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SURPRISE? LAU DROPS ALEXIS TAM SEES VISITOR EXTRADITION BILL LAWSUIT CAPACITY AS CHALLENGE TOURISTS UBER Convicted by Macau courts, Secretary Alexis Tam tycoon Joseph Lau dropped acknowledged that the DISSATISFIED legal action against Hong Kong’s continuous surge in visitor arrivals WITH TAXIS controversial extradition bill is posing a challenge for the city P3 P4 TOURISM P5 UM STUDY THU.30 May 2019 T. 24º/ 27º C H. 80/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 13,000 MOP 8.00 3300 N.º HKD 10.00 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO IFJ URGES MACAU TO HOLD BILL AP PHOTO Civil Protection CHINA Fighting to maintain its access to major markets for next-generation Law a ‘threat to communications, Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging the constitutionality of a U.S. law that limits P3 its sales of telecom press freedom’ equipment. More on p11 CHINA Veteran Chinese dissident Wang Dan urged Western nations to restore the link between human rights and trade with China in a speech yesterday just days ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on student pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. More on p10 NEPAL commemorated the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest yesterday amid a climbing season marred by the highest death toll in four years and a debate on whether the government should limit permits to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the world’s highest peak. AP PHOTO PJ HOLDS ‘SERIOUS CRIME’ DRILL MARQUES RENATO How to INDIA’s finance minister, who carried out Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s combat economic initiatives including tax and welfare reforms, has decided not to join terror, gangs Modi’s new government to be sworn in today, P3 citing health reasons. More on backpage 30.05.2019 thu th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO rists each year, with part of the trash volume being produced by Areia Preta to build new solid non-local workers and the large number of tourists. In addition, the government will launch subsidy programs to waste collection facilities help restaurants install waste dis- posal machines. HE government has planned Meanwhile, Rosário claimed he Tto rebuild the automatic solid would, if necessary, reduce the waste collection system in Areia number of parking spaces on the Preta, Secretary for Transport streets. He believes that the low and Public Works Raimundo Ar- MARQUES RENATO usage of public parking lots is rais do Rosário told lawmakers related to residents’ habits, not at the Legislative Assembly (AL) fares. earlier this week. The secretary claimed he would Due to a malfunction, the waste consider expanding pedestrian collection facility has been aban- routes, increasing traffic lanes doned since October 2018. and greening the environment The issue was raised by near public parking lots. lawmaker Ho Ion Sang, who re- In response to critics accusing quested that the SAR government the government of decreasing explain its plan for Macau’s auto- the number of parking spaces on matic trash collection systems, roads, Rosário said that it is ne- which have been experimentally Raimundo Arrais do Rosário cessary to balance the benefits of operated for 10 years. the various stakeholders on pu- In response to Ho, Rosário ex- blic roads. plained that the Areia Preta solid Agnes Lam said that Macau’s waste collection system had been span, and acknowledged that the plans to install a pipeline garbage Rosário said that the govern- roads cannot take more than in use for more than 10 years, and system’s damage was related to collection system in New Urban ment plans to start charging fees, 210,000 parked vehicles. Accor- that “the whole system cannot improper use by residents, such Zone area A. The pipe will be able first to landfill parties, before the ding to the Transport Bureau, be saved, a new one needs to be as throwing out garbage which to be barred into buildings’ gar- policy is implemented in other there are currently more than made.” should not have been left in the bage rooms. sectors. 231,700 parking spaces in Ma- According to Ho, the system was trash collector. The government is open to con- Rosário also remarked that Ma- cau, plus 16 km of open parking built at a cost of MOP120 million, Rosário also showed no hesi- ducting research to install the cau produces lots of trash on a sections at night, 138,000 private and was originally estimated to tation in predicting that similar same system in other regions. daily basis and that the volume of cars and 75,000 motorcycles. have a 25-year service life span. problems would occur with futu- Lawmaker Agnes Lam propo- waste per capita has not decrea- DSAT Director Lam Hin San be- The secretary replied that he re trash collection facilities. sed the government levy an envi- sed. This is due to the fact that lieves that the number of parking was unaware of the 25-year life In addition, the government ronmental protection tax. Macau hosts over 30 million tou- spaces is sufficient.JZ VOLLEYBALL Restaurant China defeats Belgium workers see 3-0 in second game earnings rise 13.4% HE FIVB Women’s ACAU’S hotel taurants (2,223) and TVolleyball Nations XINHUA Msector had 59,516 Hotels (2,133) fell by League Macao 2019 full-time employees at 71 and 51 respectively ushered in its second the end of the first quar- year-on-year. day of competition yes- ter of 2019, up 4.3% The employee recruit- terday, with the Chinese year-on-year, according ment rate (4.1%), the women’s volleyball team to the latest manpower job vacancy rate (3.5%) defeating Belgium 3-0 needs and wages survey and the employee tur- (25-16, 25-20, 25-14). released yesterday by nover rate (4.3%) of the Gong Xiangyu, Zhang the Statistics and Cen- hotel sector fell by 1.7, Changning and Li Yin- sus Service. Meanwhile, 0.2 and 0.1 percenta- gying snatched high earnings (excluding bo- ge points respectively points to empower China nuses) of full-time em- year-on-year, indicating to beat Belgium. The coa- ployees in March rose a slowdown in demand ch of the Chinese natio- by 1.5% year-on-year to for manpower in the in- nal team, Lang Ping, also MOP18,180. dustry. sent young players to join The restaurants sec- For restaurants, the em- the final round. tor had 26,185 full-ti- ployee recruitment rate Earlier in the day, Thai- The China team celebrate after scoring during the match against Belgium yesterday me employees, down (5.8%) and the employee land defeated South Ko- by 2.3% year-on-year, turnover rate (6.9%) rose rea 3-1 by 25-21, 19-25, ve 3-0 whitewash, while gium are to take on the Nations League. A total of with the average ear- by 0.3 and 0.2 percen- 25-19 and 25-20. China went on to duplica- Thailand. 16 teams, including 12 core nings rising 13.4% to tage points respectively, In Tuesday’s opening te the success with a 3-0 Last year, the FIVB re- teams and four challenger MOP10,430. implying that the de- matches, Korea claimed victory over Thailand. placed the FIVB World teams, will compete in the At the end of the first mand for manpower in the first victory, beating China will face South Grand Prix with the new six-week tournament this quarter, the number the industry was relati- Belgium by an expressi- Korea today, while Bel- FIVB Women’s Volleyball year. DB/Xinhua of vacant posts in Res- vely stable. 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According to reports, Lau, who has been evading his jail term in Macau, has given up on the idea of challenging the controversial extradition bill which is being con- sidered in Hong Kong.