Ambassador Paulo Jorge Espírito Santo – from São Tomé and Princípe – became the new Forum Macao deputy secretary-general today, replacing Rodrigo Brum who ended his three year term.
Politics
In Tuesday’s meeting of the Cybersecurity Commission, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, who chairs the entity, urged local government officials to “exclude formalism” in their work to safeguard the city’s cybersecurity.
Court of Final Appeal (TUI) President Sam Hou Fai called for a careful reflection on Macao’s Portuguese-style legal system that has been inspired by the one in Portugal.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng attended Wednesday morning’s ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen as a special economic zone (SEZ).
Xi Jinping has asked Shenzhen to take active moves to further promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, calling for efforts to synergise economic rules and mechanisms in the three regions.
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.
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.