The Court of First Instance (TJB) has scheduled the start of the trial of directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou for alleged aggravated disobedience for January 9, the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) said in a statement Tuesday.
Politics
The Macau government will thoroughly study the European Union’s official documentation on its recent decision to include Macau on its controversial list of 17 “non-cooperative tax jurisdictions”, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Tuesday, stressing the aim was to convince Brussels to remove Macau from the list.
Public Prosecutor-General Ip Son Sang said Sunday there was no political motive behind the decision of the Public Prosecution Office (MP) to prosecute directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou earlier this year of alleged aggravated disobedience.
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.
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).