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3804-2021-07-01.Pdf FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo THURSDAY T. 27º/ 31º Air Quality Good MOP 8.00 3804 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 01 Jul 2021 HKD 10.00 CIVIL WATCH, NEW MACAU PROGRESSIVE PROPERTY INSPECTIONS THE PUBLIC SECURITY POLICE FORCE HAS AND POWER OF SYNERGY ANNOUNCED REPORTED THAT THEY HAVE DETAINED LISTS OF CANDIDATES YESTERDAY FOR WITHOUT COURT ORDER FOUR PEOPLE ON SUSPICION OF BEING THE UPCOMING ELECTION MAY BE PERMITTED PART OF A SHAM MARRIAGE SCHEME P4 P3 P5 AP PHOTO Indonesia Rescuers yesterday were searching for 11 people missing MARKING100 YEARS in rough seas overnight after a ferry sank near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Seven bodies China is marking the have been recovered and 39 people were Chinese Communist rescued, many of them unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for Party’s centenary today hours. The KMP Yunice sank about half an hour with fireworks and after leaving East Java’s Ketapang port late Tuesday, Bali Search and fanfare, celebrating Rescue Agency chief Gede Darmada said. It was the party’s century- bound for Bali’s Gilimanuk port, a 50-kilometer trip. long efforts to ‘rejuvenate China’ AP PHOTO P7 Australia The Queensland and Western Australia state governments yesterday advised people under age 40 not to take the AstraZeneca vaccine because of the risk of a rare blood clotting disorder, despite the Australian government making those shots available to all adults. The state governments’ advice to those under 40 is based on British government guidelines, while the new federal government’s position acknowledges the scarcity of the Pfizer vaccine and an urgent need to accelerate a slow national rollout. XINHUA AP PHOTO BLOOMBERG Israel has reached a compromise with CENTALINE Jewish settlers who MGTO in rapidly established an unauthorized outpost in Property the occupied West Bank contact with last month, officials and the settlers. Under the local hotels market agreement, the settlers will leave by the end of for HK guests’ the week. The area will set for become a closed military arrangements zone, but the houses and rebound roads will remain in place. More on backpage P2 P3 page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 01.07.2021 thu MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER male working in Hong Kong air- XINHUA port, together with his 24-year- -old female colleague, both bea- ring Delta strains, from “local case of unknown source” to “epi- demiologically linked with im- ported cases.” The cases were reclassified af- ter it was found that the man “had brief encounters with the three imported cases at the Depart- ment of Health’s Temporary Spe- cimen Collection Centre in the Hong Kong International Airport on June 11,” the CHP explained. Hong Kong registered no local cases yesterday. Given the reclas- sification, Hong Kong technically recorded no locally-transmitted case for 23 consecutive days: five days short of the trigger for the Hong Kong-Macau travel bubble plan to be further cemented. On Monday, Tai Wa Hou, coor- dinator of the Health Bureau’s Covid-19 vaccination operation, said that the intercity travel bub- ble may resume, even without the need for Hong Kong to regis- ter no local cases for 28 consecu- tive days. The prerequisite for the re- -opening of the travel bubble, he added, will be scientific evidence proving that Hong Kong’s recent confirmed cases are imported and there is no contagion risk in the community. Officials of the two cities are actively discussing how to re-as- Hotel arrangements for Hong sess the “28 days” requirement, he confirmed. The MGTO also reiterated to Kong guests under discussion the Times that when the target of 28 consecutive days is reached, HONEY TSANG only stay on hotel floors designa- rently in internal communication two cities soon. Some particulars the implementation of the travel ted exclusively for them. and discussion with local hotels are tabled for discussion, such as bubble measure between Hong INCE the sudden develop- The report also claims that and guesthouses for feasible ar- the need to set an initial quota for Kong and Macau “will be carried Sments in Hong Kong’s pan- Hong Kong tourists will be ban- rangements.” ferry passengers, the need for fer- out progressively and in several demic situation on Tuesday, ned from entering swimming “Given that the plan is in a sta- ry staff to be fully vaccinated and stages (with a limit of entries at with the reclassification of the pools and other water activities ge of discussion, the MGTO is in- whether they might be exempted each stage).” recent two confirmed Delta ca- in the hotels. quiring those accommodations to from quarantine while crossing “Additional measures” must ses as imported cases, the Ma- between the two cities, among be taken to ensure a firm con- cao Government Tourism Office other questions. tainment of the spread of the (MGTO) told the Times yester- On June 29, the Hong Kong pandemic and the safety of the day that the authorities are in ”MGTO is currently in Centre for Health Protection population in Macau in the Hong discussion with local hoteliers internal communication and (CHP) announced that it will re- Kong-Macau travel scheme, the to formulate new arrangements classify the case of a 27-year-old MGTO added. for the accommodation of Hong discussion with local hotels Kong travelers after the border reopens. and guesthouses for feasible According to a report pu- arrangements. blished yesterday by HK01, a Integrated resorts to benefit most Hong Kong-based Chinese me- MACAO GOVERNMENT TOURISM OFFICE dia outlet, vaccinated Hong Kong under the new plan: JP Morgan arrivals will be assigned a new The HK01 report also stated provide information, but has no JP Morgan released a memo likely to be forbidden to leave the health code color upon arrival that the MGTO has already com- information to announce to the yesterday sharing its views on hotel premises for some time. — not one of the current green, municated with Macau’s hotel public at this moment,” the MG- the new proposed restrictions The brokerage also stated that yellow or red codes. operators to inform them of the- TO’s spokesperson added. applied exclusively to visitors these proposed measures from Hong Kong. “would benefit large-scale According to the report, holi- se proposed measures. In addition, the report also The brokerage consulted with integrated resorts more than daymakers from Hong Kong will Questioned by the Times about said that the Macau government some Macau hoteliers who sug- the others, as guests are likely be granted permission to move the accuracy of these statements, has already liaised with the ferry gested that Hong Kong travelers to be asked to stay within the around inside their hotels after a spokesperson of the MGTO re- company to discuss the feasibility after entering Macau are very property.” entering Macau, but they may plied in an email: “MGTO is cur- of resuming services between the www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION ASSISTANT EDITOR_Lynzy Valles SENIOR WRITER_Honey Tsang CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Leanda Lee, Severo Portela, Sheyla Zandonai ADMINISTRATOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Anthony Lam, Emilie Tran, Irene OFFICE MANAGER Juliana Cheang [email protected] REACHING OUT! 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Teacher-development Overall, around 1,800 tran- key in consultation sactions in housing were made on non-tertiary Real estate market to in the second quarter. education In terms of property prices, the average housing price was Consultation on mid- to long-term MOP 6,700 per square foot. This planning for Non-tertiary Education experience a rebound number is still 5.6% lower than has garnered 978 submissions in the agency’s previous forecast of a 49-day period. The five topics HONEY TSANG MOP 7,100, or the average levels of most concern are the nurturing in 2019. aspect of teaching, infant education, S Macau’s inoculation Centaline expects that the teaching a sense of happiness, rate increases, the lo- ANTHONY LAM improvement in the tourism further revision of curricula, teaching cal property market industry will result in advan- and assessment, as well as refining innovative and technological will obviously be sti- cement growth in the housing education. Some opinions called mulated,A the Centaline (Macau) market. However, if the Covid-19 for the elimination of squeeze- Property Agency Ltd predicted continues to overshadow the re- in education, education through in its forecast for rent and sale gion, the city’s housing transac- memorization or model-answer property markets at a briefing tions will remain at a low level. style education. yesterday. The trading volume for apart- Given the fact that the Co- ments with a value below MOP8 vid-19 situation in Guangdong million has not yet been affec- Lawmaker Becky Song (GD) province has largely subsi- ted.
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