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12 YEARS A-CHANGIN’ Double Down! ADVERTISING HERE Kowie Geldenhuys Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo +853 287 160 81 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WEDNESDAY T. 17º/ 23º Air Quality Good MOP 8.00 3459 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 22 Jan 2020 HKD 10.00 THE TOURISM BOARD WILL DEPLOY MURDER SUSPECT LAWMAKER SULU SOU HAS DRAWN MORE STAFF AT MAJOR ATTRACTIONS ATTENTION TO THE STATE OF THIS WEEKEND, WHILE THE POLICE WILL DENIES MASTERMINDING SPECIAL EDUCATION IN MACAU, MONITOR CROWDS WITH CAMERAS LETHAL KNIFE ATTACK CLAIMING IT IS FALLING BEHIND P3 P2 P8 AP PHOTO NEW RESPONSE TEAM READY AS China has sentenced the former president of LUNAR NEW YEAR APPROACHES P4,8,12 WUHAN CORONAVIRUS Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of AP PHOTO accepting more than $2 million in bribes. More on p11 Malaysia The family of a London teen found dead after she mysteriously vanished from a Malaysian nature resort last year has sued the resort owner for alleged negligence and appealed to the government for an inquest to determine what happened to her. The lawyer, Sankara Nair, said the family strongly believed Nora was abducted as she has mental and physical disabilities and couldn’t have wandered off on her own. AP PHOTO Thailand The Constitutional Court yesterday acquitted the country’s third- largest political party of seeking to overthrow the constitutional monarchy in another legal case highlighting political divisions in the Southeast Asian nation. The court ruled that the Future Forward Party showed no intention of committing sedition and that the complaint had not been filed correctly. South Korea An anti- piracy unit has temporarily expanded its mission to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil route at the center of soaring New liaison tensions between Iran and the United States. South Korea’s Defense official urges Ministry announced the expansion yesterday, Hong Kong to saying it was meant to help ensure the safe passage of South Korean vessels enact national and nationals through the waterway. Jorge Viegas shares his views on security law motorcycle racing in Asia More on backpage P9 P6-7 INTERVIEW page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 22.01.2020 wed MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER Car accident in Korea leaves Macau woman in coma Murder suspect denies A local woman fell into a coma after being hit by a car in Seoul, the masterminding lethal attack capital of South Korea. Her husband HE main suspect in a vio- sustained bone fracture in his leg Tlent murder case in Areia from the accident. The accident Preta has denied she master- happened at 3 p.m., on January 17 minded the attack, the Judi- when the couple was sightseeing ciary Police (PJ) told a press at the Ewha Woman’s University in conference yesterday. the country’s capital. As they walked The 33-year-old suspect across a zebra crossing, they were is surnamed Liao and comes hit by a car that had slipped down a from Hunan province of main- slope. The driver was not in the car, land China. although the engine was on. It is The attack took place be- suspected that the driver forgot to tween 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Ja- apply the parking brake. Both Macau nuary 19, the PJ said. At around and mainland authorities are in touch with the injured and providing all 7 p.m. that day, the emergency possible assistance. services received the first re- port about the attack which ha- ppened at Pat Tat San Chun, a Police lift charge residential building on Avenida on assault suspect de Venceslau de Morais. The first report revealed A police officer has lifted his charge three were injured – one of against a woman who verbally Weapons used in the attack confiscated by the police them without any sign of life assaulted him and damaged – all of whom were sent to the government property at a police station. The mainland woman, hospital. Further investigation tted at 5:12 p.m. The police vened and was attacked by her limbs. surnamed Huang was charged with unearthed that the suspect en- believe she spent some time the suspect too. In the chaos The boy sustained wou- aggravated insult and vandalism. On tered Macau at about 4 p.m. lingering around or inside the and confusion, the 10-year- nds to his face, chest and left February 17, 2018, the woman acted that day. The PJ believe that she building before actually ente- -old daughter apparently shoulder. The grandmother violently toward the police officer. then went to a supermarket to ring the apartment of the vic- managed to sneak out of the was critically injured, with The police officer took the woman buy the weapons – a 30.5-centi- tims. house and sought help at the serious cuts on her left chest, back to the station as she remained meter knife, two ice picks, and The apartment owner’s mo- building’s security post. left abdomen, right shoulder emotionally unsettled. The case had a bottle of chili powder - which ther let her in. She spoke with Public Security Police Force and both hands. already reached court but the woman were later used to carry out the the people inside: the owner’s (PSP) deployed officers from More than a decade ago, the was absent from the first hearing. It is act, in addition to two bottles of wife, who had been married its special task division who suspect and the apartment unclear why the officer opted to drop white liquor which were found to the owner for eight years, were equipped with shields owner were in a romantic re- the charge. outside the apartment. and their two children, in ad- to the scene. When the police lationship. After breaking up, The suspect poured some dition to the owner’s mother. arrived, the grandmother was they remained friends. Fire Services test chili powder into the pocket of Allegedly, she suddenly took still fighting the suspect. She told the PJ that she sus- response to mock her coat which led the police out the knife and attacked the The wife was declared dead pected her ex-boyfriend had to believe that the powder was owner’s 5-year-old son, and at the hospital. A post-mor- somehow done harm to her, fire on LRT initially part of the attack. subsequently tried to attack tem showed that she sustai- such as poisoning her. The The Fire Services Bureau (CB) and The police said that the sus- his 33-year-old wife, who was ned three cut wounds on her suspect agreed to medical tes- the Sociedade do Metro Ligeiro de pect arrived at the building killed during the attack. neck, two stab wounds in her ts, which ultimately did not Macau, SA, have held a drill to test where the crime was commi- The owner’s mother inter- chest, and multiple cuts on support her claims. AL the response from the services to a hypothetical outbreak of fire at the Light Rapid Transit (LRT). The drill took place on the evening of Ip does not see the go- January 21 and was staged at the LRT Station of the Taipa Maritime vernment making spe- Terminal. The exercise simulated Lawmakers accuse public of cific policies but instead a situation in which the first car of asked the government to LRT train heading from the Taipa clarify the definition of Maritime Terminal to Airport Station politicizing imported labor “professional” and im- had smoke inside it, and then lost plement a transparent power, prompting the staff from LRT WO indirectly-elec- about the idea of impor- for the city to develop its terprises. evaluation mechanism company to initiate the emergency Tted lawmakers re- ting workers, and that economy. Such profes- Both expressed the to support the import of procedures. In the process, the presenting the business the issue had been poli- sionals are also a crucial belief that local people foreign professionals. staff from the LRT evacuated the sector in Macau’s Le- ticized. part of Macau’s plan to have negative feelings Wang expressed his train, helping the passengers on gislative Assembly have The two business re- further integrate into the about importing foreign view that the approval board to return to the Maritime described local people’s presentatives made their Greater Bay Area. workers. time for foreign workers Terminal station on foot through an resistance to importing views known before a Wang commended Moreover, Ip said the is too long. He suggests emergency escape route. The CB foreign workers as an plenary meeting at the the achievements made government has been the government conduct deployed a total of nine emergency obstruction to the city’s Legislative Assembly. by the casino sector be- too conservative in ter- scientific studies on vehicles and 31 firemen to the scene development. Ip expressed his view fore he voiced his con- ms of its measures to the local employment and, in accordance with the rescue Lawmakers Ip Sio Kai that professionals in cern regarding the re- attract foreign professio- market, while expediting plans, entered the train to rescue any and Wang Sai Man said areas such as transla- ported staff shortages nals to Macau, or entice its approval process for passengers in need and transport the that Macau people har- tion, finance, law and experienced by small already departed local foreign worker applica- injured or affected to the hospital. bored negative feelings accounting are needed and medium-sized en- professionals to return.