MJC pledges to invest up to 4.5 billion patacas

Eleven suspects of three cross-border extortion gangs were arrested separately between the end of last year and this week by the mainland and Hong Kong police during a joint operation by the mainland, Hong Kong and local police, involving the equivalent of more than 3 million patacas in ill-gotten gains, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.The 11 suspected gang members comprise six mainlanders and five Hong Kong residents.According to Ho,

Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) President Lei Heong Iok said yesterday that his institute would increase the ratio of freshmen from the mainland to up to 20 percent of each intake, starting from the academic year 2018/19.Lei spoke to reporters on the sidelines of the institute’s commencement ceremony on its campus in Zape.The government said early this year that the Ministry of Education in Beijing has allowed that the city’s public tertiary education institutions up to 20 percent of