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IFJ FINDS NO IMPROVEMENT IN MAINLAND MAN ACCUSED OF TOKYO LOCAL MEDIA FREEDOM CARJACKING SEEKS The International Federation of Police has handed a 38-year-old HELP Journalists said that the media in mainland man over to the Public TO SAVE Macau “received direct threats from Prosecution Office (MP) after he was SURVIVING the local government” accused of carjacking HOSTAGE P3 P5 P13 TUE.27 Jan 2015 T. 16º/ 21º C H. 65/ 98% Blackberry email service powered by CTM MOP 5.00 2237 N.º HKD 7.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS Money from Chinese fake AP PHOTO bank funneled to Macau P3 ARGENTINA A journalist credited with being the first to report the gunshot death of federal prosecutor LUSA Alberto Nisman has left Argentina because of fear for his safety. Damian Pachter of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald left the country Saturday, the local journalism group Foro de Periodismo Argentino said. The group said Pachter reported on Friday he was followed by unknown people and felt his safety was at risk. INDIA Barack Obama presides over a grand display of Indian military hardware, marching bands, and elaborately dressed camels, becoming the first American leader to be honored as chief guest at India’s annual Republic Day festivities. The parade was the centerpiece of Obama’s three-day visit to India, which is aimed at strengthening a relationship between the world’s largest democracies that has at times been fraught with tension and suspicion. More on p12 MALAYSIA Malaysia Airlines officials were struggling to restore the embattled carrier’s website after it was hacked by a group proclaiming support for the Islamic State group. The airline’s site was changed, at first with a message saying “404 - Plane Not Found” and that it was “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate,” with a photo of one of the airline’s Airbus A380 superjumbo Local Muslims against jets. The browser tab for the website said “ISIS will prevail.” More on p13 radical Islam P7 MDT/LUSA REPORT More on backpage 27.01.2015 tue th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 Brazilian detained in alleged human trafficking case PJ has detained a Brazilian woman who allegedly trafficked one of her female compatriots to Macau and coerced her into providing sex services to bar patrons. The victim, in her 20s, was allegedly told in Rio de Janeiro that she could earn as much as HKD400,000 each month if she worked as a waitress in a Macau bar. However, after she arrived in Macau, she was asked to wear revealing clothes and participate in an interview in a bar. The victim felt that the arrangement was not what she had agreed to and asked to return to Brazil. But she was intimidated and was told that her family in Brazil would be killed. The victim contacted the PJ and was rescued. Man accused of raping ex- girlfriend and filming the However, the manager fou- process nd that the email address was different from the usual A 35-year-old local taxi PJ receives multiple one the company used in the driver was alleged to have past. They also felt suspi- raped his ex-girlfriend at cious about the email. There- his apartment and filmed computer fraud reports fore, the manager contacted the process. The man the French company through allegedly has a gambling email and enquired about the addiction and had asked João Pedro Lau However, he found that the made him suspect that it may issue. his ex-girlfriend to lend platform did not give him the be fraudulent. He claimed to The manager said that they received a reply that confir- him money. The woman HE Judiciary Police (PJ) object he purchased. It also have lost TWD39,000 (arou- asked the victim to put an ex- nd MOP11,000). PJ is still in- med the French company had broke up with him. Since Trevealed that they have re- tra TWD8,000 into a new ac- vestigating the case. changed their bank account. the man knew that the ceived reports on three sepa- rate cases of suspected com- count before refunding him The other two suspected But they still felt suspicious victim often went to the puter fraud over the previous the previous TWD3,000. The fraud cases were reported on of the scenario and decided to building where the suspect weekend, where one of the vic- victim followed the instruc- January 25. In the first case, call the company. lived, to find her friend tims claimed to have lost up to tions and was again told that the manager of a company Through the phone call, who also lived there, he MOP10,000. he had entered a wrong bank claimed to the PJ that their the manager learnt that the ambushed the victim on The first victim approached account number, which led company started emailing a French firm had sent no such the staircase and abducted the PJ on January 23 and clai- to his account in the platform French company in November emails, and later found that her to his apartment med that he met a person over being suspended. The vic- last year to arrange a business the company’s email was ha- before raping her. He was a mobile phone game the day tim was asked to pay another agreement. cked. also said to have recorded before. The person told him TWD28,000 to lift the sus- When the manager was about In the third case, the Face- the crime with his mobile that there was an Internet pension, which he followed. to make a bank transfer to ce- book account of the victim phone. But the victim platform that allowed users to However, the victim found ment the agreement, he recei- was allegedly hacked and used resisted and snatched the trade virtual goods and objec- that he still could not purcha- ved an email from the French to send fake messages, asking phone from the suspect. ts in the game. se any virtual objects or get his company, claiming that their their Facebook friends to buy She took the phone with The victim then logged into funds back. When he tried to bank account was suspended, online game points for them. her to the PJ and the the platform and deposited contact the platform again, he and asking the manager to It is still not clear how many authorities eventually TWD3,000 into his new ac- was told to pay TWD36,000 transfer the money to another of their friends have suffered detained the man. count to buy a virtual object. to reopen the account, which bank account. financial losses. 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Philips, João Pedro Lau, Joseph Cheung, Juliet Risdon, Keith Ip, Renato Marques (photographer), Richard Whitfield, Robert Carroll MACAU SAR Telephones: +853 287 160 81/2 Fax: +853 287 160 84 (Hong Kong correspondent), Rodrigo de Matos (cartoonist), Ruan Du Toit Bester, Sandra Norte (designer), Sum Choi, Viviana Seguí Advertisement [email protected] Thank You! | ASSOCIATE CONTRIBUTORS_JML Property, MacauHR, MdME Lawyers, PokerStars | NEWS AGENCIES_ Associated Press, For subscription and general issues: Bloomberg, Lusa News Agency, MacauHub, MacauNews, Xinhua | SECRETARY_Yang Dongxiao [email protected] [email protected] | Printed at Welfare Printing Ltd Like us? facebook.com/mdtimes SEND NEWSWORTHY INFORMATION AND PRESS RELEASES TO: [email protected] WEBSITE: WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO tue 27.01.2015 th Anniversary 澳聞 MACAU 3 João Pedro Lau HE International Fe- deration of Journa- Report finds no improvement lists (IFJ) yesterday released its 2014 An- Tnual Report on Press Freedom in local media freedom in China and Hong Kong. In its “Hong Kong and Macau” section, the report said that the media in Macau “received direct threats from the local Furthermore, government”. It mentioned an alleged self-censorship the report has incident that took place on described the June 4 last year when TDM was said to have disciplined Macau Health two anchors for their choice of clothing, together with con- Bureau as troversy over the dismissal of scholars by local universities. ‘playing PR The report focused its at- tricks’ tention on the situation in mainland China and Hong Kong while commenting that, dent surrounding two anchors “Macau’s press freedom situa- from TDM who were alleged tion was not much better than to have been “disciplined for Hong Kong’s”. making a subtle on-air pro- “Press freedom in Macau did test in commemoration of not improve. Journalists were the 1989 Tiananmen Square arrested on spurious grounds massacre in Beijing”. It also and two outspoken scholars mentioned the departure of were ‘kicked out’ of their uni- former TDM executive board versities”, the report said. president Leong Kam Chun, It then detailed several con- as well as several anonymous troversial events that took pla- complaints to the Macau Jour- ce last year regarding media nalists Association from TDM freedom, including an inci- journalists who claimed that PRESS FREEDOM IN HONG KONG ‘UNDER UNPRECEDENTED PRESSURE’ THE IFJ reported described 2014 have self-censored its news pro- censorship in the broadcas- to show that one of the voters Movement were denied entry as “a bumpy year for Hong Kong” gram by removing a script from a ter’s news department was es- in the referendum was a PJ of- into Macau during the visit of and claimed that at least 39 re- news bulletin that showed seven calating.