Perpetual Troubles First Time, All Varieties of Apples from the P7 MDT REPORT United States Will Go on Sale in China, the U.S
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CASINO TRADE UNIONS FOR JANET AN HOUR WITHOUT FULL SMOKING BAN TRACY: FACEBOOK A joint signature campaign is set THE WOMAN Facebook said it suffered a to be launched by the Fed of Trade FOR THE self-inflicted outage lasting an Unions to collect citizens’ signatures COMMUNITY hour yesterday that made its site in support of the cause inaccessible to users worldwide P2 P5 P14 WED.28 Jan 2015 T. 15º/ 20º C H. 70/ 95% Blackberry email service powered by CTM MOP 5.00 2238 N.º HKD 7.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO MACANESE PREVENTED FROM USING FAMILY TOMBS CHINA-USA For the Perpetual troubles first time, all varieties of apples from the P7 MDT REPORT United States will go on sale in China, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. A deal was reached last week between officials for the United States and Chinese governments to grant access to all U.S. apple varieties, instead of just Red Delicious and Golden Delicious. CANADIAN health authorities said Monday they have diagnosed a case of bird flu in a British Columbia woman who recently returned from China and suspect a man who travelled with her also had it. This is the first time this particular type of bird flu — H7N9— has been detected in a Canadian or American. The strain first emerged in China two years ago and most cases have been linked to contact with poultry. More on backpage AD Bottom’s up: Gaming revenue inverts downtrend P3 28.01.2015 wed th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 Casino staff unions launch signature campaign for full smoking ban Brook Yang vented by setting any types of smoking zone,” he emphasized, ASINO staff trade unions “thereby a full smoking ban in Chave urged the government casinos is the public’s expecta- to further step up the city’s tion and also a general trend.” smoking control by implemen- Ms Tang Fong Chan, direc- ting a full smoking ban inside tor-general of the Sociedade all casino indoor areas within de Jogos de Macau (SJM) em- the year. ployees’ union, told the media A joint signature campaign is that she “believes the gover- set to be launched by the Ma- nment is able to achieve the cau Federation of Trade Unions full smoking ban,” since as a (FOAM) and its affiliated casi- “frontline casino worker” she no staff unions, to collect citi- has noticed that “gamblers zens’ signatures in support of have got used to the smoking the cause. control policy.” “Since the government set a “They would go to the smoking full smoking ban inside other rooms to smoke and come back entertainment venues from to our non-smoking gambling January 1 this year, all indoor tables,” she explained, “and public spaces have prohibited when I told them that they can’t smoking, with casinos being smoke at the table, they woul- the only exception,” stated di- dn’t be unreasonable and reject rector-general of the Macau [it].” Gaming Enterprises Staff’s As- The signature campaign will sociation, Choi Kam Fu, at a firstly be launched at the Bor- Tang Fong Chan and Choi Kam Fu press conference yesterday. der Gate on Friday and extend Mr Fu said that this year is the to all over the city through year where the government will vernment launched a smoking “Even under such easing of already been casinos breaching FOAM’s offices and networks review the results of its smoking ban in most indoor public spa- regulations, we’ve seen that the the law,” he added. as well as on its websites and control measures. Authorities ces, while casinos got a discre- casino operators are not really Mr Choi stressed that long Facebook pages. Mr Choi said also promised to release a re- tionary transition period and copperating with the govern- periods of exposure to a secon- that the campaign would go on port by the end of this month. were allowed to set up smoking ment’s determination on a total d-hand smoking environment for a week to ten days and they “The report won’t reflect the zones that could be no larger smoking ban,” Mr Choi stres- has caused the workers physi- expect to collect ten thousand real situation, because after all, than half of the public use area sed. “They took advantage of cal and psychological distress, signatures. the authorities couldn’t inspect in size. From October 6, 2014, various legal loopholes that put while their families are also suf- “Casino workers and their fa- the casinos around the clock or casinos prohibited smoking in employees in a smoking envi- fering from third-hand tabacco milies have awaited the total during the peak hours with the their mass gaming areas. ronment that’s even worse than exposure. ban on smoking for two years largest flows of visitors. They Nevertheless, Mr Choi indica- before the [partial] smoking “Many studies have proved and have put up with the tobac- only conducted spot-checks,” he ted that some casino operators control.” that second-hand smoking is co hazards during the past two stressed, “but still, we expect it “have shown their indifference “So far the implementation of severely harmful to human years,” he added. “We’ll discuss to be released as soon as possib- to employees’ health by taking the full smoking ban on mass health. Except in a complete what measures to take next, de- le and will see it as a reference.” irresponsible measures to floors has proved ineffective, as non-smoking environment, pending on the feedback of the Back in 2012 the Macau go- counter the smoking ban.” within half a month there had passive smoking can’t be pre- campaign.” TRENGTHENING CHUI IN BEIJING Sco-operation with re- gions in the Pan-Pearl Pan-Delta cooperation is key for next five years River Delta is the most important feature in the Macau SAR’s proposals (GCS). velopment and Reform operation service plat- for the country’s 13th five- Macau was awaiting Commission, the Minis- form between China and year plan, according to approval from the Central try of Commerce and the the Portuguese-speaking the Chief Executive, Chui Government for further State Administration of countries, to bring in Sai On. moves in the establish- Traditional Chinese Me- more innovative ideas to In the social and econo- ment of the Guangdong- dicine, and the Taiwan the projects.” mic development blue- Macau co-operation dis- Affairs Office of the State Mr Chui said he wou- print for 2016-2020, the play zone, together with Council. ld meet with Guangdong government will press the Zhongshan govern- According to the GCS government officials soon ahead on the collabora- ment. press release, in the next to discuss issues on de- tion projects with Nansha Mr Chui, who is leading five years, “the govern- veloping Hengqin and in Guangzhou and Heng- an official delegation on a ment would step up ef- Nansha and the country’s qin in Zhuhai, he said, ac- four-day visit to Beijing, forts to turn Macau into a development direction. A cording to a press release disclosed this yesterday world center for tourism visit to the neighboring issued by the Govern- Chui Sai On meets with the Minister of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the in a press briefing after and leisure and a com- province is scheduled for ment Information Bureau State Council, Zhang Zhijun, in Beijing visiting the National De- mercial and trade co- this Friday. 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