Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has met a number of senior central government officials in Beijing to further strengthen cooperation between the mainland and Macao.
Politics
China’s Minister of Commerce and the Macao Chief Executive have both commended Macao’s efforts and achievements in the fight against COVID-19.
The National Immigration Administration of China has announced that from 23 September, all mainland China residents can visit Macao with individual and group travel visas.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, will pay a six-day working visit to Beijing from tomorrow, the Macao Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced today.
The Federal Register of the United States has announced the lifting of special measures imposed on Macao’s Delta Asia Bank, and the withdrawal of the Notice of Finding involving the local bank.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has said that video surveillance and facial recognition technology will be reinforced in the coming years.
The Legislative Assembly passed a government-initiated bill regulating its civil protection work, according to which those spreading rumours when “unforeseen public incidents” will face a prison term of up to three years.
Shen Beili, after heading the Foreign Ministry Commission in Macao for two years, took up her new post as a vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (IDCPC) this month
Sources told public broadcaster RTHK today that the local government is studying the possibility of postponing the Legislative Council election for a year, with little hope that the COVID-19 outbreak will be brought under control by September.