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CRIME Consulate rewards Zealous police officer two Filipinas, reveals insulted after fining smoker Renato Marques initially lent the mainland man a sum of HKD220,000 in October i, a 53 year-old businessman 2015 for the purpose of gambling skills courses Lfrom Mainland China was the in local casinos. He allegedly lost main figure of a somewhat ridi- this money on the gaming tables. culous situation that occurred Not happy with the results, on Saturday. Events unfolded the man again approached the in downtown Macau around 9 woman to borrow more money, p.m., when a police officer cau- this time asking for a sum of ght Li throwing a cigarette on the HKD670,000. ground. In order for her to give him the According to information relea- money, the man with the help of sed by Public Security Police For- the friend, told the woman that ce (PSP) during a press confe- he was a highly ranked mainland rence yesterday, when the police public official and provided the officer approached Li to fine him woman with a document that he for the illegal act, the man did claimed to be a property registra- not respond well to the penalty. tion in his name. In his frustration, Li started to The woman believed him and insult the officer. handed over the cash which he Although the police officer re- rapidly gambled and lost in the portedly asked several times for casinos once more. Li to control his bad language, After several unsuccessful tries Li continued his insults, ulti- to recover the money, the woman mately leading the officer to de- finally decided to file a complaint tain the man. Li was presented at the PJ. to the Public Prosecution Offi- The police investigation revea- ce (MP) where he was charged led that both the claim that the From left: Consul Lilybeth Deapera, Rachalle Magturo and Labor Attache Vivian Tornea with aggravated insults to a po- man was a high-ranked official, lice officer. and the property registration do- he Philippine Consula- and the idea is to recognize face in the city. In a separate case, the PJ cument, were fake. Tte General in Macau has positive contributions to the “They worry so much about advised that a local resident After a few months of searching, recently recognized two Fili- Macau society and Filipino their children [in the Phili- was swindled of a total sum of the authorities finally intercepted pinas for their contributions community,” said the consul ppines] and also the influen- HKD890,000. The resident, a the man, who was then escorted to the Filipino community in general. ce of wrong friends, friends woman aged 52, was introduced by the police force to the MP, ac- Macau during its 2016 Natio- One of those awarded was who like to gamble. Some are to the suspect by a friend. She cused of fraud. nal Women’s Month celebra- Remedios Salamanes, a lo- facing low wages and high tion in the city. cal resident who has been rent for boarding houses,” ex- “We’ve always been trying working in the city for over plained the awardee, who is to identify the best of the Phi- 28 years. She is also a finalist also a financial council officer lippines in the community of the “Gawad Geny Lopez Jr. for the Filipino pastoral care Documentary film festival because we want them to be Bayaning Pilipino Awards,” program for migrants. an inspiration to the other an annual search for modern- The diplomat also said that kicks off on April 22 members of the community,” day heroes that recognizes the consulate is on its third said the Philippine Consul ordinary people who have intake of students for its Lea- omuna de Han-Ian, a local General of Macau, Lilybeth performed heroic acts and dership and Social Entrepre- Cart and culture association, Deapera. extraordinary deeds in the neurship course. is set to organize the “1st Macau With over 25,000 overseas Asia-Pacific region. “The plan is to be able to qua- International Documentary Film Filipino workers (OFW) li- “It’s the first time that the lify them for the “Technical Festival,” which will kick off on ving in the city, the diplomat search has included Macau. Education and Skills Develo- April 22 and run until May 1. revealed that the consulate is They only used to include pment Authority”, commonly The festival, to be held at the Ci- cooperating with its labor of- Singapore, Hong Kong and known as “TESDA” [an agency nematheque – Passion, will pre- fice to provide short courses Taiwan. So we disseminated of the Philippine government sent 18 films from more than 10 for the OFWs to learn extra the information,” says Dea- responsible for managing te- countries from Asia, Europe and skills. These include skills pera. chnical education and skills America, according to a press re- such as bartending, massage, “She was shortlisted,” the development]; that’s our goal. lease. leadership and social entre- consul general continued, We’re trying to work on that,” The opening film of the inau- preneurship, money manage- “and we recognize her becau- says Deapera. gural festival will be “Taste of ment and others. se [poverty] was not some- She explained that there are Youth,” the latest work of direc- award at the 65th Berlin Film “In one of my talks with the thing that stopped her from numerous workers who have tor King Wai Cheung, winner of Festival; the Indonesian film government leaders, they re- achieving her goals. She has come to the territory as tou- the Golden Horses Awards. The “The Look of Silence,” which was cognize that one of the rea- helped in raising her nieces rists. However, she hopes that film depicts the life of teenagers nominated at the 88th Oscars sons why the country has de- and nephews [...] she’s able to at some point in time they’ll in Hong Kong in contemporary for best documentary; and the veloped is the contributions help a lot of our ‘kababayans’ be able to take the exams so society. The film reflects on the film “China Heavyweight,” which of our ‘kababayans’ [a Taga- [in Macau].” as to be “certified by an asses- present, and divines the future of won the “Golden Horse Awards” log word for fellow Filipino] Meanwhile Salamanes, a li- sing body in the Philippines,” the city. for best documentary in 2012. who have been here,” reveals brarian at a local school, told which she believes adds to the Moreover, the festival will also The festival is sponsored by Deapera. the Times about a few issues chance of a salary increase. present the Iranian film “Taxi,” the Cultural Institute and Melco “We have several programs, that Filipino migrant workers Staff reporter which won the “Golden Bear” Crown Entertainment.

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Daniel Beitler range from Xi Jinping’s brother -in-law, Deng Jiagui, who owns acau’s Secretary two offshore companies registe- for Economy and Leong: No comments on red by Hong Kong-based WBC Finance, Lionel Secretaries Limited, to the fa- Leong, told repor- mily of former Chinese premier Mters yesterday that the govern- Li Peng. ment needs more time and in- ‘Panama Papers’ leaks It may also stand in contrast formation before commenting with Beijing’s policy to curb out- on the so-called “Panama Pa- bound investments in order to pers” documents, which are be- stymie capital flight and restore lieved to have been leaked from Hong Kong a weakening yuan. Panama-based law firm, Mossa- ap photo China’s media coverage of ck Fonseca. outstrips all the “Panama Papers” scandal Leong added that he has “no others with was initially limited to accusa- knowledge on the involvement tions against Russian President of any local companies in this 2,212 mentions Vladimir Putin. More recently scheme.” however, the media coverage Franco Dragone, creator and in the ‘Panama has been further restricted and director of City of Dream’s a number of China-based news “House of Dancing Water,” is Papers’ reports have been removed alto- allegedly among those implica- gether. ted in an international media viduals implicated in the docu- Current restrictions extend to investigation which has exposed ments is executive director Tho- social media and search engi- hidden offshore financial arran- mas Chan of Hong Kong-based nes like Baidu, where the search gements in the wake of the in- Sun Hung Kai Properties, Asia’s “Panama Papers” (in simplified formation disseminated by Ger- largest property developer. characters) retrieves the messa- man newspaper Suddeutsche A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Chan was arrested in 2012 as ge: “The search results are not Zeitung which has been shared Panama City part of a corruption probe by shown as they may not be in with more than 100 media orga- HKSAR’s Independent Com- accordance with relevant laws, nizations. operates as just one of eight Chi- tants, Hong Kong outstrips all mission Against Corruption. regulations and policies.” The daily Belgian newspaper na-based units, and is alleged to others with 2,212 mentions in The leaked papers reveal that On Weibo, searching for the Le Soir reported that Franco be connected to individuals men- the “Panama Papers,” out of the the case sparked internal disa- term only retrieves results rela- Dragone’s name had been found tioned in the documents. approximately 14,000 clients greements within Mossack Fon- ting to foreign politicians identi- linked to the “Panama Papers.” According to information with which Mossack Fonseca is seca over whether to terminate fied in the leak. Le Soir commented: “The ta- leaked throughout the almost alleged to have worked. The city the company’s relationship with Chinese tabloid Global Times lented stage director […] is 11.5 million file cache of docu- also tops the list of countries the senior executive who was accused Western media of scru- equally competent and imagina- ments, and published on info- and territories with the most ac- found guilty and sentenced in tinizing only individuals from tive when it comes to concealing graphic website, The Atlas, Hong tive intermediaries, with 37,675 2014. non-Western countries, adding financial transactions and con- Kong has rated as the ninth most offshore companies. Furthermore, in an embarras- that the Western media “has tracts in exotic paradise.” popular tax haven, behind Bri- The accusations leveled against sing blow against the central go- taken control of the interpreta- The Panama-based law firm tish Anguilla and Nevada. individuals incriminated in the vernment’s anti-corruption pur- tion each time there has been operates a “regional head office” However, sorted by the num- leaked files include money lau- ge, various leaders within senior such a document dump,” and out of their Mossack Fonseca & ber of intermediaries opera- ndering, avoiding sanctions and ranks of the Communist Party that “Washington has demons- Co. (Asia) unit based in Tsim Sha ting in such schemes, including evading taxation. of China have also been iden- trated particular influence [in Tsui in Hong Kong. The office banks, law firms and accoun- Among the Hong Kong indi- tified in the documents. These the past]”.

Gaming stocks rally short-lived says Deutsche analyst

eutsche Bank Deutsche Bank analyst high-end players during during the second quarter.

Dhas warned that the Karen Tang cautioned [the] Chinese New Year as “We think this is incor- xinhua rally of Macau’s stocks last that the Macau stock rally a permanent trend,” Tang rect,” she countered. “In month will be short-lived, has already ended and wrote, going on to suggest fact, since the number of contrary to the March that a hotel price war is in these figures had led to high-end players (both evaluations of brokerage full swing. a forecast gross gaming VIPs and premium mass) firms, Macquarie Resear- “We think that the Street revenue stabilization in are now smaller than in ch and Nomura Securities. [Wall Street] had misin- the first quarter of 2016, previous years, their pent- As cited in Barron’s Asia, terpreted the return of followed by a recovery up demand is now being exhausted very quickly over the holidays.” Tang also wrote in the ONE SHOT NEWS note that, “since these hi- gh-end players now rarely return to Macau over the non-holidays, Macau’s much weaker than in pre- mize their share of the low-season is becoming vious years. This is some- market and maintain high thing which the market occupancy rates, Macau has not been able to grasp can expect an abundance yet.” of sales promotion activi- Also pointing to weak ties and price slashing. Macau’s retail spending despite All of this is trending to a low-season the slight increase in vi- price war that the Deuts- sitor traffic over the Eas- che Bank analyst believes is becoming ter weekend last month, is already underway in Tang wrote that mainlan- the MSAR. After checking much ders in Macau are spen- the operators’ websites, weaker than ding less, “another sign the note concluded that that Macau’s visitor mix Sands, Galaxy and Mel- in previous is shifting towards more co Crown are all offering The new director of the Economic Services (DSE), Tai Kin Ip (second from right), was inaugurated leisure and less spen- room discount packages, yesterday in a ceremony that was presided over by the Secretary for Economy and Finance, Lionel Leong. The deputy director, Lau Wai Meng (first from right), was also sworn in. This years. ding/gambling.” with some as high as 40 appointment comes following the resignation of the former director of Economic Services (DSE), Karen Tang Furthermore, as casino percent for a stay before Sou Tim Peng, who asked for early retirement from the public service. Deutsche Bank analyst operators seek to maxi- the end of 2016. DB 06.04.2016 wed

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Environment Statistics Missing ‘infrastructure’ and Money supply retreated in ‘collaboration’ to turn green into gold February

Renato Marques that “Macau needs to have local ccording to statistics relea- treatment.” Ased yesterday by the Monetary he lack of environmental Mubarak also pointed to the Authority of Macau, the money su- Tinfrastructure as well as in- “lack of collaboration,” stating pply in the territory retreated in the sufficient collaboration between that “one hand doesn’t create month of February. As total deposits private companies and the go- sound, we need two hands for increased at a faster pace than total vernment, were two of the main that.” loans, the overall loan-to-deposit ratio points of a talk held during the Another of the hospitality re- of the banking sector dropped in com- Green Business Co-operation presentatives, Rebecca Don- parison to a month earlier. Day of Macau International En- nellan, Director of Sustainabili- Resident deposits dipped 0.9 per- vironmental Co-operation Fo- point to start with, adding that land China is doing through the ty of MGM, expressed the same cent from January to MOP456.6 rum & Exhibition (MIECF), that “water and energy are very close initiative of president Xi Jinping view: “We need collaboration. billion, of which deposits denomina- closed on Saturday. together.” Mubarak noted that which ordered that 17,000 self- That’s obvious!” She suggested ted in MOP, HKD and RMB fell by 0.6 A panel debated the theme these sectors were relevant to sustainable­ toilets should be that the solution may come in percent, 0.6 percent and 9.9 percent, “Turning Green into Gold,” air conditioning, as large quan- installed yearly in tourist loca- the form of a taxation of waste. respectively. looking specifically at how the tities of water are required to tions throughout China.” “Maybe we need to get rid of the Meanwhile domestic loans to the hospitality sector (one of the cool the system. Representing the hospitality ‘waste’ word and put a value on private sector edged up by 0.4 percent fastest growing sectors in many Commenting on this issue, Da- industry, Joshua Ho, vice pre- it,” she said. to MOP390.8 billion, of which HKD, parts of the world) could mini- niel Cheng, managing director sident for Property Services of She also agreed with Joshua MOP and RMB accounted for 66.1 mize their currently significant of Dunwell Enviro-tech (Hol- Melco Crown Entertainment Ho about the requirement for percent, 28.1 percent and 0.5 percent, impact on the environment by dings) Ltd, took the opportunity Limited, said, “it is very impor- local infrastructure to handle respectively. adopting sustainability practi- to introduce one of the firm’s tant that the hospitality indus- waste, recalling “in Hong Kong At the end of February, the loan-to- ces and striving to reduce waste. most successful products, the try take responsibility,” giving there is an EcoPark where peo- deposit ratio for the resident sector Syed Mubarak, Sands China’s “Biotoilet.” the example of the “City of ple can do this. In Macau there remained virtually unchanged at 65.9 director of sustainability com- According to Cheng, the sys- Dreams” development in whi- is no space for recyclers.” percent, while the combined ratio for mented that “Macau is small but tem allows savings of about 15 ch “we did that [take responsi- Another of the points which both the resident and non-resident has high visitation and all those percent every year but, on the bility and action] and installed saw all members of the panel in sectors dropped 0.7 percentage points people leave a large foot print. down side, “needs to be planned the dual piping system.” He ad- agreement was the need to “get to 85.3 percent. There is a long journey ahead.” at least 10 years in advance.” ded that what’s “more impor- rid” of the word “waste” in rela- The currency in circulation in Macau He nominated water manage- He stated that “now is really the tant” than individual actions tion to food, proposing instead decreased by 1 percent in February in ment as the most important time to think about what main- are “global actions,” affirming the use of the word “excess.” comparison to the previous month.

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Tourism bloomberg Local travel agencies surprised by ‘elderly travelers fee’

ocal travel agen- in inbound services, old”, and that they know take responsibility. He The flags of Hong Kong (left) and China fly in the Wan Chai district of Lcies have expressed showed surprise when of no companies reques- finished by noting that Hong Kong their lack of awareness asked by the MDT about ting customers to pay ex- his oldest customer was of an “elderly fee” char- the so-called “elderly tra money for their age. over 80 years of age. ged in some situations travelers’ fee.” “It is the As to conceivable rea- In turn, the Taobao Hong Kong appoints to aged applicants of pa- first time that I have sons behind the extra based agencies refuse to ckage tours, according heard about such fee,” fees, Mr Qiu, from a local serve customers older new immigration to interviews conducted she admitted, adding travel agency, said that than 65. Particularly, yesterday by the Times.. that “to charge that is “[pricing policies] treat one company first said director When trying to apply unreasonable.” Accor- customers equally. In it simply will not pro- for the package tour at ding to Miss Vu, aged my opinion, each agent vide services to people rick Tsang Kwok-wai Department of Justice ba- different travel agencies travelers normally enjoy thinks in a different way. over 80, but then re- Ehas been appointed as sed on the situation. There in Chengdu, the capital special discounts when Some customers fail to fused to accept the re- the new Director of Im- is no firm evidence that Lee city of Sichuan provin- visiting places that wou- deliver certain evidence quests of a hypothetical migration Department of Bo committed a crime, the- ce, a Sichuan couple - ld incur these fees, and required by the agen- 76-year-old customer. Hong Kong, to be put into refore no arrest has been Mr He, aged 72, and his that “regardless of the cies, […] and this forces “In spite of 80 being the effect immediately. Tsang, made yet.” 68-year-old wife - were schedule, or the kind of agencies to take on ad- age limit for providing 52, joined the Immigration Regarding detainment po- required to pay an extra tickets, older customers ded risks [which might service, we don’t accept Department as an assistant licies, he emphasized that RMB1,200 each due to always get cheaper pri- be the reason why some customers who are over immigration officer in April the future policy will only their age. According to ces.” This information agencies charge extra]. 65,” customer service 1987. In 2014, he became target those who violate the Mr He, the staff told the was echoed by another They might even con- personnel replied with deputy director of Immi- refugee regulations, which couple that customers agency contacted by the sider the distance from no further explanation gration. means that real refugees younger than 28 or older Times. starting point to destina- as to the criteria. Accor- Following the inaugu- will not be affected. Chan than 59 would be char- The MDT reporter con- tion [when considering ding to mainland me- ration, the media asked Kwok-ki, the now former ged an additional fee tacted five travel agen- extra fees].” According dia, children and older Tsang about the issue sur- immigration director, had depending on their des- cies based on Taobao, to Qiu, if travelers fail to people are considered rounding Lee Bo. The newly been appointed to the po- tination of travel. China’s most popular inform travel agencies of low-spending custo- appointed director said sition in March 2011. After Miss Vu, responsible online shopping plat- their special conditions, mers, therefore “addi- that “the case is still under 33 years of service, he is for Gray Line Tours of form. All five told the then, in case of an ac- tional fees” are charged investigation; the depart- now leaving on early-reti- Macau Ltd, a local tra- Times that no extra fees cident, the travel agen- to make up for the los- ment will inquire with the rement. vel agency specialized are charged for “being cies are called upon to ses. Staff reporter

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Ching Ming holiday Nevada court hears Adelson’s visitors decrease defamation case 6.5 percent During the three-day Ching Ming holiday, Ken Ritter the claims when they were made public as a total of 450,958 part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed tourists entered Macau, evada’s highest court is being ap photo in Nevada state court by former Sands Chi- a 6.5 percent decrease asked if a political group defa- na executive Steven Jacobs. That case is not compared to the same med casino mogul Sheldon Adel- yet resolved. period last year. son in 2012 with an Internet ad The council followed with an online ad According to the Public Nalleging that he used prostitution-tainted urging readers to sign a petition telling Security Police Force, the money from casinos in Macau to fund Re- then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney border gate recorded the publican presidential campaigns in the to reject money from Adelson, a prominent largest influx of persons United States. donor to GOP causes. The council noted (including residents A key question during Nevada Supreme that Adelson also contributed heavily to and tourists) during the Court oral arguments on Monday was whe- the failed primary bid of former U.S. House holiday with 513,476 ther online point-and-click “hyperlinks” are Speaker Newt Gingrich. entering the city. A comparable to footnotes on a printed page Adelson sued the council in federal court total of 540,048 people — and whether they were enough to inform in New York, where the case was dismissed. exited Macau through ad readers that Adelson denied the pros- He then appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit the border gate. The titution claim when it was made in a civil Court of Appeals, which directed the Ne- Macau Ferry Terminal lawsuit. Sheldon Adelson vada Supreme Court to hear the hyperlink recorded some 76,755 “This Web page wasn’t designed to be and SLAPP issues. people arriving and fair,” Daniel Polsenberg, an attorney for protected the council when criticizing one Adelson didn’t attend oral arguments Adelson, told the five justices hearing the of the world’s wealthiest men. The statute Monday in Las Vegas, where the state high 79,360 people departing case. “It states that Mr. Adelson approved aims to prevent so-called strategic lawsuits court on Tuesday [U.S. time] will take up the territory. Meanwhile, of prostitution. That’s not enough.” against public participation. another appeal stemming from the ongoing the local airport received Lee Levine, attorney for the National Adelson accuses the Washington-based Adelson-Jacobs lawsuit. around 25,000 visitors Jewish Democratic Council, said hyper- council and two of its executives of “assas- In that case, Adelson wants the Clark during the holiday. The links are familiar to most Internet users, sinating” his character by falsely claiming County District Court judge who has heard total number of people and as convenient for readers as footnotes that he personally approved illegal activi- the case for several years removed from the entering and leaving and endnotes in books and articles. ties in Macau resorts owned by Sands China proceedings as biased. Macau during the The justices also heard related arguments Limited, a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands. The administrative judge of the court in three-day break totaled about whether Nevada’s anti-SLAPP law Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands, denied Las Vegas rejected that effort. AP 1,429,343.

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hinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. agreed flightsnation.com to buy a controlling stake in Tysan Holdings CLtd. for about USD340 million to expand in construction and property development, promp- ting shares of the target com- pany to jump to the highest level in 25 years. HNA will pay HKD2.62 billion ($340 million), or HKD4.53 a share, to an arm of Blackstone Group LP for a 66 percent stake in Tysan, the construction com- pany said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The price is about 11 percent more than Ty- san’s closing level on March 31. Trading was suspended April 1. The acquisition would help HNA, the owner of Hainan Air- Hainan Airlines owner wants to fly higher lines Co. as well as hotel, infras- tructure, logistics and aviation-­ maintenance businesses, extend its foothold outside mainland China after agreeing to buy a HNA to buy Tysan stake from stake in Brazilian airline Azul Li- nhas Aereas Brasileiras SA and acquiring airport luggage han- Blackstone for USD340 million dler Swissport International Ltd. for about $2.7 billion. China has urged its companies to expand data compiled by Bloomberg. losing out to a consortium led by Airways Ltd.’s air cargo terminals overseas to improve competitive- The Tides Holdings II, the Blacks- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at the city’s airport, according to ness, helping result in $97 billion tone arm, will still own 9 per- Board. its website. It also took part in in deals in the first quarter. acquisition cent of Tysan after the sale of the China has undertaken a so-cal- works in the expansion of Sands Tysan gained 5.1 percent to clo- 577.3 million shares, equivalent led “ One Belt, One Road” initia- casino in Macau and a tower de- se at HKD4.30 in Hong Kong, would help to 66 percent of the company. tive, a $40 billion strategy that velopment at the Venetian. the highest since at least April HNA … extend HNA’s purchase will trigger a aims to strengthen economic Its operations include property 1991, after trading resumed to- mandatory unconditional offer and transport ties across Eura- development, a business that ac- day. The shares gained 60 per- its foothold to buy the remaining shares in sia, while raising the world’s se- counted for about 20 percent of cent in the 12 months before Tysan, according to the state- cond-biggest economy’s profile revenue, according to data com- trading was suspended April 1, outside China ment issued yesterday after the as a global power. The project piled by Bloomberg. It has com- compared with a 17 percent de- after agreeing market’s close. is part of Chinese President Xi pleted at least two projects in cline for the city’s benchmark HNA also signed a letter of Jinping’s efforts to revive the an- Shanghai, with two more under Hang Seng Index. to buy a stake intent to buy 40 percent of Ty- cient trade route and finance in- construction, its website shows. “The market may be expecting san Foundation (Hong Kong) frastructure construction there. The Tysan transaction is sub- HNA needs to raise the bid to so- in Brazilian Ltd. from Fortunate Pool Ltd., Tysan Group’s main business is ject to a definitive sale and pur- mething more expensive,” Mark a wholly owned company of in foundation piling, accounting chase agreement and terms and Jolley, equity strategist at CCB airline Azul Tysan’s vice chairman and ma- for about three quarters of reve- conditions, and there is no cer- International Securities, said by and acquiring naging director Victor Fung, nue in the fiscal year ended Mar- tainty the deal will proceed, Ty- phone. for HKD836.6 million. The re- ch last year, according to data san said. Under the terms, Blackstone airport luggage maining 60 percent is owned by compiled by Bloomberg. The Tides Holdings II had said would receive 58 percent more Tysan Group. company was involved in cons- March 9 that it was in talks with than the HKD2.86 a share it paid handler The conglomerate was also said truction projects such as labora- an independent third-party re- to buy the Tysan stake in a deal to be one of the bidders for Lon- tories at the Chinese University garding a sale of Tysan shares. completed in 2014, according to Swissport don City Airport this year, before of Hong Kong and Cathay Pacific Bloomberg

corporate bits ‘sands resorts buffet pass’ launched meal, the offer can save mgm donates mop300,000 to holy house of mercy guests up to 40 percent. The promotion gives access For the fourth consecuti- to seven different buffet op- ve year, MGM has donated tions, namely Bambu and MOP300,000 to Macau Holy Golden Peacock in Vene- House of Mercy to support tian, DreamWorks Shrekfast, the operation of its annual Feast, Grand Orbit and Xin at Welfare Shop. Sands Cotai Central and 888 According to a statement, Buffet at Sands Macao. Grant Bowie, chief executive According to a statement, officer and executive director by following the official Sands of MGM China Holdings Limi- Resorts Macao WeChat ac- ted, together with other exe- count and booking a room via cutives, led over 50 volunteer the official websites of any of team members on Saturday the four hotels, guests are to visit the Holy House of eligible to purchase the pass. Mercy’s Welfare Shop. WeChat followers can Mr Bowie presented a do- download the buffet pass nation check of MOP300,000 card pack and then activate to António José de Freitas, During the distribution of into MGM’s tailor-made han- Sands Resorts Cotai Strip restaurants at The Venetian it using the 12-digit code, to president of board of trustees food hampers, the volunteer dcarts. These hampers are Macao and Sands Macao Macao, Sands Cotai Central make a direct on-line reser- of Macau Holy House of Mer- team members were divided distributed to the 360 low-in- have launched the “Sands and Sands Macao within a vation. The promotion will cy, in funding the charity’s into groups to help pack the come households referred Resorts Buffet Pass” which 24-hour period. be valid until December 31, daily operations and charity daily goods including rice, by the General Union of Nei- provides access to four buffet With buffets covering every 2016. projects. noodles, and canned food, ghborhood Association. 06.04.2016 wed

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Elaine Kurtenbach, Marcy Gordon, Panama papers | FAQ Tokyo

rivacy has a price. For Pthe super-wealthy, it can A look at offshore accounts used also have a big payoff. The use of offshore accounts and favorable laws in certain countries can allow rich indivi- to hide wealth and avoid taxes duals and families to keep their money hidden from the eyes of tax authorities, regulators and indirectly, through the com- for those trying to avoid taxes, secrecy they provide for pro- EFFORTS TO CRACK others in their home country. pany, and makes it harder for though many nations have tigh- tection, and not necessarily to DOWN Here’s a look at how offshore authorities to link the money to tened banking laws to combat avoid taxes. Congress passed a law in 2010 accounts are used, both legally the individual. tax cheating. called the Foreign Account and illegally, in the wake of an While shell companies and ILLICIT USES OF Tax Compliance Act to target investigation by an internatio- offshore accounts aren’t illegal ARE THERE LEGITIMATE OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS U.S. taxpayers who may be hi- nal coalition of media outlets by themselves, they can be used REASONS FOR THESE The anonymity afforded by ding money in foreign accoun- that shows how the rich and to help avoid taxes, facilitate ARRANGEMENTS? shell companies and offsho- ts. The leaders of the Group of powerful use banks, law firms, money laundering and conceal It’s possible, but don’t bank on re accounts allows them to be 20 — representing 80 percent trusts and offshore shell com- corruption. it, says Jimmy Gurule, a former used by terrorists and other of the global economy — have panies to hide their assets. assistant U.S. attorney general international criminals to hide recently worked to get its mem- WHERE ARE OFFSHORE and undersecretary for enfor- and move money. bers to adopt stricter reporting WHAT ARE THESE ACCOUNTS HELD? cement at the Treasury Depart- They’re an ideal vehicle for requirements to prevent secret ACCOUNTS? Those looking to hide assets ment. The likelihood is strong people “who want to keep their dealings. Anti-corruption advo- They are bank accounts or establish accounts in countries that the entity has “no com- transactions secret to escape cates say legal standards have trusts established in a foreign like Panama, the Cayman Is- mercial or legitimate purpose,” law enforcement or civil liabili- improved, but are not tough country that take advantage lands and Bermuda, where the said Gurule, who teaches law at ty,” said Jack Blum, a Washing- enough. of local banking and corporate banking laws are designed to Notre Dame. The Caymans, for ton attorney who’s an expert on On Monday Angel Gurria, laws to help hide the true iden- vigorously protect account ow- example, “has a well-deserved financial crime and internatio- the secretary general of the tity of the owner of the money ners’ identities. reputation for being a money-­ nal tax evasion. Organization for Economic or other assets in the accounts. In recent years, the U.S. Fe- laundering and tax-evasion ha- Terrorist groups’ use of sha- Cooperation and Develop- Often, the person estab- deral Bureau of Investigation ven.” dowy financial networks has ment, which is working with lishes a so-called shell com- and the Internal Revenue Ser- The country’s banking laws been scrutinized by law enfor- the G-20 to restrict the use pany, which lacks any real vice have found millions of made it more difficult for him cement agencies, and the U.S. of shell companies, called on operations and exists mainly dollars in taxable income hi- and his colleagues in U.S. law government has applied sanc- Panama to “put its house in on paper. In many jurisdic- dden in secret accounts in the enforcement to investigate and tions to a number of groups order” and implement trans- tions and some U.S. states, Caribbean. prosecute cases, Gurule said. hoping to cut off their access parency standards. It was a companies can be created wi- There also are havens like the Still, wealthy people who live to the U.S. financial system. leak of 11.5 million documen- thout identifying an owner. Isle of Man off Britain, Macau in countries with unstable po- Lawmakers say they’ve been ts from a Panamanian law The company — with no per- off China and the Cook Islands litical situations, high levels hindered, though, by a lack of firm that specializes in crea- son linked to it — is listed as the in the South Pacific. Some Eu- of corruption, or high levels consistency in policies among ting shell companies that led official owner of the trust or ac- ropean countries like Switzer- of criminal activity such as ki- the various national and inter- to revelations of widespread count. That allows the wealthy land, Luxembourg and Mona- dnapping or extortion could national agencies involved in use of these companies and person to control the account co have also served as havens use offshore accounts and the fighting terrorist financing. accounts to avoid taxes. AP wed 06.04.2016

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Didi Tang, Beijing Panama Papers eports based on millions of leaked do- cuments say relatives of past and present Reports on leaders’ finances RChinese officials, including the brother-in-law of current Presi- dent Xi Jinping, opened overseas shell companies of the type that a bugbear for Beijing have sometimes drawn criticism. Previous reports by international media on the personal finances Bloomberg he was retired and of Chinese leaders have drawn that it was "not convenient" to retaliation from Beijing, fre- ap photo discuss the family's investments. quently through the blocking of Beijing blocked access to media websites and a refusal to Bloomberg's website in China. issue visas to their journalists. The New York Times, which won Here's a look at two of the best-­ a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage, known investigations and their also had its Chinese-language outcomes. service blocked, alongside its SENSITIVE TIMING — In English-language website, which the months before a 2012 once-­ had long been inaccessible inside in-decade power transfer in Bei- China. jing, both The New York Times China often refuses to grant or and the Bloomberg News service renew visas to reporters whose published articles detailing the work has angered the leadership. family wealth of incoming and The New York Times suffered outgoing Chinese leaders. especially in the wake of its Wen Bloomberg said then-Vice report, with reporters denied per- President Xi's extended family, mission to live in the country or mainly his older sister Qi Qiao- enter for short-term assignments. qiao, her husband, Deng Jia- Xi later said foreign journa- gui, and Qi's daughter, Zhang lists must comply with Chinese Yannan, had investments in va- laws while working in China and rious companies, an 18 percent The setting sun lights up the Panama City skyline should examine themselves for stake in a rare earths firm with why they had trouble obtaining USD1.73 billion in assets, and a knowledge are factors in the bui- gh layers of partnerships and in- denunciations, a reflection of the visas. $20.2 million holding in a tech- lding of such fortunes. vestment vehicles. extreme sensitivity surrounding "It's like a car that broke down nology company. The report said The New York Times said a re- ANGRY RESPONSE — Xi the private lives and personal fi- halfway," Xi said at a news con- none of the wealth could be tra- view of corporate and regulatory did not respond publicly, but nances of the Chinese leadership. ference with visiting U.S. Presi- ced directly to Xi, his entertainer records showed that relatives of Wen reportedly issued a sta- The New York Times was threa- dent Barack Obama in Novem- wife Peng Liyuan or their daugh- then-Premier Wen Jiabao con- tement through a law firm tened with a lawsuit, although no ber 2014. "Maybe you should get ter, but it is widely believed that trolled assets worth at least $2.7 denying the Times report. Chi- action appeared to be taken. Xi's off the car and see where it went political influence and insider billion and hid that wealth throu- nese spokesmen issued furious brother-in-law, Deng Jiagui, told wrong." AP

China, Pakistan push back on offshore revelations as Syria named

Gregory Viscusi and international sanctions, protocols ... to assure as is tice Minister Heiko Maas Ambereen Choudhury the French newspaper Le reasonably possible, that said in a statement. Maas, ap photo Monde reported, citing the companies we incorpo- whose Social Democratic hina denounced the the ICIJ data. Documen- rate are not being used for Party is German Chan- Cso-called Panama Pa- ts also showed that Rami tax evasion, money laun- cellor Angela Merkel’s pers exposing shell com- Makhlouf, a cousin of the dering, terrorist finance or junior coalition ally, said panies as part of a conspi- Syrian president and a top other illicit purposes.” he’ll seek expanded laws racy and Pakistan’s prime financier in Assad’s gover- “No new information has against money laundering. minister denied his family nment, had used the law been disclosed by the Pa- Policy makers including did anything wrong as the firm’s services until June nama leaks and ICIJ which German Finance Minister revelations spurred calls 2011, a few months after was not already in public Wolfgang Schaeuble and by European political lea- the start of the Syrian civil domain,” said a statement European Commission ders to clamp down on tax war. Mossack Fonseca cut from a spokesman for the Vice President Jyrki Ka- evasion. ties to the Makhlouf family family of Pakistani Prime tainen said the leak will As media outlets expan- A man looks at a newsstand with a copy of the day’s Global Times after being contacted by Minister Nawaz Sharif. strengthen the resolve of ded reporting based on displayed on a basket in Beijing, China authorities in the Virgin Is- Three of Sharif’s children governments to combat 11.5 million leaked docu- lands who were investiga- are either owners or have tax avoidance and evasion, ments that point to some ownership. the leaks and the U.S. go- ting the family, Le Monde signing rights to authorize something that’s been on of the world’s wealthiest “We’ve got revelations of vernment stands to gain reported. transactions in four offsho- the agenda of international people, the Panamanian tax avoidance on an indus- the most from the revela- France’s National Front re companies in the British forums such as the Group law firm at the center of trial scale, of companies tions, which identify Pre- party said it isn’t impli- Virgin Islands, according of 20 for years. the leak, Mossack Fonseca, being set up in the British sident Xi Jinping’s bro- cated in any revelations to the ICIJ’s report. “Even though it’s not said prosecutions will fail Virgin Islands and then ther-in-law. The editorial, from the Panama release Ramon Fonseca, one of surprising, it helps us,” because its clients haven’t moving themselves across which focused on Russian after Le Monde said two the firm’s founders, told Schaeuble said in Berlin. broken any laws. to Panama, not paying President Vladimir Putin people who have had busi- the Financial Times in an “It increases the pressure The reports released by any tax anywhere,” U.K. and didn’t mention any of ness dealings with the anti-­ interview that he doesn’t to halt abuse.” the International Consor- opposition leader Jeremy the Chinese examples, as- European Union party had expect “one single legal “I’m furious,” Katainen tium of Investigative Jour- Corbyn told BBC Televi- sessed the revelations as a used shell companies to case” out of the revelations. said yesterday in Brussels nalists since Sunday impli- sion yesterday. “The more salvo in an East-West ideo- move money from their In a Bloomberg interview, at a breakfast sponso- cate figures from Iceland’s the revelations come out, logical struggle, echoing activities in France to ac- the founders of the law red by Politico. “The best prime minister to Indian the more murky the whole the Kremlin’s response. counts in Hong Kong, firm said their computer thing in this issue is the movie stars for using over- thing becomes.” Syrian President Bashar Singapore and the Virgin systems had been hacked. leak. So it’s not necessa- seas bank accounts. While In China’s first official al-Assad’s government Islands. Any German banks fou- rily illegal to have a bank such accounts in low-tax reaction to the investiga- used Mossack Fonseca Mossack Fonseca said nd to have been involved account in a tax haven, but centers may be legal, they tions, the state-run Global to create shell companies in a statement to the ICIJ in tax evasion and terror if you are avoiding taxes, often raise suspicions of Times newspaper said a in the Seychelles to buy that it has “always com- financing “will have to face then it’s totally unaccepta- avoiding taxes or hiding “powerful force is behind” aviation fuel and avoid plied with international the courts,” German Jus- ble. Bloomberg 06.04.2016 wed

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dian Express reported that Ba- Panama papers chchan and his family didn’t respond to repeated emails, as well as calls made to their mo- bile phones, homes and offices. Rajan cautious on leaks In a statement, DLF said all remittances were reported to authorities, complied with all as Modi seeks hidden India cash applicable laws and were in line with opportunities “available to every Indian."

Vrishti Beniwal and Siddharth Philip The Indian ap photo ndia’s central bank Gover- Finance Inor Raghuram Rajan urged caution on drawing premature Ministry noted conclusions a day after the go- that previous vernment announced an inves- tigation into the reported of- leaks had led fshore accounts of hundreds of citizens, from Bollywood stars to more than to business tycoons. The Reserve Bank of India will 200 complaints participate in a multi-­agency for prosecution probe ordered by Prime Minis- ter Narendra Modi after news and brought reports this week cited leaked files from Panama law firm about 58 billion Mossack Fonseca to shed light on offshore holdings around the rupees into globe. The report by the Inter- government national Consortium of Inves- tigative Journalists, known as coffers ICIJ, says that there’s no impli- cation that anyone has broken Gehlaut said he made over- the law or acted improperly. seas investments after paying “It is important to note that full taxes in India, every remi- there are legitimate reasons Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan ttance was recorded with the also to have accounts outside," central bank and all disclosu- Rajan told reporters in Mumbai about 58 billion rupees into go- ving it with one of the widest million. It also introduced the res related to the investmen- on yesterday when asked about vernment coffers. Those cases budget deficits among the lar- liberalized remittance scheme ts are made in annual reports the probe. “We have to see what were based on a 2013 report by gest emerging markets. Modi that permitted resident indivi- to the Reserve Bank of India is legitimate and what is not le- ICIJ and information received has sought to lure funds from duals to remit up to $25,000 and income tax authorities. gitimate." from the government of Fran- the shadows with windows for annually. The limit was raised Authorities have scrutinized Undisclosed assets - referred ce in 2011 on the Swiss bank individuals to declare income subsequently in phases. the returns, and they recei- to locally as "black money" - accounts of more than 600 In- without facing prosecution in Indian citizens who were na- ved a clean order with no tax have long been a hot politi- dians. More than 500 Indians cases where wrongdoing is un- med in reports by ICIJ and demands, Gehlaut said in an cal topic in India. Prior to his are linked to the documents covered. the Indian Express include e-mailed statement. landslide election win in 2014, known as the Panama Papers, India brought in about Bollywood superstar Amitabh The ICIJ report says that shell Modi promised to bring back according to the Indian Ex- 25 billion rupees (USD385 Bachchan and his daughter- companies can be and are used enough illicit funds stashed press, a local newspaper. million) from a three-month in-­law, actress Aishwarya Rai for legal purposes. Mossack abroad to give each of India’s “The government is commit- window that ended last year Bachchan; DLF Ltd. Chairman Fonseca said it “does not fos- 1.3 billion people as much as 2 ted to detecting and preventing before fines increase on funds Kushal Pal Singh; and Sameer ter or promote illegal acts” and million rupees (USD30,000) - generation of black money," the stashed abroad. A similar mea- Gehlaut, co-founder of India- allegations that it helps hide almost 25 times the average na- Finance Ministry said in a state- sure has been proposed for lo- bulls Financial Services Ltd., the identities of real owners are tional income. ment on Monday. “In this con- cal cash. which owns India’s third-most “completely unsupported and In announcing the investiga- text, the expose of Panama Pa- In 2004, India’s central bank valuable real estate company. false.” Panama’s government tion, India’s Finance Ministry pers will further help the gover- allowed companies to invest up Bachchan and Rai didn’t im- said it will cooperate with any noted that previous leaks had nment in meeting this objective." to 100 percent of their net wor- mediately respond to e-mails legal probe resulting from the led to more than 200 complain- India has long struggled to th in certain companies over- sent to the address provided data leak, Agence France-Pres- ts for prosecution and brought bring in enough revenue, lea- seas by scrapping a cap of $100 by Bachchan’s office. The In- se reported. Bloomberg

trap river sediments, re- Vietnam warns of dire impact from planned Mekong dams sulting in large reductions in the volume of nutrients esearch commis- are dammed. The famed The rice-bowl-sustaining flowing downstream. Less sioned by Vietnam Irrawaddy dolphin would river system flows into sediment downstream

R ap photo has warned of devastating likely disappear from the Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, would also make the delta environmental and eco- Mekong, it says. Cambodia and Vietnam. more at risk of saltwater nomic effects for millions Unmitigated hydropower The Mekong is also one incursion that can render of people living along the development will cause of the world's largest in- land infertile. Mekong River if 11 propo- "long-lasting damage to land fisheries, providing It predicts annual fishery sed dams are built on its the floodplains and aqua- a livelihood to millions of and farming losses of more mainstream. tic environment, resulting people. Dams diminish than USD760 million in The 2 1/2-year study by in significant reduction in fishing grounds by crea- Vietnam and $450 million Danish water expert DHI the socio-economic status ting barriers to breeding- in Cambodia. Fish catches was submitted recently by of millions of residents," cycle migrations and crea- would drop by 50 percent Vietnam to the Mekong A farmer carries pots loaded with water from a pond for watering her according to the study. ting river conditions that for Vietnam and Cambo- River Commission, a body vegetable crops at Chamkar Mean village outside Phnom Penh Much of Southeast Asia is destroy habitat and food dia, and 10 percent of the comprising Thailand, Viet- suffering a record drought sources. delta's fish species would nam, Cambodia and Laos a five-page summary of fisheries and agriculture in due to El Nino, and offi- The study said agricultu- either disappear from the that was set up to mediate the study to The Associa- Cambodia and Vietnam if cials in Vietnam have said ral production in the lower region or become extinct. the conflicting water prio- ted Press yesterday. all 11 dams are built, and the effects are exacerbated reaches of the Mekong The incomes of fishing and rities of Mekong countries. It predicts "high to very even greater damage if the by existing Chinese dams Delta would drop steeply farming villages would The commission released high adverse effects" on Mekong's tributaries also on the upper Mekong. because the dams would likely fall by half. AP wed 06.04.2016

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Asylum seeker Amin (center) and fellow class mate Kumar catch a wave during a surfing class on Bondi Beach in Sydney

Kristen Gelineau, Sydney Australia could do the same for her clients. Her manager, Robert Shipton, thou- hey gather under the blazing ght it was a brilliant idea. After all, sun and blue skies of an Aus- their organization's goal is to help tralian beach, looking out at asylum-seekers adapt to their new cul- the water that once symbolized Surfing soothes ture — and what could be more Austra- Tso much misery: Terrifying boat trips lian than surfing? marked by sickness and death and the Conscious that students might harbor constant dread that their own lives mi- fears of the ocean, instructors took a asylum-seekers’ gradual approach, says Miley, the surf ght be nearing the end. But today, the sea will become their unlikely savior. school director. First, they encoura- For these five asylum-seekers, a novel ged the men to go in the water just up program introducing them to the ico- fears of sea to their hips, then helped push their nic Aussie sport of surfing is helping to boards onto the waves, and calmed any transform both their feelings toward jitters along the way. the ocean and their lives and allowing Down on the beach, Pattinson and rookies: Their hips wobble, their arms The technique worked wonders for the them, at least for a brief time, to forget Bigelow give the men a pep talk. They "do the helicopter," they occasionally dozen or so participants, who quickly the pains of the past. explain how the current works and the collide, and they belly flop more than gained confidence and became so ena- "We know that getting into the ocean different parts of the surfboard. they stand. But more than anyone else mored with the sport that many of them and surfing makes everybody feel "We're going to make a plan to keep it in the water, they laugh. now surf on their own, using boards do- good," says Brenda Miley, surf school safe and get heaps and heaps of waves," This kind of joy is exactly what the sta- nated by locals and the surf school. director at Let's Go Surfing, which is Bigelow says. ff at Settlement Services International "We just found that once we just en- providing the lessons. "[...] I just think Amin eyes the turquoise water, where hoped to achieve when they launched couraged people and got them in and it's a win-win because it helps build the swells are gaining strength. He asks the surf program last year. They knew gave them that safe space to be in the confidence, they learn some skills, they how far out they will go. "Not deep," Bi- their clients were grappling not only water, that very quickly those worries learn about being a local Aussie." gelow assures him. with the trauma associated with their about anything that had to do with the There is a rush of nervous laughter The students practice standing on the boat journeys and the wars and perse- water — that just disappeared," Shipton and chitchat as the men file into the boards from the safety of the sand. Pat- cution they had fled, but also with the says. "And it's now to the stage where Let's Go shop at Sydney's famed surf tinson warns them that if they don't use anxiety of settling into a new country. they're like, 'Let's go to the beach, we haven, Bondi Beach. Inside, instructors proper form, they'll lose their balance want to go surfing, let's do it more!'" Conrad Pattinson and Will Bigelow de- and "do a helicopter." At this, he circles Danny, an asylum seeker from Iran monstrate how to put on wetsuits. his arms wildly. The men crack up. Flanked by other who was part of the pilot group, says Amin, an asylum-seeker from Iran, Finally, it is time to hit the water. The surfing helped clear his head of the flexes his muscles under the neoprene men slide onto their boards and paddle student surfers, horrors he left behind. and chuckles. He has been urging his toward a sandbar where the waves are "It was very different from my [boat] fellow Surfing Without Borders buddies breaking. There, the instructors help they are largely journey," says Danny, who like the along all morning, eager to get on a sur- maneuver the students' boards into the indistinguishable other students spoke on condition that fboard for the first time. But he admits proper position. And when Amin is rea- their last names be withheld to pro- his excitement is tinged with anxiety. dy, Pattinson pushes him forward onto from the rest of the tect themselves and loved ones in their Like the tens of thousands of asylum- his first wave. home countries. "My worries when I seekers who have fled to Australia in Amin presses himself up with his rookies was in the ocean were gone and I had recent years, Amin's trip involved a hands, pops into a brief, unsteady the feeling of freedom. And I was ha- harrowing ocean crossing that began crouch and... Sandra Oehman, a case manager at ppy." in Indonesia, where smugglers pack Splash! the not-for-profit organization and a Back at the beach, Kumar, an asylum- migrants into rickety boats that fre- "Fell down, no good!" he says. Un- surfer herself, researched the concept seeker from Sri Lanka, hops off his quently break down or capsize. Those deterred, he wipes his face, grabs his of ocean therapy, which has been used board after riding a wave into shore. who survive the journey are often scar- board and paddles back out. to help everyone from sexual assault He can't stop grinning. In his former red by it. One by one, the men make their first survivors to war veterans. Many find life as a fisherman, he spent a lot of Amin's memories of that trip and the shaky attempts as Pattinson and Bi- that being in the water and focusing time on the water. But it was nothing relentless seasickness that came with gelow whistle and cheer. Flanked by their energy on riding the waves produ- like Bondi. it are dark. Today, though, he hopes to other student surfers, they are largely ces a calming sensation that helps clear "I will never forget this," he says. forget all that. indistinguishable from the rest of the the mind. Maybe, Oehman thought, it "Ever." AP 06.04.2016 wed

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Panama papers Panama papers: the latest developments

The Latest on the publication by a coalition of Real Sociedad: Kovacevic amassed media outlets of an investigation into offshore USD1.4 million on a USD2,000 salary financial dealings by the rich and famous: Panama rejects mon ey-launder label following documents leak

Slovenia: Boxer Dejan ap photo Zavec named Juan Zamorano, cuments establishing the identity Slovenia’s finance ministry has called for greater Joshua Goodman, Panama City of the company owners. U.S. firms international sharing of data to tackle the kind of complied on average 25 percent of tax fraud allegedly revealed by the data leaked by a anamanians have long the time, while Delaware, at 6 per- Panama-based law firm. shrugged off their country’s cent, was even more lax. The ministry said Slovenia was active in tackling checkered reputation as “Most of the money from these tax havens by investigating hundreds of suspected a financial haven for drug shady dealings is held in other cases of tax evasion. It says an additional 24 mil- Plords, tax dodgers and corrupt oli- countries, not Panama, so there lion of euros was collected between 2011 and 2015 garchs. If they’re crooks, they’ve is plenty of blame to share arou- as a result of probes into suspected transactions. learned from the world’s wealthy nd,” said Jason Sharman, one of Slovenia’s Delo newspaper says that according to The Belgrade-based KRIK network investigating nations, they like to joke. the book’s authors and a political leaked documents it analyzed, at least 78 Slove- That same defensiveness has re-­ scientist at Australia’s Griffith nian companies and 74 Slovenian individuals are crime and corruption, which issued the list yester- day after going through documents leaked from emerged amid the fallout from University. reportedly associated with offshore companies set the leak of 11.5 million confiden- Panamanian President Juan Car- up through the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca the Panama-based law firm, says Darko Kovacevic tial documents from the Panama-­ los Varela has promised to coope- law firm. had officially earned about $2,000 a month while based law firm Mossack Fonseca rate with any judicial investiga- The newspaper says that Slovenia’s most promi- playing for Spanish club Real Sociedad during the tions stemming from the leaked nent boxer Dejan Zavec is among those named in 2006-2007 season. revealing details of how some of the leaked documents. He has said he has done The leaked documents, however, show the club the globe’s richest people funnel data, and the country’s chief pro- nothing wrong. had paid Kovacevic $1.4 million that season to his their assets into secretive shell secutor’s office said that it will offshore account. That means that both the club companies set up here and in other look into the documents to see if Putin: Spokesman says and Kovacevic had avoided paying full taxes in lightly regulated jurisdictions. they reveal any wrongdoing. ‘Russian leader has no Spain, KRIK says. Ramon Fonseca, a co-founder of connection whatsoever’ Fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic had a firm in the firm, said yesterday [Macau British Virgin Islands, KRIK says, adding that the time] that his country’s success in Panama ranks ownership of a shell company is not a crime, but establishing itself as an offshore that it can be used for money laundering or evad-

ap photo banking giant has bred jealousy 13th on the ing taxes. from first-world rivals at a time of increasing competition and scru- watchdog group’s Icelandic PM resigns tiny of the industry in the after- financial secrecy math of the global financial crisis. “It’s very unfair what’s happe- index — better ap photo ning because there’s not a level playing field,” Fonseca told The than the US, Associated Press in an interview. “Without a doubt if this happened which is at No. 3. to a company in Delaware nothing would happen, but because it’s Varela says he has “zero tole- Panama it’s the front page of the rance” for financial crimes and world’s newspapers.” likes to cite the ramming through President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says the Panama cemented its status as congress last year of legislation Russian leader has no connection whatsoever to a money laundering center in the expanding supervision over more offshore accounts allegedly owned by his close Iceland’s embattled prime minister has resigned 1980s, when dictator Gen. Manuel than 12 non-financial industries, friend, a Russian musician. amid a controversy over his offshore holdings, a Noriega rolled out the red car- from real estate to casinos. The Dmitry Peskov says the leaked documents from a Cabinet minister said yesterday as outrage over the pet to Colombian drug cartels. It legislation paved the way for Pa- Panama-based firm have been wilfully interpreted accounts roiled the North Atlantic island nation. has remained a magnet for illicit nama’s removal in February from by an international consortium of investigative Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson money, as well as for legitimate a black list of high-risk jurisdic- journalists to make what he called an unfounded is stepping down as leader of the country’s coali- funds, because its dollarized eco- tions kept by the Financial Action claim that cellist Sergei Roldugin’s offshore assets tion government, Agriculture Minister Sigurdur nomy sits at the crossroad of the Task Force, an inter-government were linked to the Russian president. Ingi Johannsson told Icelandic broadcaster RUV. Americas. Breakneck economic agency that sets standards for Peskov, speaking to The Associated Press yester- No replacement has yet been named, and Ice- growth averaging 8.5 percent a controlling money laundering and day, emphasized that “there is not a word about land’s president has not yet confirmed that he has year for a decade has been fed by terror financing. President Putin in those papers,” and dismissed accepted the resignation. the flood of cash, transforming the In a statement issued yesterday, the alleged link between Russian owners of off- Thousands of Icelanders protested outside the capital’s skyline into Latin Ameri- Mossack Fonseca said: “Our in- shore assets and Putin as a “product of imagina- parliament building in Reykjavik on Monday, de- ca’s Dubai. dustry is not particularly well un- tion.” manding that Gunnlaugsson resign over reported But Panama isn’t alone in its per- derstood by the public, and unfor- He said the scandal around the so-called Panama offshore financial dealings by him and his wife missive attitude toward shell com- tunately this series of articles will Papers has proven that Putin was right when he that opposition lawmakers say amount to a major panies, which the British-based only serve to deepen that confu- conflict of interest with his job. urged Russian businesses to pull out their assets Tax Justice Network estimates hide sion. The facts are these: while we from offshores. USD21 trillion to $32 trillion in un- may have been the victim of a data taxed or lightly taxed financial weal- breach, nothing in this illegally UK: Corbyn calls for independent Germany ministers proposes a na- obtained cache of documents sug- investigation tional ‘transparency register’ th around the globe. Panama ranks British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has Germany’s justice minister is proposing setting up 13th on the watchdog group’s finan- gests we’ve done anything wrong called for an independent investigation into the a national “transparency register” that would list cial secrecy index — better than the or illegal, and that’s very much in tax affairs of people and companies accused of the real beneficiaries of letter-box companies — U.S., which is at No. 3. keeping with the global reputation wrongdoing in the leak of the Panama Papers. but only those set up in the country itself. In 2014, a group of academics we’ve worked hard to build over Labour leader Corbyn said yesterday the inves- Heiko Maas’ proposal to expand national money- wrote a book, “Global Shell Ga- the past 40 years of doing busi- tigation should include a look at the finances of laundering legislation followed a massive leak of mes,” that looks at tax havens. ness the right way.” Prime Minister David Cameron and his family. documents from a Panama-based law firm. Ger- They used emails to set up shell Until recently, Panama was one Corbyn spoke after the British press published man daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday companies with 3,700 corpora- of the few jurisdictions allowing extensive stories about Cameron’s late father set- that 28 German banks used the company’s services te service providers in 182 ju- companies to issue “bearer sha- ting up an offshore account at a tax haven. to set up or administer over 1,200 shell companies. risdictions, posing as a range of res,” which obscure any record of He told reporters: “I think the prime minister, in Maas conceded that German legislation could only low- to high-risk customers, in- ownership by giving whoever is in his own interest, should tell us exactly what’s been apply to companies set up in Germany, which has cluding drug traffickers and ter- possession of a stock certificate going on.” pushed for tax havens to open up. He said: “Those rorist groups. The findings were ownership rights. Legislation last The information about Cameron’s father was first who are pushing for this at the international level startling: All countries scored year banned the practice althou- published several years ago. have to have corresponding national rules them- poorly. Service firms in Panama gh outstanding bearer shares still Corbyn said the government should stop “pussy- selves.” complied 29 percent of the time circulate while the legislation is footing” around and deal aggressively with tax Maas added: “I can imagine many countries con- with minimum standards like re- being implemented. havens. sidering this.” AP questing photo IDs and other do- Still, Varela’s close relationship wed 06.04.2016

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Panama papers Panama rejects mon ey-launder label following documents leak

into bribes paid to politicians by companies doing business ap photo with the state-run oil giant Pe- trobras. Varela himself was hit with unproven allegations during the 2014 presidential cam- paign that he evaded taxes and took money from an illegal gambling ring in the U.S. Some say Panama’s stigma as a haven for illicit cash is well deserved and cleaning up will be hard. While the regulatory framework has greatly impro- ved, old habits are ingrained and many of Panama’s bankers and lawyers have little to fear from the country’s corrupt prosecutors and judges. “This scandal is truly an in- dication of the schizophrenia of Panama’s ruling class,” said RM Koster, an American-born novelist who has made his home in Panama City for de- cades. “They want to pretend to live in a first world country run by serious people but at with Ramon Fonseca is likely Until recently, Fonseca was ved in Varela’s Cabinet as a in Brazil raided the offices of the same time won’t give up to bring questions about his president of the governing special adviser. He resigned a Mossack Fonseca affiliate the culture of graft, bribes, et- commitment to transparency. Panamenista party and ser- in February after authorities as part of the investigation cetera.” AP

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‘Wonderful Time’ cinema – Cheong Sou Man Art Exhibition cineteatro Time: 10:30am-6:30pm 01 Apr - 06 Apr (Closed on Mondays and public holidays) Batman V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE_ Until: May 29, 2015 room 1 1989 Dockers’ ‘jobs for life’ Admission: 2.30, 6.30, 9.15 pm Free scrapped Venue: 10, Calçada da Igreja de S.Lázaro, Macao Director: Zack Snyder nquiries Starring: Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane E : (853) 2835 4582 Language: English (Cantonese) Chaos in Britain’s ports is looming after the gover- Duration: 153min nment announced it is to abolish legislation which, in “Heart Carving – Xue Yihan’s Scenes of effect, guarantees work for more than 9,000 dockers. acau rintmaking xhibition Employment Secretary Norman Fowler told MPs the M P E ” National Dock Labour Scheme (NDLS) had become Time: 12pm-8pm (Tuesdays to Sundays); 3pm-8pm “a total anachronism” which stood in the way of a (Mondays, open on public holidays) modern and efficient ports’ industry. Until: April 22, 2016 Mr Fowler said an abolition bill would be presented Venue: Albergue SCM – A2 Gallery, Calçada da before the House of Commons tomorrow. Employers at the 60 British ports covered by the Igreja de São Lázaro No.8, Macau Gallery A2 NDLS have long complained they are losing business Admission: Free to other ports in the UK and Europe because of the Enquiries: (853) 2852 2550 / 2852 3205 restrictions it imposes. Introduced by a Labour government in 1947, the 10th Macau Design Biennial scheme was intended to end the scourge of casual zootopia_ ime labour by giving dockers the legal right to minimum T : 10am to 7pm room 2 work, holidays, sick pay and pensions. (Closed on Monday, no admission after 6:30 pm) 2.15, 4.05, 9.45 pm A National Dock Labour Board was set up consis- Until: June 26, 2016 Director: Byron Howard, Rich Moore ting of 50% union and 50% employer representati- enue Language: Cantonese (Cantonese/English) ves. V : Macau Museum of Art Duration: 108min Admission: Adult MOP5, free for Children under 12 It gives the unions an absolute veto over dismissal and total control over recruitment. years old, elderly over 65 years old Registered dockers laid off by any of the 150 firms (Admission is free on Sundays and public holidays) bound by the scheme have to be taken on by another Enquiries: (853) 2836 7588 or be paid £25,000, meaning they virtually have a “job for life”. Abstract Paintings In the wake of Mr Fowler’s announcement a ballot from the ollection of the 9,400 registered dockers for industrial action MAM C is expected to be held soon but early reaction does Time: 10am-7pm not bode well. (no admittance after 6:30 pm, closed on Mondays) Dock workers at the Port of London staged an uno- Until: December 31, 2016 fficial half-day strike on Thursday and there was also Venue: Macau Museum of Art, unofficial action at ports in Bristol and Glasgow. Labour has accused the government of “wilful sa- Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE botage” which will plunge the docks into strikes. Admission: MOP5 But Mr Fowler said there would be generous com- (Free on Sundays and public holidays) eddie the eagle_ pensation of up to £35,000 for men laid off as a result Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814 room 3 of the scrapping of the scheme. 2.15, 4.05, 5.55, 9.30 pm He had also received assurances from the port em- Director: Dexter Fletcher ployers that there would be no return to using mass Starring: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, casual labour, Mr Fowler said. Tom Costello Language: English (Cantonese) Offbeat Duration: 106min Courtesy BBC News Kung Fu Panda 3_ Croatian police probe massive room 3 7.45 pm In context theft from its headquarters Director: Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh Language: Cantonese (Cantonese/English) By the time Mrs Thatcher’s government squared up to the Croatian police are investigating the reported theft of Duration: 95min dockers’ unions, it had already broken the miners’ and print- 280,000 euros (USD320,000) and two kilograms of gold — all ers’ unions after they took strike action. snatched from the force’s headquarters. However, many later argued that if the main dockers’ union, Helena Biocic of the police media office confirmed Mon- macau tower the TGWU, had balloted for strike action sooner they may have been more successful. day that the theft had taken place, but refused to reveal any 24 Mar - 27 Apr By the time the dockers came out on strike in July the NDLS details. had already been abolished. The Jutarnji List newspaper, which reported what was taken, Batman V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE_ It meant port employers could once again use casual labour, says the heist occurred late Sunday. The report says the thie- 1.15, 4.00, 6.45, 9.30 pm lessening the impact of the dockers’ action. ves got in by the fire stairs and broke into the office of the Director: Zack Snyder In August most dockers voted to return to work. organized crime department chief, Zeljko Dolacki. Starring: Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane However, port workers in Liverpool remained on strike culmi- The daily says police found an overturned, empty safe in Language: English (Cantonese) nating in 500 of them being sacked. the morning. Duration: 153min wed 06.04.2016 th Anniversary

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FIFA judge who helped ban Panama papers ASepp Blatter for financial misconduct is now under inves- tigation by his ethics committee colleagues after being named in FIFA judge faces ethics investigation an international probe of of- fshore accounts. The FIFA ethics prosecution over offshore accounts chamber said that it “opened a preliminary investigation to re- view the allegations” linked to Eckert, who referred claims and assets are known to Swiss lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani of linked with Damiani to the cur- tax authorities Uruguay. ap photo rent FIFA chief prosecutor Cor- According to Le Monde news- Damiani was identified in nel Borbely. paper, which has access to the reports Sunday by internatio- “Dr. Borbely is currently leaked documents, Platini has nal media who received a vast looking into said allegations in an offshore company founded trove of data and documents order to determine if there is a in Panama in 2007 and named leaked from a law firm based breach against the FIFA Code Balney Enterprises Corp. in Panama. The firm, Mossack of Ethics and decide any further Platini’s advisers said in a sta- Fonseca, specializes in creating measures,” the ethics commit- tement that the former France offshore accounts which can be tee statement said. international “wants to inform used to avoid tax. Damiani is “currently not in- that, as he stated it many times He heads his family’s legal Juan Pedro Damiani, president of Uruguay’s Penarol soccer club (right) shakes volved in any ongoing cases to the journalists in charge of and accountancy practice in hands with Brazilian soccer legend Pele of the adjudicatory chamber,” the investigation, all of his ac- Montevideo founded by his late according to a statement from counts and assets are known to father, Jose Pedro Damiani. and acknowledged taking bri- deral prosecutor Michael Gar- Eckert’s FIFA office. the tax authorities in Switzer- The FIFA case against Damia- bes. cia, then the lead investigator. Damiani also followed his fa- land, where he has been a fiscal ni was opened in March after Damiani was a founding mem- In December, Blatter iden- ther into football, succeeding resident since 2007.” ethics judges learned of his ber of the FIFA ethics commit- tified Damiani as one of four him as president of Uruguay’s Platini’s communication team “business relationship” with tee in 2006. He was proposed ethics judges who passed an 49-time champion Penarol. declined to confirm whether former FIFA vice president Eu- by the South American soccer eight-year ban on him for seve- Last week, Damiani hosted the Frenchman actually ran the genio Figueredo, a fellow Uru- body, CONMEBOL, and appro- ral violations of the FIFA ethi- Blatter’s successor as elected company. guayan who was arrested in Zu- ved by the FIFA executive com- cs code, including a financial FIFA president, Gianni Infan- Platini was suspended from rich almost 10 months earlier. mittee chaired by then-presi- conflict of interest. Blatter’s tino, at the club and presented office in October by FIFA’s Figueredo was indicted by dent Blatter. ban was reduced to six years on him with a personalized yellow ethics committee and is now American federal prosecutors Damiani retained his place appeal, and he has filed a fur- and black-striped team shirt. serving a six-year ban over a last May, and later extradited when the FIFA ethics court was ther challenge at the Court of Separately, suspended UEFA USD2 million payment former to Uruguay. In December, Fi- restructured in 2012 under the Arbitration for Sport. president Michel Platini said af- FIFA president Sepp Blatter gueredo pleaded guilty to fraud leadership of chief judge Joa- The FIFA judging panel in ter he was named in the leaked approved from FIFA funds in and money laundering charges chim Eckert and former U.S. fe- Blatter’s case was chaired by documents that all his accounts 2011. AP

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Loss to Urawa has en.wikipedia.org Guangzhou on brink of ACL exit Fittipaldi driving the Lotus 72 at the Nürburgring in 1971

Formula One ap photo Emerson Fittipaldi facing financial difficulties in Brazil

wo-time Indy 500 win- partnerships and solutions for Tner Emerson Fittipaldi is this situation." facing serious financial di- In addition to the seized cars fficulties in Brazil, with au- and memorabilia, authori- thorities seizing trophies and ties also took computers and racing cars from his personal furniture from the Sao Paulo museum. mansion where his personal Among the cars seized was museum is located. Record the one he used to win the TV showed images of the cars 1993 Indy 500, as well as one being towed into trucks and driven by the Brazilian in For- the trophies being carried by mula One. officials. Other properties and Fittipaldi's press office re- assets by the former driver leased a statement saying that have also been blocked, Re- the difficulties are "the result cord TV said. of an unstable financial and "The racing cars and the tro- political scenario" in Brazil, phies earned by the two-time which is in political turmoil F1 and Indy 500 champion be- and facing its worst recession long to a museum dedicated to in decades. all racing fans in Brazil," the Fittipaldi's struggles sur- statement said. "As soon as faced after a report aired by this issue is solved, they will Brazil's Record TV over the return to their place. Emerson weekend. The revelations laments what has happened, came as a surprise to most but is not discouraged by the- Luiz Felipe Scolari Brazilians, as Fittipaldi was se difficulties and is confident largely seen as a very success- that these problems will be efending re a spot in the knockout sta- ful businessman following his solved." champion Guang- Evergrande, ge for the first time in three racing days. Fittipaldi is reportedly facing zhou Evergrande coached by attempts. Yesterday's statement sent more than 60 lawsuits from is on the brink of a "Good discipline, good ef- to The Associated Press said banks and other businesses Dgroup-stage exit in the Asian Luiz Felipe fort and they played to the the two-time F1 champion was seeking payments. Record TV Champions League after a game plan," Sydney FC coa- optimistic about overcoming said Fittipaldi's debts reach 1-0 loss to Urawa Reds yes- Scolari, has ch Graham Arnold said of his this situation. nearly 27 million reals (USD8 terday left the big-spending team, which is languishing "Emerson Fittipaldi believes million). Chinese club winless in four two points and in seventh place in the Aus- that he will solve this issue Fittipaldi raced 11 seasons in games. needs wins tralian A-League. "I'm very with more work. He has con- F1 from 1970-80, winning the Yuki Muto's header in happy for once in 10 weeks. fidence in the future economic world title with Lotus in 1972 the 52nd-minute secured in its last two "We're not there yet, I want outlook and financial health and with McLaren in 1974. He Urawa's victory at home and us to finish on top of the of his companies," the sta- started racing in the United moved the 2007 champions games to have group." tement said, adding that the States in 1983, winning his into second place in Group In Group F, 2013 finalist driver never hid his financial first Indy 500 in 1989, when H with seven points, two any chance of FC Seoul was held to a 0-0 struggles or denied interviews he also clinched the CART Se- behind Sydney FC. progressing draw at home by Shandong on the subject. "He is seeking ries title. AP Evergrande, coached by Luneng, moving to 10 points Luiz Felipe Scolari, has two in its bid for and remaining three clear of points and needs wins in its the Chinese club. Football last two games to have any its third Asian Seoul defender Osmar Bar- chance of progressing in its ba hit the post with a volley bid for its third Asian Cham- Champions after 16 minutes and Shan- Greece under renewed pions League title in four League title in dong missed a chance when seasons. Gil headed pasted the post. threat of soccer ‘Grexit’ Brazilian midfielder Pauli- four seasons Seoul squandered late nho hit the post from eight chances when Ju Se-jong's IFA says Greece is facing Olympiakos. PAOK fans threw yards, missing a chance to shot from the edge of the Fexpulsion from internatio- flares and clashed with riot put Guangzhou in front early In Sydney, forward Milos area flew over the Shandong nal soccer over a government police on the field. in the second half, minutes Ninkovic scored with his crossbar and Yun Ju-tae's decision to suspend the coun- In a letter to Kontonis yes- before Muto's close-range second touch from close shot was deflected just wide. try's cup competition because terday, FIFA described the ac- header gave Urawa the lead. range in 51st minute to give Sanfrecce Hiroshima re- of fan violence. tion as "disproportionate and Paulinho shot over the the hosts a 1-0 home win mained in contention with a Sports Minister Stavros Kon- as interference in the internal crossbar from Jackson Mar- over the three-time cham- 2-0 win at Buriram United, tonis called off the Greek Cup affairs" of the Greek soccer as- tinez's cross in the 56th, fai- pion Pohang Steelers, main- moving to six points as it ex- last month following violence sociation, and issued a 10-day ling to equalize in a contest taining first place and nee- tended the Thai club's run to at a semifinal match between deadline to reverse the deci- Guangzhou needed to win. ding only one point to ensu- four straight losses. AP PAOK and league champion sion. AP THE Thailand seizes 87 African ivory Station06.04.2016Air quality wed th Anniversary BUZZ tusks worth USD800,000 Roadside 25-45 20 Good Officials in Thailand say they seized 315 kilo- Airport detected the contraband. A Kenyan man grams of African elephant tusks worth an estima- was due to pick up the parcels, but is believed to High ted USD800,000 at Bangkok’s international air- have fled the country after learning they were sei- Density 35-55 port. Thai Customs said that the haul of 87 ivory zed. Residental tusks was found March 27 in a dozen barrels sent Thai authorities alerted Kenyan officials, who Good from Mozambique on a Kenya Airways flight. discovered 561 kilograms of ivory tusks waiting to Area opinion A routine X-ray at Suvarnabhumi International be shipped to the same man. Ambient 35-55 Good Macau Matters dsmg source: Richard Whitfield China military to WORLD BRIEFS Drugs - War or Store? Some Hong Kong fortunes were founded prosecute former top on the opium trade in China. More recently, ap photo in the 1930’s there were businesses hap- general over bribery pily operating in Macau to make and sell opium to the public. At that time many now prohibited drugs were readily available in vileges of his exalted status. many places around the world. As the commission’s first-­ However, since 1961 when the Single ap photo ranking vice chairman, Guo Former Convention on Narcotic Drugs was signed was responsible over a de- MYANMAR in the United Nations, there has been a re- Myanmar President Thein cade for the daily operations Sein sheds his formal attire lentlessly growing criminal drug trade and of the 2.3 million-member the war on drugs has become ever more and his hair to join the People’s Liberation Army, Buddhist monkhood, days costly from human and financial perspec- the world’s largest stan- tives. In 1971 two American congressmen after relinquishing power ding military. During that to a party led by Nobel released a report stating that more than time, the military enjoyed laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. 10-15% of US servicemen in Vietnam were large annual budget increa- addicted to heroin. More recently there has ses, fueling competition for INDONESIA Authorities been an escalating arms race of chemists China's People's Liberation Army Gen. Guo Boxiong potentially lucrative con- blow up 23 foreign vessels developing more and more new psycho- trol over funds, units and that were captured tropic drugs and increasing efforts to stem former top Chinese ge- ro, Guo is among the most support functions such as for fishing illegally in their distribution and jail drug traffickers. Aneral will be tried in a powerful figures to fall in construction. the country’s waters. Around the world, and especially in South military court on charges Xi’s sweeping anti-corrup- Guo’s prosecution had The boats, 13 from America, more and more crime, and espe- he took bribes, the county’s tion drive. Guo’s former been expected since March Vietnam and 10 from cially murders, can be traced to the illegal military said yesterday, in immediate subordinate on 2015, when his son, Maj. Malaysia, were blown up drug trade. what is believed to be the the commission, Gen. Xu Gen. Guo Zhenggang, was simultaneously in seven I have long felt that this war is unwinnable highest-level prosecution of Caihou, was also facing pro- placed under formal inves- ports from Tarakan in and new approaches to dealing with drugs a military figure in decades. secution when he died of tigation for corruption and northern Kalimantan to Ranai on the Natuna need to be tried. Through discussions with Military prosecutors have cancer in March last year. unspecified criminal acti- Islands in the South China friends and colleagues I know that many proof that Guo Boxiong and Hong Kong’s South Chi- vity. The senior Guo was Sea. others feel the same way, and this seems his family took advantage of na Morning Post newspa- expelled from the party last to be an increasingly common view. On this his position and accepted per quoted an unidentified July. topic I recently found a new short documen- CAMBODIA A leading bribes to arrange promo- military source as saying Some top generals are re- international environmental tary and a series of related print articles on tions and assignments for Guo had accepted a total of ported to have accumulated this topic put online by The Economist to group has called on the others, the official Xinhua 80 million yuan (USD12.3 stunning fortunes through Cambodian government kick off its “Global Compass” series - see News Agency reported. million) in bribes. corruption in both cash and economist.com/films for details. to investigate an attack Citing prosecutors, it said Under the founder of the gifts, including golden sta- on a young forest activist This resource takes the view that the war Guo, 74, confessed to the Communist state, Mao Ze- tues of Mao Zedong and ca- who was slashed with a on drugs is failing miserably and that the bribery charges. dong, military leaders were ses of expensive liquor sta- machete while she slept in best way to improve the situation is to le- The announcement ensu- often shifted into civilian cked to the ceiling in secret a hammock after patrolling galize (and tax) drug production, sale and res a swift trial, conviction roles, where many fell vic- underground caches. for illegal loggers. use, treat addiction and other problems and what is likely to be a tim to Mao’s political cam- Such practices are believed related to drug use as health (and not cri- heavy penalty against the paigns. Mao’s successor, by some to have sapped mo- MARKETS Global shares minal) issues, and use taxation and other former vice chairman of the Deng Xiaoping, sought to rale and battle worthiness fall as oil prices drop revenues from the drug industry to pay for Central Military Commis- professionalize the military in the People’s Liberation further and the head of their treatment. Interestingly, the resource sion led by president and and such efforts have gai- Army, and Xi has relentles- the International Monetary cites the decriminalization of all drug use in ruling Communist Party ned pace in recent years. sly driven home the need for Fund sounds downbeat on Portugal in 2001 and how this change has leader Xi Jinping. Though officially retired, officers to keep their hands the outlook for the world actually significantly reduced many drug Formerly one of 25 mem- Guo continued to enjoy clean during recent visits to economy. related problems there. It strongly argues bers of the party’s Politbu- many of the rights and pri- military units. AP that decriminalization is not enough as this Vatican Discussions approach still leaves drug production and are underway about a sale (and the profits) in the hands of cri- possible trip by Pope minals. I fully agree with The Economist’s Francis to Greece as view. The early as next week as the I very much like this resource and belie- country begins deporting AP Photo/Jens Meyer ve it can be an excellent educational tool. decisive moment migrants back to Turkey. About the only change I would make is to Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi add materials to explain the high cost of said that no decision had the war on drugs - the murders and other been made but in an email crimes committed by drug criminals, the to The Associated Press large and costly police forces deployed he said “I don’t deny that to combat them; the drug users turning to there are contacts about a crime to support their addictions and the possible trip.” destruction of their families, and the high costs of jailing them after prosecution. USA Tennessee lawmakers Here in Macau drugs have always been voted yesterday to make a problem, and it seems to be increasing. the Bible the state’s official Guangdong Province is a well-known sour- book. They’ve already ce for many different drugs to which Macau made a .50-caliber sniper people have easy access. In recent years, gun the official state rifle. the authorities in Hong Kong have been The state Senate gave conducting an ever expanding advertising final approval on a 19-8 campaign to advise young people against vote despite arguments drug use. Perhaps the time has come for a the measure conflicts public debate on drugs in Macau and ac- with a provision in the tion to adopt new approaches to dealing state Constitution that with the issue here. And perhaps, we can “no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any take a lead from what is happening in Por- Blossom. A bumblebee arrives at a cherry tree blossom in Erfurt, central Germany, yesterday. Weather religious establishment or tugal and some other places. forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany in the next few days. mode of worship.”