TOURISM ‘MASTER PLAN’ TRIBUTE TO MANUEL VERIZON CONSULTATION CONCLUDED VICENTE MGTO gathered over 1,100 The work of Portuguese BUYS opinions on the plan to develop the architect Manuel Vicente YAHOO tourism industry during the two- is the theme of “Macau: FOR month public consultation period Reading the Hybrid City” USD4.83B P2 P5 MDT REPORT P8 TUE.26 Jul 2016 T. 27º/ 32º C H. 65/ 95% Blackberry email service powered by CTM MOP 7.50 2607 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS CHINA | CORRUPTION CHINA The International Champions Cup match between Premier League rivals Manchester United and Manchester City has been canceled after Former top PLA recent extreme weather made the playing surface at Beijing’s National Stadium unfit for play. general jailed for life P11 AP PHOTO PHILIPPINES President New Macau Association wants Rodrigo Duterte declared a unilateral cease- fire with communist guerrillas effective to keep Hotel Estoril façade P7 immediately yesterday and asked the rebels to do the same to end decades of deadly violence and foster the resumption of peace talks. 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More on backpage MARQUES RENATO 26.07.2016 tue th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Share price slip for Lynzy Valles Greek Mythology P Entertainment singers Local singers shoot investor SHyper Lo, AJ and Josie Ho are set to release their newly music video in Thailand composed song for the Rui Cunha Foundation, “Paradi- se” in early August. out the founder’s missions audience. There’s nothing like The singers shot the new and objectives. this before,” she said. music video in the city of Pa- Although the group assumed Ho also noted that local orga- ttaya at the Cartoon Network that shooting in the Cartoon nizations and firms have been Amazone Waterpark Thai- Network themed waterpark supporting the music industry land. would be troublesome due to despite the economic reces- Amax International Holdings, which owns Lyricist Hyper Lo said the the probable “license issues,” sion the region has faced. a 24.8 percent in the Greek Mythology song name in Chinese “Lok I AJ claimed that the waterpark She revealed that in the past, (Macau) Entertainment Group, has seen Mong Fan” is designed to be was very supportive. most enterprises would only a 12.3 percent decrease in the price of its reminiscent of Dr Cunha’s “To be honest, we are no- hire Hong Kong or internatio- stock yesterday, after the Beijing Imperial Chinese name pronunciation. body to them maybe becau- nal artists to participate in the Palace Hotel was forced into a temporary six-month closure over the weekend. Amax The lyrics describe the se we’re just known locally companies’ events. opened trading yesterday at HKD0.39, dream catching process as an and in Hong Kong. But in The trio, along with other local down considerably from HKD0.445 at unforgettable journey and it Thailand we don’t have any singers, are planning to launch Friday’s close. Trading of Amax shares aims to encourage the you- kind of level of fame but they another album. According to was also been halted on Friday afternoon, ng generation to go for their were still very supportive,” he Josie Ho, local organizations, after the price fell more than 6 percent. dreams without hesitation. stressed. companies and the government The company said that the temporary Hyper Lo noted that local Meanwhile Josie Ho told the have sponsored the recording closure would not have a material impact on its financial standing, but told Nikkei singers’ works are receiving Times that the group is plea- of tracks that are planned to be Asian Review that it might have a “negative additional recognition by sed with the invitation of the released this year. impact on the number of visitors and [the] local associations and com- foundation, as she believes “We want to show that the business plan” of the group. panies. it is the first time local sin- industry has a market. It’s Lo believes that “Paradise” gers have shot a music video worthy of investment,” she Translation can help Macau residents to abroad. said, calling on local organiza- better understand the Rui “We really hope to bring so- tions to make use of talented laboratory to operate Cunha Foundation and bring Josie Ho mething fresh to the Macau local artists. in IPM Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM), TOURISM Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and the Global Tone Communication Technology Co Ltd signed a tripartite MGTO completes consultation for ‘Master Plan’ agreement to establish the Chinese- Portuguese-English Machine Translation Laboratory last week. This is the first aspects, including city competitiveness, and website means. Topics raised in CPE machine translation laboratory, and tourism resources, branding, the use of the opinions included tourism pro- will be housed in IPM. The three parties innovative technology, transportation duct development, tourism quality and established the translation laboratory and regional tourism cooperation. service, urban development regarding based on three levels of cooperation: basic technology research, application of state- The plan has four overall goals and transportation and facility, tourism of-the-art technology, and nurturing of 14 stated strategies along with various source markets and target markets and talents, said the institute in a statement. measures to be carried out in the short, strategies for general tourism develo- The laboratory aims to strengthen the medium and long terms, “in line with the pment. region’s role in cultivating an exchange Members of the tourism industry express their goals set out in the ‘Draft of the Macau views during a public consultation session The creation of the “Master Plan” has platform between China and Portuguese- SAR’s Five-Year Development Plan’ as proceeded along three stages. The first speaking countries. HE Government Tourism Office guiding principles,” reads the statement. stage, which included data collection T(MGTO) has completed its two- The consultation period was held from and analysis and a drafting of the plan, UM to host third month public consultation for the “Ma- May 23 to July 22 and included two pu- reached a conclusion in November 2015. cau Tourism Industry Development blic sessions, two exchange sessions for The second stage resulted in the con- forum on residential Master Plan,” according to a statement local trade bodies and organizations, as sultation period and the formulation of colleges from the office, having collected over well as two sessions for relevant advisory the detailed plan, which has now come 1,100 opinions in total. committees. In total, 180 participants to fruition. The final stage will begin in The University of Macau (UM) will host The “Master Plan” aims to analyze the enrolled in the consultations. the third quarter of 2016 and will see the the Third Forum on “Education of Modern current state of Macau’s tourism indus- According to MGTO, over 1,100 opi- finalization of the plan, expected for pu- Residential Colleges” this coming Friday nions were collected via email, phone and Saturday. Nearly 300 scholars, try, taking into account a wide variety of blication in 2017. DB faculty members, student affairs staff and students from more than 40 universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are set to participate in the event. The theme of this year’s forum is MFFR leader sentenced to three months “Student Development in a Residential College and the Shaping of Its Educational HE leader of the Macau (TJB). red at the entrance of the Character,” namely four sub-topics TFederation Family Reu- Exiting from the hearing, Legislative Assembly (AL). including the assessment of residential nion’s (MFFR), Lei Iok Lan, Lei said that she considered The group tried to enter the college’s learning outcomes, the has been found guilty of the the sentence unfair adding building while the AL was in collaboration between residential colleges crime of qualified disobe- that she will now consult her session with the attendan- and faculties, educational programs for dience and sentenced to three lawyer to see whether it is ce of the Chief Executive. student development, and developing months imprisonment with worth appealing the decision. According to reports from the the characteristics of residential colleges. UM said in a statement that half of the suspended sentence. The ju- The case began in August day, the demonstrators were confrontations and the po- participants will stay at its residential dgment was made yesterday last year when Lei headed a barred from entering the AL lice accusing Lei of disobe- colleges during the forum. at the Court of First Instance group of protesters gathe- building, which led to further dience. 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