A guest speaker and audience members at yesterday’s Macau Forum open-air debate slammed the government for using “outdated” regulations and criteria for hoisting typhoon signals and making decisions that do not take residents’ safety into account.
Attending the forum as a guest speaker, Andy Tang Iu Man, who heads the Meteorological Division of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), said his bureau would consider updating regulations on the criteria when a particular typhoon signal is to be hoisted, to ensure that the decision to hoist the signal will take residents’ safety into account.
The weekly debate is hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM in Areia Preta Park every Sunday.
Andy Tang Iu Man (centre), who heads the Meteorological Division of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), speaks during yesterday’s Macau Forum while lawmaker Melinda Chan Mei Yi (left) and local think-tank Collective Wisdom Policy Centre Vice President Andy Loi Man Keong look on in Areia Preta Park. Photo: Tony Wong
