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WORLD BRIEFS Lull in Economic diversification ap photo Report shows gaming Japan-S. Korea Japan released video footage it said proved a South Korean warship locked its fire-control radar onto a Japanese dominance on the rise warplane off the northeastern coast in P3 the latest move of an escalating row between the Asian neighbors. ap photo

Philippines A powerful undersea earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Saturday, prompting people to scramble out of shopping malls and buildings and authorities to warn villagers to stay away from beaches in case of a tsunami.

Cambodia Long-serving Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has inaugurated a monument marking the 1998 end of the threat from the communist Khmer Rouge movement, which ruinously ruled the country in the late 1970s and then carried on a guerrilla war. ap photo

Bangladesh The leader of Bangladesh’s opposition alliance called

yesterday’s general 2018 Y EA R IN E V election “farcical,” saying any outcome would be rejected and demanding that a new election be held under the authority of a “nonpartisan government.” More on p13 After Collapse Triggers Tsunami

Syria’s military says it has entered the key IE W IN S IDE Kurdish-held town of Anak Krakatau volcano Manbij in an apparent deal with the Kurds, who are looking for new allies and protection against now a quarter of its a threatened Turkish offensive as U.S. troops prepare to leave Syria. P5,13 INDONESIA More on backpage pre-eruption size 31.12.2018 mon

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Education Taxi passenger Private schools to have injured after declining a new framework overcharging request Julie Zhu renato marques renato he Executive Council T(ExCo) has completed discussions on the System Framework for Private School Teaching Staff of Non-tertiary Education law amendment draft. According to a press con- ference held by the ExCo on Friday, the bill proposes that the operational enti- 28-year-old taxi driver has been arrested af- ty must establish a school A ter reportedly overcharging and imprisoning board which will be able one of his passengers. to appoint and dismiss the On Dec. 23, the driver drove a 40-year-old rector, approve the number mainland visitor from a hotel in the central dis- of permanent school staff, trict to another hotel in Cotai. make decisions regarding On the way, the taxi driver asked for MOP200 the school’s teaching policies for the trip, but the mainland passenger declined and development plan, as The bill stipulates that the new bill is only consoli- should use the government’s his request. The passenger then called the police well as supervise the school’s the operational entity or dating regulations concer- financial supports guided for help while seeking help by waving from the operation. the chairman of the school ning the task forces into a by the dedicated-fund-for- car’s window. Noticing this, the driver closed the The school board will be board should not be the rec- legal article. dedicated-use principle. If window, causing the victim to sustain injuries to formed by a minimum of tor. However, other parties When there is an outbreak the school fails to fulfill its his hand. The driver was charged with physical seven members, consisting within the operational entity of influenza or disasters on obligations when using the assault. of the rector, teachers, and can be the rector. campus, or when extreme funds, the fund’s approval The prosecution authority issued a statement parents. CE Council spokesperson weather occurs, members of entity is entitled to requi- saying it has already taken the mandatory mea- Each academic year, the Leong Heng Teng said that the task force are responsib- re the funds be partially or sures, including ensuring the suspect reports re- board is obligated to have the bill sets up a system le for handling the crisis by completely returned, with gularly to the authorities. two meetings. that avoids overlapping ri- releasing relevant informa- the city’s Financial Services According to police records, in the past two Regarding whether or not ghts, specifically by having tion, for example. Bureau collecting the mo- years the suspect had been listed ten times, members of the board shou- the rector be a member of In addition, the bill also ney. always for overcharging. ld be elected, the head of the the board but allowing the mandates that the school In order to protect stu- In 2017, 3,180 overcharging incidents were re- Education Department of board to appoint and dis- cannot charge students extra dents’ rights, the bill added ported. This represented 57.9 percent of all taxi the Education and Youth Af- miss the rector. fees, other than for tuition another article on adminis- infractions (5,491) in 2017. fairs Bureau (DSEJ) explai- The bill also proposes the and selective services. The trative interference. When The number of taxi overcharging cases in 2017 ned that the school’s opera- establishment of a task force school cannot force students the school’s operation is sus- increased 85.6 percent compared to 2016, accor- tional entity is entitled to de- for campus crisis manage- or their parents to sponsor pended temporarily or per- ding to the data released by the Public Security cide how the school board is ment. school operations. manently by the operational Police Force. formed, and that the bill does Leong Vai Kei said that The school is also obliged entity’s initiative, the DSEJ In November alone, 289 overcharging incidents not have regulations concer- private schools already have to obey the government’s can temporarily operate the were reported, representing 64.7 percent of the ning appointment methods. these task forces, and that finance regulations, and school. total number of taxi infractions for the month.

ASK THE VET by Dr Ruan Du Toit Bester means that the ability to see color exists, but the ability to differentiate colors probably Can cats see colour? does not exist. The importance of the eyes Because there is no form of two-way com- outlet of nerves that contains both cones and From as far back as the history of the cat munications with cats, it can sometimes be rods. The cones work by taking in light and can be traced, cats have always been hun- difficult to determine what cats see. The only changing the images into color. That messa- ters. They lived and survived in the wilder- way to accurately describe the sight of cats ge is then sent to the brain and the concept ness by hunting at night and keeping them- is to actually examine the eye using modern of color is realized. Rods, on the other hand, selves concealed during the day. The eyes science as a hitch. And while most cat ow- take in light from the eye and contrast the were a great asset because they had the abi- ners would like to believe that their cat has image into black and white. lity to see in much brighter contexts at night. the ability to see them clearly and in colour, The theory of cats being able to see color is This was essential to their survival. the cat was simply not formed to exist in that directly related to the amount of cones and It is important to understand that the ability manner. rods that are present in the retina. However, to see color was never a necessity for the sur- Now that there is the advent of medical modern science has recently been able to de- vival of the cat. In a dark and wooded forest, science, there is more information than ever termine that cats have a much higher amount the cat had a limited use for colour; only bri- that can tell us exactly what cats see and why of rods in the retina than they do cones. ght contrasts that would allow him to succes- Ask the Vet: they can only see a limited amount of color. What this means is that because cats do have sfully hunt his prey. cones in the retina, they do have some ability Royal Veterinary Centre Science of the eye to see color. However, in comparison, cones Hope this info helps Tel: +853 28501099, +853 28523678 The main component of the eye that is re- in the retina of cats only account for roughly Till next week Emergency: +853 62662268 lated to color is the retina. The retina is an 20%. The other 80% consists of rods. This Dr Ruan Bester Email: [email protected]

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Gaming year-on-year, with the gaming sector rising 17.5 percent and non-gaming industries growing 6.4 percent. Within the gaming sector, the 2017 a disappointing year share of revenue derived from VIP players increased by 3.4 per- centage points year-on-year in 2017, accounting for 56.9 percent for economic diversification of total gambling receipts. The 2017 reversal follows two con- Daniel Beitler secutive years of decline in VIP importance, having fallen 5 per-

he Macau SAR gover- bloomberg centage points and 2 percentage nment’s goal of having points year-on-year in 2015 and casino operators draw a 2016 respectively. minimum of 9 percent of The VIP share of total gambling Ttheir revenue from non-gambling revenue in 2017 was only a few sources by 2020 is looking in- percentage points below the 60 creasingly implausible, data from percent level seen between 2012 the latest Statistics and Census and 2014, when the precariou- Bureau report on economic di- sness of Macau’s “monotonous versification show. economic structure” was first ex- According to official data relea- posed. sed Friday, 2017 was a disappoin- The Statistics and Census Bu- ting year for those charged with reau report also considered other driving economic diversification. measurements for gauging the As the deadline outlined in the extent of economic diversifica- government’s first Five- Year De- tion in Macau, including changes velopment Plan inches one year to the source markets of inbound closer, the proportion of non- visitors. gambling revenue from total in- But here, too, little change has dustry receipts amounted to just been observed. 6.8 percent, marking a slight re- The inbound tourism market versal from the gains seen in the of Macau is highly concentrated previous two years. in the greater China region, with Macau’s six gaming concessio- visitors coming from mainland naires brought in a combined China, Hong Kong and Taiwan revenue of MOP284.77 billion in comprising more than 90 per- 2017, with that of gaming activi- cent of total visitor arrivals. Tho- ties accounting for MOP265.44 se coming from mainland China billion – or 93.2 percent - accor- alone constituted more than 68 ding to the 2017 Analysis Report percent of total visitor arrivals in of Statistical Indicator System 2017. for Moderate Economic Diver- versification is Sands China, whi- Macau SAR’s almost MOP400 The gaming sector also conti- Between 2014 and 2017, the sification of Macau, released on ch derived just 16 percent of its billion economic output, followed nued to be the engine of econo- source market composition of Friday. That’s up from the 92.6 revenue from non-gaming sour- by real estate activities (10.6 per- mic growth in Macau in 2017, inbound tourists to Macau remai- percent share drawn from gam- ces in 2017, up from 12.6 percent cent), wholesale and retail acti- with its own expansion out- ned virtually unchanged, with the bling activities in 2016 and little in 2008. In Macau terms, that vities (5.6 percent) and banking pacing that of the general eco- exception of visitors from South change from 2015. is years ahead of Wynn Macau, (5.4 percent). Hotels and other nomy. Gross value added of all Korea, which grew from a 1.76 A Wall Street Journal report which grew from 5.6 percent in similar activities accounted for economic activities expanded by percent share of the total in 2014 earlier this year examined the 2008 to 6.7 percent last year, and 4.3 percent. MOP41.37 billion or 11.6 percent to 2.68 percent in 2017. Macau and Las Vegas experien- MGM China, which took in just 2 The dominance of Macau’s ces in developing a non-gaming percent of its revenue from non- gaming sector grew almost 2.5 side to casino operators and fou- gaming sources in 2017. percentage points year-on-year value added of gaming sector activities nd that the former had seen only Concerted efforts to promo- in 2017 to reach a proportion of at current producers’ prices marginal improvement in the te auxiliary industry sectors in 49.1 percent, reversing the im- Year Value added Gross value added Proportion (%) past decade. the city – for example cultural provement seen in the previous It took Las Vegas just ten years and creative industries, Chinese year when the share of economic (MOP millions) (MOP millions) from the opening of its first inte- medicine and meetings, incen- output declined by about 1.4 per- 2014 254,051 434,516 58.47 grated resorts for non-gaming re- tives, conferences and exhibi- centage points from 2015. The 2015 171,107 356,392 48.01 venue to become the casino ope- tions (MICE) – also appear to be dominance of the sector still re- 2016 166,158 356,130 46.66 rators’ major source of income. falling short. mains significantly behind that 2017 195,274 397,497 49.13 Meanwhile, in Macau the lea- In 2017, gaming and junket ac- of the pre-recession peak in 2014 ding U.S. operator in terms of di- tivities accounted for half of the (58.47 percent). Source: Statistics and Census Bureau statistics and census bureau statistics 31.12.2018 mon

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Transport Local directors can apply Beijing buses to be fitted with for feature film subsidy safety warning pplications for systems Athe “2018 Support Pro- gramme for the Production of Feature Films,” organized ew highway buses in Beijing will be by the Cultural Affairs Bu- marques renato Nequipped with an active safety system reau (IC), are now open un- that can alert drivers of speeding, incorrect til February 10. Successful lane changes and other traffic violations, applicants will each receive the Beijing Youth Daily reported. a subsidy of up to MOP2 Buses on highways linking Beijing with million to produce a feature Hong Kong and Macau, and Chengde, He- film. bei Province, are trialing the system, ac- According to the IC, the cording to Yang Bin, manager of the safety subsidy aims to continuous- service department of Beijing Public Trans- ly promote the development portation Group. of the Macau film industry, When the number of the active safety sys- develop local filmmaking tem-equipped buses increases, road sec- talent, enhance the profes- tions with frequent alarms will be tagged sional production capacity of and recorded to form a heat map, which the the local film industry, and traffic management department can use to encourage filmmakers to issue warnings to drivers. It will help redu- get involved in feature film ce accidents, said Yang. production, thus producing In addition, 30 buses for Route One, more local and creative cine- will select 10 projects for the view and analyze the appli- sentation before the finalists running through downtown Beijing from matic works. next phase based on five cri- cation documents based on are selected. east to west, have been fitted with a blind Applicants must be resi- teria: content and creativity three criteria: the applicant A maximum of four bene- zone warning system at the front rearview dents who have directed or of the script, the applicant and crew’s ability to imple- ficiaries will be selected and mirror and the rear of the vehicle. When produced at least one 80-mi- and crew’s ability to imple- ment, the completeness of each will receive a subsidy pedestrians or bicycles come too close to nute feature film, or two ment, the feasibility of film the script, and the feasibi- for up to 70 percent of the the bus, a flashing signal will alert the dri- short films (fiction) over 20 production project, the de- lity of the film’s promotion total estimated costs of the ver. minutes, which have been gree of perfection in project and marketing plan. This is approved project (up to a The two systems will be promoted in more screened in public. planning, and overall budget followed by a final interview maximum of MOP2 million), vehicles in the future, the paper said. Up Adjudication will include rationale. with the applicants and their to be used for the production, until now, Beijing has opened 50 inter-pro- two phases. In the initial re- In the second review, the production team, as well as a promotion and marketing of vincial bus lines, carrying 390,000 passen- view, the adjudicating panel adjudicating panel will re- review of the applicants’ pre- the feature film. gers daily. MDT/Xinhua ad mon 31.12.2018

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Migrants raise funds for compatriots affected by tsunami Lynzy Valles “We also held a fundraising all at once because we colla- campaign in September when borate with different needs ndonesian migran- an earthquake-tsunami occur- back home. So we do this step ts in the SAR are raising red in Sulawesi island and we by step. […] We have different funds for the victims of still have some MOP20,000 networks and alliances, so we this week’s tsunamis, in a remaining that we could send, all work together,” Solikin ex- Ishow of solidarity. along with the funds that will plained. Members of the Indonesian be raised today,” said the mi- According to IMWU, the as- Migrant Workers Union roa- grant worker. sociation is not expecting to med the streets of Avenida raise a significant amount of do Almeida Lacerda and Ave- funds, yet stressed that they nida de Horta e Costa yester- The funds are all working together vo- day, while others remained at luntarily to raise money more will be sent Roi Solikin (center, dressed in black) pictured with members of the Indonesian Three Lamps Square, asking efficiently. migrant community the public for donations for Although the association has victims of the tsunami that hit to different no members with families af- the coastlines of west Java and organizations in fected by the two tsunamis, rents could not bring anything dition now, but little by little Sumatra, Indonesia. one member recalled that her but themselves because the they are making progress. I For the migrant workers li- Indonesia family was a victim of the de- incident happened really fast. have sent money to them and ving in the region, raising vastating earthquake-tsuna- Even our house was wrecked,” we also talked to different [mi- funds to send back home is According to Solikin, the mi that occurred in September, the migrant worker recalled. grant groups] to ask for assis- one of ways to show solidarity funds were raised by Indone- which left over 2,000 dead in Although it has been three tance,” she explained. and remembrance. sian migrant groups and other Palu on Sulawesi island. months since the natural di- Aside from Indonesian mi- “We’re fundraising today private individuals. “[Six of] my family members, saster occurred, the migrant grant groups, non-govern- with the hope that it can help The funds will be sent to di- including my parents, had to worker said that her family is ment association Caritas Ma- our compatriots back home. fferent organizations in In- evacuate, bringing nothing still staying in a camp, along cau is holding a three-month This is our way of showing so- donesia, depending on their with them when the incident with others who evacuated and long fundraising event. Just lidarity with them,” said Roi needs. happened,” said Mikha Elis. lost their homes. last week, the group allocated Solikin, a member of IMWU. “We do not send [the funds] “We had nothing left. My pa- “They are not in perfect con- MOP200,000 to relief efforts.

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Christmas Arts decorations cause fire 3rd Printmaking Triennial Christmas lighting on the top floor of Sintra Hotel caused fire at about 7 p.m. on Saturday, blackening shows 175 finalist pieces the exterior wall of the building. According to a TDM report, he 3rd Macao Print- that this edition of the trien- some fragments of the lighting Tmaking Triennial, organi- nial has received an enthu- also fell onto the balcony below, zed by the Cultural Affairs Bu- siastic response, attracting causing parts of it to also catch reau (IC), is showcasing 175 over 1,000 entries from 39 fire. According to the Fire Services winning and finalist works at countries and regions, inclu- Bureau, the fire was caused by a different art venues, offering ding in Asia, Europe, North short circuit in the wire on the top floor. No guests were evacuated or an international exchange in America and Oceania. injured in the incident. the world of printmaking art. After an assessement by the The opening and award cere- adjudicating panel, a total mony of the event will be held of 175 winning and finalist Three arrested on January 4 at 6:30 p.m., at works were selected, inclu- the Macau Contemporary Art ding “Windows encounter” over fake chips Centre – Navy Yard No.1. The and “Skyline by Fifth Floor exhibition is running from (I)” by Macau artists Wong Police arrested three Hong Kong December 28 to March 17, in- Wai I and Loi Chi Fong, res- residents for attempting to cash cluding on public holidays. pectively. in fake casino chips valued at The works on display co- In addition to the Trien- HKD100,000. The Judiciary ver a wide range of themes, nial, the IC will hold a the- Police said that the cage staff according to the IC, contras- matic seminar on January 5 discovered the chip model had ting the different visions and at the Macau Contemporary been suspended and it did not contain a security feature. perspectives of artists from Art Centre, conducted by the Although the suspects claimed different cultural backgrou- associate professor of the that they had no idea the chips nds. Seeking innovation whi- School of Arts of the Macau were fake, they admitted that le adhering to artistic tradi- Polytechnic Institute, Sou they had been commissioned tions, these works not only Pui Kun and the vice director by friends from Hong Kong to reflect the artists’ in-depth of the Printmaking Art Com- exchange the chips and would study of techniques, but also mittee of China Artists Asso- receive HKD10,000 each in combine innovative plate- ciation and professor of the return. The case was sent to the making, media, printing and China Academy of Art, Zhang Public Prosecution Office and the integrated techniques. Minjie, who will talk about suspects were charged with fraud. The IC wrote in a statement the art of printmaking. ad mon 31.12.2018

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Industrial Park enters new phase Fu Ziying appointed Liaison Office head

The State Council, China’s Forty local projects withdrew cabinet, announced on Friday the appointment of Fu Ziying as director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau from Hengqin park Special Administrative Region. The orty of the invest- post had been left vacant earlier this ment projects for the year when the head of the Liaison Guangdong-Macau Office Zheng Xiaosong commited Co- operation Indus- suicide in Macau. Fu Ziying was serving as China International Trade Ftrial Park in Hengqin withdrew Representative and vice Minister of from the park without ever Commerce. The State Council also being launched, within four announced the appointment of Deng years of the Industrial Park Zhonghua as the deputy director of first calling for investments in the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs 2014. Office of the State Council, replacing In previous project recruit- Feng Wei. ment, Macau recommended a total of 83 projects enter the Hengqin Industrial Park. Online purchasing According to the director of Administrative Committee of of train tickets eased the Hengqin New Area, Yang Chuan, cooperation agreemen- many investors were unawa- cations for the remaining 2.57 cau Greater Bay Area. The mainland railway authority is implementing a simpler online ts have been signed with 27 of re of Hengqin’s requirements square kilometers in the Park Previously, the Macau gover- train ticket purchasing procedure the projects recommended by when they first heard about are being accepted with a new nment had acted alone when for SAR residents. Previously, SAR Macau. the investment opportunities. assessment mechanism. At a recommending Macau projec- residents mandatorily needed to Forty of the 83 investment Indeed, the investors only joint press conference, both ts to the Industrial Park. have a mainland phone number (the projects withdrew after nego- realized they could not meet Irene Lau and Yang Chuan said For this round of new re- same applying to mainlanders and tiations between the govern- Hengqin’s requirements upon the new round of investment cruitment, both the Macau foreigners) in order to be able to ments of Hengqin and Macau. beginning discussions with recruitment will focus on high- and Hengqin governments will register in the mainland’s official train According to acting chairman Hengqin. end and new technology, stra- assign six representatives to ticket online purchasing system. Each of the Macau Trade and In- IPIM and the Administrati- tegic emerging industries and assess the projects, along with phone number was bound to the user’s vestment Promotion Institute ve Committee of the Hengqin the high-end service industry, a jury of 15 industry represen- real ID (this procedure still applies to (IPIM) Irene Lau, there are no New Area will begin a new rou- with a focus on contributing tatives from Macau. mainlanders and foreigners). Since the special reasons behind these nd of investment recruitment to the development of the Belt In order to attract investors Chinese government has simplified 40 projects’ withdrawal. for Guangdong-Macau Co-ope- and Road Initiative and the from Macau, Hengqin has re- the procedure, the mainland phone However, Lau explained that ration Industrial Park. Appli- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Ma- duced taxes and land prices. requirement is no longer compulsory.

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Ng on trial, it’s almost certain- ly where most of the Singapo- re shops’ goodies come from, North Korea’s ‘Singapore shops’ even if they originate elsewhe- re. The two countries have a long border, a rail connection, and almost-daily flights be- expose gap in sanctions push tween their capitals that allow for the transport of a signifi- Eric Talmadge, Pyongyang cant amount of goods. Russia is another important trader. espite the unwan- ap photo So have been interests in coun- ted publicity of a cri- tries like Egypt, which helped minal trial for one of fund and set up the North’s their main suppliers, mobile phone system, and HB Dbusiness is booming at Pyon- Oil of Mongolia, which was in- gyang’s ‘Singapore shops,’ volved in a 2013 deal to build which sell everything from gas stations in Pyongyang. Ukrainian vodka to brand-na- me knock-offs from China. The stores stock many of the very The stores things United Nations’ sanc- tions banning trade in luxury are a fixture goods are intended to block of the upscale and provide a nagging remin- der that not all potential trade shopping scene partners are lining up behind the U.N.’s pronouncements or in Pyongyang, the Trump administration’s policy of maximum pressure catering to the on the North. capital’s elites Especially when there’s a buck — or a few million bucks Singapore, which in June hos- — to be made. The stores are ted the summit between Presi- anything but secret. dent Donald Trump and North They are well marked, open Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to walk-ins and distribute their has relatively close ties with own membership cards to the North. North Korea runs reward regular customers. Un- A North Korean woman walks outside Bugsae Shop an embassy in Singapore, thou- til recently, the name of their gh Singapore does not have an Singaporean partner, the OCN and glass casing for its wines faces 81 charges for working allegedly violating sanctions embassy in Pyongyang. Group, was printed on the Bu- and spirits corner, which was with a partner identified as against North Korea. The two also have a long his- gsae shop’s plastic shopping recently dominated by vodkas Wang Zhi Guo to deceive DBS, Ng denied any wrongdoing tory of doing business. bags. And while being the fo- from the Ukraine. It has sepa- the Oversea-Chinese Banking in an interview with the Singa- While rumors swirled about cus of the court case that cou- rate display areas for snacks Corp. Ltd and Malayan Banking porean newspaper The Strai- how the Trump summit mi- ld land OCN’s former director and soft drinks from Japan, Berhad to carry out his deals, ts Times shortly after reports ght lead to the North getting in prison for a very long time, Malaysia and China, a row de- issuing false invoices for the of possible violations became its first McDonalds, a trio of they continue to unabashedly dicated to fancy shampoos, and sale of Watari Instant Noodles public. He said OCN was the Singaporean businessmen had specialize in imported produc- a section in the rear for impor- to T Specialist, most amoun- sole distributor of the popular already gotten the jump on the ts — perfumes, fine jewelry, wi- ted electronic appliances and ting to hundreds of thousands Japanese Pokka brand canned Pyongyang burger market, in nes, clothing and cosmetics — household goods. of dollars. drinks in North Korea from 2009. Burgers hot off the grill that would appear to blatantly The well-stocked shelves be- Ng was charged on July 18 and 2000 and 2012, but claimed of the chain of fast food restau- violate U.N. restrictions. lie the hit supplies must have granted bail of 500,000 Singa- OCN dropped that when Japan rants started by Patrick Soh, Formally known as the Poton- taken with the arrest of their pore dollars (USD364,645). imposed sanctions banning Quek Cher Lan and Timothy ggang Ryugyong Shop and the former Singaporean trading A pretrial conference is sche- such exports. Documents pre- Tan called “Samtaesong,” or Bugsae Shop, the stores are a partner. duled for Jan. 17. For each of- sented in court show that in Three Big Stars, are almost re- fixture of the upscale shopping Ng Kheng Wah, 56, faces 80 fense under the U.N. sanctions early 2014 his other business, quired eating at an amusement scene in Pyongyang, catering to charges of violating United act, Ng faces a maximum sen- T Specialist International, park next to Kim Il Sung Sta- the capital’s elites, Chinese bu- Nations sanctions for allege- tence of five years in jail and presented a bogus invoice to a dium. sinessmen and members of the dly supplying $6 million worth a 100,000 Singapore dollars bank from which it was seeking The menu at another so- diplomatic corps. Purchases of luxury goods to the Bugsae ($72,929) fine. Each cheating a loan, claiming it had received mewhat fancier Samtaesong can be made in dollars, euros Shop from 2010 to 2017. This charge comes with an additio- $522,410 for Pokka sales. outlet has a wide selection of and Chinese yuan. The price in includes watches “clad with a nal maximum jail term of 10 The case hints at an uncom- coffee, smoothies, fried chi- each is displayed digitally on precious metal,” jewelry, musi- years and an unspecified fine. fortable truth that has long cken and even “Sausage, Egg the cash register. Both stores cal instruments and wine. Whi- Singapore authorities have hamstrung efforts to make and Cheese McGrddles” on its have been substantially reno- le OCN is not mentioned, the accused another Singaporean sanctions enforcement really menu. vated since last summer. charges accuse Ng of trying to and a North Korean man of bite: engaging the North is Soh, also speaking to The The Ryugyong store now has a defraud banks through another helping to supply luxury goods not as uniformly taboo with Straits Times, claims to cur- coffee shop behind the impor- of his companies, T Specialist to Pyongyang. They are also in- potential trading partners as rently receive no income from ted shoe section on its second International. vestigating a Singaporean busi- Washington might like. the restaurants and says he floor. The Bugsae shop has Ng, who stepped down as an nessman who is facing criminal China has long been Pyon- has cut back his travel to Pyon- installed dark wood paneling OCN director in March, also charges in the United States for gyang’s biggest pipeline. With gyang. AP

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hina will speed up ts to open up the country’s open up its capital marke- cial industry, despite tra- Co. and Nomura Holdin- China’s securities indus- Capprovals for securi- financial system. ts, create globally compe- de tensions with the U.S. gs Inc. have also applied try alone will have profits ties firms and fund-com- The comments were titive banks, and improve In the past month, UBS for approval to take 51 of $3.3 billion within 12 pany joint ventures in made by China Securities stock-trading links with Group AG became the first percent stakes in onshore years. which foreign investors Regulatory Commission Hong Kong. foreign entity to win con- JVs. Li also said authorities have majority stakes, a se- Vice Chairman Li Chao, Chinese officials have trol of a local joint venture The potential rewards plan to start a stock op- nior official said, another according to the China repeatedly stressed their since China said it would for foreign firms are enor- tions pilot program, ac- sign that policy makers are Securities Journal. Li also determination to open up ease ownership rules in mous: a Bloomberg Eco- cording to the report pu- pressing ahead with effor- said China must hasten to their USD45 trillion finan- 2017. JPMorgan Chase & nomics analysis estimates blished Friday. Bloomberg 31.12.2018 mon

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advertorial Wife of human rights SANDS CHINA NEWS lawyer protests his Sands China Assembles 35,000 Hygiene Kits for Clean the World treatment Around 350 volunteers from company and community groups create hygiene kits for people in need 5th straight year participating in hygiene kit build

Around 350 volunteers from Sands China Ltd. and local community groups worked together Dec. 6 at The Venetian® Macao to build 35,000 of the 80,000 total hygiene kits of the Las Vegas Sands 2018 Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World. It is Sands China’s fifth year participating in a hygiene kit build.

This year’s event is also one in a year-long series of celebratory activities leading up to the August 2019 10th anniversary of the Sands Cares Ambassador programme – a platform for Sands China team members to volunteer in the local community – with an anniversary theme of Spreading Love and Embracing Our Community. Security officers surround Li Wenzu (second right in the background)

The hygiene kit build is an annual wor- ldwide volunteer effort of Sands China’s he wife of a prominent Chi- known in China as “rights defen- parent company, Las Vegas Sands Corp. Tnese human rights lawyer ding.” He worked on land rights (LVS). The event helps international so- who went on trial last week was cases on behalf of poor villagers cial enterprise Clean the World provide blocked Friday from submitting a and represented members of the populations in need with access to hy- petition protesting her husband’s banned Falun Gong meditation giene supplies that are essential for good treatment. sect. health and preventing the spread of di- About 30 police officers pre- No lawyer hired by Wang’s fa- vented Li Wenzu and about a mily has been permitted to see sease. The 35,000 assembled kits benefit dozen supporters from entering him, Li said. Instead, he was gi- global charity Children International, who a Supreme Court petition office in ven a government-appointed will deliver the kits to families in need in Beijing. lawyer, Liu Weiguo. Liu sent Li the Philippines. Li’s petition accuses the court a message Wednesday afternoon handling her husband Wang saying that Wang fired him at the Sands China’s volunteer event is part Around 350 Sands China team members and members of the Macao community join together Dec. 6 at The Venetian Macao Quanzhang’s case of a severe vio- start of the trial and that he had of a series of hygiene kit builds held be- to build 35,000 hygiene kits for the Las Vegas Sands 2018 lation of judicial regulations. no further information. tween August and December 2018 at LVS Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World. Wang was tried for subversion While observers have characteri- properties around the world: Marina Bay of state power in a closed hea- zed Liu’s dismissal as an act of de- Sands in Singapore; Sands Bethlehem in Pennsylvania; The Venetian in Las Vegas; and ring Wednesday after being held fiance from Wang, Li said it could The Venetian Macao. The effort is part of LVS’ global corporate citizenship programme, without access to his lawyers or not be confirmed because neither Sands Cares, and its ongoing partnership with Clean the World. family for more than three years. she nor any of Wang’s relatives The court in the city of Tianjin has and supporters were allowed to Volunteers met at The Venetian Macao Dec. 6 to assemble the 35,000 hygiene kits. yet to announce a verdict. attend the proceedings. About 270 Sands China team members and Sands Cares Ambassadors helped build the “This is so laughable,” Li said as The Tianjin court said in a sta- kits, together with around 80 volunteers from three local associations: Fuhong Society she was jostled by a circle of poli- tement on its website Wednesday of Macau, The Women’s General Association of Macau, and The Salvation Army Macau. ce. “You see all these signs on the that it “lawfully decided not to streets proclaiming ‘rule of law’... make public” the trial hearings The completed hygiene kits include soap collected from Clean the World’s hospita- how ironic!” because the case involved state lity partners, including LVS properties around the world, and recycled through Clean Wang is among more than 200 secrets. the World’s soap sterilization and re-manufacturing process. The kits also contain face lawyers and legal activists who The police barricades around towels donated by Linyi Standard Textile Trading Co., Ltd., dental kit sets donated were detained during a 2015 cra- the courthouse were removed by Ming Fai Enterprise International Co., Ltd., shampoo, conditioner, bath gel, and a ckdown. He was a member of the that afternoon, but it is not clear Fengrui law firm, among the most whether the hearings have en- card with an encouraging message from Sands China – all of which is placed into a recognized in the field broadly ded. AP non-woven bag.

The event included an anniversary cake representing five years of cooperation be- tween Sands China and Clean the World on the global hygiene kit build. Including this year’s event, Las Vegas Sands will have created nearly 500,000 kits to date. Nine-month freeze on video- LVS’ annual hygiene kit builds also provide critical funding support for Clean the World. For each assembled kit, LVS contributes US$1 to the Clean the World Foundation. The game licensing, FT says US$80,000 donation generated from this year’s global kit build will help drive the fou- ndation’s mission in two key areas: ongoing hygiene education and disaster response. hina has ended a nine- told the newspaper they expect Cmonth freeze on video ga- it’ll take officials months to clear mes, approving 80 new titles the more than 5,000 games for commercial release, the Fi- that need approval - and that nancial Times reported, citing censorship of the games would the country’s top media regula- see a significant increase. The tor. media regulator published a list Beijing has resumed the licen- that mostly comprised titles by sing of video games, the ma- smaller developers and didn’t jority of which are for mobile include any from Chinese Inter- phones, the newspaper said. net giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Commercial licensing had been or overseas gamers, it added. on hold since March. That mon- Tencent and peers from South th, the media regulator was fol- Korea to Japan spiked Friday Representatives from Sands China Ltd., Clean the World and three local Macao community associations participate in the ded into the Communist Party’s after the official China Securi- Las Vegas Sands 2018 Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World Dec. 6 at The Venetian Macao. The event included an propaganda department during ties Journal reported that regu- anniversary cake representing five years of cooperation between Sands China and Clean the World on the global hygiene kit build. a government reshuffle, the Fi- lators had reviewed and passed nancial Times said. an initial batch of online games. Chinese gaming executives Bloomberg mon 31.12.2018

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a living — at a going rate of $7 a pint, they told Lu. A former factory worker, Lu China’s disappeared: A look traversed China’s vast reaches to capture reality at its margins. He explored environmental degra- dation, industrial pollution and at who went missing in 2018 other gritty topics generally avoi- ded by Chinese journalists, who risk punishment if they pursue stories considered to be sensitive ap photo or overly critical. His work won him major ac- colades such as the World Press Photo prize, but his prominence likely also put him on the gover- nment’s radar. This November, Lu was tra- velling through Xinjiang, the far west region that has deployed a vast security network in the name of fighting terrorism. He was participating in an exchange with other photographers, after which he was to meet a friend in nearby Sichuan province. He ne- ver showed up. More than a month after he disappeared, his family was no- tified that he had been arrested in Xinjiang, according to his wife Xu Xiaoli. She declined to elabo- rate on the nature of the charges. Actress Fan Bingbing Interpol President Meng Hongwei STUDENT MARXIST In the past, the political activis- Yanan Wang, Beijing security cases. dful of greetings from entertain- the latest high-ranking official ts jailed in China were primarily Also detained is Michael Spa- ment notables. caught in Xi’s banner anti-cor- those who fought for democracy t’s not uncommon for in- vor, who organizes tours to Nor- When she finally resurfaced, it ruption campaign. The initiative and an end to one-party rule. dividuals who speak out th Korea from the border city was to apologize. is a major reason for the Chinese They posed a direct ideological against the government to of Dandong. China has not said “I sincerely apologize to society, leader’s broad popularity, but he threat to the Communist Party. disappear in China, but the whether their detentions are re- to the friends who love and care has been accused of using it to This year, the party locked in Iscope of the “disappeared” has lated to Meng’s, but a similar sce- for me, to the people, and to the eliminate political rivals. on a surprising new target: you- expanded since President Xi nario unfolded in the past. country’s tax bureau,” Fan said Xi pledged to confront both ng Marxists. Jinping came to power in 2013. A Canadian couple was detai- in a letter posted on Weibo on high-level “tigers” and low-level About 50 students and recent Not only dissidents and activis- ned in 2014 on national securi- Oct. 3. “flies” in his crackdown on graft graduates of the country’s most ts, but also high-level officials, ty grounds shortly after Canada She admitted to tax evasion. — a promise he has fulfilled by prestigious universities conve- Marxists, foreigners and even arrested Su Bin, a Chinese man State news agency Xinhua repor- ensnaring prominent officials. ned in August in Shenzhen, an a movie star — people who ne- wanted for industrial espionage ted that Fan and the companies Meng was missing for weeks, electronics manufacturing hub, ver publicly opposed the ruling in the U.S. she represents had been orde- before Chinese authorities said to rally for factory workers at- Communist Party — have been Like Spavor, Kevin and Julia red to pay taxes and penalties he was being investigated for tempting to form a union. whisked away by police to unk- Garratt lived in Dandong, where totaling 900 million yuan ($130 taking bribes and other crimes. Among them was Yue Xin, a nown destinations. they ran a popular coffee shop million). A Chinese delegation delivered a 20-something fresh out of Peking The widening dragnet throws for nearly a decade. They also “Without the party and the resignation letter from Meng to University. Earlier this year, she into stark relief the lengths to worked with a Christian charity country’s great policies, without Interpol headquarters. made headlines by calling for the which Xi’s administration is that provided food to North Ko- the people’s loving care, there His wife Grace Meng told the elite school to release the results willing to go to maintain its con- rean refugees. would be no Fan Bingbing,” she AP that she does not believe the of its investigation into a decades- trol and authority. While Julia Garratt was relea- wrote, a cautionary tale for other charges against her husband. old rape case. A look at some of the people sed on bail, her husband was Chinese celebrities. The last message he sent her was This time, she was one of the who went missing in 2018 at the held for more than two years Xinhua concurred in a com- an emoji of a knife. most vocal leaders of the labor ri- hands of the Chinese state: before he was deported in Sep- mentary on her case: “Everyone ghts group, appearing in photo- tember 2016 — about two mon- is equal before the law, there are graphs with her fist up in a Mar- FOREIGN PAWNS ths after Su pleaded guilty in the no ‘superstars’ or ‘big shots.’ No The widening xist salute and wearing a T-shirt China threatened “grave con- U.S. one can despise the law and hope that said “Unity is strength” — sequences” if Canada did not to be lucky.” dragnet throws the name of a patriotic Chinese release high-tech executive TAX-EVADING ACTRESS communist song. Meng Wanzhou, shortly after Fan Bingbing was living every SECURITY INSIDER into stark relief Yue, a passionate student of the Huawei chief financial offi- starlet’s dream. Since a break- Unlike most swallowed up by the lengths Marx and Mao Zedong, espou- cer was detained in Vancouver in through role at the age of 17, Fan China’s opaque security appara- sed the same values as the party. December for possible extradi- has headlined dozens of movies tus, Meng Hongwei knew exactly to which Xi’s She wrote an open letter to Xi tion to the U.S. and TV series, and parlayed her what to expect. and the party’s central leader- The apparent consequences success into modeling, fashion Meng, no relation to the administration ship saying all the students wan- materialized within days, when design and other ventures that Huawei executive, is a vice mi- ted was justice for Jasic Techno- two Canadian men went missing have made her one of the highest- nister of public security who was is willing to go logy laborers. in China. Both turned up in the paid celebrities in the world. serving as head of Interpol, the to maintain its Her letter quoted Xi’s own re- hands of state security on suspi- All this made her a potent icon France-based organization that marks: “We must adhere to the cion of endangering national se- of China’s economic success, un- facilitates police cooperation control and guiding position of Marxism.” curity, a nebulous category of cri- til authorities reminded Fan — across borders. Yue called Marx “our mentor” mes that has been levied against and her legion of admirers — that When he was appointed to the authority and likened the ideas of him and foreigners in recent years. even she was not untouchable. top post, human rights groups Mao to spiritual sustenance. Former Canadian diplomat Mi- For about four months, Fan expressed concern that China Nonetheless, she ended up chael Kovrig was taken by autho- vanished from public view. Her would used Interpol as a tool to DARING PHOTOGRAPHER among those rounded up in a rities from a Beijing street late Weibo social media account, rein in political enemies around Lu Guang made his mark pho- raid on the apartment the ac- in the evening, a person familiar which has more than 63 million the world. tographing the everyday lives of tivists were staying at in Shen- with his case said. He is allowed followers, fell silent. Her mana- Instead, he was captured by the HIV patients in central China. zhen. While most have been re- one consular visit a month and gement office in Beijing was va- same security forces he represen- They were poor villagers who leased, Yue remains unaccoun- has not been granted access to cated. Her birthday on Sept. 16 ted. had contracted the virus after ted for. She has been missing for a lawyer, as is standard for state came and went with only a han- In September, Meng became selling their own blood to eke out four months. AP 31.12.2018 mon

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where his family traces its roots back five centuries. Skyscrapers Hui poet fears for his people dwarf old mosques and boiste- rous halal restaurants with gold domes, Arabic script and cres- cents. as Beijing ‘Sinicizes’ religion He doesn’t drink alcohol or eat pork, but neither does he Sam McNeil, Jinan pray five times a day. His bed- side table is stacked with poetry ui Haoxin is too young to ap photo and novels, not religious books. Cremember the days of his Hanging in the living room is a people’s oppression under Mao framed red embroidery by his Zedong. The 39-year-old poet mother of the Islamic profes- was born after the Cultural Re- sion of faith in yellow Arabic volution of 1966-76, when the stitching. Hui — China’s second-largest It was underneath this tapes- Muslim ethnic group — were try that police entered his home among the masses tormented by earlier this year to demand he the Red Guard. stop criticizing the government In the years since, the Hui ge- online. Cui posts attacks on Bei- nerally have been supportive of jing’s policies related to Mus- the government and mostly spa- lims in China and abroad, such red the kind of persecution en- as the government’s support of dured by China’s largest Muslim Myanmar despite widespread group, the Uighur. criticism of its treatment of the There are signs, though, that Rohingya, a Muslim minority. that is changing. Cui fears both A few months later, on Nov. that history may be repeating it- 27, police brought him to the self and for his own safety as he local Public Security Bureau tries to hold the ruling Commu- for a few hours of questioning. nist Party accountable. Cui Haoxin reads an Arabic prayer from a Quran in Jinan A recent Human Rights Watch In August, town officials in the report said that China started Hui region of Ningxia issued a The 10 million Hui living lamic nations. happened,” Bai Shangcheng, in November “targeting Twitter demolition order for the land- across China generally speak “It was going to be an oppor- director-general of the regional users in China as part of a na- mark Grand Mosque in Wei- Mandarin - Cui is a former tea- tunity for the Hui to play an im- Communist Party department tionwide crackdown on social zhou, though they later backed cher of the standard Chinese portant role as ambassadors to that oversees religious groups, media.” Cui refused to stop or off in the face of protests. dialect - and follow many Chi- the Islamic world,” Stroup said. said at a news conference in Bei- delete his tweets. More recently, authorities in nese cultural practices. They en- It came as a shock, he said, jing. nearby Gansu province ordered joy relative freedom of worship when new regulations targeted Dissent simmered quietly in closed a school that taught Ara- compared to the Uighurs, some the practices of Hui alongside the Hui community after the The Hui bic, the language of the Quran of whom call the Hui “tawuz,” those of other religious groups mosque incident, according to generally and other Islamic religious tex- which means watermelon in the earlier this year. Stroup said the Cui, who circumvented China’s ts. The school had employed and Uighur’s Turkic language. shift has dampened optimism in internet censorship to tweet have been served mainly Hui since 1984. “Green or Islamic on the out- a community that saw language about the protest and feed video And a Communist Party official side, and red or Communist on and religion as links to trading to a Turkish television station. supportive of from Ningxia visited Xinjiang, the inside,” writes University of partners in the Muslim world. In late November, the Commu- the government center of Uighur oppression, to Toronto professor Isabelle Cote nist Party-run Global Times re- “study and investigate how Xin- in a study on Uighur attacks GRAND MOSQUE ported that Ningxia had signed and mostly jiang fights terrorism and legally on Hui in Xinjiang from 2009 DEMOLITION an anti-terrorism cooperation manages religious affairs.” to 2013. Farther back, Hui ser- Tension bubbled up in August agreement with Xinjiang during spared the kind China under President Xi ved Chinese emperors as shock in Weizhou, a dusty Muslim- a visit by Ningxia Communist Jinping is clamping down on mi- troops repressing Uighur re- majority town in China’s nor- Party head Zhang Yunsheng. of persecution norities, tightening control over bellions. thwestern “Quran Belt.” China has set up a vast security endured by the a wide spectrum of religious and In Beijing, Arabic signs mark The town’s pride and joy is a apparatus in Xinjiang with per- political activity. In some places, Hui bakeries, teahouses, halal gleaming white mosque with vasive police checkpoints and Uighur a campaign to “Sinicize” religion restaurants and a thousand-year four minarets and nine domes surveillance cameras. By some has prompted authorities to old mosque bustling with activi- tipped with crescent moons that estimates, more than 1 million Sixty years ago, Communist seize Bibles, remove the “halal” ty in the historically Islamic nei- dwarfs a surrounding warren of Uighurs and Kazakhs have been Party cadres descended on the designation from food produc- ghborhood of Niujie. brick and concrete homes. detained in internment camps historically Hui city of Linxia to ts, demolish churches and strip Ma Changli, who has run a Officials issued a demolition in a crackdown on extremism. excise “superstitions” in the city mosques of loudspeakers and butcher shop in the enclave for order for the Grand Mosque, Two former camp detainees in a “struggle against the privi- Islamic crescents and domes. the past five years, said police alleging it had been “illegally have told the AP that some Hui leges of feudalism and religion,” Cui has spoken out against help provide security for Friday expanded” and adding that 1.07 have been swept up in the clam- according to a 2016 book by Ma- government intrusions. He is prayers at the mosque. million yuan (USD154,765) pdown too. tthew Erie, an Oxford Universi- working on a novel with a night- “Our country has always been from foreign sources had been The order to close the Arabic ty professor of modern China marish plot: believers are bru- pretty supportive to our wor- received by four local mosques language school came early this studies. talized by demons in a Cultural ship,” the 39-year-old butcher - financing that would be illegal month, the Global Times repor- Red Guards lit bonfires with Revolution in Hell. “The Mus- said, standing in front of an Is- under Chinese law. ted. An unnamed expert in Bei- wood from demolished mos- lims resisted and tried to protect lamic inscription and hanging Hundreds of Hui flocked to the jing told the newspaper that tea- ques and tombs, Erie writes in the mosque,” he said, describing lamb and beef racks. mosque’s courtyard for a rarity ching Arabic sometimes arouses “China and Islam: The Prophet, the work. “They failed.” While the Hui face prejudice in China: a political protest. City public concern if it crosses over the Party, and Law.” They for- He worries that violence lies from the Han Chinese majori- authorities detained Associated into preaching religious content. ced Muslims to wear signs rea- ahead. “One has dignity. For a ty, they are proud to be Chinese Press journalists and prevented The article quoted China’s edu- ding “enemies of the state.” person, it is his or her bottom-li- and have a “positive outlook for them from conducting inter- cation law: “The State separates Cui fears the current crack- ne.” he said. “If the persecution the future,” said David Stroup, a views at the mosque. education from religion.” down on religion will return is too unbearable, if something University of Oklahoma profes- The protesters’ success was China to those days of blood. happens, as I said, there could sor who met Hui across China in even rarer. The mosque remai- CUI FEARS RETURN At a teahouse in Jinan, as be a disaster.” 2016. ned unscathed, if draped in a OF DAYS OF BLOOD steam from his jasmine tea mi- Many saw an opportunity in banner reading in Chinese: “Sti- Cui is one of the few Chinese xes with the scent from a tray of DESCENDANTS FROM China’s Belt and Road Initiati- ck to directives of Sinicized reli- citizens disturbed enough — and sweets, he recites from his poem PERSIAN AND ARAB ve, a USD1 trillion trade and in- gion.” brave enough — to criticize the “Letter from Prison:” TRADERS frastructure initiative that runs Weeks later, a top Commu- Communist Party openly. For “It seems like I can see the Cui speaks eloquently about across several Muslim-majority nist propaganda official in Nin- that, he has experienced censor- bulldozer running wild in the his people, who claim descent nations in central Asia and Afri- gxia blamed the incident on “an ship, detention, and “home visi- Thousand and One Nights. from Persian and Arab traders ca, he said. They aspired to be- oversimplified administrative ts” by police. The angel upon my shoulder who came to China 1,300 years come middlemen on a revived decision” by local authorities. He spoke to the AP at his home urges me: ‘Tell the truth under ago. Silk Road linking China with Is- “It originally should not have in Jinan, a city in eastern China the grey sky.’” AP mon 31.12.2018

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Bangladesh One of the voters there, Haji Abdul Malek Mia, a 74-year-old father of five sons, said he wan- ted to see someone in power who would offer development. Polls seen as referendum on “Whoever is doing development, he should be there,” he said. Hasina has expressed great confidence in the outcome, al- resolute PM’s authoritarian rule ready inviting foreign journalis- ts and election observers to her official residence on Monday, by ap photo which time the results are ex- pected to be known. About 600,000 security offi- cials, including army and para- military forces, were deployed across the country in a bid to contain violence in Bangla- desh’s 11th general election. The country’s telecommunications regulator shut down mobile in- ternet services nationwide to prevent possible protests from organizing. The election campaign was marred by the arrests Women line up outside a polling station to cast their votes in Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and jailing

Julhas Alam, Emily Schmall The Associated Press received avoid a repeat of 2014, when Zia neighbors Pakistan and India by of what the more than 50 calls yesterday and the Bangladesh Nationalist some development measures. opposition says eople in Bangladesh from people across the coun- Party boycotted elections and Voters “will give us another voted yesterday in par- try who identified themselves voter turnout in the South Asian opportunity to serve them so are thousands liamentary elections as opposition supporters com- nation of 160 million people was that we can maintain our upward seen as a referendum on plaining of intimidation and only 22 percent. More than half trend of development, and take of Hasina Pwhat critics call Prime Minister threats, and being forced to vote of the 300 parliamentary seats Bangladesh forward as a develo- Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly in front of ruling party men insi- were uncontested. The Awami ping country,” Hasina said after opponents authoritarian rule, amid com- de polling booths. League’s landslide victory was casting her ballot along with her plaints from both ruling party “Some stray incidents have ha- met by violence that left at least daughter and sister in Dhaka. The normally traffic-clogged and opposition activists of atta- ppened. We have asked our of- 22 people dead. Walking with a cane, Hossain, streets of the capital were lar- cks on supporters and candida- ficials to deal with them,” K.M. In this election, some 104 the opposition leader, cast his gely empty because of a ban on tes. Up to 10 people were repor- Nurul Huda, Bangladesh’s chief million people in the Muslim- vote near his home in Dhaka, vehicles for everyone except tedly killed in election-related election commissioner, said as majority country were eligible saying that he was receiving election observers and journa- violence. he cast his vote in Dhaka, Ban- to vote, including many young, complaints about vote-tampe- lists. Many Dhaka residents had Hasina’s main rival is former gladesh’s capital. first-time voters. ring and intimidation from va- left days earlier to vote in their Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the The election campaign was Local media including the rious parts of the country. hometowns. leader of the opposition Bangla- marred by the arrests and jailing country’s leading Bengali-lan- The more than 40,000 polling At one polling station, Istiaq desh Nationalist Party, who a of what the opposition says are guage daily, Prothom Alo, said stations nationwide closed at 4 Ahmed, a doctor in Dhaka, said court deemed ineligible to run thousands of Hasina opponents, up to 10 people had been killed p.m., as the Islamic call to prayer it was critical that people “select for office because she is in pri- including six candidates for Par- yesterday in clashes between came over loudspeakers. the right government to main- son for corruption. liament. At least a dozen people rival partisans and police in six At a polling station in the an- tain the development and enri- Zia and Hasina, who is seeking were killed in campaign-related districts across the country. Po- cient city of Panam Nagar, about ch our country further.” a third consecutive term, have clashes. lice officials did not immediately 20 kilometers southeast of Another voter, Sultana Rajia been in and out of power — and “Hasina’s use of the state ma- return calls seeking comment. Dhaka, the counting of the rou- Rotna, said she went out to cast prison — for decades. chinery to subjugate the oppo- While rights groups have sou- ghly 1,600 votes cast there began her ballot after hearing that the In Zia’s absence, opposition sition virtually ensures her elec- nded the alarms about the ero- immediately after voting ended. streets of Dhaka were peaceful. parties have formed a coali- toral victory,” said Sasha Riser- sion of Bangladesh’s democracy, Plastic bins full of paper ballots “I think the country has alrea- tion led by Kamal Hossain, an Kositsky, a South Asia analyst Hasina has promoted a different were dumped onto a sheet on dy developed much and it will 82-year-old Oxford-educated for the New York-based Eurasia narrative, highlighting an ambi- the floor, where 10 people sat in be developed more,” she said in lawyer and former member of Group. tious economic agenda that has a circle to organize and count the Bengali. “That’s why I’m here Hasina’s Awami League party. Both sides were hoping to propelled Bangladesh past larger votes. casting my vote.” AP

Indonesia Experts have largely relied because of the risk of ano- on satellite radar images to ther tsunami. work out what happened to But experts now say ano- Anak Krakatau volcano now the volcano because cloud ther potential tsunami cover, continuing eruptions triggered by the volcano a quarter of its pre-eruption size and high seas have hampe- collapsing again would be red inspections. The center less severe due to its redu- cientists say Indo- a volume of 40-70 million Mitigation. people died in the waves said it would get more preci- ced mass. Snesia’s Anak Krakatau cubic meters and lost 150- The analysis shows the that were 2 meters or higher se results from more visual Anak Krakatau, which volcano island, which erup- 180 million cubic meters scale of the island’s collapse, and 40,000 were displaced. inspections. means Child of Kratakau, ted and collapsed a week ago of volume since the Dec. shedding light on the power The center said that the Authorities have warned is the offspring of the in- triggering a deadly tsunami, 22 eruption and tsunami, of the tsunami that crashed crater peak was 110 meters residents to stay a kilometer famous Krakatau volcano is now only about a quarter according to Indonesia’s into more than 300 kilome- high as of Friday compared away from the coastline of whose monumental erup- of its pre-eruption size. Center for Volcanology ters of coastline in Sumatra with 338 meters in Septem- the Sunda Strait, which se- tion in 1883 triggered a pe- Anak Krakatau now has and Geological Disaster and Java. More than 420 ber. parates Java and Sumatra, riod of global cooling. AP 31.12.2018 mon

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Russia “Putin believes that if Russia gi- ves in, the pressure will only grow and the sanctions will be expan- ded further,” she said. Putin scores some wins but Amid rising tensions with the West, the Kremlin has focused on beefing up Russia’s military arsenals. tensions with the West mount Putin turned his state-of-the- nation speech in March into a Vladimir Isachenkov, Moscow than being left face-to-face with rhetoric amplified by state-con- “The American and European presentation of an array of new Turkey, Iran and others.” trolled media that has fueled Rus- sanctions have in fact helped nuclear weapons, including a t’s been a mixed year for Rus- Trump’s plan to halve the U.S. sian hostility toward the West. bolster Putin’s power, allowing hypersonic glide vehicle that Isian President Vladimir Putin. troops’ presence in Afghanistan A recent opinion survey by him to point to foreign pressure,” streaks through the atmosphere Putin may look like a winner af- by the summer could spell more the independent Levada Center Malashenko said. at more than 20 times the speed ter an abrupt U.S. decision to pull potential problems for Russia. showed that six out of ten Rus- Russia saw 1.5 percent growth of sound and an underwater dro- out of Syria. But Russia’s leader Putin has mocked the U.S. failure sian respondents had a negative in 2017 following a two-year re- ne fitted with a powerful atomic faces massive challenges in Syria to stabilize the country despite a attitude about the U.S., and half cession and its economy is set to weapon capable of sweeping and elsewhere, and he hasn’t 17-year campaign, but the reduc- had a negative view of the EU. grow 1.8 percent this year. But the enemy coastlines with a devasta- moved an inch closer toward tion of the U.S. military presen- The survey also reflected growing Russian government’s hopes for ting tsunami. throwing off the Western sanc- ce in Afghanistan could foment public worries about Western faster growth haven’t materiali- Vladimir Frolov, a Moscow-ba- tions that have emaciated Rus- dangerous instability by Islamic sanctions, with 43 percent of zed and the nation has remained sed foreign policy expert, saw sia’s economy. militants in Russia’s underbelly those polled expressing concern heavily dependent on exports of Putin’s statements as part of his The Russian military campaign of Central Asia. about them compared to 28 per- oil, gas and other raw materials. efforts to persuade the West to sit in Syria has achieved the Kremlin Moscow may now find it neces- cent a year ago. The nationwide As revenues drained, the gover- down for talks. objective of shoring up Syrian sary to invest more in Tajikistan, poll of 1,600 conducted in late nment raised the retirement age “His goal is to win attention, President Bashar Assad’s rule at a where it has a military base, to November had a margin of error this year — an unpopular move fear and respect from the West, relatively modest cost and made help seal the porous border with of no more than 3.4 percentage that fueled broad discontent and to get the right of veto regarding Moscow an essential player in the Afghanistan and try to expand points. significantly dented Putin’s po- Western policies,” Frolov said. Middle East. However, Syria lies its presence elsewhere in Central pularity. “He’s pushing for talks on Rus- in ruins after nearly eight years of Asia. The Kremlin’s hopes for striking sia’s conditions and without any fighting and Moscow has failed Those challenges come as the a deal with Trump that would see unilateral concessions.” to persuade the West to help foot Russian economy is still reeling an end to sanctions have faded Putin warned that the planned Syria’s multibillion reconstruc- from a combined blow of low oil Putin believes amid the U.S. investigation into U.S. exit from the 1987 Inter- tion bill. prices and Western sanctions. that if Russia possible collusion between the mediate-Range Nuclear Forces Even though the hasty pullout Western support for anti-Rus- Trump campaign and Russia. Treaty would trigger a Russian ordered by U.S. President Do- sian sanctions has remained gives in, the Putin has denied interference in response. In an ominous state- nald Trump could further bolster unwavering. both the U.S. 2016 election and ment this month, he lamented Moscow’s clout in Syria, it leaves The U.S. and the European pressure will meddling elsewhere in the West. that global fears of a nuclear war Russia pitted against Turkey, Union sanctions came in respon- While the Russian leader needs have ebbed, leaving the world which is eager to expand its zone se to Russia’s 2014 annexation of only grow the sanctions lifted, he has made blind to a rising doomsday threat. of influence. Moscow will also be Crimea, its support for separatist and the it clear that he wouldn’t budge on Stanovaya noted that Putin’s saddled with the delicate task of rebels in eastern Ukraine, Mos- Ukraine or any other issues. talk reflected growing instabili- trying to balance the conflicting cow’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. sanctions will As if to prove that point, the ty in the absence of a common interests of Israel and Iran in the presidential election and the ner- Russian coast guard in Novem- agenda between Russia and the region. ve-agent poisoning in March of a be expanded ber seized three Ukrainian naval West. “It could be seen by some as former Russian spy in Britain. vessels along with their crew in “Moving further along the same Putin’s success, but in fact it The sanctions have restricted further. the Black Sea. track would inevitably lead to means trouble for Putin,” Alexei Russia’s access to international Tatiana Stanovaya Tatiana Stanovaya, an indepen- the point where it would beco- Political expert Malashenko, a leading Moscow- capital markets, limited imports dent political expert who writes me more difficult to control the based Middle East expert, said of Western energy and military extensively about the Kremlin, situation regarding nuclear wea- about the planned U.S. with- technologies and spooked inter- Yet while the Western res- noted that Putin’s uncompromi- pons,” Stanovaya said. “Putin be- drawal. “The situation may chan- national investors. trictions have stymied Russia’s sing stance stems from his view lieves that nuclear weapons are ge drastically, and Russia will be Putin has blamed the U.S. and growth, they also gave Putin a that the West will see any conces- Russia’s ultimate argument that responsible for that. Bickering its allies for trying to punish Rus- convenient explanation for his sions as a sign of weakness and should influence Western politi- with the Americans was better sia for its independent course — a domestic problems. make more demands. cians’ thinking.” AP mon 31.12.2018

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holiday season. Security measures already cause long delays at the coun- Egypt says its security try’s airports and antiquity si- tes. Tourist buses routinely get a police escort and Egyptians are generally subjected to even more forces killed 40 militants stringent security checks at tou- rist facilities. gypt said Saturday its There will likely be stepped up security forces have kil- security measures for churches led 40 militants in raids ap photo and associated facilities ahead of on their hideouts in the the New Year’s Eve celebrations ESinai Peninsula and the Grea- and next month’s Christmas of ter Cairo area, just hours after a the Coptic Orthodox Church, the roadside bomb targeted a tourist dominant denomination among bus in the capital, killing three Egypt’s estimated 10 million Vietnamese tourists and their Christians. Egyptian guide. Egypt has battled Islamic mi- In a statement, the Interior Mi- litants for years in the Sinai Pe- nistry, which oversees the poli- ninsula in an insurgency that ce, said 10 of the militants were has occasionally spilled over to killed when the security forces the mainland, striking minority stormed their hideout in el-A- Christians or tourists. However, rish, a coastal city in the turbu- The damaged tourist bus after a roadside bomb in an area near the Giza Pyramids in Cairo Friday’s attack was the first to lent north of Sinai, epicenter of target foreign tourists in almost a long-running insurgency by killed in the raids, with assault seen a series of attacks over the followed a 2011 uprising that two years. Islamists. rifles seen next to their bloodied past two years, mostly targeting toppled an autocratic president. Friday’s blast wounded 11 other Another 14 were killed in the bodies. the police. It is also widely sus- The revival of the labor-inten- Vietnamese tourists as well as Cairo suburb of October 6 and The statement did not say when pected of being home to jihadist sive sector has been warmly the Egyptian driver of the bus, 16 more in a housing project on the raids took place, suggesting cells loyal to the Muslim Bro- welcomed in a country whose which was carrying a total of 15 a highway heading west from that the timing of its release was therhood, an Islamist group re- economy is struggling to find its Vietnamese tourists, according Cairo. The statement said the designed at least in part to show moved from power by the mili- footing, with a series of ambi- to Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign militants were preparing for at- that security forces were sco- tary in 2013 after its divisive rule tious reforms unleashing wave Affairs. It said that 10 were se- tacks on government and tou- ring successes against militants lasted one year. after wave of steep price rises. riously injured. rism facilities, army and police across the country and staunch Friday night’s attack took place The attack is also likely to Vietnamese Ambassador to personnel, as well as Christian potential criticism of their per- as Egypt’s vital tourism indus- prompt authorities to further Egypt Tran Thanh Cong visited churches. ceived failure to protect tourists. try was showing encouraging tighten security around tourists the scene of the attack and Al The ministry also released a The area where the attack took signs of recovery after years in and the facilities they frequent — Haram Hospital, where the vic- series of images purportedly place — Marioutiyah, near the the doldrums because of the po- hotels, museums, antiquity sites tims were being treated, the mi- depicting some of the militants famed Giza Pyramids — has litical turmoil and violence that and bazaars — during the busy nistry said. MDT/AP

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what’s ON ... TV canal macau this day in history Vestiges of Lines, Guilherme Ung Vai 13:00 TDM News (Repetição) Meng．On the Occasion of the Celebration 13:30 Telejornal RTPi (Diferido) of the 19th Anniversary of Macau 15:00 Mistura Fina Handover to China 15:55 Zig Zag Time: 12pm-8pm (Tuesday to Sunday) 16:55 Quem Quer Ser Milionário 3 pm-8pm (Monday) 19:00 Montra do Lilau (Repetição) Until: February 23, 2019 19:35 Os Nossos Dias Sr.2 Venue: Albergue SCM 20:30 Telejornal Admission: Free 21:15 TDM Talk Show Enquiries: (853) 2852 2550 21:50 Livros com João Guedes 22:00 Todas as Palavras Macau Giant Panda Pavilion and Pavilion of 22:25 Nome de Código: Sintra Rare Animals 23:15 TDM News 1999 Putin takes over Time: 10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm daily 23:50 Resumo Liga dos Campeões 2018/2019 as eltsin resigns Venue: Seac Pai Van Park Y Macau Sítios: História Que Eu Ta Vai Contar - Admission: MOP10 (Pavilion of Rare Animals) Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president, taking the Enquiries: (853) 2888 0087 Coloane country and the rest of the world completely by surprise. 00:10 Telejornal (Repetição) Mr Yeltsin made the shock announcement live on Russian television and said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take 00:55 RTPi Directo Macau Science Centre over as acting president, with elections now due to take pla- Time: 10am-6pm daily (Except on Thursdays; open ce on 26 March 2000. on public holidays) “I am going. I am going earlier than my established time,” he said. enue V : Macau Science Center The 68-year-old had repeatedly said he would serve out his Admission: MOP25 (Exhibition Centre) second and final term in office, which was meant to continue MOP60 (Planetarium 2D dome or 2D cinema until June 2000. sky shows) Mr Yeltsin asked for forgiveness for what he called the er- cineteatro rors of his administration, and said Russia needed to enter MOP80 (Planetarium 3D dome or 3D 27 Dec - 02 Jan the new century with new political leaders. sky shows) He said: “I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that Enquiries: (853) 2888 0822 never came true. And also I would like to beg forgiveness not to have justified your hopes.” It was an unusual admission from a man who, during his Monkey King eight years as president, rarely said he was wrong. Time: 4pm & 8pm daily (except on Thursdays) Mr Yeltsin’s time in office has been a traumatic one for Rus- sia which, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, enue V : Sands Cotai Theatre has had to transform itself from a state-run economy into a Admission: MOP380, MOP480, MOP680, MOP980, free-market one. MOP1280 He spearheaded economic reforms that have favoured Cotai Ticketing: (853) 2882 8818 some but seen the living standards of many worsen. In 1998 the rouble lost 70% of its value against the dollar The grinch Kong Seng Ticketing: (853) 2855 5555 and 29% of the population (42 million people) were living room 1 2:30, 4:15, 6:00, 7:45pm below the poverty line. Mandarin’s House Director: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier But US President Bill Clinton praised Mr Yeltsin for bringing democracy to Russia, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said Time: 10am-6pm daily (last admission at 5:30pm; Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones the world was “more stable and secure” as a result of the closed on Wednesdays, open on public holidays) Language: Cantonese former president’s leadership. Address: No. 10, Travessa de António da Silva Duration: 86min The briefcase which contains the codes that control Rus- sia’s nuclear arsenal has been handed over to Mr Putin. Admission : Free More than blue Once an intelligence officer with the KGB and then in 1998 Enquiries: (853) 2896 8820 room 1 head of Federal Security (the new title for the KGB), he was a 9:30 pm little known figure until he became prime minister in August. Treasure of Sacred Art of St. Joseph’s Director: Gavin Lin But with a 60% opinion poll approval rating, Mr Putin is now Starring: Jasper Liu, Ivy Chen widely seen as Russia’s most popular politician who offers Seminary Language: Putonghua (Chinese & English) strong leadership. Time: 10am-5pm daily (closed on Wednesdays, Duration: 105min Following last year’s economic crisis and his tough handling open on public holidays) of the war in Chechnya, Mr Putin’s no-nonsense approach has appealed to many Russians. Venue: St. Joseph’s Seminary and Church, Rua do In a New Year’s address, which has been broadcast in Rus- Seminário sia’s Far East, Mr Putin said: “There will be no power vacuum Admission: Free even for a moment.” Mr Putin is not bound to find a successor but has indicated nquiries E : (853) 2835 7911 he will continue in the post at least until next month. The Russian stock market rose sharply on news of the resignation, up nearly 17% by mid-day on heavy trading.

Courtesy BBC News bumblebee room 2 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 pm Director: Travis Knight In context Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Megyn Price Boris Yeltsin’s presidency had become increasingly unpopular as well as Language: English (Chinese) unpredictable. Offbeat Duration: 113min The country suffered from widespread corruption and enormous political and social problems. ontana lawmaker proposes state Mr Yeltsin played a key role in bringing down the Soviet Union in 1991 but M this euphoria was short lived. rock and roll song By the time he left office his radical economic reforms had led to the irre- versible destruction of the Soviet economic system. Montana has a state song, a state ballad and a state lullaby. One third of the country was living below the poverty line, free healthcare was for most a distant memory, and the country’s population was rapidly And, for goodness sake, Democratic Rep. Jacob Bachmeier shrinking. of Havre would like to see the 2019 Legislature declare the “Hi- He later described his decision to send the Russian army into the break- ppy Hippy Shake” Montana’s official rock and roll song. away republic of Chechnya, at the end of 1994, as his greatest mistake. It was written in 1959 by Chan Romero when he was a 17-year- An estimated 100,000 people lost their lives and in 1996 the Russian army old student at Billings Senior High School. was forced into a humiliating withdrawal - before it was sent back again Romero, who now lives in Southern California, tells the Great ralph breaks the internet: in 1999. Falls Tribune his song has been featured in seven or eight mo- wreck-it ralph 2 But Mr Yeltsin did manage to carry the rest of Russia through a turbulent transformation with far less bloodshed than many had feared. vies and has been recorded by about 20 groups, including The room 3 Beatles. He says he’d be proud to have his song honored by And the West saw him as the best guarantor of stable East-West relations. 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 9:30pm His decision to choose Vladimir Putin as his successor provided Mr Putin the Legislature. Director: Rich Moore, Phil Johnson with a springboard to launch his campaign in the 2000 election - which The bill’s introduction borrows from the song’s lyrics in saying: Starring: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot he won. “WHEREAS, Montanans shake it to the left and shake it to the Language: English (Chinese) He was re-elected in 2004. right and do everything with all of their might.” Duration: 122min mon 31.12.2018

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Yuri Kageyama, Tokyo Rizin Fighting Federation Nobuyuki Sakakibara, the match, but a knockout is head of Rizin Fighting Fe- loyd Maywea- possible under the special deration, who traveled to ap photo ther is promising rules. the U.S. to woo Maywea- entertainment Mayweather had initially ther back to the fight, has when he fights -Ja appeared to walk away said it involves the largest Fpanese kickboxer Tenshin from the fight, set for Sai- payout for an exhibition Nasukawa in three rounds tama Super Arena, on fight but has not given spe- of exhibition boxing on the northern outskirts of cifics. New Year’s Eve, but not ne- Tokyo. Mayweather previously cessarily a knockout. The Mayweather-Na- said he was already making “If it happens, it happens,” sukawa bout will culminate “seven figures” just by Mayweather said Saturday an evening of more than a talking about it. when asked whether he dozen fights, which will be Nasukawa, 20, appearing was going to knock out Na- streamed by FITE for a fee, earlier in the day, said he Floyd Mayweather Jr. speaks in Tokyo sukawa. But the American but not in the U.S. Fuji TV wanted people to see his was adamant that his oppo- is broadcasting the fights in “courage, determination nent wasn’t going to knock Japan. and challenging spirit.” him out or down today. “It’s all about entertain- Nasukawa, despite his no- “Throughout my years ment, come Dec. 31. I want loss record in kickboxing at boxing, I never touched to go out and have fun,” and mixed martial arts, the canvas once,” Maywea- said Mayweather, appea- was previously little known ther, 41, told reporters at a ring relaxed and gushing outside Japan. He said he Tokyo hotel, brushing off about how he liked Asia enjoyed the sudden inter- the upcoming event as “just and his fans in the region. national attention. another day.” Mayweather hasn’t fought He acknowledged he didn’t “I can do three rounds in since beating Conor Mc- understand what the En- my sleep,” he added. Gregor more than a year glish comments were saying Neither kicking nor offi- ago for his 50th win from on his Instagram account cial results are part of the 50 fights. but added: “I love it.” AP Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa

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C ap photo lidou Koulibaly after the Na- return to the women’s tennis poli defender was the target of tour. racist chants during a match at “It’s great,” the 23-time Grand Inter Milan. Slam champion said last week in Next to a photo of him being quotes published by BBC Sport. marked by Koulibaly during “Women that are younger can go a match between Napoli and out there and have kids and not Juventus earlier this season, have to worry about it, and not Ronaldo writes in Italian on have to wait until the twilight of Instagram, “In the world and their years to have children.” in football there always needs The WTA rule changes were to be education and respect. agreed on this month and are No to racism and to any sort of meant to ensure players are not Serena Williams insult and discrimination!!!” penalized after they return from Koulibaly had monkey noises pregnancy or an injury that cau- rule changes? I don’t know,” directed at him throughout the ses a long absence. Williams said in Abu Dhabi Serie A game on Wednesday at Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly (right) The changes were prompted in ahead of an exhibition tourna- Milan’s San Siro Stadium. He part by the experiences of for- ment where she played her sister was sent off in the 81st minute med at Napoli. ments warning fans this would mer No. 1 players Williams and Venus in a one-off match. after receiving two yellow cards Also, Koulibaly was suspen- happen were made but no fur- Victoria Azarenka, both of whom “But now there is an opportu- in quick succession, the second ded for two matches — one ther action was taken. returned to competition after gi- nity, people don’t have to ask for sarcastically applauding for the red card and one for Koulibaly posted on Twitter ving birth. that question.” the referee after being shown applauding the referee. of his pride of being born in The WTA announced that Williams was unseeded at the the first. After the game, Napoli coach France to Senegalese parents . players returning to the tour French Open in her first major The league judge on Thurs- Carlo Ancelotti threatened to “I’m sorry about the defeat may use a special ranking for up since the birth of her daughter — day ordered Inter to play its lead his team off the field the and especially to have left my to three years after the birth of a despite having won the previous next two home matches wi- next time one of his players brothers! But I am proud of child, and the exemption can be major she played, the 2017 Aus- thout fans and a third game was subjected to continued the color of my skin. Of being used for seedings at big events. tralian Open. Williams was see- with a portion of the stadium racist abuse. Ancelotti asked French, Senegalese, Neapoli- “Having gone through the ex- ded 25th at Wimbledon and 17th closed as punishment both for several times for the match tan: a man,” he wrote in Ita- perience myself really opened at the U.S. Open, and she rea- the racism aimed at Koulibaly against Inter to be halted af- lian. my eyes. Would I have done it ched the finals and lost at both of and anti-territorial chants ai- ter the chants, and announce- Inter beat Napoli 1-0. AP sooner had there been different those majors. AP THE Station Air quality BUZZAcclaimed author Amos Oz dies at 79 Roadside 45-65 Moderate Israeli author Amos Oz, one of the country’s most the end. May his good legacy continue to amend the widely acclaimed writers and a pre-eminent voice in world,” she wrote. High its embattled peace movement, died on Friday after Oz was known around the world for his dozens of Density 45-65 a battle with cancer, his family announced. He was novels, essays and prose about life in Israel, inclu- Residental 79. His daughter, Fania Oz-Salzberger, announced ding a well-received memoir, “A Tale of Love and Moderate her father’s death on Twitter. Darkness.” He won some of the literary world’s Area opinion “My beloved father, Amos Oz, a wonderful family most prestigious honors, including the Goethe Prize man, an author, a man of peace and moderation, and the French Knight’s Cross of the Legion D’Hon- Ambient 45-65 died today peacefully after a short battle with can- neur, received honorary doctorates and was a pe- Moderate source: dsmg source: Rear Window cer. He was surrounded by his lovers and knew it to rennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Severo Portela WORLD BRIEFS Coming of age Presley’s ‘Comeback At first glance, we would not dare to say that ap photo MSAR was clearly roaring its engines and Special’ still relevant, taking the fast lane to race towards its 20th anniversary in 2019. Given, and allow us the exaggeration, the continuity of the government 50 years later sectorial policies better known by its Portugue- se acronym, LAG. Adrian Sainz, Memphis Egypt said its security But if we look deeper into that apparent inertia, forces have killed 40 whose motto could be addressed as frivolous lvis Presley wanted ap photo militants in raids on dejá vu, change, gradual change, has been ha- Ean honest answer. Steve their hideouts in the ppening. If not quietly, perhaps unnoticed or not Sinai Peninsula and the Binder gave him one. Presley Greater Cairo area, just noticed enough! To not save us the obligation was meeting Binder for the hours after a roadside of proving the above, we ought to point to the first time in Binder’s office in bomb targeted a tourist slow retouching of the judicial realm. Definitely, Los Angeles in 1968. A mu- bus in the capital, persistently and more than that sparsely, MSAR sic and television producer, killing three Vietnamese has been picking areas for the application of Binder had been asked to put tourists and their Egyptian guide. More on redundancy procedures. Despite the evidence, together an NBC television special featuring Presley, p15 MSAR can backtrack when dealing with the who had become more of a protection (so they say) of conflicting rights. movie actor than a rock ‘n’ Italy The lower chamber of the Italian Apparently that is and was the case with the roll singer in the 1960s when Civil Protection Law. Parliament has approved the Beatles and the Rolling a 2019 national budget Keeping away, for the time being, from the Stones were dominating the that includes funding evaluation of change itself as good, bad or any- rock world. to realize campaign thing in between, we would rather look to the Presley and Binder talked promises made by big picture concerning the MSAR. That is, at for about an hour about mu- leaders of Italy’s 20 the MSAR will no longer be able to play the sic and established a rapport, Presley’s career would slow of a Christmas show. The populist government. history card, claim inexperience, or cry when Binder recalls. Then Presley down. He divorced his wife, typically hard-nosed Parker Netherlands sailing in uncharted waters. popped the question: “What Priscilla, and began abusing relented. The special inclu- prescription drugs. He died ded only a small reference Dutch and German China is opening all its doors to Macau and is do you think of my career?” “I was young and brash in of a heart attack on Aug. 16, to the holiday, with “Blue police arrested five providing all the tools necessary for the MSAR people suspected of those days,” Binder told The 1977, in Memphis. Christmas.” preparing a terrorist to move towards its 20th anniversary and the Associated Press in a phone Still, his popularity has Musical director Billy Gol- years to follow. It is a chart of guidelines, not a act in the Netherlands. interview. “I said, ‘I think it’s remained high. Graceland, denberg, who preferred mu- Dutch police said roadmap, which is for people of Macau to draw. in the toilet.’” the tourist attraction built sic from “West Side Story” in a statement that Speaking at a reception hosted by the Macau According to Binder, Pres- around his former Memphis over Presley’s “Hound Dog,” four suspects were government to celebrate the establishment of ley said: “Well finally, so- home, draws 500,000 visi- said he had to find a path to detained in Rotterdam the SAR on Dec. 20, Chui Sai On delivered a mebody’s talking straight to tors a year. HBO recently re- Presley’s “subconscious cha- and officers searched not-so-usual important speech, indeed, echoing me.” That meeting became a leased a documentary, “Elvis racter, the things that were multiple locations. not only the general call to participate in the na- meaningful step in the crea- Presley: The Searcher.” And going on that he didn’t say, tional reform strategy and introduction of new tion of the one-hour TV show his image and voice are regu- but did.”

opening-up policies, but also underlining the “Singer Presents...Elvis,” be- larly used in films, TV shows “He was tender and lovely ap photo tter known today as the ‘68 and commercials. and polite,” Goldenberg said imperative principle of “serving the country´s Comeback Special. Aired on Much has been said about during a forum during Elvis needs, delivering Macau´s strengths.” Dec. 3, 1968, the program the importance of the ‘68 Co- Week in August. That is to say the Chief Executive, we unders- was a rapturous return for meback Special to Presley’s Goldenberg said he also no- tand, was saying it is not enough to deliver a the 33-year-old Presley, career. In a 2008 Los Ange- ticed “a lot of rage” in Presley. speech, Macau itself has to deliver. MSAR has whose music had mostly stu- les Times article, writer Ro- “There’s a lot of raw primiti- to follow the charter Xi Jiping disclosed when ck to soundtrack songs from bert Lloyd calls it a “moment veness,” Goldenberg said. Brazil’s President- he received the MSAR delegation in November his often pulpy, saccharine of change.” “There’s a lot of sexuality in elect Jair Bolsonaro says that on taking in Beijing, under the designation of the four as- films. It was sponsored by “He regains his voice,” Elvis. And if course there is Singer, the sewing machine Lloyd writes. the tender side.” office, he will issue a pirations for Macau. Chui reiterated the “four decree guaranteeing aspirations”: to play a more active role in the company. Television had been an ear- Goldenberg wanted to citizens without a nation´s reform and opening up process, to dili- Relaxed at some points, ly friend to Presley. He made “bring Elvis into the 1960s” criminal history the energetic during others — groundbreaking appearan- and make him “valid.” gently integrate its development with the coun- ability to possess and always inspired — a ces on variety shows hosted NBC’s investment was va- try´s overall progress, to make greater contri- firearms. still-handsome Presley sou- by Ed Sullivan and Milton lidated. The special became butions to the country´s governance system, nds strong and soulful. He Berle. Later, however, they its top-rated show of the Colombia Authorities and to facilitate people-to-people exchanges at appears genuine: He sweats, became sources of embarras- year and has grown in statu- are investigating a an international level. his black hair gets messed sment. Binder says Presley re since. The network hopes possible plot involving At this point, what is open to commentary, up. complained that hosts open- to replicate the magic in Fe- Venezuelans to analysis or mere reading, is the apparent con- The finale features an emo- ly made fun of him. bruary. The “Elvis All-Star assassinate President Ivan Duque, a top tradiction between Xi’s evaluation, as delive- tional Presley singing “If I Presley’s return to TV re- Tribute” will feature Blake official said. red by the CE, when he says the region is both Can Dream,” a moving piece quired a leap of faith. Bin- Shelton as host and will in- trusted and valued by the mainland’s top official written for the show that ser- der says Presley’s manager, clude well-known perfor- ved as a response to the tu- Col. Tom Parker, wanted a mers recreating the original and the quality and quantity of the workload de- HOLIDAY TIMES signated for the four aspirations. How should mult of 1968, when the Viet- Christmas-themed special. program. nam War served as the back- “The colonel handed me a A box set released in late Macau Daily Times will we take it? Are there things to do, or things to drop for the assassinations of box with 20 Christmas son- November includes a Blu-ray not be published during keep on doing? the Rev. Martin Luther King gs in quarter-inch tape that version of the program, and the holidays. The Times will be back on the Chui did not elaborate on the four aspirations Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. disc jockeys all over America Binder has written a book or the final year of his second and final term in stands on Thursday, Presley returned to promi- were playing on their radio about the show. January 3. However the government, other than mentioning the electo- nence. He began performing stations as Elvis’ Christmas A show he never thought MDT website will be ral process coming soon. Something like the for sold-out crowds in Las gift to America,” Binder said. would endure. “Nothing is updated with breaking process will be handled according to the law. Vegas and produced “From “There was no Elvis in it, dated. That show could have news during the recess We say that is the question… no bona or mala Elvis in Memphis,” an album other than him singing these been shot yesterday,” Binder period. We wish our rea- that included “Suspicious Christmas songs.” said. “I had no idea it would ders, advertisers and fide intended! friends the best of times. Minds” and “In the Ghetto.” Binder would have no part ever be seen again.” AP