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CENSORSHIP CONCERNS HONG KONG ACTIVISTS MEASURES TO COOL The China Press Freedom WALK FREE Report 2017 mentions the Hong Kong’s highest court PROPERTY problems foreign journalists yesterday overturned prison MARKET faced when trying to enter sentences for three young APPROVED Macau last year pro-democracy activists P5 AL PLENARY P7 P11 WED.07 Feb 2018 T. 8º/ 16º C H. 30/ 70% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 8.00 2982 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 COLOANE AP PHOTO CCAC wants gov’t to PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered an end to all foreign scientific research missions in a vast expanse of waters off the country’s northeast and revert plot ownership called on the military to P2 “chase out” unauthorized vessels, an official said yesterday. More on p12 AP PHOTO TAIWAN A 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted waters near Hualien County of Taiwan at 11.50p.m. yesterday. The quake struck at a depth of 11km. Local media reported that some buildings and roads in Hualien were damaged. AP PHOTO INDONESIA A court sentenced an Islamic militant to 10 years in prison yesterday after finding him guilty of procuring weapons for his network to use in attacks. PAKIStaN Police say an enraged crowd of thousands of Wazir tribesmen has torched the house and office of the commander of a pro- government militia in the country’s northwest. AP PHOTO MALDIVES The president of the Maldives said yesterday he ordered a state of emergency to investigate “this plot, this coup” involving a Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered the release of imprisoned Stock market turmoil: Billions wiped opposition leaders, including many of his political rivals. More on p13 off shares as sell-off gathers pace P9 More on backpage 07.02.2018 wed 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO CCAC wants gov’t to revert Alto de Coloane plot ownership HE Commission Against TCorruption (CCAC) released an “Investigation report on the construction project at Alto de CE visits Seac Pai Coloane”. The report highlights Van neighborhood the existing doubts concerning the exact location of the cons- On Monday evening, the chief truction project and how this executive, Chui Sai On, visited the Seac uncertainty has and will affect Pai Van integrated shopping center to the land plot’s title inheritance meet with residents living in nearby process. communities. In a video released by The plot involved with the the Government Information Bureau, construction project at Alto de Chui is seen having several short Coloane has land description conversations with some shoppers, number 6150 and was located asking the residents what they think of near Largo do Presidente An- the shopping center, and saying hello tónio Ramalho Eanes in the old to children, other shoppers and retail Coloane Village instead of being staff in the shopping center. at Alto de Coloane. According to CCAC, the actual area of the plot was, at the most, only a few Flooded taxis hundred square meters instead of 53,866 m2. and the registered allowed to extend plot owner, from 1903, was Chui licenses Lan. In July 1991, residents in Co- According to a report by TDM, the loane, Vong Tam Seng and vestigation that in the legal truction no. 01/DSSOPT/2009, concerning the title, location and Transport Bureau (DSAT) have Vong Tak Heng, represented proceedings of their eligibility the permitted maximum buil- area of the parcel where the Alto announced that taxis damaged by by lawyer Paulo dos Remédios, confirmation, there was lack of ding height should only be 8.9 de Coloane project is located, floods can extend their licenses for brought a suit claiming their eli- evidence for the verification of meters. the parcel owner might apply another half a year. In the aftermath of gibility as the heirs to this land statements,” the CCAC report However, according to the for a new planning proposal ac- Typhoon Hato, DSAT received many plot to the court, claiming that reads. street alignment plan issued cording to the Urban Planning applications requesting a change to Vong Tam Kuong, who was also Moreover, due to a complete by the DSSOPT, the permitted Law and subsequent approval the registration status of damaged named “Chui Lan,” was their lack of proof, the then-Depart- maximum building height was procedures might follow. Howe- taxis. After these applications were grandfather. Vong Tam Seng ment for Cartography and Ca- 100 meters, which obviously ver, since the parcel is State processed, 124 taxis were deemed and Vong Tak Heng made their dastre refused to issue a cadas- contradicted the planning terms property, whether the relevant damaged by the typhoon. 69 of them formal request to inherit the tit- tral map. set forth in the administrative street alignment plan is valid is were eight-year concession taxis. le of the land plot. In August 1994, Chong Fai instruction. now a minor problem.” According to DSAT, the six-month In April of 1999, the court ru- Limited, after already having “Moreover, the street align- Finally, the CCAC claims that extension is the period of time led that the two were the only purchased the plot, applied for a ment plan and the official buil- the plot at Alto de Coloane ad- suggested by the taxi industry and was heirs of Vong Tam Kuong, and land boundary survey. ding plan approved based on the jacent to Estrada do Campo and agreed to by DSAT. This extension they eventually inherited the tit- The then-named Department relevant cadastral information Estrada de Seac Pai Van, where can be used for the taxis’ examination, le of the plot. for Cartography and Cadastre information checking and other is also invalid. The street alig- the construction project at Alto believed the plot area was added necessary procedures. “One cannot rule out the pos- nment plan of the Alto de Co- de Coloane is located, is not re- sibility that some people made to the property registration and loane project went against the gistered in the Real Estate Re- use of judicial proceedings and that the location of the plot was planning terms provided for in gistry. 14 boat owners falsely claimed to be the plot confirmed by the transcription the administrative instruction. “Therefore, according to Arti- owner’s descendants and obtai- certificate issued by the Finan- Therefore, the DSSOPT (Land, cle 7 of the Basic Law, it is Sta- arrested for ned the title illegally,” the CCAC cial Services Bureau. The de- Public Works and Transport te property. The CCAC [have report says. partment issued a cadastral map Bureau) should reject the appli- suggested that] the Macau SAR smuggling waste Vong Tam Seng and Vong Tak for the plot as it was believed cation for the official building Government [should] recover Heng sold the plot to Chong that the plot’s location and des- plan,” the report writes. the land parcel following appro- Gongbei Customs handled a smuggling Fai Properties Investment tination were known. “The CCAC pointed out that if priate procedure and method,” case where owners of small cargo Company Limited for MOP150 The CCAC report notes that there was no problem or dispute the CCAC report reads. boats were caught transporting waste million in October 1993. since the information that the materials from Macau to mainland After obtaining the title of the land boundary survey was ba- China over an extended period. plot as an heir, Vong Tam Seng sed on was obviously at odds Gongbei Customs arrested 14 suspects, CE REFERS REPORT TO PUBLIC applied for two land boundary with reality, the administrative all of whom were owners of cargo surveys, in 1992 and 1993 res- act of the confirmation of the PROSECUTIONS OFFICE boats. Recently, the suspects bought boundary was groundless. waste batteries, waste metals and pectively, where he claimed that THE CHIEF Executive, Chui rights of land owners. The is- waste plastics from several waste the plot was located at Alto de It continues by saying that the Sai On, has decided to refer sues raised in the CCAC report stations in Macau, once or twice Coloane adjacent to Estrada do cadastral map issued by the De- the report to the Public Prose- are “complicated and serious,” every week. After each purchase, they Campo and Estrada de Seac Pai partment for Cartography and cutions Office. According to a the statement read. Chui said transported two to four tonnes of the Van. Cadastre is invalid. statement from the Government he was highly concerned about waste from Macau to Zhongshan, Vong Tam Seng claimed in the The CCAC considered that sin- Information Bureau, Chui made issues raised in the report re- where a smuggling group would buy two applications that the area ce the southern part of the site of the decision after an analysis of garding the demarcation of land the waste and, in turn, sell it to other measured was 111,848 square the Alto de Coloane project ad- relevant laws, and with a view in general, and in particular, places. Gongbei Customs believes meters and 57,300 square me- jacent to Estrada do Campo fell to safeguarding public land the area involved in the Alto de that 1,000 tonnes of solid waste were within the area of the planning ters respectively. rights, as well as the legitimate Coloane construction project. transported. “The CCAC found in the in- laid down in Administrative Ins- www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho paulocoutinho@macaudailytimes.com A MACAU TIMES PUBLIcatIONS LtD PUBLIcatION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa paulo.barbosa@macaudailytimes.com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRatOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys kowie@macaudailytimes.com NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, SECREtaRY Juliana Cheang juliana@macaudailytimes.com PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F.

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