The two were found guilty of bribery, money laundering and other crimes in a graft case involving 19 other defendants.
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The move is as much geopolitical as financial, with a growing number of countries questioning their dependence on the US dollar.
Currently, an average of just 4,750 people a day ride the system, but the opening of new sections this year and next are expected to boost numbers.
Although domestic sugar supply is unaffected for the time being, devastated sugarcane fields will impact future production.
However, the territory’s reserves still stand a long way off from the all-time high of almost 679 billion patacas recorded in 2021, figures show.
The company says its performance last year was attributable to the pandemic, but analysts say it will make a strong comeback in 2023.
Wilfred Wong, the president and executive director of Sands China, says the gaming concessionaire is already going in the ‘direction that the government wants us to go in’.
The chief executive made the remarks during a meeting on Tuesday with Portuguese ambassador, Paulo Jorge Nascimento.
An Angolan and Portuguese consortium has been given a US$1.168 billion contract to build a 260-kilometre railway connecting Angola’s coast and hinterlands.