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Quarantine P3 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo THURSDAY T. 25º/ 31º Air Quality Good MOP 8.00 3592 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 06 Aug 2020 HKD 10.00 WYNN HALTS JAPAN EXPANSION THREE BEAUTY CENTER MANAGERS ZHENG YANXIONG: PROFILING PLANS, REMAINS OPTIMISTIC THE HARDLINER CHINA CHOSE ABOUT MACAU GAMING, SAYS ACCUSED OF BREACHING TO OVERSEE HONG KONG’S CEO MATT MADDOX PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION NATIONAL SECURITY LAW P4 P2 P6 AP PHOTO RUNNYREM North Korea Torrential rains are lashing North Korea, prompting authorities to take steps to minimize damage, state media said. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that the heavy rain is expected to continue in most of the country until today. It said authorities handling ESCAPE economic and agricultural affairs are taking measures to prevent damage. FROM AP PHOTO QUARANTINE P3 Japan The atomic bomb that exploded over Two new cases of Hiroshima 75 years ago didn’t just kill and maim. The survivors have also lived residents breaching their for decades with lingering shame, anger and fear. Many in Japan believed radiation mandatory confinement sickness is infectious or hereditary. Some watched as loved ones died, one by one, because of radiation from the bombing, and wondered — Am I next? More on macaudailytimes.com Japan A governor is drawing skeptical criticism after he touted a gargling product as effective against the coronavirus, an assertion that, despite its dubiousness, OVER 100 KILLED emptied some store shelves of the medicine. Shares of Shionogi & Co. and Meiji Holdings Co., which make Beirut Isojin, soared in Tokyo trading Tuesday after Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura made the comments. Yoshimura referred to a study carried under out by the Osaka regional government on a sample of just 41 people. debris P8 China reported 27 new virus cases on the mainland yesterday. Of those 22 were in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital Urumqi has been the center of China’s latest outbreak. Measures to contain the spread, including locking down some communities and limiting public transport, appear to have been effective and reported case numbers have gradually fallen. The remaining five cases were brought from overseas. More on backpage AP PHOTO page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 06.08.2020 thu MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER 800 new surveillance cameras enter into operation today Three beauty center A batch of 800 surveillance cameras will enter into operation starting today, according to a managers accused of decree signed by the Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak. Over 500 of the surveillance cameras are located in Macau while nearly 300 breaching data protection are in Taipa or Coloane. The Public Security to the phone operator, yet ordering them to comply According to the law, the Police Force (PSP) is the authority managing RENATO MARQUES these surveillance tools. The cameras will the calls did not cease. with the law. women, who were brought be in operation for two years and the term is HREE managers of four A preliminary investi- During the police inves- to the Public Prosecutions subject to renewal. However, the government Tbeauty centers were gation by the GPDP re- tigation, the PJ questioned Office, face up to one year will be required to do an evaluation should arrested by the Judiciary vealed that staff members a total of 19 people, all sta- of imprisonment or a fine there be grounds for continuing the service. Police (PJ) on suspicion of were making phone calls ff members from the two of up to 120 days. These cameras are one part of the security violating the provisions of on behalf of the two com- companies. Among them, In the past few years, authority’s city watch system, which consists of the personal data protec- panies and advertising the three women were identi- most complaints about un- four phases. Together with these 800 devices, tion act, a PJ spokesperson services of the four centers fied as the managers of the lawful telemarketing prac- the police force is operating 1,620 surveillance revealed during the police located in the Areia Preta, two companies. tices have been related cameras in town. The government has stated forces’ joint press confe- Nam Van, and to beauty centers that these cameras are installed in security rence yesterday. Taipa districts. and salons with the blind spots and desolate areas where crime is According to the PJ re- The Office The companies GPDP fining several concentrated and difficult to tackle. port, the police received also found that of these companies the case from the Office for the companies involved in the already. Sewage improvement works Personal Data Protection involved in the promotion of In the most pro- ongoing at Fai Chi Kei (GPDP) on July 9, stating promotion of minent case, re- that since the beginning of beauty services beauty services had vealed last month, The local government began sewage 2019, the Office has recei- had collected, a company named improvement works at Rua da Doca Seca ved complaints from many processed, and collected, processed, Hoi Sheung Socie- yesterday. The project also includes road citizens claiming to be shared citizens’ and shared citizens’ dade Unipessoal rehabilitation works. Initiated on May 4, this continuously disturbed by personal data Limitada was fined is the last stage of the sewage and road work phone calls from the two among the diffe- personal data 1.08 million patacas project, and will take a total of 100 working beauty centers advertising rent companies by the personal data days for construction. Currently, transportation services and promotions. without noti- watchdog for data at Rua de Fai Chi Kei has been stopped. The In the reports, the citi- fying the GPDP, which is Out of the three women, privacy breaches during carriage way at Rua do Cmte. Joao Beleo has zens stated that they had one of the requirements aged 39, 46, and 49 respec- its telemarketing activities. been converted into a two-way traffic lane. never had any previous clearly stated by the perso- tively, two are Hong Kong According to GPDP, the Of- The main construction includes repaving contact with the com- nal data protection act. residents, while the third is fice recorded a total of 26 the concrete on both carriageways and panies and had never au- The GPDP decided to a local resident. The PJ has law infractions committed the sidewalk, as well as the installation of a thorized the disclosure of forward the case to the PJ taken them into custody by the company which re- transport surveillance system. The project is their personal information after the centers ignored under the crime of brea- sulted in the hefty fine. expected to finish within this month. Once for such purposes. the letters sent by the Of- ching the provisions of Ar- At the time, the Office completed, both the sewage treatment The same people told fice. The letters requested ticle 37 of the Law 8/2005, also advised that this was capability and the physical appearance of the the GPDP that they did not area are predicted to be better. explanations, as well as or the “non-compliance not the only case as inves- want to receive such calls warning the companies with obligations relating to tigations are ongoing for and had clearly stated that of their malpractice and data protection.” several other companies. Communities urge resolution for hazard posed by old buildings Local communities expect the Macau government to take care of dangerous and intercepted the sus- building problems. The Association of Mutual pect at the bus stop near Assistance of Moradores do Patane and the Two cases of stolen property Avenida da República on General Union of Neighborhood Association August 2. of Macau at the Central District hope the The suspect, surnamed local government can take care of defective reported to police Un, is a foreign worker in concrete problems and of buildings which his twenties. He admitted are at risk of collapsing. Representatives STAFF REPORTER closed-circuit television that it had been used to that he found the Macau of the two associations commented that footage in the area, the po- purchase goods or services Pass near the Ruins of St there are old buildings in many of Macau’s WO cases involving lice identified a man who on five occasions. The man Paul’s and used the pass to communities, which lack maintenance and illegal possession of lives in the same building informed the police that buy goods and services. pose risks of partial of even full collapse. These T lost property were reported as the victim as a suspect. he believed it was used by Both cases were forwar- situations are unsafe to the public. The two by the Public Security Poli- The man, surnamed Se, whoever had acquired the ded to the Public Prose- community representative groups proposed ce Force (PSP) on Monday. that temporary site instructors be assigned is unemployed and in his card. cutions Office, the police to remind passers-by of the dangers, or that A local woman realized 60s. The total amount spent said. temporary walkways be opened to avoid such that she had lost her mobi- The phone was even- using the Macau Pass was The police also called risks. In addition, they called on the concerned le phone worth MOP2,500 tually found in his apart- MOP513.80, and it was for the public not to use or building owners to repair the structures. after she left her parked car ment, but the police did mostly used for buying take possession of lost pro- Recently, a building on Rua da Ribeira do Patane on June 4.
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