200 exhibitors at mgs show ho iat seng: ‘no need to north korea missile be concerned’ bases outed In a reply to lawmakers, Ho Iat Thirteen undeclared missile Seng said that they have no operating bases were identified cause to be concerned about in a new report, undermining the legal advisor dismissals Trump administration’s claims P2 P3 P13
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China’s premier sought P7 AL PLENARY yesterday to reassure its neighbors that Beijing rules green-lighted will push ahead with reforms needed to support growth across the region and also keep the peace in contested waters in the South bloomberg China Sea. More on p11,13
Myanmar Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed sharply criticized Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday for her handling of an ethnic crisis that led to mass killings and the exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from her country.
India’s top court has agreed to re-examine a ruling that lifted a ban on women of menstruating age from entering a Hindu temple after near-constant protests backed by both India’s ruling party and the main opposition party. ap photo
OPEC and allied oil- producing countries will likely need to cut crude supplies, perhaps by as much as 1 million barrels of oil a day, to rebalance the market after U.S.
sanctions on Iran failed GP SUPPLEMENT INSIDE to cut Tehran’s output, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said.
Jordan’s state security court sentenced 10 defendants to prison yesterday, with terms ranging from three years to life, for their role in an Top diplomat defends Islamic State attack on a popular tourist site that killed 14 people, including a Canadian tourist. crackdown in Xinjiang More on backpage P11 CHINA 14.11.2018 wed
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Residential loans record increase
ew approvals of re- Nsidential mortgage loans (RMLs) rose by 31.9 percent month-to-month to MOP9.7 billion, the Mo- Jay Chun Aspect of the event netary Authority of Macau announced in a statement. New RMLs to residents, accounting for 86.2 per- cent of the total, rose by MGS Entertainment Show 15.9 percent to MOP8.3 billion. Mainly attributed to new enterprise loans with high hosts 200 exhibitors denomination, the non-re- sident component increa- Lynzy Valles “This [gaming] equipment is not can at least achieve this level for A talk on how IRs can boost sed to MOP1.3 billion. too related to the economy chan- this year’s edition.” tourism and cultural develop- The monthly average of he MGS Entertainment ges in the market – after all, if the The MSG Summit kicked off ment of the Greater Bay Area is new RMLs approved be- Show officially kicked off casinos want to increase revenue with a talk on law and supervi- also scheduled. T tween July and September yesterday, attracting close to of the mass market, then gaming sion of the local industry, and The last day of the forum will 2018 was MOP7.4 billion, 200 exhibitors this year, ranging equipment should be the key in- discussed the challenges facing feature a panel section for ga- up by 11.4 percent from from gaming equipment, leisure, vestment,” Chun told the press. the city’s VIP market. ming equipment manufacturers the previous period (June tourism and technology-themed He also implied that the gaming In today’s session, Naoya Ha- to discuss how to increase the to August 2018). exhibitors. machines available in the city re- raikawa, Cabinet Councilor from proportion of revenue generated Meanwhile, commercial This year, the annual gaming flects new trends in the gaming Bureau of the Integrated Resort by Macau gaming equipment in real estate loans (CRELs) trade industry exhibition is divi- industry. Promotion of the Government of Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) dropped by 65.8 percent ded into three sections, including “Many of our technologies, Japan, will give a speech on the and expand the emerging Asian in the previous month to culture, science and technology, especially the gaming table te- concept of Integrated Resorts market. MOP3.3 billion. Within and gaming equipment. chnology, are a lot more ahead (IR) Development Law and the Held at The Venetian Macao’s this total, new CRELs to Speaking to the press on the of other places in the world,” he process of its implementation. Cotai Expo Hall until tomorrow, residents, which occupied sidelines of the event, Jay Chun, said. It will be the first time that the go- the show was jointly organized 99.8 percent of the total, chairman of the Macau Gaming When commenting on the visi- vernment official, who is in char- for the first time with China’s sta- decreased by 61.9 percent Equipment Manufacturers As- tor arrivals, Chun noted, “In past ge of Japanese IR affairs, sha- te-owned enterprise Nam Kwong to MOP3.3 billion, while sociation (MGEMA), said that editions of MGS show, we had res his visions abroad about the Culture and Creativity Industry those to non-residents fell the show has more slot machine about 8,000 to 10,000 visitors prospect and blueprint of Japa- Co, and China National Machi- to MOP5.2 million. exhibitors this year. [per edition]. We hope that we nese IRs. nery Industry International Co. The monthly average of new CRELs approved be- tween July and September 2018 was MOP5.7 billion, Education down by 15.2 percent com- pared with the previous period (June to August DSEJ head pledges more cooperation 2018). As at end-Septem- ber 2018, the outstan- between parents, schools ding value of RMLs was MOP211.1 billion, up by he Education and mittee are representative legally established parent 3.5 percent from the pre- TYouth Affairs Bureau and have relevant mora- associations,” DSEJ said. vious month, or 12.1 per- (DSEJ) claims that it will lity, reputation and social In 2018, Macau had 53 cent from a year ago. The continue to ensure pa- participation.” parents unions. resident component made rents’ rights when they marques renato The city’s non-tertiary DSEJ further claims up 92.6 percent of the to- participate in the mana- education committee, that through its subsidi- tal. gement of local schools, which is led by the Secre- zed programs between The outstanding value DSEJ director Lou Pak tary for Social Affairs and parents and schools (of of CRELs was MOP187.2 Sang announced in reply Culture, consists of a ma- which there are 365 until billion, up by 1.6 percent to lawmaker Sulu Sou’s ximum of 14 local asso- the end of the 2017/2018 month-to-month or 7.8 written inquiry. ciation representatives, academic year), parents percent from the previous The lawmaker poin- in addition to 11 people unions and the collection year. Residents accoun- ted out that local paren- whom DSEJ regards as of opinions from con- ted for 93.2 percent of ts should be allowed to experts, scholars, leaders cerned parties regarding the loans. Compared to participate in the deci- school procedures such non-tertiary education and teachers from the school boards, it has en- a month earlier, outstan- sion-making procedures as teacher recruitment or committee “has fully con- education sector. sured parents’ partici- ding CRELs to residents within different school school financing. sidered gathering all sec- “The committee does pation and democratiza- and to non-residents rose boards, and be permitted In its response to Sou, tors’ forces in the society. not exclude the repre- tion of local non-tertiary by 1.7 percent and 0.5 per- to participate in various DSEJ said that the city’s The members of the com- sentation of leaders from schools. cent respectively.
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Marking the 40th anniversary of the reform and ‘No need to be opening-up in China, the last of three special forums was held yesterday. At the forum, senior government and military officials introduced the latest developments in disciplinary, supervisory, concerned’ about legal organizational, publicity, judicial and military reforms. The forum was broadcast live online and the officials responded to questions posted by viewers. The first two forums were held on Oct. 25 and Nov. advisor dismissals 6, with government officials introducing the latest resident of the contracts was handled “ac- changes in various areas such as foreign affairs, Legislative Assem- cording to the law and the education, science, environmental protection and bly (AL) Ho Iat Seng contract signed with the two rural development. China is unfurling celebration events for the 40th anniversary of the reform and has issued a written advisors.”
renato marques renato opening-up. A major exhibition opened in Beijing Preply to an enquiry submit- Nevertheless, Ho avoided yesterday with around 1,000 people attending the ted by lawmakers Sulu Sou answering the legislator’s opening ceremony, according to state media outlet and José Pereira Coutinho. specific call for an explana- Xinhua. The enquiry questioned the tion regarding Cardinal and cause of the dismissal of Taipa’s dismissal, instead two long-standing legal ad- stating that he had “nothing Gaming revenue up, but visors of the legislature. In further to explain.” the reply, Ho assured the Ho Iat Seng “The decision of non-re- tracking behind October lawmakers that they have no newal of the work con- cause to be concerned. In response, several but advised them that the tracts is made by the Exe- The first 11 days in November saw gross gaming Veteran legal advisers of lawmakers sent the AL Assembly’s advisory council cutive Board of the Legis- revenue reach about MOP9.25 billion, according to the AL, Paulo Cardinal and board a letter requesting an remained well-staffed with lative Assembly, [based estimates from HSBC Global Research. The revenue generated in the first 11 days of the month suggests Paulo Taipa were dismissed explanation of their dismis- “consultant coordinators, on] the Regiment of the an average daily run rate of MOP840 million per by the Assembly’s board in sal, the procedures by which counselors, technician cou- Legislative Assembly,” day, compared with MOP783 million per day during August this year, suddenly Ho noted in the letter. the decision had been made, nselors and other law per- the same period last month. If extrapolated to the and without explanation. and clarification on the peo- sonnel.” “However, since the under- month’s end, November would record gross gaming The two Portuguese advi- ple involved in the decision- Their dismissal will not signed [Ho Iat Seng] has revenue of about MOP25.2 billion, or approximately sors were notified via letter making process. have any negative influence already made public state- 8 percent less than in the previous month on account that their contracts would In a letter dated Friday to on the work of the AL, he ments regarding this issue, of October’s profitable Golden Week. Analyzed by not be renewed and that which the Times had access, wrote, and therefore there he will make no further segment, HSBC said that VIP daily volume was flat their work at the Legislati- Ho thanked the legislators is “no need to be concerned comments,” added Ho, who, compared to October, while mass gross gaming ve Assembly would cease by for raising their concerns about this issue.” in addition to being the Pre- revenue was down by 5 percent. Analysts also noted Dec. 31, 2018. The letters did about the non-renewal of The letter also states that sident of the AL, is also the that the figures for the first 11 days might have seen a not state the reason for their work contracts for the two the process behind the President of the Board of the boost from the two full weekends during the period, terminations. Portuguese legal advisors, non-renewal of their work Assembly. when visitation numbers are generally higher.
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Macau esports squad secu- Ared an unprecedented second place at a global esports cham- pionship on Monday, earning a silver medal and defying all ex- pectations, according to the presi- he 17th Macau-wide the Lower Primary, Upper dent of the local association that TEnglish Speech Contest Primary, Junior High School backed the team. took place over the weekend. and Senior High School cate- The silver medal was earned in The Macau-wide English gories and up to 3 winners of the League of Legends category at Speech Contest was estab- the College Category. the 10th edition of the IESF Es- lished in 2002, its purpose The final round of the con- ports World Championship held being to promote the use of test included a total of 66 at the Kaohsiung Arena in Kaoh- Local esports association Grow Esports League, the 2018 IESF English in the region. The contestants who were selec- siung, Taiwan. uP eSports, which organized and Esports World Championship contest is organized by the ted from among 171 contes- The Macau team was defeated backed the Macau team, descri- brought together some of the bi- Macau Polytechnic Institute, tants who participated in the 3-0 in the competition final by bed the second-place feat as “pun- ggest names in esports, featuring and co-organized by several semifinal on October 14. South Korea, widely considered ching far above Macau’s weight.” players from the association’s 40- other schools and institu- Under the theme nature, the most successful nation in the “Our team this year was able to plus member countries. tions. participants researched the esports world and known to field prove that, despite being a small Macau was eliminated early in Ever since 2005, the event animal and plant world, and the most decorated players on the region, Macau has the necessary the group stages of both other has enjoyed a nationwide discussed the problems of competitive scene. talent to conquer the spotlight competitive categories, Counter affiliation with China Daily’s environmental pollution, cli- In the matches leading up to in the Esports World Cham- -Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) “21st Century” National En- mate change, extinction, and the final, the Macau team trium- pionship,” said association presi- and Tekken. glish-Speaking Competition sustainable management. phed over squads from Australia, dent, Fernando Pereira. “We are Grow uP eSports is a non-profit and, over the years, many Organizers hope that the Egypt, Italy, Sri Lanka and Israel, very proud of the unprecedented association which aims to promo- winners of the Macau-wide contest can encourage stu- while not dropping a single game achievement and we believe that te the development of the esports English Speech Contest have dents “not only to develop during the knockout stages. Sou- this will inspire a healthy and sector in Macau. It is an expan- advanced to compete in the their English skills, but also th Korea mirrored their unbeaten competitive esports environment sion of its parent association in national competition. their critical thinking, so performance, defeating teams in the region.” Portugal, which was founded over The opportunity to parti- as to foster their all-round from Finland and Iran, as well as Organized by the Kaohsiung City a decade ago and is now one of cipate in the national com- development and prepare ‘home team’ Chinese Taipei in the Government, Chinese Taipei Es- Europe’s largest and oldest such petition has been extended them to serve society in the semi-finals. ports Association and the Taiwan groups. DB to the winners from each of future.” ad wed 14.11.2018 th Anniversary
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TRADE UNION LAW Affordable house ranking Sulu Sou has asked the go- vernment how long Macau is going to wait for the es- tablishment of trade union returns to points-based system law. Sou cited the recent Julie Zhu lifeguards’ unfair employ- ment case, saying, “Macau he ranking of can- has always lacked a speci- didates for affordable fic law which can give tra- houses will be poin- de unions a legal position ts-based once the and ensure that employees TMacau SAR government im- will not be troubled for plements the new amendment organizing trade unions, to the affordable housing law, strikes, or engaging in ne- which was passed at the Legis- gotiations. […] The gover- lative Assembly (AL) plenary nment’s attitude so far has meeting yesterday. been [to] avoid its cons- Currently, applicants are titutional responsibility being divided into three dif- ferent groups, with one of the and has been suspected [of three groups being given prio- being] biased toward the rity for balloting. employers,” said Sou. Once the new amendment comes into effect, no priori- COMPULSORY ty will be granted to any ca- HOLIDAY CHANGE tegory. Therefore, the family Some lawmakers, inclu- that ranks first according to ding Lam Lon Wai, have the points it receives will be expressed their opposi- considered the candidate most tion towards the labor in need of affordable housing. law amendment proposal The details behind the points- concerning the compulsory based methods will be annou- holiday change. As ex- nced after the Chief Executive pressed earlier last week, approves the bill. lawmakers believe that se- However, despite more lecting three holidays (out than 80 percent of the public of four proposed compul- opinion preferring the poin- sory ones) to become ordi- ts-based method, the ranking nary holidays violates the method still does not satisfy workers’ rights. “I strongly lawmaker Sulu Sou. request the government In Sou’s opinion, there shou- “Comparing the medium sa- the Housing Bureau. Howe- comments, Secretary for cancel the amendment ld be a permanent waiting lary with the housing price, ver, under certain conditions, Transport and Public Works, plan as well as the part-ti- list mechanism, creating fai- we [young people] basically the bureau will consider ex- Raimundo do Rosário, said rer conditions for individual cannot even afford the down ceptions. The Housing Bureau that the age change “is not dis- me job regime,” said Wai. applicants. payment unless we are from a should be the first choice for criminatory to anybody.” Leong Sun Iok requested “[The permanent waiting me- rich second generation,” said the sale of affordable houses. “We are not discriminating the “government give up chanism] allows residents to Sou, who also voiced that “the Ma Chi Seng supported the against anybody. […] If the age the proposal, to ensure the be at ease [because] they can problem with affordable hou- amendment, but suggested requirement is 18 years old, employees’ rights, and to estimate how long they will ses is related to private house that the government should the demand will be even big- maintain the labor law’s have to wait for the house. […] projects being too expensive.” increase land supply and pri- ger,” Rosário clarified. principles.” If there is no permanent wai- According to data presented vate housing supply. Other Regarding the permanent ting list, the [less competitive] by Ho, in the past few years, lawmakers, including Au Kam waiting list, the Secretary HKZMB Si Ka Lon, applicants will be ranked again only a single-digit number of San, also emphasized the ex- agreed with the lawmakers Ho Ion Sang and other every time when the govern- applicants was aged between pensive nature of the private that affordable housing alloca- lawmakers suggested that ment restarts the ranking [for 18 and 24. housing market in Macau. tion should also have a perma- the Macau government each new project],” said Sou, The age change was questio- nent waiting list. improve the affiliated adding that “if the government ned by more lawmakers, in- “A permanent waiting list for transportation facilities knows how many people are cluding Angela Leong and Lei affordable houses cannot be at the Macau port of the on the waiting list, the govern- Cheng I. [established] in a short period. Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau ment will plan better for each The amendment states that We are not But the government indeed Bridge. The lawmakers affordable housing project.” all members of each applica- discriminating has the intention to do it,” said pointed out various issues, Both Sulu Sou and Au Kam tion should have resided in Rosário. including traffic problems San want the points-based Macau for at least 180 days against With regard to the points-ba- at Oriental Pearl, issues evaluation mechanism details every year. The new law will sed mechanism and in parti- with the arrangements of to be publicly displayed along also provide exceptions to cular, the inclusion of detailed anybody. buses 101X and 102X, the with the affordable housing applicants who suddenly ob- selection criteria, Rosário ex- lack of restaurants and law, not just published as a tain possession of a residen- If the age plained that “if it is a dispatch, Chief Executive dispatch. tial property due to inheritan- it will give us more flexibili- shops at the Macau port, Another controversial chan- ce. requirement is ty when [details] need to be the connection between ge requires applicants to be 25 In order for public houses to 18 years old, changed.” the HKZMB Macau port years old or above and to have be used reasonably, applicants In addition, the Secretary and the new urban zone, lived in Macau for a minimum are not allowed to own (except the demand commented that Macau’s af- and the transportation of seven years. for the abovementioned ex- fordable houses are better in the port’s vicinity. “By This proposed change to ception) any residential pro- will be even than the houses offered in the comparison with Zhuhai the eligible age triggered a perty 10 years before the date private sector. and Hong Kong ports, tou- fierce reaction from several of the affordable house appli- bigger. “The affordable houses are rists will have a largely dis- lawmakers, including Sulu cation submission. Raimundo do Rosário not bad. Some people tried so counted impression about Sou, Ho Ion Sang and Leong The law also enhances res- hard to buy a house [from the Macau,” said Ho. The Sun Iok. trictions on the sale of afforda- “We support the amend- private market], but they can’t lawmakers proposed that “This is discrimination ble houses. Once the new law ment, but the amendment is see anything [e.g. a nice view]. the government build an towards people aged between starts being implemented, any far from being ideal,” Au com- We pay MOP1 million and we integrated shopping facili- 18 and 24 years old. What is sales of affordable houses will mented. get a new, beautiful house with ty at the Macau port. the basis?” Sou questioned. have to be first approved by In reply to the lawmakers’ a nice view,” said Rosário. 14.11.2018 wed
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Wagyu beef at USD150 Internet traffic hijack disrupts per kilo threatened by Google services
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he world’s most pam- Tpered cows are finding bloomberg that a key supplement in their carefully designed diet is getting harder to come by thanks to thousands of pigs falling sick in China. Japan’s wagyu, known for its soft, fatty, marbled meat, are dependent on China for supplies of rice straw, an n internet traffic diversion re- his San Francisco company has seen. important part of the gour- Arouted data through Russia and He said he suspected nation-state met cattle’s high-calorie, China and disrupted Google services involvement because the traffic was high-protein diet. Since the on Monday, including search, clou- effectively landing at state-run China outbreak of African swine d-hosting services and its bundle of Telecom. A recent study by U.S. Naval fever in China, a large por- collaboration tools for businesses. War College and Tel Aviv University tion of the vital feed has Service interruptions lasted for scholars found that China systemati- been banned from entering nearly one and a half hours and en- cally hijacks and diverts U.S. internet Japan, and its agriculture fever will keep spreading logram. Chinese rice straw ded about 5:30 p.m. EST., network traffic. ministry fears that even- across China.” can be bought as cheaply service companies said. In addition to Google said it had no reason to belie- tually no supplies will be The ministry has already as 10 yen ($0.09) per kilo- Russian and Chinese telecommunica- ve the traffic hijacking was malicious. available as the deadly di- suspended rice straw shi- gram, while the domestic tions companies, a Nigerian internet It did not explain why. sease spreads. pments from 25 of the 80 variety can cost more for provider was also involved. Much of the internet’s underpinnin- African swine fever, a hi- Chinese processing facili- farmers who don’t have rice The diversion “at a minimum cau- gs are built on trust, a relic of the good ghly contagious disease that ties approved for imports by growers nearby due to the sed a massive denial of service to G intentions its designers assumed of began spreading in China Japan. The 25 banned faci- high transportation costs. Suite (business collaboration tools) users. One consequence: little can in August, has raised alarm lities are within a 50 kilo- It may be more economical and Google Search” and “put valuable be done if a nation-state or someone in neighboring nations meter radius of Chinese pig to buy alternatives, such as Google traffic in the hands of ISPs in with access to a major internet pro- with increased disease sur- farms hit with African swine wheat straw from the U.S. (internet service providers) in coun- vider — or exchange — decides to re- veillance and tighter control fever. The remaining facili- or Australia, Igawa said. tries with a long history of Internet route traffic. of imports. With no vaccine, ties are also at risk as they surveillance,” the network-intelligen- Henthorn-Iwane says Monday’s hi- the virus is 100 percent le- are in the northeastern pro- ce company ThousandEyes said in a jacking may have been “a war-game thal to pigs and can wreak vinces of Liaoning and Jilin, African blog post. experiment.” havoc on a country’s agri- both affected by the disease. swine fever, A Google status page noted that “ac- In two recent cases, such rerouting cultural industry. While The outbreak of African cess to some Google services was im- has affected financial sites. In April the disease can’t affect ca- swine fever was confirmed a highly pacted” and said the cause was “exter- 2017, one affected MasterCard and ttle, it can be transmitted to in 74 locations in China by nal to Google.” The company offered Visa among other sites. This past pigs via contaminated feed, Nov. 9, according to Japan’s contagious little additional information. April, another hijacking enabled cryp- meaning Japan has to boost ministry. Of the total, 27 The type of traffic misdirection em- tocurrency theft . its biosecurity measures to were in Liaoning. Rice straw disease, ployed, known as border gateway The Department of Homeland Se- prevent the virus from ente- imports from China fell 17 began protocol hijacking, can knock es- curity did not immediately respond to ring its borders. percent to 16,586 tons in sential services offline and facilitate a request for comment. “This is a big problem for September from August, spreading espionage and financial theft. It can ThousandEyes named the com- both Chinese and Japanese according to data from the result either from misconfiguration panies involved in Monday’s incident, livestock industries,” said agriculture ministry. in China in — human error, essentially— or from in addition to China Telecom, as the Shinichi Igawa, deputy di- Japan imported over malicious action. Russian internet provider Transtele- rector at Japan’s agricultu- 200,000 tons of rice straw August Most network traffic to Google ser- com and the Nigerian ISP MainOne. ral ministry’s animal health from China last year, about vices — 94 percent as of October 27 Both ThousandEyes and the U.S. division. “We may have to 20 percent of the total nee- For lovers of wagyu, the — is encrypted, which shields it from network monitoring company BGP- find alternative supply sour- ded to feed its premium already expensive beef cou- prying eyes even if diverted. mon said the internet traffic detour ces for rice straw, or alter- cattle, which is being sold ld become more expensive Alex Henthorn-Iwane, an executive originated with the Nigerian com- natives to rice straw, given at Aeon supermarkets for unless a substitute is found, at ThousandEyes, called Monday’s in- pany. Neither was ready to more defi- the risk that African swine more than USD150 per ki- Igawa said. Bloomberg cident the worst affecting Google that nitively pinpoint the cause. AP corporate bits galaxy holds seminar on gba opportunities Mandarin. local schools win hong kong contest ble Energy Events (HK TREE During the seminar, Dr. Guo 2018). Wanda, executive vice president Nearly 900 students in 57 se- of the China Development Insti- condary school teams and 32 tute, illuminated the geographic primary school teams participa- features and the development of ted in this year’s HK TREE, the the Greater Bay Area, GEG said company said in a statement. in a press release. Over 30 Macau students The speaker introduced atten- and teachers participated in dees to the governmental body the race, winning the title of overseeing the project and its champion in all competitions economic impacts. entered. In the Solar Model The seminar, which gathered Car Race, Yuet Wah College some 160 team members at the – Chinese Section was crow- level of manager or above, also ned the champion, and Yuet Galaxy Entertainment Group sis at Galaxy Macau. discussed Macau’s strategic In addition to organizing the CEM has also sponsored the Wah College – English Section (GEG) held a seminar titled The seminar consisted of role as “One Centre, One Pla- 6th CEM Solar & Capacitance top three teams of the two ra- and Sacred Heart Canossian “Construction of Greater Bay two sessions — the morning tform” in the Greater Bay Area Model Car Races with a record ces to represent Macau and College won first prize in the Area and Macau’s Roles and session conducted in English, and the emerging opportunities 600 students from 25 schools compete in the 13th Hong Solar Model Car Best Design Opportunities” last week at Oa- and the afternoon session in and challenges faced by the city. and 108 teams participating, Kong Technology & Renewa- Award. wed 14.11.2018
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tween China and xinhua Portugal, which have been suspended since DOctober 15 by Capital Airlines, are expected to resume in the coming months by air carrier Air China, the China-Lusophone Brief (CLBrief) reported. ão Tomé and Príncipe’s that the agreement should be According to the report, discre- SNational Oil Agency has signed “in a few weeks.” te negotiations are underway, begun negotiations with a The negotiations are the which, if successful, will allow consortium to sign an oil ex- result the interest shown Air China to fly the direct route. ploration contract in Block by Total E & P Activités Pé- Capital Airlines, part of Hainan’s 01 of the archipelago’s Ex- trolières in prospecting for HNA group, announced last Au- clusive Economic Zone, the oil in that block following a gust that it would suspend di- agency’s chief executive said. public tender launched by rect flights between China and The consortium includes the National Oil Agency last Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, Total E&P Activités Pétro- May. between October 15, 2018 and The HNA group is in the throes nced when President Xi Jinping lières and Angola’s oil and In addition to the Exclusive March 2019 for “operational of a complicated financial cri- visits Portugal in early Decem- gas company Sonangol. Economic Zone, São Tomé reasons.” sis, having closed 2017 with an ber. Orlando Pontes, who was and Príncipe has a joint ven- The link, which had three fli- estimated liability of 598 billion Air China’s first flight to Lis- speaking on the sidelines of ture with Nigeria, based on ghts a week between the city of yuan (USD82.6 billion). bon could take place in early a meeting with São Tome’s a treaty signed in 2001 that Hangzhou on the east coast of CLBrief also reported that if February 2019. Official figures Prime Minister, accom- establishes 60 percent of re- China and Lisbon, with a stop in the current negotiations remain indicate that Chinese touris- panied by the director of To- venues for the Nigerian State Beijing, began on July 26, 2017, positive, it is possible that the ts who visited Portugal in 2017 tal E&P Activités Pétrolières, and the remaining 40 per- and carried over 80,000 pas- return of direct air links between provided tourist revenue of 130 Charles Fernandes, repre- cent for the São Tomé archi- sengers in the first year. the two countries will be annou- million euros. MDT/Macauhub senting the consortium, said pelago. MDT/Macauhub
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tions with eight. “The two have had a ‘diplomatic battle’ in this region for a long time,” Yu said. Xi expands China’s footprint in Australia has recently raised tensions with Beijing by pushing back against China, its largest Pacific as Trump stays in U.S. trading partner. Lawmakers in Australia this year passed a bill or Xi Jinping, diplomatic cracking down on foreign inter- Fwins rarely come this easily: ference, a move that came after Just showing up at an Asia-Paci- revelations that Chinese agents fic summit this week would help bloomberg were funding politicians to ad- to score a victory for China. vance its interests. With U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vla- dimir Putin staying away from Papua New Guinea - an economy smaller than all 50 U.S. states - The narrative Xi is by far the most prominent on Belt and among 21 leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera- Road has tion meeting that starts on Fri- day. And he’s making the most shifted toward of his time there, hosting leaders from about a dozen Pacific Island talking about countries in a show of strength. debt traps The South Pacific, consisting of nations scattered across thou- and China’s sands of miles of ocean, has in- creasingly become a strategic attempts to get battleground between China and U.S. allies in Asia - particularly leverage. Australia. Xi has started pouring “Donald Trump hasn’t realized They’ve used concessional loans ners in the region.” Rosita Dellios money into the cash-strapped re- the cultural significance of atten- to fund billions of dollars of in- China has denied its actions in gion as part of his Belt-and-Road ding these multilateral forums frastructure projects, including the Pacific are driven by motives Morrison’s announcement of infrastructure initiative, leading in Asia. Xi Jinping clearly has,” a $500 million tourism resort in beyond economic expedience increased engagement in the Pa- to concerns that China will look said Rosita Dellios, an associate Fiji, a $320 million fish farm in and altruism. cific comes after he said that Aus- to establish a military presence. international relations professor French Polynesia and the newly After a meeting in Beijing last tralia is formally committing to a Australian Prime Minister Scott at Bond University in Gold Coast, completed conference venue in week with Australia’s top diplo- joint initiative with Papua New Morrison has pushed back, last Australia. Port Moresby that will host the mat, Marise Payne, Chinese Fo- Guinea to develop a naval base, week announcing a AUD2 billion “The narrative on Belt and Road APEC conference. reign Minister Wang Yi said the edging out a bid by China. (USD1.46 billion) infrastructure has shifted toward talking about That’s led to concerns in two nations were “not competi- That followed a June announ- fund and increased naval deploy- debt traps and China’s attempts Washington about Xi’s endgame tors, not rivals, but partners” in cement that Australia will help ments to exert influence in what to get leverage, so Xi will try and in the South Pacific. In a June the region. fund a new telecommunications he called “our patch.’’ Yet the ab- reclaim the narrative and put it report, the White House’s U.S.- One of China’s main goals in the cable stretching from Sydney to sence of Trump, who is sending on his own terms about everyone China Economic and Security region is to win friends in a com- the Solomon Islands, squeezing Vice President Mike Pence ins- benefiting and prospering toge- Review Commission warned that petition with Taiwan, according out Huawei Technologies Co. - tead, has been seen as a missed ther,” she said. China was “well ahead of the U.S. to Yu Changsen, executive direc- a company that in August was opportunity for the U.S. to back China has committed to spen- in most areas’’ and a Chinese mi- tor of China’s National Center for banned from supplying next- up its ally and show the region it’s ding at least $5.9 billion on more litary base in the region “could Oceania Studies at Sun Yat-sen generation wireless equipment committed to providing a long- than 200 projects in the region pose challenges to U.S. defense University. Taiwan has diplo- to Australia’s telecom opera- term alternative to China’s debt- since 2011, according to data interests and those of Australia matic ties with six Pacific Island tors on national security grou- driven economic outreach. collated by the Lowy Institute. and New Zealand, key U.S. part- countries, while China has rela- nds. MDT/Bloomberg
extinction is irreversible Animal rights and we cannot afford any missteps,” Ho said. Along with other ani- Tiger bone, rhino horn trading postponed mal protection organiza- tions, the Humane Socie- Christopher Bodeen, Beijing ming of non-native rhinos products including ivory ty International and the is not known in China but and skin from African ele- Humane Society of the hina is postponing ap photo the changing law raised phants and meat and sca- United States have filed a Cits decision to allow speculation it was being les from the anteater-like legal appeal for a ban on trading in tiger and rhi- planned. pangolin, native to Africa U.S. imports of all wildlife noceros parts a bare two The World Wildlife Fund and southern Asia. and their parts from Chi- weeks after the easing of said overturning the ban Reacting to the latest na “unless or until Chi- the ban had raised fears would have “devastating development, the Huma- na formally reinstates a the country was giving le- consequences globally” ne Society International complete ban on domestic gal cover to poaching and gal acts will be dealt with nal uses of tiger bone and by allowing poachers and and the Humane Society trade in tigers and rhinos smuggling of endangered severely,” Ding, an execu- rhino horn have conti- smugglers to hide behind of the United States called and their parts and pro- wildlife. tive deputy secretary-ge- nued despite no proof of legalized trade. for China to completely ducts,” the groups said in The official Xinhua News neral of the State Council their effectiveness and the China’s authoritarian ban the trade in tiger and a statement. Agency quoted Cabinet was quoted as saying. decreasing wild popula- Communist Party-led go- rhino products. An estimated 3,890 ti- official Ding Xuedong as The Xinhua report said tions. China has also long vernment rarely responds “To truly protect tigers gers remain alive in the saying Monday that the the ban on the import and tolerated the farming of to international pressure and rhinos we need an wild, according to a re- change had “been postpo- export of rhino and tiger tigers and the semi-legal and the reversal appeared official written procla- port presented during ned after study.” parts and their use in tra- sale of their parts. to reflect concerns over mation from the State the Third Asia Ministerial “Relevant departments ditional Chinese medici- Late last month, au- the country’s reputation Council that permanently Conference on Tiger Con- of the Chinese govern- ne would also be main- thorities said they would as a supporter of envi- reinstates a complete ban. servation in 2016. Stu- ment will soon continue tained. Ding’s comments allow trading in produc- ronmental preservation. Full stop,” Iris Ho, senior dies put the population to organize special crack- did not address whether ts made from tigers and China, home to the highly specialist for Wildlife Pro- of wild rhinos at less than down campaigns with fo- the postponement meant rhinos under “special endangered giant pan- gram and Policy at Huma- 30,000, while poaching to cus on addressing the ille- the decision would be re- circumstances,” bringing da, has frequently been ne Society International cultivate their horns is re- gal trade of rhinos, tigers vived. condemnation from con- named as a top market was quoted as saying in ducing that number dras- and their byproducts. Ille- The traditional medici- servation groups. Far- for endangered wildlife a news release. “Species tically each year. AP wed 14.11.2018
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U.S. technological supremacy. He stressed that the govern- ment would “crack down har- Li Keqiang says reforms, not shly” on businesses that infringe intellectual property rights and engage in “other cheating acti- vities.” stimulus, vital for growth “China will not stop in its ope- hinese Premier Li ning up. The door will only open Keqiang says the coun- wider and China will continue try needs reforms to su- ap photo to deepen reform. Reform and pport business to help opening up have brought China Cdrive growth as it weathers a to where it is today,” Li added. trade war with the U.S., rather China and the U.S. are locked than more economic stimulus. in a trade dispute over Washin- Li said yesterday in Singapo- gton’s charges that China uses re that China can energize its predatory tactics in a drive to slowing economy by adjusting supplant U.S. technological policies, such as streamlining supremacy. The two countries bureaucratic procedures like have raised import duties on business registrations, taxes and billions of dollars of each other’s fees. goods, including soybeans, elec- “Despite the downward pres- tric cars and whiskey. sure, we will not resort to mas- Li expressed hopes for a com- sive stimulus. We will make promise. U.S. President Donald adjustments as appropriate. We Trump and his Chinese counter- want to energize the market, in part Xi Jinping are set to meet particular, market entities, and at the Group of 20 summit in we have the conditions to do Argentina this month. that,” Li said in a wide-ranging “The stable development and sound progress of such a pair lecture that touched on China’s Commuters with masks for protection against the pollution wait for buses yesterday at the Central Business District in Beijing role in regional development. of relationship benefits both In the quarter that ended in countries and the larger world. September, China’s economic truction spending and expor- down its technology ambitions, nesses that infringe on patents Otherwise, it will affect the who- growth slowed to 6.5 percent ts. But the trade tensions with China’s leaders have sought to and other intellectual proper- le world,” Li said. over a year earlier, down from Washington are adding to the enhance their own market ope- ty rights and engage in “other “We hope that negotiations the previous quarter’s 6.7 per- challenges for the communist ning credentials by lowering cheating activities.” will be carried out on the ba- cent. The deceleration reflects leadership, with the two coun- tariffs and easing access for fo- China and the U.S. are locked sis of mutual respect, balance, long-term efforts to guide the tries imposing tariffs on billions reign companies operating in in a trade dispute over Washin- mutual benefit and good faith, economy toward a more sustai- of dollars of each other’s goods. China for some industries. gton’s complaints that China so that a solution can be found nable model of growth and away While they have rebuffed Li said the government will uses predatory tactics to acquire acceptable to both sides,” he ad- from excessive reliance on cons- U.S. demands that Beijing tone “crack down harshly” on busi- technologies a drive to supplant ded. AP
Hong Kong Top diplomat defends World-beating IPO market crackdown in Xinjiang starts to show cracks
hina’s foreign minister mid a banner Cdefended a security cra- Ayear for Hong ckdown effecting one of the Kong listings, cracks bloomberg country’s largest Muslim mi- are starting to show norities as a necessary respon- in the world’s biggest se to terrorism, in Beijing’s market for initial pu- highest-level response yet to blic offerings. reports of mass internment A parenting website camps. part-owned by Ali- Foreign Minister Wang Yi baba Group Holding told reporters yesterday that Ltd. yesterday delayed conditions in the remote wes- the launch of its Hong tern region of Xinjiang were Kong IPO, while one for the deal. Hong Kong, where the a “domestic issue” and cau- In this 2014 photo, police officers stand guard near a blast scene in of China’s top travel- Meanwhile, travel benchmark index has tioned foreigners against be- downtown Urumqi booking sites started website Tongcheng- fallen 23 percent from lieving “gossip and hearsay” taking orders for an Elong Holdings Ltd. its January high. It about the situation. Wang and Kazakhs in “transfor- friends and friends from other offering in the city started a roadshow doesn’t help that rou- was asked about the repor- mation through education” countries will pay attention to that’s a fraction of its yesterday for an IPO ghly three-quarters of ts during a visit to Beijing by camps -- or roughly 10 per- official information from Chi- earlier fundraising of as much as USD232 Hong Kong IPOs this German counterpart Heiko cent of their population in the na’s government,” he said. target. million. The company year are trading below Maas. province. It was the second time this Backing from some was earlier conside- their offer prices. A re- The remarks represent the Wang said China’s securi- year that a German visit of China’s biggest fir- ring a fundraising tar- presentative for Tong- ruling Communist Party’s ty efforts in Xinjiang “are in prompted China to address ms may not be enough get of $800 million to cheng-Elong declined latest effort to explain the line with those by the inter- human rights concerns. A to get investors exci- $1 billion, according to comment. mass detentions, which have national communities, and reporter’s question during ted in a market like to people with know- This all adds up to become its biggest source of the focus is on prevention.” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s this. Babytree Group, ledge of the matter. bad news for a market criticism from Western go- “If you do well in prevention, trip in May caused Chinese which abruptly cance- Unlike most listings in that has hosted three vernments and human rights terrorism won’t have a chance Premier Li Keqiang to defend led a press conference Hong Kong, the deal of the world’s five bi- advocates. of spreading and taking root. his country’s record on the to kick off its listing, launched without any ggest IPOs in 2018. Academic estimates, which That’s the most effective way issue. Two months later, the counts Alibaba and cornerstone investors. Hong Kong first-time have been described as credi- of fighting against terrorism,” country’s diplomatic push billionaire Guo Guan- Such investors typi- share sales have raised ble by the United Nations offi- he said. was credited with securing the gchang’s Fosun Inter- cally commit to hold $37.2 billion this year, cials, suggest that authorities Wang called on outsiders release of Nobel Peace Prize national Ltd. as inves- their stock for six mon- more than double the are holding as many as many to view the situation “objec- laureate Liu Xiaobo’s widow tors. It hasn’t annou- ths. That’s become a same period last year. as 1 million ethnic Uighurs tively.” “We hope journalist Bloomberg nced a new timetable risky proposition in Bloomberg 14.11.2018 wed
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Pakistan “Our main focus will be to bring the 25 million out-of- school children back to schools,” Mahmood said, adding that the Group says millions of girls government would soon annou- nce a new education policy. HRW’s report made no men- tion of security concerns, and deprived of education though it is generally safe for girls to go to schools these days illions of girls in Pakis- in Pakistan, dozens of schools tan are still out of school, for girls have come under atta-
M ap photo mostly because the government cks by militants in recent years. spends less money on education, In April, 11 girls’ schools were a leading international rights torched in northern Pakistan. group said yesterday — a dire The attack angered Pakistan’s warning that follows Prime Mi- Malala Yousafzai, the young nister Imran Khan’s promises to Nobel laureate and champion offer education to all children. of girls’ education worldwide, With a population of about 207 who demanded the schools be million, including an estimated promptly rebuilt. 80 million school-age children, Yousafzai, 21, had also cam- Pakistan has nearly 22.5 million paigned to promote education children out of school, the ma- for women in the northwestern jority of them girls, according to Swat Valley where she was shot a new report released by Human and wounded by the Pakistani Rights Watch. Taliban in 2012. She survived Pakistani girls are deprived the horrific attack became the of education for multiple rea- youngest person to be awarded sons, including a shortage of on millions of girls,” said Liesl Human Rights Watch said that percent of its GDP on educa- the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. government schools, the New Gerntholtz, women’s rights di- along with the government’s un- tion — far below recommended Yousafzai, who has been li- York-based watchdog said in the rector at HRW. der-investment in schools, ove- standards of 4 to 6 percent — in ving in Britain since her attack, 111-page report, entitled “Shall I For the report, HRW said it rall lack of schools and prohibiti- 2017, the rights group said. visited her hometown in March Feed My Daughter, or Educate interviewed 209 people — in- ve school fees and related costs, New Prime Minister Khan, who 2017. Her Malala Fund has in- Her?: Barriers to Girls’ Educa- cluding many girls who never issues such as corporal punish- has pledged that no child will vested, she said at the time, a tion in Pakistan.” attended school or were unable ment and a failure to enforce remain out of school, has assig- total of $6 million for schools The Pakistani government’s to complete their education and compulsory education are also ned Education Minister Shafqat and to provide books and uni- “failure to educate children is their families — in all four pro- contributing factors. Mahmood to reform the educa- forms for schoolchildren in having a devastating impact vinces in the country. Pakistan spent less than 2.8 tion system. Pakistan. AP
Japan Singapore Debt market’s secret probed as Facebook stands ground after criticism more bonds go unsold over 1MDB post apanese regulators part of the FSA’s efforts to Jare starting to look into improve the functioning acebook Inc. stood the Ministry of Law said in its ground after Sin- a Nov. 9 statement. underwriting practices bloomberg of Japan’s corporate debt F in the nation’s corpora- market, Mitsui said. gapore called the social “Facebook has declined te bond market, where Bond deals by some of media giant unreliable to take down a post that banks routinely say deals the nation’s biggest com- for declining a request to is clearly false, defama- are successful even in ca- panies have failed to sell remove a post, which the tory and attacks Singapo- ses when they are under- out recently, including government had said was re, using falsehoods,” the subscribed. those from Japan Airli- false and defamatory. Ministry of Law said. Fa- The move suggests that nes Co., Japan Tobacco “We have a responsibility cebook “cannot be relied the potential damage to Inc., Honda Finance Co. to handle any government upon to filter falsehoods some investors in Japan’s and Idemitsu Kosan Co., request to restrict alleged or protect Singapore from 76 trillion yen (USD669 according to information misinformation carefully a false information cam- billion) company note obtained by Bloomberg. and thoughtfully, consis- paign.” market is getting too big Spokespeople for those tent with our approach Singapore is among a for the government to ig- four companies said their to government requests growing number of coun- nore. Bloomberg reported Officials may “encou- on, underwriters said the banks told them that all of around the world,” Face- tries looking at laws regu- last month that underwri- rage” relevant players to deals were sold out, in the debt sold. book said in an e-mailed lating “fake news” and the ters in Japan failed to fully improve their practices if claims that people fami- The percentage of deals statement. “We do not social media. A parliamen- sell at least 29 percent of they find that underwri- liar with the matter said with unsold bonds rose have a policy that prohi- tary-select committee’s corporate debt offerings ters are indeed often fai- may be intended to hide a further last month, to at bits alleged falsehoods, report laid out 22 recom- in September, twice the ling to sell all of the debt, lack of demand and ensu- least 31 percent, according apart from in situations mendations that included average over six months, he said in an interview. re good relationships with to Bloomberg interviews where this content has the a call for legislation to halt based on interviews with The FSA will likely do so bond issuers. The broke- with market participants. potential to contribute to the viral spread of fake investors, underwriters if officials find structural rages often sell the leftover Japanese regulators’ imminent violence or phy- news “in a matter of hou- and issuers. defects in the market that securities to favored clien- deeper interest in corpo- sical harm.” rs.” As part of its regular could hold back growth, ts later at a discount, hur- rate bond offerings comes The post in question - by The measures sparked discussions with market according to Mitsui. ting investors who paid as the FSA pledges to stu- alternative news website concerns among some participants, the Finan- “I don’t mean to say a lot more for the bond at the dy ways to help the na- States Times Review - had big technology companies cial Services Agency plans about individual deals that initial offering, the people tion’s credit market gain connected Singapore and with the Asia Internet to ask whether domestic went unsold, but I am very say. more depth, according to its Prime Minister Lee Coalition - a group repre- brokerages often get stuck interested in the pheno- Still, the agency has no annual policy guidelines Hsien Loong to probes on senting companies such as holding onto company no- menon from the perspec- intention to try to force- released in September. the embattled Malaysian Apple Inc., Facebook and tes they couldn’t sell as a tive of how we can make fully correct market prac- Those are in line with Pri- state fund 1MDB. Face- Google - urging Singapore result of mispricing, accor- a better market,’’ Mitsui tices that generate unsold me Minister Shinzo Abe’s book’s decision to not re- to consider industry self- ding to Hidenori Mitsui, said. bonds, and those practices broader goal of making move malicious informa- regulation and coordina- director-general of the po- In all the cases that aren’t against the law, he Japan an international fi- tion on Singapore shows tion with local authorities. licy and markets bureau. Bloomberg has reported said. The questions are nancial center. Bloomberg the need for legislation, Bloomberg wed 14.11.2018
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North Korea missile bases outed in report that undermines Trump
Benjamin Din in a statement Monday. ministration officials have pre- U.S. and South Korea officials viously said Moscow is already hirteen undecla- played down the report’s findin- violating the restrictions. bloomberg red North Korean mis- gs, suggesting intelligence agen- The facilities identified in the sile operating bases cies were aware of the facilities. new report are located in stra- were identified in a new “I don’t comment on matters tegic locations that would put Treport, undermining the Trump that may or not pertain to inte- missiles in range of South Ko- administration’s claims that lligence,” U.S. National Security rea and Japan, according to its outreach to Pyongyang is Adviser John Bolton told repor- the report. Some are likely to making progress in getting Kim ters Tuesday on the sidelines of house missiles that could reach Jong Un’s regime to give up its regional summits in Singapore. the continental U.S. when they nuclear weapons program. “Obviously, we’re very well awa- become deployed. For decades, The 13 sites are among an esti- re of what’s going on in North the bases have been camoufla- mated 20 bases, small and dis- Korea.” ged to prevent destruction from persed across the country, that A spokesman for South Korean preemptive strikes and during are believed to have undergrou- President Moon Jae-in told re- military operations. nd facilities containing mobile porters described the CSIS re- The report singled out a base launchers that can be quickly port as “nothing new,” adding known as Sakkanmol, about 80 dispersed to other locations, US Senator Ed Markey that describing North Korea’s kilometers north of the demili- according to the report from missile activities as deceptive tarized zone and one of the clo- Beyond Parallel, a group at the to be declared and then dis- sile launches as signs of pro- risked hindering diplomacy. sest to South Korea. The base, Center for Strategic and Inter- mantled under the U.S. goal gress - chalked up the change The spokesman, Kim Eui-keum, located in mountainous terrain, national Studies in Washington. of North Korean “denucleari- to a scheduling conflict, adding, said that Pyongyang had never contains a unit equipped with Although not designed as laun- zation” - suggests that Pyon- “We think it’s going fine, we’re agreed to shut down its shor- short-range ballistic missiles, ch sites, the bases could be used gyang’s previous efforts to dis- in no rush.” t-range missile bases. the report said, and could house to launch short-range as well as mantle known missile launch si- Senator Edward Markey, a While the administration seeks medium-range ones. As of this intercontinental ballistic missi- tes or nuclear facilities had little Massachusetts Democrat who to continue its “maximum pres- month, “the base is active and les. impact on its nuclear program. sits on the Foreign Relations sure” campaign against Kim’s being reasonably well-maintai- “The dispersed nature, small The report comes as talks be- Committee, said in a statement regime, momentum is building ned by North Korean standards” size of operating bases, and tac- tween the U.S. and North Ko- that Trump was “getting played to ease international sanctions with minor infrastructure chan- tics and doctrine employed by rea hit another snag last week, by Kim Jong Un.” “We cannot put in place last year, a move the ges. ballistic missile units provide with a New York meeting be- have another summit with Nor- U.S. is struggling to resist. On Meanwhile, Bolton said Trump the best chances for their survi- tween Secretary of State Michael th Korea - not with President Thursday, Russia called a mee- was still interested in meeting val given the KPA’s technology Pompeo and the top negotiator Trump, not with the secretary of ting of the United Nations Se- Kim again. “We have indicated and capabilities,” according to from Pyongyang canceled at the state - unless and until the Kim curity Council to take up its re- to the North Koreans that the the report, using an acronym for last minute. President Donald regime takes concrete, tangible quest for humanitarian exemp- president is prepared to have a the Korean People’s Army. Trump - who’s cited North Ko- actions to halt and roll back its tions to international sanctions second summit with Kim Jong The existence of the bases - rea’s yearlong freeze on nuclear nuclear weapons and ballistic on Pyongyang. The U.S. said it Un after the first year,” Bolton which presumably would have weapons tests and ballistic mis- missile programs,” Markey said would vet Russia’s list, but ad- said. Bloomberg
Southeast Asian summit puts ap photo focus on trade tensions, trends he potential damage tions will yield progress no effect” where coun- million people, ASEAN Tto global trade brou- on a new trade pact that tries engage in increasin- is destined to become the ght on by President Do- would commit member gly protective measures world’s fourth biggest eco- nald Trump’s tariffs battle countries and others in against their rivals. nomy by 2030, after the with Beijing is looming as the Asian-Pacific region to Inward-looking, protec- U.S., China and the Euro- leaders of Southeast Asian opening markets further. tionist policies have gai- pean Union. nations, China, the U.S. Participants say India, ned ground in ASEAN as The globalization of ma- and other regional econo- for one, is balking at ope- elsewhere, he said. nufacturing has been a mies meet in Singapore ning its markets wider to “This is not the time key factor driving dyna- this week. imports from China under to close our doors by in- mic growth in the regional agreement that gives each th. The deal is due to take Countries across the re- the accord, dubbed the voking trade protectio- economy, which has more better access to markets in effect on Dec. 30. gion, many of which have Regional Comprehensive nism measures but ins- than doubled in size to services industries. Several other economies relied heavily on trade to Economic Partnership, or tead we should be actively USD2.8 trillion as of 2017. As discussions over the are preparing to try to join grow their economies, are RCEP. engaged in finding amica- Speaking at a business RCEP trade pact drag on, the pan-Pacific accord, responding with strong Expectations are modest. ble solutions,” Mahathir conference on the sideli- another, rival accord, the including the Philippines talk about free trade. “All Australian Prime Minister said. “It is now that we nes of the ASEAN summit, dozen-nation Trans-Paci- and South Korea. countries are linked in the Scott Morrison said yes- must continue to expand Li, the Chinese premier, fic Partnership, has been Japanese media repor- same industrial chain in terday in a statement that our intra-regional trade compared “rising unila- making headway despite ted that Taiwan’s repre- the world today and China he would be joining lea- and deepen the econo- teralism and protectio- Trump withdrawing the sentative to the Asia-Paci- and the U.S. are an im- ders in Singapore to just mic integration within nism,” uncertainties and U.S. from the Pacific Rim fic Economic Cooperation portant part of it. No one “review progress” toward ASEAN.” other destabilizing factors free trade initiative three forum, former chairman wants or expects to see an an agreement. ASEAN economic minis- to harmful contaminants days after he took office. of Taiwan Semiconductor interruption of it,” Pre- But the momentum ters on Monday approved in an ocean. The remaining 11 coun- Manufacturing Co. Mor- mier Li Keqiang said yes- must be in the direction of statements on facilitating “No country can effec- tries are preparing to ris Chang, plans to ask terday in a lecture on the more, not less, open tra- more open trade, coo- tively deal with these inaugurate the revised tra- Japan to back the island’s sidelines of the summit. de, said Malaysian Prime peration on developing challenges on its own,” he de deal, the Comprehen- request to also become a It’s unclear if this week’s Minister Mahathir Muha- renewable energy, and e- said. sive and Progressive member during a meeting summit meetings of the mad. commerce. During Li’s visit, Sin- Trans-Pacific Partnership, at the grouping’s annual 10-nation Association Otherwise, he warned, A fast-urbanizing and gapore and China signed following Australia’s rati- summit in Papua New of Southeast Asian Na- there could be a “domi- aging region of 630 an upgraded free trade fication earlier this mon- Guinea. AP 14.11.2018 wed
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and his team updated the story for the 1960s by giving Rogers even ap photo more ghosts: He lay frozen in ice for nearly two decades after falling into the sea, and awakened out of time in a fast-changing, morally murky world he barely recognized or could navigate. There was another, less-noticed corner where Lee was equally groundbreaking. As Marvel’s edi- tor, in an age before computers were in every pocket, he worked tirelessly to develop a relationship with his audience. He talked about stuff behind the scenes and curated a tallish tale of a wacky, collegial studio of wri- ters and artists who might do just about anything in their pursuit of good stories. His regular column, “Stan’s Soapbox,” talked directly to readers in a way that presaged the kind of access to celebrities that Twitter, Facebook and Insta- gram afford today. Many felt Lee didn’t share enou- gh credit with such comics pio- neers as Jack Kirby and Steve Di- tko, who worked alongside him in those early years as he developed the “Marvel Method” of story de- velopment. Fair enough. But part of Lee’s genius was his ability to be a master of collage. Like a Bob Dylan or a Gene Roddenberry, Lee took cultural Obituary threads — elements already afoot in society — and constructed his own quilt. While his source ma- terial was sometimes derivative, A universe of flawed heroes: what he stitched was something new under the sun. And within his emerging pan- Stan Lee was ahead of his time theon of white male angst, Lee was often an enthusiastic cham- Ted Anthony City and in the imperfect America March 1969 issues. “Even a shod- turning himself into Iron Man. pion of progressive views about beyond it. For them, the struggle dy super-villain can have a redee- Here was Peter Parker, a meek race, if not always gender. The t became easy, in recent years, was the thing — no matter whe- ming trait, just as any howlin’ hero high-school nerd who had no clue now-fabled Black Panther first Ito dismiss him as the wisecra- ther the task was saving the world, might have his nutty hang-ups.” how to handle the creepy abilities appeared in a Marvel comic book cking grandpa of the American paying the rent or trying to make and hormonal changes bestowed in 1966, becoming one of the comic book, a past-his-prime gim- ends meet as a freelance photo- upon him by the bite of a radioac- earliest mainstream superhe- mick who cameoed alongside Ear- grapher or a blind lawyer or an tive spider on a class field trip. roes of African descent, though it th’s angstiest superheroes in the itinerant stunt motorcyclist. Talk about playing to your target took until 1973 for him to snag a high-grossing Marvel blockbus- Unlike DC Comics’ iconic heroes, One of the audience. marquee spot in a comic entitled ters of the past decade. many of whom had been destined Here was Bruce Banner, a mili- “Jungle Action.” But Stan Lee, who died Mon- for greatness as the last sons of things we try tary scientist who tried to save so- “None of us is all that different day, was far more than that. It’s doomed planets, Amazon royal- to demonstrate meone from one of his test blasts from each other. We all want es- no stretch to say that he helped ty or rightful kings of the sea, the and ended up locked in a battle sentially the same things outta redraw the world of American fic- likes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic in our yarns is with his own angry, destructive life,” Lee wrote in the pages of tion. And he certainly made sure Four, Iron Man, the Ghost Rider id — hardly an incidental narrati- Marvel Comics in February 1980. everyone knew it. and the Incredible Hulk compo- that nobody is ve in an era when psychotherapy “So why don’t we all stop wasting From the ashes of pulp magazi- sed a catalog of human frailties and self-help were sharply on the time hating the ‘other’ guys. Just nes and the radioactive raw mate- — schmoes who inadvertently, all good, or all rise. And here was Matt Murdo- look in the mirror, mister — that rial of postwar uncertainty about or negligently, wandered into the bad. ck, blinded in a horrible accident other guy is you.” science and power, he summoned traffic of destiny. by irradiated waste, proving every Marvel is a calibrated commer- Stan Lee — not singlehandedly, but certain- Some moneyed, some working- night with precision radar powers, cial juggernaut now, its stories ly without parallel or peer — a tex- class, all neurotic, they had powers as Daredevil, that disability isn’t drowning in the merchandise that tured, self-sustaining universe of thrust upon them by misfortune It’s hard to overestimate how necessarily destiny. And here were amplifies them. It has been dis- imperfect heroes. or questionable choices. Their groundbreaking this philosophy the X-Men, mutants and perpe- missed as mass-produced storyte- While Updike and Cheever were abilities were just as often bane as was in a nation that, with a tone tual outsiders whose struggle to lling for a mass-produced age. Yet doing it in literature, while Ku- boon. And sometimes it was hard set by production-code Hollywood find a place in the mainstream on somehow, among the things Lee brick and Lumet and Penn were to tell the heroes and the villains since the early 1930s, had spent Earth has been variously framed manages to leave behind is a lin- doing it at the movies, the father apart. Sort of like real life. three decades positioning largely as a parable for race relations, an- gering sense — snake oil, maybe, of Marvel presented comic-book This was in no small measure unambiguous heroes at the cen- ti-Semitism and the Red Scare. but potent nonetheless — that America — which meant, at the due to Lee, who as Marvel’s edi- ter of its rising mass culture. Add Even Steve Rogers, whose Cap- with Marvel’s tales, still, anything time, mostly adolescent boys — tor-in-chief wrote many of the government efforts in the 1950s to tain America was the most Su- might happen. with a pantheon of deeply flawed books himself during comics’ “Sil- demonize comics as the mind-de- perman-like of the bunch, had Because, as Stan Lee knew well protagonists who, despite their ver Age” years of the early 1960s. cayers of America’s youth, and to demons. He was the skinny kid before America did, we still want presence in so many tales to asto- With seemingly boundless energy push publishers back toward pa- rejected by his World War II dra- our fantastic, unlikely superhe- nish, were in many ways just like and a staggering variety of voices, blum, and you’ll have some idea ft board who wanted so badly to roes to be just like us. Or, more you and me. he breathed personality, ambigui- what Lee accomplished at the be- fight that he volunteered to be saliently, we want to believe that These outcasts and misfits rose ty and a common narrative into ginning of the 1960s. a guinea pig for a “supersoldier we can be just like them. And who to the alarm clock’s buzzing and soon-to-be-beloved characters. Suddenly here was Tony Stark, serum” that would turn him into knows what they might do to pre- slogged to work each morning “One of the things we try to de- a genius inventor with daddy is- the ultimate fighting machine. vail because, after all, who really to get the job done, not in a fan- monstrate in our yarns is that no- sues (and, we would eventually Captain America debuted during knows what we might do? Maybe ciful Metropolis or Gotham but body is all good, or all bad,” Lee learn, an alcoholic narcissist) who the war years when Marvel was we can be heroes, sure, but the on the actual streets of New York wrote in a column for Marvel’s fixed his literally broken heart by still called Timely Comics, but Lee rent’s still due on the 15th. AP wed 14.11.2018
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and staged coordinated assaul- ts on major cities. Authorities stopped publishing casualty fi- After 17 years, many Afghans gures earlier this year, deeming them classified. An Islamic State affiliate has meanwhile carried out massive bombings against blame US for unending war the country’s Shiite minority. Afghans who have recently ser- ved on the front lines complain of faulty equipment, inadequa- ap photo te supplies and reinforcements that show up late and ill-equi- pped, if at all.
All the money that has come to this country has gone to the people in power. The poor people didn’t get anything. Hajji Akram Day laborer
Tameem Darvesh served in the Afghan army for nearly five years in the southern Helmand province. This year he went on In this 2013 photo, a U.S. soldier investigates the scene after two suicide attacks in Kandahar province holiday and never returned, tra- ding his $180 monthly salary for Kathy Gannon, Kabul ally Pakistan deliberately sowed zai headed for more than a de- “Even after 17 years of U.S. and work as a day laborer making chaos in Afghanistan to justify cade, and which is widely seen coalition effort and financial much less. He said morale is at hen U.S. forces the lingering presence of foreign as yet another bitter fruit of the largesse, Afghanistan remains an all-time low, with many sol- and their Afghan forces — now numbering arou- American invasion. one of the poorest, least educa- diers expressing sympathy for allies rode into nd 15,000 — in order to use the “All the money that has come to ted, and most corrupt countries the Taliban. Kabul in Novem- country as a listening post to this country has gone to the peo- in the world,” Sopko said. “It is Jawad Mohammadi served for berW 2001 they were greeted as monitor Iran, Russia and China. ple in power. The poor people also one of the most violent.” more than seven years in the se- liberators. But after 17 years of “They have made a hell, not a didn’t get anything,” said Hajji Hamidullah Nasrat sells im- curity forces until 2015, when he war, the Taliban have retaken paradise for us,” he said. Akram, a day laborer in Kabul’s ported fabrics in the capital’s stepped on a land-mine he was half the country, security is wor- Afghanistan is rife with such Old City who struggles to feed main bazaar on the banks of tasked to clear and lost both his se than it’s ever been, and many conspiracy theories. After last his family on around $4 a day. the Kabul River, a fetid trickle legs. He was just 25 years old. Afghans place the blame squa- month’s assassination of Kan- “The foreigners are not making running through a garbage-fil- He recalls how the foreign ins- rely on the Americans. dahar’s powerful police chief, things better. They should go.” led trench. He remembers wel- tructors told him to always che- The United States has lost Gen. Abdul Raziq, social media It’s not just Afghans. The Uni- coming the overthrow of the ck his mine detector by waving more than 2,400 soldiers in its exploded with pictures and pos- ted States’ own inspector gene- Taliban, who had shut down his it over a piece of metal before longest war, and has spent more ts suggesting he was the victim ral for Afghanistan’s reconstruc- photography studio because it heading out into the field. But than USD900 billion on every- of a U.S. conspiracy. Recent in- tion offered a blistering critique was deemed un-Islamic. whenever a device failed to res- thing from military operations sider attacks, in which Afghan in a speech in Ohio earlier this “After the Taliban we were pond, his Afghan commander to the construction of roads, forces have killed their erstwhile month. expecting something good, but would tell him to use it anyway. bridges and power plants. Three U.S. and NATO allies, have at- John Sopko pointed out that instead, day by day, it is getting “I was told that’s all we have. U.S. presidents have pledged to tracted online praise. the U.S. has spent $132 billion worse,” he said. “How is it that That’s what we were given, you bring peace to Afghanistan, ei- “In 2001 the Afghan people on Afghanistan’s reconstruc- a superpower like the United just have to use it,” he said. ther by adding or withdrawing supported the arrival of the Uni- tion — more than was spent on States cannot stop the Taliban? The next time he went out with troops, by engaging the Taliban ted States and the international Western Europe after World It is a question every Afghan is a faulty device, his foot found a or shunning them. Last year, the community wholeheartedly,” War II. Another $750 billion asking.” bomb the detector had missed. U.S. dropped the “mother of all said Hamid Karzai, who was has been spent on U.S. military The U.S. and NATO formally “I felt myself being thrown bombs” on a cave complex. installed as Afghanistan’s first operations, and Washington has concluded their combat mission through the air. I looked and I None of it has worked. After president and twice won re-e- pledged $4 billion a year for Af- in 2014. Since then, the Tali- saw my legs were near me and years of frustration, Afghanistan lection, serving until 2014. ghanistan’s security forces. ban have carried out near-dai- there was so much blood. I yel- is rife with conspiracy theories, “For a number of years things The result? ly attacks on rural checkpoints led: ‘Please help me.’” AP including the idea that Ameri- worked perfectly well,” he said cans didn’t stumble into a fo- in a recent interview. “Then we rever war, but planned one all saw the United States either suicide bomber targets anti-taliban rally, kills 4 along. changed course or simply ne- Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, glected the views of the Afghan A SUICIDE bomber struck near an anti-Taliban rally a member of Afghanistan’s High people and the conditions of the in Kabul on Monday, killing at least four people, offi- Peace Council, wonders how Afghans.” cials said, as a lawmaker reported that insurgents killed U.S. and NATO forces — which He blames the lingering war at least 20 Afghan policemen over the past 24 hours in at their peak numbered 150,000 on the U.S. failure to elimina- eastern Ghazni province. According to Basir Mujahid, and fought alongside hundreds te militant sanctuaries in nei- spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the bomber was of thousands of Afghan troops, ghboring Pakistan, the bombing on foot and detonated his vest full of explosive after he were unable to vanquish tens of of Afghan villages and homes, was spotted by police. Hours later, the Islamic State thousands of Taliban. and the detention of Afghans in group claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place about 500 meters from where hundreds of minor- “Either they did not want to raids. ity Shiites had gathered to denounce the latest Taliban or they could not do it,” he said. Others blame the notoriously attacks in Ghazni districts of Jaghuri and Malistan. He now suspects the U.S. and its corrupt government, which Kar- 14.11.2018 wed
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Offbeat cinema This is heavy: The kilogram is cineteatro getting an update 08 - 14 Nov accuses ibyans The kilogram is getting an update. 1991 US L No, your bathroom scales won’t suddenly become kinder and a of Lockerbie bombing kilo of fruit will still weigh a kilo. But the way scientists define the exact mass of a kilogram is about to change. Until now, its mass has been defined by the granddaddy of all ki- los: a golf ball-sized metal cylinder locked in a vault in France. For Two Libyan intelligence officers have been accused more than a century, it has been the one true kilogram upon which of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing. all others were based. The United States has called on Libyan leader Colo- No longer. nel Gaddafi to hand over the two men, Abdel Basset Gathering in Versailles, west of Paris, governments are expected Ali Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. on Friday to approve plans to instead use a scientific formulation The men have been indicted in the US on 193 char- to define the exact mass of a kilo. The change is expected to have ges, including three which carry the death penalty. practical applications in industries and sciences that require ultra Arrest warrants have also been issued for the two -precise measurements of mass. Libyans in Scotland on charges of murder and cons- piracy in relation to bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in And it will mean redundancy for the so-called Grand K, the kilo that Code blue has towered above them all since 1889. December 1988. room 1 The plane was en route from London to New York Made of a corrosion-resistant alloy of 90 percent platinum and 10 2:30, 7:15 9:30pm percent iridium , the international prototype kilo has rarely seen the when it exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing Director: Masaki Nishiura all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. light of day. Yet its role has been crucial, as the foundation for the Starring: Yamashita Tomohisa, Aragaki Yui, Toda Erika globally accepted system for measuring mass upon which things President George Bush is to consult British Prime Language: Japanese (Chinese, English) Minister John Major and other world leaders over the like international trade depend. Duration: 112min Three different keys, kept in separate locations, are required to un- next few days to decide the international response. lock the vault where the Grand K and six official copies — collectively My hero academia Both President Bush and Mr Major have refused to known as “the heir and the spares” — are entombed together under room 1 (4:45 p.m.) rule out military action if Libya fails to hand over the glass bell-jars at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, room 3 (9:30 p.m.) suspects for trial. in Sevres on the western outskirts of Paris. Director: Kenji Nagasaki However, Libya’s ambassador to France, Saeeb Founded by 17 nations in 1875 and known by its French initials, Language: Japanese (Chinese, English) Mujber, has said his country would not comply with the BIPM is the guardian of the seven main units humanity uses to Duration: 112min the indictments. measure its world : the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, the Mr Mujber told the BBC that surrendering the two second for time, the ampere for electric current, the kelvin for tem- Patrick men would be to surrender Libya’s sovereignty. perature, the mole for the amount of a substance and the candela room 2 Libya had been implicated as an excuse for a mili- for luminous intensity. 2:30, 4:30, 9:30pm tary assault, he added. Director: Mandie Fletcher Of the seven, the kilo is the last still based on a physical artefact, “’This is a political thing. This is a lynching to bring Starring: Beattie Edmondson, Ed Skrein, Tom Bennett the Grand K. The meter, for example, used to be a meter-long metal Libya to its knees,” Mr Mujber said. Language: English But the US acting Attorney General, William Barr, bar but is now defined as the length that light travels in a vacuum in Duration: 130min 1/299,792,458th of a second. said a fragment from the Toshiba radio-cassette re- “This, if you like, is a moment of celebration because it’s like the corder which contained the bomb linked the accused last standard remaining from 1875 that will finally be replaced by new to the crime. innovation,” Martin Milton, the BIPM director, said in an Associated “Scientists determined that it was part of the bomb’s Press interview. “Everything else has been recycled and replaced timing device and traced it to its manufacturer - a and improved. This is the last improvement that dates back to the Swiss company that had sold it to a high-level Libyan original conception in 1875. So that’s a tribute to what was done in intelligence official,” Mr Barr said. 1875, that it’s lasted this long.” Courtesy BBC News Only exceedingly rarely, and exceedingly carefully, have the BIPM’s master kilos been gingerly taken out so that other kilos sent back to Sevres from around the world could be compared against them, to be sure they were still properly calibrated, give or take the mass of a dust particle or two. Even as humans argued, fought and slaughtered each other by the tens of millions in the 20th century, they shared the kilo. The kilo allocated to China in 1983, as it started to embrace market reforms that subsequently turned it into an economic behemoth, was the first Halloween manufactured with ultra-high precision diamond machining. Alloca- room 2 ted to Japan in 1894, K39 was later ceded to South Korea in 1958. 2:30, 4:30, 7:30 9:30pm Director: David Gordon Green n context The kilo is “a tribute to man’s ability to collaborate,” Milton says. I Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Will Patton “It’s been called a great work of peace, actually, because it’s one Language: English Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah were not brought to trial for another decade. of the areas where all of the states of the world come together with Duration: 130min absolutely the same objective.” After years of wrangling, Colonel Gaddafi finally allowed them to be tried in a neutral country under Scottish law. The metal kilo is being replaced by a definition based on Planck’s Hichki constant, which is part of one of the most celebrated equations in In January 2001 Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was jailed for life room 3 following an 84-day trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands. physics but also devilishly difficult to explain. Suffice to say that the 2:30, 4:45, 9:15pm His alleged accomplice, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty. update should, in time, spare nations the need to occasionally send Director: Siddharth P Malhotratiqua Al-Megrahi is serving his sentence at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow, Scot- their kilos back to Sevres for calibration against the Grand K. Scien- Starring: Rani Mukerji land in a specially-built isolation unit, dubbed “Gaddafi’s Café”. tists instead should be able to accurately calculate an exact kilo, wi- Language: Hindi (Chinese/ English) In 2002 his appeal against conviction was rejected. thout having to measure one precious lump of metal against another. Duration: 112min wed 14.11.2018
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Football 1.75 million pounds for advising Al Jazira Sports. Since July 2011, UEFA has monitored the annual accounts UEFA warns clubs over financial of all clubs entering its two club competitions. The first period UEFA assessed clubs for com- pliance with FFP was 2011-13 abuses after Man City leaks when owners were allowed to cover losses up to 45 million eu- Rob Harris, Manchester ros. UEFA requires clubs to reviously concluded ap photo approach break-even on football PFinancial Fair Play cases -related business — television could be reopened, UEFA war- rights fees, buying and selling ned on Monday as evidence players, salaries, sponsor deals, grows of Manchester City’s at- tickets sales, prize money. The tempts to disguise its source of complex accounting rules en- income and spending. courage clubs to spend on long- The UEFA statement on the term projects — stadiums, youth prospect of the financial com- training — which do not count pliance system being “abused” as losses for FFP purposes. by teams comes after internal correspondence exposing City’s alleged deception was published by European media outlets. The reigning English Premier Financial Fair League champion and current leader has not provided a defen- Play has led to se or disputed the authenticity a step change of the information from leaked The agreement with UEFA of the United Arab Emirates. will use that to challenge the fi- emails which reveal elaborate eventually saw City forfeit The leaks emails claimed to gures and will seek explanation, in the health of attempts over several years to only 20 million euros (USD23 show in 2015 how the Etihad clarification or rebuttal from the try to avoid breaching the rules million) in Champions League deal generated 67.5 million pou- club concerned.” the finances in designed to curb overspending prize money. UEFA has not nds annually for City. But City’s Abu Dhabi United Group was on player costs. said how aware it was in 2014 holding company — state-ba- also alleged to be sending cash European club City, which has been owned by of City’s plans to hide spending cked Abu Dhabi United Group to a shell vehicle which was football. Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour of more recent schemes, which — channeled 59.9 million pou- created to supposedly buy the UEFA statement for a decade, has already been have been reported in a five-part nds back to Etihad, according to right to use players’ images in punished for violating FFP af- series by German magazine Der Jorge Chumillas, the club chief marketing campaigns. This hel- ter reaching a settlement agree- Spiegel. financial officer in an internal ped raise revenue by 30 million “Financial Fair Play has led to ment with UEFA in 2014 that “FFP is a framework which email. euros in one case cited by Der a step change in the health of saw it fined rather than banned clubs that wish to play in UEFA The evidence could be signi- Spiegel, which reported City’s the finances in European club from the Champions League. competitions agree to abide by,” ficant for UEFA which checks emails from 2013. football,” UEFA said on Mon- Having spent more than a the organizer of the Champions clubs’ finances annually to ensu- City has not commented on day. “Seven years ago, European week declining to comment on League and Europa League said re they are meeting break-even its use of the Fordham Sports clubs had a cumulative debt of the information in the “Football in a statement. “It relies on the requirements on a rolling three- Management image rights com- 1.7 billion euros. Last year it Leaks” documents, UEFA has cooperation of clubs to declare a year basis. pany or attempts to shift costs was a profit of 600 million eu- issued a response to questions complete and genuine financial “This includes a thorough as- away from the club. ros. Without question, it has about City that raises the pros- position. While UEFA can test sessment of clubs’ financial po- Roberto Mancini, who mana- been a success for the game pect of new sanctions. the information it receives, it sitions on the basis of both the ged City from 2009-13 and won across Europe.” “Should new information sug- relies on that information being information disclosed by the the Premier League in 2012, Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Ger- gest that previously concluded fair and accurate reflections of a clubs (based on their indepen- was also shown to have received main was sanctioned for overs- cases have been abused, those club’s finances.” dently audited financial state- more pay from a team Sheikh pending in 2014 at the same time cases may be capable of being re- The title sponsor of City’s sta- ments) as well as a number of Mansour owns in Abu Dhabi as City. The Spanish soccer lea- opened as determined on a case dium, training campus, and je- compliance checks and analysis than from the Manchester club. gue last year asked UEFA to in- by case basis,” UEFA said. “This rsey backer is Etihad Airways, undertaken by UEFA (including Der Spiegel shows Mancini sig- vestigate City and PSG, claiming approach is applied univer- the state-owned airline from independent external audits),” ned two contracts at the same they benefit from state aid whi- sally to all clubs that apply for a Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Mansour is a UEFA said. “If new information time, to receive a base salary of ch “distorts European compe- UEFA license and participate in member of Abu Dhabi’s royal fa- comes to light that may be ma- 1.45 million pounds from City titions” and “is irreparably har- European club competitions.” mily and deputy prime minister terial to this assessment, UEFA and 1.45 million pounds and ming the football industry.” AP
Baseball MLB All-Stars visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park iami Marlins ma- Game 4 was played yes- roshima on Aug. 6, 1945, re signing with the Dod- nager Don Mattin- terday in Hiroshima, killed 140,000 people gers, will start Game 4 in
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Thailand Football Chelsea midfielder Child boxing debated after Joe Cole retires at 37 Former England and Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole has retired from football. The 37-year-old Cole completed his career 13-year-old’s death with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the United Soccer League, scoring 104 goals Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Sukrit said the death of the in 716 professional appearances for Tassanee Vejpongsa 13-year-old, who fought under seven teams. After impressing at West ap photo the name Petchmongkol S. Wi- Ham, Cole made his England debut at 19 he death of a 13-year- laitong, was a one-off incident and went on to earn 56 caps and appear old boy who was kno- and the result of a poorly orga- at three World Cups. Cole was part of cked out during a ki- nized event. England’s so-called Golden Generation, ckboxing match in “This has never happened be- playing alongside David Beckham and TThailand has sparked debate fore and it’s unprecedented,” he Wayne Rooney. over whether to ban matches said. “There are several factors involving children. involved which have nothing to The death of Anucha Tasako do with age. The referee wasn’t Baseball came after a Muay Thai — Thai quick enough to stop the fight Acuna named boxing — match Saturday in Two novice Buddhist monks practice Muay Thai and the venue didn’t have a doc- the Bangkok suburb of Samut tor on standby, which shouldn’t National League Prakarn. The Facebook page month by Thailand’s Mahidol its boosters oppose regulating it. happen.” Muaythai Krobwongjorn, whi- University saying that allowing “This would have a major im- Public television station Thai- Rookie of the Year ch covers the sport, said he children under 15 to box could pact on the industry,” Sukrit PBS reported that Anucha had died from a brain hemorrhage. result in various types of brain Parekrithawet, a lawyer who re- fought more than 170 matches Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna Protective gear is normally not damage. presents several boxing training since he began boxing at the age Jr. woke up in Japan to news he had been named National League Rookie of the worn in the sport, and video Thai lawmakers are conside- camps, said of the proposed le- of 8, and was currently fighting Year. Acuna was a runaway choice for the circulated on social media said ring legislation proposed last gislation. “Those who drafted in the under 41 kilogram (under award over Washington outfielder Juan to be of the fight shows Anucha 90 pound) weight division. It month banning children under the law do not know anything Soto in a contest between 20-year-olds. not wearing any. said he was raised by his uncle, 12 from competitive boxing. The about the sport of Thai boxing, “I’m just flattered, I’m so honored,” Acuna Child boxing is widespread legislation has been forwarded and this would make Muay Thai who is a boxing trainer, after his said through a translator. “My career is in Thailand, especially in rural to the Ministry of Tourism and become extinct.” parents separated. just starting. There are so many things I areas, where it offers a way for Sports, which has already draf- “If you don’t allow younger The uncle, Damrong Tasako, need to do to be a better player. I’ll take children to help provide for their ted a revised version, said Gen. players to learn their way up, told Thai PBS that Anucha’s advice from anyone who will help me families and a path to lift them Aduldej Intapong, a member of how can they be strong and ex- death was an accident but he improve.” Acuna received 27 first-place out of poverty, according to its the National Legislative Assem- perienced enough to fight?” he would like to see regulations for votes and three seconds for 144 points. advocates. Opponents say the bly. said. “We call it ‘boxing bones.’ children under 15 to wear pro- Soto got two firsts and 89 points, and Los sport is dangerous, citing stu- Kickboxing is one of the most You need to have boxing bones tective gear to soften blows to Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler dies such as one published last popular sports in Thailand and built from a very young age.” the head and body. AP was next with one first and 28 points.
ad THE US airman in Japan dies in stabbing; Station Air quality BUZZJapanese woman arrested Roadside 70-100 Moderate The U.S. Air Force says a U.S. airman in Ja- rested on suspicion of attempted murder, alle- pan has been stabbed and later died at a hos- gedly stabbing Vollweiler in the neck. Japanese High pital. Japanese police say they have arrested a media said Saito was telling police she killed Density 55-75 suspect, a Japanese woman. The Air Force said Vollweiler because she did not want to end Residental in a statement that 35-year-old Master Sgt. Ni- their relationship, and she intended to kill her- Moderate cholas Vollweiler, from the 374th Airlift Wing, self afterward. Area opinion was found unconscious in his off-base home The Air Force and the police are working with stab wounds Friday. together on the investigation. About 54,000 Ambient 70-100 Japanese police identified the suspect as American troops are stationed in Japan under Moderate source: dsmg source: Macau Matters 27-year-old Aria Saito. They said she was ar- a bilateral security alliance. Richard Whitfield WORLD BRIEFS To Sleep, erchance to ream Heaviest fighting Russia Opposition P D leader Alexei Navalny was stopped at the I grew up fascinated by the clockwork mechanical since 2014 convulses border yesterday and systems of our industrial world and studied systems barred from leaving engineering at university, but hated the seemingly Russia as he was about meaningless, messy complexity of biology. It was only to travel to a court Israel-Gaza border hearing at the European much later that I came to understand how biology was Court for Human Rights actually much more sophisticated and avoided the in France. fragility of mechanical systems, instead often making bloomberg use of the optionality and resilience of chemical pro- cesses. You just need to compare a simple mechanical bloomberg metronome with the complex interactions between Melatonin and Adenosine and other chemicals for controlling the sleep-wake cycles in most biological entities (humans included). In a fascinating book called “Why We Sleep” by Ma- thew Walker I recently learned that the Pineal Gland Czech Republic The in our brains produces Melatonin on a sinusoidal 24+ country’s billionaire prime hour cycle and it is subsequently eliminated from our minister (pictured) will bodies by our Livers. Melatonin production is regu- face an ouster motion over a fraud investigation lated by the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus in our brains that took a new twist that, among other things, detects daylight through our when his son claimed Optical Cortex. Melatonin production is like a 24-hour he’d been abducted to metronome, but the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus adjusts sraelis and Gazans Hamas’s decision to spend and international contacts” Crimea as his father tried the time base depending on external conditions which Iwoke to another day of ro- its money on weapons ra- to try to stop Israel’s assaul- to hide him from the explains why our metabolisms can adjust to timezo- cket fire and airstrikes yes- ther than infrastructure or ts. But U.S. President Do- probe. ne changes. Melatonin levels in our bodies help con- terday, adding new urgency social services, have deepe- nald Trump’s envoy to the to efforts to quell fighting ned the area’s destitution. Middle East Jason Green- Italy’s premier yesterday trol many time regulated bodily processes, including that is the heaviest since Israel’s security cabinet blatt laid the blame squarely hosted a meeting of wakefulness. their 2014 war. convened yesterday mor- at Hamas’s door, saying its Libya’s rival leaders on the sidelines of a Our central nervous system also produces Adeno- Months of contacts led ning, Army Radio reported, activities “continue to prove sine while we are awake and its buildup creates a conference aimed at by the United Nations and with Prime Minister Benja- they don’t really care about helping its former colony “sleep pressure” that controls many bodily processes Egypt aimed at reaching a min Netanyahu under in- the Palestinians of Gaza.” crack down on Islamic that make us sleepy. Adenosine is also continuously long-term truce seemed less tense pressure from some “Israel is forced once again militants and human metabolized (decomposed) in the body. Thus Adeno- promising as Gaza rocket politicians and residents of into military action to de- trafficking. sine levels in our body rise when we are awake and squads unleashed the big- southern Israel to act more fend its citizens,” he twee- fall when we sleep. gest bombardment of sou- forcefully against Gaza mi- ted. “We stand with Israel thern Israel in four years, litants. His decision to let a as it defends itself against In the mornings, after sleep, Adenosine levels in our ap photo bodies are low and Melatonin levels fall making us and Israel pounded targets Qatari plane land last week these attacks.” across the Hamas-run terri- with suitcases of cash de- Israeli reserves soldiers wide awake and active. Later, in the evening, Ade- tory. Eleven Gaza militants, signed to ease Gaza’s dis- have not been mobilized, nosine and Melatonin levels have risen causing us an Israeli soldier, and a Pa- tress has also been attacked Lieutenant Colonel Jona- to get sleepy. Various chemicals, notably caffeine, lestinian in Israel have been by critics who say Israel is than Conricus told reporters can interrupt this cycle by interfering with the effects killed since the violence was paying protection money to in a briefing. He estimated of Adenosine on the body, thus delaying the onset of triggered Sunday night by a Hamas in hopes of achie- Gaza militants have more sleepiness. bungled Israeli intelligence ving quiet. than 20,000 rockets and US With Santa Ana Researchers know we experience two kinds of operation inside Gaza. On Sunday, hours after mortars of varying calibers winds returning and sleep – REM and NREM – and we cycle between The Israeli military said telling reporters in Paris and ranges. hundreds of homes in them several times each night, and that the cycling about 400 launches were that he’d prefer a long-term In its assaults on Gaza, Is- ashes, firefighters were struggling to corral a changes as we grow up and age. REM is an acronym identified from Gaza sin- truce to war, Netanyahu rael has signaled to Hamas ce Sunday night, including cut short a European trip “that we have the intelligen- devastating Southern for Rapid Eye Movement and it is associated with California wildfire that dreaming; NREM is Not REM, and no dreaming there! more than 100 intercepted to deal with the outbreak of ce and the capabilities to has ravaged scenic by missile defenses. Israe- fighting. strike a very wide array of I find it fascinating that nearly all life on Earth sleeps. canyons and celebrity li aircraft struck about 150 UN special envoy Nickolay military targets that belong Even microbes and bacteria display periodic dorman- enclaves near the ocean. militant targets including Mladenov said on Twitter to Hamas, and we aren’t More on p13 cy and most animals show evidence of REM and military compounds, wea- that he has been working bound only to weapons fa- NREM sleep. Given how vulnerable to predation ani- pons manufacturing and closely with Egypt to “ensu- cilities and positions, etc.,” Brazil The Inter- mals are during sleep, it must perform an essential life storage sites, underground re that Gaza steps back from Conricus said. “So there is American Commission on function. Even fish and migrating birds are known to tunnels, Hamas naval ves- the brink.” definitely ample room for Human Rights expressed put different parts of their brains into “sleep mode” at sels, rocket-launching sites “The escalation in the past additional targets.” deep concern over and Hamas’s al-Aqsa televi- 24hrs is EXTREMELY dan- Confrontations between human rights in Brazil, different times each day. saying it will monitor We now know that NREM and REM sleep are cru- sion, the military said. gerous and reckless,” Mla- Gaza and Israel have been what happens when the cial for consolidating our memories, integrating them The intense clashes threa- denov wrote late Sunday. escalating since Palesti- government of President- into our life view/experience and building associations tened to explode into war, “Rockets must STOP, res- nians launched a campaign elect Jair Bolsonaro and have dealt a blow to traint must be shown by all! of anti-Israel protests in between different life experiences, which are essential assumes office Jan. 1. efforts by Egypt and the No effort must be spared to late March. Israeli snipers for creativity and innovation. NREM sleep seems to UN to forge a sustainable reverse the spiral of violen- deployed on the border Zimbabwean consumer transfer our daily experiences to long term memory cease-fire and ease the dire ce.” have killed more than 220 prices surged at their and to build on existing associations. REM sleep then humanitarian situation in A spokesman for Hamas’s Palestinians, and one Israe- fastest pace since seems to trim unneeded memories and build new as- the Palestinian territory. military wing, Abu Obeida, li soldier has been killed by a hyperinflationary sociations. As well as this mental housekeeping, a lot The enclave has been under warned on Twitter of har- sniper fire from Gaza. The spiral a decade ago as the policies of the a physical housekeeping also occurs while we sleep an Israeli and Egyptian blo- sher strikes to come if the campaign began as an effort government led by to regulate, repair and replenish our bodies. ckade since Hamas seized Israeli attacks continue, and to draw attention to Pales- President Emmerson I will go into some of the fascinating reasons for and power more than a decade Palestinian President Mah- tinians’ plight but has in- Mnangagwa caused functions of sleep in future articles, highlighting their ago. Sanctions applied by moud Abbas cut short a trip cluded repeated attacks on shortages of everything relevance in Macau. the West Bank-based Pales- to Kuwait and his office said Israel and efforts to breach from fuel to consumer tinian Authority, as well as he held “intensive regional the border. Bloomberg goods.