São Tomean ambassador Paulo Jorge Espírito Santo will be the new deputy secretary-general of the Permanent Secretariat of the Macao-based Forum for Economic and Commercial Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries.
Politics
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng will not be in Macao until Wednesday, the Macao government announced today.
The former president of the government-run Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Cheong Chou Weng, also known as Jackson Chang, was sentenced to two years behind bars today for breach of confidentiality and irregularities in his income declaration.
Jackson Chang was sentenced to a 2-year jail term today by the Court of First Instance for breach of secrecy and inexact asset declaration.
The government has relinquished all its shares in the Macau New Technologies Incubator Centre (Manetic) which, notwithstanding the government’s retreat, will continue to operate.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) will set up four divisions handling national security matters next Monday.
Macao’s number of visitor arrivals in the first four days of the 8-day National Day/Mid-Autumn Festival holiday fell by 87.4% year-on-year to 77,092.
Macao will give better play to its platform role in serving the nation’s “dual-cycle” development pattern that is based on a domestic and an international economic cycle, but with the domestic cycle being the mainstay, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U has ordered the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) to review its granting of subsidies to local schools for various projects over the past five years, and submit a report to her within three months.