LEONG MEETS WITH CROWN SHARES SLUMP ILLEGAL TOUR FINANCIAL REGULATORS AFTER WYNN ENDS TALKS Lionel Leong continued his visit GUIDES HARD TO Crown Resorts shares slumped in the capital, where he met COMBAT UNDER after Wynn Resorts abruptly top regulators of insurance and CURRENT LAW ended talks to buy the Australian financial practices on the mainland casino operator P2 P3 TOURISM P6-7 GAMING THU.11 Apr 2019 T. 24º/ 28º C H. 75/ 95% facebook.com/mdtimes + 13,000 MOP 8.00 3268 N.º HKD 10.00 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS EVA BUCHO EVA CORRUPTION AP PHOTO TRADE WAR U.S. and Song Pek Kei Chinese negotiators are discussing adding a concession on cloud computing to their trade wants answers P2 agreement that would give foreign companies greater access to the USD12 billion Chinese market. More on p11 AP PHOTO NORTH KOREA’s Supreme People’s Assembly is expected to convene today to formally approve leader Kim Jong Un’s latest economic policies and possibly endorse a shift in U.S. strategy following his failed summit with President Trump in Hanoi. More on p13 AP PHOTO THAILAND A fire broke out at one of Bangkok’s biggest mall complexes yesterday, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen. The extent of the fire at the Thai capital’s Central World complex, which includes a hotel, a convention center and an office tower, was small, but it caused the shopping mall’s evacuation. OVER THE BORDER AP PHOTO EGYPT A Bedouin woman, Umm Yasser, is breaking new ground among the Hengqin property deeply conservative Bedouin Sinai Peninsula. Women among the Bedouin almost never work outside the home, and even more rarely deals surge on do they interact with outsiders. But Umm Yasser is one of four women from the community who for the first time are working as P5 tour guides. Delta Bridge More on backpage 11.04.2019 thu th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Macau pets exempted Lawmaker requests officials from mainland quarantine answer annual corruption report Starting from May 1, pets from Macau may be exempted from AWMAKER Song Pek Kei supervision and accountability quarantine inspections when has raised an oral inquiry mechanisms, especially when entering Mainland China. The L asking government officials to procedures involve recruitment General Administration of Customs announced China’s latest update attend the Legislative Assembly or promotion, the tendering of RENATO MARQUES RENATO to the country’s regulations on (AL) in order to respond to the public projects and potential the quarantine of pets. Including Commission Against Corrup- conflicts of interest. Macau and Hong Kong, 19 tion’s (CCAC) annual work re- Song urges the local gover- designated countries and territories port released late last month. nment to close loopholes as are included in the exemption. In its 2018 report, the CCAC soon as possible and to strive According to the new regulation, found that both the Secretary for toward a corruption-free go- when pets from Macau enter Administration and Justice and vernment. China, the owners need to present her predecessor did not violate Previously, lawmaker Sulu Sou both a quarantine certificate and a the law when they recommen- said that although the CCAC vaccination certificate. If the pet’s ded their relatives to the Office report would likely concern the chip meets the requirement and of the Prosecutor General. Macau SAR government, he the pet passes an on-site clinical In the same report, the CCAC sensed that the local communi- examination, they can be exempted also found that 16 out of 101 ty were unsurprised by the inci- from quarantine. workers in the Macau Produc- dents described in it. tivity and Technology Transfer Sou pointed out that conflic- Center (CPTTM) were relatives. ts of interest are common in 427 taxi The relationships included fa- Macau society, and attempts to infractions ther and son, father and daugh- avoid them are rare. Moreover, ter, husband and wife, and bro- government officials have not recorded in ther and sister. Three of these Lawmaker Song Pek Kei found a mechanism to avoid 16 workers had already left their such conflicts. March jobs by the report’s release on system. Relevant departments issues, they must be dealt with Sou also accused the Chief Exe- In March, a total of 427 taxi March 27. must conscientiously sum up the seriously in accordance with the cutive of having continuously offences were recorded by the Song believes that the report lessons learned. law. used various reasons to excuse Public Security Police Force is a significant test of the inte- Song proposes that if the cases In the long run, Song believes matters when conflicts of inte- (PSP), according to a statement grity of the entire public service involve illegal and disciplinary that it is necessary to strengthen rest arose in the past. JZ released by the PSP earlier this week. Among them, 266 offences (62 percent) related to overcharging and refusing to carry passengers. There were 100 22 lawmakers listed on Leong meets with cases (23 percent) of taxi drivers refusing to accept passengers CE election committee financial regulators and 61 cases involving other violations. During the same period, the police recorded 10 WENTY-TWO lawmakers Staff reporter financial component - as well as strengthening cases involving unauthorized Thave been selected as mem- taxis, none of which were related bers of the Chief Executive Elec- ECRETARY for communication between to mobile taxi hailing services. tion Committee. SEconomy and Finan- the SAR and the country The 22 lawmakers, who will be ce Lionel Leong con- as a whole. part of the 400-member commit- tinued his visit in the Macau will work to be- Lawmaker tee to decide the region’s next top capital. For his second come the Renminbi clea- official, each submitted an appli- day there, he met with ring center for Lusopho- asks about cation to become a member of the the management of two ne countries, Leong said. committee. According to various supervisory bodies over- Leong expressed grati- labor rights reports, all of the lawmakers who looking insurance and tude to the two supervi- protection fund applied have been accepted. financial practices in sory bodies as they had “There are some seats for le- mainland China. supported and helped Lawmaker Ella Lei has raised a gislators in the ‘small-circle’ The two bodies were Macau’s development of written inquiry to the government 400-member Electoral Commi- the China Banking and financial services. and urged the authorities to prevent ttee for the Chief Executive. All Insurance Regulatory The Secretary sugges- abuse of the Labor Creditors’ Rights democratic legislators boycotted Commission and the ted the establishment of Protection Fund. Lei cited the a mechanism for mutual fund’s work report with respect to the internal elections, lawmaker China Securities Regu- 2016 and 2017, where it reported Sulu Sou wrote yesterday on so- latory Commission, re- connectivity and acces- that although a total of MOP21.9 cial media. “In the end, it will presented at the meeting sibility of information million was paid from the fund, again be an election with no com- by vice president Zhou within the banking and only 3 percent of that money, petition. All [the 22 lawmakers] Liang and vice president insurance commission. amounting to MOP607,000, are automatically ‘elected’.” Fang Xinghai respecti- He also said he wants was returned. The fund started “I have a dream – one that According to the Basic Law, the vely. to improve civil financial operation back in 2016. Lei seems small but yet worth figh- Chief Executive of Macau shall be The agenda of the mee- services for residents in asked about which industries the ting for. It is that one day, in the elected by a so-called ‘broadly re- ting was connected with the Greater Bay Area and employees who applied to the fund future, I can cast my vote for my presentative’ election committee the platform for trade expedite the pace of inte- are mainly involved in, and whether Chief Executive, together with all composed of 400 members from cooperation between gration for both human the relevant laws and regulations the citizens in Macau,” Sou ad- the four sectors and those appoin- China and Lusophone resources and financial needed to be reviewed. ded. ted by the central government. 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