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Lawmaker-cum-lawyer Vong Hin Fai, who heads the Legislative Assembly’s 3rd Standing Committee, said yesterday that his committee has completed its review of a government-initiated bill amending the current law regulating the exchange of tax-related information with other jurisdictions.The committee held a closed-door meeting yesterday to review the bill – the outline of which was passed during a plenary session in November – after which Vong said during a media briefing that his committee

Macau’s hustings for the direct and indirect Legislative Assembly elections began at 0:00 today.The polls consist of the direct election of 14 lawmakers by popular vote and the indirect election of 12 legislators by association representatives. A total of 14 lists comprising 128 candidates are running in the direct election – 9.1 candidates per seat up for grabs. In the run-up to the elections, five candidacy lists were disqualified by the Electoral Affairs Commission of the