Chui appoints new culture chief

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s arbitration procedures, which aims to encourage residents to choose arbitration as an alternative means of dispute resolution.Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan introduced the outline of the bill, which is to replace the city’s current rules on the arbitration process, during a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.According to Chan,

Indirectly-elected lawmaker Vong Hin Fai, the newly-elected president of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), said yesterday that around 440 people are currently registered as lawyers in Macau, a decrease from the around 500 before the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect Macau in early 2020.Vong made the remarks while speaking to reporters during yesterday’s Spring Festival Lunch hosted by the legislature for local Chinese-, English- and Portuguese-language media representatives at MGM Macau in