CE meets with President of Portugal’s Supreme Court

Chief Executive Chui Sai On met the President of the Supreme Court of Portugal, António Gaspar, this week at the Santa Sancha Palace. During the meeting, Mr Gaspar mentioned that “strengthening the cooperation with Macau would bring mutual benefits and would help to maintain Macau’s special judicial system within China’s judicial system.” According to a government statement, the CE stressed that “judicial independence has been and will continue to be the cornerstone for the city’s development,” adding that the “government respects the spirit of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary institutions, as stated in the Basic Law.”

Word ‘national’ avoided when naming Taiwan universities

Taiwanese universities whose names include the word “National” are seeing the word being deleted or replaced with “Taiwan” by the Macau government, related associations, and some media outlets, according to a report by Macau Concealers.  The report says that the Tertiary Education Services Office has avoided using the word for many years, and that it resorts to names such as Taiwan University and Chengchi University as opposed to the institutions’ full names, National Taiwan University, and National Chengchi University. According to a Jornal Cheng Pou report published this week, similar changes can be found in several local media sources, including Macao Daily News and TDM.

So admits treatment of greyhounds can improve

Ambrose So, the Chairman of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM), said that the Canidrome’s existence is still justifiable as the space “promotes economic diversification in the gaming area.”  Speaking to Radio Macau on the sidelines of this week’s elections for the board of the Clube Militar, So commented on the campaigns to close the facility and admitted the need to improve its treatment of animals, saying, “I think that there is room for the Canidrome to improve [in] this aspect.”