Govt to launch heritage evaluation of ‘shipyard village’

Four members of the government-appointed Cultural Consultative Council yesterday backed the government’s proposal to use the plot the Old Courthouse is standing on in Nam Van for the city’s new central library.Yesterday’s meeting of the council, held at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape, included a discussion on the government’s proposed new central library project.Yesterday’s meeting was chaired by Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng. Only four

Local think tank Collective Wisdom Policy Centre yesterday slammed the government for failing to come up with plans and concrete measures to achieve its objective of transforming Macau into a smart city.The government laid out a string of plans and measures aiming to convert Macau into a smart city in the long term, in its first-ever Five-Year Development Plan, which was released in September last year.The association hosted a press conference yesterday at its office in Avenida de Horta e