But Singaporeans care less about fuzzy notions of integration than their own jobs, says Chung Wai-Keung of the Singapore Management University.

ECONOMIST: Singapore and immigration

Two other councilors, labor union leader Tam Yiu Chung and banker Keung Kam Chung, were also given "portfolios" for welfare and housing policies respectively.

CNN: The Shift of Power

Brian Lynch, 44, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Chi Keung Yip, 21, in Clayton Vale, Greater Manchester, in March 1988, police said.

BBC: Brian Lynch

Lau Nai-keung, a Hong Kong member of China's National People's Congress, adds that because of Macau's reliance on tourism, its low tolerance for troublemakers is understandable.

ECONOMIST: Macau sails through a test Hong Kong flunked in 2003