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PROPERTY TRANSACTION INDOCTRINATION CAMPS VALUES SURGE HK SPENDS EVOKE CULTURAL REVOLUTION During Q1, the total value USD1.2B Authorities have ensnared of transactions was DEFENDING many Muslim Chinese — and MOP32.8 billion, up by CURRENCY even foreign citizens — in mass 52 percent quarter-to-quarter internment camps P2 P8 P10 FRI.18 May 2018 T. 26º/ 31º C H. 65/ 90% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 8.00 3050 N.º HKD 10.00 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” AD Smart city in public eye P5 WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO PHILIPPINES More than half of the Philippine Senate asked the Supreme Court yesterday to review its decision to oust its chief justice, calling the ruling a “dangerous precedent” that infringed on Congress’ constitutionally given power to impeach senior officials. JAPAN Three Japanese who were forcibly sterilized under a government policy decades ago filed lawsuits yesterday demanding an apology and compensation, in a growing movement seeking official redress. AP PHOTO XINHUA INDIA Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu Wynn Resorts points nationalist party ended Congress party rule in a key southern state yesterday, but its poll victory was to changes after marred by questions over who has the right to form the government. founder’s resignation More on backpage P7 INSIDE 18.05.2018 fri 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO 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. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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