A total of 15 local residents have submitted their nominations that they obtained from electors to run in the upcoming election of 12 local deputies to the 13th National People’s Congress.
Politics
The Macau government Tuesday rejected the European Union’s “unilateral and biased” decision to include Macau in a blacklist of 17 tax havens.
Macau and Hong Kong signed Tuesday an arrangement for mutual service of judicial documents in civil and commercial cases.
Some 85 percent of the members of the Legislative Assembly (AL) voted Monday for the suspension of directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou from the legislature so that he can stand trial for alleged aggravated disobedience.
Chen Sixi, a vice-director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said Sunday that the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Macau Basic Law are not functioning parallel to each other but, instead, the Constitution is the “mother law” and the Basic Law is a “sub-law”.
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said he was confident that the Taipa section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project will not run further over budget – i.e. the total cost of the project will not exceed 11 billion patacas (US$1.375 billion).
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said in the legislature’s hemicycle Tuesday that the government will require nationals from six countries to submit a certificate of non-criminal record when applying to work in Macau.
The Conference for Electing Deputies of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) convened its first plenary session on Friday in preparation for electing 12 local NPC deputies.
The Chief Executive has initiated disciplinary procedures against the former director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau Fong Soi Kun, and Florence Leong Ka Cheng, the bureau’s current vice-director.