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.
Politics
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.
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.