CTM REPORTS SLIGHT MEAT BAN CONFIRMED PROFIT DECREASE MACAU A spokesman for China’s The company’s CEO said TO HOST commerce ministry confirmed yesterday that an objective for SUPERMODEL yesterday the ban on imports 2017 is “to reach close to a full SHOW of Brazilian beef to the 4G customer base” country P2 P6 P7 FRI.24 Mar 2017 T. 19º/ 24º C H. 70/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2770 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 Perpetrator IDENTIFIED AP PHOTO IS claims responsibility SINGAPORE-VIETNAM Vietnam and Singapore signed several business P15 agreements yesterday during for London attack a visit by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong aimed at boosting the island state’s investment and trade with the communist country. Singapore, one of Vietnam’s top investors and trading partners, hopes to step up investments in the country, Lee said. More on p12 AP PHOTO INDONESIA About 50 farmers and activists opposed to a cement factory in Indonesia’s Central Java province have encased their feet in concrete during a dayslong protest in Jakarta, the capital. Farmers in the village of Kendeng have battled against plans for the factory for years, saying it could taint their water. JAPAN Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen (USD9,000) through his wife to a school run by a group of ultranationalist educators, the group’s leader told Parliament yesterday, while also suggesting there was “political influence” in a land- buying scandal involving the HERITAGE school. More on p11 RUSSIA-UKRAINE A former Russian lawmaker who became a vociferous Sun Yat Sen critic of Moscow following his recent move to Ukraine was shot and killed in Kiev yesterday, prompting memorialized in another war of words between the two countries. Denis Voronenkov was shot dead by an unidentified Macau and China, gunman near the entrance of an upscale hotel in the Ukrainian capital. neglected in HK More on backpage P3 MDT REPORT INSIDE 24.03.2017 fri th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Paulo Barbosa TELECOMMUNicatioNS step as we are confident that we can collaborate closely with the OMPANHIA de Tele- industry to establish a business Ccomunicações de Macau model with Macau characteris- (CTM) plans to expand its 4G CTM vows to reach ‘close tics,” Poon said. service this year. At a press The company is also interes- conference yesterday, the com- ted in providing integrated In- pany’s CEO, Vandy Poon, said ternet, TV and telephone ser- that a main objective for 2017 to full 4G customer base’ vices (the so-called triple play is “to reach close to a full 4G service) once the government customer base” and continue regulates them. “The govern- to switch internet users from ment has indicated in the re- ADSL to fiber network. cent past that they are working “This means that customers on stimulating the licensing of currently on 2G and 3G would those services,” Poon noted. move to a better speed and be- tter service quality,” said Poon. “Our fundamental responsi- bility is to ensure network ca- pacity and quality,” he stated, Our claiming that those factors are fundamental already “at a world class level.” Prior to the press conference, responsibility the telecommunications opera- tor organized a lunch with local is to ensure journalists. During his speech at the lunch, Poon reviewed network CTM’s performance in 2016. capacity and Last year, the company recor- ded a revenue of MOP4.5 billion quality. and a profit after tax of around VANDY POON MOP1 billion. According to the CTM’S CEO CEO, the 6.4 percent shrink in profit “reflected the keen com- This year, CTM entered into petition of the mobile market.” the second term of the con- Poon said that market liberali- Vandy Poon (left) cession contract (which lasts zation in the mobile market and for another five years) and the other services means that “in will bring a revenue impact of and to continue increasing the ties of building an e-commerce company’s CEO is convinced every aspect” CTM “has compe- over MOP200 million, accor- available types of electronic platform that reaches out to the that future renewals of the con- titors and it is all decided by the ding to the company’s forecast. payment channels, including world while having a base in cession will be granted. “We market.” Regarding the introduction the use of Alipay and, at a later Macau may be far beyond what have confidence that our work The tariff reduction imple- of new services, CTM pledged stage, WeChat. we would have imagined. Yet, arrangements will reach the go- mented at the end of last year to invest around MOP5 million “We are aware of the difficul- we are determined to take this vernment’s target.” TOURISM Feb visitor arrivals down 5.6 percent ISITOR arrivals in nan Province (55,000). 8.2 percent. percent and 0.8 percent VFebruary 2017 totaled Visitors from Hong Kong Visitor arrivals by sea respectively, compared to just over 2,495,000, , down (501,000) dropped by 8.6 edged up by 0.4 percent the same period of the pre- by 5.6 percent year-on-year percent when compared to annually to 817,000, whe- vious year. and 13.2 percent month-to- the same month in 2016, re those disembarking at In the first two mon- month, according to infor- while those from South Ko- the Provisional Ferry Ter- ths of 2017, visitors from mation released by the Sta- rea (82,000) and Taiwan minal in Taipa (315,000) mainland China reached tistics and Census Service (87,000) increased by 31.3 rose by 12.4 percent, while 3,662,000, up by 5.9 per- (DSEC) yesterday. percent and 0.6 percent those at the Outer Harbor cent year-on-year. At the According to a statement respectively. (501,000) decreased by 5.9 same time, visitors from issued by DSEC, visitors’ Further abroad, visitors percent. Meanwhile, visitor South Korea (164,000) and average length of stay was from Australia (5,800) arrivals by air were down Hong Kong (1,028,000) 1.2 days, up by 0.1 days year- increased year-on-year, last month by 3.4 percent increased by 24.2 percent on-year, with the average while those from the U.S. year-on-year to 217,000, and 3.2 percent respec- stay of overnight visitors ri- (12,500), Canada (5,500) with those arriving at the tively, while those from sing marginally to 2.2 days. and the U.K. (4,000) de- airport constituting the vast Taiwan (171,000) decrea- Analyzed by place of ori- creased. majority. sed slightly by 0.7 percent. gin, visitors from mainland Analyzed by mode of In the first two months of Visitors from the U.S. China decreased by 7.5 per- transport, visitor arrivals 2017, visitor arrivals totaled (28,900) and Canada cent year-on-year to about by land dropped by 9 per- 5,371,000, up by 5.5 per- (11,600) increased year- 1,665,000 in February, cent year-on-year to arou- cent year-on-year. Over- on-year, while those from with the majority coming nd 1,460,000, with those night visitors (2,595,000) Australia (15,100) and the from Guangdong Province arriving via the Border Gate and same-day visitors United Kingdom (8,100) (780,000) followed by Hu- (1,246,000) decreasing by (2,776,000) rose by 11.1 decreased. 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] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, SECRETARY Denise Lo [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. Cheong, Jenny Lao-Phillips, João Palla Martins, Joseph Cheung, Julie Zhu, ADDRESS Av. da Praia Grande, 599, Edif. 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Macau and China, neglected in HK Although he later become China’s first president of the republic, Sun struggled Daniel Beitler ment Bureau declared the the Sun Yat Sen family,” he se to the government’s deci- the symbols of the People’s throughout his political life Red House a “proposed mo- said. “So Sun is very much sion to – at least temporarily Republic of China [were to balance the various war- HE honoring of nument”, though not before connected with Macau.” – protect the site.