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18th Macau Food irbus SE said it will Ahelp Chinese authori- Festival to kick off on ties investigate an incident in bloomberg Shenzhen this week, when the November 9 crew of an A320 commercial The 18th Macau Food Festival will be held jet requested an emergency from November 9 until November 25. The landing after reporting trou- 17-day food festival will, this year, adopt ble in the left engine and lan- new payment methods. Local residents will ding gear. It was later discove- be able to use Quick Pass, while mainland red that the two nose wheels visitors can use other popular mainland were missing. payment methods, including WeChat Capital Airlines flight Pay. Previously, visitors had to use cash JD5759 from Beijing, with 166 coupons in order to pay for food. This aboard, encountered severe year, the food festival will again feature wind shear while attempting gastronomy from other countries, which to land in Macau on August will be mixed in with aspects of the Greater 28, according to the operator. Bay Area. More than 100 local food brands Suspecting damage to the lan- have been invited to participate in this ding gear, the pilots initiated year’s food festival. emergency procedures and rate with CAAC and the airline will decide which airport or Jet International, said, “a landed at Shenzhen’s Bao’an to provide all necessary assis- which place is the best for lan- catastrophe almost happe- Plans to airport 42 minutes later. tance and support,” a Beijin- ding,” the official added. ned in Macau.” He also said Five passengers were hospi- g-based spokeswoman for the According to Pun, that deci- that pilots had techniques reclaim water talized after evacuation, ac- European plane manufacturer sion will be one of the factors to land planes with faulty plant suspended cording to a statement by the said yesterday. they will investigate, adding landing gear and that is why Civil Aviation Administration Meanwhile, local authorities that they do not rule out fac- the plane landed safely in The Marine and Water Bureau has revealed of China, who are investiga- are also conducting an investi- tors including weather, me- Shenzhen, commending the plans to reclaim the water plant construction ting the incident. gation into the incident, as the chanical parts and man-made pilot for his handling of the site were suspended. In a reply to lawmaker “Airbus will actively coope- front tires and broken parts of factors. situation. Lam Lon Wai’s written inquiry, the marine the plane were found during a Airline passengers travelling The Macau University of authority said that the suspension is taking pavement inspection. back to Macau from Shenzhen Science and Technology had place because the government has to take an all-airbus fleet Pun Wa Kin, director of Fli- on ferries and interviewed already issued a statement care of other important livelihood projects ght Standards and Licensing upon arrival described the last expressing that it was “very first. With this consideration, the government Capital Airlines, of the Civil Aviation Authority, hour of the troubled flight. concerned” as several of its decided to temporarily suspend the controlled by Chinese con- plan. According to the Marine authority, in said that gathering of eviden- One of them said that she saw new students were aboard glomerate HNA Group Co., ce is currently underway. “We fire from the left hand side of the flight. The university 2017, the city’s average daily household water operates an all-Airbus fleet are conducting a simple analy- the aircraft, and that the plane extended its registration pe- consumption was 157 liters, lower than the of 78 aircraft, and offers sis while gathering evidence,” bumped upon landing twice riod for these students. average in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Taipei, both domestic and long-haul Tokyo and Seoul. international services to he said, as cited in TDM. before lifting off again. Ano- The emergency landing of Europe, North America and “[The pilot] did request to ther said that passengers were the Chinese budget carrier Asia Pacific. It launched the come back to the Macau Inter- only informed about what was occurred within three days of IACM wants to first direct service between national Airport. But they mi- happening after they had lan- another of its A320 aircrafts Beijing and Lisbon in July ght have made some decisions ded in Shenzhen. making a sudden emergency expand location last year, according to the when handling the issue. This In an interview given to Ca- descent. This aircraft lost ca- company’s website. is normal. This is because the nal Macau, Captain Vicen- bin pressure on Sunday and options for company and the flight crew te Serafim, CEO of Macau landed in Kunming. crematoria The president of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), José Tavares, has his month 20 re- CRIME said that the department would not exclude Tsidents reported the possibility of amending the city’s law in to the Judiciary Police order to expand the selection of locations (PJ) that their credit Twenty locals reported stolen for crematoria. In its reply to lawmaker cards had allegedly Sulu Sou’s inquiry (submitted in July) been stolen. regarding the city’s selection of crematoria More recently, three credit card information locations, José Tavares noted that IACM has residents reported to continued to discuss locations with the Land, the PJ that they received tal sum of more than In total, 20 victims Currently, the PJ sus- online and to choose Public Works and Transport (DSSOPT). credit card transaction USD300. reported a loss of pects that the websi- reputable online sho- “Building crematoria is an important aspect information stating that According to the PJ USD16,000. The PJ te has vulnerabilities pping sites. of [Macau’s] overall immune system. It is their credit cards had records, other residents later discovered that which caused the vic- The PJ further highli- necessary. The government and residents been used to purchase should discuss the topic objectively,” José have also made similar all of them had visited tims’ credit card details ghts that individuals Tavares said. When asked whether the mobile applications. reports to the police. All a foreign tourism we- to be leaked, but is still who suspect that fraud government would introduce promession, Each transaction was victims said that their bsite with an address investigating the case. has occurred should José Tavares said that it would begin to around USD10. Mul- credit cards were used starting with the letter The police also called immediately report consider environmentally friendly burial tiple transactions had to purchase mobile K. The victims entered on residents to be min- the matter to the po- technologies once they become mature and been made on a daily applications or airplane their credit card details dful about protecting lice regardless of the dependable. basis, involving a to- tickets. into the website. their personal data amount lost.

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ailed airline Viva Macau went bankrupt Former exec says Viva Macau mainly because it was sabotaged by new in- Fvestors, a former executive at the company has claimed in an sabotaged by investors exclusive telephone interview with the Times. When asked whether he knew Joseph Said, a senior mana- what happened the MOP212 ger of Viva Macau, has accused million loan to Viva Macau, private equity fund MKW Capi- Pyne said, “I have no idea where tal of mismanaging the airline the money went… I assume that and driving it to bankruptcy. the loans were used to cover the He claims that a Commission losses of the company. There Against Corruption (CCAC) was no element of corruption investigation into Viva Macau during my time at the company may be “political” and “not tar- – everything was above board.” geting the right people.” Pyne had initially partnered The CCAC is investigating with William Ho, the late brother Viva Macau at the request of of Macau’s former Chief Execu- the Industrial Development tive Edmund Ho, and another and Marketing Fund (FIDC) in investor, Ngan In Leng. After his relation to a MOP212 million father’s death, William Ho’s son loan to the now-defunct airline. Kevin Ho inherited the executive The anti-corruption authori- director position at the company, ty is interested in determining but kept his distance from the whether there were any illegal day-to-day operations. transfers of assets from Viva Macau to external companies or individuals prior to its 2010 Viva Macau bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the Macau gover- was directed nment is continuing to press to hire the charges against Viva Macau’s main creditor and the guarantor services of the FDIC loan, Hong Kong -based Eagle Airways. The total of certain debt of Viva Macau amounts to some MOP1.14 billion, but only companies, a small fraction of that has been which ‘charged recovered through liquidation of the firm’s remaining assets. a fixed fee Said joined Viva Macau in 2006 and was responsible for without the company’s Australian and South Pacific routes, which he negotiation’ described as the most profitable leg of the company, accounting Speaking to the Times yester- for as much as 90 percent of the Joseph Said day, Kevin Ho said that he could company’s revenue at one point. not provide an accurate account According to Said, the airline two years with zero income,” he Viva Macau was directed to hire behind the airline and its chief of what happened in the airli- was in a healthy financial po- said, adding that “the problems the services of the auxiliary executive officer from concep- ne’s final years. “I was not invol- sition at the time of the 2008 occurred higher up at the com- companies, which “charged a tion until the 2007 MKW Capi- ved in the company at all – I just and 2009 loans from the FIDC, pany and were to do with mis- fixed fee without negotiation to tal buyout, also agreed to speak inherited the position of execu- which amounted to a combined management.” Viva Macau.” to the Times about the airline’s tive director from my late father MOP212 million. Private equity investment firm The seven alleged auxiliary demise. He claims the company [William Ho],” he said, adding “From what I can tell, the loan MKW Capital, led by principals companies include online tra- had always faced an uphill battle that he couldn’t recall the speci- to Viva Macau was done in good Reginald MacDonald, Kevin vel agency Macau.com, recruit- on account of “structural issues fic details. faith – [with the aim for it] to McKenzie and James Wolf, ac- ment agency MacauHR.com that made it difficult for Viva to After the MKW buyout, Pyne become the airline of Macau,” quired a majority stake in the and magazine publisher Desti- make money.” initially retained a small stake he told the Times. “That airline airline in 2007. nation Macau, which, according Pyne said that Viva Macau in the company and a position had a future; a massive future.” Joseph Said said that MacDo- to Said, were the sole suppliers was only allowed to operate as on the board, but he says that “Where did the 200 million nald established seven auxiliary of the various marketing needs a sub-franchisee of Air Macau since no board meetings were [patacas] go? That’s a lot for an companies in Macau to provide of the airline. These companies and only on the routes the latter ever held he eventually decided airline. With the money provi- different services to the airline were recipients of investment had no interest in. According to to sell his remaining shares. ded by the government, we cou- prior to its bankruptcy, ranging from MKW Capital. the airline’s founder, not only Another airline executive, Con ld have operated that airline for from recruitment to advertising. Said claims that it was during did Air Macau retain the exclu- Korfiatis, who was previously the tenure of MacDonald “that sive rights to fly to most popu- the company’s chief operating the problems started.” In April lar destinations (such as China, officer and chief financial offi- 2009, an influential person in Taiwan, Singapore and Phuket), cer, took over as CEO from 2007 Macau – whom Said would not it also had the ability to confis- to 2009, leaving before Viva identify – advised the airline cate any routes it desired from Macau entered its final days. executive to retire from Viva Viva Macau. Korfiatis could not be reached Macau. “About a year later the “What finally killed Viva was for comment. company went down,” he said. the terms of the Air Macau fran- In 2011, MKW Capital claimed The Times attempted to con- chise, which was very restricti- that the Macau SAR government tact MacDonald, McKenzie ve,” said Pyne. “Under the sub- had unjustifiably shut down the and Wolf last week by various franchise granted by Air Macau, airline. In 2014, the firm pressed means, but none of the three they could kick us off a profitab- for as much as USD200 million answered messages. Meanwhi- le route if they wanted.” in equity loss caused by the su- le, the CCAC did not respond to “The way [for the government] dden shutdown. Macau’s Civil an enquiry about whether or not to help Viva was to loosen the Aviation Authority has replied the MKW principals were being franchise, rather than the han- that Viva Macau was grounded sought in connection with the dout [loan],” he added. “Even at for failing to keep up with pay- investigation. the time it seemed to be a very ments for fuel, aircraft leases Andrew Pyne, the brains off, misguided policy.” and government bailout loans. 31.08.2018 fri

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MICE Recruitment of bilingual translators and Package-tour visitors receptionists prioritized edged down 3.3pct in July he 2018 Portuguese (20th MIF). TSpeaking Countries According to the state- Products and Services ment, this year’s edition Exhibition (2018 PLPEX) of the event will indepen- will prioritize the recruit- dent, although it will be ment of translators and held concurrently with receptionists of those bi- the 23rd Macao Interna- lingual in Chinese and tional Trade and Invest- Portuguese registered on ment Fair (23rd MIF). It the “Economic and Trade is expected to attract en- Co-operation and Human terprises from mainland Resources Portal between China and eight Portu- China and Portuguese- guese-speaking Countries Speaking Countries. Ac- (Angola, Brazil, Cape cording to a statement is- Verde, Guinea-Bissau, sued yesterday by the Ma- Mozambique, Portugal, cao Trade and Investment Sao Tome and Principe, isitors to Macau on -year, while those from South million. The average length of Promotion Institute, they and East Timor), together Vpackage tours increased Korea (49,000) and Taiwan stay of guests went up 0.1 ni- will be directly involved with local agents of Portu- 14 percent month-to-month (63,000) surged 30.6 percent ghts year-on-year to 1.5 nights. in promoting the develo- guese-speaking Countries’ to 771,000 in July, yet down and 59.4 percent respectively. The average occupancy rate of pment of a platform for food products and profes- 3.3 percent year-on-year, the There were 116 hotels and hotels and guesthouses stood at mainland China and Por- sional service providers Statistics and Census Service guesthouses operating at the 89.9 percent, down slightly by tuguese-speaking Coun- registered on the Portal. (DSEC) announced yesterday. end of July, an increase of nine 0.9 percentage points year-on tries in both online and The aim of the event is The month-to-month increase year-on-year. The number of -year. offline connections. to offer opportunities for was attributable to the summer guest rooms grew by 8 percent In the first seven months of PLPEX, to be held from exhibition, negotiation to holidays. In the first seven mon- year-on-year to 39,000, of whi- 2018, guests of hotels and gues- October 18 to 20 at The any enterprises wishing ths of 2018, visitors on package ch 5-star hotel rooms went up thouses totaled 8.1 million, up Venetian Macao, made its to participate in economic tours totaled 5.04 million, up 11.1 percent to 24,000, accoun- 6.8 percent year-on-year. The debut in 2015 as an exhi- and trade co-operation 10.7 percent year-on-year. ting for 61.9 percent of the total. average occupancy rate of ho- bition within the 20th between Mainland China In July, package tour visitors The number of guests of hotels tels and guesthouses rose 3.2 Macao International Tra- and Portuguese-speaking from mainland China (611,000) and guesthouses in July rose percentage points to 88.7 per- de and Investment Fair Countries. decreased 7.5 percent year-on 1.1 percent year-on-year to 1.23 cent. MDT/Xinhua

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he chief executive of the Hong Kong 48 suspected illegal Jockey Club says workers found in July that horseracing on Horseracing in Hainan Tthe tropical Chinese island of Yesterday, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) Hainan will not be a reality reported July’s illegal worker statistics, according in the near term. Speaking to to a statement released by the PSP. In July, the PSP together with the Labour Affairs Bureau and South China Morning Post, not likely soon says other governmental departments, inspected 438 Winfried Engelbrecht-Bres- locations (compared to 314 in June) for illegal ges said that such ventures workers. Construction sites, private residential can take up to seven years to buildings, commercial offices and industrial offices become credible operations. HK Jockey Club chief were among the locations inspected. In total, 48 He said that it is a lengthy suspected illegal workers were found, compared process to get a horseracing to 68 in June. During the same period last year, site operational, and it in- the PSP and other governmental departments cludes concept and feasibili- bloomberg inspected 445 locations and found 71 suspected ty studies, the development illegal workers. of a sustainable model, the training of horses and staff, and recruitment of jockeys. China eases process “It’s easy to build but costly to operate,” Engelbrecht- for issuing, renewing Bresges told the SCMP. “Such passports a development will take a sig- nificant period of time.” The State Immigration Administration (SIA) According to the SCMP, announced several measures this week to simplify after Chinese President Xi the process of issuing passports and travel Jinping stated his intention documents to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan earlier this year to turn the residents. From September 1, citizens will be able to apply for or renew passports and travel documents island of Hainan into a free- to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan from anywhere, trade port, speculation beca- regardless of where their household registration is, me rife among entrepreneurs the SIA said in the statement. Processing times will who established companies land, which is technically part about investing. We are not rse near Guangzhou. The be reduced to seven working days, according to the with some variant of horsera- of the mainland. The Jockey a commercial organization horse racing company says statement. Tourists traveling to Hong Kong, Macau cing in their name. Club has previously suppor- so we are not looking at its focus for the near-term and Taiwan in groups can also apply for travel Engelbrecht-Bresges said ted mainland activities of this partnerships in Hainan to is supporting the Central permissions from places other than their household that the Central Government nature, including the eques- develop [horseracing] on a Government’s Greater Bay registration locality. Since being founded in April, has not yet consulted the trian events of the 2008 Bei- commercial basis,” he said. Area project to link the two the SIA has launched several policies to facilitate Hong Kong Jockey Club re- jing Olympics. The statements come as special administrative re- cross-border travel, such as shortening waiting garding the development of “We have not had any the Hong Kong Jockey Club gions to nine other cities times for citizens crossing the border and offering horseracing in Hainan, nor discussion with Hainan or inaugurates its HKD3.7 in the vicinity of the Pearl visa-free access to tourists of 59 countries into have any entities on the is- anybody that is thinking billion Conghua Racecou- River estuary. Hainan Province.

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Petition calling for reducing plastic Workers in selected industries usage submitted Yesterday, five residents delivered a petition to the government headquarters see rise in earnings urging the government to determine a solution for plastic waste. The petition he Statistics and was signed by 4,700 people. One of the Census Service creators, surnamed Lao, commented (DSEC) has released that there is a serious problem in Macau bloomberg the results of a survey concerning single-use plastics, and that the Ton manpower needs and wages majority of plastic waste is not recyclable. for the second quarter of 2018, “We do not need this much plastic in our covering the sectors of whole- lives,” said Lao. Currently, Macau shops sale and retail trade, transport, are still not charging for plastic bags. Lao storage and communications, hopes that the government can speed up security activities, and public the legislative process towards reducing sewage and refuse disposal. the use of plastic. Most of the sectors surveyed registered growth in employee earnings. Rickshaw union denies At the end of the second misappropriation quarter of 2018, the wholesa- le and retail trade sector had MOP21,260. cent, while the turnover rate requisites, most vacancies in The Macao Pedicab Drivers Union claimed 61,288 persons engaged, up by Security activities employed fell by 1.5 percentage poin- public sewage and refuse dis- that it has not misappropriated government 2.2 percent year-on-year, with 11,513 persons, up by 7 per- ts to 4.8 percent, suggesting posal (88 percent), transport, subsidies. Earlier this week, a group of pedicab drivers complained about the union 37,886 working in retail. In cent year-on-year, while their an increase in demand for storage and communications having misappropriated subsidies granted June 2018, the average earnin- average earnings fell 1.2 per- manpower in the sector, accor- (45.3 percent) and wholesale by the government. Subsidies, consisting of gs (excluding bonuses) of full- cent in June year-on-year to ding to DSEC. Meanwhile, the and retail trade (41.1 percent) an amount ranging between MOP60,000 time employees in the sector MOP12,810. vacancy rate (6.4 percent) and required junior secondary le- and MOP70,000, was received by the rose by 2.5 percent year-on- There were 862 persons em- the turnover rate (5 percent) vel education or lower. union on a monthly basis for distribution to year to MOP13,370. ployed in the public sewage in transport, storage and com- As for language skills, 80.1 drivers. The subsidy was given to the union Meanwhile, there were 11,251 and refuse disposal sector, munications dropped by 0.4 percent and 49.3 percent of as part of a pedicab promotional project persons engaged in the trans- down by 0.5 percent year-on- and 0.2 percentage points res- the vacancies in the retail conducted by both the Macao Government port, storage and communi- year, while their average ear- pectively year-on-year, and the trade required knowledge of Tourism Office (MGTO) and the union. cations sector, down by 2.5 nings increased by 1.5 percent recruitment rate (7.9 percent) Mandarin and English respec- The union denied misappropriating the percent year-on-year. The annually to MOP18,420. rose by 2.9 percentage points, tively, while the correspon- subsidies and said that it has already average earnings of full-ti- The vacancy rate in the retail indicating that some of the va- ding proportions in security reported the case to the police. According to me employees increased by trade rose by 1.4 percentage cancies were filled. activities were 41.3 percent the union, MGTO stopped the promotional 3.9 percent year-on-year to points year-on-year to 7.7 per- In terms of recruitment pre- and 66.3 percent respectively. project last July.

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Real Estate Matters Argentina asks early release of Investing or speculating? IMF funds to calm markets Sam Lee is a marketing manager and property consultant at JML resident Mauricio Property. JML was established in 1994 and offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in managing properties for owners and Macri asked the Interna- P ap photo investors, and providing attractive and comfortable homes for tenants. tional Monetary Fund on We- dnesday for an early release of www.JMLProperty.com funds from a USD50 billion [email protected] deal with the IMF to ease con- Sam Lee cerns that Argentina will not be able to meet its debt obliga- What is the difference ting an empty field sees level of personal control. tions for 2019. between an investor and potential in it, purcha- This dependence on the a speculator? Is there a ses it and then turns it appreciation of the gene- Macri said in a televised difference? into a productive farm ral market whether it’s at address that Argentina has Fundamentally speaking, or industry. An investors a local or international agreed with the IMF “to ad- they are quite simi- main concern is forced level is inherently risky vance all necessary funds to lar. They both allocate appreciation of the asset, because as we know, the guarantee compliance with and deploy capital with conservative financing market can be fickle of the aim of maximizing a and long-term gains. The temperament. next year’s financial program.” return on investment. key idea to take away Macri said that in the past But from a strategic from investing is that it’s Investing and week there have been “ex- A man with a sign reading in Spanish “Stop Macri” stands outside an exchange standpoint, the two are a strategy based on low speculating in pressions of a lack of trust office in Buenos Aires at opposite ends of the risk purchases accom- real estate in the markets” about Ar- spectrum, and have panied by added value It is true that the spe- drastically different re- transformations. culator can make more gentina. He said the decision an all-time low of 34.2 pesos in 2001. The crisis 17 years lationships with the money than the investor, seeks to dispel any uncer- per U.S. dollar. ago resulted in one of every concept of ‘risk’. We’ll Speculating especially over the short tainty, but he did not speci- The IMF said in a statement five Argentines being unem- explore some of these di- Although every investor term. However, adopting fy the amount or when the that it will “revise the govern- ployed, millions sliding into fferences in this article. speculates from time to an investor’s mindset funds will be released. ment’s economic plan with a poverty and some reporting time, having a real estate will help you stay in the Investing investment strategy pu- game longer and ensure Argentina was forced to focus on better insulating Ar- going hungry. Generally speaking, rely based on speculation that your investments strike a deal with the IMF ear- gentina from the recent shifts The international lender has investing is the act of can be highly risky. In are grounded on added lier this year after a sharp de- in global financial markets, admitted that it had a made a allocating money or re- real estate, speculation value instead of market preciation of its currency and including through stronger string of mistakes that contri- sources into a business is usually the strategy of fluctuations. In short, monetary and fiscal policies buted to Argentina’s economic -related venture with the buying a property with instead of purchasing a run on the peso. The three expectation of achieving the purpose of reselling houses and apartmen- year stand-by financing deal and a deepening of efforts to implosion. A 2004 report by profit at a future date. An it later at a higher pri- ts with the hopes that is aimed at strengthening the support the most vulnerable the IMF’s internal audit unit investor is someone who ce. The speculator isn’t the market will shoot South American country’s in society.” concluded it failed to provide can spot opportunities as concerned in adding up, the investor takes a weak economy and helping Most Argentines have bad enough oversight, overesti- around him, add value value or tapping into a longer-term perspective to it and then reap the property’s potential as and focuses on building it fight inflation, which at 30 memories of the IMF and bla- mated growth and the success positive returns at a fu- much as relying on the a strong portfolio based percent per year, is one of the me the international lending of economic reforms, while it ture date. An example is market to deliver retur- on cash flow and added highest in the world. institution for encouraging continued to lend Argentina a man who upon spot- ns, and carries little to no value. The Argentine currency fell policies that led to the coun- money when its debt burden again Wednesday to close at try’s worst economic crisis had turned unsustainable. AP fri 31.08.2018

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Lisa Du, Corinne Gretler and Maiko Takahashi he company that Nestle wants your DNA to develop brought you milk chocolate, Maggi ins- tant noodles and Ro- Tcky Road ice cream is worried personalized nutrition trend about your health. Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, has joined the trend for personalized nutrition bloomberg with a blend of artificial inte- lligence, DNA testing and the modern obsession with Insta- gramming food. The program, begun in aging Japan, could provide the Swiss company with a wealth of data about cus- tomers’ wellness and diet as it pivots toward consumers who are seeking to improve their health and longevity. In Japan, some 100,000 users of the “Nestle Wellness Ambas- sador” program send pictures of their food via the popular Line app that then recommends lifes- tyle changes and specially for- Canadian dietary supplements to be doing it,” said Jon Cox, an sea change in the way consumers that I can discover in a blood and mulated supplements. The pro- maker Atrium Innovations in analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux. make choices, which has upen- genetics test,” said Kasuda, who gram can cost USD600 a year for March for $2.3 billion, its biggest “The industry has probably had a ded businesses from transporta- lives south of Tokyo in Yokoha- capsules that make nutrient-rich medical-nutrition purchase in setback as consumers also want tion to television. ma. “Even if I feel healthy, I’d teas, smoothies and other pro- more than a decade. natural and less processed pro- “In the 21st century, innovation like to know more about the qua- ducts such as vitamin-fortified “Health problems associated ducts while adding supplements is using the internet and AI to lity of my health.” snacks. A home kit to provide with food and nutrition have is seen as artificial or creating solve problems that our custo- In his 2016 book “Nutrition for samples for blood and DNA tes- become a big issue,” said Kozo Frankenstein food.” mers didn’t realize they had, or a Better Life,” former Nestle chief ting helps identify susceptibility Takaoka, head of the com- Some nutritionists are skepti- problems they had given up on,” Peter Brabeck-Letmathe propo- to common ailments like high pany’s business in Japan, in cal that tailored diet plans based said Takaoka, who is famous in sed that personalized diet and cholesterol or diabetes. an interview in Tokyo. “Nestle around supplements are useful Japan for making the KitKat cho- health programs were the futu- “Most of the personalized must address that on a global and that they may have more of colate wafer an iconic local snack re of nutrition. “Using a capsule approach is driven by smaller basis and make it our mission a psychological effect than a me- by adding green tea and other similar to a Nespresso, people companies, that’s why it was for the 21st century.” He said dical one. flavors. will be able to take individual nu- fairly limited,” said Ray Fujii, a the wellness segment could “Nestle’s program is designed He said big consumer com- trient cocktails or prepare their partner at L.E.K. Consulting in eventually account for half of to personalize diets in ways un- panies can no longer rely on the food via 3-D printers according Japan. “Nestle is taking a further Nestle’s sales in Japan. likely to be necessary,” said Ma- power of their brands to woo a to electronically recorded health step. They’re trying to figure out The investments come with the rion Nestle, a nutrition professor generation that grew up with recommendations,” he wrote. the algorithm between the test burgeoning interest in so-called at New York University who isn’t e-commerce. “They just search Two years later, Japanese results and the genetic informa- nutraceuticals - food-derived in- linked to the KitKat maker. “If for things, they don’t pick the subscribers in the wellness tion and what they recommend gredients that are processed and we think something will make brand,” he said. “When people program now drink nutrient- as a solution. If they could do it, packaged as medicine or wellness us healthier, we are likely to feel talk about brand marketing, I’m fortified teas dispensed in cap- it’s a very big step.” aids - among consumers that healthier.” just thinking ‘what’s that?’” sules using a product similar to Nestle’s program is part of are increasingly skeptical about One of the early adopters among Hitomi Kasuda, a 47-year-old Nespresso, Nestle’s trademark a change in direction for the mass products. Nestle employs the food companies was Cam- freelance writer, says drinking coffee machine. 152-year-old company, which more than a hundred scientists pbell Soup Co., which invested Nestle’s kale smoothie and other “We’re getting consumer buy sold off its U.S. candy unit this in areas including cell biology, $32 million in 2016 in San Fran- health drinks as much as four ti- -in because we live in a hedonis- year amid falling demand for gastrointestinal medicine and cisco-based startup Habit, which mes a week helps her feel better tic, me-first kind of world,” said sugary treats. Nestle has made a genomics at the Nestle Institute uses DNA and blood profiles to about not eating enough vegeta- Peter Jones, a nutritional scien- spate of investments targeted at of Health Sciences and has been make diet recommendations, as bles. She gave up using the chat tist at the University of Manitoba healthier options including vege- developing tools to analyze and well as offering nutritional coa- function on the app, but said in Canada. “This is going to be tarian meal maker Sweet Earth measure people’s nutrient levels. ching and tailored meal-kits. she’s keen to get the DNA test. the manifestation of the future. Foods and meal-delivery service “Decades in the future, all Big Food is tapping expertise “There’s probably a lot of things The one-size-fits-all platform is a Freshly. The company bought companies will probably have in AI and genetics to navigate a I don’t realize about my health thing of the past.” Bloomberg corporate bits mgm organizes annual summer than 1,000 local young people geg hosts family tour at back of house areas tour introduced Galaxy Ma- meaningful summer pastimes - - cau’s back-of-house areas to program for local youth across the school holidays, the families of team members. the gaming operator said in a In July and August, GEG or- statement. ganized four tours consisting As part of the program of the of team members from nearly Golden Lion Summer Camp, 20 different departments and MGM took 90 students from their families, amounting to 24 local high schools to Yuen more than 200 participants Long Po Leung Kuk Tai Tong in total, the gaming operator Holiday Camp in Hong Kong to said in a statement. join mentors for the action-pa- During the visits, gues- cked camp set amongst nature ts were shown some in Yuen Long. of the self-service sys- MGM also welcomed nearly tems in the back-of- 90 local high school students house areas, and also visited to experience working with the floral shop, the wardrobe MGM team members as part department, staff canteens, of the gaming operator’s A Day the staff clinic, and the team with MGM program. member services center. With the vision to “Create a According to GEG, the Fa- This August, MGM once people can learn new skills Better Tomorrow Today,” MGM mily Tour was organized to again organized the Golden and become acquainted with launches its signature Com- deepen the understanding of Lion Summer Camp and A Day real-life work experience. munity Care Campaign every Galaxy Entertainment Tour 2018 with the theme the workplace and improve with MGM summer program Over the years, both pro- summer for the community at Group (GEG) recently organi- “Welcome to Heart of House communication between team for local youth, where young grams have offered more large. zed the Galaxy Macau Family - Your Second Home.” The members and their families. 31.08.2018 fri

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ganized resistance to Chine- se rule is widely doubted. China’s foreign ministry did China rejects US lawmakers’ not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. sanctions call over Muslim camps Rubio and Smith had rai- sed the possibility of impo- Christopher Bodeen, Beijing sing sanctions on Chinese officials under the 2016 Glo- hina said yesterday ap photo bal Magnitsky Act in April, Cthat U.S. lawmakers were asking the U.S. ambassador wasting taxpayer money by to Beijing, Terry Branstad, urging President Donald to visit the region and collect Trump’s administration to information on Xinjiang offi- impose sanctions on Chinese cials responsible for the mass officials allegedly tied to the detention policy. mass internment of ethnic The Global Magnitsky Act minority Muslims in camps allows the U.S. government in the far west. to place travel and financial The lawmakers sent a le- restrictions on individuals tter to Secretary of State anywhere in the world given Mike Pompeo and Treasury credible proof of their role Secretary Steve Mnuchin ur- in human rights violations ging the government to apply or corruption. For the first sanctions to address the “on- time in December, U.S. au- going human rights crisis” thorities designated 52 peo- in the region of Xinjiang, in ple under the act, including the latest sign that the de- a Myanmar general allegedly tentions are raising concerns involved in the deadly crack- among Western leaders and down on Rohingya Muslims governments. and a Chinese police official Muslim ethnic minorities who oversaw the Beijing de- in Xinjiang are being detai- tention center that held Cao ned and tortured and face Shunli, a human rights acti- “egregious restrictions on vist who died in custody. religious practice and cul- A child reacts as security personnel march by in a show of force in Kashgar Acting Deputy Assistant Se- ture” and other abuses, said cretary of State Laura Stone the letter, which was signed gious beliefs, criticize them- to focus on and perform their China denies such intern- said later in April that the by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio selves and their loved ones duties well because they are ment camps exist but says cri- U.S. was deeply concerned and New Jersey Rep. Chris and give thanks to the ruling spending taxpayer money,” minals involved in minor of- about the detentions and Smith and 15 others. It was Communist Party. Beatings spokeswoman Hua Chunying fenses are sent to “vocational could take action under the provided to the media on We- and deaths have been repor- told reporters. “They should education and employment Magnitsky act. dnesday. ted despite authorities’ tight certainly serve the Americans training centers” to help with Along with Chen, other Chi- The letter singles out Xin- control on information from properly instead of poking their rehabilitation and rein- nese officials named in the jiang’s top official, Chen the region. their noses in other countries’ tegration into society. letter include Hu, the Chi- Quanguo, accused by many The detention program has affairs and pretending to be a “The argument that ‘a nese delegate to the U.N. of turning the region into a swept up people, including judge of human rights.” million Uighurs are detained human rights meeting, who police surveillance state and relatives of American citi- in re-education centers’ is is an official with the Com- implementing a system of in- zens, on ostensible offenses completely untrue,” Chine- munist Party’s United Front ternment camps, also known ranging from accessing fo- The letter se representative Hu Lianhe Work Department; Xin- as “re-education centers,” reign websites to contacting said earlier this month in jiang Deputy Party Secretary where members of the Uighur overseas relatives. Other singles out responding to questions rai- Shohret Zakir; and the head and other Muslim minorities aspects of the security cra- Xinjiang’s top sed by the U.N.’s Committee of Xinjiang’s Politics and Law are locked up for months wi- ckdown the AP has detailed on the Elimination of Racial Commission Zhu Hailun. thout trial. include all-encompassing official, Chen Discrimination in Geneva. The letter also mentions “The detention of as many digital surveillance, mass China insists tough mea- two companies that could as a million or more Uighurs deployment of police and se- Quanguo, sures are needed as part of be sanctioned under a sepa- and other predominantly vere regulations against reli- a “People’s War on Terror” rate executive order, Hikvi- Muslim ethnic minorities in gious customs and dress. accused to purge separatist and re- sion and Dahua Technology, ‘political reeducation’ center Yesterday in Beijing, the Fo- by many of ligious extremist elements both of which make video or camps requires a tough, reign Ministry said Chinese from Xinjiang, a vast region surveillance technology used targeted, and global respon- citizens enjoy freedom of reli- turning the with more than 10 million extensively throughout Xin- se,” the letter said. gion according to the law and Muslims. Deadly ethnic riots jiang track residents and res- Former detainees who spoke that the American lawmakers region into in its capital in 2009 killed trict their movements. to The Associated Press des- should not “threaten to im- hundreds and sporadic vio- The letter was signed by a cribed the internment camps pose sanctions at every turn a police lence occurred in subsequent bipartisan group of senators as facilities policed by armed on other countries.” surveillance years. But reports of violence and congressmen, inclu- guards where Muslims were “I would like to advise the are increasingly rare and the ding Ted Cruz and Sherrod forced to disavow their reli- individual U.S. lawmakers state existence of an effective or- Brown. AP

hina urged the Gao repeated Beijing’s CTrump administra- line that U.S. “bullying” tion to back away from Beijing urges US to make ‘right won’t work, and that imposing new tariffs on the nation is confident another USD200 billion of stable and sound tra- tranche of its goods, as decision’ as USD200b tariffs near de this year. On Wed- the end of a formal com- nesday, Trump accused ment period on the mea- in the supply chain and terday. Over 90 percent ports and identified take effect after a com- China of undermining sures nears. the fundamental inte- of businesses consulted another $200 billion in ment period ends Sept. U.S. efforts to pressure The U.S. should “take rest of the two peoples on the tariffs oppose goods targeted for du- 6. Such an escalation of North Korea into giving note of the calling from to make the right deci- them, Gao said. ties of as much as 25 the trade conflict cou- up its nuclear weapons, businesses and consu- sion,” Ministry of Com- President Donald percent, ranging from ld shave as much as 0.3 indicating his trade war mers in both countries, merce spokesman Gao Trump has imposed ad- chemicals and seafood percentage point off with Beijing is starting the fact that both coun- Feng said at a regular ditional tariffs on $50 to vacuums and bicy- China’s output growth to exacerbate geopoliti- tries are linked closely briefing in Beijing yes- billion of Chinese im- cles. Those duties could next year. cal tensions. Bloomberg fri 31.08.2018

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C ap photo deploy troops to Afghanis- tan, saying the neighbors are engaged merely in “nor- mal military and security cooperation.” Defense Mi- nistry spokesman Col. Wu Qian said reports in Hong Kong’s South China Mor- ning Post newspaper and elsewhere that hundreds of People’s Liberation Army soldiers are to man a base China’s defense ministry in eastern Afghanistan are spokesman Wu Qian “simply not true.” China shares a narrow volved in this process on border with Afghanistan Afghan soil,” Mosazai said. in the remote Wakhan China has sought to in- corridor region and is crease its presence in Af- wary of the country’s vio- ghanistan, including in lence and chronic insta- dialogue with the Taliban, bility overflowing into its after 17 years of Western in- restless Xinjiang region. volvement that has left the However, Wu said China, country still at war. like other nations, is hel- Along with Pakistan, Iran ping Afghanistan increase and Russia, it is gaining a its defense capabilities, growing influence even as particularly in the area of the United States spends counterterrorism. billions of dollars covering Afghanistan’s ambassador much of the $6.5 billion to China, Janan Mosazai, spent annually to support said this week that Beijing the Afghan National Se- is helping Afghanistan set curity Forces, which are up a mountain brigade to struggling to contain an bolster counterterrorism energized Taliban. operations, but that no Despite the denials of Chi- Chinese troops would be nese military activity in the stationed in the country. area, unconfirmed reports “While the Afghan govern- have shown what appear to ment appreciates this Chi- be Chinese military vehicles nese assistance and our two operating in the Wakhan militaries are working in corridor, which lies in the close coordination on uti- shadow of the Hindu Kush lizing this assistance, there mountains with Tajikistan will be no Chinese military to the north and Pakistan personnel of any kind in- to the south. AP Private fund chief arrested after USD2.6b goes missing

hanghai Fuxing of casino operator Landing SGroup’s chairman was ar- International Development rested overseas and escorted Ltd., was arrested in Cambo- back to China on suspicion of dia in relation to a corruption manipulating stocks and other investigation, Caixin reported. economic crimes, according to Securities regulators have le- Shanghai’s police department. vied billions of yuan in fines Zhu Yidong, 36, returned for market manipulation over to China on Wednesday, the the past year. police said in a statement on Authorities will check Fu- their official social media ac- xing’s private fund assets and count. He had disappeared to investor list to defuse risks, the unknown countries after Fu- Shanghai police said, without xing missed an estimated 18 providing further details. billion yuan (USD2.6 billion) Fuxing and Li Weiwei, the of payments to clients through controlling shareholder of a private equity products from separate Beijing-based asset affiliated firms and itself, ac- management company, used cording to state broadcaster 25 institutional accounts and China Central Television. 436 individual accounts to The case highlights the de- manipulate the price of Dalian termination of Chinese autho- Insulator Group Co., more rities to stamp out financial than doubling the company’s wrongdoing, as they seek to share price between June cut risk from the economy and 2016 and March 2017, accor- tamp down behavior that cou- ding to a July statement from ld unsettle markets. Last week the China Securities Regula- Yang Zhihui, the chairman tory Commission. Bloomberg 31.08.2018 fri

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Malaysia 1MDB probe moves overseas as 60 percent Indians stand in queues at a bank to exchange or deposit discontinued currency notes in New Delhi early all of the 250,000 rupees, or about even large amounts of Ncurrency removed $3,700. The government banned currency notes of evidence compiled from circulation in a sur- eventually released new could be traded on the prise 2016 attempt to currency notes worth 500 black market, though Anisah Shukry Prime Minister Maha- who has been painted root out illegal hoards of and 2,000 rupees. middlemen charged thir Mohamad is pushing as a central figure in the cash came back into the In theory, the decree heavy fees. alaysian inves- for a quick resolution to 1MDB case, and his fa- financial system, India’s meant corrupt politicians The reserve bank report Mtigators have com- investigations into the ther. Low has hired for- reserve bank has annou- and businesspeople wou- said in its Wednesday re- pleted 60 percent of their multibillion-dollar scan- mer New Jersey Gover- nced, indicating the move ld suddenly find them- port that 99.3 percent of probe into troubled state dal surrounding 1MDB nor Chris Christie and did little to slow the un- selves sitting on billions the $217 billion in notes fund 1MDB after reope- as he seeks to recover one of President Donald derground economy. of dollars in worthless withdrawn from circula- ning the case about three USD4.5 billion poten- Trump’s go-to law firms, Prime Minister Na- currency, known here as tion had come back into months ago. tially lost through the Kasowitz Benson Torres, rendra Modi’s currency “black money.” the economy. Some offi- The Malaysian Anti- fund. Gathering evidence to defend his interests decree, which was desig- “A few people are sprea- cials had originally pre- Corruption Commission across borders may prove in a U.S. Justice Depart- ned to destroy the value ding corruption for their dicted that number could has compiled almost all to be the bigger challen- ment investigation. of billions of dollars in own benefit,” Modi said be as low as 60 percent. local evidence, and is ge as authorities seek to The whereabouts of Low untaxed cash stockpi- in the surprise nighttime “Frankly, I think de- now collecting informa- trace the complex globe and his father aren’t pu- les, caused an economic speech announcement of monetization was a mis- tion from outside the -spanning transactions blicly known, although slowdown and months of the order. “There is a time take,” said Gurcharan country with cooperation that have spawned in- the Malaysian police said financial chaos for tens of when you realize that you Das, a writer and the from the foreign autho- vestigations in at least 10 that he firstly took refuge millions of people. have to bring some chan- former head of Proctor & rities, including U.S. and countries. in Macau and now he is Modi announced in a ge in society, and this is Gamble in India. He said Singapore, Deputy Chief The court has laid seve- believed to be in main- November 2016 TV ad- our time.” that while it did broaden Commissioner Azam Baki ral charges of corruption, land China. dress that all 500-rupee But even as the decree the country’s tax base, it told reporters near Kuala abuse of power and mo- Separately, the anti-gra- and 1,000-rupee no- caused turmoil for those was a nightmare for the Lumpur. ney laundering against ft agency is looking into tes, then worth about in India who have always immense, cash-depen- “Give us time to get sta- former premier Najib possible 1MDB links in USD7.50 and $15, wou- depended on cash — the dent informal economy. tements from overseas,” Razak, with all of them a $12 million case invol- ld be withdrawn imme- poor and middle class, “You can’t overnight he said. “We’re left with linked to 42 million ring- ving a research division diately from circulation. and millions of small change that in a country about 40 percent, whi- git ($10.2 million) of do- under the Prime Minis- The banned notes could traders — the rich fou- which is poor and illite- ch is all the evidence we mestic transactions. ter’s Department, with be deposited into bank nd ways around the rate. Therefore, for me need from the foreign Malaysia has requested nine individuals already accounts but the gover- currency switch. In the it’s not only an economic countries. It involves Interpol to issue a Red detained as part of the nment also said it would months after the decree, failure but a moral failure many countries.” Notice against Jho Low, probe. MDT/Bloomberg investigate deposits over businesspeople said that as well,” Das said. AP

Victoria Milko, Yangon Myanmar yanmar has deli- Rights group sees blocked aid to Kachin as war crime Mberately obstructed aid deliveries to civilians in war-torn Kachin and nor- offensive began in April have willfully obstructed soldiers take money from thern Shan states, actions that has renewed concerns local and international aid aid trucks and then block that may amount to war Myanmar’s army is crea- groups, denying Kachin ci- their deliveries. “They blo- ap photo crimes, a human rights ting a humanitarian crisis vilians access to aid,” For- ck everything. All trucks group said yesterday. in Kachin similar to the tify Rights chief executive that are trying to cross into Re-ignited fighting be- one caused by its violence Matthew Smith said in a KIA-controlled areas are tween Myanmar’s military against Rohingya Mus- statement accompanying blocked.” and an armed Kachin rebel lims in the western state of the group’s report. “This Fortify Rights said group has killed thousands Rakhine. may amount to a war cri- Myanmar authorities of civilians and displaced Human rights group For- me, giving even more rea- should allow access for lo- over 100,000 since 2011. tify Rights said civilians son for the U.N. Security cal and international aid The Kachin Independen- displaced by the Kachin Council to refer Myanmar groups to deliver relief. David Baulk (center) a specialist from Fortify Rights, talks to journalists ce Army is one of several violence have suffered “in- to the International Crimi- The United States in ethnic rebel groups the creased food insecurity, nal Court.” mid-August intensi- Rohingya Muslims and the humanity and war crimes military has been battling avoidable health-related “There is no food for peo- fied its sanctions against Kachin, who are largely in Kachin, Rakhine, and since Myanmar’s inde- deaths, poor living condi- ple on the border,” said Myanmar, blacklisting Christian. Shan states. The investi- pendence from Britain 70 tions, and protection con- Zau Raw, who is displa- four commanders and two A U.N. investigating gators said Myanmar au- years ago. cerns” due to the lack of ced in an area controlled units of security forces for team reported earlier this thorities “frequently and Thousands of people essential aid. by the rebels. He told the their alleged role in violent week that Myanmar’s top arbitrarily denied” huma- have been forced to leave “Consecutive govern- human rights group that campaigns against ethnic generals should face pro- nitarian aid to civilians in their homes since a new ments and the military he witnessed Myanmar minorities including secution for crimes against Kachin. AP fri 31.08.2018

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erome Powell’s up- coming Asia visit will As Bali awaits financial elite, test the Federal Reserve chief’s appetite for risk on Ja far different scale to the U.S. economy. a volcano is still rumbling As Indonesia prepares to host the International Monetary Bali’s potential as an investment

Fund and World Bank Group destination. xinhua annual meeting on the island The island currently has its of Bali in October, authorities challenges. The Mount Agung are planning for all sorts of po- volcano began rumbling about tential natural disasters from a year ago, with the eruptions earthquakes to tsunamis, after that followed prompting mass a tremor killed 500 people in a evacuations. It forced Bali’s nearby island this month. Of- international airport to close ficials also have a contingency for several days in November, plan in the event that a rumbling and an eruption in June also volcano erupts again. caused hundreds of flights to “We as the committee and the be canceled. government are ready with an Indonesia, an archipelago of evacuation plan,” Indonesia’s more than 17,000 islands, has IMF-World Bank Annual Mee- the world’s largest number of ting task-force chief Peter Jacobs historically active volcanoes. said in an interview in Jakarta. The country is located on the “We even have the ships, the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, navy ships around Bali ready.” an arc of volcanoes and geolo- “in case anything happens,” Ja- pporting the issue of the inter- banking seminar, jointly hos- Safety concerns are proving pa- gical fault lines surrounding the cobs said. “We have the contin- national monetary system as ted by the Group of Thirty and ramount as Powell and financial Pacific Basin. gency plans in place.” we are seeing the trade war and Bank Indonesia, on the sideli- world leaders prepare to gather Bali’s neighboring island of Indonesia, as host nation of the there will be monetary policy nes of the IMF and World bank with more than 15,000 people Lombok was hit by a series of IMF-World Bank meeting, wan- co-ordinations that will need to meeting, although the line-up is on the resort island of Bali. As far earthquakes this month, dis- ts financial technology and the be strengthened,” Jacobs said. yet to be confirmed. European as the meeting’s agenda goes, the placing hundreds of thousand digital economy included on the “These will be also the central Central Bank President Mario ongoing trade war between the of people and leaving more agenda, as part of a framework issues discussed in the IMFC,” Draghi, People’s Bank of China U.S. and China is looming as the than 500 dead. The tourist ha- to be known as the Bali Initiati- he said, referring to the Interna- Governor Yi Gang and the Bank key issue. However, Jacobs said ven remains a scene of destruc- ve. President Joko Widodo will tional Monetary and Financial of Japan’s Haruhiko Kuroda are that Indonesia plans to also use tion and aftershocks have been deliver a speech on the digital Committee. also expected on the same panel, the meetings to highlight infras- occurring since. economy. Powell has been invited according to a program provided tructure financing and showcase The authorities are prepared “We are also pushing or su- to speak at an international by Bank Indonesia. Bloomberg

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Frank Jordans, Chemnitz Germany dence of their extremist ideolo- gy, she said. he governor of Ger- Public displays of the salute, many’s eastern state of the Nazi swastika and other Saxony traveled yester- means of glorifying Adolf day to the city where Saxony governor goes to Hitler’s National Socialist regi- Tanger over the suspected killing me are forbidden in Germany of a man by migrants sparked and can result in fines or prison violent protests. sentences. Police were preparing for fur- city shaken by protests Authorities in Saxony reques- ther demonstrations during the ted the help of federal police visit to Chemnitz by Governor to prevent further outbursts of Michael Kretschmer, an ally violence in the coming days, in- of German Chancellor Angela ap photo cluding during a planned far-ri- Merkel. ght protest outside a town hall At least 18 people were injured meeting Kretschmer planned Monday when far-right protes- to hold with citizens today [Ma- ters, mobilized from surroun- cau time]. ding areas and further afield, In a separate incident, police clashed with counter-protesters said yesterday that a 20-year in the city center. The demons- -old Syrian man was attacked tration followed calls on social in the northern city of Wismar media to honor a 35-year-old by three German-speaking men German citizen stabbed to dea- shouting anti-migrant slurs th Sunday in an altercation be- and had to be hospitalized for tween two groups. his injuries. Authorities denied online ru- Rostock police said the inci- mors that the victim had been dent late Wednesday was being protecting a woman from ha- investigated as a hate crime. rassment, saying there was no The Syrian in Wismar was evidence this had been the case. on his way home alone when Still, the public display of an- he was attacked. Two of the ger and footage showing neo- suspects punched him in the Nazis hurling abuse and bottles face and the third hit him with at counter-protesters as police a chain on the shoulder and struggled to keep the groups ribs area, knocking him to the apart raised fresh concerns ground before they fled. about the threat posed by far He was released after treat- -right extremists in Germany. since the influx of more than a Adding to pressure on Krets- sibly to check their identities ment for a fractured nose and Saxony has long been a hotbed million refugees to Germany in chmer, who faces state elections — preventing them from cove- bruises to his face and upper of anti-migrant sentiment and 2015 and 2016. While the share next year, opposition parties ring the demonstration. It later body. is home to the group Patriotic of foreigners in Saxony remains have called for an investigation emerged that the protester was The co-leader of Alternati- Europeans against the Islami- below the national average, into alleged collusion between a civilian employee of Saxony’s ve for Germany, which came zation of the West, or PEGIDA, concern among the population police and far-right extremists criminal police department. third in last year’s national as well as a stronghold of the far about migrants committing cri- after the arrest warrants for the Green party lawmaker Claudia elections, said he understood -right Alternative for Germany mes is particularly high. two suspects were leaked on so- Roth told news agency dpa that the public anger over the party, which received almost a Chemnitz prosecutors said a cial media. “organized far-right extremis- killing. quarter of the vote in the state 22-year-old Iraqi and a 23-year The incident comes days after ts” appeared to be using public Alexander Gauland told dai- last year. -old Syrian were arrested on a man at a far-right protest was anger over the killing for their ly Welt in an interview pub- There have been regular at- suspicion of manslaughter filmed harassing journalists. ends. Footage showing nume- lished Wednesday that “when tacks against migrants over in connection with Sunday’s Police subsequently held the re- rous protesters performing the such a killing occurs, it’s nor- the years in Saxony, especially killing. porters for 45 minutes — osten- stiff-armed Nazi salute was evi- mal for people to snap.” AP US leaker Chelsea Manning to be barred from Australia

Rod McGuirk, Canberra “Ms. Manning offers for- Home Affairs said while Australian government midable ideas and an in- it does not comment on would send a chilling onvicted classi- sightful perspective which individual cases, all non- message that freedom of ap photo Cfied document leaker we are hoping to bring to citizens entering Australia speech is not valued by Chelsea Manning will not the forefront of Australian must meet character re- our government,” Amnes- be allowed to enter Aus- dialogue,” Think Inc. Di- quirements set out in the ty International national tralia for a speaking tour rector Suzi Jamil said in a Migration Act. The rea- director Claire Mallinson scheduled to start Sunday, statement. sons a person might fail said in a statement. her event organizer said Manning was an intelli- the character test include a Lawyer Greg Barns, who yesterday. gence analyst for the U.S. criminal record or a deter- has represented Wikileaks Think Inc. said it had Army when she leaked mination they might a risk founder Julian Assange, received on Wednesday a military and diplomatic to the community, accor- said people with criminal notice of intention from documents to the anti-se- ding to the department. records have been allowed the government to deny crecy website WikiLeaks. Prime Minister Scott into Australia in the past. Manning entry. The group She served seven years of Morrison said the decision He said no one would se- is calling on her supporters a 35-year sentence befo- was for Coleman, who was riously suggest Manning to lobby new Immigration re then-President Barack sworn in as immigration was a risk to the Austra- Minister David Coleman Obama granted her cle- minister on Tuesday. lian community. to allow her into Australia. mency in 2017. A foreign affairs Immigration in New While she can appeal, past The transgender activist spokeswoman for the Zealand expects to make ding to the country’s visa tion minister. precedent suggests the who recently lost a lon- opposition Labor party, a decision by Friday on rules. She is due to speak in decision has already been g-shot bid for a U.S. Se- Penny Wong, said the go- whether to grant her a New Zealand’s cen- the Australian city of made. nate seat in Maryland is vernment should be trans- “special direction” visa. ter-right National Party Melbourne on Sept. 7, Think Inc. said it had gi- scheduled to speak at the parent about the reason if She doesn’t qualify for en- opposition is urging the the New Zealand city of ven the government more Sydney Opera House on Manning is denied entry. try otherwise because she government to decline Auckland on Sept. 8, than 10 letters of support Sunday and has subse- Amnesty International has a criminal conviction her visa request. If the the New Zealand capi- from individuals and or- quent events in Australia accused the government of within the last 10 years for decision goes against tal Wellington on Sept. 9 ganizations who support and New Zealand. trying to silence Manning. which she had a sentence Manning, she can have it and the Australian city of Manning’s entry to Australia. The Department of “By refusing her entry, the exceeding 1 year, accor- reviewed by the immigra- Brisbane on Sept. 11. AP 31.08.2018 fri

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TV canal macau cinema this day in history cineteatro Friday 30 Aug - 05 Sep 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast 15:00 Portuguese Soap Opera 17:45 Miscellaneous 19:05 Hato Documentary (Repeated) 19:35 Destinos.pt 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report 21:15 Portuguese Mini Serie (100% Portuguese) 22:25 Portuguese Serie - Liberty 21 23:15 TDM News 23:50 Movie: Saint Laurent 02:25 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) 03:10 RTPi Live

Saturday 10:30 Zig Zag hotel transylvania 3: a monster vacation 11:35 Miscellaneous room 1 4:45pm 1957 Malaya celebrates 12:30 Miscellaneous Director: Genndy Tartakovsky 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) Starring: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez independence 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast (PT) Language: English (Chinese) 14:30 Miscellaneous Duration: 97min The Federation of Malaya is now independent. The hando- 18:05 Miscellaneous ver of power from Britain took place at midnight. 19:05 Lusa Music Box Along with the gods: Thousands of young members of the Malay, Chinese and the last 49 days 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (PT) Indian parties, which form the government, stood in darkness room 1 21:15 Grimm Sr. 4 for two minutes at midnight to mark the official handover. 2:15, 18:30, 9:15pm As the new flag of independence was raised they called 22:45 Miscellaneous Director: Kim Yong-hwa 23:15 TDM News Starring: HA Jung-woo, JU Ji-hoon, KIM Hyang-gi “Merdeka” (freedom) seven times. 23:50 2 FIMM Language: Korean (Chinese & English) Tunku Abdul Rahman, the prime minister-elect, who led the 00:45 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) negotiations with the British for handover of power, was hai- 01:30 RTPi Live doraemon the movie: led as the Father of Independence. Nobita’s treasure island Malaya will stay in the Commonwealth - and, as midnight room 2 approached, prime ministers of the member countries sent 4:45pm Sunday Director: Kazuaki Imai messages recorded in five continents. 10:25 Kids Serie Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ohara, Yumi Kakazu The British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said he hoped 11:00 Sunday Mass (Live) Language: Cantonese (Chinese) 31 August would long be remembered as a great and happy 12:00 Miscellaneous Duration: 109min day in the continuing development of Malaya and the Com- 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) monwealth of Nations. 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast In his speech delivered at midnight, Tunku Abdul Rahman 15:30 Mozambique Jazz Festival said it was the greatest moment in the life of the Malayan 17:25 Got Talent Portugal people. A new star had risen in the eastern sky - a star of 19:40 Portuguese Serie freedom for yet another Asian people. 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report The new prime minister was educated at two British schools 21:15 Documentary and graduated from Cambridge in 1925. Soon after World 23:15 TDM News War II he went back to Britain to study law. 23:55 Miscellaneous On his return to Malaya in 1949 he found a country eager 00:35 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) for independence but also struggling with communist extre- 01:20 RTPi Live mism. He founded the Alliance Party in 1952 which brought toge- ther the ethnic Malay, Chinese and Indians. The party won the 1955 general election with an overwhelming majority. The Tunku became Chief Minister and ended the state of Offbeat Killing for the prosecution emergency - introduced after a wave of attacks carried out by room 2 mainly Chinese communists on mine-owners and plantations 2:30, 7:15, 9:30pm - and granted an amnesty to communist terrorists. Hong Kong’s co-working surge Director: Masato Harada Last year he led the negotiations with the British which pa- sees a landmark leasing deal Starring: Takuya Kimura, Kazunari Ninomiya ved the way for independence. Language: Japanese (Chinese & English) The new Malayan head of state, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, will Duration: 123min be officially installed on 2 September. He was chosen from L Storm among the rulers of Malay’s nine hereditary states. room 3 He will hold the post of head of state for five years when his 2:30, 9:30pm successor will be elected. Director: David Lam The installation ceremony will be witnessed by the Duke Starring: Louis Koo, Julian Cheung, Kelvin Cheng and Duchess of Gloucester who are flying in to represent Language: Cantonese (Chinese & English) the Queen. Duration: 90min Courtesy BBC News

In context One of Hong Kong’s biggest co-working leasing deals Following Malaya’s independence, Tunku Abdul Rahman introduced has added to an explosion in the number and size of such reforms that spread power among the sultans and rajas who had ruled agreements. over fiefdoms on the Malay peninsula for hundreds of years. Start-up Campfire Collaborative Spaces leased three But non-Malays were disappointed that political power remained largely floors of the Harbourfront Landmark building in western in Malay hands. Kowloon from private equity firm Pamfleet Real Estate In 1963 Malaya joined with Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore under a new Fund LP, according to Colliers International Group Inc., name, the Federation of Malaysia. Rivalry between the Tunku and Lee which brokered the transaction. Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, saw Singapore leave the federa- Record co-working deals in Hong Kong in 2018 show their tion in 1965. growing role in the office market amid the rise of compa- Since Singapore’s population was predominantly Chinese, its departure nies such as WeWork Cos., the U.S. firm reported to have tipped the balance back in favor of Malays and increased tension between claimed a valuation of $35 billion. Co-working companies the two communities. accounted for 10 percent of new lettings on Hong Kong In 1969 there were riots in Kuala Lumpur and 2,000 mainly Chinese Hindi Medium Island last year, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. protesters were killed. room 3 “For the next six to 12 months, we will continue to see A state of emergency was declared and a year later Abdul Rahman retired 4:30, 7:00pm from office. co-working operators expanding in the market,” said Denis Director: Saket Chaudhary Ma, head of Hong Kong research at JLL. “A lot of operators Starring: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar In the late 1980s he re-emerged into public life to criticise the authoritari- are trying to gain market share because it’s very much a Language: Indian Dialect (Chinese & English) an leadership of Mahathir Mohamad. new sector.” Duration: 132min fri 31.08.2018 th Anniversary

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football Ronaldo's Juventus drawn with Man United in Champions League

ristiano Ronal- ther with AEK Athens. do is going back to Liverpool, the runner-up Manchester Uni- last season, was the toughest ap photo ted and Paul Pogba third-seeded team and lan- Cwill return to Juventus after ded with Paris Saint-Ger- the teams were drawn toge- main, Napoli, and Red Star ther in a Champions League Belgrade. group along with Valencia English champion Manches- and Young Boys today [Ma- ter City got a favorable group cau time]. with Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon After winning four titles at and Hoffenheim. Real Madrid, and one with Atletico Madrid, whose Me- United, Ronaldo aims to end tropolitano stadium hosts Juventus' 23-year wait for a the final on June 1, is grou- third European title. ped with Borussia Dortmund, Three-time defending Monaco and Club Brugge. champion Madrid will play Lokomotiv Moscow, seeded Roma, CSKA Moscow and in the top pot, will play Porto, Viktoria Plzen. Schalke and Galatasaray. Barcelona heads a tough The 32 teams will share group with Tottenham, PSV a record 1.95 billion euros Eindhoven and Inter Milan, (USD2.28 billion) in prize while three former Euro- money from UEFA. pean champions Bayern Mu- Games kick off on Septem- nich, Benfica, Ajax are toge- ber 18. AP Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo

xinhua Luka Modric wins UEFA vote as best player in Europe

Croatia captain Luka Modric title, and fourth in five seasons, Champions League after goalkee- has been voted the best player before leading his country to the per Keylor Navas, defender Ser- in Europe last season, edging World Cup final. Croatia lost 4-2 gio Ramos, midfielder Modric former Real Madrid teammate against France. and forward Ronaldo won the Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool Voting was by Champions Lea- individual positional prizes. Ro- forward Mohamed Salah for the gue coaches and invited journalis- naldo has since joined Juventus. UEFA award. ts across Europe. The best women's player award Modric helped Madrid win a Madrid swept the overall elec- was won by Pernille Harder of Luka Modric third straight Champions League tion for best player in last season's Denmark and Wolfsburg.

Asian Games Combined Koreas basketball team to play for gold

John Pye, Jakarta, Indonesia liver another gold me- waved the "unification" for the joint teams that dal. flag and chanted for the are entered in rowing, combined Koreas The South Koreans are Koreas during the game. canoeing and women's ap photo A team reinforced by defending champions "As we stay united, we basketball — rather than WNBA center Park Ji- and have been bolste- went to the final. It being added to the tally su has reached the wo- red by players from the makes me emotional." of either North or South men's basketball final North. Park Ji-su joined The canoe medals — a Korea. at the Asian Games af- the group after comple- gold and two bronze — The Koreas, still techni- ter an 89-66 win over ting her season with the have been awarded to cally at war after their Taiwan. The team, fea- Las Vegas Aces in the Korea, as the joint teams 1950-53 conflict ended turing three North Ko- WNBA and made her in rowing, canoeing and in an armistice, have reans and nine players first court appearance in basketball have been na- fielded 60 athletes in from the South, will the second quarter. She med at the games. combined teams in the take on China for the finished with 10 points After the women's crew three sports along with gold medal after over- and 11 rebounds. won the 500-meter title larger contingents for turning their two-point North Korean Ro Suk in the dragon boats, the their respective national overtime loss to Taiwan Yong, captain Lim Yung folk song Arirang played squads. in the group stage. Chi- -hui and Park Hye-jin all instead of the official na- In the first of 10 finals na beat Japan 86-74 in had 17 points. tional anthem for North on the last day of track the second of the semi- "This is a result that Korea or South Korea and field competition, finals. everyone achieved by and the "unification" Japan's Hayato Katsuki Canoeists competing in playing together with flag, which features the won the 50-kilometer three dragon boat crews one goal and one spirit," outline of the Korean walk in 4 hours, 3 minu- won the first medals for Ro was quoted as saying peninsula in blue on a tes and 30 seconds. Wang the combined Koreas by Yonhap, the South white background, was Qin of China was three teams, including the Korean news agency. raised during the medal minutes back in second first gold, and there are "Their support gives me ceremony. place, and South Korea's high expectations the lots of energy," Ro said The medals are awarded Joo Hyun-myeong took basketball team will de- of the supporters who to Korea — the name bronze. AP Combined Koreas' Kim Hanbyul (right) drives past Taiwan's Chen Yuchun THE Prince harry, meghan join Station Air quality BUZZ lin-manuel miranda at 'hamilton' Roadside 80-100 Moderate Prince Harry sang and joked with Lin-Manuel Harry briefly sang a line by the role of his si- Miranda on the stage of "Hamilton," after he xth great-grandfather King George III, to loud High and his wife Meghan joined audiences for a gala cheers and applause from the cast and audience. Density 50-70 charity performance of the smash-hit musical Miranda added it was "fun and surreal" to Residental in London's West End. have Harry there because "you don't often get Moderate The royal couple sat in the royal circle at Vic- a direct descendent" of the characters to wa- Area opinion toria Palace during the performance, and af- tch the show. The royal couple hosted Wed- terward they joined Miranda, the show's crea- nesday's gala performance to raise money for Ambient 80-100 tor, on stage with the cast. Harry's charity Sentebale. Moderate Bizcuits dsmg source: Leanda Lee As temperatures rise, WORLD BRIEFS The elephant on the bridge South Sudan Emboldened by a new The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) peace deal, civil war-torn has long been proposed (2002), planned (from farmers plant crops in South Sudan says it will 2004) and contracts signed (2009). It has long resume oil production in been in development, long been seen under cons- a key region next month truction from the air and eastern vantage points of S. Korean tunnel to make up for more than USD4 billion of revenue Macau, and not long to go before the re-scheduled lost during years of and again rescheduled opening. The strange thing fighting. about this highly complex bridge project is that to the ap photo general population the business case is as murky as Greece Authorities in the Delta itself. western Greece have This week’s comments from Victor Lei, managing arrested two people director of the International Logistics and Forwar- for allegedly trying to ding Association of Macau as representative figure smuggle 71 migrants out of the logistics industry, suggests that even those of the country on a U.S.- who should most benefit from the mega-size sea flagged yacht. crossing are being kept (well, “high and dry” would be an inept idiom given the circumstances) hanging.

We are informed that the functions of the bridge ap photo are three-fold: 1) “to meet the demand of passenger and freight land transport among Hong Kong, the Mainland […] and Macao”, 2) “to establish a new land transport link between the east and west banks Germany The governor of the Pearl River”, and 3) “to enhance the economic of Germany’s eastern state and sustainable development of the three places.” of Saxony visited yesterday What we have not seen and what people like Vic- the city where anger over tor Lei are having problems with is bridging the gap the suspected killing of a man by migrants sparked between these motherhood statements heard for violent protests. last fifteen-odd years and the explicit details of1) Head of NextOn Choi Jae Bin explains about his farm's crop cultivation system what the projected demand was to justify this com- Hungary-Sweden plex 35.6-kilometre multi-billion dollar mega-project Jung-Yoon Kim, Okcheon also love listening to music The Agriculture Ministry Hungary’s Foreign and what the permitted utilization and carrying ca- like we do," said Choi Jae announced earlier this year Ministry says it pacity will be, 2) the cost to the various users and summoned Sweden’s ehind a blue wall that Bin, head of NextOn, the that it will invest in smart how it will enhance their specific business models company that runs the verti- farm development nationwi- ambassador after the seals a former highway Swedish foreign minister and individual needs - particularly given that building B cal farm. de, expanding their total area metaphorical bridges with Macau’s logistics indus- tunnel stretches a massive and other officials made indoor farm bathed in rose- Sixty types of fruits and ve- to 7,000 hectares from the critical comments about try to consult on their specific requirements appears getables grow in optimized current 4,010 hectares. to have been unsuccessful - and 3) what is really tinted light. Fruits and vege- Hungary, including conditions using NextOn's Turning a profit can be about its strong anti- meant by “economic” and “sustainable” and in what tables grow hydroponically — with no soil — in vertically own growth and harvest challenging for indoor ver- immigration policies. way will each region uniquely benefit from the infras- systems. Among them, 42 tical farms given the high tructure over time? stacked layers inside, illumi- nated by neon-pink LEDs are certified as no-pesticide, cost of construction and Perhaps the authorities thought they would cross no-herbicide and non-GMO infrastructure. NextOn cut that bridge when they came to it. The bridge is now instead of sunlight. ap photo Operators of this high-tech products, said Dave Suh, Ne- construction costs in half by there, right in front of us, and although somewhat xtOn's chief technology offi- using the abandoned tunnel tardy, it is time to have clarified the details as to why it facility in South Korea say it is the world's first indoor ver- cer. He said the tunnel pro- and developing its own LED is there, specifically, for whom, and what quantifiable vides temperatures of 10 to lights and other technologies. tical farm built in a tunnel. Britain Critics of outcomes were anticipated. 22 degrees Celsius, enabling The proprietary technolo- A simple case in question is the individual resident It's also the largest such farm London Mayor Sadiq the company to optimize gies reduce water and energy Khan have been given travelling between Macau and Hong Kong. There in the country and one of the growing conditions. use and the need for workers, permission to fly a giant are a number of criteria we check to make these biggest in the world, with a High-tech smart farms, cutting operation costs, Suh balloon over London that decisions that are mostly to do with resources: how floor area of 2,300 square meters, nearly half the size of used also in places like Du- said. Sensors in each vertical depicts him dressed in a much time, money, effort and habitual change will bai and Israel where growing layer measure variables such bikini. The balloon was be asked of us to traverse that expanse of water? an American football field. Indoor vertical farming is conditions are challenging, as temperature, humidity, a reference to a “Beach The mode and method will depend upon the time of can be a key to developing light, carbon dioxide and mi- body ready” ad that Khan day, point of origin and ultimate destination. Mone- seen as a potential solution banned in 2016. to the havoc wreaked on sustainable agriculture, ex- cro-dust levels to maintain tary cost, both to obtain the ongoing permit and for perts said. an optimized environment each trip, has been an ongoing question in commu- crops by the extreme wea- Argentina President ther linked to climate change "Society is aging and ur- for each crop. Mauricio Macri has nity conversation. Then there are the hassle factors banization is intensifying The crops will cost less than such as traffic on the bridge, and to and from the and to shortages of land and asked the International as our agricultural workfor- conventionally grown orga- Monetary Fund for an bridge. What of the frequency of services and the workers in countries with ce is shrinking," said Son nic vegetables, Suh said. The early release of funds consistency of schedules? How will traffic impact aging populations. The tunnel, about 190 ki- Jung Eek, a professor of farm will begin supplying from a USD50 billion upon these? Comfort and even fear factors play a plant science at Seoul Na- vegetables to a major food deal with the IMF to ease role: trust that construction? get queasy on the Cotai lometers south of Seoul, was built in 1970 for one of tional University. Smart far- retailer and a leading bakery concerns that Argentina Jet? can’t get enough of those TurboJet hotdogs? will not be able to meet South Korea's first major hi- ming can help address that chain beginning in late Au- Has all this been considered and market research challenge, he said, as well as gust, NextOn said. its debt obligations for ghways. Once a symbol of the 2019. actually done, or was it as case of taking a page out make it easier to raise high- Next up: more tiers of crops More on p8 of Adelson’s “build it and they will come” book? Re- country's industrialization, it closed in 2002. An indoor value crops that are sensiti- in the remaining two-thirds cent news about the logistics facility in Macau being ve to temperature and other of the tunnel to grow high- put out to tender, customs agreements not finalized, farming company rented the tunnel from the government conditions. value fruits and medicinal ap photo and only very recent indications of toll fees suggest Only slightly more than herbs. that operational matters were inconsequential. last year and transformed it into a "smart farm." 16 percent of South Korea's Suh said the medicinal Burning bridges I may be, but bridging the gap land was devoted to farming plant market is currently do- between the unfathomable business case and the Instead of the chirrups of cicadas, Claude Debussy's in 2016, according to gover- minated by a few countries Brazil A leading actual construction of this technological feat of a candidate in Brazil’s "Clair de Lune" resonates nment statistics. The rural and regions. bridge lies in a more authentic justification: political presidential election said in the tunnel in hopes of sti- population has fallen by al- "Our goal is to achieve dis- integration. There are no elephants on this bridge, most half over the past four ruptive innovation of this police should be given we all know this fact. With the dearth of specificities mulating the crops' healthy license to kill criminals growth. decades, even as the overall market by realizing stable and those who do should of the bridge’s use at this late stage, not many other population has grown nearly mass production of such pre- reasons emerge that hold water. "We are playing classical receive medals not face music because vegetables 40 percent. mium crops," he said. AP prosecution.