Cheong Sio Kei, the former director of the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA), resigned from his post as director of the Mapping and Land Registry Bureau (DSCC), effective from last Tuesday, according to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.
According to the announcement signed by DSCC Acting Director Vicente Luís Gracias last Tuesday, the bureau terminated Cheong’s position as bureau director upon his personal request. The announcement did not elaborate on the request. Cheong returned to his original public service position in the bureau on the same day.
Cheong started to work in the Mapping and Land Registry Bureau as a public servant when he joined the public administration in 1993 when Macau was still under Portuguese administration. Cheong had been the acting director of the bureau since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in December 1999 until June 2009 when the Environmental Protection Bureau was established and he was appointed as its first director.
