506 apply for Macau & HK tour-guide licence in Hengqin: official

A non-resident worker, who had gambled away all his money, was arrested on Friday for falsely reporting to the police that two fake police officers in uniform had seized 40,000 patacas from him, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a press conference yesterday.The thirty-three-year-old suspect surnamed Wang told the police that he is a construction worker.According to Chong, Wang reported to the Judiciary Police on Friday that he had been intercepted on Monday outside a

Commentary        BEIJING – China’s population maintained slow growth over the past decade, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said yesterday, citing data from the seventh national census.The census showed that the country’s population on the mainland has reached 1.41 billion, up 5.38 percent from 2010. That means China still has the world’s largest population. Its population will stay above 1.4 billion for a certain period in future, and the advantages of its