appeal against ho iat remarks on homosexuals seng’s decision were ‘misunderstood’ Lawmaker Sulu Sou has On Friday, the acting head of separated filed an appeal against the the Education and Youth Affairs families use decision of the AL president, Bureau tried to clarify her backchannels Ho Iat Seng controversial remarks P2 P5 P12 KOREAS

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Renato Marques ting of the exercise of a funda- mental right.” awmaker Sulu Sou has In the appeal that has now been Lfiled an appeal against the filed, Sou is requesting that Ho decision of the president of the marques renato amend his previous decision, “as Legislative Assembly (AL) Ho Iat it is not in accordance with the Seng to reject a proposal made by law,” remarking that the appeal Sou on July 30 during a plenary against decisions made by the meeting. president of the AL is a right gran- Sou had aimed to amend the bill ted to the lawmakers by the Rules under discussion, in which the AL of Procedure. ultimately voted to approve the Sou also notes, “it is my unders- transfer of the power to approve tanding, based on the Basic Law, or forbid street protests and pu- on the Rules of Procedure and blic demonstrations from the Ci- many precedent cases, that as a vic and Municipal Affairs Bureau Legislator I do not need permis- (IACM) to the Public Security Po- sion from the Chief Executive to lice Force (PSP). make an amendment proposal,” In the proposal made that day, recalling as an example, “the the lawmaker suggested the Law 2/93/M was [previously] transfer of such powers from amended back in 2008 throu- the IACM into the hands of gh a bill submitted by several the Chief Executive (CE) Chui ted at least five days before, it cou- government policy.” in due time and, should have been well-known legislators without Sai On, instead of the police. ld not be addressed by the plenary. Now, the lawmaker has presen- addressed. any need for an authorization At the time, the proposal genera- Ho further noted that, as far as he ted an appeal against this deci- The lawmaker also notes in se- from the Chief Executive,” not ted many doubts and questions understood, what could be done sion, and in a letter to which the veral points, “The right to file a seeing any reason or motive to from lawmakers, as well as from at this stage was to vote upon Times had access dated August complaint, such as the right to change such a procedure now. the president of the AL, who whether the proposal ought to be 14, Sou addresses the president appeal, is an inalienable right of As he concluded, “my goal is to questioned the possibility of Sou returned to the 1st Standing Com- of the AL, explaining the reasons the lawmakers who know no res- protect and enrich the rights and filing such a request to amend the mittee for detailed scrutiny. and fundaments of his appeal, no- triction of the law, provided it is interests of the Macau citizens,” bill at the time that it was being After the plenary, and analyzing ting that he has “filed the Amend- presented within the legal time-li- for the purpose of which he calls discussed and voted upon. the request that Sou directed to ment Proposed under articles 1 b), mit to produce effect.” for the fulfillment of law and re- The situation eventually crea- have submitted to the AL earlier 101 and 106, before the discussion As Sou noted in a statement, gulations provisions that grant ted an imbroglio for the presi- that day, Ho replied to the request and voting of the Law Proposal in “my proposal was to [attribute such rights to all legislators. dent of the AL, who admitted not by the lawmaker, rejecting it “in the specialty and, therefore, befo- the right over the] notice for an In a statement released on Friday, knowing exactly how to proceed accordance with articles 9 c) and re the ‘start of the final global vo- assembly or protest by citizens, Sou reiterated these concerns to with such a request. However, the 107 a), for alleged violation of the ting period,’ as allowed by article should be given to the Chief Exe- the public, stressing that his actions president noted that since the re- article 105,” that is, “because it 127/ 3,” claiming in this way that cutive and not to the police, since were only about “guaranteeing the quest of Sou had not been submit- was considered to be a matter of the proposal had been submitted this matter is regarding the gran- exercise of a fundamental right.”

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innie Ho, Hong WKong businesswoman and sister of Macau’s most famous casino tycoon, Stan- ley Ho, passed away earlier this year, though her death went unreported for almost two months. Citing her spokeswoman, the South China Morning Post reported that Winnie Winnie Ho Ho died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital and billion (USD382 million) in would be buried in the Chiu dividends owed to her. Yang Chongwei, coordinator of GPDP Yuen Cemetery on Mount The lawsuit, along with over Davis, in Hong Kong. 30 others which included Winnie Ho, who died of ill- claims for compensation and ness in early June aged 95, defamation, was ultimately was a controversial business unsuccessful. Winnie had Privacy watchdog issues figure who found herself em- refused to travel from Hong broiled in several legal cases Kong where she resided to against her brother in the the MSAR, claiming that 2000s. both she and her lawyers had penalties in 4pct of cases She worked for her bro- received a number of threats. ther’s casino operator So- Winnie was also involved in he Office for Personal dealt with by the privacy watch- have been received by the GPDP, ciedade de Turismo e Di- a separate legal dispute with Data Protection (GPDP) dog (including cases left pending with queries related to the “legi- versoes de Macau (STDM), her cousin and alleged lover, released its annual re- from 2016 and later concluded) timacy of treatment of personal which held a gambling mo- the late Eric Hotung. Hotung port regarding last year’s reached 408 cases, 187 of which data” topping the list of concerns. nopoly on the city for seve- claimed that Winnie owed Twork activities on Friday. have been concluded. Eighty-six percent of the inqui- ral decades. him over HKD2 million from The number of personal data The department issued penalties ries were made by phone. In the 2000s, Winnie and an investment he made in protection cases initiated in 2017 to 4.3 percent of the cases conclu- Yang Chongwei, coordinator of Stanley fought for control Stanely Ho’s then-fledgling reached 217, a slight decrea- ded and also made suggestions GPDP, said in the introduction of over STDM, which resulted business in 1961. se compared with the previous for improvement to the parties the report that he believed that in her expulsion from the Stanley Ho has rarely been year (224). Moreover, the report subject to complaints in 17.6 per- 2017 would be a year of “transi- board in 2005. She sued the seen in public in the past de- shows that 68.2 percent of the in- cent of the cases concluded. tion and innovation,” given the company the following year, cade. Winnie Ho is survived vestigations involved private en- A total of 1,944 inquiries related Macau government’s aim to de- seeking to reclaim HKD3 by her four children. tities. The total number of cases to personal data protection issues velop Macau into a “smart city.”

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Land prepared for logistics industry on Court dismisses Steve Wynn’s HKZMB The MSAR government has reserved a piece of land on the Hong Kong- defamation case against AP Zhuhai-Macau Bridge's Macau port management district in order to set up, as planned, a large-scale logistics Nevada judge has dismis- documents obtained under a facility to enhance the industry’s sed a defamation lawsuit public records request, and Las

A ap photo service. The project is being supervised by casino mogul Steve Wynn Vegas police refused to provide by the Macau Customs Service. It is against The Associated Press more details. expected that the local government and an AP reporter based on a A sworn statement filed in will outsource the logistics project report about two women’s ac- July by Halina Kuta, one alle- for the first stage. Customs will ask counts to police alleging sexual ged victim and a named de- the local logistics industry for its misconduct by Wynn. fendant in the defamation opinion. The project is planned to Clark County District Court case, contained inconsistencies go on public tender within this year. Judge Ronald Israel’s writ- about dates, names and other Detailed logistics arrangements will ten order last week followed things that Kuta said happened be announced later after the local an Aug. 14 hearing at which to her. government meets with Hong Kong he found that an AP article Wood said Friday the article authorities. published in February fairly should have included more de- reported information from tail about what the Wynn attor- the police complaints. Wynn ney called “delusional details of Macau film projects attorney L. Lin Wood said Fri- the alleged childbirth.” selected to attend fair day he will appeal to the Neva- The court order did not resol- da Supreme Court. ve Wynn’s case against Kuta. The selection of local film projects for The judge noted Wood had She told police in February the 2018 Guangdong–Hong Kong– argued that additional in- that she had been raped by Macau Film Production Investment formation should have been Wynn in Chicago in the ear- and Trade Fair has been concluded. included in the news report ly 1970s and gave birth to The Cultural Affairs Bureau announced to allow readers to reach his daughter in a gas station yesterday that the six successful their own conclusion about restroom. applicants are: Vong Tin Leong, Lim Mi Mi, Hoi Kuok Meng, Ye Ting the truth of at least one wo- Kuta also said she was once Hang, Lou Ka Hou, and Io Lou Ian. man’s allegations. married to Wynn and bore Applicants will be invited to attend But Israel sided with the AP other children with him, thou- del for Pablo Picasso’s painting tions about the information the Fair held on September 4 and 5 in position that its reporting on gh she acknowledged that she “Le Reve” and that Wynn stole she provided to Las Vegas po- Macau, where they will be able to meet the two police reports was fair can’t recall all their names or masterpieces by Picasso and lice in February. with film investors and producers from and could not have been in- dates of birth. Rembrandt from her. In state court filings and in- Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, vestigated further at the time Among other extraordinary “Le Reve” was painted in terviews with The Associated promote selected film products, and because the identity of the wo- claims, she told lawyers in the 1932, before Kuta was born. Press, Kuta said she stands by seek opportunities for co-operation. men had been blacked out in affidavit that she was the mo- The discrepancies raise ques- the Las Vegas police report. AP ad mon 27.08.2018

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MIA released tender notice for expansion Remarks on homosexuals

he Macau Interna- minal Building to provi- Ttional Airport (MIA) de a uniform, seamless ‘misunderstood’ has released a public ten- architectural appearance der notice for the design of both the interior and and construction of the exterior of the building,” cting head of the south extension of the the tender document Education and Youth passenger terminal buil- reads. Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), ding at MIA. “A multi-storied Car Leong Vai Kei, explai- “Due to the continuous Park Building will be nedA that her recent remarks, whi- increase in passengers, constructed at the exis- ch caused public criticism, were the Passenger Terminal ting MIA South Car Park misunderstood. Building (PTB) will be space during Phase II On Friday, the bureau called for extended on the south Works. PTB South Ex- a press conference to clarify her side,” the tender docu- tension Phase III will stance in a statement she disclo- ment explained. involve modification and sed, which suggested that stu- “After the completion expansion works at the dents who show signs of homo- of the entire PTB South existing VIP Building. sexuality are to be referred to the Extension project, the These two projects are relevant authorities for “medical designed passenger han- not included in the sco- examination.” dling capacity is expec- pe of this project, but the She previously said, “if [a stu- ted to be increased from Contractor shall consider dent] has evidence of this homose- Leong Vai Kei 7.8 million up to around the integration of these xuality, we refer this case to other 10 million. This project two projects into his de- competent authorities. If the chil- TDM report. der, but everything,” said Leong. will have three new pas- sign and construction for dren or the students think they Although no students with any Meanwhile, Leong also stressed senger boarding bridges ease of future extension are homosexual, we can transfer sexual identity crises have been that students should be taught serving multi-centerli- works,” reads the tender the case to a doctor or psycholo- referred for clinical diagnosis, she about their legal responsibilities, ne parking stands, thus document. gist for a clinical examination.” noted that students are still too noting that 16-year-olds might there will be a total of 8 According to the Thus, Leong apologized on Fri- young to decide whether they are face criminal responsibility for boarding bridges com- tender document, all day, noting that there was a mi- homosexual or not. having sexual relations, consen- missioned after comple- works should be com- sinterpretation on her part. “If [a student] says they are ho- sual or not. tion of the project. The pleted within a period “I was thinking of gender dys- mosexual, I don’t think that he “As an educator, we have to let PTB South Extension of 20 months. phoria and I made a mistake in or she really means that. […] The the students know [their] res- building will be integra- The deadline for pro- my saying. student is in a developmental sta- ponsibilities and that if they go ted seamlessly with the posal submission is Sep- I apologize for this misunders- ge and [the student] is searching against the law, they will be put to current Passenger Ter- tember 26. tanding,” said Leong, as cited in a for one’s identity, not only gen- jail,” she stressed.

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acau’s gross domestic pro- Police association duct (GDP) grew member arrested for by 6 percent Economy grows 6 Myear-on-year in real terms in tour fee fraud the second quarter of 2018, A member of a local police association according to the latest infor- (unidentified) has been arrested for mation from the Statistics and percent in 2nd quarter fraud, the Judiciary Police (PJ) reported Census Service (DSEC). The on Friday. In July 2017, the police government agency attributed Government final con- association paid a mainland travel agency this growth to steady growth sumption expenditure regis- to organize a group tour to Russia. The in the export of services and tered growth of 5.1 percent bloomberg total price charged by the agency for private consumption. year-on-year, higher than the tour was RMB373,000. The suspect, Nevertheless, economic the 2.2 percent growth in the surnamed Lei, collected fees from each growth in the second quarter previous quarter, while com- member of the tour group, but did not was lower than the 9.2 percent pensation of employees and give all the money to the travel agency. rise in the previous quarter, net purchases of goods and The travel agency only reported the case due to a smaller increase in the services went up by 3.3 percent to the PJ in July this year, claiming to export of services and a notable and 8.8 percent respectively. have lost RMB220,000. decline in investment. For the first half of 2018, the Meanwhile, the GDP defla- respectively. Meanwhile, the goods increased by 10 percent. economy of Macau grew by 7.6 tor, which measures the overall export of goods went up by 30 Private consumption expen- percent year-on-year in real Physical therapist change in prices, went up by percent. diture showed solid growth. terms. In terms of the major denounces 3.5 percent year-on-year. Domestic demand eased sli- Total employment and em- expenditure components of According to DSEC, the total ghtly, owing to a 11.9 percent ployment earnings increased GDP, private consumption ex- unprofessional courses exports of services increased by decrease in investment; private amid a satisfactory employ- penditure and government fi- The Macau Physical Therapists 13 percent year-on-year, on the consumption expenditure and ment situation, driving private nal consumption expenditure Association is reminding the public not to back of external demand, with government final consumption consumption expenditure up rose by 5.1 percent and 3.7 per- attend physical therapy courses organized exports of gaming services and cent year-on-year respectively, expenditure rose by 5.3 percent by 5.3 percent year-on-year, by non-authorized organizations. other tourism services rising and 5.1 percent respectively higher than the 4.8 percent rise whereas investment dropped Recently, the association has been by 13.7 percent and 13 percent year-on-year, while imports of in the previous quarter. by 7.1 percent. receiving frequent inquiries from the public regarding the accreditation of physical therapy courses in Macau. The association informed that the majority of Committee, which fou- inquiries were targeting a course which Gov’t to study environmental impact nd several matters of has been deemed unprofessional. These concern, a group of re- courses do not allow students to provide of Coloane chemical depots sidents of the Seac Pai physical therapy services, and in no way Van area gathered to can students become physical therapists he government has issue of the security of perception [that] there Edith Mak, has said that protest the decision, la- through these same courses. Tdecided to conduct any such facilities and might somehow be a another demonstration menting the lack of pu- an environmental im- ensure maximum safe- threat to the community against the proposal will blic consultation. pact assessment on two ty for the public and for [from] the proposed sto- be held on September Late last month, a pe- Lawmaker wants a sites in Coloane pro- their property,” noted rage facilities.” 9. According to public tition signed by over posed to house storage the government in the As such it is stepping broadcaster TDM, a few 7,400 people was de- thorough investigation facilities for hazardous statement. up efforts to provide hundred protestors are livered to the govern- of lifeguards’ case materials, following se- The two proposed the public with further expected to join the de- ment, calling for a halt veral weeks of public sites, both located in details regarding the cri- monstration. to the projet on the Lawmaker Lei Cheng I suggested the campaigning against the Colonae at Estrada do teria applied to selecting The proposal to relo- basis of safety concer- government thoroughly investigate the recent incident involving swimming project. Dique Oeste and Ave- the proposed locations cate the storage facili- ns and what they des- pool lifeguards. In Lei’s opinion, the According to a gover- nida Marginal Flor de and the safety mana- ties for hazardous ma- cribed as “poor urban case should not be simply regarded nment statement, the Lotus, will be studied by gement measures that terials to the Concordia planning”. as an employment dispute, and the decision was taken in local public works de- would be applied. The Industrial Park in Co- But the government government should investigate if there light of the opinions partments to determine government believes loane was first raised contests this idea and are indeed situations of overworking. expressed by mem- their potential environ- that such efforts will in mid-July as a “tem- says that the proposed Lei further declared that this situation bers of the public and mental impact should improve transparen- porary solution” until locations will reduce would eventually impact the safety suggestions from the they be used for storing cy regarding the ma- the government could the likelihood of acci- of residents. Lei said that, according Secretary for Security, hazardous materials. nagement of hazar- devise a more suitable dents. It said that the to the Labor Law, the case cannot be Wong Sio Chak. The government said dous materials. location. locations would avoid settled simply by having the company “Having an environ- that it understands the Meanwhile, the leader Following scrutiny of the unnecessary storage pay the lifeguards compensation. The mental impact assess- concern of the public of a group of dissatis- the proposal by Ma- and transportation of government should clearly enforce the ment would address the and recognizes “their fied Coloane residents, cau’s Urban Planning dangerous chemicals. lifeguards’ right to rest. corporate bits lui che woo prize announces 2018 laureates skills annually. melco launches new pension fund cited in a statement, will also Meanwhile, the 2018 Welfa- award a one-time special gift re Betterment Prize focused for employees of a month’s salary to eligi- on “Reduction of the Impact of ble Macau non-management Natural Disasters” was awar- employees upon completion ded to the World Meteorologi- of the new pension fund plan cal Organization (WMO). participation process. WMO sets worldwide stan- This will be implemented in dards and provides a fra- the coming months and pay- mework for international ment of the one-time special co-operation by supporting gift to eligible employees, if its 191 member states and applicable, is expected to be territories in implementing the made around the end of Oc- adopted policies. tober 2018. The 2018 Sustainability Pri- As part of this review, va- ze focused on “Development rious other benefits were of Renewable Energy” was announced to employees, The Lui Che Woo Prize – Prize, which had a focus on awarded to Hans-Josef Fell. including but not limited to, Prize for World Civilization “Elimination of Illiteracy” this Fell founded the world’s first enhanced employee dis- announced the three laurea- year, was awarded to India’s energy community to produ- counts, a new sick leave po- tes of the 2018 Lui Che Woo Pratham Education Founda- ce solar power in 1994 and licy which will be trialed for Prize, an award recognizing tion. transformed the market for re- one year, perfect attendan- their efforts to overcome the Pratham Education Fou- newable energy, and succes- Melco Resorts & Entertain- to 5 percent of base salary ce recognition and service significant issues facing the ndation directly helps one sfully fought for the adoption ment Limited will launch a and provide guaranteed tips award recognition programs world. million children attain ba- of the Renewable Energy Act new pension fund plan with (if any). honoring 10 years or more of The 2018 Positive Energy sic literacy and numeracy in the German Parliament. matching contributions of up The gaming operator, as service. 27.08.2018 mon

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according to a Hong Kong ex- change filing. Questions now surround the bloomberg tycoon at a particularly bad time for Landing. The company’s sto- ck has been sinking since Phili- ppine President Rodrigo Duterte unexpectedly ordered a review of Landing’s casino lease contract on Aug. 7, the day the company broke ground on the project. Du- terte called the contract “flawed.” Landing opened its only casino resort, Jeju Shinhwa World in Korea, earlier this year

Landing declined to comment, while a China Huarong repre- sentative didn’t reply to requests for comment. Landing opened its only casino resort, Jeju Shinhwa World in Korea, earlier this year. Yang is the company’s largest sharehol- China ex-billionaire goes missing, der with a 50.5 percent stake. Landing, his main holding, has plunged about 74 percent since he debuted on the Bloomberg sparking rout in casino stock Billionaires Index in April at $1.6 billion. Daniela Wei, Blake Schmidt into ties with China Huarong As- now has a market capitalization sector billionaires are finding It’s not the first time a Chinese set Management Co., a state-ow- of about $1.2 billion. their wealth and connections are tycoon has gone missing after anding International De- ned bad-debt manager whose Since becoming China’s presi- no longer enough to shield them an aggressive expansion. Finan- Lvelopment Ltd. shares suffe- former chairman, Lai Xiaomin, dent in 2013, Xi Jinping has led from probes into corruption and cier Xiao Jianhua, who led the red their biggest weekly plunge is under investigation for alleged an anti-corruption campaign financial crimes. Tomorrow Holding Co. empire, ever after the casino operator corruption. that has nabbed more than 1.5 Missing Bosses Add to Risks of was taken away by Chinese au- said Chairman Yang Zhihui was The news delivered another million Communist Party cadres. Investing in China: QuickTake thorities in early 2017, the South unreachable. shock to investors just two weeks More recently, the campaign Q&A China Morning Post reported at Company officials have been after the company’s USD1.5 has been reaching into corporate A unit of Huarong Interna- the time. The newspaper subse- unable to reach Yang since Aug. billion Philippine project was boardrooms as part of an effort tional Financial Holdings lent quently cited mainland sources 23, Landing said in a Hong Kong thrown into doubt. Landing dro- to halt the debt-fueled expansion HK$660 million ($84 million) as saying that Xiao was helping stock exchange filing last week. pped as much as 16 percent on of China’s biggest businesses. to a holding company of Yang’s with investigations into matters Caixin reported earlier that Yang Friday. The company has lost 42 High-profile executives at state in December 2016, debt that was that included “bribery and stock is a target of investigators looking percent of its value this week and -owned enterprises and private personally guaranteed by Yang, market manipulation.” Bloomberg

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David Finnerty allure. Sept. 19 meeting. Minu- convergence-divergence There is less need tes of the BOT’s latest has declined below zero, he Bank of Thai- now for an extremely gathering showed offi- having already fallen Tland is giving the accommodative stan- cials discussed “condi- below its signal line. A baht - the most-loved ce since the recovery tions and appropriate breach of the May high emerging-market cur- in the economy is clea- timing to begin norma- may see it head toward rency this month -- one rer, Governor Veerathai lizing monetary policy support around 32.00 more reason to keep up Santiprabhob said Aug. in the future.” in the medium term. its outperformance. 20, adding that it can’t Technical analysis also At 32.76 to a dollar on cent, Thailand has the net foreign inflows of Piggybacking on a go against the global points to potential gains Friday, the currency has second-highest curren- $4.4 billion into its strong current-ac- trends in interest-rate for the currency, as the climbed 1.6 percent this t-account balance as a bond markets, higher count surplus, the baht policy. The baht’s stabi- dollar-baht’s failure to month, after data July percentage of gross do- than peers in Southeast has braved developin- lity and benign inflation breach a key resistan- 31 showed a higher-than mestic product among Asia. g-market doldrums and have enabled Thailand ce around 33.50 has -estimated current-ac- developing markets in The baht is up 1.1 per- topped returns among to hold interest rates at seen the pair resume its count surplus of $4.08 Asia. Only Taiwan has a cent this quarter. It is 24 currencies tracked a near record-low of 1.5 downtrend. billion for June. better buffer. also the only currency by Bloomberg. It is also percent even as coun- Dollar-baht below its The baht is holding up While the Taiwan showing a gain for Au- the sole gainer in Asia tries including Indone- 50-day moving ave- well while investors get dollar has been hit by gust among 24 develo- this quarter. As inves- sia, India and the Phili- rage on Monday, and increasingly picky about foreign outflows from ping-market exchange tors await the Aug. 31 ppines have tightened. may look to test su- emerging markets amid equities and the China rates. That’s no mean release of Thailand’s la- Veerathai’s comments pport around 32.363 a savage sell-off spurred -U.S. trade war, Deu- feat given that the MSCI test balance of payments have already prompted - its high from May 21, by higher U.S. interest tsche Bank AG says Emerging Markets Cur- data, a recent hawkish Nomura Holdings Inc. given the growing bea- rates, trade tensions the baht offers the best rency Index has dro- tilt by the central bank is to forecast a 25-basis rish momentum. The and a turmoil in Turkey. value in emerging Asia. pped about 2 percent adding to the currency’s points rate hike at the pair’s moving-average At more than 10 per- Thailand has also seen this month. Bloomberg mon 27.08.2018 th Anniversary

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to fast-track discussions to formally declare an end the 1950-53 Korean War, which China blasts Trump comment; stopped on an armistice and not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula technically at war. Seoul regrets Pompeo trip delay Pompeo and other adminis- tration officials have sugges- ted some concessions short of Kim Tong-Hyung, Matthew Lee easing or lifting sanctions are possible before verified denu- hina on Saturday lashed ap photo clearization, but have refused Cout at President Donald to be specific about what they Trump for accusing Beijing of could be. And they have been not being supportive in efforts skeptical about an end-of-war to denuclearize North Korea, declaration in the absence of while South Korea called the any progress on the nuclear U.S. decision to call off a trip matter. to the North by Secretary of Trump’s decision to call off State Mike Pompeo “unfortu- Pompeo’s trip is clearly a frus- nate.” trating development for Sou- The reaction in Seoul and th Korean President Moon Beijing came hours after Pre- Jae-in, who continues to push sident Donald Trump directed for inter-Korean engagement. Pompeo to delay his trip be- Moon, who lobbied hard for cause of what he saw as a lack the meeting between Trump of progress on nuclear disar- and Kim, plans to visit Pyon- mament talks with the North. gyang in September for his Trump also said the nuclear third summit with Kim this negotiations with North Korea year. Moon says improving have been hampered by a lack relations between the rivals of support from China, which would be an important part of is the North’s only major ally In this July 6 file photo, Mike Pompeo (second from left) is greeted by North Korean Director of the United Front Department Kim the global diplomatic efforts and is engaged in an intensi- Yong Cho to resolve the nuclear stando- fying trade dispute with the ff because Kim wouldn’t give United States. it expects China to continue unfortunate, we believe it’s tering progress on the Korean up his arsenal unless he feels The Chinese foreign ministry serving a “constructive role” most important for the North Peninsula had been strikingly safe. blasted Trump’s comments. in international efforts to sol- Korea-U.S. dialogue including premature. Ending a period of The summitry has led to a va- “The U.S. statement violates ve the nuclear crisis and no- Secretary Pompeo’s visits to animosity over North Korea’s riety of conciliatory steps be- basic facts and is irresponsi- ted that Beijing continues to North Korea to contribute to nuclear and missile develop- tween the Koreas, which have ble,” the ministry said on its express commitment to fully substantial progress in com- ment, Trump made history by held military talks to reduce website. “We are seriously implement sanctions against plete denuclearization and the meeting North Korean leader tensions across the border, concerned about it and have the North. establishment of a permanent Kim Jong Un in Singapore in agreed to open a South Korean made solemn representations “It’s most important to main- peace regime in the Korean June. But the meeting only liaison office in the North, and to the U.S. side.” tain a long-term view while Peninsula,” the statement produced a vague statement are currently holding highly Beijing supports “advancing maintaining a momentum for said. on a nuclear-free peninsula emotional reunions between the process of a political se- dialogue and concentrate di- South Korean Foreign Mi- without describing how and elderly war-separated relati- ttlement” following the Trum- plomatic efforts to faithfully nister Kang Kyung-hwa spoke when it would occur. ves in North Korea’s Diamond p-Kim meeting in Singapore, implement the agreements with Pompeo over the pho- Post-summit nuclear talks Mountain resort. the statement said. It appea- from the summits between ne and agreed that the allies got off to a rocky start, with Moon has also proposed led to both sides to “show South Korea and North Ko- should work to keep the at- North Korea accusing the Uni- more ambitious ideas, such more sincerity and flexibility” rea and between North Korea mosphere of dialogue alive, it ted States of making unilateral as reconnecting railways and instead of “being capricious and the United States, instead said. demands on denuclearization. highways between the Koreas, and overly prejudiced.” of attaching meaning to each Trump’s surprise announ- The North has been deman- but the fate of such projects Meanwhile, while describing change in the situation,” the cement appeared to mark a ding that the United States hinges on progress in nego- the postponement of Pom- ministry said in a statement. concession by the president ease or lift the sanctions that tiations between Washington peo’s trip as a setback, South “While we consider the delay to widespread concerns that are crippling its economy. 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Dwill suspend a carpool been detained, Chinese nagement mechanisms and submit it to the govern- ap photo service and has removed state media reported. Didi under huge pressure, es- ment before Sept. 1, and to two executives after a se- came under intense scru- pecially in terms of identi- add more customer service cond female customer in tiny in May, when state fying potential risks, desig- personnel. three months was allegedly media reported a driver ning effective and efficient The company said the killed by a driver in China. used his father’s account processes, and rapid res- suspect in the second alle- The ride-hailing app com- to pick up and kill a wo- ponse,” Didi said. “We take ged killing provided full pany said in an emailed man in the central city of to our heart all criticisms and authentic documenta- statement yesterday that Zhengzhou. from the public and the re- tion, and had no criminal it will halt its Hitch service Didi apologized for the levant authorities.” record. He passed a facial A receptionist walks by the front desk of the service station for Didi starting Monday and ree- latest incident and said Officials from China’s mi- -recognition test before Chuxing’s drivers in Hangzhou valuate the carpool opera- that it would upgrade its nistries of transport and starting work for the day, tion’s business model. Didi processes for handling public security said in a sta- Didi said. female passengers as “god- app interface, it said. has removed Huang Jieli complaints. The Hit- tement they met with Didi Hitch has been marke- desses” and “beauties.” Users of carpooling or si- as Hitch’s general mana- ch service, which the representatives yesterday. ted as a social ride-sharing Didi said in May it was milar services should send ger and Huang Jinhong company said handled The government said it or- service, allowing drivers overhauling safety measu- information including the as vice president for cus- 1 billion trips over the dered the firm to immedia- and passengers to label or res across its business after car’s license plate number tomer services, according past three years, was tely rectify its Hitch service, rate each other by appea- the first killing. One of the and the driver’s name to to the statement. being suspended “be- protect the safety and rights rance. Such features have changes would involve the relatives, the Wenzhou Pu- A driver in the eastern cause of our disappoin- of passengers, and publish attracted criticism because redesign of its emergency blic Security Bureau said city of Wenzhou suspec- ting mistakes.” the details of any progress the platform was rife with help button to display it in a statement on its We- ted of killing a female “Growth of our service it makes. Didi agreed to comments that marked more prominently on the Chat account. Bloomberg mon 27.08.2018

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hina removed limits on fo- “China is showing they are kee- Creign ownership of its banks ping their promise and that regu- and bad-debt managers, pushing lators are interested in opening ahead with a previously announ- up, rather than closing down,” ced plan to open its financial sys- said Chen Long, a Beijing-based tem despite rising trade tensions economist at research firm Ga- with the U.S. vekal Dragonomics. “Given the Overseas financial institutions ongoing trade dispute, from a re- will now be treated the same as lo- putation perspective, this is help- cal companies, the China Banking ful.” and Insurance Regulatory Com- Foreign banks held 2.9 trillion mission said in a statement last yuan ($420 billion) of assets in week, following through on a ple- China at the end of 2016, some 1.3 dge announced last year. Stakes percent of the total and the lowest were previously capped at 20 share since 2003, CBIRC data percent for a single foreign insti- show. They earned 12.8 billion tution and 25 percent for a group. yuan in the nation last year, less The move is part of China’s than 1 percent of the profits at longstanding effort to increase Chinese counterparts. its integration with the global fi- Yet even if they take full con- nancial system, but it may also trol of their China ventures, in- help President Xi Jinping counter ternational companies will face criticism from U.S. President Do- multiple challenges. One of the nald Trump that China has been biggest is competition from go- a one-sided beneficiary of global vernment-controlled rivals, who commerce. Xi’s government an- currently dominate the nation’s nounced a number of financial financial system and have lon- opening initiatives in November, gstanding relationships with before the tit-for-tat trade con- state-owned companies that flict that saw the world’s biggest drive much of China’s economic economies raise tariffs on USD50 activity. A recent government billion of each other’s expor- clampdown on financial levera- ts. Most of the Chinese opening ge has also made the country’s measures are expected to take ef- regulatory environment trickier fect by the end of this year. to navigate. Bloomberg 27.08.2018 mon

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thers. “I told her ‘Don’t cry; just say something,’ but she could ap photo only weep and say ‘Oppa’ again,” Kim said. Kim now runs an organization with a fellow refugee to help others connect with their lon- g-lost kin in North Korea. The organization receives a state sub- sidy. His partner, Shim Goo-seob, 83, said he has arranged face- to-face reunions in China among North and South Koreans via his own network of brokers and hel- pers. Shim said he was able to meet with his younger brother living in North Korea in the Chinese border town of Yanji in 1994 af- ter a Chinese helper disguised himself as his brother’s uncle and invited him to visit. Shim said he spent three days with his brother in Yanji, and they stayed up all night talking about their li- ves on the first day. Shim tried to get his younger sister to come to China for ano- ther brief family reunion, too, but she couldn’t get a Chinese visa so he had her come to a bor- der river and watched her with Shim Goo-seob, 83, shows a photo of his family member during an interview at his office in Seoul binoculars in 2003. He said she shuffled from side to side to make herself stand out among the other people on the river- bank. “My heart ached,” Shim Elderly Koreans shut out of family said of seeing her. Some refugees don’t know about these unofficial ways to see their relatives in the North, while reunions use backchannels others are afraid of being swin- dled by brokers or think they’ll Hyung-Jin Kim, Seoul 21st time the Koreas have had ce 1990. By comparison, before younger sister and other relatives be breaking South Korea’s anti such reunions, but they don’t this week’s reunions, govern- in North Korea. When they get -Pyongyang security law. im Kyung-jae will probably occur regularly because of long ment-sponsored programs saw replies from North Korea, they Cho Il Woong, 86, has repea- Knever be chosen in the gover- periods of bad feelings between 19,770 people reunited in person scan and email them to Kim. tedly been rejected for govern- nment lottery that would allow the rivals, and Pyongyang’s re- since 2000; none was given a se- When he wants to give his re- ment-organized reunions, and him to reunite one last time with luctance to expose its people to cond chance to reunite. latives clothes, shoes and other while he’s desperate to see his si- his relatives in North Korea. But the outside world. The backchannel exchanges items, he uses brokers in China blings in the North before dying, that’s no problem, he said this So Kim and others turn to flourished during a previous to send them by parcel post after he worries that using a broker week in an interview, even as a friends, brokers and others in “Sunshine” era of inter-Korean paying them 200 yuan ($30) for would get him in trouble with the small group of the lucky South China, Japan and elsewhere to detente, but the number has each 20-kilogram (44 pounds) South Korean government. Koreans who won the lottery met try to find out whether their re- sharply decreased in recent years box. The son of a late South Korean with their loved ones in North latives in North Korea are still as many elderly refugees in Sou- He said he’s helped about 30 woman who never remarried Korea. alive and to arrange exchanges of th Korea have died and North other South Koreans correspond while waiting for her husband The 86-year-old Kim is one of letters, photos, phone calls and Korea has tightened control on with their relatives in North Ko- in the North said brokers helped a dwindling number of elderly sometimes face-to-face meetings its once porous border with Chi- rea or send them aid parcels. him exchange letters more than South Koreans who, frustrated with them. na. These South Koreans are mostly 20 years ago with a North Ko- with North Korea’s reluctance Officially, both Koreas ban Because thousands of separated from where Kim grew up in Nor- rean man who they said was his to allow more frequent reunions their citizens from contacting family members die each year in th Korea, before the war, on the father. But the son, Park Yong and by the small chance that each other without government South Korea without getting a east coast. Ho, said he suspected that the they’ll be selected before they approval. But South Korea allows chance to attend the on-again Kim said his mail exchanges brokers tried to bilk him out of die, found unofficial networks to and even quietly helps finance off-again government-organized and aid shipments run smoothly, money with a false promise of a communicate with their North backchannel contacts among reunions, these informal exchan- in part because he has never cri- face-to-face reunion, which ne- Korean relatives. For three de- separated families on humanita- ges are often the only way for ticized North Korean leadership ver happened. cades Kim has been sending his rian grounds. It’s likely that Seoul some to communicate with their in his letters and his sister, now Even if separated families are North Korean sister letters and keeps the backchannel programs relatives in the North. in her mid-70s, used to start her reconnected, their relations aid. low-key because of worries about Kim, who once ran a fisheries letters by praising North Korea’s don’t usually last long, often be- “It’s absolutely regrettable that angering North Korea, which re- export business in Japan, said he ruling Kim family. cause South Koreans don’t want other South Koreans don’t know fuses South Korea’s push to have has friends there who print out His letter exchanges began in to continuously financially su- about these communication more frequent official reunions his emails and mail them to his the early 1990s when he found pport their relatives in the North, channels,” Kim said, showing a because it uses them as political the address of his sister, who according to Kim and Shim. bunch of letters with North Ko- leverage. South Korean officials years earlier sent him a photo of One of Kim’s brothers once rean stamps that his sister has have occasionally told separa- It’s likely that his parents and the news of their asked him why he was helping sent to him over the years. ted families of their support for deaths via a former neighbor their sister, who was completely During the latest reunions, whi- unofficial exchanges, but they’ve Seoul keeps the who’d acquired a U.S. citizenship alone when their parents died ch ended yesterday and were or- stopped short of major publicity backchannel and visited the North. “After because her other siblings fled to ganized by the rival governmen- campaigns because of concerns looking at the photo, I cried a lot, South Korea during the war. ts, hundreds of Koreans, many about brokers swindling people. programs low- really a lot, because I had thou- “I wanted to help her because in their 70s or older, have been According to a Seoul govern- ght they were still alive,” he said. it was heart-breaking to imagi- reunited for the first time since ment tally on civilian-arranged key because of In 2002 when Kim lived in ne how much she cried when the 1950-53 Korean War. But exchanges between separated Japan, his sister made a collect our parents died,” Kim said. “I they are just a tiny fraction of the families, there have been about worries about call to him and they had an hou- told my brother that I would separated families in the Koreas, 11,610 cases of letter exchanges angering North r-long conversation. She repea- have done the same thing for where millions were split during and 1,755 face-to-face encoun- tedly called him “Oppa,” a term him if he’d stayed behind in the turmoil of the war. This is the ters involving 3,416 Koreans sin- Korea women use for their elder bro- the North.” AP mon 27.08.2018

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hen “Crazy Rich Asians” surpassed ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ draws expectations and grabbed the top spotW at the box office in its ope- ning weekend, the film also pul- immigrant parents to the movies led off another surprising feat: It put Asians of a certain age in ren’t stereotypes or little-used theater seats. side-players. Younger Asian-Americans have ap photo In the case of Alice Sue and been flocking with their parents her daughter, Audrey Sue-Mat- to see the first movie in 25 years sumoto, the 67-year-old mother with an all-Asian cast. For many saw the movie first. She went a older, first-generation Asian im- second time Thursday in the San migrants, going to the movies Francisco Bay Area suburb of doesn’t rank high among hob- Daly City with her daughter. Sue, bies and interests. The crowds, who is Chinese, doesn’t go to the the language barrier and ticket movies much but knew she had prices are often turnoffs. to see this one. But the appeal of “Crazy Rich “It’s talking about Asian cul- Asians,” the story of a culture ture. It’s real Asians mixed with clash that erupts when an Asian American-born Asians,” Sue -American woman from New said. “And I want to support the York meets her boyfriend’s fa- Asian movies.” mily in Singapore, has bridged a Sue-Matsumoto, 35, said there real-life generation gap. Earning probably wasn’t a more fitting more than USD40 million since film for the two to see together. its Aug. 15 release, the film alrea- “It was good to watch it with my dy has a sequel in development. mom because I feel like it was An adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s Audrey Sue-Matsumoto (right) holds tickets as she poses for photos with her mother Alice Sue very relatable in our situation,” bestselling novel, the rom-com Sue-Matsumoto said. “She’s an is poised to hit the $100 million The jump can be partly credi- In Temple City, California, Ca- who touched the 64-year-old the immigrant, and I’m American mark due to its popularity and a ted to enthusiastic Asian-Ame- therine Fanchiang, 27, who is most. Fan said she liked how the -born. That movie has that gene- lack of strong competition in the ricans who wanted their parents Taiwanese-American, went to story depicted an “ABC,” (Ameri- rational distinction.” next month, comScore senior to be part of what the film’s star, see the film a third time to keep can-born Chinese) who showed For Mark Gadia, 36, of Chula media analyst Paul Dergarabe- Constance Wu, has called a “mo- her parents company. Asian cultural values such as pu- Vista, California, the movie led dian said. vement.” tting family first. to him learning more about his “The over-performance of ‘Cra- Lie Shia Ong-Sintzel, 36, of “When you grow up in an Asian parents’ courtship in the Phili- zy Rich Asians’ shows the power Seattle talked her parents into Asians made family ... it will be in your mind ppines. His parents related to of a great movie with universal coming along the second time when you do something, you Wu and Henry Golding’s star- themes to draw all audiences and she saw the movie. It was the first up nearly will always think about other crossed couple because of how also to break down preconceived time in five years the couple — people,” Fan said. “You are not his mother was treated by her notions of what can constitute a Chinese immigrants from Indo- 40 percent really, really selfish, thinking future in-laws. box office hit,” Dergarabedian nesia — had been to the cinema. of the film’s about yourself.” “She apparently wasn’t good said. “They don’t really go to movies Fanchiang enjoyed watching enough for my dad. It took this Broken down by ethnicity, in the theater. I usually have to audience during her parents see an American film movie to make this revelation of Asians made up nearly 40 per- drag them,” Ong-Sintzel said. “I with Asians that wasn’t a period how they met,” Gadia said. cent of the film’s audience during felt like this was a big occasion — its opening piece. He did not expect to come away its opening weekend, Warner a movie with an all-Asian cast.” weekend, “It was just a regular movie that having enjoyed seeing the film Bros said. By comparison, Asian/ Looking at her parents, she just happens to have Asian peo- alongside his parents as much as Pacific Islanders comprised just cried because everything from Warner Bros said ple in it. It’s not like we’re nin- he did. 10 percent of the audience in the acting to the food seemed to jas or we’re good at fighting. It’s “As sappy as this sounds, it’s so- the opening days of last year’s resonate more. She wasn’t the Fanchiang’s mother, Kao Han Asians existing in the modern mething I’ll always remember,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” only one. Fan, also wanted to see the movie world,” Fanchiang said. Gadia said. “It’s kind of sad it according to an analysis done by “I looked over again, my dad because she recognized Michelle The stars and director Jon M. took 25 years, but I’m glad I had comScore/Screen Engine’s Post- was wiping tears from his eyes,” Yeoh, who plays a wary matriar- Chu have said they wanted the the opportunity to have this ex- Trak. Ong-Sintzel said. ch. But it was Wu’s character film to showcase Asians who we- perience as an adult.” AP

Cambodia Jailed ex-opposition lawmaker pardoned by king

Sopheng Cheang, Phnom Minister Hun Sen’s go- ter having returned from a as an effort to ensure his Penh vernment failed to coun- trip to the United States. party would win elections ter land encroachment by Um Sam An is the latest held this year. His party ap photo former Cambodian Vietnam, Cambodia’s tra- political prisoner to be re- did win last month’s polls, Aopposition lawmaker ditional enemy. leased from jail in the last though the vote was widely who has been a strong In a letter on Saturday, week. seen as lacking credibility. critic of the government’s King Norodom Sihamoni On Tuesday, two Cambo- Hun Sen, who has been handling of demarcating said Um Sam An had been dian journalists who had in office since 1985 and has the border with neighbo- granted amnesty from his worked for U.S.-funded held a tight grip on power ring Vietnam has been jail term. The amnesty was Radio Free Asia and who since ousting a co-prime pardoned by the country’s granted at the request of have been charged with minister in a bloody 1997 king. Hun Sen. espionage were released coup, has a record of cra- Um Sam An, a mem- In handing out the sen- on bail. A day earlier, four cking down harshly when ber of the now-dissolved tence in 2016, a judge said women jailed for partici- facing a serious challenge, opposition Cambodia Na- the accusations made by pating in Cambodia’s land then effecting reconcilia- tional Rescue Party, was Um Sam An in 2015 Face- rights movement were tion when he no longer feels sentenced in October 2016 book posts aimed to cau- freed under a royal pardon threatened. The pattern to 2 1/2 years in prison for se chaos in society. The requested by Hun Sen. keeps human rights groups making comments on the lawmaker was arrested in Hun Sen cracked down and Western governments politically sensitive topic April 2016 in the Cambo- on critics and opponents off balance and moderates and implying that Prime dian city of Siem Reap af- last year in what was seen their criticism. AP Cambodia’s opposition lawmaker Um Sam An 27.08.2018 mon

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Obituary two decades later, as a veteran senator, he supported President Bill Clinton’s decision to norma- lize diplomatic relations with John McCain, Republican senator Vietnam. He told the story of his family as co-author of the 1999 book, “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir.” and Vietnam war hero, dies at 81 After returning from Vietnam, he served as head of the Navy’s Senate liaison office. He met Laurie Asseo Cindy Hensley, the daughter of a wealthy Arizona beer distribu- ohn McCain, the 2008 Re- ap photo tor, and they married after he Jpublican presidential nomi- was divorced from his first wife, nee and Vietnam War hero who Carol. McCain retired from the was a senior voice on defense Navy, moved to Arizona and be- and foreign policy in the U.S. came an active Republican. Senate, has died. He was 81. He won an open U.S. House McCain died at 4:28 p.m. Sa- seat in 1982 and four years later turday, his office said in an was elected to the Senate, suc- emailed statement. His wife ceeding Barry Goldwater, who Cindy and his family were with retired. the senator when he passed away at his home in Arizona. In Nonconforming July 2017, McCain was diagno- Positions sed with glioblastoma, an ag- In Congress, McCain’s icono- gressive form of brain cancer. clastic streak made him difficult One year of treatment failed to to pigeonhole. He defied Presi- prevent his condition from wor- dent Ronald Reagan during the sening and on Aug. 24 his family 1980s by calling for the with- announced that he had chosen drawal of Marines from Lebanon. to discontinue medical care. Yet McCain called for aggressive The onetime Navy pilot was deployments of troops overseas North Vietnam’s most pro- following the Sept. 11 attacks. minent prisoner of war. After While seeking large increases in returning from 5 1/2 years of defense spending, McCain was a captivity, McCain began a con- sharp critic of expensive military gressional career of more than projects such as the F-35 Joint three decades that made him a Strike Fighter, and he provoked force in national politics. He ran the ire of colleagues who sought to for president in 2000 and 2008, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves a closed-door session on Capitol Hill add Navy ships and other Penta- winning the Republican nomi- gon projects in their home states nation in his second campaign and criticized GOP leaders for spending. zing figure who drew an ardent that he considered unnecessary. but losing to Democrat Barack drafting their bill in secret and The senator occasionally tan- following among conservative He also tried unsuccessfully to Obama. without Democratic input. gled with Trump, blasting the Republicans but whose incen- eliminate free, reserved parking Tributes immediately flowed president’s decision to withdraw diary statements and lack of spaces for members of Congress for McCain, with President Do- ‘Bombastic from the Trans-Pacific Part- experience in national govern- at the two Washington-area air- nald Trump tweeting: “My dee- Loudmouths’ nership trade deal as a “serious ment drove others away. ports. pest sympathies and respect “Stop listening to the bombas- mistake” and insisting that Con- During the heated campaign In 1989, McCain and four go out to the family of Senator tic loudmouths on the radio, gress must investigate Russia’s in 2008, McCain insisted that other lawmakers were accused John McCain. Our hearts and television and internet,” the meddling in the 2016 presiden- his supporters respect Obama, of intervening with federal re- prayers are with you!” senator said during his speech. tial election. admonishing one of them at a gulators on behalf of Arizona sa- Barack and Michelle Obama “To hell with them. They don’t Trump mocked McCain’s pri- town hall who called the De- vings and loan executive Charles said in a statement: “Few of us want anything done for the pu- soner of war experience. “He mocratic nominee an Arab. “No Keating during the industry’s have been tested the way John blic good.” was a war hero because he was ma’am,” McCain responded. collapse. Keating had contri- once was, or required to show In December 2017, he joined captured,” Trump said during “He’s a decent family man, ci- buted more than $100,000 to the kind of courage that he did. fellow Senate Republicans in the 2016 campaign. “I like peo- tizen that I just happen to have McCain’s campaigns. The Se- But all of us can aspire to the an initial vote for a massive tax- ple who weren’t captured.” disagreements with on funda- nate Ethics Committee rebuked courage to put the greater good cut plan that also would repeal In early 2017, McCain called mental issues.” McCain for “poor judgment” but above our own. At John’s best, Obamacare’s requirement that for spending USD430 billion John Sidney McCain III was found no improper conduct. he showed us what that means. most people have health insu- more on defense above existing born in the Panama Canal Zone He emerged from that ordeal And for that, we are all in his rance or pay a penalty. levels over five years. on Aug. 29, 1936. The son and with a new mission - to chan- debt.” McCain also broke with most grandson of Navy admirals, he ge the way federal elections are The Arizona Republican ser- Republicans earlier by oppo- Defense Spending followed them to the U.S. Naval financed. The campaign finan- ved as chairman of the Senate sing President George W. Bush’s “Rebuilding our military will Academy. A rebellious streak ce law co-authored by McCain Armed Services Committee and tax cuts, backing a path to ci- not be cheap” but inaction “will earned him enough extra guard and Democratic Senator Russell was frequently a sharp critic tizenship for undocumented irreparably damage our mili- duty at Annapolis to have mar- Feingold of Wisconsin earned of President Trump. A defen- immigrants and co-authoring tary’s ability to deter aggression ched to Baltimore and back 17 him the enmity of many social se hawk who sought increased legislation to limit campaign and conflict,” McCain said in a times, McCain said during the conservatives who felt the new military spending and joined statement. 2008 campaign. He graduated law put their organizations at a fellow Republicans in opposing He criticized Trump for a lack in 1958, fifth from the bottom of competitive disadvantage. abortion and gay marriage, Mc- McCain was of leadership on the world stage his class. His stances on social issues Cain infuriated many in his par- shot down in in a December 2017 article on were in the GOP mainstream: ty by violating GOP orthodoxy the Medium website. “Our presi- War Hero he opposed gay marriage, on other issues. In July 2017, he 1967 over Hanoi. dent sees virtue in his unpredic- He became a Navy pilot and supported a constitutional joined two other Republicans in tability and prefers uninformed was shot down in 1967 over Ha- amendment to outlaw desecra- voting with Democrats to kill a In prison, he tweets to intentional strategies. noi. In prison, McCain was re- tion of the flag and backed a re- GOP-only effort to repeal Oba- was repeatedly We owe our allies and partners peatedly beaten and was put in peal of Roe v. Wade, the Supre- ma’s health-care law, the Affor- — and the American people — solitary confinement for more me Court ruling that legalized dable Care Act. beaten and was better,” he wrote. than two years. In mid-1968, as abortion. McCain had returned to the McCain lost his bid to beco- his father took over as comman- McCain had seven children Capitol following his brain-can- put in solitary me the Republican presidential der of U.S. forces in the Pacific, from his two marriages: dau- cer diagnosis to vote on the heal- nominee to George W. Bush in McCain’s captors sought to sap ghters Meghan and Bridget th-care bill. In a dramatic speech confinement for 2000. Eight years later, McCain POW morale by offering him and sons Jack and Jimmy with on the Senate floor days before more than two won the nomination and cho- early release. McCain refused. his second wife; and sons Doug the final vote, he urged collea- se as his running mate Alaska McCain returned from Viet- and Andy and daughter Sidney gues to curb hyper-partisanship years Governor Sarah Palin, a polari- nam a hero in 1973. More than with his first wife.Bloomberg mon 27.08.2018

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Sylvie Corbet, Verdun France undreds of volun- teers from 18 coun- tries have gathered in the northeastern Volunteers re-enact World HFrench town of Verdun to keep alive the memory of those who fought under appalling condi- tions in World War I. War I encampment in Verdun Re-enactors dressed in sol- diers’ uniforms brought to life a big military encampment in the town and held a military para- ap photo de Saturday, part of a series of events to mark the centenary of the end of the war. Visitors could visualize sol- diers’ daily life during the war through the reconstruction of field kitchens, First Aid posts and command posts. Soldiers in khaki, grey or blue uniforms, depending on the country, and women wearing I — killed 163,000 French and World War I remembrance si- French women and children through.” Pascal was in charge of Red Cross nurses uniforms were 143,000 German soldiers and tes and museums have seen a to work in the fields during the presenting an American corner presenting authentic objects and wounded hundreds of thousands strong increase in tourist num- summer of 1914. in the encampment — compo- equipment from the 1914-1918 of others. Between February and bers in recent years, boosted Jacob Withoos, 19, came from sed of a small tent for two men, a war. December 1916, an estimated 60 by the commemorations of the Australia as a volunteer within backpack including mess tin and Other volunteers were dispa- million shells were fired. Entire centenary. More than 1 million a group of 12 men. “The main cutlery and a bayonet. tched on key battlefield areas villages were destroyed and ne- visitors were counted on the five importance there is the remem- Caroline Hecquet, a volunteer around Verdun. They didn’t re ver rebuilt. main sites in and around Verdun brance,” he said. “War is never from northern France, stressed -enact any fighting out of respect The former battlefield still in 2016, the year of the 100th a good thing and we must ensu- all countries involved in World for the sites, which have since holds millions of unexploded anniversary of the battle. re it doesn’t happen again. It’s War I share a “common suffe- become a symbol of peace. shells, so that housing and far- Celine Guillin, visiting Verdun great to have things like this so ring.” Instead, German and Polish vo- ming are still forbidden in some with her 8-year-old son, said the we can remember the men who “Historical memory is in books: lunteers were sharing tips about areas. recreated encampment allowed sacrificed themselves in order strategies, battles, great gene- military clothes and historic ane- Dozens of heads of state and visitors to be “very conscious of to preserve freedom, and defini- rals. [...] But the memory of lo- cdotes with their French, Aus- government, including U.S. Pre- the hardness of life during the tively ensure it doesn’t happen cal people, it is fading,” she said. tralian and English neighbors at sident Donald Trump, are expec- Great War. It was hard on sol- again to any future generation.” “People don’t know any more the encampment. ted in Paris to commemorate the diers, but also on their wives, French volunteer Michel Pascal how objects were used, how clo- The 10-month battle at Ver- Armistice that ended the war on their whole family.” said “this is modern history. We thes looked like. That’s what we dun — the longest in World War Nov. 11. She pointed at a poster urging must not forget what we’ve been want to pass on.” AP

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Asian Games “We are getting closer to the world’s top countries little by litt- le, like the United States, Austra- lia, and China,” Ikee said. “When Swimmer Rikako Ikee: A smiling you look at relay races, you can tell that.” Besides Ikee, several Japanese also won multiple gold medals in face for 2020 Tokyo Olympics individual races. Stephen Wade, Jakarta

ikako Ikee could very well ap photo Rbe the smiling face of the If everything 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a new goes well, I star that organizers are sure to promote during the build-up to think I will be the games. The 18-year-old Ja- panese swimmer has a lot to be able to set the happy about. Capped by a record eight me- world record. dals at the Asian Games — six gold — Ikee has become an Ikee Olympic favorite, particularly in the 100-meter butterfly where Yasuhiro Koseki won the men’s she is chasing the world record. 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke, “If everything goes well, I think and Daiya Seto took the 200 fly I will be able to set the world re- and 400 IM. Satomi Suzuki won cord,” Ikee said, speaking throu- gold in the women’s 50 and 100 gh a translator to non-Japanese breaststroke. reporters after swimming ended Ikee described the push by on Friday. “But at the same time, Japan to double the gold-me- it is not easy.” dal count in Tokyo as a “drastic A promising junior swimmer year and ahead of the best time evens from 200- to 1,500-me- double its gold-medal take in challenge.” who qualified for the Rio de Ja- this season by Sarah Sjostrom of ters. Rio. Asked if she felt the pressure as neiro Olympics two years ago Sweden, the Olympic champion, “I gained confidence when I Nations hosting the Olympics the home-country favorite, she and finished sixth in the 100 fly, world champion and world re- won the 100 butterfly, since this usually get a home-field boost. said “no.” But then rolled her Ikee in the last several weeks has cord-holder. is the main race for me,” she said. And swimming will be a big part eyes and paused to explain why. arrived as a rising contender in Sjostrom holds the world mark Her confidence in freestyle was of it, with Japan expected to She said success reinforced more several events. at 55.48, and Ikee — pronounced also boosted, she said, “because challenge the United States and training, which led to more me- The breakthrough started ear- E-kay — is closing in. I couldn’t compete well with the China in one of the most high dals. lier this month in the Pan Pacific Ikee was also second at the Pan world’s top swimmers in freesty- -profile sports at the Olympics. “I don’t feel the pressure too Championships in Tokyo, com- Pacs in the 200 freestyle — her le before. I think I can compete Japan and China finished with much,” she said. “For me, I gain peting against top swimmers second best race — just behind with the top swimmers in the 19 gold medals apiece in swim- strength from the cheering and from the United States, Australia Canadian Taylor Ruck but ahead world in these two races.” ming at the Asian Games, both pressure. I make up my mind and Canada. of American Katie Ledecky, the Japan is hoping to win 30 gold teams testing young swimmers to work harder, and when I get She won the 100 fly in 56.08 five-time Olympic champion medals overall at the next Olym- and new names in a warm up for more support it becomes by mo- seconds, the fastest time of the who has dominated the freestyle pics, an ambitious target and Tokyo. tivation.” AP Taiwan, by whatever name, still winning

magine if the United which regards self-gover- international sporting clout. IStates could not compe- ning Taiwan as a break realm. If we use our own Taiwan did not compe- te under its real name at -away province — a rem- name, we will lose the te in the Asian Games in the Olympics. Or Japan, nant of the Chinese civil chance for our athletes. 1962 when they were last ap photo or Spain or India. That’s war. They will lose the play- held in Indonesia. Indo- the reality for Taiwan, Mainland China, with a ground, or the showcase nesia declined to issue vi- which is also formally population of 1.4 billion, they have. The right of sas, under pressure from known as the Republic of dominates the Asian Ga- our athletes to compete is China. China. mes along with Japan and our utmost concern. And Taiwan has won medals But at the on-going South Korea. But Taiwan, I think most Taiwanese this week in almost a do- Asian Games in Indonesia with only 23.5 million, is understand that.” zen sports at the Asian — as well as the Olympics also a player. Its delega- Taiwan won 10 gold me- Games — badminton, — the island is listed offi- tion of 558 ranks among dals in the 2014 Asian kabaddi, canoe/kayak, cially as Chinese Taipei, the largest, and through Games, and is on track bowling, mountain bikes, and marches under a whi- five days it was ranked to match that. It claimed shooting, rowing, ten- te flag adorned with the No. 8 in the medal tab- one gold medal in the last nis, taekwondo, wushu, Olympic rings. le with 22 medals — five three Olympics, and a and weightlifting. At the countries waved Taiwan’s nor by the East Asian Its own red, blue and gold. China led with 116 high of two in Athens in Olympics its best chan- red, blue and white flag Olympic Committee. white flag is banned. overall, followed by Ja- 2004. ces may come in archery, at the closing ceremony, Reports say China de- “This gives us a chance pan (86), South Korea “Our aim is to win more weightlifting, badminton, and athletes from Argen- manded the change, in- to compete and make our (63) and Iran (27). than one gold in Tokyo,” taekwondo and shooting. tina were reportedly re- creasingly angered by strength known interna- Mainland China in re- Shen said. Taiwan is capable of primanded for it by Sum- Taiwanese President Tsai tionally, so we accept the cent months has also for- The 1972 Olympics in holding large events like mer University Games Ing-wen and her inde- pity that we have to com- ced many major airlines Munich was the last in the Asian Games, though officials. pendence-leaning party. pete under the name of to show on their websites which Taiwan compe- China would surely oppo- “We are very much inte- China views the island as Chinese Taipei,” Jacqueli- that they fly to Taipei — ted under the name of se it. Last year it held rested in hosting games its possession. ne Yi-ting Shen, the secre- not Taiwan — or face pos- the Republic of China. It the Summer University like this,” Shen said. “I “Political reasons, wha- tary general of Taiwan’s sible sanctions. boycotted the next seve- Games with about 7,500 think we are more than tever,” Shen said. “Our Olympic committee, told “I’m sure that many peo- ral games and did not re- athletes. China declined capable.” athletes just want a space The Associated Press. ple [in Taiwan] feel dis- turn until 1984, agreeing to participate in the ope- She said Taiwan was undisturbed by political This is due primarily to mayed,” Shen said. “But to use the name Chinese ning ceremony, but com- awarded the 2019 East issues. They just want pressure from the Peo- quite a lot understand Taipei, an illustration of peted in the events. Asian Youth Games, then to concentrate on their ple’s Republic of China, that it is the reality in the China’s rising diplomatic Athletes from several later stripped of the ho- sports.” AP mon 27.08.2018

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f the Asian games at the Asian Games, se- Thais digging in to keep an paktakraw should get some billing as a fes- Otival event. With origins in ru- ral southeast Asian provinces Asian game at the Asian Games — several countries lay claim to creating it — sepaktakraw is like regu, a rivalry that has lasted de- The Singapore-based Interna- an aerial soccer or hands-free cades. tional Sepaktakraw Federation volleyball where players can use ap photo Malaysia swept all the gold me- has members from 31 national their feet, knees, heads, elbows dals in 1990 and 1994 but Thai- associations and oversees all or shoulders to propel a woven, land has dominated the event disciplines, including the game synthetic ball. No hands. ever since. adapted to the beach. The name of the game is a lite- “Wherever it has taken root, ral translation. Proponents ex- Sepaktakraw enjoys cult status,” plain that it’s a combination of With the next the ISTAF says on its website. languages with “sepak” coming “Southeast Asia may be the bir- from the term used for kick in games travelling thplace of the sport and the stage Malaysia, Singapore and Indone- to China, there for its greatest champions, but sia, and “takraw” being the Thai an enormous variety of regio- word for the woven ball. has been nal tournaments and domestic While the acrobatic, overhead events have sprung up around kicks and athletic, somersaulting speculation the globe. leaps to the height of the net are “From the Sepaktakraw Swiss eye-catching, the sport’s place on “This is one of the sports that “We have great confidence in sepaktakraw Open and the Chicken’s Cup in the Asian Games program is far really shows the athleticism and the international federation, will be cut from Germany ... the proliferation of from secure. it is really exciting to watch,” and the Asian federation — they competition has grown the talent At the 2018 Games being co- Sakha Siriwat, gold-medal win- are working hard so that we rai- the program pool substantially.” hosted in Jakarta and Palem- ner in the team regu, said. “It is se the awareness of the sport,” Siriwat, who has won gold me- bang, only eleven countries ente- very thrilling and also it’s a sport Tankimhong said. After the Thai men won the dals at three Asian Games, is red the team regu — or team of with such a long heritage, so it Sepaktakraw is played by team regu here, Thailand’s wo- hopeful the performances in Pa- teams — competition. should not be dropped. groups of two or three who try to men beat South Korea for gold lembang help the sport keep its With the next Asian Games tra- “It’s a very exciting sport to wa- score points by hitting the takraw in the team event. Vietnam and place on the program. velling to China, there has been tch.” above the net and into the court Myanmar took bronze. “It will be a sad occasion if it is speculation sepaktakraw will be Thailand coach Kamol about the size of a badminton On Saturday, Thailand won the not in the Asian Games anymo- cut from the program. Unders- Tankimhong sounded confident space as the opposing players at- men’s team doubles over Laos, re,” he said. “I would feel sad for tandably, that notion has not sepaktakraw would be retained tempt to block. while Indonesia and Japan pi- the younger generation. I won’t been well received in Thailand, for the continental Olympic-style The atmosphere was electric as cked up bronze medals. be able to show the world how winner of the first three gold me- games, which attract more than Thailand beat arch rivals Malay- There are three more finals on Takraw is played or how it is su- dals in this tournament. 11,000 athletes in 40 sports. sia in the opening men’s team the program. pposed to be played.” AP

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Chou was a political heavyweight and Saturday marked the one Emmerson Mnangagwa, fought for the material and human resources which -year anniversary of the at- clearing the way for the house needed to perform its duties as prescribed tacks that sent them fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, his inauguration as by the Basic Law, under the concept of “one country, the country remained praying they can return to two systems.” She attained the resources to make the deeply divided in the ground to build the relevance of the Legislative Assem- their homes in Myanmar and post-Robert Mugabe bly (AL). demanding justice for their era. dead relatives and neighbors. Chou was followed by a discreet, seasoned labor More than 15,000 gathered conservative from the Workers Association, allegedly Turkey Authorities in the morning on a hilltop have banned a protest happy to accept the new mission as a lifetime achie- in the Kutupalong refugee vement of sorts. Lau Cheoc Va, already bordering se- vigil marking the forced camp, part of a sprawling disappearances of niority, brought the Nam Van house to a smooth mode web of settlements that are hundreds of people in with a non-assuming leadership style which harshly now home to nearly 900,000 place them in heaven.” among Myanmar, Bangla- the country’s southeast contrasted with that of Chou’s Legislative Assembly. Rohingya who have fled Some of the protesters car- desh, the United Nations and decades ago. We would say we went from a zenith to an anti-climax, Myanmar to escape violence. ried paper flags of Myanmar. international aid agencies. or if we opt for a musical metaphor, from a Chou vivace The camps exploded in size Newly setup shops inside the Myanmar insists the Rohin- Bulgaria Five people to a Lau honorable adagio. last year after Myanmar’s camp were closed during the gya can return, and has built still have life-threatening So now we are at a point where we have to won- army launched a wave of protest, which lasted several a series of camps for them, injuries yesterday, a der what and how Ho Iat Seng intends to make of his anti-Rohingya attacks on hours. but few believe they would day after their tourist presidency. Ripe with controversy, and we mean not Aug. 25, with some 700,000 Also on Saturday, some be safe there, or that they bus flipped over on only the obvious mishandling of directly-elected Sulu Rohingya eventually pouring 100 protesters from a group could finally be accepted as a Bulgarian highway, killing at least 16 people Sou’s suspension but also the imbroglio, the house across the border. Thou- of nongovernment organiza- citizens. and leaving 18 injured, managed to make the Land Law and the Legislative sands were killed in the vio- tions formed a human chain While Rohingya have lived authorities said. Assembly look like (without intending any disrespect) lence. “25th August — Black in front of the national press for centuries in Myanmar, a surreal reading of Pirandello at times, in which an Day,” one banner announced club in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s they have long been treated Author is in Search of Six Characters and not the other Saturday. capital, to demand the in- as outsiders, Muslims in a way around. Indeed there were nine, and they were The protesters — men, wo- ternational community put largely Buddhist nation who ap photo auditioning for democrat roles. men and children — marched pressure on Myanmar’s go- are denied citizenship and On top of this, Ho decided on the dismissal of two le- through the muddy camp, vernment to try those res- many basic rights. Many in chanting slogans such as “No gal advisors. He can do it, indeed, but the idea sounds ponsible for murder, rape Myanmar ridicule them as more genocide, we want jus- and arson, the English-lan- “Bengalis” who came illegally ill-conceived since a haircut to the pool of the six advi- tice.” At a mass prayer rally, guage Daily Star reported. from Bangladesh. sors concerned was to select the longest-serving, bes- Spain The family of the one speaker repeatedly shou- “We are Rohingya, we are Most live in poverty in late Spanish dictator t-qualified legal experts to act as a legal and technical ted, “Who are we?” to which Muslims, we have been dri- Myanmar’s Rakhine sta- Francisco Franco will buffer to the raw enthusiasm of lawmakers with limited the crowd responded in cho- ven away from our land, te, just across the border take charge of his knowledge of legal and political things. To summarize, rus: “Rohingya! Rohingya!” from our homes,” an uniden- from Bangladesh. Over remains after Spain’s Ho and the AL board sent a letter to both the dismissed Most people cried as they tified speaker told the crowd the past couple of decades, government has them advisors and abstained from referring to anything as raised their hands whi- on Saturday. “We want justi- over 100,000 have fled exhumed from a justification. Later he mentioned a vague restructuring le an imam who led the ce. We want to go back to our into Bangladesh in earlier mausoleum, his relatives of the legal advisor apparatus. prayer sought God’s bles- homes.” waves of violence. In total, said. Understandably, commotion in the Portuguese legal sings, saying, “Please con- But many doubt they’ll more than 1 million Rohin- community followed, both because of the personal in- sider the people who have ever be able to return despi- gya refugees currently live Britain Coastguards convenience and the perceived absurdity of the dry been killed as martyrs and te more than a year of talks in Bangladesh. AP are searching for two missing fishermen in dismissal. This is when the Legislative Assembly will the North Sea after need all the expertise available when facing the up- three others from their coming gaming law, internal security law and the new capsized boat were electoral law. Outsourcing is not an option, we believe. rescued by a passing Perhaps this commotion can also explain the ex- The cruise ship. cessive commentary trying to dilute the dismissal of the two advisors to an imaginary drive to dispense the decisive moment Portuguese talent. Not really…the dismissal looks like ap photo an arbitrary exclusion of both legal advisors* Cardinal and Cabral Taipa. Legislators Ng Kuok Cheong, Sou Ka Hou and Pereira Coutinho sent a letter to the board asking for an explanation and the content says it all: the quality of the legislation and deliberations of the Le- Venezuela Thousands gislative Assembly has been improving over the years of Venezuelans fleeing because of their input…they have used their deep un- their nation’s economic derstanding in the law to implement the values of the and humanitarian crisis Basic Law. rushed to reach Peru on While we wait to hear the reasoning behind the pre- Friday before stiffer new sumed well-thought-out decision, we sincerely doubt rules go into effect that the board will care to give this to the three lawmakers. will make entering the We’ll stick with Ho’s scarce words: It´s time we part fellow South American nation more difficult. ways; we (AL) go our way, you go yours. Which way will the Legislative Assembly go? What Argentina Authorities will Ho make of his presidency of the Macau Legislati- carried out raids at ve, in the footsteps of Chou’s vivace and Lau’s adagio? homes owned by former *As a disclaimer we have to disclose that the author President Cristina is a close friend to both legal advisors. Karate athlete Sok Ik Wong (left) has won a bronze medal for Macau at the Asian Games, which are being Fernandez as part of held in Indonesia. The local athlete was competing in the category of less than 55kg. From the three medals a case investigating won by Macau, two were earned in the Karate tournament. widespread corruption.