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Customs officer found driving a Property transaction value taxi while on sick leave surges in first quarter of 2018

An officer of the Macau Customs total of 5,501 building uni- Service was found working as a Ats and parking spaces were part-time taxi driver while on sick purchased and sold in the first leave, according to a statement quarter of 2018, according to the bloomberg released by the Office of the stamp duty record. According Secretariat for Security. The case to information released yester- was revealed recently by the day by the Statistics and Census Commission Against Corruption. Service (DSEC), the total value The officer is said to have been of transactions was MOP32.8 working part-time in this role billion, up by 52 percent quar- since March 2014, and been on ter-to-quarter. sick leave for this entire time. According to the Customs Service, The purchase and sale of resi- from July 2014, the officer’s dential units totaled 3,627, an sick leave was approved by the increase of 1,009 units or 38.5 government’s medical board. The percent quarter-to-quarter. officer returned to work at the Analyzed by month, the tran- beginning of May. saction volume in January rose sharply by 85 percent while the growth in February slowed to 5G service in 3.6 percent. The transaction vo- lume in March plunged by 57.6 research stages percent after the launch of mea- sures to manage the residential dwellings, the overall average square meter for each area was purchase and sale contracts Macau hopes to launch the 5G property market. price of residential units increa- MOP100,741, MOP106,466 and signed, and the number of pro- service around the same time as According to DESC, the tran- sed by 6.3 percent quarter-to- MOP83,127 respectively. perties involved (3,954) rose by Macau’s neighboring regions, saction volume of pre-sale re- quarter to MOP112,304, with As for pre-sale residential uni- 18.6 percent quarter-to-quar- according to the director of Macau sidential units surged by 808 the average prices of those in the ts, 844 purchased units (repre- ter. Meanwhile, 3,312 mortgage Post and Telecommunication quarter-to-quarter to 1,611 units Macau Peninsula (MOP99,312) senting 52.4 percent of total) contracts were signed, and the Bureau (CTT), Lau Wai Meng. and the transaction value grew and Coloane (MOP137,768) ri- were in Coloane, 337 in Fai Chi number of properties involved Yesterday, Lau revealed that CTT by 69.7 percent to MOP12.49 sing by 1.8 percent and 9.9 per- Kei and 214 in NATAP; while (4,160) fell by 2 percent. is currently conducting a study billion, attributable to the re- on the 5G service, especially cent respectively. Meanwhile, the respective average price per Regarding construction in regarding legal and technological lease of large-scale housing es- the average price of residential square meter was MOP138,467, the private sector, there were matters. The purpose for this is tates in that quarter. Moreover, units in Taipa (MOP117,364) MOP116,589 and MOP146,501. 20,707 residential units in the to enable telecommunication the purchase and sale of exis- dropped by 3.7 percent. The ave- The average price of office uni- design stage, 9,030 under cons- operators to expand the range ting residential units increased rage price of existing residential ts grew by 75.3 percent quar- truction and 1,375 under ins- of their services. “During the by 201 to 2,016, with purchase units (MOP93,450) and pre-sale ter-to-quarter to MOP194,311 pection at the end of the first promotion of 5G, the law has to prices amounting to MOP11.82 residential units (MOP137,898) per square meter, attributab- quarter. Throughout the quar- be taken into consideration. We billion, up by 13.5 percent. The went up by 3.8 percent and 0.2 le to the increased number of ter, 338 residential units were hope to give some time for the number of office units purcha- percent respectively. transactions involving relati- issued a construction permit, telecommunication operators to sed and sold rose significantly The existing residential units vely high- priced office units. comprising a total floor area prepare for 5G service launch,” by 86 to 122, and total property purchased and sold were main- Meanwhile, the average price of 40 thousand square meters, said Lau. value leapt by 814.8 percent to ly located in Baixa da Taipa, of industrial units decreased by while 247 residential units with MOP2.65 billion. with 231 units (11.5 percent of 6.1 percent to MOP52,243 per a total floor area of 19 thousand With respect to the average total). 217 units were in NA- square meter. square meters were issued a li- Four locals listed price per square meter of spa- TAP and 185 in Areia Preta & In the first quarter of 2018, cense for use. Forty percent of as intangible ce that could be utilized within Iao Hon. The average price per there were 3,499 real estate them were one-bedroom units. heritage inheritors n academic exchan- Age event about Tradi- Four Macau residents have been tional Chinese Medicine Health Bureau promotes selected by the Ministry of Culture (TCM) between Macau and Tourism to be intangible and Thailand health au- cultural heritage representative thorities recently took Chinese Medicine in Thailand inheritors, according to the place in Bangkok, Thai- official announcement of the land. During the event, cupping, and recom- of Traditional Chinese Chinese ministry. One of the four fifteen practitioners from mendations for different Medicine. Lei expressed inheritors is from Cantonese treatments in TCM heal- his hope that in the fu- Naamyam, another from Belief Thailand, mainland Chi- and Customs of A-Ma, while the na and Macau provided th care to the Thai com- ture, more such initiati- remaining two are from Belief and clinical services to the munity. The event garne- ves would be undertaken Customs of Na Tcha. Hong Kong Thai community and red nearly 200 attendees. with a view to reaching also has one inheritor included conducted an exchange In his opening remarks, new Asian communities in this latest list. On Wednesday, of ideas and experiences the director of the Health and promoting Chinese the ministry announced a list in clinical techniques. Bureau, Lei Chin Ion, sta- Medicine internationally of artists who have the official The services provided ted that in the past, the in order to boost the cli- responsibility of carrying forward included pulse diagno- MSAR government has nical practices of Chinese the country’s intangible cultural sis, massage, acupunc- been progressively pro- Medicine throughout the heritage. ture and moxibustion, moting the development world.

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these properties are raising.” Gaming Addressing the preventive measures taken by several juris- dictions to reduce problematic gambling, Madudeira noted the Casino entry levies: social “good spirit” of the authorities when creating the measures, but also acknowledged that some measures were almost im- responsibility or discrimination possible to be fully enforced – in particular, the proposed casino Renato Marques entry ban or self-instigated ban to enter casinos. “Of course we he so-called “casino receive all these lists and upda- entry levies,” that is, tes from the Gaming Inspection, the fees or limitations marques renato and Coordination Bureau but enforced in some juris- it’s impossible [to guarantee] Tdictions for patrons to access the that all these people [are scru- casino floor, was one of the topi- tinized] at the entrance. Some- cs discussed yesterday during times we have 50,000 people the last day of this year’s Global entering the casino floor in one Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia event. day so it’s impossible [to check The historical background of them one-by-one].” Madudeira such restrictions was analyzed added that although facial re- by Robert Cantwell, partner at cognition technology is playing Lathrop Gage and expert on the an important role, it is still not US market, and Óscar Madurei- fail-proof. ra, Lawyer at Rato, Ling, Lei & Cortes – Advogados (Lektou), who brought an Asian perspec- tive to the discussion. The idea behind Although presenting different perspectives, both the panelists the creation and the moderator, Kahlil Phi- lander, assistant professor at of levies is an the University of Washington, ethical one in agreed about the fact that the enforcement of levies to access the sense that casino floors does not prevent people from accessing the casi- Robert Cantwell (left), Óscar Madureira and Kahlil Philander it aims to give no to gamble. Another of the aspects in whi- fect, may be biased, suggesting, lander raised the question of wealthier members of the public back to the ch all the experts agreed is the “maybe they just got bored [of whether levies are even ethical. would not be deterred regar- communities. fact that, as Madureira said, going there] as they have only On that topic, Cantwell belie- dless of their “gaming behavior” there is not enough data or re- two properties,” he said. ved that “although it might not or “susceptibility to addiction.” Robert Cantwell levant studies to support any Madureira also noted that produce any consequence, the On that topic, Madureira be- of the existing theories around using such a system in Macau idea behind the creation of le- lieves, “when the authorities As for Cantwell, he noted the levies. “would definitely not work” for vies is an ethical one in the sen- put these measures into place, success of the gambling licen- As Cantwell noted from his “historical reasons and others se that it aims to give back to the they were seeking to put some sing system employed in the US experiences in Missouri and In- that are related to the free flow communities and try to help in ethics into the system,” ad- and considered it a potential diana, USA, “although there is a of people around the properties, some way with the problems ding, “there is no commercial solution in the future for Ma- entry fee, it’s generally of USD2 among others.” [eventually] created by gaming.” objective in this. There is no cau. However, Madureira was of or USD4 and patrons most of Going a bit further, Madurei- However, he agreed that levies, integrated resort in the world the view that each solution was the time are not even aware of ra added, “this is not the most especially “high enough le- that can profit in any way from unique to each jurisdiction and such a fee as casinos themselves appropriate way to take care of vies that can keep some people these [levies],” as although the closely tied to the local culture, manage that fee [including it in the issues [involving responsible away,” might be discriminatory, amount can be large it is “ir- and as such, a different solution some service charge or others].” gaming].” by preventing access to gaming relevant compared with the “should be adopted according to He also mentioned that the Deepening the discussion, Phi- only for the less wealthy, while Gross Gaming Revenue that each culture and market.” idea behind such fee was “not to prevent local people from engaging in gaming but [to ope- rate] as a kind of compensation to local communities to allow Industry is ‘world-class standard’ on gaming activities in their area.” Cantwell explained that the mo- anti-money laundering compliance ney collected from the fee would marques renato be returned to several communi- keynote speech and debate was held level” in the field of compliance with an- ty projects, noting that, as such, Ayesterday afternoon at the Venetian ti-money laundering requirements, while it “did have some form of social Cotai Expo, concluding the circle of fo- noting other Asian jurisdictions that face aspect [attached].” Either way, rums and conferences held concurrently challenges in the area of compliance. He eventually the fee system “faded with the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia mentioned Vietnam and Laos, which have into a membership system whe- event. made efforts to comply with the standards, re you can be a member just for Tom Roche, partner & head of the Glo- and other cases such as Cambodia, where USD10 [that you can use] to buy bal Gaming Group, Ernst & Young Hong “there is still a long way to go.” something within the property.” Kong said, “In my view, we are probably Another of the challenges presented to Madureira stated, “I’m not the world-class standard on anti-money the industry according to Roche is the pos- that confident that these kind laundering compliance,” adding that be- sibility of the introduction of cryptocur- of measures produce the effect sides being a highly regulated activity, it rencies, predicted to be a game changer in they were designed to. From all has been always under close scrutiny from the process. Tom Roche who were [consulted] about this the media. Due to that, “Our industry has, The gaming expert also noted that the topic I can’t get a clear idea that over time, put a lot of resources and exper- “global characteristics” of the gaming in- this can prevent in any way or ts towards [developing] the compliance dustry are critical as well as its “reputa- machines and the “Extensive Internal reduce people’s appetite to go to program of anti-money laundering.” tion,” noting that “any scandal [occurring] Audit Reviews” of the gaming concessio- the casino.” He noted that argu- Roche noted that for the time being, Ma- anywhere in the world will impact all other naires have been among the most highly ments citing countries like Sin- cau has adopted several measures to com- jurisdictions.” praised. Roche concluded that the most gapore, where the enforcement ply with the international rules received “a On the matter of good practices enforced important factor in compliance is the re- of entry fees upon locals are said very positive review.” within Macau, most recently, the “data ac- gular review of risk assessments, to ensure to have the desired deterrent ef- Roche elected Singapore as the “highest curacy of the KYC system” applied to ATM that the industry stays up to date. 18.05.2018 fri

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FSS holds meeting with fund management entities even fund management Sentities are providing the investment instruments for Rector Song (left) visits the S. Januário central hospital the contributions of the non- mandatory central provident fund system, the Social Securi- Education ty Fund (FSS) said yesterday in a statement. To ensure that the system is UM Rector visits smoothly implemented, the FSS held a meeting with the different sectors of entities earlier to review the latest implementation plans of the non-mandatory central local community provident fund system and lis- tened to their suggestions for he recently appointed rec- with the Chief Executive, Chui Sai improvement. tribution scheme that the cen- fund system, there is consen- Ttor of the University of Macau On, and visited many institutions, During the meeting, the fund tral provident fund belongs to sus between the FSS and the (UM), Yonghua Song, has been including the S. Januário central required the entities to do a a cumulative old-age security entities that they will actively visiting different government de- hospital, the Roman Catholic Dio- good job of training the people system which requires saving assist employers in entering partments and sectors of the local cese of Macau, the Macau Foun- selling the central provident and accumulation for the long into service agreements, han- community in order “to collect su- dation, the Education and Youth fund products, to regulate the term in order to play its role in dle the relevant paperwork, ggestions on the UM’s future deve- Affairs Bureau, the Cultural Affairs relevant personnel to ensure securing retirement income. and cooperate with authorities lopment.” Bureau, Macao Daily News, and that standards of professional According to the FSS, some to streamline the application According to a statement issued Teledifusão de Macau (TDM). ethics would be upheld, to in- entities are currently in preli- process. yesterday by the UM, Song expres- During the meetings, Song said troduce suitable pension fund minary talks and consultation Entities must submit infor- sed hopes to work together with all that UM will continue to “promote products to their customers, with employers at large en- mation to the FSS on a mon- sectors “in order to develop UM the integration of academia, resear- and to provide adequate, ti- terprises, financial, education thly basis in accordance with into an outstanding university that ch and industry to make more te- mely and accurate information and social service institutions relevant requirements such roots itself in Macau, integrates it- chnological transfers possible and to them. In particular, the FSS that are considering joining as the requirement to disclose self into the Greater Bay Area and will also work hard to contribute in wants the participating entities the central provident fund. To residents the latest fees and re- relates itself vis-à-vis China and such areas as building Macau into to inform the residents interes- encourage more employers turns on pension funds to resi- beyond.” a smart city, refining its health care ted in participating in the con- to join the central provident dents in a timely manner. The UM Rector had meetings and basic education systems.” ad fri 18.05.2018

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public bathrooms. This program has been scheduled to launch wi- thin this year. Smart city strategy public When asked how Macau can protect the public’s privacy while simultaneously carrying out its smart city development strategy, consultation begins Chan Wan Hei, member of the Administration Committee of Julie Zhu the FDCT, said “we endorse the

xinhua strong protection of privacy.” he public consultation “As a matter of fact, according on strategies to develop to the agreement signed between Macau into a smart city, Alibaba and Macau, we are not and on the development just bringing what they are doing Tof the principal areas within the in Hangzhou to Macau. We are city, commenced yesterday and doing something different. We will continue until June 30, as will use similar technology, but announced by the Science and because we have different infras- Technology Development Fund tructure, we cannot just import (FDCT). what Alibaba is doing in Hang- According to FDCT, there are 13 zhou,” explained Chan. key areas for development. These “Alibaba use quite a lot of video are: information infrastructures, instead of social media. Alibaba the application of big data, mo- use camera and CCTV to capture bile city, security, environment, [footage] from the transporta- high-efficiency energy, develo- tion monitor. In Macau, we will pment of urban infrastructure, comprise six small independent proposes an all-in-one mobile the year. do [a] similar thing,” said Chan. tourism and leisure, open gover- programs. application for all governmental Besides these three programs, “Another thing that I need to nment, regional cooperation, te- One program proposes the ins- departments, in order to grant two other programs have been [add is that] all the data collected chnological innovation, healthy tallation of LED lights to replace the public easier access to diffe- developed to promote and edu- in Macau will not leave Macau life and equal opportunity, the typical road lights. rent government services. The cate the public about the concept for sure. That’s one of the things promotion of smart city educa- This road light program will be app is planned for release in of smart cities. written in the agreement we sig- tion and, finally, training of ta- in the research phase this year, 2019. Further, it also proposes sub- ned with Alibaba,” said Chan. lented human resources. during which time the selection A third program suggests the sidies and funding programs for The Chairman of FDCT, Ma Chi The consultation document of spots will also be carried out. establishment of a central gover- smart city projects. Ngai, noted that the city’s gover- indicates that a short-term pilot FDCT hopes that a final scheme nmental data office, along with Last, the government plans to nment is considering whether to project should be initiated first in can be launched as soon as pos- the set-up of an official website launch the “municipal facility establish a smart city develop- order to explore the possible out- sible. for open data. Easy Go” to provide GPS servi- ment office to be specifically res- comes of the smart city’s develo- The second program is called This program is expected to ces in municipal markets, street ponsible for smart city develop- pment strategy. This project will Macau-in-Pocket. This program being in full swing by the end of markets, vendors, gardens, and ment matters.

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Bids for new reclamation Wynn Resorts working to project opened

The Infrastructure Development strengthen corporate culture Office (GDI) received seven bids for the reclamation project of the Regina Garcia Cano, Las Vegas New Urban Zone C. The bids to develop the reclamation area, he board of directors ap photo which covers about 32 hectares, and CEO of Wynn Re- opened yesterday. Construction sorts yesterday [Macau for the project is expected to time] sought to show start in the fourth quarter of this Tshareholders they are working year. The maximum construction to strengthen the casino opera- period has been fixed at 720 working days. Zone C is located tor’s corporate culture and mo- at sea, in front of Av. do Oceano, ving it forward without its fou- between the Sai Van and the nder. Macau-Taipa Bridges. Once the Shareholders gathered in Las reclamation is complete, the Vegas for the company’s annual land will be used for residential meeting learned of the many purposes and for public corporate initiatives implemen- community facilities. ted since the resignation of fou- nder Steve Wynn amid sexual misconduct allegations earlier Pigeon meat this year. Shareholders asked CEO Matt Maddox about the discovered tied company’s project near Bos- ton, operations in Macau and around man’s its political contributions, but Pat Mulroy speaks during a women’s forum at the Wynn hotel and casino in Las Vegas legs none raised questions over the accusations, which Wynn has A local man tried to smuggle denied, or the ongoing internal the internal committee looking for over 10 years, and I’ve been 7kg of pigeon meat tied around investigation. into the allegations, told sha- coming to his resorts for almost his legs into Macau, the Macau “Deep down, there is one sim- reholders 114 people have been 30 years,” the man said. “The We are hoping Customs Service reported ple truth that drives this com- interviewed and three million happiness, the joy, the delight of yesterday. An additional 11kg pany every day, it’s the 25,000 documents reviewed as part of prosperity as a shareholder that to create of fresh chicken meat was also people that work here,” Mad- the investigation. Mulroy said I’ve enjoyed, I just want to con- seized from the same man. In a dox told investors. “That’s what she expects the investigation to vey that to him.” best-in-kind separate case, a local woman was makes this company great be- be finished later this year. Groups of shareholders filed found on May 12 smuggling 36kg cause they are focused on ex- “Not only are we looking into lawsuits against members of the structures of chicken meat and 5kg of pigeon cellence. They are focused on the particulars of the allegations board after the sexual miscon- meat to Macau. This is the second around time that particular woman was paying attention to the customer that have been raised, but we duct allegations came to light, detected trying to smuggle meat [...] and we are committed to are also looking at this company alleging breach of fiduciary du- preventing into Macau. In the first quarter making sure that that continues with very much of a forwar- ties. In addition, the company future of this year, Customs seized more because our guests will return d-looking glance,” Mulroy told has drawn scrutiny from gam- than 700kg of smuggled bird time and time again as long as investors. “We are looking at bling regulators in Nevada and meat. that simple truth remains.” the policies, procedures and Massachusetts. discrimination The initiatives described to protocols and hoping to create The makeup of the board has or harassment shareholders included a new best-in-kind structures around changed dramatically over the community and culture depart- preventing or avoiding future past three months. Directors Ray at this company. Chinese ment, a pay equity study and discrimination or harassment at Irani and Robert Miller resig- Pat Mulroy a six-week paid parental leave this company.” ned, while John Hagenbuch wi- instrument policy. The three new female Maddox, responding to an thdrew his name from Wednes- campaign to urge investors to members of the board were also investor’s question, quickly day’s board election. Director J. withhold votes for him. Three seminar to be formally introduced. quashed the rumored sale of the Edward Virtue did not stand for women were appointed to the held next week Company founder Steve Wynn company’s $2.5 billion casino re-election at the meeting, and board last month. resigned as chairman and CEO under construction outside of Alvin Shoemaker has said he will “I think changing some of the A seminar titled “Music and after the Wall Street Journal re- Boston. He also talked about the not run for re-election after his board is a positive because it’s Chinese Musical Instruments in ported in January that several ongoing project that’s transfor- current term expires next year. like you get old blood in there Portugal” will be held on May women said he harassed or as- ming a golf course in Las Vegas The five men are named defen- and it gets stale,” Gary Imbs, a 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Albergue saulted them and that one case into a hotel, lagoon and conven- dants in the lawsuits brought by shareholder from Boise, Idaho, SCM. The event will coincide led to a USD7.5 million settle- tion space. shareholders. Hagenbuch faced said. “So, you need some new with the book launch of “Chinese ment with a manicurist former- He politely responded with a tough re-election after sha- blood in there. Is it better? Is it Musical Instruments”, written by ly employed by the company. “OK. Thank you,” to a request reholders advisory firms recom- worse? I think it’s going to be researcher Dr. Énio de Souza. The Other allegations and a settle- from a shareholder to express mended investors withheld their better. People get complacent. event is in line with the objective ment with a different employee his gratitude to Steve Wynn. votes for him. Largest sharehol- They’re getting paid these high of Albergue SCM to promote the have since surfaced. “I would like to convey my der Elaine Wynn, Steve Wynn’s salaries, and they feel like they arts to the Macau public. De Souza Pat Mulroy, the chairwoman of thanks to him as a shareholder ex-wife, earlier launched a don’t have to do anything.” AP is a coordinator of the education department of the Macau Scientific and Cultural Center Museum in Lisbon. His research processes. After an in- ded cash prizes and can interests focus on cultural policy and infrastructure, Chinese music troduction session, the also proceed directly to and musical instruments, and Students to simulate EU participants will debate the Model EU to be held festivals. In the 1980s and 1990s, as though they are wi- later this year. de Souza held various positions thin the Commission, The Jean Monnet Pro- commissioners meeting at the Macau Cultural Institute discussing issues rela- ject, “Decision-making – now known as the Macau he University of making processes: Pe- Affairs, this will be the ting to recent EU-US processes”, is a partner- Cultural Affairs Bureau – among TMacau will mark dagogical simulations first workshop on the trade disputes. ship between the Uni- them, head of the performing arts the 60th anniversary for university students”, European Commis- The workshop will versity of Macau and department, within which role de of the Treaties of Rome on 19 May, at the Uni- sion. Students will form be held at the Faculty the Institute of Euro- Souza was involved in a strong with a workshop on the versity of Macau. teams of two to learn of Law, Building E32, pean Studies of Macau, cultural movement. The seminar European Commission With the cooperation and debate about the Room 2008, from 10 co-funded by the Eras- will be conducted in English. under its Jean Mon- of the Youth Associa- European Union and a.m. to 7 p.m. The best mus Programme of the Admission is free and registration net Project “Decision- tion of International its decision-making two teams will be awar- European Union. is now open. 18.05.2018 fri

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Real Estate Matters HK spends USD1.2b The pros and cons of buying a property off-plan defending currency Sam Lee is a marketing manager and property consultant at JML Property. JML was established in 1994 and offers Investment Property overnight & Homes. It specializes in managing properties for owners and investors, and providing attractive and comfortable homes for tenants. ong Kong intervened to defend its currency www.JMLProperty.com H [email protected] peg for a second day after the city’s dollar fell to the bloomberg weak end of its trading band. Sam Lee The Hong Kong Monetary Authority bought HKD9.5 billion (USD1.2 billion) of At the beginning of the year we saw you lock in today’s price for the risk you can’t ignore. investors rushing to buy properties property, and by the time it’s • Construction is delayed. Engi- local dollars overnight, the off-plan before the implementa- completed and you are handed neering set-backs are not only third-biggest intervention tion of the new stamp duties. The the keys, the property price may common, but they’re almost ex- since the defense began last new 5% tax for buyers acquiring a have already appreciated in pri- pected. This means that your ca- month. The HKMA mo- second residential property and a ce (or not). pital is tied up for a longer period pped up HKD1.57 billion greenback at 3 p.m. local se the prime rate around 10% tax for buyers acquiring a third • Leverage. Your deposit money and you might get a free ride on on Wednesday. Lower rates time. mid-year, which will hurt property or more came into effect in is a small portion of the value of an emotional rollercoaster. than the U.S. have made the property market sentiment, February. the property, but any increase • Leverage. Your deposit money “The HKMA may need to Buying properties off-plan is no- in the value of the property is of is a small portion of the value of Hong Kong dollar an attrac- mop up more liquidity and especially for mortgage bor- thing new in Macau, and scenes of course on the whole property. the property, but any decrease tive target for shorting. push the aggregate balan- rowers. The home market agents and buyers rushing around Thus, a property rising just 20% in the value of the property is of The de facto central bank ce toward HK$100 billion may see a correction and on launch day are often seen on after your initial 10% deposit course on the whole property. has now spent $7.95 billion this week,” said Carie Li, a slower growth this year.” the media. Is it a good idea to buy equates to a 200% paper return Thus, a property falling just 20% protecting its currency sys- Hong Kong-based econo- While rising short-term fun- properties off-plan? Like many on your investment. after your initial 10% deposit tem, which has the effect mist at OCBC Wing Hang ding costs have prompted property questions, the answer is • Once completed, you could equates to a 200% paper loss on ‘it depends’. Let’s look at some pros charge premium rents. Everybo- your investment. of tightening liquidity in a Bank Ltd. “But the Hong banks to offer deposit rates and cons. dy likes a new and shiny buil- • Off-plan properties are brand city that’s grown fat on ultra Kong dollar will rebound of as much as 3 percent, the- ding, and because new buildings new and highly standardized so -low borrowing costs. Hong starting next week, as fun- re’s been little impact so far Pros: tend to have better facilities you there is little to no room for you Kong, which imports U.S. ding needs to increase at on the city’s housing market • You have more time to prepare. can normally charge rents at a to add value as an investor. This monetary policy, is facing month-end. Liquidity will as lenders hold off raising After putting down your initial premium. makes the purchase much more the prospect of significantly tighten further in June due the prime rate - which caps deposit (usually 10%) to secure speculative from an investment mortgages. Sun Hung Kai the property with the developer, Cons: perspective. higher rates for the first time to an expected interest rate you have some time to get the • The development might not since the financial crisis. hike in the U.S. and poten- Properties Ltd. spent a re- money together for the second actually get built. Whether it’s Obviously this is food for thought The three-month borrowing tial funding demand fueled cord $3.2 billion buying a installment whilst the property the developer going bankrupt, when purchasing properties off- rate is 1.75 percent, near by Xiaomi and China Tower land plot at the city’s old is being built . running into a corruption scan- plan. There are other proven ways the highest since Decem- IPOs.” airport site this week, signa- • You lock in the price against dal (sound familiar?) or denied to invest, many of which remove the ber 2008, and up from 0.8 Li said Hong Kong lenders ling confidence demand will the potential upside. When you necessary permits by the gover- element of gambling and provide a percent a year ago. The hold up in what’s already the put down your initial deposit nment, there is an element of long-term wealth building strategy. will lift deposit rates as li- Hong Kong dollar was little quidity conditions tighten. world’s least affordable real changed at HK$7.8498 per “Banks are likely to increa- estate market. Bloomberg fri 18.05.2018

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gest shareholder of Bic Camera. Bic Camera has teamed up Bargain-hunting Chinese make with Haneda Airport’s termi- nal operator, Japan Airport Terminal Co., to launch stores in airport terminals as well as Japanese retail king a billionaire Tokyo’s Odaiba shopping and entertainment district, accor- apanese retail tycoon ding to Masanari Matsumoto, Ryuji Arai can thank a a spokesman for the company. growing flock of Chinese Those stores are stocked with bloomberg spenders for his swelling goods popular with inbound Jfortune. tourists to let them quickly find Bic Camera Inc., the Tokyo-ba- what they want, Matsumoto sed consumer electronics retai- said. Inbound tourists shoppers ler that sells everything from to the electronics retailer have cosmetics to liquor at discoun- more than tripled in three years, ted prices, has become a sought- according to the company. after destination for tourists In recent years, the company shopping in Japan. Profit has has also ramped up sales throu- jumped to a record, sending its gh its own website and stores shares up by more than 50 per- on e-commerce sites such as cent over the past year. Rakuten and Amazon.com. On- The surge has given 71-year- line sales accounted for about old Arai a USD1.8 billion fortu- 10 percent of overall revenue ne, according to the Bloomberg in the six-month period ended Billionaires Index. Arai, who Feb. 28, according to company founded the retailer four deca- filings. des ago and steered the com- The company’s net income pany to its initial public offering climbed fivefold to a record 13.5 in 2006, is now chairman at the billion yen ($122.6 million) in company. He owns a 43 percent the financial year ended Aug. stake in the shares through a set 31, according to figures from of trusts and his asset manage- the company. Bic Camera pre- ment company La Holdings. A Bic Camera store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo dicts profit will increase to 16.4 Bic Camera has won tourists billion yen this fiscal year. over with bargain prices offered of new payment options could the opening of a store in Tokyo’s most half their value in January That strategy has helped Bic in its stores along with duty-free give it an edge over more cau- Ikebukuro shopping district. that year, they rallied when the Camera become Japan’s third- desks, and by giving overseas tious rivals,” said Jastrzab. Arai is an anti-nuclear advo- company was allowed to retain biggest electronics and applian- shoppers the option to make Not much is known about the cate, and Bic Camera displayed its listing on the Tokyo Stock ce retailer while offsetting the online reservations for products reclusive businessman. Bic Ca- huge banners in 1995 to protest Exchange and it restated ear- impact of a declining population they wish to purchase. The com- mera declined to make him France’s plan at the time to re- nings for the fiscal years 2006 to at home. Bic Camera will benefit pany is also trying to woo Chi- available for comment for this sume nuclear tests in the South 2008. The company was fined more than other big-box elec- nese shoppers by accepting pay- story. He started his first com- Pacific, the Yomiuri newspaper $1.3 million. He retook the role tronics retailers such as its com- ment methods such as Alipay, pany in his early twenties and reported at the time. of chairman, without any direc- petitors Yamada Denki Co. and Wechat and even Bitcoin - whi- later spun out the camera sales In 2009, Arai stepped down as tors role, several years later. Sin- Edion Corp. from the recovery ch is helping boost sales, said division into its own company, chairman of Bic Camera after ce then, Bic Camera shares have in demand for digital consu- Bloomberg Intelligence Consu- according to local media repor- the company became embroiled climbed eight-fold. mer electronics, according to a mer Analyst Thomas Jastrzab. ts. He then went on to form Bic in a scandal over false earnings After relinquishing the chair- Nomura Holdings Inc. research “Bic Camera’s early adoption Camera in his early thirties with reports. After the shares lost al- man role, Arai remained the lar- note last month. MDT/Bloomberg Amazon brings cross-border ambitions to Alibaba’s backyard

Spencer Soper The gathering is part of Amazon has been putting according to a 2016 report Amazon’s effort to evolve in place the pieces to be from DHL Worldwide Ex- mazon.com Inc. from an e-commerce plat- the primary e-commerce press. Ais bringing its compe- form into a global logistics platform connecting sho- Cross-border selling is a tition with Alibaba right to operation. The idea is to ppers in one country with major focus of Amazon’s the Chinese e-commerce help Amazon merchants merchants in another. logistics aspirations. Last giant’s backyard. connect directly with ma- The company is making a year it hosted an event in In the coming weeks, nufacturers in China, a big push in India and La- New York to pitch 1,500 Amazon will host an event region largely out of the tin America and last year merchants on currency in the city of Hangzhou - company’s reach. Ama- launched operations in exchange services and fresh, which has helped Chinese factories directly Alibaba’s hometown - to zon would collect fees for Australia. The purchase language translation tools Amazon attract more to end-consumers on its connect online merchants helping merchants source of Dubai’s Souq.com gave to help them sell to over- than 300 million global platform, these indepen- with 400 Chinese manu- goods directly from fac- Amazon a foothold in the seas customers. Amazon customers. E-commerce dent merchants will be facturers keen to sell elec- tories and ship them to Middle East. can use its size and reach remains a mostly domes- forced to compete directly tronics, car parts, home other countries so they Whether they live in to consolidate shipments tic business. But with sho- with their own suppliers,” goods and more directly to can be delivered quickly Paris, Beijing or Sydney, with international freight ppers increasingly willing says Ryan Petersen, the American and European once orders roll in. Speedy consumers seeking better companies to get volume to look abroad for goods, chief executive officer of consumers. Amazon ex- delivery helped Amazon prices and products they discounts, using the sa- Amazon sees an opportu- Flexport Inc., an interna- perts will provide insights dominate e-commerce in can’t find at home are in- vings to lure more mer- nity to sell more services tional freight-forwarding into buying trends so mer- the U.S., and the company creasingly willing to buy chants and goods to the to online merchants. Re- company that helps Ama- chants can stock up for wants to do the same glo- from merchants abroad. platform. venue from such servi- zon merchants import the 2018 holiday season, bally to fend off Alibaba Such cross-border tran- More than 2 million in- ces surged 39 percent in products from overseas. according to an invitation Group Holding Ltd., EBay sactions are growing fas- dependent merchants the first quarter to $9.3 “This new competition reviewed by Bloomberg. Inc. and Wish Corp. ter than domestic e-com- hawk goods on Amazon, billion. will be tough for mer- Sponsored by Amazon Amazon declined to merce sales and by 2020 paying a commission on But Amazon’s effort cou- chants that merely resell Global Selling, the event is comment. are expected to reach each sale. Competition ld spell trouble for some Chinese products, rather called “Coming Together With 100 million Prime $900 billion, or 20 per- among them helps keep of its merchant partners. than creating original For U.” subscribers worldwide, cent of the global market, prices low and inventory “As Amazon connects products.” Bloomberg 18.05.2018 fri

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Omir Bekali cries as he details the psychological stress endured while in a Chinese internment camp during an interview in Almaty, Kazakhstan

hands and feet, equated with Is- lamic ablution. In 4-hour sessions, instructors ‘Thank the Party!’ China tries to lectured about the dangers of Islam and drilled internees with quizzes that they had to answer brainwash Muslims in camps correctly or be sent to stand near a wall for hours on end. Gerry Shih, Almaty very identities. Chinese officials the number between several Chinese flag at 7:30 am. They “Do you obey Chinese law or have largely avoided comment, hundreds of thousands and just sang songs praising the party Sharia?” instructors asked. “Do ay after day, Omir Bekali but some have said in state over 1 million, and government and studied Chinese language you understand why religion is Dand other detainees in far media that ideological changes bids suggest construction is on- and history. They were told that dangerous?” western China’s new indoctri- are needed to fight separatism going. the indigenous sheep-herding The detainees had to criticize nation camps had to disavow and Islamic extremism. Radi- Asked to comment on the Central Asian people of Xinjiang and be criticized by their peers. their Islamic beliefs, criticize cal Muslim Uighurs killed hun- camps, China’s foreign minis- were backward before they were One by one, they would also themselves and their loved ones dreds in China in years past. try said it “had not heard” of the “liberated” by the Communist stand up before 60 classma- and give thanks to the ruling Three other former internees situation. Chinese officials in Party in the 1950s. tes to present self-criticisms of Communist Party. and a former instructor in diffe- Xinjiang did not respond to re- their religious history. When Bekali, a Kazakh Mus- rent centers corroborated Beka- quests for comment. However, “I was taught the Holy Quran lim, refused, he was forced to li’s depiction. Taken together, China’s top prosecutor, Zhang by my father and I learned it stand at a wall for five hours at the recollections offer the most Jun, urged Xinjiang’s authori- because I didn’t know better,” a time. A week later, he was sent detailed account yet of life insi- ties this month to extensively The Bekali heard one say. to solitary confinement and de- de so-called re-education. expand what the government psychological “I traveled outside China wi- prived of food for 24 hours. Af- The program is a hallmark calls “transformation through thout knowing that I could be ter 20 days, he wanted to kill of China’s emboldened state education” in an “all-out effort” pressure is exposed to extremist thoughts himself. security apparatus under the to fight extremism. abroad,” another said. “Now I “The psychological pressure deeply nationalistic, hard-line China-born Bekali moved to enormous, know.” is enormous, when you have rule of President Xi Jinping. It Kazakhstan in 2006 and recei- After a week, Bekali went to to criticize yourself, denoun- is partly rooted in the ancient ved citizenship three years later. when you have his first stint in solitary confine- ce your thinking — your own Chinese belief in transforma- On March 25 last year, Bekali to criticize ment. He yelled out to a visiting ethnic group,” said Bekali, 42, tion through education — taken visited his parents in Xinjiang. official. who broke down in tears whi- once before to terrifying extre- The next day, police took him yourself, “Take me in the back and kill le describing the camp. “I still mes during the mass thought away. me, or send me back to prison,” think about it every night, until reform campaigns of Mao Ze- They strapped him into a “ti- denounce your he shouted. “I can’t be here any- the sun rises.” dong, the Chinese leader some- ger chair” that clamped down more.” Since last spring, Chinese au- times channeled by Xi. his wrists and ankles. They thinking - your He was again hauled off to so- thorities in the heavily Muslim “Cultural cleansing is Beijing’s hung him by his wrists against own ethnic litary confinement. It lasted 24 region of Xinjiang have ensna- attempt to find a final solution a barred wall. They interroga- hours, ending late afternoon on red tens, possibly hundreds of to the Xinjiang problem,” said ted him about his work inviting group. Nov. 24, when Bekali was sud- thousands of Muslim Chine- James Millward, a China histo- Chinese to apply for Kazakh Omir Bekali denly released. se — and even foreign citizens rian at Georgetown University. tourist visas. Kazakh Muslim At first, Bekali did not want — in mass internment camps. The internment system is “I haven’t committed any cri- the AP to publish his account This detention campaign has shrouded in secrecy, with no mes!” Bekali yelled. When they ate meals of vege- for fear his sister and mother in swept across Xinjiang, a terri- publicly available data. The Seven months later, Beka- table soup and buns, they first China would be detained. tory half the area of India, lea- U.S. State Department estima- li was taken out of his cell and had to chant: “Thank the Party! But on March 10, the police ding to what a U.S. commission tes those being held are “at the handed a release paper. But he Thank the Motherland! Thank took his sister, Adila Bekali. A on China last month said is “the very least in the tens of thou- was not free. President Xi!” week later, they took his mo- largest mass incarceration of a sands.” A Turkey-based TV sta- Bekali was driven to a fenced Bekali was kept in a locked ther, Amina Sadik. And on April minority population in the wor- tion run by Xinjiang exiles said compound in Karamay, where room almost around the clock 24, his father, Ebrayem. ld today.” almost 900,000 were detained, three buildings held more than with eight other internees, who Bekali changed his mind and The internment program tries citing leaked government docu- 1,000 internees. shared beds and a wretched said he wanted to tell his story. to rewire the political thinking ments. Adrian Zenz, a resear- They would wake up together toilet. Cameras were installed “Things have already come of detainees, erase their Isla- cher at the European School before dawn, sing the Chinese in toilets and outhouses. Baths this far,” he said. “I have no- mic beliefs and reshape their of Culture and Theology, puts national anthem, and raise the were rare, as was washing of thing left to lose.” AP fri 18.05.2018

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Trade War China rejects Beijing vows to appeal on defend its own interests behalf of Nobel Prize winner’s in Washington talks widow Kelvin Chan, Hong Kong hina rejected an appeal from dozens of writers and artists for the release from ap photo C hina said yester- house arrest of the widow of Nobel Peace Prize day it doesn’t want winner Liu Xiaobo. to see increased Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told re- trade tensions with porters yesterday that Liu Xia’s right to travel Cthe U.S. as the two countries was an issue for the Chinese government alone hold talks in Washington to determine. this week, but it’s prepared “It is a matter [that] falls within China’s ju- for any outcome and will de- dicial sovereignty. She is a Chinese national fend its own interests. [and] we of course handle the relevant issue in The comments by a Chi- accordance with our laws and regulations,” Liu nese Commerce Ministry said at a regularly scheduled news conference. spokesman came after Pre- Lu’s comments came after writers and artis- sident Donald Trump twee- ts including South African novelist and Nobel ted that there has been “no winner J.M. Coetzee, Rita Dove, Paul Auster, folding” in the discussions. Khaled Hosseini and Michael Chabon read A woman tries on a pyramid-shaped device purported to improve blood circulation in the brain during the Spokesman Gao Feng also 21st China Beijing International High-tech Expo in Beijing yesterday excerpts of Liu Xia’s poetry as part of a video told reporters that China campaign. Liu Xiaobo died of cancer last year hopes the U.S. will take while serving a prison sentence for incitement “concrete action” to resol- portedly attempting a swap: to subvert government power. ve a case involving Chinese Nothing has happened Relief for ZTE in return for Liu Xia, who suffers from depression and is tech company ZTE, which Beijing dropping plans to believed to be in declining health, has never Washington hit with a cri- with ZTE except as it pertains impose tariffs on U.S. farm been charged with a crime, but has been kept ppling ban on buying from to the larger trade deal. products. guarded and isolated since her husband was U.S. suppliers after it viola- “We will resolutely defend awarded the 2010 prize. Trump Tweet ted U.S. sanctions. our own interests and will In a news release about the video readings, U.S. Treasury Secretary also prepared for all possi- ZTE’s seven-year U.S. not trade our core interes- Amnesty International said: “The excerpts ce- Steven Mnuchin and Chine- bilities.” business ban, ordered last ts,” Gao said, when asked lebrate some of Liu Xia’s most powerful works se Vice Premier Liu He are The Trump administra- month, led the company to about the reports. while calling on the Chinese government to end leading the two-day talks in tion has threatened to im- say it was ceasing opera- Trump tweeted yester- their cruel campaign of retaliation against her Washington starting today pose tariffs on up to $150 tions because it cannot get day, “Nothing has happe- for her late husband Liu Xiaobo’s calls for de- [Macau time] aimed at aver- billion in Chinese imports the parts it needs for manu- ned with ZTE except as it mocratic reform.” ting a trade war between the to punish Beijing over trade facturing telecommunica- pertains to the larger trade Germany said earlier this month it would wel- world’s two biggest econo- practices requiring Ame- tions equipment and smart deal.” come Liu after a recording was released of her mies. rican companies to hand phones. Earlier this week, He also said the U.S. has crying in desperation and indicating she has gi- “We do not want to see the over technology in exchan- Trump surprised many by not yet seen China’s de- ven up hope of being able to leave China. escalation of the trade fric- ge for access to the Chinese hinting in a tweet that he mands yet and added, “The- “If I can’t leave, I’ll die in my home,” Liu said tions between China and the market. China has counter- wanted to find a way to keep re has been no folding as the during the recent phone call with her close U.S.,” Gao said at a weekly punched by targeting $50 the company afloat. media would love people to friend Liao Yiwu, a writer who documented briefing. “Of course, we are billion in U.S. products. The two countries are re- believe.” AP their conversation. AP

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little-known Chine- one of its units but didn’t man Institute for Asset Ase-backed venture in give timing. and Equity Allocation and Germany is emerging as a Having Chinese com- Valuation, said a lack of listing venue for mainland panies list in Frankfurt transparency in Chinese companies seeking to ex- could help change regio- corporate governance may pand in Europe. nal perceptions, accor- deter investors, while Wu Appliance maker Qing- ding to Lars-Gerrit Luess- Kan, Shanghai-based fund dao Haier Co. plans to list mann, partner at law firm manager with Shanshan up to 460 million shares Taylor Wessing. Finance Co., said that a on the Frankfurt-based “Creating trust is cer- dearth of liquidity in Cei- China Europe Internatio- tainly one of the reasons nex listings is likely to be nal Exchange this year, why Chinese companies an obstacle. becoming the first Chinese are considering this step, In a statement about company to offer what’s because there is enough Haier’s planned D-share known as D-shares. Qing- money in Asia,” he said. listing last month, Ceinex dao’s planned issue size “You want to show the said it offers international suggests it’s aiming to market that you can play investors access to trade raise about 1 billion euros by its rules, and that as a and invest in high quali- (USD1.2 billion), a strong change, Deutsche Boerse 16.6 million yuan ($2.6 tract Chinese busines- buyer and business part- ty Chinese companies. A vote of confidence in AG and the China Finan- million) as of March 31. It ses, and that Haier’s lis- ner you are transparent spokesman for Deutsche what’s been a largely igno- cial Futures Exchange, has 70 securities, mostly ting could come as early and trustworthy.” Boerse said D-share lis- red project between bour- Ceinex has struggled to exchange-traded funds, as July. Liquor distiller There are several hurdles tings are bound by capi- ses in China and Germany. attract investors since available on Deutsche Kweichow Moutai Group facing D-share listings. tal market rules applicab- A joint venture between it started in 2015, with Boerse’s venues. Ceinex Co. said last year that it Stefan Mueller, chief exe- le in Germany or the EU. the Shanghai Stock Ex- average daily trading of has said it’s trying to at- plans a D-share listing of cutive officer of the Ger- Bloomberg 18.05.2018 fri

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is what the U.S. will negotiate away. ap photo “One thing that is unclear to us is what the U.S. is willing to negotiate in exchange for North Korea’s promises on denucleari- zation,” said Jean Lee, director of the North Korea program at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former Associated Press bureau chief in Pyongyang. “The North Koreans are going to be armed and very ready to nego- tiate. The Trump administra- tion needs to be ready as well.” One initial hurdle that Pom- peo managed to clear during his second visit to Pyongyang was the venue for the summit. North Korea was adamant that Kim not be put in any kind of si- tuation where his security cou- ld be at risk, U.S. officials said. North Korean officials pushed very hard for the meeting to be in Pyongyang, so Kim would not have to leave the country and they could have 100 percent control over access and commu- nications, according to the offi- cials. When North Korea objected to Trump’s preferred choice of the demilitarized zone on the bor- der between North and South Korea, the U.S. countered with Singapore. Some White House officials also opposed the DMZ choice, believing the optics on Korean rapprochement would distract from the focus on denu- clearization. U.S. officials said they believed Analysis one reason the North Koreans agreed to Singapore was that Kim had just returned from a successful trip to China the day before Pompeo arrived for his US has a daunting to-do list to get second visit. Many analysts, including U.S. officials, believe that Kim’s flight to the Chinese ready for North Korea summit port of Dalian — the first trip abroad by aircraft by a North Catherine Lucey, Zeke Miller & sit-down. dup to summit meetings, staffs curity adviser last month. In ad- Korean leader in decades — was Matthew Lee, Washington Leader summits on this le- try to anticipate the various ne- dition to Pompeo’s two trips to likely a test of the country’s abi- vel are a massive undertaking. gotiating positions their coun- Pyongyang, U.S. officials have lity to safely transport Kim by HO sits where? What’s on Much like icebergs, only a small terparts might take, adding that also been coordinating with the air. Kim’s previous trips to Chi- Wthe agenda? Will they eat fraction of the work is visible “if you’re not gaming that out, North Koreans through what’s na had all been by train, as was together? What’s the security above the waterline. And when you’re not preparing adequate- known as the “New York chan- the custom of his father. plan? the meeting involves the heads ly.” nel” — North Korean diplomats The North formally signed off President Donald Trump and of two technically still-warring Trump is relying heavily on his posted to their country’s mis- on Singapore while Pompeo his team have a daunting to-do states, the list of logistical con- top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, in sion to the United Nations. was in Pyongyang. Even before list to work through as they pre- cerns expands, including sensi- preparing for the summit. Pom- Trump announced the summit pare for next month’s expected tive items like the number and peo has met with Kim twice in site by tweet a day after Pom- summit with North Korean lea- deployment of security officers. Pyongyang, once as secretary of Much like peo’s return, White House offi- der Kim Jong Un. Officials on both sides are still state and once as CIA chief, and cials who traveled with Pompeo Trump’s plan to meet with Kim determining the format for the has spent more time with the icebergs, only to Pyongyang were already on may have come as a surprise meeting or meetings, whether reclusive leader than any other a small fraction the ground in Singapore to be- decision, but his team hopes to Trump and Kim will share a American official. The amount gin working out summit logisti- leave nothing to chance when meal, and the extent of any one- of face time Pompeo has had of the work [of cs. they come together in Singapo- on-one interactions. with Kim rivals even that of Very few people have had much re. They’re gaming out policy All of that comes as the U.S. most Asian leaders, apart from leader summits] direct contact with the North plans, negotiating tactics, even formulates its strategies for the the Chinese. Koreans, so there are few people menu items. talks, including what the U.S. Pompeo assembled a working is visible above for the Trump administration to “We’re working on the details, is prepared to give up and how group to handle negotiations the waterline check with for guidance. the actual blocking and tackling precisely to define “denucleari- with North Korea led by a reti- Bill Richardson, the former at the meeting,” Secretary of zation” on the Korean Peninsula red senior CIA official with deep New Mexico governor and U.N. State Mike Pompeo said last — Trump’s stated goal. experience in the region. That A key question is the format for ambassador who has negotiated Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Na- “I would say there are hun- team, based at CIA headquar- the meeting if the two countries with the North Koreans, had tion.” ‘’We have been working dreds if not thousands of hours ters in Langley, Virginia, re- are able to proceed to full-fled- one suggestion. He said that in on them for weeks.” put into summit preparations,” mains the center of the adminis- ged nuclear negotiations, U.S. the meeting setting, the North With two unpredictable lea- said Patrick McEachern, a pu- tration’s North Korea expertise. officials have said. That includes Koreans will be very formal, so ders, it’s hard to anticipate every blic policy fellow at the Woo- Planning for the summit star- decisions about whether to keep building a rapport between the possibility. But White House drow Wilson Center and a for- ted quickly after Trump annou- the talks limited to the U.S. and two will be vital. aides are expecting hard-ball mer State Department official. nced on Twitter his plans to North Korea or whether to bring His main advice: “Try to find negotiating tactics — already in Scott Mulhauser, a former meet with Kim, but kicked into other governments into the pro- some private time between Pre- evidence this week as the North chief of staff at the U.S. Embas- higher gear after John Bolton cess, such as South Korea, Chi- sident Trump and Kim Jong Koreans cast fresh doubt on the sy in Beijing, said that in the lea- became Trump’s national se- na, Russia and Japan. Also key Un.” AP fri 18.05.2018

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Mekong River where delta farmlands are being destroyed by saltwater incursion from the sea. “The dam and the reservoir Study says China-backed would create a barrier that wou- ld be devastating for the migra- tory fish stocks,” the study said. It also warned that a popula- dam would destroy fisheries tion of about 80 critically endan- gered Irrawaddy river dolphins Stephen Wright, Bangkok would likely be wiped out be- cause the deep river pools they Chinese-backed plan ap photo use as a dry season refuge would for Cambodia to build become filled with sediment blo- the Mekong River’s bi- cked by the dam. ggest dam would des- Cambodia’s government, clo- troyA fisheries that feed millions sely allied with China, its nor- and worsen tensions with Viet- thern neighbor, and the reci- nam, the downstream country pient of substantial Chinese aid with most to lose from dams and investment, has not publicly on the waterway, according to a commented on the report. three-year study commissioned Seven dams that China built by the Cambodian government. on the Mekong headwaters in its The report, posted this month territory are already a headache on the website of the U.S.-ba- for Southeast Asian countries, sed organization that conducted reducing the amount of sediment the study, said the Sambor dam floating downstream by as much would “generate large power be- as half, according to researchers. nefits to Cambodia, but at the The Chinese dams were bla- probable cost of the destruction med for exacerbating a Sou- of the Mekong fishery, and the theast Asian drought in 2016, certain enmity of Vietnam.” The experts at the Natural where the Mekong separates into gration from the giant Tonle but countries in the region are It said the dam designed by Heritage Institute who autho- several channels are possible but Sap lake in Cambodia which is pressing ahead with plans for China Southern Power Grid Co. red the report, submitted to the either financially unfeasible or crucial for reproduction and re- Chinese companies to build would have a 620 square kilo- Cambodian government late last only marginally less destructive plenishing what scientists say a slew of other Mekong dams meter reservoir and dwarf the year, recommended it defer the than the site currently envisaged is the world’s most productive to meet growing demand for biggest dam currently being bui- project while studying “better” for the 2,600 megawatt dam, the fresh-water fishery. It would also energy. Laos, one of the poorest lt on the Mekong, the Xayaburi alternatives such as using solar study said. Possible mitigation prevent riverbed sediment that countries in Asia, is pinning de- dam in Laos, which was bitterly power to augment existing hy- measures are either unproven or fertilizes the Mekong Delta rice velopment hopes on becoming opposed by environmentalists droelectric dams. have a poor track record, it said. bowl from moving down river, a a source of power for its nei- for years. Alternative sites upstream The dam would block fish mi- particular problem for Vietnam ghbors. AP

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ding Jimmy Breslin and Charles Portis, who later wrote the novel ap photo “True Grit.” The next year, Wolfe was assigned to cover a “Hot Rod & Custom Car” show. He com- pleted a story, the kind “any of the somnambulistic totem news- papers in America would have come up with.” But he knew there was a much richer, and longer story to tell, one about a thriving subcultu- re that captured the post-World War II economic boom and the new freedom to “build monu- ments” to one’s own style. No newspaper could contain what Wolfe had in mind, so he turned to Esquire magazine, wrote up 49 pages and helped give birth to a new kind of reporter. “For the who-what-where- when-why of traditional journa- lism, he has substituted what he calls ‘the wowie!’” according to a 1965 Newsweek story. That same year, his first book appeared: “The Kandy-Kolo- red Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” a collection of 23 Wolfe Obituary articles that included the title pie- ce, his seminal work on custom cars. In 1968, another collection — “The Pump-House Gang” — Remembering Tom Wolfe, appeared, as did his book on the Pranksters. It wasn’t until the early ‘80s that Wolfe turned his attention to fic- ‘a magician’ with words tion. His topic: New York City in the late 20th century, a melange Hillel Italie, New York peers. Wolfe himself dressed for 1980s. Wolfe satirized college Wolfe had many detractors — of sexual tension, class struggles company — his trademark a pale misbehavior in “I Am Charlotte including fellow writers Norman and racial animus. “The Bonfire ou only had to look at him three-piece suit, impossibly high Simmons” and was still at it in Mailer and John Updike and the of the Vanities” first appeared as Y— in his white suits and two- shirt collar, two-tone shoes and his 80s with “Back to Blood,” a critic James Wood, who panned a serial in “Rolling Stone” ma- tone shoes — or read such books a silk tie. sprawling, multicultural story of Wolfe’s “big subjects, big people, gazine in 1984-85, with Wolfe as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” And he acknowledged that he sex and honor set in Miami. and yards of flapping exaggera- writing the book one chapter at and “The Right Stuff” to know cared — very much — about his Wolfe, the grandson of a Confe- tion. No one of average size emer- a time. that Tom Wolfe was like no reputation. derate rifleman, began his jour- ges from his shop; in fact, no real When it was released as a novel other. “My contention is that status nalism career as a reporter at human variety can be found in in 1987, “Bonfire” became an im- “He was a magician,” Wolfe’s is on everybody’s mind all of the the Springfield (Massachusetts) his fiction, because everyone has mediate sensation even as it was friend and fellow “New Jour- time, whether they’re conscious Union in 1957. But it wasn’t until the same enormous excitability.” criticized for its portrayal of bla- nalist” Gay Talese told The As- of it or not,” Wolfe, who lived in the mid-1960s, while a magazine But his fans included millions of cks. One black character, the pu- sociated Press this week. “He a 12-room apartment on Manha- writer for New York and Esqui- book-buyers, literary critics and blicity-seeking Reverend Bacon, would take a sentence and work ttan’s Upper East Side, told the re, that his work made him a na- fellow authors. was based on a then-little known that sentence in loops and do AP in 2012. tional trendsetter. “He knows everything,” nove- Al Sharpton. But a film version all kinds of things with words. Wolfe’s legacy was tangible to Wolfe traveled during the ‘60s list Kurt Vonnegut once wrote of starring Tom Hanks and Bruce He’d take you out for a spin and countless newspaper and maga- with Ken Kesey and the Merry Wolfe. “... I wish he had headed Willis was so disastrous that it after a while you’d wonder if he zine writers. As he helped define Pranksters for his book on the the Warren Commission. We mi- inspired a nonfiction account of knew where he was headed. But it, the “new journalism” combi- psychedelic culture, “The Elec- ght then have caught a glimpse of the wreckage, Julie Salamon’s he always knew exactly where he ned the emotional impact of a tric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” One of our nation.” “The Devil’s Candy.” was headed.” novel, the analysis of the best es- his best-known magazine pie- Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. “A Man in Full” turned Wol- Wolfe, who died Monday at age says, and the factual foundation ces, “Radical Chic: That Party at was born in Richmond, Virginia. fe’s smirk to Atlanta society. His 88, was a rule breaker and tra- of hard reporting. He mingled it Lenny’s,” took a pointed look at He had an unsuccessful pitching 2004 novel, “I Am Charlotte ditionalist and a man of other all in an over-the-top style that fund-raising for the Black Pan- tryout with the New York Giants Simmons,” looked at life on a contradictions. He mingled hap- made life itself seem like one ther Party by Leonard Bernstein before heading to Yale Universi- fictional elite college campus rife pily with hippies and published spectacular headline. and other wealthy whites. And ty, from which he earned a Ph.D. with drinking, status obsession in Rolling Stone, but was a su- “She is gorgeous in the most no one more memorably cap- in American studies. His career and sex. The book received poor pporter of Ronald Reagan and outrageous way,” he wrote in a tured the beauty-and-the-beast didn’t immediately take off; Wol- reviews and was a commercial di- otherwise old-fashioned in his typical piece, describing actress- divide between the Beatles and fe once took The Associated Press sappointment, leading Wolfe to tastes. He mocked the insular socialite Baby Jane Holzer. the Rolling Stones: “The Beatles writing test and “dismally failed,” switch publishers in 2008 from nature of American fiction, but “Her hair rises up from her want to hold your hand,” he wro- he later recounted, noting that he Farrar, Straus & Giroux — where was gracious in person, making head in a huge hairy corona, a te, “but the Rolling Stones want was faulted for embellishing the he had been for 40 years — to Li- a point before literary luncheons huge tan mane around a nar- to burn down your town!” test material, a primal sin at the ttle, Brown and Company. Other of reading the works of his fellow row face and two eyes opened AP. recent works, including the non- guests. — swock! — like umbrellas, with But in 1957, he joined the Sprin- fiction “The Kingdom of Speech,” In recent years, he was badly all that hair flowing down over a gfield paper and instantly fell in were not well received. But he stooped, but still stylish as he coat made of ... zebra! Those mo- love with journalism. Two years was never without ideas for futu- moved about with the help of a therless stripes!” My contention is later he jumped to The Washin- re projects. high cane with a wolf’s head on He enjoyed the highest com- that status is on gton Post, where he won Washin- “There are still so many things I top. Ever curious and energe- mercial and critical rewards. gton Newspaper Guild awards don’t know about the city and I’d tic, he had figured out the world His literary honors included the everybody’s mind in 1960 for his coverage of U.S.- just like to see what’s out there,” long before. American Book Award (now cal- Cuban affairs and a satiric ac- he told the AP in 2012. “The La- Whether sending up the New led the National Book Award) all of the time, count of that year’s Senate civil tin American population has in- York art scene or hanging out for “The Right Stuff” and a no- rights filibuster. creased enormously since ‘Bon- with acid heads, Wolfe inevita- mination for the National Book whether they’re New York was his dream and fire’ and Wall Street has changed bly presented man as a status- Critics Circle prize for “The conscious of it by 1962 he was working at the enormously. I’ll follow my usual seeking animal, concerned abo- Bonfire of the Vanities,” one of now defunct New York Herald- technique of just taking in a scene ve all about the opinion of his the top 10 selling books of the or not. Tribune, with colleagues inclu- and seeing what happens.” AP fri 18.05.2018

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Congo limited and affected areas are difficult to reach. “This is a concerning develo- pment, but we now have better Ebola spreads to city, entering tools than ever before to combat Ebola,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director- General. “WHO and our part- three health zones in the country ners are taking decisive action to stop further spread of the vi- Saleh Mwanamilongo posed to suspected Ebola cases rus.” & Carley Petesch, Kinshasa would receive, for the first time WHO said it has deployed in Congo, a new component of 30 experts for surveillance ongo’s Ebola ou- response to an Ebola outbreak: in Mbandaka. WHO is also tbreak has spread to a vaccinations. Health experts are working with Medecins Sans city, the capital of the already tracing 500 contacts, he Frontieres and other organiza- northwestern Equateur said. tions to stem the outbreak and Cprovince, a worrying shift as the treat Ebola patients in isolation risk of infection is more easily A total of 44 wards. passed on in densely populated The vaccine, from U.S.-based urban areas. cases have pharmaceutical firm Merck, is Two suspected cases of hemor- unlicensed but has been shown rhagic fever were reported in the now been to be highly effective against Wangata health zones, which in- Ebola. It was tested in Guinea cludes Mbandaka, a city of near- reported, in 2015 during the outbreak that ly 1.2 million people about 150 including 23 killed more than 11,300 people kilometers from Bikoro, the ru- in West Africa from 2014 to ral area where the outbreak was deaths 2016. announced last week, said Con- This is the ninth Ebola ou- go Health Minister Oly Ilunga. The World Health Organi- tbreak in Congo since 1976. One sample proved positive for zation sent 5,400 doses of the While none has been connected the deadly Ebola virus, he said. experimental Ebola vaccine to to the one in West Africa, the This brings to three the number se of the Ebola outbreak that exhibiting symptoms. Congo yesterday [Macau time], experimental vaccine is thought of confirmed Ebola cases. A to- is now affecting three health “Since the announcement of according to the health minister. to be effective against the Zaire tal of 44 cases have now been zones, including an urban heal- the alert in Mbandaka, our epi- WHO has said it will send thou- strain of Ebola found in Congo. reported, including 23 deaths, th zone,” he said, adding he is demiologists are working in the sands more in the coming days, WHO said it will use the “ring the World Health Organization worried because Mbandaka is field with community relays to as needed. vaccination” method. It involves reports. Among those are three densely populated and at the identify people who have been Before this announcement, vaccinating voluntary contacts, confirmed, 20 probable and 21 crossroads of Equateur provin- in contact with suspected cases,” all confirmed Ebola cases were contacts of those contacts and suspected cases. ce. Ebola is spread by contact he said. reported in the Bikoro health health care and other front-line “We are entering a new pha- with the bodily fluids of people He said the lists of those ex- zone, where health facilities are workers. AP

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TV canal macau cinema this day in history Friday cineteatro 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) 17 - 23 May 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast 15:00 Miscellaneous Attack on titan sesason 2 movie room 1 16:50 Miscellaneous 2:30, 4:45, 7:30, 9:30pm 18:25 Miscellaneous Director: Masashi Koizuka 18:55 Brazilian Soap Opera (Repeated) Language: Japanese (Chinese) 19:45 Non-daily Portuguese News (Repeated) 19:50 Portuguese Serie 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report 21:15 Portuguese Mini Serie 22:10 Brazilian Soap Opera 23:00 TDM News 23:30 European League Highlights 01:25 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) 02:15 RTPi Live

Saturday 10:30 Comedy 11:35 Miscellaneous 12:30 Miscellaneous the killing of a sacred deer 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) room 2 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast (PT) 2:30, 4:45 7:00pm 15:00 Miscellaneous Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: Colin Farell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan 16:55 MIscellaneous Language: English (Chinese) 17:50 Miscellaneous Duration: 121min 18:35 Miscellaneous 18:35 Miscellaneous 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (PT) 21:00 Grimm Sr. 3 22:30 Miscellaneous 23:00 TDM News 23:30 Miscellaneous 00:35 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) 01:10 RTPi Live Sunday 1972 Duke too ill for 10:25 Kids Serie tea with the ueen 11:00 Sunday Mass (Live) Q 12:00 Miscellaneous The Duke of Windsor was not well enough to attend tea 13:00 TDM News (Repeated) with the Queen when she came to visit his home in Paris this 13:30 News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast Avengers: infinity war afternoon. 15:00 Miscellaneous room 2 He was said to be “dreadfully disappointed” after doctors 16:55 Brainstorm 2:30, 6:00, 9:00pm told him he was not to come downstairs because of ill health. 17:40 Got Talent Portugal Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo They made their decision just hours before the Queen, with Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth 19:20 Portuguese Serie Prince Philip and Prince Charles, was due to see her uncle for 20:30 Main News, Financial & Weather Report Language: English (Chinese) Duration: 149min the first time in five years - and the first time in his own home. 21:00 Non-daily Portuguese News The Queen did spend 15 minutes talking alone with her 22:00 Documentary “Uncle David” in his first floor sitting room after the Duchess 23:00 TDM News of Windsor hosted tea in the downstairs drawing room. 23:30 Miscellaneous The Royal party had arrived from the races in Longchamp, 00:15 Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated) a day after a tour of the Provence region as part of a state 00:50 RTPi Live visit to France. Earlier this year, the duke had a hernia operation and al- though at first he seemed to have recovered well, his health then took a turn for the worse. He has not left the house for six weeks. There has been some speculation that the Queen may have discussed one of her uncle’s strongest wishes - that the title of Royal Highness would be formally conferred on his wife. But Buckingham Palace has said there is no question that the American divorcee can ever receive such a title. Destiny: the tale ok kamakura The Duke of Windsor, once King Edward VIII, abdicated in room 3 1936 after constitutional objections to his plans to marry the 2:15, 4:45 7:15pm twice-divorced Wallis Simpson. He was succeeded to the Director: Takashi Yamazaki Starring: Masato Sakai, Mitsuki Takahata throne by George VI, father of the present Queen. Language: English (Chinese) The couple tied the knot in France in 1937 and have lived there ever since in virtual exile although they have made va- Offbeat rious visits to the Royal family in London over the years. The Duke spent some time in the Bahamas as governor Domestic dispute in Germany: Man during World War II. arguing with a parrot Courtesy BBC News

Police were called to investigate a domestic disturbance in a southern German town — and found a man arguing with a n context parrot. I A resident in Loerrach, near the Swiss border, called the Ten days later, the Duke of Windsor died at his home in Paris. emergency number this earlier this week to report his concerns Doctors revealed he had been suffering from throat cancer for some about loud shouting from a next-door apartment that had been time. going on for some time. He left an estimated fortune of £4m. Police said afterwards that officers sent to the scene found The Duchess of Windsor attended his funeral in Frogmore, England. The Trough She lived as a recluse in Paris until her death in 1986 and was buried there was a loud argument going on — but it was between a room 3 next to her husband in England. 22-year-old man and a parrot. The man told them he had been 02:30, 04:30, 7:30, 9:30pm Her impressive collection of jewellery was auctioned a year later in annoyed with the bird, which belonged to his girlfriend. Director: Nick Cheung The parrot responded to being shouted at with loud noises of Starring: Nick Cheung, Xu Jing Lei, He Jiong, Miu Kiu Wai Paris raising more than £31m for the Pasteur Institute, a centre for its own. Police said it couldn’t speak but could bark like a dog. Language: Cantonese (Chinese & English) biological research. Since no one was hurt, the officers left. Duration: 111min fri 18.05.2018 th Anniversary

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Football | Europa league quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey to see another title oppor- tunity slip by, and in the Spa- nish league it stayed near the Atletico finishes strong after top throughout the season but was never really able to mount a title challenge against Barce- lona. poor start to season Not helpful was a FIFA trans- fer ban which wasn’t lifted Tales Azzoni, Madrid until January, when Atletico could finally sign striker Diego t all turned out just fine ap photo Costa. for Atletico Madrid. Atletico needs a draw at After enduring a poor home against Eibar on Sun- start to the season, Atleti- day to hold on to second pla- Ico ended it on a very high note. ce ahead of Real Madrid and Diego Simeone’s team is ce- secure its best finish since it lebrating the Europa League won the league in 2014. Atleti- title and still has a chance to co finished third behind either finish second in the Spanish Barcelona or Madrid in all league, a feat it hasn’t achie- the other years since 2012-13, ved since 2014. which was the team’s first full “We’re very happy. We’ve season under Simeone. been doing well year after A draw or a loss by Real Ma- year,” Simeone said. “We’ve drid at Villarreal tomorrow always said the best way to will also be enough for Atleti- start winning again was to co, which is three points ahead always keep trying.” of the city rival with one match It was the sixth title for Si- to play. The teams are even in meone since he arrived in 2012 the head-to-head tiebreaker — to revamp Atletico and make it they drew 0-0 and 1-1 — but into perennial title contender. Atletico trails on overall goal He is now tied with Luis Ara- difference. gones for the most titles with Sunday’s Liga game will also the club. mark the end of Fernando “It’s about more than a tro- Torres’ career with Atletico. phy,” Simeone said. “It repre- The former Spain striker ear- sents the value of hard work, a and a quarterfinalist in 2015. in the semifinals last season,” another on penalties. But we lier announced he will leave steady hand and consistency, “We came very close in two Simeone said. “We lost one [fi- got ourselves back up.” the club at the end of the sea- values to be successful in life.” Champions League finals, and nal] with two minutes left, and Atletico lost to Sevilla in the son. AP Life poured onto the streets of the Spanish capital yester- day [Macau time] to celebrate Atletico winning a third Euro- Marseille, Lyon and Monaco fight for pa League trophy after beating ap photo Marseille 3-0 in the final in Champions League spot Lyon. It was a good way to end a arseille no longer has its own destiny in Marseille would have got a direct Champions Lea- season which began with very hand. gue spot by beating Atletico. Now it needs to win at high expectations for Atletico M After losing the Europa League final to Atletico home to Amiens — which has only pride to play for but mostly disappointed until Madrid, the southern French club faces the pros- — and hope Monaco and Lyon slip up. the last few weeks. pect of missing out on the Champions League for Although Monaco and Lyon are in the driving seat, The main goal was to make it the second time in a matter of days. it might not be so straightforward. back to the Champions League Tomorrow’s final round of the French league will Monaco travels to 19th-place Troyes, which is figh- final after coming very close to decide who finishes second and third to gain auto- ting to avoid relegation. Troyes can yet finish in 18th winning the title in recent sea- matic entry in Europe’s elite competition. The side place, which is the promotion-relegation playoff sons, But it couldn’t even get in fourth goes into the Europa League. spot against the third-placed team in division two. past the group stage. All of the matches are played simultaneously to It’s not that easy for Lyon, either, seeing it is at Atletico easily made it to the add more drama. home to bitter rival Nice. knockout stages in the last four Deposed champion Monaco holds second place Matches between the sides are always tense, hosti- seasons, losing the final to Real with a two-point lead over Lyon. Marseille is one le affairs and Nice is in contention for a Europa Lea- Madrid in 2014 and 2016, and point behind Lyon in fourth. gue place next season providing it wins. being a semifinalist last season ad THE Vatican denounces offshore tax Station Air quality BUZZ havens as threats to the poor Roadside 80-100 Moderate The Vatican is denouncing offshore tax ha- The document, approved by Pope Francis, vens and financial instruments such as derivati- calls for banks to create internal ethical commi- High ves as gravely immoral and unjust, calling them ttees to ensure decisions work for the common Density 50-70 “ticking time bombs” that will hurt the world’s good and not just individual corporate bottom Residental poor the most. lines. Moderate In a new document released yesterday, the Notably missing was an articulated call for a Area opinion Vatican’s doctrine office teamed up with its global political authority to regulate markets social justice department to give a more solid and tax financial transactions, which the Vati- Ambient 80-100 moral foundation to the Holy See’s oft-repeated can’s social justice office had recommended in Moderate source: dsmg source: Kapok call for a more ethical global financial system. a controversial 2011 document. Eric Sautedé WORLD BRIEFS Paper tigers vs. paper planes Cannes doc: Whitney Arab League Arab foreign ministers are holding The Sulu Sou case has been an embarrassment an emergency meeting ever since the youngest directly elected legisla- Houston was molested three days after the opening tor had his mandate suspended last December of the U.S. Embassy in 4. Twenty-eight legislators ridiculed themselves Jerusalem and violence and showed to the community their lack of res- along the Gaza border, pect for the independence of their own institution by Dee Dee Warwick where Israeli forces killed and sheer contempt for the very idea of popular dozens of Palestinians. sovereignty. Jake Coyle, Cannes Cowardice was then added to silliness when we came to realize that the secrecy of the ballot would riends of Whitney remain inviolable. One can only suspect that Mes- ap photo srs. Coutinho, Ng, Au and Miss Lam were the ones FHouston allege the singer not falling for this disgraceful self-serving “Yes Mi- was molested as a child by her nister” standpoint. As often in Macao, suspicions cousin Dee Dee Warwick in a and conjectures are what we are left with. documentary that premiered For a while, we believed that the farce would yesterday at the Cannes Film have to stop if the very notion of separation of Congo’s latest Ebola Festival. outbreak has spread to a powers was to survive. In January, bowing down Houston’s longtime as- to the pressure of an educated few, sponsors of city of more than 1 million sistant Mary Jones tells fil- people, a worrying shift the legislature’s resolution aiming at banning a mmaker Kevin Macdonald judicial review of the legislative process leading as the deadly virus risks to Mr. Sou’s suspension had to back down and that the late singer told her traveling more easily in withdraw their suspicious attempt at preemptively that Warwick, the sister of densely populated areas. More on p15 hiding up their mess. Dionne Warwick, molested If people as professional as Vong Hin Fai and her at a young age. Houston’s Polish Kou Hoi In had been exposed for the utter incom- brother Gary Garland-Hous- Poland-Russia authorities plan to expel one petence of their hasty move, it was reasonable to ton also says he was molested Russian and banned four imagine that due processes would be more strictly between the ages of 7 and 9 by others from entering for five enforced in the future. The rescheduling of the a female family member, and years on allegations they trial to May 14 was a positive sign and followed says his sister was abused too. had engaged in “information a request coming from the defense, thus allowing Dee Dee Warwick, who was warfare” seeking to fuel both parties to lay down their arguments more tho- drug use as contributing fac- son Pickett, Aretha Franklin animosity between Poles roughly. 18 years older than Houston, and Ukrainians. What we have seen on Monday and Tuesday died in 2008. tors. She never spoke publicly and others. this week during the trial, however, appears to in- The allegations were made about her own alleged abuse. “Whitney,” which is to be dicate that some lessons were not learnt, leading in the documentary “Whit- “We always wanted our film released in theaters July 7,

the defense lawyers to denounce an attempt at ney,” which was made with to be a corrective to that ta- suggests that the alleged inci- ap photo turning the whole conundrum into a “political trial”: the cooperation of Houston’s bloid story,” said producer Si- dents of abuse took place whi- the crime of “aggravated disobedience,” for which family. The revelations, which mon Chinn. “These are speci- le Cissy Houston was touring. Messrs. Sulu Sou and Scott Chiang stand accu- come about three quarters of fic revelations that I think will Houston, who had a daugh- sed of, entails a prison sentence of maximum two the way into “Whitney,” im- get people to a deeper unders- ter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, years… and without a hint of consideration for the mediately cast a new light on tanding of who Whitney was with Bobby Brown, is said to President proportionality of sentencing, this is what the pro- France the troubled life of Houston. and in many ways redeem her have insisted on taking Bobbi Emmanuel Macron says his secution is asking for! country will not get into a While fooled Sin Fong residents or tricked small- Jones claims that the expe- as a person.” on tour with her. trade war against the United time Pearl Horizon investors get a mere slap on rience made Houston ques- Dee Dee Warwick was the Bobbi Kristina died 2015. States over Iran, despite the wrist and a few thousand patacas in fines for tion her own sexuality and niece of Houston’s mother, She was found unresponsive France’s disapproval of indeed seriously disturbing public order, young de- contributed to her late-life Cissy Houston. The Warwi- in a bathtub and died after President Donald Trump’s mocrats would deserve a 2-year sentence, and for drug problems. The singer ck sisters sometimes sang in being in a coma for six mon- decision to withdraw from what exactly? Throwing paper planes in an empty died at the age of 48 in 2012 Cissy Houston’s gospel group, ths. the nuclear deal. garden and walking on the streets instead of the from what was ruled an acci- the Drinkard Singers. Dee Representatives for Dion- sidewalk for a few minutes in the most idle district dental drowning in a bathtub. Dee Warwick, who was twi- ne Warwick didn’t imme- of the peninsula? European Union A coroner’s report into her ce nominated for a Grammy diately return messages EU leaders yesterday As everybody has come to realize, the target is death cited heart disease and Award, sang backup for Wil- Thursday. AP encouraged Balkan not two years, but rather a month or so: if senten- countries to continue on the ced for more than 30 days, Sulu Sou will lose his path of reform but were cool seat for the rest of the legislature. on any of the six joining the To the dismay of the defense lawyers, the pro- bloc in the near future. secution spared no effort — some of them barely The legal — in trying to darken the whole picture: but Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP by desperately trying to prove the “aggravation,” decisive moment the prosecution somehow forgot that it had first to ap photo prove the “disobedience”! On the side of tricks, charges that had been dis- missed in pre-trial talks were shamelessly reintro- duced in the discussion, without the defense being made aware and against all judicial procedural ru- ’s presidential les. Had the authorized route not been followed? Venezuela candidates are making their Absolutely not, as the march actually did end un- last-minute pitches before der the Nam Vam Lake Nautical Centre white tent Sunday’s election, though — not going up to the Legislative Assembly does many people are hardly not constitute a “disobedience”. I know: I was there noticing as they struggle to and witnessed the talks with the police and the call find their next meal and pay from the organizers to disband! Thus, a mere 10 for it with money that is next individuals went on their own to the Chief Execu- to worthless under runaway tive official (empty) residence: never blocking the inflation. traffic, and never reaching Penha Hill Garden, as barriers had been actually set-up (in advance!) at Law enforcement the very entrance of the Estrada de Santa Sancha. Brazil officials say gunmen For an order to be disobeyed, it has to be stated murdered a police officer first, and a few minutes delay in reaction are not in during an attempted themselves acts of disobedience. robbery in Rio de Janeiro, The question is thus simple: will Messrs. Sou and bringing to 49 the number Chiang be punished for actual crimes, or rather for of police officers shot and portraying the Chief Executive as a pig on May 15, French kiss. Actor Gary Oldman (left) kisses his wife Gisele Schmidt during a photo call at the 71st killed so far this year in 2016? Or should we go back to May 2014? international film festival, Cannes, yesterday. Brazil’s second biggest city.