Security forces discipline supervision committee gets more powers

Activist group People Power and its high-profile vice chairman Cheong Weng Fat submitted a petition to the Central People’s Government Liaison Office yesterday, calling for an extension of the Barrier Gate checkpoint’s opening hours to 24 hours seven days a week.An official of the office received the petition addressed to National People’s Congress (NPC) Chairman Zhang Dejiang.The Barrier Gate checkpoint currently operates from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. but the Lotus Flower Bridge checkpoint runs

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) has approved Florence Leong Ka Cheng’s request to resign from her post as the bureau’s vice-director effective from March 1, according to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.The weather bureau has a director and a vice-director.The announcement, signed by SMG Director Raymond Tam Vai Man earlier this month, stated that Leong had requested the “termination of her appointment” as the bureau’s vice-director