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CHINA A Taiwanese pastor was detained for 15 days by Chinese police after visiting an unauthorized Christian MGM Cotai to have church congregation in central China, the pastor of the Chinese church group said yesterday. Li Jia’en, who leads the church unique resident show group in the central Chinese city of Luoyang, P2,3 said Shen Zhenguo had returned to Taiwan after being released on Oct. 29. Li himself also XINHUA was detained for the same length of time on the charge of holding an illegal religious gathering. AP PHOTO
PAKISTAN A Pakistani official says the death toll from the collapse of a factory building last week has risen to 53. Jam Sajjad Hussain said yesterday that rescuers have sifted through nearly all the debris from the collapse of a four-story building in the eastern city of Lahore. Rescuers have retrieved 100 living workers from the rubble, including a teenager whose family assumed he was dead. The cause of Wednesday’s collapse is yet to be determined.
VATICAN In his first public comments on the latest scandal rocking the Vatican, Pope Francis tells followers in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday that the theft of Vatican documents describing financial malfeasance inside the Holy See was a “crime” but pledged to continue reforms.
USA An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write “Love Me Do,” ‘’I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other hit Alexis Tam: Carmo area to be songs sells for USD2.4 million at auction. P5EPORT More on backpage revamped into entertainment hub 10.11.2015 tue
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Paulo Coutinho From movies to politics, being a JIM MURREN Republican – like many Nevada Q&A CHAIRMAN AND CEO, MGM IM Murren, 53, believes top gaming executives – Murren Jwhatever works for Macau says “no Republican candidate works for MGM, paraphrasing stands a chance against Hillary his mentor and long time boss Clinton.” Donald Trump has Kirk Kerkorian who passed away done more with “what he’s got What’s good for Macau ‘is good for MGM’ this year. “Mr Kerkorian told than anyone I know, but I have me once ‘what’s good for Vegas a few standards which I’d like to is good for us.’ I feel that way find in an elected official…” about Macau, too.” This policy of Mr Murren has been with accommodation contrasts with MGM for 17 years, first as CFO recent criticism by other casino and COO and, since 2009, as bosses mainly concerning table CEO. Under his guidance the allocations for Cotai 2.0. company has grown to be the bi- MGM Cotai is built to accom- ggest player in the US casino in- modate 500 tables, but “if we dustry and the latest results show were hypothetically permitted the company is turning a profit 250 tables we’d have to move despite Macau’s steep decline. In tables from here [the peninsu- Macau, he concedes, “we’re not la] to there. We wouldn’t have ever going to be the biggest, but enough tables to do everything we could be the best.” we would like to do in Cotai, but we would adjust to that. We MDT - MGM reported would make the best of the si- stronger than expected Q3 tuation. The focus on tables is, results including a USD66.4 I know, very high but misses the million profit. What happe- broader point.” ned in Vegas to turn it arou- The “broader point” for the nd from a loss a year ago? Chairman and CEO of MGM Jim Murren (JM) – Well, Resorts is the maturation and Las Vegas as a market has been growth of the Chinese tourist growing for the past five years. and the need to respond to this MGM is the dominant operator Murren with Pansy Ho and Grant Bowie at the Topping Off ceremony at MGM Macau, last week change. in Las Vegas; we’re bigger [there] “Are you delivering incremen- than the other two concessionai- tors in Las Vegas in the quarter. cases, would not even manage. which is more or less in line tal gaming activity, and therefo- res that are here. We’re bigger So instead, we came up with the with general industry re- re revenue to the government? than both of them combined. We MDT - At the same time, the structure of a company that sim- sults. However, there was That’s what the tables and the have invested more in Las Vegas company announced a plan ply moves many of our resorts a slight improvement from slot machines are intended to than our competitors over the to create a controlled Real into a subsidiary of MGM. quarter to quarter. Do you do. And how do you drive traffic past several years and as a result Estate Investment Trust - see any sign of stabilisation into your resort?! If you deliver of an improving market, combi- REIT (MGM Growth Pro- MDT - Ten, right? in these numbers? on the entertainment, on the ned with some very important perties). So, you’re going to JM - Ten resorts, into a new JM - Yes, there was a slight room product, on the food and entertainment in food and be- shift casino assets and debt company that would be listed on improvement quarter to quar- beverage offerings, then you will verage capital expenditures that to the new property com- the New York Stock Exchange, ter and I have to emphasise get higher productivity on the we’ve made, we’ve been able to pany, and lease the proper- that MGM Resorts will hold a how proud I am of Grant Bowie tables and therefore more ga- vastly outgrow the market itself ties back from the trust. You controlling economic interest in. who runs this property. I do see ming revenue.” and we reported the best quar- told investors this isn’t just So MGM Resorts will own about many signs that the market is Mr Murren visited Macau last ter that we’ve had since 2007 a “spin-off”. How’s this be- 70% of this new company and beginning to stabilise. I see it in week to meet with partner Pansy and the best growth quarter that neficial to the company? the public shareholders will own various dimensions of the mas- Ho, Grant Bowie and team, and we’ve had in over ten years. Our JM - A good question, thank the balance of the shares. MGM s-market business. I even see preside over the topping-off ce- profits in our wholly owned pro- you. So in the United States, Resorts will continue to mana- parts of our VIP business impro- remony at the new property in perties in the United States were for many, many years, there has ge all those resorts, all the em- ving. I see a tremendous level Cotai due to open in a year. up over 25%. been a recognition that the actual ployees will remain MGM Re- of interest when we have great In an interview with Macau assets that casino companies own sorts employees, which is very non-gaming events and I’ve got Daily Times and Ou-Mun Daily, have not been properly valued important to the employees be- to say, the must-see event of the Murren revealed the Cotai pro- in the marketplace and there cause they like being employees year here in Macau is Oktober- perty “will have a unique resi- has been a disconnect between of MGM. fest right here. It’s like everyo- dent show,” and a decision was the actual assets held by com- ne’s got to go and it was more po- being made last week between I’m not panies and the valuations that MDT - Will this in any way pular this year than last year and “three options which made the they have been able to achieve in affect properties and ope- more popular last year than the final cut.” concerned the public marketplace. MGM rations in Macau? year before and it really speaks MGM Cotai will have a versa- about caps on owns more assets in Las Vegas JM - Not at all. MGM Resorts to MGM that we’re the entertain- tile theater, The Spectacle, that than anyone. We own over 700 will remain the owner of 51% of ment company and every time can be converted quickly into a tables or table acres of land on the prized Las MGM China. MGM Resorts will we can deliver on entertainment nightclub, concert or ballroom Vegas Boulevard and it has been also own 50% of City Centre, we see a really nice jump in vi- space, and a mall lined with res- allocations. a really rewarding but complica- the major new project we bui- sitation to this property. Our taurants, landscaping and video ted exercise to conclude how best lt in Las Vegas. The properties greatest frustration has been the effects, Murren said. “It will be MDT - Was there a general to allow investors to realise the that are being moved into MGM fact that we have not had a large an indoor space that will feel improvement in the market value of this untapped, unlocked Growth Properties are wholly enough pallet in order to paint very outdoors.” in Vegas? potential. We decided early on -owned properties. So therefo- upon. We have always had the A confessed James Bond fan, JM - Yes, the market in Las that a spin-off is not a good idea. re, there will be absolutely no smallest footprint here in Macau. he and Ms Ho were last week Vegas in general is improving. A spin-off would be if we had impact whatsoever here. It’s very atypical for us, we’re the treated to a private viewing of the The tide has been rising, but not taken our resorts and spun them dominant player everywhere else latest 007, “Spectre.” “My all-ti- all boats have been able to rise or gave them to shareholders or MGM - In Macau, MGM we are. We’re the profit leader in me favorite is Sean Connery, but with the tide and we certainly sold them to another entity that China dropped around 33% every market that we’re in but for Daniel Craig is quite a Bond.” did far better than our competi- we did not control and in some during the third quarter, here, because we haven’t had yet
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because a few early efforts di- dn’t succeed and there has been some hits and misses early on in non-gaming in this market, doesn’t mean that they won’t over time. I’m a huge believer What’s good for Macau ‘is good for MGM’ of that trend of diversification and that revenues will continue to grow on the non-gaming side. The challenge Macau has is the opportunity to have enough tional performance or a lecture land. The challenge that Macau property to build out as much as or other educational shows... has that we do not have in Las we would like. Vegas is we have a much diffe- MDT - Are you going to rent land dynamic in Las Vegas. MDT - Why was that? have resident shows of any The private developers own the JM - There are several rea- kind? land, and if you want more land sons. One is we were not an JM - I think we will. Tomor- you can buy it, buy it from so- original concessionaire; two, I row [Thursday, Nov 5] we have mebody else and that’s what I don’t think we were aggressive a board meeting. We are looking did. In 2000, I bought Mirage enough early on when land was at three shows that have made Resorts from Steve Wynn. Five perhaps more accessible. We the final cut and I’m sure there’s years later I bought Mandalay were delayed in opening this going to be more to talk about. Resorts. Now we have, as I say, property; the neighbourhood over 700 acres of land. No one here was not ready; we had a MDT - Which are? gave me that land, we bought it. road that wasn’t finished. We JM - Good try [laughs]. I’d be had a park that wasn’t finished fired from my own board if I told MDT - There is no such - One Central had not yet been you before, that would be a bad opportunity here? completed - and so we started start... I can tell you the philoso- JM - Not that I see. If we cou- late relative to the other conces- phy again - goes back to our heri- ld find opportunity to acquire sions and we started off poor- tage - which is MGM is the only more land through more land ly and slowly and we’ve been US concessionaire here that has concessions we would build on playing catch-up. So I blame a local partner. MGM is the only it tomorrow. no one, it’s just the fact of what concessionaire who has a joint Jim Murren, CEO MGM Resorts happened here. But if you were venture with China. MGM is a MDT – Do you feel that the to be in Las Vegas where we global company with a very local not allocating the number profitable here as well? general expectation among compete against the same peo- emphasis, whether that means of tables they needed to JM - Yes, not only can non-ga- the current operators is ple, we dominate in Las Vegas how active we’re getting with make that property work. ming be profitable in the future, that you will all stay in busi- and 70% of our revenues in Las SMEs, how active we are in the What’s your comment re- I don’t care if it’s not that pro- ness after current licenses Vegas are non-casino revenues. community in general, how en- garding this situation? fitable now. It’s part of the bar- expire? There is no one that’s better gaged Pansy - my partner and co- JM - First, both of those indi- gain with the government, it’s JM - I think, as driving around than we are in entertainment, chair, Pansy Ho - is in the design, viduals are incredibly creative part of the contract. It’s part of Cotai and being here on the pe- in retail, in MICE or convention development, entertainment, re- and very, very talented and both being in a privileged market. ninsula, I’m just really very, very business, in non-gaming enter- tail. I will tell you that what we way wealthier than I am so, they impressed. I’m going to Studio tainment. would not do is just airlift a show must be doing something right. MDT - You see it as a cost. City tonight. It looks gorgeous from someplace else and think I‘m an employee of this company JM - As a cost to doing busi- from the outside. I really feel like MDT - Will art be the ge- and I understand my role and my ness, absolutely, in the sense everyone is making a great effort. neral topic for the new pro- role is to lead a group of men and that the local and central gover- None of us is perfect. I’ve made so perty? women in different jurisdictions nment could not be more clear many mistakes I can even fill up a JM - Art and entertainment. where holding a license is a pri- and we’ve taken the words in the magazine full of them, but I’ve not So just today [Wednesday, Nov We’re working vilege, not a right. The hallmark last 10 years to heart. The mes- seen any rationale for any of the 4] - tomorrow I’ll be looking at of MGM from its founder, Mr sage and vision of Macau, diver- concessions here not being rewar- different elements - but today on a [resident] Kerkorian…Mr Kerkorian always sifying as a hospitality and en- ded for the efforts that they’ve we greenlight the retail compo- show that will taught me, for the 18 years that I tertainment capital of Asia not made in this marketplace. I think nents and how retail is going to knew him before he passed away to turn its back on gaming but to there’s a great diversity of ideas, be more unique, it’s not just the be a production this year, is what’s good for Las use gaming as an economic engi- of perspectives, of nationalities. I same old stores. It will be more Vegas is good for MGM. I feel ne to develop other non-gaming don’t see any rationale for more couture, more boutiques, more uniquely that way about Macau, too. I forms of entertainment. As trips or less concessionaires than there localized in a really fun, non- feel that, yes, we were late to this to Macau become more varied, are right now. I can only say that traditional retail environment. Macanese. market, but I think we’re small and as people come more often from our perspective, we don’t So it’s not going to look like but mighty. We’ve done, I think, for different reasons, and just take this lightly. every other mall in Hong Kong, that it’s good enough ... To bring a really great job with the tools it’s going to have a different feel a show from Europe or the Uni- that we’ve had, size, scale and to it. ted States and just repackage it we’re going to have an opportu- The Spectacle that you’ve here, would be insulting, I think, nity to show more of what we can diaoyutai deal: a relationship with china heard about isn’t possible to and would not work. So what I do when we build a much larger articulate until you see it. It’s can tell you, is that we’re working property in Cotai. I’m not focu- MGM RESORTS formed a joint- The idea was to continue “to build over a football field long of this on a show that will be a produc- sed on tables at all, table caps, venture in 2007 with Diaoyutai these relationships and, for me undulating glass, it will have 26 tion uniquely Macanese, unique table limits... Guest Houses “to build bridges and my company, to show that we different LED walls that will be to this region and complement with China, particularly in ospital- can contribute to China’s vision, constantly animated. The thea- the programming that we’ll have MDT - There is no cap on ity, knowing that as a casino hotel and we can contribute with our in- tre is completely erected and throughout the year. We feel it’s tables in Vegas... company we were never going tellectual property, our knowledge, now we’re putting in the me- very important for us to make the JM - I’m not concerned about to be able to develop casinos in and maybe along the way build chanicals right now. It’s the first effort to deliver something inno- caps on tables or table allo- China. We wanted to develop a re- stronger friendships and relation- of its kind in the world and if vative and unique. cations. I’ve more confidence lationship with the Chinese people ships - business and personal we get this right, and I hope we when I’m seeing Studio City and we found a partnership with relationships - in China.” do, we’re going to use it in other MDT - There’s been a lot of more recently and phase 2 in Diaoyutai,” Jim Murren explained Besides visiting the mainland of- parts of the world too, from the talk and criticism about the Galaxy. We’ll see what Wynn to MDT. ten, “I’ve been honoured to be at standpoint of the functionality balance of non-gaming and gets next year and we’ll open up Since then, two properties have the Whitehouse a couple of weeks of the theatre and how adaptab- gaming. The government next year ... I think from what been opened: the MGM Grand ago when the Chinese President le it can be to dozens of different has put forward a plan that I can see the market’s evolving in Sanya and the Diaoyutai Art was there,” Mr Murren stated. types of events. So, we can have it clearly wants to have that way where you’re going to Hotel in Chengdu. And more to “We’re in a privileged business a boxing event one night and a more non-gaming, diver- find more and more opportuni- come: “We’re opening a Bellagio and we’ve known this for a long in Shanghai next year. And we time,” he said, adding that “we blowout concert the next night sification they call it: from ties to continue to develop non- have hotels under development: want to prove to China and Macau and nightclub environment and Lawrence Ho who says the- gaming profitably. in Hangzhou, in Beijing (two). We that we are the kind of corporate an art show another time and a re’s no money in non-ga- have a total of 12 of them under citizens that’s contributed to this ballroom for luxurious weddin- ming to Steve Wynn who MDT - So you believe non- development.” community.” gs, to a theatre style for a tradi- blasted the government for gaming in the future can be 10.11.2015 tue
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CRIME ‘The Phenomenon’ competing Illegal migrant commits in Macau PokerStars event burglary in tion about which game he three separate plays better, Ronaldo had no doubt: “I was a much better football player than I am a Taipa eateries RENATO MARQUES RENATO HE Public Security Police TForce caught a mainland Chinese man yesterday morning I was a much red-handed after he was cap- tured on a surveillance camera better football attempting to steal goods from a player than I Taipa restaurant. The 37-year-old suspect, who am a poker claimed to be a chef, has also been linked to two separate ag- player. gravated thefts that occurred in September, said the security RONALDO NAZÁRIO DE LIMA POKERSTARS BRAND force’s representative in a me- AMBASSADOR dia debriefing yesterday after- noon. Around 6 a.m. the owner of the Renato Marques This is Ronaldo’s second a new challenge in life, a way poker player,” but he highli- restaurant called the police after tournament as PokerStars of returning to competition ghted the fact that he is now the anti-burglary application on OOTBALL legend Ro- Brand Ambassador, after ha- and its emotions in a different “too old to play football but his mobile phone notified him of Fnaldo Nazário de Lima, ving played in the PokerStarts way,” he commented. still very young playing poker the suspect’s trespass. Meanwhi- dubbed by sports fans “The Caribbean Adventure (PCA) at The former star, who retired so that might also explain it”. le, the burglar was also spotted Phenomenon”, is currently the beginning of this year. He from football in 2011 and is In the little time spent in the searching for valuable items on in the territory, not to take finished 26th overall, a rank considered one of the greatest city so far, the former football the premises through the sof- to the pitch but to instead hit that he hopes to improve upon football players of all time, player found “the road and tware. the felt of the PokerStars 2015 now. says that poker is a great mind street signage in Portuguese” The suspect is reported to have Asia Championship of Poker “I started playing poker back game from which players can interesting but noted it was arrived in the territory illegally (ACOP), taking place until No- in 2000 when I got my first take a lot of information and “weird to find out that there by swimming last Saturday. Af- vember 13 at PokerStars Live knee injury in Inter Milan, skills that they can use in their are not many that can actually ter losing all of his money gam- Macau in the City of Dreams from there I kept playing with daily life. He thinks that it is speak the language.” bling, he conceived the idea of casino. other team mates in the hotels time to see poker as a “mind The tournament’s main event burglary while wandering along “It is a great pleasure to be before the games. It was there sport” and not like the “old that kicked off yesterday will the street where the restaurant is here as it is my first time in that my passion for this game times when it had a dark con- continue for two days with a situated. Macau and my second big started,” he said. notation with the game being HKD100,000 buy-in on both He slid into the restaurant after tournament. I’m very excited Ronaldo has been playing played underground, in closed days which features a HKD15 prying open the gate on the side to begin playing and to give with PokerStars for the last 3 places, and by heavy smokers million prize pool guarantee. with a steel bar. The suspect was my best performance,” the years and says he has been ha- and heavy drinkers”. November 13 will be reserved seen holding six bottles of wine Brazillian expressed. ppy to do so. “Poker gave me Answering the press’ ques- for the Super High Roller event. and several pataca notes worth around MOP10,800 when the owner and police officers arrived at the scene. The safe inside the eatery was also found damaged, yet the possessions inside remai- Public car park management firm issues ned intact. The suspect had also mana- unlawful monthly passes to users ged to make away with about MOP14,200 and MOP4,400 separately from two restauran- Aries Un bureau would tighten its oversight. ts also in Taipa after sneaking As the malpractice investigation is still un- into one of them through a win- ACAU Forehap Parking Manage- derway, the bureau’s head said that he was dow. Mment Limited is facing a maximum unsure of when the results would come, to On an unrelated note, the po- fine of MOP250,000 after admitting to the which a penalty was subject. However, he lice also announced yesterday Transport Bureau (DSAT) that it issued go- said that the harshest penalty would be a that what started as a minor spat vernment-unauthorized monthly passes to fine of MOP250,000 given that only a small between two meat vendors in users of Comendador Ho Yin Garden car part of the terms in the concession agree- the Red Market on Sunday night park behind the regulator’s back. ment was violated. Comendador Ho Yin Garden car park ended with one of them being The facility is not among the government’s According to the existing regulation, con- stabbed in the abdomen. It was 16 parking lots with an allowed monthly- cessionaires only lose their partnership with Asked if the episode was linked to the scan- said that an abrupt noise that fri- pass mechanism. DSAT’s director Lam Hin the government if the misconduct commi- dal divulged by the Commission Against ghtened one of the pair was the San said during a press conference yester- tted is worthy of at least MOP1 million in Corruption in April where two officials alle- source of the squabble, which day that the management firm, which is fines. gedly helped three companies secure their escalated into a physical scuffle. currently supervising 15 public car parks, Furthermore, the government is still concessions from the government, Lam re- One vendor reportedly threw issued a total of 390 passes to motorists allowing the monthly-pass operation to fused to offer any comments, citing that the raw pork at the other after he and private car drivers using the abovemen- run until the beginning of next month in watchdog’s inquiry was still in process. appeared unapologetic. During tioned parking lot since May 2012, a time order to let the management firm, whi- Still, according to the authorities, the tari- the argument, both also ex- shortly after the management company was ch was said to “have promised to bear all ff devised by the firm, which is higher than changed provocative physical granted the permit to run the 900-plus bay of the responsibility for the incident” and currently regulated, consists of three rates - contact and one vendor who car park. liaise with its monthly-pass holders on the MOP1200 or MOP1000 per card for private was wielding a cleaver acci- However, DSAT has allegedly remained in issue. cars and MOP200 per card for motorbikes dentally stabbed the other in the dark despite regular checks carried out “We also need time to probe the incident each month. his stomach. The police were by its eight inspectors on the government’s thoroughly to see if it also requires criminal It also transpired that the monthly-pass called to the scene by bystan- 38 parking lots. “Regarding patrols and ins- punishment,” Lam Hin San said, pledging holders had received notifications from the ders and the injured vendor pections, I admit there’s room for improve- to transfer the case to related law enforcing car park’s management firm earlier remin- was subsequently rushed to ment,” acknowledged Lam, adding that the departments if found criminally related. ding them to renew their subscriptions. the public hospital. AU tue 10.11.2015
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Political group calls ALEXIS TAM for probe over land reserve handling Carmo area to be revamped
HREE members from the Macau Community TDevelopment Initiative (MCDI), which is suppor- into entertainment hub ted by lawmakers Au Kam San and Ng Kuok Cheong, approached the Public Prosecutions Office and the Renato Marques space that was rented by Commission Against Corruption yesterday after- restaurant operator Futu- noon, appealing for an inquiry into the Land, Public HE Secretary for So- re Bright Holdings to the Works and Transport Bureau over its handling of the cial Affairs and Culture Macau Government Tou- T MARQUES RENATO land reserve around the Nam Van Lake. stated yesterday that the rism Office. In mid-September, the media outlet All About Ma- government intends to re- The move left the as- cau alleged that the government had shelved four vamp Taipa’s Carmo area sociation with a high available parcels of land for no reason. The land and find a new use for the amount of financial deb- reserve, together with the neighboring lots already Taipa Houses–Museum. ts resulting from the in- granted to property developers, is still undeveloped During a visit to the faci- vestments required for despite the latter already passing the required time lities that are being used the opening and setup of to do so. by the House of Portugal the space. The Portugue- “The land lots have been idle for over 20 years and (Casa de Portugal) in the se association head sees they’re simply for growing grass and flowers,” said Areia Preta district, Ale- the government’s invita- MCDI’s vice president Lei Man Chao. The group told xis Tam revealed that he tion as “an opportunity to media that the bureau should be blamed for its inac- plans to invite the associa- bring back to life a project tion, which could be punishable by law. tion to be part of a gover- that has previously proven “As the government always claims they have no nment project that aims to to have potential and that land, yet such land parcels have been there for a long boost the “Carmo” district since the closing has been time,” he said. “Why haven’t the authorities recove- in Taipa, namely the Taipa continued in poor condi- red them?” Houses–Museum. “I want tions [at Casa de Portu- Au Kam San, who established the group with other to invite the House of gal’s headquarters]”. pro-democracy activists, also founders of the New Portugal to be part of our Mr Tam praised the as- Macau Association, estimates that aside from the project exploring the area Alexis Tam (right) sociation and said the go- four land lots in the government’s hands, there are of the Houses-Museum vernment will continue to 14 other parcels that should have been properly de- where we will develop a Europe, Latin America or support it. “I recognize the veloped. Portuguese restaurant as even Asian countries, in role of the House of Por- “The 14 parcels, although expired, are not on the go- well as a Portuguese-style We will order to “transform the tugal in Macau. It is very vernment’s list of recovery seemingly,” the lawmaker coffee shop and esplana- area into a multicultural important and very posi- argued. MCDI members are confident that there des,” he said. develop a venue”. tive. I have been following must be malpractice within the public department But Mr Tam went even It is known, and was re- the activities undertaken and petitioned for the law enforcers’ intervention. further and announced Portuguese ferred to again by the Pre- and developed by it and The Secretary for Transport and Public Works that he wants the activi- sident of the House, Dra I think that the govern- Raimundo do Rosário responded to the allegations ties in the area to be ha- restaurant Maria Amélia António, ment, and especially my later in the day stating that the above four land lots ppening day and night as well as a that the House of Portugal secretary, should conti- are now going through relevant judicial procedu- with “Portuguese music has been struggling since nue to support them,” he res, which would determine if they belong to the performers to play in the Portuguese- 2013 when its Portugue- said. government, according to a TDM report. AU area every night”. The of- se restaurant “Lvsitanvs” According to the figures fer will not be restricted style coffee had to temporarily close presented by the associa- to the Portuguese. The its doors. The restaurant tion, about 700 people STATISTICS Secretary also mentioned shop and and all other tenants of attend its training courses that they are considering esplanades. the yellow building, loca- and workshops every year, Money supply creating food festivals for ted close to the Ruins of which for Alexis Tam is “a circulation ‘rebounds’ different countries from ALEXIS TAM St Paul, had to leave the very significant number.” in September Architect favors Hotel Estoril preservation ACAU has experienced a healthy “rebound” Min money supply, according to data released HE architect José Manuel Fer- of no use at all! This architect [José recently by the Monetary Authority. The amount of Tnandes is in favor of the preser- Manuel Fernandes] is one of the few currency in circulation grew by 2.1 percent month vation of the Hotel Estoril, arguing people who think we should keep -on-month, while demand deposits were up by 1.2 that the building is part of the col- that hotel. But I ask for what rea- percent. lective memory of Macau. son? What is the use of it? We have The share of the money supply defined in MOP Interviewed by Radio Macau, the to think ahead. It is not like Portugal stood at 28.5 percent, up by 0.5 percentage points professor at the University of Lisbon here. Portugal has plenty of space from a month ago. Meanwhile, the HKD was up by stated that he did not understand the and lots of land,” Alexis Tam said. 0.1 percentage points month-on-month (49.2 per- reasons for a possible demolition. According to Mr Tam, the plan cent), the RMB was down 0.8 percentage points (9.2 “What is the problem? It’s kitsch, it’s to revamp the former hotel is cur- percent), and the USD rose by 0.2 percentage points from the 60s, is from an architect na- The former Hotel Estoril rently on hold while experts analy- (10.9 percent). med Alvarez,” he asked rhetorically, ze the request for the building’s Deposits submitted by residents increased by 0.8 defending a prudent assessment of to speak at a seminar held last Sa- classification. RM percent compared to the previous month, amoun- the architectural value of the buil- turday by the Albergue SCM entit- ting to MOP470.6 billion, of which MOP, HKD, ding. “It having its presence and a led “Contemporary Architecture and RMB increased by the respective rates of 2.8 history that is linked to Stanley Ho is and Urbanism in Portugal – Pre- percent, 1 percent, and 7.6 percent. The USD in- the genesis of a very important thing sent Days,” in which Mr Fernandes The hotel with creased at 3.1 percent. in Macau,” he argued. shared his views on Portuguese ar- its history that is Domestic loans to the private sector increased “Honestly, it deserves to be chitecture and urbanism. by 1.1 percent month-on-month to MOP390.3 evaluated, and I am certain that if The Secretary for Social Affairs linked to Stanley billion. External loans dropped by 1.7 percent to the right documents are given to and Culture, Alexis Tam, reacted MOP388.3 billion, of which HKD, RMB, and HKD whichever architect that will be in- to these statements yesterday, ex- Ho is the genesis accounted for 24.4 percent, 20.4 percent, and 48.2 vited to assess this information, any pressing that he believes that Ma- of a very important percent, respectively. good architect will know that he is cau cannot put the old Hotel Estoril As total deposits increased but total loans decrea- in the presence of something with a facilities to any good use due to its thing in Macau. sed, the overall loan-to-deposit ratio of the banking collective memory,” he added. current condition. sector dropped from a month earlier. The architect was in the territory “That area of the Hotel Estoril is JOSÉ MANUEL FERNANDES 10.11.2015 tue
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‘Guide of the Portuguese Citizen Research foresees promising future for in Macau’ launched hospitality sector
Renato Marques ms. It has both Portu- ESEARCH con- with robust demand guese and Chinese lan- Rducted by higher for human resources HE “Guide of the Portu- guage versions. It will education institutions positions in high-end guese Citizen in Macau” be given to the Portu- and entrusted to the brands. The conference
T MARQUES RENATO is a book that seeks to answer guese Consulate-Gene- Talents Development and exhibition industry most of the questions raised ral in Macau to be dis- Committee has hinted will see the workforce by Portuguese national’s with tributed free of cost. In at broad prospects for double the current pool an interest in Macau. As the the words of the firm’s practitioners in gaming, in the future. lawyer Gonçalo Mendes da representatives, “This catering, retail and con- The committee, headed Maia, one of the promoters of book is part of the com- ventions. by the region’s leader, the book, explained, the gui- panies’ social responsi- According to the gover- Chui Sai On, finished de has a broad view of Macau bility.” nment think-tank, whi- its second meeting of citizenship and it is targeted The book was lau- ch received the findings the year last Friday. The mostly at two kinds of people: nched on Friday in a from four institutions, commission will conti- The first being “Portuguese ci- ceremony held at the the industries’ demand nue to ramp up future tizens who live in Portugal or in Consul-General’s offi- for manpower will conti- collaboration with other any other country who want to cial residence. nue to grow in the next overseas tertiary educa- come to Macau to live, to work, As explained by three years. More speci- tion institutions in nur- to do business, and so forth, MdME partner Gon- fically, the gaming sector turing talent and encou- and seek to know more about Lawyer Gonçalo Mendes da Maia çalo Mendes da Maia, is expected to require 30 raging locals to under- Macau, its procedures, bureau- “This is a courtesy gift percent more manage- take more training. cracies, rights, among others”; a partnership between Asked Questions arose and also a way to thank ment personnel than The committee, com- and the second, “people from several organizations from questions asked at Macau and our clients previously. prised of officials main- Macau, who have Portuguese and companies, namely both the consulate and for the support that has It was also said that ly from the education citizenship but have a limited MdME Lawyers, Pri- lawyers’ offices, as well allowed us to grow to be the upward demand in sector, was founded knowledge of Portugal, its laws vate Notary, MLGTS as in the above-mentio- in January of 2016 the hotels and retail would last year with the aim and procedures and are inte- (Morais Leitão, Galvão ned companies’ opera- second biggest lawyers’ open up around 27,000 of luring back what the rested to know more about that Teles, Soares da Silva tions in the territory. office in Macau with 18 and 16,000 job vacan- officials regard as talen- too.” & Associados) and the The tome’s first edi- lawyers”. The occasion cies respectively, while ted professionals from The guide was made with con- Portuguese Consulate- tion has printed 3,000 also marked the 9th retail-related positions overseas, while encou- tributions from both Macau General in Macau. copies and was fully anniversary of the law could go up by 25 per- raging locals to better and Portuguese authors. It is Many of the Frequently financed by the law fir- firm. cent in the territory, their skills. ad tue 10.11.2015
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Yuan falls to three-week Maggi noodles back low on China trade data, on shelves in India Fed rate bets HE yuan dropped to the a rate increase in the U.S., Tlowest in almost three which will attract capital after lead scare weeks after a slump in Chi- from emerging markets such na’s trade flows worsened as China, and that’s also the outlook for Asia’s largest pressuring the yuan.” economy and as the Federal The yuan in Shanghai, whi- Nirmala George, New Delhi Reserve prepares to raise in- ch is allowed to diverge a ma- terest rates. ximum 2 percent from the AGGI noodles are AP PHOTO China’s exports fell for a central bank’s fixing, dro- back on shelves in fourth month in October, pped 0.14 percent yesterday India five months exceeding the decline esti- to close at 6.3622 a dollar, after the popular mated by all 31 economists according to China Foreign Msnack was found to contain in a Bloomberg survey, of- Exchange Trade System pri- lead above permissible limits. ficial data showed Sunday. ces. It fell to 6.3678 earlier, The Indian unit of Swiss food Imports fell for a 12th mon- the lowest since Oct. 20. company Nestle said yesterday th, matching a record stret- Singapore’s quota under that samples of newly made ch of contractions. A gauge the RMB Qualified Foreign Maggi instant noodles had of the dollar’s strength ver- Institutional Investor sche- been cleared for consumption sus its major peers soared me will be doubled to 100 by three food-testing laborato- to the highest level in a de- billion yuan, the Monetary ries in India. cade on Friday after a report Authority of Singapore said “The rollout has begun today. showed U.S. payrolls last in a statement yesterday. It has been a challenging pe- month gained the most this The change was one of the riod for the Nestle Organiza- year in October. That boos- key outcomes from Presi- tion, and therefore, there is a ted the odds of a Fed rate in- dent Xi Jinping’s recent visit feeling of satisfaction at brin- crease in 2015 to 70 percent to the city-state, MAS said in ging back Maggi noodles to the from 34 percent two weeks the statement. market,” Nestle India said in a earlier. PBOC Fixing statement. “China’s trade data showed The People’s Bank of Chi- Maggi has been reintroduced that its economy is challen- na weakened its daily refe- in 100 cities and towns across ged by sluggish demand rence rate for the currency India and will be made avai- at home and abroad, and by 0.19 percent to 6.3578 a lable soon in more states, said the fundamentals are still dollar. The offshore yuan, Nestle India Chairman and A packet of Maggi instant noodles is displayed weak,” said Kenix Lai, a which trades freely in Hong Managing Director Suresh Na- foreign-exchange analyst Kong, gained 0.03 percent rayanan. permissible limits. reporters. at Bank of East Asia Ltd. to 6.3899 as of 4:47 p.m. lo- Maggi noodles will not be Nestle India maintained the Maggi noodles are a hugely in Hong Kong. “There are cal time, data compiled by available in eight states that noodles were safe to eat and popular snack among school stronger expectations for Bloomberg show. Bloomberg had banned their sale. The challenged the accuracy of the and college students and young company said it was in talks tests. The ban was overturned working people in India. with local governments to lift in the Bombay High Court in The company introduced the the ban. August. But the company had quick-cooking noodles to India BLOOMBERG In June, India’s Health Mi- to destroy 400 million packets in the early 1980s, and they can nistry ordered the removal of of Maggi products, which cost be found in the remotest villages. Maggi noodles from stores af- it more than USD67 million. The June tests also detected ter tests by several states fou- Narayanan said the company the chemical flavor enhancer nd high levels of lead. This was was not immediately conside- monosodium glutamate, or after the country’s food safety ring taking legal action against MSG, which is not mentioned regulator found that the noo- the food regulator. in the product’s list of ingre- dles were “unsafe and hazar- “At the moment, we are very dients. Nestle said it did not dous” for consumption due to clear that we will be focusing add the flavor enhancer to the the presence of lead beyond on building the brand,” he told noodles. AP
corporate bits conrad macao’s 2015 ‘pink inspired’ wynn macau gains additional michelin star mgm china stages private bond screening campaign raises over mop 200,000 Wynn Macau is now home to four Michelin stars. Signature Japanese restaurant, Mizumi joined Wynn Macau’s other awarded restaurants for the first time as it gained a Miche- lin Star in the 2016 Hong Kong and Macau Michelin Guide. This also marks the fourth consecutive year for Golden Flower to receive two Michelin Conrad Macao, Cotai Cen- its guests a series of ‘plush pink’ stars and the seventh conse- MGM China presented a spe- Spectre was premiered on tral’s 2015 ‘Pink Inspired’ experiences from 1st October cutive year for Wing Lei to be cial screening of Spectre, the la- November 6 after a cocktail campaign has been hailed a to 31 October, to raise funds for awarded one star. test James Bond film, on Friday party. Guests of honor in at- success with the hotel raising this worthy cause. “We are proud that three of evening following its topping- tendance included Consul MOP200,319.20 to support the Conrad Macao also acknow- our restaurants have been re- out ceremony of MGM COTAI. General Caroline Wilson of Hong Kong Cancer Fund’s Pink ledged the support of ARTĒ cognized as among the best Jointly organized with the Bri- the British Consulate in Hong Revolution, an annual cam- Madrid who helped this year’s restaurants in Macau and tish Consulate-General Hong Kong and Macau, Mr Jim paign that raises awareness fund-raising campaign by do- Hong Kong. This is a particu- Kong & Macau, MGM China Murren, Chairman and CEO and funds for breast cancer re- nating a Glorioso necklace larly exceptional and exciting screened the film to offer an en- of MGM Resorts International search. As a Diamond sponsor featuring 49 pear-shaped and achievement for Chef Hiroshi this year,” said Olivier Bonard, tertaining evening to its Macau and Ms Pansy Ho, Co-Chair- of the campaign for the third 13 marquise-shaped white and his team for being newly Vice President - Food & Beve- partners and friends and pro- person and Executive Director year in a row, the hotel offered stones valued at MOP7,000. awarded with the accolade rage of Wynn Macau. mote British cultural exchange. of MGM China. tue 10.11.2015
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ANGOLA Apiex agency Trade between China is the gateway for investors and Portuguese-speaking
HE Angolan Agency for Invest- Tment Promotion and Export countries shrinks (Apiex) is structured to be the ga- teway for entrepreneurs who want RADE between Chi- US$1.187 billion (-7.3 per- to invest in the country, said the Tna and the Portuguese- cent). Minister of Trade, Rosa Pacavira, speaking countries during Mozambique appears as last Friday in Luanda. the first nine months of usual in fourth place with The minister, who was the year continued on a trade worth US$1.789 billion speaking at the headquarters of downward trend, with a con- (-23.18 percent), a result the opening ceremony of Apiex, traction of 25.45 percent to of Chinese exports worth said the new institution has USD76.477 million, accor- US$1.45 billion (+17.84 per- a website (http://www.anip. ding to official figures pub- cent) and Mozambican expor- co.ao/), through which busi- lished in Macau. ts of US$338 million (-69.16 ness owners can put together From January to September percent). the draft of their investment in the value of trade between China’s trade with other Angola and solve any problems China and the eight Portugue- Portuguese-speaking coun- that may arise from wherever se-speaking countries amoun- tries – Cape Verde, Guinea- they are located. ted to US$102.587 billion. Bissau, East Timor and São Pacavira said so far the agency Trade recorded in the pe- Tomé and Príncipe – in the had already registered about 2,500 riod under review resulted first nine months totaled domestic and foreign investors, a from Chinese exports of US$133 million. fairly significant number, although US$28.667 billion (-13.76 In September, the value of she noted that Angolan trade is do- percent) and Chinese impor- percent) and imported goods imports of UA$12.626 billion China’s trade with Portugue- minated by foreigners. ts worth US$47.809 billion worth US$33.639 billion (-48.21 percent). se-speaking countries fell Cited by Angolan news agency (-31.06 percent). (-20.92 percent). Portugal comes a distant 5.62 percent to US$8.637 Angop, the minister said currently With Brazil, China’s main Angola comes second in ter- third with total two-way tra- million, with Chinese expor- there are seven Angolan com- trading partner globally, ex- ms of importance with tra- de of US$3.382 billion (-6.39 ts amounting to US$2.820 panies that export their products, changes totaled US$55.608 de worth US$15.564 billion percent) as a result of Chine- billion (-7.63 percent) and which means that these companies billion (-18.51 percent) and (-44.93percent), with Chine- se exports worth US$1.195 Chinese imports totaling are already able to compete in fo- China exported goods wor- se exports worth US$2.938 billion (-5.89 percent) and US$5.817 billion (-4.61 per- reign markets. MDT/Macauhub th US$21.968 billion (-14.51 billion (-24.34 percent) and Portuguese exports worth cent). MDT/Macauhub
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neration. The social DNA is in place and it’s okay for them to not think about having bro- The new birth control: thers or sisters,” said Credit Suisse’s Dong. Other factors are also likely Sky-high cost of raising kids to play a role. At 64 percent, China has the highest female workforce participation rate HILE China’s Commu- fertility rate - a case of market decades. The government estimates among the world’s ten largest Wnist Party rolled back forces trumping the iron fist of The day after the Communist that 90 million couples are eli- economies, according to data its long-standing one-child the state. In the past, Chinese Party loosened its regulation gible to have two children, and from the World Bank. Without policy last month, economists children were raised at mo- many “two-child stocks” - sha- births will increase over the help from the grandparents, are expecting another equally dest cost to produce future la- res of companies such as baby next few years peaking at over Chinese mothers often have powerful deterrent to kick bor. Now, for China’s growing food maker Danone, skincare 20 million newborns a year, little choice but to drop out of in: the soaring cost of raising middle class, rearing kids is an products maker China Child Wang Peian, an official with work, at least for a few years. kids. expensive process focused on Care Corp. and stroller com- the National Health and Family Some like 30-year-old Wang Their projections are bor- keeping them ahead in a fier- pany Goodbaby International Planning Commission said the Dandan aren’t keen to do that. ne out by middle-class Chi- cely competitive economy. Liu Holdings Ltd. - surged as in- day after the new two-child po- “At this stage I do not want nese like Liu He. A project says her family simply can’t vestors bet that families wou- licy was announced on Oct 29. to have a second child becau- manager in Beijing’s thriving afford a second child. ld loosen the purse strings to The commission didn’t respond se the time you have to make technology industry, 38-year have another baby. to a fax seeking comment. good career progress is from -old Liu and her husband “The demographics are not The government has pro- your thirties to forties - it’s together make 40,000 yuan Financial going to change overnight, ven overly optimistic before. crucial,” said Wang, the mo- (USD6,300) a month. About the market is probably getting At the end of 2013, it allowed ther of a two-year-old girl and 40 percent of that goes toward realities may overexcited about that,” said couples where either husband a magazine reporter in Shan- their three-year-old daughter. Dong about the policy to allow or wife was a single child to ghai. There are fixed costs like food, prevent a big two children. “It’ll help Chi- have two kids. At the time, the “If I were to have a child, for kindergarten and a nanny be- jump in the na’s consumption story but health authorities estimated the next two to three years I sides savings for future pain- the impact is probably subs- an extra 2 million births each would have little to no inco- ting and piano lessons, and fertility rate - a tantially more muted than the year from that policy. But me,” she said. “It’s not that even college in the U.S. some market is indicating.” only 1.76 million couples had we wouldn’t survive, but there day. case of market Dong estimates that the child applied for approval to have a will be a strong sense of cri- In the U.S., a middle-class forces trumping rearing cost for an additional second child as of September sis.” couple, on average, can spend kid until he or she is 18 wou- under those rules, according Wang and her husband have about 16 percent of their in- the iron fist of ld be around 499,200 yuan to Wang. The government did some 20,000 yuan of dispo- come on a child, according to in China, which translates to not disclose the number of sable income each month af- a U.S. government report last the state about 27,700 yuan a year. people who actually gave birth ter paying mortgages on their year that examined spending When Dong first did the cal- to a second child. house and car. While they only till the age of 18. The budge- “The high cost of raising a culation in December 2013, It may also take a while for spend 10 percent of that on tary constraints on Chinese child is probably China’s new the figure - which includes the new, two-child policy to their daughter at the moment, families show how economic birth control,” said Credit baby toys, medical expenses actually come into effect. Chi- Wang expects to have to devo- pressures might stymie the Suisse economist Dong Tao. and standard school fees - was na has ordered local family te most if not all of her 8,000 government’s efforts to boost Introduced in the late 70s to 416,000 yuan. Dong estima- planning agencies to keep yuan monthly salary to her its labor force by allowing cou- manage scarce resources, Chi- tes the costs would have gone enforcing the one-child poli- daughter’s expenses soon. ples to have two children. na’s one-child policy has since up around 10 percent a year, cy until legislators formally “Once she enters kindergar- While the new policy was emerged as a threat to growth, and says that the calculation amend the law this spring. ten and there are education in- also intended to boost con- with the country’s working-a- doesn’t include other factors “Bear in mind the mentali- vestments, it will be a very big sumption, financial realities ge population shrinking last such as the surging price of ty of young Chinese couples need,” said Wang. “It’s like a may prevent a big jump in the year for the first time in two education. - they are of the one-child ge- ticking time bomb.” Bloomberg tue 10.11.2015
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Joe McDonald, Beijing HINA has changed Beijing promises action on course and emerged as a leader in curbing greenhouse gas emis- Csions six years after it was ac- climate ahead of Paris talks cused of obstructing the last high-level climate talks in Co- penhagen. Heading into this month’s Paris meeting, the world’s biggest source of climate- AP PHOTO changing gases has yet to ac- cept binding limits. But it has invested in solar, wind and hydropower to clean up its smog-choked cities and curb surging demand for imported oil and gas. That contributed last year to a surprise fall in coal consumption. Beijing’s about-face began last year when President Xi Jinping, in a joint declara- tion with his American coun- terpart, Barack Obama, set a 2030 deadline for emissions to stop rising. This June, Bei- jing promised to cut carbon emissions per unit of econo- mic output by 65 percent from 2005 levels. In September, Xi pledged USD3.1 billion to help developing countries combat climate change. Beijing “recognizes it should take a different responsibility than a few years ago,” said Li Shuo, senior climate officer for Greenpeace East Asia. Wind turbines are built on a hill along a highway near Jiamusi, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang China’s status as the leading source of emissions makes its on consumer spending and te- Last year, China spent most other countries have Greenpeace. cooperation essential for any chnology instead of trade and USD83.3 billion on renewa- ever been able to achieve,” “The extreme growth of coal global climate deal to succeed. energy-hungry heavy indus- bles, or nearly one-third of the said Xiaochen Zhang, associa- power generation, especially Until now, China has been try. global total, according to a re- te director for climate change in China, undercuts many suc- exempt from limits. But pres- Pollution has “created im- port by the Frankfurt School of the group Business for So- cesses with renewables,” said sure on Beijing intensified as mense and escalating social and the U.N. Environment cial Responsibility, in a report the group in a report. its share of world carbon ou- pressures for change,” said Program. The United States in October. The Chinese Cabinet’s energy tput rose last year to 28 per- researchers Fergus Green and was a distant second at $38.3 In Copenhagen in 2009, plan through 2020 promises cent, double the U.S. level. Fo- Nicholas Stern in a June re- billion. some participants complai- to hold coal’s share of energy recasts show its historic total port for the Grantham Resear- The slowdown in steel and ned China and India stymied to 62 percent, down from last will soon pass the United Sta- ch Institute on Climate Chan- other heavy industries has global emissions reduction ef- year’s 66 percent. tes as the biggest. ge and the Environment at the prompted suggestions Chi- forts, possibly for fear they mi- It calls for doubling the sha- Washington and Beijing “had London School of Economics. na can beat its 2030 deadline. ght hamper economic growth. re of energy from non-fossil fundamental disagreemen- In 2005, communist leaders “Emissions are likely to peak “China wrecked the Cope- fuels to 20 percent by 2030. ts in Copenhagen” over Chi- launched a campaign to im- by 2025, and could well peak nhagen deal,” wrote an aide But that will only bring China na’s obligations, said Li. “I prove efficiency in an economy even earlier than that,” said to one negotiator in The Guar- into line with today’s global think this has been resolved that devours two to three times Green and Stern in their re- dian newspaper. average. over the past two years.” as much energy as the United port. “China’s emissions could Since then, growth of re- And Beijing has yet to say Without a formal commit- States, Europe or Japan per fall strongly after their peak.” newables has allowed China to how high emissions might ment, China is making faster unit of output. Older power China has reduced carbon in- raise economic output without be allowed to rise before the progress than most countries plants and steel mills were tensity, or emissions per unit boosting emissions. 2030 peak. as a side effect of Communist closed. Utilities were ordered of economic output, by 33.8 China leads the world in hy- It is too early to assume last Party efforts to nurture more to invest in wind turbines and percent from 2005 levels, the dro and wind capacity and is year’s decline in coal use is self-sustaining growth based gas-fired generation. Cabinet planning agency said No. 2 behind Germany in so- permanent, said Greenpeace’s in a June letter to the Paris or- lar, according to the Renewa- Li. He said Chinese leaders ganizers. ble Energy Policy Network for might face pressure in co- That is “a greater rate than the 21st Century, a Paris-ba- ming years to stimulate Chi- AP PHOTO sed alliance of environmental na’s cooling economy by lau- groups. nching resource-intensive Last year’s coal consumption construction projects. AP fell 2.9 percent while the eco- [Beijing] nomy grew 7.4 percent, accor- ding to the National Bureau of recognizes it Statistics. It was the first re- duction in 14 years, according should take to the China National Coal As- sociation, an industry group. a different Still, China is forecast to rely responsibility on coal for at least 60 percent of its power for the foreseeab- 2.9% than a few le future. China accounted for 80 per- The fall in coal years ago. cent of new coal generating consumption last year Solar panels are seen near the power grid in northwestern China’s Ningxia Hui LI SHUO capacity worldwide over the autonomous region GREENPEACE EAST ASIA past decade, according to 10.11.2015 tue
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MYANMAR “DAWN OF A NEW ERA. Millions vote in historic elec- tion,” was the banner headli- ne yesterday of the New Light Suu Kyi party projects landslide of Myanmar, a government- owned newspaper and long a mouthpiece for ruling jun- tas, reflecting just how much in historic vote Myanmar has changed in re- cent years. The vote was billed as the Esther Htusan and freest ever in this Southeast Shonal Ganguly, Yangon Asian nation, which for the first AP PHOTO time was monitored by thou- PPOSITION leader sands of domestic and inter- Aung San Suu Kyi’s national observers, who said it party was confident went well. Many of the eligible yesterday that it was 30 million voters cast ballo- Oheaded for a landslide victory ts for the first time, including in Myanmar’s historic elec- Suu Kyi, widely revered as the tions, as the democracy icon ur- embodiment of the country’s ged supporters not to provoke dreams for democratic reform. losing rivals who mostly repre- “I am so happy and I am not sent the former junta that ruled the only person, the whole this Southeast Asian nation for country is happy. I think she is a half-century. a perfect leader for our country The opposition National Lea- and a woman of perfection,” gue of Democracy had won said 71-year-old Khin Maung about 70 percent of the votes Htay, who was listening to Suu counted by midday yesterday, Kyi’s speech. party spokesman Win Htein Although 91 parties fielded said. The comments, if confir- candidates Sunday, the main med by official results that be- fight was between the NLD gan trickling in, indicate that and the ruling Union Solida- Suu Kyi’s party would not only rity Development Party, whi- dominate Parliament but cou- ch is made up largely of for- ld also secure the presidency mer junta members. A host of despite handicaps built into the other parties from ethnic mi- constitution. norities, who form 40 percent of Myanmar’s 52 million peo- ple, are also running. The The junta, which seized power in a 1962 coup, annulled the re- opposition sults when Suu Kyi’s party won National a sweeping victory in 1990 elec- tions. A new vote was held in League of 2010, but the opposition boyco- tted it saying the election laws Democracy were unfair. The USDP won by default had won about and took office in 2011 under 70 pct of the President Thein Sein, a for- mer general who began poli- votes counted tical and economic reforms to end Myanmar’s isolation and by midday jump-start its moribund eco- nomy. But the USDP was bat- yesterday tered in a 2012 by-election in which the National League for “We will win a landslide,” Democracy won 43 of the 44 Nyan Win, another party parliamentary seats it contested. spokesman, told The Associa- Leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy party, Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech from a balcony of the NLD After the election results are ted Press. headquarters in Yangon finalized, the new members of “I want Mother Suu to win in parliament and the military this election,” said Ma Khine, a pected to finish with the largest with a foreign spouse or child have to accept the winners but appointees will propose three street vendor, referring to the number of seats in Parliament. from holding the president’s it is important not to provoke candidates, and then elect one 70-year-old Suu Kyi with an af- Anticipating an imminent vic- and vice presidents’ positions. the candidates who didn’t win as president. The other two will fectionate term many here use. tory, more than 1,000 people Suu Kyi’s two sons are British, to make them feel bad.” become vice presidents. “She has the skill to lead the gathering in front of the NLD as was her late husband. The NLD had thou- The NLD would need an country. I respect her so much. headquarters in Yangon, many Suu Kyi, however, has said she sands of monitors deployed overwhelming win to take the I love her. She will change our wearing red party T-shirts with will act as the country’s leader across Myanmar during the presidency because of the seats country in a very good way.” the slogan “We Must Win” on if the NLD wins the presidency, vote, keeping track as each reserved for the military, all of The government’s Election the back. saying she will be “above the polling station closed and pu- which now go to the USDP. Commission started announ- No matter the results, the elec- president.” blicly announced its totals. As hundreds of supporters cing official results late yester- tion will not create a fully demo- In her first comments after That was expected to give NLD waited outside the NLD head- day afternoon, saying that the cratic Myanmar, which ended a Sunday’s elections, Suu Kyi told leaders a solid estimate of final quarters in Yangon, crowds NLD had won 12 lower house half-century of military rule in a crowd gathered at the NLD numbers long before official to- started singing a song called seats from the main city of Yan- 2011, followed by a quasi-civi- party headquarters that while tals were announced. “The Strong Peacock,” in re- gon. The announcement elici- lian government run by a party vote tabulations wouldn’t be Win Htein, the NLD spokes- ference to the party’s symbol, ted raucous cheers outside the made up of former military figu- announced until later, “I think man, told the AP that the par- which became popular during opposition party’s headquarters. res now expected to fare badly in you all have the idea of the re- ty’s strongest showing is in the campaign period. The 12 seats were among 45 the elections. The constitution sults.” the heartland states, where it “She is the people’s leader that representing townships in Yan- reserves 25 percent of parlia- “It is still a bit early to con- appears to be garnering 80 per- the whole world knows,” they gon. The commission was ex- mentary seats for the military, gratulate our candidates who cent of the votes. The support sang. “Write your own history pected to announce more resul- and was rewritten to keep Suu will be the winners,” she said. falls off slightly to 70-50 per- in your hearts for our future, so ts later yesterday. Kyi from the presidency. “I want to remind you all that cent in the states dominated by the dictatorship will end. Go, The NLD has been widely ex- The amendment bars anyone even candidates who didn’t win ethnic minorities. go, go (away) dictatorship.” AP tue 10.11.2015
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AUSTRALIA await deportation. Some of them are appealing the govern- ment’s decision to revoke their visas. Officials try to halt unrest at New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he was told there may be a few New Zealanders involved in the unrest and if so, immigration detention camp they’re doing nothing to help their case to stay in Australia. “The risk is that they actually Kristen Gelineau, Sydney damage their own appeals be- Riots broke cause they undertake other cri- USTRALIAN officials out following minal activity,” Key told repor- Awere working yesterday ters. to contain unrest at a remote the death of an New Zealand lawmaker Kelvin detention center for asylum Davis, who recently visited the
seekers in the Indian Ocean, CDN.IMAGES.EXPRESS.CO.UK asylum seeker island, said a New Zealander with protesters lighting a series held at the facility told him that of small fires and guards with- who escaped detainees had taken over the drawing from the compound. from the facility center. The immigration department “They have put holes in the confirmed there was a “major on Saturday walls, so even if they are roun- disturbance” at the detention ded up and put back in the ce- center on the Australian terri- lls they actually can’t be locked tory of Christmas Island. Immi- are being held at the facility due up,” Davis told the Australian gration Minister Peter Dutton to their visas being canceled — Broadcasting Corp. said one detainee caught up in not asylum seekers, immigra- The immigration department the fray had requested medical tigation. the property, including lighting tion officials said. said the perimeter was secure. assistance for an unspecified The immigration department several small fires. Australia last year strengthe- Australia has taken a tou- reason, but no serious injuries denied there was a large-scale Officials were negotiating with ned the power it has to cancel gh stance in recent years on had been reported. riot, but said staff had with- the detainees in a bid to end visas, making it mandatory asylum seekers who try to rea- Refugee advocates say riots drawn from the facility for safe- the standoff, Dutton told repor- to do so if a person has been ch its shores illegally. Asylum broke out following the death ty reasons. ters. He declined to elaborate sentenced to at least a year in seekers who pay people smu- of an asylum seeker who esca- The department said the pro- on what the detainees wanted, jail. That has led to an influx gglers to take them in rickety ped from the facility on Satur- blem began when a small group and said he didn’t know how of New Zealanders with crimi- boats to Australia from Indone- day. The man’s body was found of Iranian detainees staged a many people were involved in nal records — some of whom sia are detained on Christmas the following day at the bottom peaceful protest following the the protest. were long-term residents of Island and on the impoverished of a cliff on the island. The cau- asylum seeker’s death. Other The group leading the unrest Australia — ending up in im- Pacific island nations of Nauru se of his death is under inves- detainees then began damaging appeared to be detainees who migration detention while they and Papua New Guinea. AP ad tue 10.11.2015
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RESIDENT Bara- ck Obama and Israeli Obama, Netanyahu look to Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu were Pseeking to mend their fractured relationship at the White Hou- mend fractured relationship se yesterday, the first time they have talked face to face in more than a year. me minister when he trave- Obama’s deputy national se- Tensions over the U.S.-ba- led to Washington to address curity adviser. cked nuclear deal with Iran AP PHOTO lawmakers, citing the proximity U.S. officials say Obama will continue to strain ties between to Israeli elections that resulted also express his commitment to the longtime allies. But there’s in Netanyahu staying in power. a two-state solution between Is- also little hope of progress on The leaders also did not meet rael and Palestinians, even as other matters, with U.S. offi- while Netanyahu was in the the White House acknowled- cials downplaying the chance U.S. in September to speak to ges that elusive breakthrough of a breakthrough in ongoing the United Nations General As- won’t occur before Obama lea- security talks and ruling out sembly. ves office in January 2017. the prospect of a peace deal be- Officials in both governmen- Officials said Obama would tween Israelis and Palestinians ts have been discussing a new instead press Netanyahu on before Obama leaves office in security agreement that could what could be done to avoid 14 months. result in increased U.S. military confrontations between Israelis “The president has reached assistance to Israel. U.S. offi- and Palestinians in the absence that conclusion that right now cials said that while they were of a peace deal. A new wave of — baring a major shift — that not expecting yesterday’s talks violence broke out about two the parties are not going to be to result in a final agreement, it months ago, beginning with in a position to negotiate a final was significant that the leaders unrest at a major Jerusalem status agreement,” White House planned to discuss the matter shrine revered by both Muslims Middle East adviser Rob Malley given that Netanyahu had re- and Jews, and quickly sprea- said ahead of Netanyahu’s arri- fused to do so in the immediate ding to Israel, the West Bank val in Washington. aftermath of the nuclear agree- and the Gaza border. Even with the low expecta- ment. Netanyahu said he would dis- tions, the fact that Obama and “We do believe it’s very im- cuss “possible progress with the Netanyahu are meeting at all is portant that in an uncertain se- Palestinians, or at least stabili- seen as an important step. Whi- curity environment, we are sig- zing the situation with them.” le the two leaders have long had Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naling our long-term commit- Israel has accused Palestinian a chilly relationship, tensions ment to Israel and its security, political and religious leaders boiled over earlier this year threat to Israel and argued that fully lobbied U.S. lawmakers to and are designing a package of inciting the violence. Pales- amid Obama’s pursuit of the the international agreement oppose the deal, even delivering that is tailored to the threats tinians say the violence is due Iranian nuclear deal. struck earlier this year leaves a rare speech to Congress that and challenges that Israel will to a lack of hope for gaining in- Netanyahu views Iran’s nu- Tehran within reach of a bomb. infuriated the White House. be facing over the course of the dependence after years of failed clear program as an existential The Israeli leader unsuccess- Obama didn’t meet the pri- next decade,” said Ben Rhodes, peace efforts. AP
EGYPTIAN PLANE CRASH their ideology.” Putin ordered Russian flights to Egypt halted on Russia fears Islamic terror blowback Friday to ensure “the safety of our citizens,” his spokes- man, Dmitry Peskov, told over Syria amid Sinai downing reporters. The U.S. and the U.K. said a bomb may have caused the plane crash in Ilya Arkhipov pected of financing inter- the Internet, as children as the Sinai desert, a view national terrorism, a term young as 12 are playing at echoed by France. Egypt S evidence grows that AP PHOTO usually used to describe being militants in schools, and Russia said they have Aa bomb may have dow- Islamic State and similar said Kurbanov, a former no evidence for this, thou- ned a Russian passenger groups, have been found top security official in Da- gh they haven’t ruled any- jet over Egypt, the Kremlin in 77 of the country’s 85 re- gestan. “We know very thing out and investigators is focused on countering gions. There’s also been a well how to destroy and are probing a last-second the threat of terrorism at steady stream of arrests of pre-empt” terrorists “thou- noise heard on the flight home from Islamic State suspects linked to Islamic gh we’re doing little to fight data recorder. Bloomberg sympathizers. State, which was named Officials insist they were as the prime target of the prepared for the risk of Syria air strikes. terrorist reprisals after “We understand of course russian artist sets security President Vladimir Putin The mountains of south Sinai are viewed from the window during a that, with the start of this agency s door ablaze ordered air strikes against flight to Cairo from Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt operation, all these terro- ’ militants in Syria. Even rist organizations in Syria if an attack on Russians that’s experienced some of adds another element of and those that morally and A RUSSIAN artist known of Russia’s main security abroad wasn’t among their Russia’s worst terrorism. risk that Putin must navi- financially support them for his radical performances agency FSB, holding a pet- most likely scenarios, the “If the problem was a local gate in his quest to restore will try to activate groups has been detained after set- rol canister. The building loss of 224 lives in the Me- one in the past, now it’s in his country’s role in global in the underground who ting fire to the door of the on Lubyanka square pre- trojet crash is underlining a number of other regions affairs. He built his politi- remain in Russia,” Viktor headquarters of Russia’s viously housed the KGB. the importance of keeping of the country.” cal strongman image whi- Ozerov, chairman of the chief security agency. Rus- Pavlensky said in the script a simmering domestic in- An Islamic State affilia- le fighting home-grown defense committee in the sian news agencies quoted accompanying the video surgency under control. te claimed it blew up the attacks and the Kremlin Federation Council, the Pyotr Pavlensky’s lawyer that his performance was “We need to ring the jetliner that left Sharm el will be keen to avoid a new upper house of parliament, Olga Chavdar as saying his meant as a protest against alarm bells, there’s a sig- -Sheikh for St. Petersburg wave of violence undermi- said in an interview. client was detained early FSB’s heavy-handed tactics. yesterday. Pavlensky’s as- In his arguably most shock- nificant increase in the on Oct. 31, saying it was ning support for the mili- Russian authorities sociates released a video ing performance, Pavlensky level of risk,” said Rizvan in retaliation for Russian tary campaign that began should set up a program on his social media account in 2013 nailed his scrotum bombing in Syria. Rus- Sept. 30. Kurbanov, a member of to “conduct ideological that showed him standing onto the cobbles of the Red parliament for Dagestan, sians becoming the targets Russia’s Federal Security warfare against Islamist next to the burning door Square. a North Caucasus region of international terrorism Service says people sus- terrorism,” particularly on 10.11.2015 tue
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05 Nov - 11 Nov Artifacts of Excellence – Seal Carvings by Luo Shuzhong from the MAM Collection Time: 10am-7pm (Closed on Mondays, No admission after 6:30 pm) Until: February 28, 2016 Venue: Macau Museum of Art, Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE Admission: MOP5 (Free on Sundays and public holidays) 1982 Brezhnev rumors Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814 sweep Moscow 007 - SPECTRE_ Historical Paintings of Macau room 1 Speculation is growing that Leonid Brezhnev, who in the 19th Century 2.15, 6.45, 9.30 pm has ruled the Soviet Union for the past two decades, Director: Sam Mendes has died. Suspicions that a senior Communist party ime 10am-7pm T : Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux figure had died were fuelled by a sudden change of (Closed on Mondays, No admission after 6:30 pm) Language: English (Cantonese) the television schedules on Wednesday evening. Until: December 31, 2015 Duration: 148min Light entertainment programs were replaced by Venue: Macau Museum of Art, somber documentaries about the Russian revolution ARE YOU HERE_ and the Second World War. Newsreaders on the main Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE room 1 evening news bulletin dressed in black but made no Admission: MOP5 5.00 pm announcement of any death. (Free on Sundays and public holidays) Director: Jill Wong Mr Brezhnev was last seen in public on Sunday at Starring: Nina Paw, Helena Law, Susan Shaw Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814 the traditional Red Square parade in Moscow to mark Language: Cantonese (Cantonese/English) the anniversary of the 1917 revolution. The 75-year Duration: 86min -old leader had not looked well for several years but Photographs of Old Temples in Macau there was no indication of his imminent death. OUR TIMES_ Mr Brezhnev’s failure to sign a public message of Time: 10am-7pm room 2 (Closed on Mondays, no admission after 6:30 pm) 2.15, 4.45, 7.15 pm congratulations to Angola’s president on Wednes- day - Angola’s national day - has fuelled belief he is Until: December 31, 2015 Director: Ding Sheng Starring: Andy Lau, Liu Ye, Wu Ruofu, Wang Qianyuan dead. The Soviet leader normally signs messages to Venue: Macau Museum of Art, Language: Mandarin (English/Cantonese) all “friendly” heads of states so the absence of his Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE Duration: 134min signature represents a previously unheard of breach Admission: MOP5 of protocol. If he has indeed died it will mark the end of an era (Free on Sundays and public holidays) ARE YOU HERE_ room 2 for the Soviet Union. Leonid Brezhnev ousted Rus- Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814 9.45 pm sia’s former leader, Nikita Khrushchev, in a coup in Director: Jill Wong 1964. He has since been in undisputed control of Starring: Nina Paw, Helena Law, Susan Shaw USSR and its 260 million people. Language: chinese (Cantonese and English) His control of the fates of another 120 million people Offbeat Duration: 86min in eastern-bloc Communist states was famously de- monstrated by the crushing of an attempt to liberalise Czechoslovakia in 1968. UNESCO rejects membership Despite his declining health his grip on power has for Kosovo never weakened and he has outlasted five American presidents. The delay in confirmation of Mr Brezh- nev’s death may mean his successor has not yet Members of the U.N. cultural agency have narrowly re- been chosen. jected Kosovo’s bid for membership, in a victory for Serbia Commentators say the most likely candidate is Mr and Russia and a blow to Kosovo’s mission for global re- Brezhnev’s closest colleague, Konstantin Chernenko. cognition as a state. Most nations that participated in Monday’s voting favored Kosovo’s membership, with 92 “yes” votes and 50 “no” Courtesy BBC News votes and 29 abstentions. According to UNESCO rules however, the bid needed the support of two-thirds of those SHE REMEMBERS, HE FORGETS_ voting, or 94 “yes” votes, said Stanley Mutumba Simataa, room 3 the Namibian diplomat presiding over the vote. 2.30, 4.30, 7.30, 9.30 pm In context Director: Wong Say Ping Kosovo has been recognized by 111 countries since it Starring: Miriam Yeung, Jan Lamb The following day an official announcement was made of declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Russia, which Language: Cantonese (Cantonese/English) Leonid Brezhnev’s death. He had died of a heart attack early backed Serbia in Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for independence, Duration: 110min on Wednesday morning. has used its U.N. Security Council veto to block Kosovo After five days of national mourning he was given a state fu- from becoming a full U.N. member. macau tower neral and buried in the Kremlin in Red Square. Kosovo has won membership in the World Bank and In- Leonid Brezhnev was succeeded by another Communist hard- ternational Monetary Fund. The predominantly ethnic Alba- 05 Nov - 25 Nov liner, Yuri Andropov, the former head of the secret police. In March 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet nian leadership had promised that if it became a UNESCO 007 - SPECTRE_ Union. member, it would protect the cultural heritage of Serbs, He immediately began a policy of “glasnost” and “perestroika” despite tensions that have lingered since the war. 2.30, 4.45, 7.15, 9.30 pm Director: Sam Mendes - openness and restructuring. Serbia had warned that allowing Kosovo into UNESCO Less than a decade later, in 1991, the Soviet Union was con- Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux would fuel those tensions and hurt an EU-brokered dialo- Language: English (Cantonese) signed to history when the Congress of People’s Deputies voted for its dissolution. gue aimed at normalizing ties between the former foes. AP Duration: 148min tue 10.11.2015
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ad THE Future Bright expects Station10.11.2015Air quality tue th Anniversary BUZZ profit nosedive Roadside 20-40 20 Good Future Bright Holdings Ltd stated yesterday sectors; property investment and the sales of food that it expects to revert to a loss for the full year and beverage, the latter of which is primarily sold in High of 2015, following last year’s profits of HKD168.8 Macau and mainland China. The weak performance Density 25-45 million. The Hong Kong-listed company attribu- from its food souvenir business, and the three res- Residental ted the loss to reduced gains from an investment taurants and a food court in Zhuhai also contribu- Good property in Macau and an impairment loss of ted to the expected full-year net loss, the company Area opinion HKD30.5 million due to the closure of 19 food added. The company has recorded an unaudited court counters this year. loss of HKD29.8 million over the first nine months Ambient 20-40 The Future Bright Group operates in two primary of 2015. Good World Views DSMG SOURCE: Justin Fox, Bloomberg WORLD BRIEFS Virtual products are driving WADA report today’s job market devastatingly critical AP PHOTO The U.S. economy added an impressive 271,000 jobs in October, as you’ve surely heard. The industry that led the way was professional and business services, with an of doping in Russia increase of 78,000. That was an especially SWEDEN Levels of carbon good month, but this sector has been leading N a devastatingly critical hope they can,” Pound said. dioxide and methane, the way for the entire recovery, adding 3.4 report, a World Anti-Do- The commission accused the two most important million jobs since March 2010. I AP PHOTO greenhouse gases, The rise of professional and business ser- ping Agency panel accused the Russian state of compli- reached record highs vices goes back much further than that, ac- the Russian government yes- city. It said its months-long last year, continuing tually. Here’s employment in the sector since terday of complicity in wides- probe found no written evi- the warming effect on 1980 compared with manufacturing, which it pread doping and cover-ups dence of government invol- the world’s climate, the U.N. weather agency has overtaken as a leading source of good by its track and field athletes vement but it added: “It wou- and said they should all be ld be naive in the extreme to said yesterday. CO2 jobs with better-than-average pay: levels rose to nearly 398 What exactly are these professional and bu- banned from competition conclude that activities on parts per million, from siness services? A bit of a grab bag. — possibly even next year’s the scale discovered could 396 ppm in 2013, the Legal services is a big piece, but it has ba- Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have occurred without the World Meteorological rely contributed to the past few years’ gains. — until the country cleans up explicit or tacit approval of Organization said. There are actually fewer people working at its act. Russian governmental au- law offices and other legal-services organi- The report from a WADA thorities.” CONGO A firefight zations now than there were in 2002. What’s between rangers and commission that has been Canadian Richard Pound, The report said agents from been growing instead are computer-systems poachers in Congo’s probing media allegations Chairman of WADA’s (World Anti- the FSB even infiltrated Rus- Garamba National Park design, management consulting, temporary of widespread doping and Doping Agency) sia’s anti-doping work at the that left three rangers -help services, business-support services deception in Russia — host Sochi Olympics. One witness and an army colonel dead and accounting and bookkeeping services. of soccer’s next World Cup “They would certainly have told the inquiry that “in So- highlights the challenge Some of these are high- status, high-pay — said even the country’s known,” he said of Russian chi, we had some guys pre- of protecting wildlife in a fields, some aren’t. Put them all together, intelligence service, the FSB, officials. tending to be engineers in part of Africa plagued by though, and average hourly pay in professio- was involved, spying on Mos- The commission said the the lab but actually they were insurgencies, civil wars, nal and business services was USD30.30 in refugee flows and weak cow’s anti-doping lab, inclu- International Olympic Com- from the federal security ser- October, compared with $25.20 in the private governments. ding during last year’s Win- mittee should not accept vice.” sector overall. any entries from the Russian The establishment data used here classi- ter Games in Sochi. Staff at Russia’s anti-doping JORDAN A Jordanian athletics federation until the government spokesman fies jobs by what business the employer is The commission chaired by lab in Moscow believed their Dick Pound recommended body has been declared com- offices were bugged by the says a Jordanian in, not what kind of work the employee does. policeman opened fire So the rise of professional and business ser- that WADA immediately de- plaint with the code and the FSB and an FSB agent, thou- suspension has been lifted. Monday on foreign vices employment can be understood partly clare the Russian federation ght to be Evgeniy Blotkin or trainers at a police as a result of a restructuring of American cor- “non-compliant” with the Such a decision could keep Blokhin, regularly visited. compound, killing two porations since the 1970s. Many things that global anti-doping code, and Russian athletes out of next This was part of a wider pa- Americans and a South used to be done in-house at manufacturers that the IAAF suspend the year’s Olympics in Brazil. ttern of “direct intimidation African before being shot and other big corporations – from taking out federation from competition. If Russia doesn’t clean up, and interference by the Rus- dead. the trash to running the computer systems “It’s pretty disturbing,” “the outcome may be that sian state with the Moscow to devising corporate strategy – have been Pound said. “It’s worse than there are no Russian track laboratory operations,” the outsourced to specialist providers. In the pro- and field athletes in Rio,”
we thought.” report said. AP PHOTO cess, the professional and business services “It may be a residue of the Pound said. Pound said Russian Sports category has gained jobs. old Soviet Union system,” he But he also said there may Minister Vitaly Mutko must That’s not the only thing that’s been going added at a news conference still be time for Russia to also have known. on, though. We all know that the U.S. eco- in Geneva. avoid that, if it starts refor- “It was not possible for him nomy has become increasingly services Pound said the doping cou- ming immediately. to be unaware of it,” Pound CROATIA’s conservative oriented. It also seems to be going increa- ld be called state-sponsored. “I think they can do it, I said. AP opposition has won singly virtual: the Balkan country’s The tech industry in the U.S. is to a large first parliamentary extent no longer about tech products. It’s election since joining the European Union about the software and systems that run on THE in 2013, but without those products. Software publishing and In- enough votes to rule ternet publishing and broadcasting and web alone and with tough Justin Chin/Bloomberg search portals(that’s an establishment cate- DECISIVE MOMENT government negotiations gory) show similar trajectories to computer- looming. The state systems design, although they employ many electoral commission fewer people. said yesterday that Is this shift from tangible products to virtual with 99 percent of ones a good thing or a bad thing? Average the vote counted, the hourly pay is actually much higher in compu- conservatives, led by former intelligence chief ter-systems design ($44.38) than in computer Tomislav Karamarko, won and electronics manufacturing ($34.22). And 59 seats in the 151-seat if software is eating the world, that seems like parliament. The ruling a good business to be moving more people Social Democrats, led by into. But allowing computer and electronics incumbent Prime Minister manufacturing to move to other countries, Zoran Milanovic, got 56 mainly China, isn’t risk-free. As Gary Pisano seats. and Willy Shih put it in the Harvard Business Review back in 2009: SPAIN The regional “The U.S. has lost or is in the process of parliament of northeastern Catalonia losing the knowledge, skilled people, and su- approved a plan pplier infrastructure needed to manufacture yesterday to set up road many of the cutting-edge products it inven- map for independence ted.” from Spain by 2017, We’ve got ever more management consul- in defiance of the tants, technical consultants and computer- central government. systems designers, though. Let’s hope they An employee guides a horse as it swims in an equine swimming pool at the Sha Tin Racecourse, operated The Barcelona-based can see us through. by Hong Kong Jockey Club, in Hong Kong, on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The HK Jockey Club is the city’s sole chamber passed the provider of horse racing, football betting and lotteries. motion by 72 votes to 63.