Fan Bingbing Off Social Media Amid China Tax Rumors
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WARNING SYSTEM CHINA PROJECT SPARKS READY TO USE AL TO INTERNAL DEBATE The newly installed civil DEBATE Google’s secret project of protection warning system VIVA MACAU a search app tailored, and has already been tested censored, for China sparked ON AUG 7 and is ready to be used a furious internal debate P3 P5 P9 FRI.03 Aug 2018 T. 27º/ 33º C H. 65/ 95% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 8.00 3103 N.º HKD 10.00 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” AD Airport records busiest month ever P3 AP PHOTO WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO CHINA Starbucks and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced a coffee delivery venture, joining the growing competition in China’s booming delivery industry. More on p8 JAPAN A Tokyo medical university faced a new allegation after a newspaper report yesterday that the school has allegedly discriminated against female applicants on grounds they tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing staffing shortages. More on p12 US-N.KOREA President Donald Trump, in a tweet, thanked Kim Jong Un “for keeping your word & starting the process of sending Fan Bingbing off home the remains of our great and beloved missing fallen! I am not at all surprised that you social media amid took this kind action.” More on p12 P10 More on backpage China tax rumors INSIDE 03.08.2018 fri 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO GAMING million, representing a 15.9 percent increase. Meanwhile, operating reve- nues from Wynn Palace and Wynn Resorts falls after signs of total Las Vegas operations in- creased $224.2 million and $3.5 million, respectively. “Wynn Macau had a tough market cannibalization VIP environment on lower volumes from several junket YNN Resorts Ltd. tum- operators as several compe- Wbled as much as 9.7 per- titors got back into the game cent in late trading after re- with new rooms and more cre- BLOOMBERG porting steep declines in reve- dit,” Chief Executive Officer nue and profit at its casino in Matt Maddox said on a call. Macau, the company’s biggest “Wynn Macau won’t compete market. on price.” While operating revenues Shares of Wynn were down rose 9 percent in the second 8.5 percent to $146.35 in late quarter to USD1.61 billion, the trading after falling as low as total fell short of analysts’ esti- $144.55. The stock is down 5.1 mates of $1.67 billion. Earnin- percent this year. gs of $1.53 a share, excluding Casino operators in Macau, some items, trailed projections the world’s largest gambling of $1.92 a share. market, tumbled in U.S. tra- The Las Vegas-based casino ding after betting revenue grew giant said that revenue fell 15 less than expected in July. percent at Wynn Macau, dri- The stocks also took a beating ven by a decline in betting by after Caesars Entertainment high-rollers. Operating reve- Corp., the largest casino owner nues at the two-year-old Wynn in the U.S., said room revenue Palace on Macau’s Cotai Strip in the third quarter would be jumped 57 percent, raising light due to fewer events in Las the possibility that the newer company’s Las Vegas casinos Wynn Macau property were cent decrease from the same Vegas and competition from resort may be cannibalizing fell 6.1 percent. $473.3 million for the second period in 2017. Non-casino re- rival operators for leisure tra- the older one. Earnings at the Casino revenues from the quarter of 2018, an 18.1 per- venues amounted to about $70 velers. MDT/Bloomberg EDUCATION National Book Expo Summer English course showcases local pavilion HE Cultural Af- fine books and pain- to increase students’ Tfairs Bureau (IC) ting albums.” and the Macao Foun- The National Book dation jointly show- Expo is one of the confidence cased the Macau Pavi- three largest book lion once again at the fairs in China, toge- HE University of Ma- 28th National Book ther with the Beijing Tcau (UM) Faculty of Expo in Shenzhen. Book Fair and the Arts and Humanities (FAH) The Macao Pavi- Beijing International recently organized a fou- lion, located in the Book Fair. The Natio- r-week Summer English Hong Kong, Macau nal Book Expo is held Immersion Program for and Taiwan exhibi- in a different location incoming first-year studen- tion area of the expo, every year, showca- ts. Participants exchanged showcased local Wor- sing the accomplish- ideas with course assistants ld Heritage buildings ments of the pub- and experienced living in the from multiple pers- lishing industry and residential colleges. Accor- pectives using photo- highlighting annual ding to a statement issued graphs of the Histo- publications. by the UM, “participants say ric Centre of Macao. The 28th National the program significantly Through aerial pho- Book Expo, jointly increased their confidence tography, the Pavilion hosted by the Sta- when speaking English and revealed the mixed Macau’s publishing te Administration of improved their listening urban landscape and sector, adding a total Press, Publication, and speaking skills.” build their confidence in cau, the United States, the Sino-Western cultural of nearly 1,000 publi- Radio, Film and Te- The summer program in- public speaking. After class, United Kingdom, Canada, exchange which have cations to the expo. levision, the Peo- cluded a series of intensi- students joined a variety of New Zealand, Singapore come to define Macau. According to a state- ple’s Government of ve courses with interactive extracurricular classes, in- and Sweden, each with rich In order to promote ment from the IC, the Guangdong Province learning activities, including cluding drama, singing, and experience in teaching En- Macau’s diverse pub- Pavilion “attracted a and the People’s Go- games designed to encoura- yoga, to integrate English glish, were invited to assist lishing culture at the ceaseless flow of rea- vernment of Shen- ge students to communicate learning into their daily li- the event. Participants and expo, the IC and the ders and exhibitors zhen Municipality, with each other in English. ves. instructors stayed in UM’s Macao Foundation from other cities and was held from July In addition, a weekly pre- This year, 43 program residential colleges to inte- also presented near- provinces, introdu- 19 to July 22 at the sentation class provided assistants from mainland ract with people from diffe- ly 300 fine books pu- cing Macau’s cultural Shenzhen Convention a platform for students to China, Hong Kong, Ma- rent cultural backgrounds. blished by agents of achievements through & Exhibition Centre. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Grace Yu, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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Airport passenger traffic MIA said in the report that it expected passenger traf- fic and flight movements to grow, and should make ano- reaches new record in July ther breakthrough during the peak summer vacation season craft movement since MIA in August. commenced operations. By the end of July 2018, arou- Chinese mainland routes nd 30 airlines operated at MIA, continued to perform well connecting Macau to 50 desti- in July and took up 36 per- nations covering mainland Chi- cent of the overall passenger na, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and market, while Southeast Asia Northeast Asia. MDT/Xinhua ONE SHOT NEWS HE Macau Interna- In a statement released yes- compared with the same pe- tional Airport (MIA) terday, MIA said it had set riod last year. experienced its bu- a new record for the highest There were over 5,700 air- siest month ever this volume of passenger traffic in craft movements in July, 12 The Wushu Masters Challenge kicked off yesterday with an inauguration Tsummer with over 740,000 a single month. Average dai- percent more than the same event held at Tap Seac Square. Among other competitions, this year’s event passenger movements recor- ly passenger traffic was over period last year. It also sets a includes the World University Wushu Championship, with athletes coming ded in July 2018. 23,000, 11 percent higher new monthly record for air- from 25 countries and regions. The Masters Challenge will close on Sunday. Civil protection warning system ready to use Renato Marques ming of drills.” throughout the city. from the Security Forces The commissioner said They will broadcast that will broadcast the HE newly installed ci- that this is the first step three types of warnings.