There are 614,000 residents who have collected their first round of consumption subsidy smartcards, which equates to 93% of those registered.
DSE
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.
Local residents have in the five days, since they were valid, spent MOP 295 million on goods and services with their government-issued consumption subsidy smartcards.
The collection process for government-issued consumption subsidy smartcards kicked off yesterday, and by 6 p.m. over 25,000 residents had collected their cards. The process was carried out in a “good order”.
The registration for government-issued smartcards will end next Wednesday and all work related to the collection of the smartcards has been completed.
Since February 1, the Macau Economic Bureau has received about 2,500 applications for financial assistance from SMEs hit by the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.
The Macau Government will review the legal diploma that requires at least two years of registration in the Financial Services Bureau for SMEs to apply for existing support plans.
The first batch of rough diamonds subject to supervision and control by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme arrived in Macau on Thursday.
In response to the findings by a U.K. NGO on Macau’s lack of governance in deterring the trade of endangered species, DSE has emphasised its efforts in inspection and law enforcement.