A financial support guideline for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area has been issued, China’s central bank said.
Politics
Lau Wai Meng, one of the two vice-directors of the Economic Services Bureau (DSE), will be the new president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), the Portuguese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM reported on Thursday.
An agreement to relax cross-border quarantine measures between Hong Kong, Guangdong province and Macau could be reached within weeks.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has urged his top officials to ensure that the tasks presented in his 2020 Policy Address last month will be completed this year.
The local government aims for a Light Rail Transit (LRT) section connecting Macau’s Cotai and Zhuhai’s Hengqin Island to get off the ground this year.
Two of Macau’s main border checkpoints will resume their normal operating hours at 6 a.m. Sunday.
COVID-19 “has resulted in many impacts” on the city’s public security – CCTV expansion and prison project both face delays.
The government aims to launch a public consultation by end of this year on granting of future gaming concessions in the run-up to the expiration of the city’s three gaming concessions and three sub-concessions in 2022.
Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon has told lawmakers that the government will hold a public consultation this year on its plans to reform the civil service.