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Macau Might Include National Anthem Education in Schools P2,11 ELDERLY SIBLINGS HATO, THE CITY OF SOLIDARITY HURRICANE BRINGS EPIC FACE PROSECUTION FLOODS TO HOUSTON Two siblings, a 73-year-old man Texas’s governor is and his sister, 68, are in trouble activating the entire Texas with police for spreading National Guard for search rumors related to the typhoon and rescue following P2 P4-5 P15 TUE.29 Aug 2017 T. 25º/ 31º C H. 75/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2875 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” HATO FORECAST Public pressures WORLD BRIEFS CCAC to probe Fong P3 AP PHOTO AP PHOTO Lebanon-Syria Islamic State militants and their families began leaving a border area between Lebanon and Syria yesterday as part of a negotiated deal to end the group’s presence there, Lebanese and Syrian media reported. An unidentified number of militants and their families headed in buses toward a town held by the extremist group in far eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq. CHINA The Wanda Group yesterday denied a report by a U.S. website that its chairman was detained by Chinese authorities that prompted a plunge in the share price of a Hong Kong subsidiary. More on p10 AP PHOTO THAILAND Interpol has issued an international request for the arrest of the billionaire heir to the Red Bull energy drink CHINA NEW LAW fortune, stepping up the hunt for the fugitive Thai playboy wanted in a 2012 hit-and-run incident that left a Macau might include national traffic policeman dead in Bangkok. More on p20 anthem education in schools P2,11 More on backpage 29.08.2017 tue 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Julie Zhu WO local siblings, a 73-year- Told man and his 68-year-old Elderly siblings face possible sister, have been presented to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for spreading rumors related to prosecution for spreading rumor the typhoon, the Judiciary Police (PJ) revealed yesterday at a poli- ce press conference. According to a PJ spokesper- man who, back in July, gave son, while conducting inspec- MOP40,000 to the suspect for tions on online platforms, the PJ BLOOMBERG her to send to Phan’s daughter, found the two siblings spreading who is in Vietnam. rumors. Later on, Phan’s daughter re- The brother was initially taken ported to her mother that she to the police station for interro- had not received the money. gation. Phan then reported the situation During the investigation, the to the police. police found a message on the On August 21, the suspect was man’s Wechat account saying arrested, but denied having kept that the Macau government had the money. However, the police completely blocked information had already collected sufficient regarding five dead people who evidence to charge the suspect, had been found in a parking lot and forwarded her to the prose- located in Fai Chi Kei. cution authority. According to this rumor, four of the dead people were from one USURY VICTIM IS family. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT The rumor alleged that the go- Four mainland residents were vernment did not allow people arrested for illegally imprisoning a to know nor allow journalists to mainland woman in Macau, who report what had happened. The was later discovered to be an ille- rumor also urged whoever read it gal immigrant. The four arrested to spread the message. consisted of one woman and three During the investigation, the men, all between 20 and 30 years man admitted to the police that it old. had been his sister who sent him The victim, a 48-year-old the message. pend on office’s decision. If the excluded the possibility of more VIETNAMESE ARRESTED mainland woman, borrowed The sister was then taken to the MP decides to punish the duo, people being involved. FOR FRAUD HKD200,000 from the four for police in an continuation of the they will face a maximum of six The police authority also calls A 49-year-old Vietnamese wo- gambling purposes. Later on, she investigation. The woman said months in prison or a maximum the public not to resend informa- man has been arrested for kee- lost all the money she had bor- that a third party had forwarded penalty of 240 days of fines. tion relating to Typhoon Hato wi- ping money given to her by a rowed. the message to her. According to the PJ, this is the thout first confirming the authen- victim who wanted the money to Her travel documents were kept The two siblings sent the mes- first case in which people have ticity of the facts in order to avoid be sent to her daughter. The ar- by the four, who made HKD35,000 sage to at least six Wechat group been arrested for spreading ru- unnecessary panic and chaos, as rested woman, referred to by the in interest while the woman was chats, and to 30 private conver- mors related to the typhoon’s af- well as false assumptions. police as Mguyem, is a domestic gambling. The woman was then sations. termath. The authority also noted that helper in Macau. imprisoned in a hotel located in Having already been forwarded The PJ is currently investi- spreading fake information mi- The victim, named Phan, is Cotai. The case was reported to the to the MP, the sentence will de- gating the case, and it has not ght violate the law. a 43-year-old Vietnamese wo- police by a hotel employee. Macau might include anthem education in schools HINA’S National Peo- tory that it be implemented teach them to understand According to Sonia Chan ple’s Congress (NPC) in Macau as a national law,” the history and spiritual and to Qiao Xiaoyang’s C AP PHOTO Standing Committee yes- said Chan. connotation of it. previous response, the na- terday continued its review Last year, the local gover- Earlier, Qiao Xiaoyang, tional anthem should also of the draft laws on the na- nment also announced that a member of the Standing be featured in Macau’s pri- tional anthem, suggesting it had reached a consensus Committee of the NPC, also mary and middle school the inclusion of the national with mainland authorities pointed out that the anthem textbooks in case the an- anthem in the textbooks of to produce standardized law will be listed in Annex them law is eventually esta- both primary and middle textbooks, particularly for III of the Basic Law in both blished in Mainland China. schools, according to Xi- the study of history. Hong Kong and Macau. The latest draft suggests a nhua. The NPC further sugges- Qiao said that, in Hong maximum of 15 days of de- Previously, Sonia Chan, ted yesterday that the an- Kong and Macau, any legal tention, or a warning issued the Secretary for Adminis- them should be regarded as articles which can reflect by the police authority, if tration and Justice said that important content by pri- the state sovereignty, and anybody changes the an- “it is mandatory” for Macau mary and middle schools any territorial integrity, na- them’s lyrics or dishonors The draft also bans using where the anthem is being to implement China’s natio- within the curriculum of tional flag, national symbol, it while it is playing or being the anthem in private fune- played or sung should beha- nal anthem laws. patriotic education. and national diplomacy sung. rals or on other occasions ve solemnly and must not “I think that if a national Moreover, it says schools which reflect one country, The draft made it clear deemed unsuitable by au- display any behavior that anthem law is proposed in should organize students to should all be included in the that the anthem should not thorities. disrespects the anthem. the future, then it is manda- sing the anthem, as well as Basic Laws’ annex. be used in commercials. 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