21-year-old suspect wearing a safety helmet and holding a can suddenly splashed apparently flammable liquid at the front gate of the school, after which he ignited