Maintenance work to affect traffic lights: CEM

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) will provide about 14 million patacas for former live poultry vendors to use as severance payments for their employees, IACM President Jose Fonseca Tavares said yesterday.Tavares made the remarks after a closed-door meeting with about 50 representatives of the now defunct live poultry sector at the bureau’s headquarters in Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro.The bureau announced late last month that the government had decided to impose a permanent ban on

Commentary        BEIJING – China has made it a strategic plan to advance rural vitalization across the board and accelerate the building of strong agriculture, with a view to building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects.The plan’s importance was reiterated in the “No. 1 central document” for 2023, which was unveiled on Monday, outlining nine tasks in comprehensively promoting rural vitalization this year.As the first policy statement released