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MIXED MARTIAL ARTS LAVISH CASINO BET THREE RETURN TO TOWN COMES UP SHORT Chairman of ONE Championship, LOCAL The fate of 13 Holdings USD1.6 Chatri Sityodtong, said the CASES OF billion wager is anything but assured audience will see the most DENGUE - and that’s causing a headache for exciting card to date FEVER its big-name investors P2 P3 P4 FRI.04 Aug 2017 T. 26º/ 30º C H. 75/ 95% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2859 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” MONEY LAUNDERING Cyber-heist money WORLD BRIEFS channeled via Macau P10-11 FEATURE AP PHOTO BLOOMBERG INDONESIA yesterday deported more than 140 Chinese and Taiwanese to China, where they are wanted for impersonating police and scamming businessmen and politicians out of several hundred million dollars. More on p9 AP PHOTO JAPAN’s Dozens of firefighters battled a fire Thursday at Tokyo’s world-famous Tsukiji fish market, an area packed with tiny seafood vendors, sushi restaurants and tourists. NORTH KOREA’s flurry of missile launches — 20 of them just in the past year — is a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbors. More on p13 INDIA Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by the Sydney casino war end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a battle lines redrawn new study. P7 More on backpage INSIDE 04.08.2017 fri th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO editorial Paulo Coutinho DECLARATION OF BULLSHIT ARDON my French, but the latest Pdraft of the so-called electoral law, already enforced, is bullshit. First, it won’t prevent me, or any me- dia, from stating my opinion on can- didates (to the universal suffrage) or predicting the outcome of the upco- ming election for a tiny wing of the Le- gislative Assembly (AL) in our midget Kairat Akhmetov (left), Chatri Sityodtong (center) and Adriano Moraes Bibiano Fernandes (left), Chatri Sityodtong (center) and Andrew Leone democracy. Anything otherwise would violate my rights of expression under the Basic Law, the general law, and the press law. But that’s not the fundamental pro- Mixed martial arts event blem. We have to look into the root of this rotten system. From the moment the Basic Law di- sallowed political parties from being to be held tomorrow formed, the system became flawed. Why? Parties by their very nature are active all the time, only observing the Lynzy Valles [and] hopefully with ONE pion Kairat Akhmetov will his back on the floor.” rules of promotional equality during an Championship coming take on fellow Interim Tomorrow’s event also electoral campaign. NE Championship is back again and again, ho- Flyweight World Cham- marks Jomary Torres’ de- This regrettable state of affairs is ag- Oback in Macau for the pefully we’d be able to re- pion Adriano Moraes. but at the Cotai Arena. gravated under the current electoral ru- second time to present the vive the tourism,” he told 29-year-old Akhmetov Philippines-born les because, apparently, candidates can event “ONE: Kings & Con- the press. is in high spirits over the atomweight prospect Tor- only advertise their ideas and platforms querors” tomorrow at The Fernandes, 27, pledged upcoming show, which he res, who is competing out- during the campaign and will be penali- Venetian Macao. that he would not rest on said will be “huge.” side her home turf for the zed for doing so from the moment they The upcoming mixed his laurels and would ins- “I have worked hard. The first time, said that she announced and formalized this week martial arts event is said to tead seek to continually most important thing for would do anything to beat their bids to run for the meagre 14 seats be its most exciting card to improve his techniques. both of us is being in per- her opponent Rika Ishige, (of 33) of the legislative chambers. date. ONE Bantamweight The Brazilian fighter fect condition, and avoi- a Thai WMMA pioneer. It’s absurd; and apparently nobody in World Champion Bibiano added that he is looking ding injuries or sickness so “Even if this is my first the government cares to think about Fernandes – the longest- forward to facing Leone. that we can show a real war time fighting at ONE, I’ll correcting this abnormality. On the reigning champion in ONE “I am never the best. I to the public,” he said. do my best to win. […] I’m contrary: they want total control. Championship history – always have something to Akhmetov had previous- quite nervous but I will do It is a shame that our all-mighty ad- will take on top contender improve. The moment I ly sustained a back injury my best for the Philippi- ministration wants and dares to control Andrew Leone. think I am the best in the while training in New Me- nes,” she said. the ballot of this mere perspiration of Chairman and CEO of world is the moment I fall. xico, which nearly ended Sityodtong pledged that democracy and, therefore, the conse- ONE Championship Cha- The moment I think I can his career. his organization would quent legislature. They should be sea- tri Sityodtong said the au- do better for myself, I set Coming back from the present only Asia’s best fi- ted waiting for the popular verdict. dience would see an exci- out to be a positive person edge of retirement, the ghters. Even more so because their positions ting fight this weekend. and always seek to impro- Kazakhstan fighter said, “I According to him, the or- are unchallenged and the establishment “They are unbelievable fi- ve,” he stated. am hungry and longing for ganization aims to show- is well shielded by the “indirectly-elec- ghters, literally [from] the “I am excited to defend a fight. I feel great. I have case “the beauty of the [fi- ted” and the appointed members of the best martial arts [cham- my title once more against been looking forward to it ghters’’] art, personalities AL. Yet they show a great deal of an- pionships] in the planet. I a worthy challenger. I look for a long time.” and life stories.” xiety over a few seats in a “parliament” believe that fans will have forward to facing […] An- The Interim Flyweight The championship recor- where the universally-elected legisla- a very good time. This is drew Leone in the cage.” World Champion said the ded a solid TV viewership tors have no power whatsoever to deci- absolutely exciting stuff,” New Yorker Leone will match is not just about a and social media following de over the destiny of the city. Why the he said on the sidelines of face Fernandes tomorrow championship, as he con- during the first half of the anxiety, then?! the press conference held night – his first bout in al- sidered the fight a “big year. Sityodtong has re- I suspect the anxiety derives directly yesterday. most 18 months. dream.” marked that the numbers from the fear that the election may be- As this is the mixed mar- “I am undefeated in the “It is just a big fight, be- are growing even faster come overly popular, so much that it tial arts organization’s se- ONE Championship cage, cause I have never in my than planned. would threaten the status quo. Wrong cond time hosting a fight and I plan to keep my re- career fought against the “I believe next year it [will assumption. While this opaque system in the gambling hub, Si- cord like that. It is all about same guy twice. This is the be] multiple billion. Why is persists, there will be no massive tur- tyodtong described Macau winning fights, not losing first time. For me, it is more that? Because Asia is mas- nout to the voting booths. Nobody be- as “one of the iconic enter- fights. After I win the wor- exciting for this to happen. sive. There are billions of lieves it will matter. Nobody believes tainment capitals of Asia.” ld title, I plan on defending The loss has given me too people here,” he stressed. their vote could matter. “It was always [going to] it many times, and staying much in terms of learning “We’re really focusing on However irrelevant the election may be one of the places that in ONE until the end of my and growth,” he said. unleashing heroes [and] I be, and just because, I’ll be declaring we’d come. […] The sky is career,” said Fernandes. Moraes also described think the numbers will im- my vote closer to the polls. the limit here. Macau has A new division champion his opponent as an unde- prove and the number of Will I be arrested for stating my opi- taken a hit in recent ti- will also be crowned in to- feated fighter, “a wrestler events will go up, and the nion?! mes in terms of gambling morrow’s co-headliner. who has a good ground quality will be bigger and activities and tourism Flyweight World Cham- game and skills but with better.” 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 Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F.