Top official responds to concerns that the use of Portuguese has been lagging in judicial and administrative circles.
Politics
The nation’s new premier says the central government will be supporting Macao’s further alignment with national development plans.
The president of Macao’s legislature, and Macao’s longest-serving legislator, becomes the sole Macao member on the committee.
The man has been denied bail and if found guilty faces up to 10 years in jail under Hong Kong’s national security legislation.
In an interview with the CGTN television network, the billionaire CPPCC member says being international ‘does not mean that we become just part of them’.
Delegates in Beijing for the annual ‘two sessions’ gatherings are told that the central government will work to develop the local economy.
Lee’s trip is part of a broader series of visits to Greater Bay Area cities by Hong Kong’s chief executive as the region pushes for closer integration.
Portuguese translations of official documents can take as long as two years to appear, legislator Che Sai Wang says, affecting the rights of some residents.
Such translations could increase technology transfers between China and the lusophone countries, legislature is told.