NEW MACAU–SEOUL 2,000 LUSOFONIA HAS ‘GROWN ROUTE OPENS AND IMPROVED’ South Korean airline Jeju Air PEOPLE Portuguese-style gastronomy, yesterday inaugurated a new JOIN music, dance, games and street route connecting Macau to MACAU ECO decorations filled the area around Seoul’s Incheon airport TRAILHIKER the Taipa Houses-Museum P2 P3 MDT REPORT P3 MON.31 Oct 2016 T. 22º/ 27º C H. 55/ 85% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2674 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS BRUTAL ASSAULT PHILIPPINES and the U.S. are verifying if Chinese coast guard ships left a disputed shoal after President Woman left for dead in Rodrigo Duterte reached out to Beijing, allowing Filipino P7 fishermen back to the garbage survives rich fishing area that China seized in 2012 as tensions spiked in the South China Sea. AP PHOTO AP PHOTO Powerful quake shakes Italy, AP PHOTO topples Benedictine cathedral P14 SOUTH KOREAN Thousands took to the streets Seoul on Saturday calling for increasingly unpopular President Park Geun- hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs. More on p13 More on backpage With articles republished from ECONOMICS Sluggish global trade growth is here to stay F1 31.10.2016 mon th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO 2,000 joined ‘Walk in HE president of the Le- Tgislative Assembly (AL) the Mountain’ Ho Iat Seng announced at the AL president: Controversial AL’s Open Day on Saturday that the government and the law-making body have come to bills to be postponed an agreement regarding seve- ral “controversial” bills, which will now be postponed until the Tong’s proposal for the Land next legislative term. Act should be completed wi- The controversial bills in thin the first quarter of 2017. Organised by the Sport Bureau (ID), question include the consumer During the event, lawmakers the activity “Walk in the Mountain – protection bill and taxi regula- attempted to outline the legis- Fall” was held yesterday morning at tion bill, which Ho confirmed lative body’s daily tasks to the the Hac Sa Reservoir Country Park, would not be considered until public and visiting students. attracting about 2,000 participants. the next term begins. Some 2,000 residents were es- Several highlighted officials undertook The current term is set to ex- timated to have attended the the 3.5 km walk of the circuit, led by ID pire in August 2017. Until then, event, which ran from 10 a.m. president Pun Weng Kun. The event was lawmakers will focus on the to 6 p.m. held to promote ID’s belief in “sports remaining, less controversial According to TDM, teachers for all” and to actively demonstrate bills, hoping to reach an agree- present at the event informed the beneficial effects of playing sport, ment on them. the broadcaster that they have including on a social level. The walk “For example, the revision on already begun teaching aspects started around 9.30 a.m. following the sexual crimes [in] the Criminal of the Basic Law as well as Ma- inauguration of the event and lasted Code only adds two to three cau’s administrative system in for about one hour and 15 minutes. ID terms and conditions. We have high schools. also provided on-site at the Barbecue Ho Iat Seng a mutual understanding. They One teacher stated that the Park of the Hac Sa Reservoir several have been discussed for so long. by public broadcaster TDM. more terms and conditions. It visit would help students “to booths, offering physical assessments, understand the workings and information on sports activities and If they are sent to the Legislative “However, if the entire bill is would take more time,” he ad- the function of the Legislative exhibitions. ID hopes that the event will Assembly, we would go through a newly-legislated one, or a new ded. encourage citizens to adopt a future [them] as much as we could,” bill that begins at a structural Ho also said that the re- Assembly [… and] its structure lifestyle that includes the participation the AL president said, as cited level, I think there would be port on lawmaker Gabriel as well.” in and practice of sports activities. Scholarships for TRANSPORT locals who want to Jeju Air inaugurates new Macau–Seoul route study in Portugal Renato Marques destinations are in turn some of the local Applications for 20 scholarships, residents’ favorites, especially during the each offering MOP65,000 per year OUTH Korean airline Jeju Air yester- winter season. for local high school graduates who Sday inaugurated a new route connec- On this topic Fong said, “these services want to pursue university degrees in ting Macau to Seoul’s Incheon airport. will be in time to satisfy the Christmas Portugal, are now open. This program In a ceremony held yesterday afternoon peak season for travel [to Korea] in the co- is available only for permanent Macau at the departure hall of the Macau Inter- ming December.” residents who have completed a national Airport (MIA) to celebrate the Jeju Air’s vice president Seok-Joo Lee minimum of four years of high school inauguration flights, Eric Fong, the direc- commented on the successful opening of in the city. The scholarships have tor of the Airport Company (CAM) Marke- the company’s new routes, remarking that Seok-Joo Lee been specifically created for students all of the newly opened links have brou- who intend to enroll in a bachelor of ting Department noted that the growth ght success for both the company and the Air and for the destinations as well. This law. Students must return to Macau in outbound travel from South Korea has destinations, the latter benefiting from the after completing their education and become an important source market for time this will happen again. Expect more serve the city for a minimum of three Macau. “According to the statistics, pas- new inbound tourists, and expressed his tourists to come from Korea and from Jeju consecutive years. Results will be sengers of the Korean market from MIA certainty that the same will happen with Air,” he said. announced in February. posted a growth of 85 percent from Ja- this new route to Macau. The airliner will operate the new route nuary to September this year,” he said. “Whenever Jeju Air launched a new rou- on a daily basis, with a flight arriving from Fong also remarked that in addition to te we were not only creating opportunities Korea at 1.50p.m. before departing Macau Property the growing interest from South Korean to grow our market size and share but it at 2.50pm to return to Incheon, located management law nationals in visiting Macau, South Korean was always a win-win situation, for Jeju close to the South Korean capital. under debate RETAIL tailers interviewed expressed The president of the Legislative Assembly that there were more visitors First Committee, Kwan Tsui Hang, said in their stores during the ho- that the committee has not made a final 39pct of stores saw sales growth liday, resulting in an average decision yet regarding the latest property growth of 24 percent. management draft law. The committee during Golden Week Regarding transaction is still discussing whether companies are required to inform property owner’s amounts, 39 percent of all committees six months in advance of surveyed stores (470) registe- terminating a contract with owners. S the Golden Week of Chi- businesses during the holiday. views were conducted covered red an average increase of 22 Kwan explained that different stances Ana’s National Day came to The survey revealed that the the main tourism areas, inclu- percent in daily sales; 42 per- are held by the Housing Bureau and the an end, the Macao Economic turnover of different retail sec- ding Praia Grande, Avenida cent said that their business Legal Affairs Bureau, with the former Services (MES) interviewed tors recorded different levels de Almeida Ribeiro, Ruins of equaled that of the same pe- believing that companies should have 1,200 merchants in the Macau of increase compared to their St. Paul, Border Gate and Bai- riod in the previous year; and to give notice in advance and the latter Peninsula and Taipa to inves- business on an ordinary day. xa da Taipa. 19 percent said that their busi- holding the contrary view. tigate the situation for retail The sites where the inter- About 45 percent of the re- ness shrank during this time. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] DESIGN EDITOR_João Jorge Magalhães [email protected] | NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_ SECRETARY Denise Lo [email protected] PER MONTH Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, Irene Sam, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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