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or corruption. But she said the commission has the right to consider any Massachusetts casino panel: Wynn information, including infor- mation related to “honesty, integrity, good character or settlement was kept from us reputation.” In their 2013 report, the Massachusetts investigators Steve LeBlanc said they spoke to several of Wynn’s references who des- ollowing sexual abu- cribed him as “highly ethi- Fse allegations against ca- cal,” and “a perfectionist who sino magnate Steve Wynn, a is passionate about every- Massachusetts Gaming Com- thing he does.” mission investigator said We- According to the 2011 sta- dnesday information about a te law that legalized casino USD7.5 million settlement gambling in Massachusetts, was kept from state officials a casino license is considered when they were reviewing the a “revocable privilege,” and suitability of his company for can be suspended or revoked a casino license in 2013. under certain conditions, Karen Wells made the sta- including a finding that the tement as the commission licensee was “unsuitable to opened its investigation into operate a gaming establish- a report by The Wall Street ment.” Journal that a number of wo- In Nevada, state gambling men said they were harassed regulations provide grounds or assaulted by Wynn. One for disciplinary action if any case led to a $7.5 million se- activity from the licensed ttlement. operator, its agents or em- Gambling regulators in Ne- Artist rendition of the Wynn Boston Harbor project ployees is deemed “inimical vada said Tuesday they also to the public health, safety, are investigating Wynn. Commission Chairman Ste- year license to operate the ning date of June 2019. morals, good order and ge- The 76-year-old Wynn, phen Crosby called the alle- sole eastern Massachusetts A spokesman for Wynn Bos- neral welfare” of Nevada re- whose company is building gations “appalling” but said resort casino license. Wynn ton Harbor said Wednesday sidents or discrediting of the a $2.4 billion casino outside that any decision, including Boston Harbor is under cons- in statement: “We respect state and its gambling indus- Boston, has strongly denied possibly revoking the licen- truction in Everett outside the process outlined by the try. the allegations, which he at- se, would be based on facts Boston with a scheduled ope- Massachusetts Gaming Com- Regulators could poten- tributed to a campaign led by gleaned during the commis- mission and will cooperate tially levy fines against the his ex-wife. He resigned Sa- sion’s ongoing probe. He said fully with the investigation. company, place conditions turday as finance chairman the commission would not Regulators Our construction is on sche- on its license or even revoke of the Republican National be party to impugning anyo- dule for a 2019 opening and it. Committee. ne’s character without clear could continues to create more On Monday, Republican Wells said she corroborated proof, but also wouldn’t to- than 4,000 local union trade Gov. Charlie Baker called with lawyers from Wynn Re- lerate behavior “that puts the potentially jobs.” the allegations “awful and sorts “that there was in fact confidence in the casino ope- Both Wynn Resorts and appalling,” and said if true, a settlement and that it was rations in our state at risk.” levy fines Steve Wynn were both fou- “Wynn would fail to meet the not disclosed to investigators “The people of Massachu- against the nd suitable by gaming com- suitability standard under on advice of counsel.” She setts have the right to know mission investigators. Wells the state gaming law.” said the settlement was not what the hell happened company, place said that gaming suitability Asked if such a finding by part of any court record. here,” he said. investigations involving indi- the commission could derail “This was a private agree- In Massachusetts, the of- conditions on viduals “typically includes an the casino, Baker said it wou- ment and steps were taken ficial licensee is Wynn MA its license or analysis of that individual’s ld be up to Wynn Resorts to to keep it from the public do- LLC, a subsidiary of Wynn criminal history” including make a decision on how to main,” she said. Resorts. It was awarded a 15- even revoke it any ties to organized crime proceed. AP

he University of Iowa Wynn, who has hotels Ton Wednesday annou- and casinos that bear his nced plans to remove ca- University of Iowa to remove name around the world, sino mogul Steve Wynn’s had few ties to Iowa prior name from the school’s Steve Wynn name from institute to his donation. He said vision research institute in in 2013 that the donation light of sexual misconduct wasn’t made to help him- allegations against Wynn. institute the Stephen A. causes nighttime blindness has strongly denied the misconduct and ensuring self, but to help make up In a statement, the uni- Wynn Institute for Vision and a lack of peripheral vi- allegations. He has attribu- survivors know they are for a dearth of federal mo- versity in Iowa City said the Research in 2013 following sion. ted them to a campaign led believed, supported, and ney for research. plan is subject to the appro- Wynn’s USD25 million do- The Wall Street Journal by his ex-wife. He resigned assisted,” University Pre- Wynn Resorts spokes- val of the Iowa Board of nation to the school to su- first reported that a num- Saturday as finance chair- sident Bruce Harreld said man Michael Weaver did Regents. It will be the first pport blindness research. ber of women said they man of the Republican Na- in a written statement. “It not immediately return time the university has re- Wynn, 76, was diagnosed were harassed or assaul- tional Committee. is incongruous with the email and phone messa- moved a donor name from in his 20s with retinitis pig- ted by Wynn, with one “The University of Iowa university’s values to main- ges left Wednesday by The a building or institute. mentosa, which has slowly case leading to a USD7.5 is committed to ending tain the Wynn name on our Associated Press seeking The university named the compromised his vision. It million settlement. Wynn sexual violence and sexual program and building.” comment.

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Gaming ‘Famílias Macaenses’ launches 2nd ed. in Lisbon

A book launch ceremony for the second edition of Casinos start year with best “Famílias Macaenses” was held in the the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on January 30, with over 150 guests in attendance, a press statement from Albergue SCM informed. The ceremony was revenue gain since 2014 attended by a former governor of Macau, General Garcia Leandro, the president of the International Daniela Wei Institute of Macau, Jorge Rangel and Albergue SCM president, Carlos Marreiros, among several

acau’s ca- bloomberg professionals from the cultural, economy and tourism sino revenue sectors. The author, professor Jorge Forjaz, shared growth surged the research background and some of the major the most in four findings of his work. The book centers on the origin Myears as high rollers and lei- and culture of numerous Macanese communities. Its sure gamblers headed to the second edition follows on from his earlier research world’s biggest gambling some 20 years ago, and covers more than 300 hub before the Chinese New families around the world including those in China, Year rush. Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Brazil, Canada, the U.S., Gross gaming receip- Australia and Portugal. ts rose 36 percent in Ja- nuary to MOP26.3 billion (USD3.3 billion), Macau’s IACM to plant more Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau said trees in gardens yesterday. That was better The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) than the median estimate paves the way for a solid liday in October, when the units of Las Vegas Sands announced that it will plant approximately 200 for a 27 percent increase Lunar New Year period be- enclave reported disappoin- Corp and Wynn Resorts Ltd. trees in Macau’s gardens, in a statement released in a Bloomberg survey of ginning in mid-February.” ting visitor number and last week reported stron- yesterday. The initiative aims to counteract the loss seven analysts, and the hi- Macau, the only Chine- weaker-than-expected ga- ger-than-expected earnings of trees caused by Typhoon Hato. The planting will ghest jump since February se city where gambling is ming revenue data. Casinos for the fourth quarter. Still, start during the upcoming spring season. The trees 2014. allowed, usually benefits regained strong momentum sexual harassment allega- will consist mainly of wind-resistant and flowering “Overall revenue trends from the timing of the week- after the holiday. tions against casino mag- varieties. At present, IACM has planted more than in January have been heal- long New Year holiday, whi- Macau gambling revenue nate Steve Wynn have cast 200 trees in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park and thy,” Daiwa Capital Markets ch this year begins Feb. 16. extended a growth streak a shadow over the industry Mount Fortress Park gardens, where severe damages analysts led by Jamie Soo Analysts will be watching to an 18th straight month, and raised the possibility of during Hato were recorded. The trees are mainly said in a note on Monday, to see if Macau fares better with high rollers the biggest closer scrutiny from Macau strong, small ones and the shrubs are predominantly “We believe this situation than the Golden Week ho- drivers in 2017. The Macau regulators. Bloomberg ornamental.

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IC launches service to apply for filming Macau franchisees target permits

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) launched more international brands the Coordination Service for Filming Permit Application. The application is designed to Julie Zhu “Many time-honored and spe- simplify the procedure for local and foreign cial shops have started to care filmmakers to apply to film in Macau. It ranchising in Macau about trademark registration, provides a unified service for the collection of Fis becoming more globali- patent registration as well as applications in order to spare the applicants zed, according to Wang Xin, about their operation mode,” from having to visit a number of departments, Assistant Professor and Pro- the assistant professor conti- as well as the ability for applicants to track the gram Coordinator at the Facul- nued. process of their application. The trial period ty of International Tourism and was in place from last May until the end of Management of the City Uni- 2017. During the period, the IC received 91 versity of Macau. 45pct of filming applications. The application process Wang was discussing the de- is coordinated by a total of ten public services. Macau’s velopment of Macau’s franchi- sing industry in the past five franchises Gongbei recorded years. Wang’s faculty conducted a Wang Xin (second from left) belong to 11,923 smuggling survey of Macau’s franchising industry in 2017, following a si- percent of franchises in Macau more interested in internatio- the catering cases in 2017 milar survey five years ago. belong to the catering industry, nal brands,” said Wang, who industry Faculty members surveyed se- and 25.2 percent to the retail believes that the trend might The Gongbei Customs announced statistics veral government departments, industry. A mere 0.7 percent be linked to the Macau govern- Wang also explained that Ma- on the department’s efforts to crack down including the Macao Economic comes from the transportation ment’s efforts to promote inno- cau previously lacked a specific on smuggling in 2017. The crackdown was in Bureau (DSE) and the Macao and storage industry. vation. definition of a franchise, which response to a dramatic increase in smuggling Trade and Investment Promo- The franchises primarily tar- “Another comparatively big the survey has now defined as activities recorded at the Gongbei border get local residents, followed by change is that our franchisees gate. According to a report by Jornal Va tion Institute (IPIM). having a minimum of two sto- Kio, Gongbei Customs strongly combatted Of the 300 questionnaires tourists. are becoming younger. Throu- res displaying the same trade- smuggling activities last year, with the which were handed out, 151 va- Most of the participating en- gh this survey, we found out mark, and that the stores must department registering a total of 11,923 lid forms were collected. terprises believe that they have that more than 60 percent of have been operating for more smuggling cases. These cases involved a total The final report contains in- a bright future in terms of de- the franchisees are aged below than one year. of RMB2.637 billion, representing an increase terviews with ten representati- velopment, as 59.7 percent 40 years old. It reflects that the Yesterday’s report featured an of 34.8 percent year-on-year. Two smuggling ve franchisees in Macau, as well of franchisees plan to expand franchises industry is […] good overview of the survey results. cases, one involving wine, and the other as questionnaires completed by their business. for young people [and] local A more detailed report will be ivory, were on the list of China’s top ten anti- other franchisees. “During these five years, Ma- residents’ entrepreneurship,” released in the first quarter of smuggling cases of 2017. According to the survey, 45 cau’s local franchisees became remarked Wang. the year. ad fri 02.02.2018

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AL releases Sulu’s suspension documents Renato Marques rights, to defend himself, and by not ordering an investiga- he Legislative As- tion process and having failed sembly (AL) has finally to comply with the procedural agreed to the reques- marques renato rules required by law.” ts made by lawmaker When asked by the Times TJosé Pereira Coutinho, to for AL’s reasons in delaying allow access to the documents the release of the documents sent by the legislative body in required by a lawmaker, Cou- response to a solicitation from tinho added, “It was a matter the Court of Second Instance of haughtiness and authorita- (TSI) regarding the case of the rianism.” suspension of the mandate of Pereira Coutinho made two lawmaker Sulu Sou. requests asking the AL to allow In a letter signed by the vice access the documents in ques- president of the AL, Chui Sai tion, the first on January 18 Cheong, it was stated that and the second on January 29. “[such documents] are related Pereira Coutinho During the second request, he with judicial processes pen- threatened a lawsuit against ding in court, wherefore they mediately enforced the public situations that have affected hand, the image of AL was the president of the AL, Ho Iat should be kept under secrecy.” interest would be seriously the image of AL much more,” [also] affected by denying Sulu Seng, if his rights were not ful- Contacted by the Times, Cou- impeded; and two – that such he said, adding, “On the other Sou of one of his fundamental filled. tinho confirmed all the re- a decision [to revoke the AL quested documents have been ruling to suspend Sou] would received, though he notes they constitute serious damage for tsi rejects sulu sou’s injunction have arrived “very late and the image of the AL. This ad- only after insisting a lot and mission would have been seen SULU SOU’S request to have his nation from the Macao Foundation pension. Though the decision of the even threatening to take the as an implication that the deci- suspension from the Legislative to Jinan University. He was ousted request was published on the court’s case to the courts.” sion taken by the plenary in a Assembly waived while he appeals in a secret ballot vote at the Legis- website, it remains not known how In the few documents that secret vote on December 4 last several administrative irregularities lative Assembly, with 28 legislators the judges arrived at their decision. the Times had access to, the year was not well considered. leading to the December 4 vote was voting in favor and just four against. Sou’s lawyer, Jorge Menezes, told denied yesterday by the Court of However, Sou claims that several public broadcaster TDM that he will AL asked the judges of the Commenting on such a respon- Second Instance. The young law- irregularities leading up to the vote, wait for the explanation to be made TSI to contest the interim in- se, lawmaker Pereira Coutinho maker is accused of civil disobedi- which “violated the rules of proce- public before discussing with Sou said “I disagree with this plea junction, based on two major ence in a lawsuit related to a protest dure and fundamental rights of the whether to appeal the decision at points: one – that if the sus- [of the AL] because in the past last year against a controversial do- appellant,” should annul the sus- the Final Instance Court. pension of Sou was not im- there have been many worse

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Financial Secrecy Index size, held the first position on the list. The U.S. came Imports up by in second, scoring much lower (59.82 points) des- Macau ranks 22nd pite holding a larger share 6.3pct in 2017 of the global market; ac- cording to the organiza- n December 2017 total increased 12.3 percent to tion, this share is now over Imerchandise imports re- MOP11.28 billion. The mer- on tax secrecy list 22 percent. corded a growth of 17.2 per- chandise trade deficit for The Cayman Islands cent year-on-year to reach the year totaled MOP64.57 he 2018 edition of (scoring 72.28 points and MOP7.95 billion and total billion. Tthe Financial Secrecy holding close to 4 per- merchandise exports grew Analyzed by place of ori- cent of the global market)

Index has placed Macau in bloomberg 20.1 percent year-on-year gin, merchandise imports the 22nd position on the were placed third on the to MOP905 million, accor- came mostly from mainland list of the most secret loca- list and Hong Kong and ding to information released China (MOP25.7 billion) tions regarding tax infor- Singapore were placed in this week by the Statistics and the European Union mation. This classification fourth and fifth respecti- and Census Service. The (MOP19.09 billion). The also places the MSAR in a vely. Three major Asian merchandise trade deficit in value of imports from the zone of mid-level secrecy regions were included in December (amount to whi- EU soared by 12 percent for financial information. the top ten. ch the total import value ex- last year, while that from Compiled by a non-go- Hong Kong scored 71.05 ceeds the total export value) the mainland dipped by 0.6 vernmental organization, points and holds over came to MOP7.04 billion. percent. the Tax Justice Network, 4 percent of the global During December, imports Imports from Portuguese- the Financial Secrecy In- market while Singapore of mobile phones, cars and speaking countries amoun- dex aims to provide an 20 Key Financial Secrecy Promoting Tax Evasion,” attained 67.13 points and motorcycles, and construc- ted to MOP648 million, insight into how countries Indicators (KFSI) analy- and “Automatic Informa- about 4.5 percent of the tion materials expanded by down 2.7 percent when com- and regions respond to zed, Macau only scored tion Exchange.” global market. 137 percent, 32.3 percent pared to 2016. laws and regulations re- one full mark (regarding Macau’s lower position The index also noted and 31.6 percent respecti- Analyzed by destination, garding tax information compliance with Bilateral on the list may be unders- that six countries that vely. merchandise exports to and how they comply with Treaties). tood a result of the catego- were placed in the top ten For the fourth quarter mainland China increased international standards Macau received lower rization process inherent are members of the Or- of 2017, the total value by 21.1 percent year-on-year and treaties. Their insight scores in KFSI’s such as in the analysis; in the con- ganization for Economic of merchandise imports to MOP2.12 billion in 2017. is characterized by com- “Records of Company text of the global market Co-operation and Develo- (MOP21.69 billion) and mer- Exports to the nine provinces plete independence from Ownership,” “Other Weal- Macau is categorized as pment and another three chandise exports (MOP2.72 of the Pan-Pearl River Del- governmental reporting. th Ownership,” “Limited “small.” are Asian tax havens billion) grew by 10.6 percent ta region (MOP1.9 billion) In the previous report, Partnership Transparen- A total of 112 countries (Hong Kong, Singapore and 17.8 percent year-on- grew by 15.8 percent. Expor- issued in 2015, Macau sco- cy,” “Public Company and regions were cove- and Taiwan). From the year respectively. ts to Hong Kong (MOP6.6 red 70 points (out of 100), Ownership,” “Public red in the 2018 index and analysis, the organization Merchandise imports in billion), the EU (MOP190 which placed the region Company Accounts,” Switzerland, scoring a concluded that “major 2017 grew by 6.3 percent to million) and the U.S. 11th on the list. “Country- by-Country total of 76.45 points and economies are driving the MOP75.85 billion in com- (MOP186 million) rose by The current report ack- Reporting,” “Legal Entity accountable for 4.5 per- market for financial se- parison to the previous year, 18.7 percent, 8.6 percent and nowledges that from the Identifier,” “Avoidance of cent of the global market crecy.” RM while merchandise exports 18.9 percent respectively. ad fri 02.02.2018

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plans to have more of its companies recruit students from IPM. Lei Un, head of the Student Affairs Sonia Chan Office of IPM, said “the number of par- ticipating organizations is the biggest involved in ever.” When talking about why the cross- border chamber is participating in dispute over this Careers Fair, Lei said that “they [the member companies for the cham- ber] know that IPM offers courses on flat blaze computers, on management, and on Education e-commerce, among others, and the he Secretary for with the financial cost. students attending these courses meet TAdministration and Tam Peng Tong said the needs for their [the member com- Justice, Sonia Chan, and that the firefighters dis- panies’] development.” her husband, the chief covered the fire was cau- According to IPM, its graduates are of office of the Prosecu- sed by the overheating 1,800 jobs offered able to find a job within two months, tor General, Tam Peng of an internet router in- on average, after graduation, with Tong, have become in- side the apartment, and nearly 80 percent of the graduates volved in a civil dispu- that responsibility for at IPM Careers Fair working in jobs related to their majors. te with their tenants, the fire cannot be attri- This value was taken from a survey of a Portuguese couple buted to the landlords. Julie Zhu More than 1,500 prospective gradua- the graduates of 2017, with the data in- who were renting their Regarding the finan- tes registered for the Careers Day acti- cluding students from all nationalities, apartment. The apart- cial difficulties which he Macao Polytechnic Institu- vities. according to Lei. ment is located on the the Portuguese couple te (IPM) Careers Day was held For the first time, the Zhuhai-Macau IPM vice-president Im Sio Kei said, Cattleya building in the claim this situation has at the IPM campus yesterday. Cross Border Industrial Zone Cham- during his speech at yesterday’s Ca- Ocean Gardens residen- placed on them, Tam Over the Careers Fair period a ber of Commerce is attending the IPM reers Day opening ceremony that IPM tial complex. said that he saw an Ttotal of 1,800 job vacancies will be ad- graduates employment fair. graduates receive an average salary of When it was confir- Apple brand computer vertised by participating organizations. The Secretary of the Zhuhai-Macau MOP15,600 per month. “The top four med that a fire had in the Portuguese cou- Thirty-nine organizations from go- Cross Border Industrial Zone Cham- industries where most of IPM gradua- damaged their apart- ple’s house, and that vernment departments, the finance ber of Commerce said that the entity tes work are medical services and the ment, the landlords and the tenant’s daughter and banking industry, the tourism and is participating in the IPM recruitment hygiene industry, commercial trade, the tenants got involved is studying in the UK. gaming industry, the education indus- fair, hoping to attract more people who education and the gambling industry.” in a dispute regarding Both facts, to him, su- try, and the real estate industry will are talented in e-commerce. Im continued by saying that “gra- the responsibilities for ggest the tenant is not exhibit at the event. “We hope that we can build a long- duates who chose to find a job after repair. encountering too much The IPM Careers Fair will be on until term relationship with IPM,” decla- graduation represent 80 percent of the The incident was first financial stress. February 7. During this time, various red Secretary Fong, adding that “our total. More than ten percent choose reported by the associa- According to the same types of employment related activi- chamber currently has 76 shops, […] to pursue higher educational degrees, tion Casa de Portugal, report, both parties are ties will be organized for the students, we have a quite high demand for po- with the most popular places for doing while the association already discussing a including 11 lectures, and tours to the sitions.” so being Macau, Taiwan and the Uni- raised funds to help the feasible solution for re- participating companies. According to Fong, the chamber ted States.” Portuguese couple cope pair expenses.

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and the fact that they serve rou- tine, fixed routes makes them ideal for electrification. Cities Electric buses will take over across the globe increasingly see electric buses as a way to reduce local air pollution, and such municipalities as Paris and half the world’s fleet by 2025 Amsterdam have set goals to switch to zero-emission buses Mark Chediak and aggressive city-level targe- in the coming years. Earlier this ts,” wrote Aleksandra O’Dono- week, mayors of some of Cali- early half of the van, an analyst for BNEF and fornia’s largest cities, including municipal buses on author of the study. By 2025, the Los Angeles and San Jose, urged the road around the report said, the country’s fleet the state’s environmental re- world will be electric will be 99 percent battery-powe- gulator to introduce incentives Nwithin seven years, with China red buses. and requirements to spur a shift expected to dominate the global Electric buses remain more toward electric buses from ones market as it aims to cut urban expensive up front than those that use diesel or natural gas pollution and support domestic fueled by diesel or compressed China has set the most aggres- manufacturers. natural gas, but BNEF found sive clean-energy bus-deploy- The total number of electric that battery-powered buses can ment targets. Warren Buffett- buses in service is forecast to already offer a lower total cost of backed BYD Co., China’s largest more than triple, from 386,000 ownership when fuel and main- seller of electric vehicles, is well last year to about 1.2 million in tenance expenses are conside- -positioned to take advantage 2025, equal to about 47 per- red. Projected declines in bat- of this government push. Last cent of the worldwide city bus tery prices will make the upfront year in China, BYD sold 100,183 fleet, according to a report from costs of some electric models new-energy vehicles—a category Bloomberg New Energy Finan- competitive with a diesel version that incudes full electric and ce. by 2026, according to the study. hybrids), and the company’s “China will lead this market, Public buses are a key part of buses now operate in 200 cities due to strong domestic support the urban transit infrastructure, around the globe. Bloomberg Chinese tycoon said to Alibaba to buy a third of Ant near US hotel purchase Financial, paving way for IPO libaba Group Hol- hinese real es- owns the properties panies over the past 12 Ading Ltd. will buy 33 tate tycoon Cai through its asset-ma- months, data compiled C percent of Ant Financial, hel- bloomberg Kui’s family office is in nagement arm Barin- by Bloomberg show. ping to clear the way for an advanced talks to buy gs, is still negotiating Junson Capital didn’t initial public offering of the a U.S. hotel portfolio final terms of a tran- immediately respond Chinese payments giant. from MassMutual for saction with Junson, to an email seeking China’s biggest e-commer- as much as USD800 the person said. An comment. Michael Mc- ce operator will acquire new million, a person with agreement could be Namara, a spokesman shares in its finance affiliate knowledge of the mat- announced in the next for MassMutual, said in in exchange for certain in- ter said. few weeks, said the an email that the com- tellectual property rights, Hong Kong-based person. pany doesn’t comment the company said yesterday. Junson Capital, which The deal shows how on specific investments While no cash is changing thwarted by the collapse of a generate better revenue on manages the wealth of Chinese investors with in its portfolio. hands, Ant Financial will end deal for MoneyGram Inter- mobile apps and its catered the Longfor Properties offshore capital re- Junson Capital bou- royalty payments to Alibaba national Inc. while its Chi- user pages drove more sa- Co. co-founder, plans main able to pursue ght the DoubleTree by that were worth more than nese business faces greater les.” to buy seven to eight real estate acquisitions Hilton Hotel in Lon- USD300 million last fiscal scrutiny from regulators and Alibaba said revenue in hotels from MassMu- around the world, even don’s Docklands area year. Alibaba also raised its increased competition from the 12 months ending Mar- tual, according to the after the government in 2016, according to annual forecast after pos- Tencent Holdings Ltd. ch will rise 55 to 56 percent, person. The assets are placed new restrictions a press release at the ting third-quarter sales that “This acquisition of Ant up from a range of 49 to 53 mostly boutique ho- on buying trophy as- time. Realtor Colliers topped estimates. Financial’s stake could be percent previously. Ma is tels, as well as a few sets like overseas ho- International touted Alibaba hasn’t held a stake a preparation for its poten- pushing deeper into brick resort properties, said tels, movie studios and it as the first major in the owner of Alipay since tial IPO,” said Steven Zhu, and mortar retailers, in- the person, who asked sports teams. Any tran- hotel transaction in founder Jack Ma controver- a Shanghai-based analyst cluding supermarkets and not to be identified as saction would add to the British capital sially spun out the business with Pacific Epoch. “Alibaba department stories, as the the information is pri- the $11.7 billion of an- since the U.K. vote to in 2011. Ant Financial has was able to improve revenue company also took control vate. nounced hotel acqui- leave the European had a string of recent setba- growth because performan- of the Cainiao logistics busi- MassMutual, which sitions by Asian com- Union. Bloomberg cks, with its U.S. expansion ce-based ads were able to ness. Bloomberg corporate bits jardines career expo to be held tomorrow Participating companies inclu- mia expects nearly 7.4 million sued by the company, tendering de Mannings, San Miu Super- has opened for stores and res- Organized by the Jardine Ma- market, 7-Eleven, Pizza Hut, passengers in 2018 taurants in the northern extension theson Group, the first-ever Jar- KFC, Mandarin Oriental Macau, area, where more local signature dines Career Expo Macau will Jardine Lloyd Thompson Limi- dining and shopping will be intro- be held tomorrow from 2 p.m. to ted, Jardine Schindler Lifts (Ma- duced to passengers. 6 p.m. at the Mandarin Oriental cao) Limited, Zung Fu Company The southern extension of the Macau. Eleven Jardine Mathe- Limited, JOS and Jardine En- passenger terminal building will son companies will be staffing gineering Corporation (Macau) be ready for public bidding in the information booths and adverti- Limited. first half year of 2018. When the sing job openings with the goal There will be career talks and southern expansion is complete of attracting new talent to career interview technique workshops the airport’s reception capacity positions, according to a state- at the Career Expo to assist job will be raised to 10 million pas- ment issued by the group. seekers in understanding them- Macau International Airport period. sengers per year. Professionals from the group selves and learning more about Company Limited (CAM) annou- CAM has invested around Considering the surrounding en- will present talks on career the industry. Professionals from nced that upon the completion of MOP210 million on infrastructu- vironment and industrial changes, planning to help job seekers be- the Jardine Matheson Group the northern extension project in re construction to enhance re- passenger traffic in 2018 is expec- tter understand the multitude of will be available to offer career the Q1, the terminal as a whole ception capacity and on expan- ted to be 7.38 million, with a total of career job opportunities availab- pathway advice and guidance to will be able to accommodate 7.5 sion projects. 39,000 tonnes of cargo transpor- le with the companies. visitors. million passengers in a one-year According to a statement is- ted and 60,000 flight movements. 02.02.2018 fri

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he next global powerhou- Tse in the auto industry co- The rise of China’s colossus of mes from a small city in a tea- growing province of southeast China, where an unheralded maker of electric-vehicle batte- electric-car batteries ries is planning a USD1.3 billion factory with enough capacity to surpass the output of Tesla and Automobile Manufacturers esti- dwarf the suppliers for battery- mated. powered cars by GM, Nissan and In China, the source of 99 per- bloomberg Audi. cent of CATL’s business, the Contemporary Amperex Te- company’s lithium-ion batteries chnology Ltd., or CATL, already will be inside locally made EVs sells the most batteries to the from Volkswagen AG, BMW AG, biggest electric-vehicle makers and Hyundai Motor Co. Japan’s in the biggest EV market: Chi- Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Mo- na. Now it wants to use proceeds tor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. are from a pending initial public of- considering CATL batteries for fering backed by Goldman Sachs planned China-made vehicles. Group Inc. to get under the hoods Domestic companies using the of more European marques and batteries include BAIC Motor secure customers in the U.S. Corp., the biggest EV seller in The company plans to raise 13.1 China, and Zhengzhou Yutong billion yuan ($2 billion) as soon Group Co., the world’s biggest as this year by selling a 10 per- bus maker. cent stake, at a valuation of about CATL is already in the midst $20 billion. The share sale would of expanding overseas. Last finance construction of a battery- year, it spent 30 million euros cell plant second in size only to ($35 million then) to acquire Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory in Neva- 22 percent of Finland’s Valmet da—big enough to cement China Automotive Oy, a contract ma- as the leader in the technology nufacturer for Daimler AG’s replacing gas-guzzling engines. Mercedes- Benz and supplier three years they’ll have a techni- in 2011, while he was president If CATL made itself into an The new assembly lines wou- to Porsche AG and Volkswa- cally similar product.” of ATL, marked a gamble on emerging battery giant on the ld quintuple CATL’s production gen’s Lamborghini. CATL also The new battery plant is set to the direction of Chinese gover- strength of Chinese policy, Zeng capability and make it the wor- added offices in Paris to exis- rise on landfilled mudflats across nment policy. That year there already appears worried about ld’s largest electric-vehicle ba- ting facilities across Germany. a lake from CATL’s sprawling were just 1,014 alternative-ener- securing a future without that ttery cell manufacturer, ahead The company has a partnership headquarters. The entire com- gy vehicles sold in China, accor- help. In April, he sent an inter- of Tesla, Warren Buffett-backed with BMW’s motorsport teams plex, all barely seven years old, is ding to Bloomberg Intelligence. nal email meant to motivate his BYD Co. in China and South Ko- for races in Europe and Macau, vast enough that it takes half an He was essentially betting that employees. The title of his letter rea’s LG Chem Ltd., according to splashing its blue logo across the hour to walk from an office bui- the lithium-ion battery business posed a question: “When the Bloomberg New Energy Finance. carmaker’s M6 GT3. lding on the northwest corner to for cars would flourish, crea- typhoon comes, can pigs really The factory could go fully online Now CATL is making another a gate on the east side. Six elec- ting a replica of ATL focused fly?” as soon as 2020, an opportune leap. Job ads for positions in the tric shuttle buses, all powered on a vehicle market that barely Zeng proceeded to use an alle- time as China targets a sevenfold Detroit area have appeared on by CATL batteries, trundle em- existed. (The two companies gory to caution workers against increase in new-energy vehi- LinkedIn, and the company said ployees between dormitories, split in 2015, with ATL transfer- complacency. “Is the pig really cle sales by 2025 and ponders a in an email it is meeting with se- factories and research labs. For ring its 15 percent stake in the flying? What happened to the course for phasing out fossil-fuel veral U.S. carmakers to discuss the 90-minute trip to the nearest new company to other inves- pig after the typhoon is gone?” vehicles altogether. partnerships. airport in Fuzhou, employees can tors; Zeng resigned from TDK he wrote, according to the com- “China, unabashedly, wants to “Their intentions are very book free chauffeured rides in and ATL last year.) pany’s WeChat account. The pig be the Detroit of electric vehi- clear,” said Simon Moores, Lon- a Zinoro hybrid built by BMW’s Zeng’s prediction proved right: is the company, the strong winds cles,” said Anthony Milewski, a don-based managing director joint venture and powered by Xi’s administration now pro- are government subsidies, and managing director at Pala In- of battery sector consultant Ben- CATL batteries. vides generous incentives for the danger is that favorable poli- vestments Ltd., a Zug, Switzer- chmark Mineral Intelligence. consumers buying non-gasoline cies won’t always be there to pro- land-based fund investing in the “To not just be China’s biggest vehicles. In 2016 and 2017, tho- vide uplift. EV supply chain. “There is no battery producer but the world’s The se subsidies may have totaled CATL reaps further benefits question in my mind that they largest.” 83 billion yuan, according to an from an aggressive government are going to lead the world in Ningde doesn’t look like a glo- company has estimate from Cui Dongshu, se- policy to acquire the minerals capacity and, eventually, in the bal foundry for the key techno- a partnership cretary-general of the China Pas- needed for battery makers. Chi- technology.” logy inside the cars of the future. senger Car Association. na is securing supplies of key China’s government likes to The isolated city is surrounded with BMW’s Carmakers seeking to qua- materials such as lithium, nickel have national champions of in- by mountains, with a long his- lify choose domestic battery and rare earths, and its mining dustry: think Alibaba Group tory of fishing and farming that motorsport suppliers because of concerns companies are estimated to be Holding Ltd. in e-commerce and has more recently made way for that models built with foreign responsible for 62 percent of Tencent Holdings Ltd. in social a few Starbucks and McDonald’s teams for races brands will be ineligible, even the global supply of cobalt, the media. So far no carmakers are locations. President Xi Jinping in Europe and though there isn’t a written Cleveland-based Institute for part of that conversation, althou- apprenticed there as a Commu- rule banning non-Chinese su- Energy Economics and Financial gh CATL is working its way in nist Party chief in the 1980s, Macau ppliers. “The premise is that lo- Analysis said in a January report. there by capitalizing on China’s when Ningde was the poorest cally produced cars in China are The upcoming IPO should pro- push for cleaner air and fewer city on China’s east coast. Zeng Yuqun, the 49-year-old obligated to use local batteries,” pel CATL to become the biggest oil imports. The rising battery Menahem Anderman, presi- engineer who founded CATL, is Jochem Heizmann, chief execu- lithium-ion battery cell maker giant is, in no small part, a ma- dent of Total Battery Consulting often seen walking fast across the tive of Volkswagen Group China, in the world. The company pre- nifestation of China’s aggressive Inc. in Petaluma, California, campus. He was born in a moun- said in January. viously forecast sales of as much government support for electric went to see CATL’s headquarters tain village an hour away and Zeng, who declined to com- as 100 billion yuan by 2020, vehicles. for himself in January and fou- sometimes organizes employee ment for this article, can be blunt a huge jump from 14.9 billion China surpassed the U.S. in nd a company in the process of excursions to his birthplace. For about the electric-vehicle busi- yuan in its last full-year earnings 2015 to become the world’s big- becoming a world-class battery most of his career, he worked on ness. During a forum in China from 2016. gest market for electric cars. Sa- maker. “Technically they are a lithium-ion batteries for consu- last year, he made it clear that he The company’s ramp-up, in les of new-energy vehicles—in- probably a tad behind the big mer electronics, including the doesn’t see himself in competi- turn, will extend China’s grip cluding battery-powered, plug-in three,” he said, citing Panasonic iPhone, at Amperex Technology tion with other battery supplies. on global battery production hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles— Corp., Samsung SDI Co. and LG Co., or ATL, a subsidiary of Ja- “We are competing with gasoline to about 70 percent of the reached 777,000 units last year Chem. “But considering how fast pan’s TDK Corp. that he helped cars,” he said. “If we can’t win market by 2021, up from 54 and could surpass 1 million this they have been moving, it’s rea- found. against gasoline cars, there’s no percent last year, according to year, the China Association of sonable to assume that in two to Zeng’s decision to start CATL place for us in the market.” BNEF. 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ad before returning home. British finance minister ap photo Philip Hammond visited in December, pledging to promote London as a cen- ter for transactions in Chi- na’s yuan currency and an- nouncing up to 25 billion pounds ($35 billion) in support for British bu- sinesses involved in the “Belt and Road” initiative, China’s mega-plan for tra- de and infrastructure links across Asia. But May appears more cautious about embracing Chinese investment than her predecessor, David Cameron. She annoyed Beijing in 2016 by tempo- rarily delaying approval for a Chinese-backed nuclear May meets power plant in southwes- tern England. May has also been he- Xi on visit sitant to endorse the Belt and Road initiative, al- though on Wednesday she expressed conditional su- focused on pport for British involve- ment as long as such pro- jects adhere to established post-Brexit global business practices. May has also echoed Chi- na’s reference to a “golden ritish Prime Minis- Bolstering ties with Chi- era” in relations proclai- Bter Theresa May met na became more urgent med in 2015 by Xi and Da- yesterday with Chinese after Britain voted in 2016 vid Cameron, her prede- President Xi Jinping on a to leave the EU, compe- cessor as prime minister. visit aimed at mapping out lling it to forge new trade As she visits China, May’s new trading arrangements agreements outside of the job is under threat from following Britain’s depar- 28-nation bloc. rivals within her Conser- ture from the European British exports to China vative Party, who are divi- Union. are up 60 percent since ded over whether to make The meeting at the Great 2010, and China is expec- a clean break with the EU Hall of the People in Bei- ted to be one of the U.K.’s or seek to keep the closes- jing came a day after May biggest foreign investors t-possible economic rela- called for expanding the by 2020. tionship. “global strategic partner- May is being accom- May insisted to reporters ship” between the two panied on her visit by 50 flying with her to China, countries. British business leaders, “I’m not a quitter.” May said business deals including the chief execu- There is “a long-term job worth more than 9 billion tives of Jaguar Land Rover to be done” by her govern- pounds (USD13 billion) and drug firm AstraZene- ment, she said, according will be announced before ca. She will also visit the to the Press Association her visit ends today. financial hub of Shanghai news agency. AP

Yu Wensheng Germany urges release of detained human rights lawyer

ermany is calling on China man Hua Chunying gave no details Gto release a prominent human about Yu’s case, but said China wou- rights lawyer charged with inciting ld “firmly oppose any foreign gover- subversion, drawing a sharp rebuke nment or individual in an attempt to from Beijing. interfere in China’s internal affairs.” German Human Rights Commissio- “The relevant German official is ab- ner Barbel Kofler this week said Yu solutely not qualified or entitled to Wensheng is innocent of wrongdoing ask China to release anyone invol- and had only sought to campaign for ved,” Hua said. democratic reforms and “support Yu, an informal spokesman for fellow citizens who were harassed a group of Chinese human rights for exercising their human rights.” lawyers, was grabbed by police on “I call on the Chinese government Jan. 19 while preparing to take his to release Yu Wensheng without de- 13-year-old son to school. lay, and to fully respect the civil righ- Police informed Yu’s wife of the ts guaranteed in the Chinese Consti- charge against him on Saturday, tution,” Kofler said in a statement lawyer Huang Hanzhong said. Inci- posted on the website of the German ting subversion is a vaguely worded Federal Foreign Office. charge often used to muzzle dissent Asked about Kofler’s comments, and sometimes results in years-long Chinese foreign ministry spokeswo- prison sentences. AP 02.02.2018 fri

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to some underbrush, where Younus lay for seven hours. At ap photo one point, he saw three trucks stop and begin loading dead bodies before heading off toward the cemetery. Buddhist villagers then mo- ved through Gu Dar Pyin in a sort of mopping-up operation, using knives to cut the throats of the injured, survivors said, and pitching the young and the elderly into fires. Thousands of people from the area hid deep in the jun- gle, stranded without food ex- cept for the leaves and trees they tried to eat. From about 10 miles away another group of villagers watched from a mountain as Gu Dar Pyin bur- ned, the flames and smoke snaking up into the sky. In the days and weeks after the attack, villagers braved the soldiers to try to find wha- tever was left of their loved ones. Dozens of bodies litte- red the paths and compounds of the wrecked homes; they filled latrine pits. The survi- vors soon learned that taller, darker green patches of rice shoots in the paddies marked the spots where the dead had Rohingya Muslim refugee camp, Bangladesh fallen. Bloated bodies began to rise to the surface of the rain-satu- AP Exclusive rated graves. “There were so many bodies in so many different places,” said Mohammad Lalmia, 20, a Agency confirms five unreported farmer whose family owned a pond that became the largest of the mass graves. “They cou- ldn’t hide all the death.” Myanmar mass graves Eleven days after the attack, Lalmia was fleeing soldiers patrolling near the mosque Foster Klug , Balukhali Refugee military’s slaughter of civi- be show a village decimated. In the videos obtained by the when he discovered a human Camp, Bangladesh lians but the presence of many Community leaders have com- AP, dating to 13 days after the hand sticking out of a cleared more graves with many more piled a list of 75 dead so far, killing began, blue-green pu- patch of earth. Lalmia counted he faces of the men half- people. and villagers estimate the toll ddles of acid sludge surround about 10 bodies on the grave’s Tburied in the mass graves The graves are the newest pie- could be as high as 400, based corpses without heads and surface and estimated it held had been burned away by acid ce of evidence for what looks on testimony from relatives torsos that jut out from the at least another 10. or blasted by bullets. Noor Ka- increasingly like a genocide in and the bodies they’ve seen in earth, skeletal hands seeming Lalmia and other villagers dir could only recognize his Myanmar’s western Rakhine the graves and strewn about to claw at the ground. also saw another large grave friends by the colors of their state against the Rohingya, a the area. Survivors said soldiers plan- in the area, and smaller gra- shorts. long-persecuted ethnic Mus- ned the Aug. 27 attack, and ves containing as many as 10 Kadir and 14 others, all lim minority in the predomi- tried to hide what they had bodies scattered about the Rohingya Muslims, had been nantly Buddhist country. The AP’s findings done. They came to the slau- village. choosing players for the soccer- U.N. special envoy on human ghter armed not only with ri- On Sept. 9, villager like game of chinlone when rights in Myanmar, Yanghee suggest fles, knives, rocket launchers Mohammad Karim, 26, captu- the gunfire began. By the time Lee, said Thursday that the not only the and grenades, but also with red three videos of mass graves the soldiers stopped shooting military’s operations against shovels to dig pits and acid to time-stamped between 10:12 at the Myanmar village of Gu the Rohingya bear “the hall- military’s burn away faces and hands so a.m. and 10:14 a.m., when Dar Pyin, only Kadir and two marks of a genocide.” that the bodies could not be soldiers chased him away, he teammates were still alive. Phil Robertson, deputy Asia slaughter of recognized. said. In the Bangladesh refu- Days later, Kadir found six director for Human Rights After more than 200 soldiers gee camps, nearly two dozen of his friends lying among the Watch, said in a statement civilians but swept into Gu Dar Pyin arou- other Rohingya from Gu Dar bodies in two graves. that the AP report “raises the the presence nd noon, Mohammad Sha, Pyin confirmed that the vi- They are among more than stakes for the international 37, a shop owner and farmer, deos showed mass graves in five mass graves, all previou- community to demand ac- of many more hid in a grove of coconut trees the north of the village. sly unreported, that have been countability from Myanmar.” near a river with more than About 15 days after the mas- confirmed by The Associated Repeated calls Wednesday graves 100 others. They watched as sacre, Rohima Khatu, 45, Press through multiple inter- and Thursday to Myanmar’s the military searched Muslim searched for her husband in views with more than two do- military communications of- Almost every villager inter- homes and dozens of Buddhist the graves at Gu Dar Pyin’s zen survivors in Bangladesh fice were unanswered. Htun viewed by the AP saw three neighbors, their faces partly northern entrance, trying to refugee camps and through ti- Naing, a local security po- large mass graves at Gu Dar covered with scarves, loaded identify him by his clothes. me-stamped cellphone videos. lice officer in Buthidaung Pyin’s northern entrance, near the possessions they found “There were dead bodies The Myanmar government re- township, where the village is the main road, where witnes- into about 10 pushcarts. Then everywhere, bones and body gularly claims massacres like located, said he “hasn’t heard ses say soldiers herded and the soldiers burned down the parts, all decomposing, so I Gu Dar Pyin never happened, of such mass graves.” killed most of the Rohingya. homes, shooting anyone who couldn’t tell which one was my and has acknowledged only Myanmar has cut off access A handful of witnesses con- couldn’t flee, Sha said. husband,” Khatu said. “I was one mass grave containing 10 to Gu Dar Pyin, so it’s unclear firmed two other big graves Mohammad Younus, 25, was weeping while I was there. I “terrorists” in the village of just how many people died, near a hillside cemetery, and crawling on his hands and was crying loudly, ‘Where did Inn Din. The AP’s findings, but satellite images obtained smaller graves scattered arou- knees after being shot twice you go? Where did you go?’” however, suggest not only the by the AP from DigitalGlo- nd the village. when his brother carried him “I have lost everything.” AP fri 02.02.2018

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Interview | Jacinda Ardern New Zealand urges N. Korea ‘de-escalation’ Nick Perry, Wellington weapons. We’ve called on sanc- tions to be upheld and we’ve done ew Zealand Prime what we can to enforce them ap photo Minister Jacinda Ar- in our region. And so yes, we’ve dern expressed su- used the voice that we have.” pport yesterday for Neconomic sanctions against North Korea while also urging a “de-escalation” on the Korean Peninsula, and said her country We have should maintain a close rela- tionship with the United States spoken openly even if they don’t always agree. about the Arden, 37, who this week will mark her first 100 days in office, need for there made the comments in an inter- view with The Associated Press to be a de- that also touched on her coun- escalation. try’s relationship with China and the intense interest surrounding She said New Zealand doesn’t working with the U.S. for its own table question for women in the when Ardern plans to take a six- her recently announced preg- hold the view expressed by U.S. gain and that the relationship workplace. Her answers resona- week break from her job. Deputy nancy. President Donald Trump in his was “incredibly important.” ted with many people around the Prime Minister Winston Peters She said that despite her coun- State of the Union address this The possibility of Ardern giving world. will fill in. try’s small size, it would always week that China is a rival. birth while in office had become a Ardern said when she found “I just happen to be doing use its voice to stand up for what “That is not how I would classify point of contention from the time out she was pregnant in October, what many, many other thou- it believes to be right. New Zealand’s relationship with she became Labour Party leader two weeks before being sworn sands of women are doing, but She said the tensions surroun- China at all,” she said, emphasi- last year, seven weeks before the in as the nation’s leader, it was a just in a very public way,” she ding North Korea were threate- zing the last two words. election. She was twice asked by moment of “pure shock” because said. “I’m conscious, though, ning regional security. She said her country was not television hosts about her plans she and partner Clarke Gayford of not perpetuating this view “We have spoken openly about beholden to China despite its eco- for children. had been told they would strug- that life’s easy. And that we just the need for there to be a de-es- nomic importance in buying New She responded that while she gle to conceive without fertility all need to get on with it, and calation,” she said. “Our huge Zealand’s milk exports. She said was happy to talk about her own treatment. that women can do absolutely opposition to the use of nuclear New Zealand should also keep plans, it was broadly an unaccep- Their first child is due in June, everything.” AP

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he Communist Party’s Tcandidate for president Presidential candidate shuns would seem to be an odd choice: He’s a millionaire and proud of it. He also openly re- jects the basic tenets of Com- Communist party dogma munism. Pavel Grudinin is the Rus- sian party’s first new nomi- directives, such as the 2014 nee in 14 years as it hopes to annexation of Crimea, while rejuvenate itself and broaden ap photo dissenting on minor issues, its appeal from its traditional which allows Putin to main- base of aging voters who are tain a facade of democracy. nostalgic for the old Soviet While running against Union. Yeltsin in 1996, Zyuganov Not that Grudinin — or any spooked Russia’s oligarchs other candidate — has much and foreign investors by pro- of a chance of unseating Pre- mising to re-nationalize the sident Vladimir Putin when strategic sectors of the eco- Russia votes on March 18. nomy while still allowing pri- The presence of Grudinin and vate property. Grudinin re- other official candidates are jects calls to ban private ow- largely viewed as a Kremlin nership of land — once a key ploy to boost voter participa- tenet of Communism. tion in an election that has a Unlike Russia’s oligar- foregone conclusion. chs who make headlines by A low presidential vote tur- buying foreign sports teams nout would be seen as an em- or giant yachts, Grudinin’s barrassment for the Kremlin. investments like those in the That’s why opposition lea- town of 5,000 people have der Alexei Navalny, who was made him a popular figure. leading a grassroots cam- Pavel Samoilov, who works paign for nearly a year before in a car repair shop, says he being formally barred from would love to work for Gru- running, has been urging his Coming from the steppes: The Communist Party’s candidate for the 2018 presidential election Pavel Grudinin (center) walks dinin but the jobs on the farm supporters to boycott the pre- with comrades in the Lenin state farm outside Moscow are hard to get. sidential election and dent its “People in the regions are legitimacy. selling land for shopping cen- futuristic building that looks dinin replies: “I wouldn’t say much worse off than what In contrast, Grudinin is ur- ters. like a sports arena but is ac- I’m running against Putin. I they say on television,” says ging voters to come to polls Corruption is rampant in tually a high-tech, 1.7 billion- stand for a different path for Samoilov, 33. He says he ad- and bring change through the the Moscow region, home ruble (USD30 million) school the country’s development.” mires Putin’s foreign policy political process. to some of Russia’s most ex- that the farm built for resi- Although openly critical of but says he has “allowed the The 57-year-old agricultural pensive real estate. Yet many dents. the current political order country to come to ruin.” college graduate runs what is international corporations “We spend this money in — saying that “people don’t Putin enjoys national appro- still known as the Lenin State doing business here refuse to line with socialist principles: trust the authorities” and that val ratings of over 80 percent. Farm, a sprawling collective pay officials under the table. We spend it on people,” he “corruption has taken the While Grudinin once was farm south of Moscow, the Grudinin views his deals says. upper hand” — Grudinin is polling second to Putin, he capital. with companies like the Swe- Grudinin boasts that he is careful not to blame it all on has since fallen to a tie with With his bushy mustache dish furniture giant IKEA as fighting corruption just like the man who has been leading perennial candidate Vladimir and salt-and-pepper hair, a badge of honor, citing it as opposition leader Navalny — Russia for the past 18 years. Zhirinovsky, who has run for Grudinin’s looks are often proof that he does not pay but “not only with words but Putin is just part of the sys- president six times. compared to those of a young bribes. also with deeds, by not paying tem, he says. Many of those who admire Josef Stalin. Grudinin worked bribes.” That line echoes the rhetoric Grudinin still do not see him on the farm in the mid-1980s While Grudinin refuses to of his predecessor, long-time as a leader. and was appointed its direc- The presence recognize Navalny as the only Communist Party chairman Maria, a 40-year-old mother tor a decade later. viable alternative to Putin, he Gennady Zyuganov, who has of two who wouldn’t give her While most of the collective of Grudinin is willing to appropriate some run in four presidential elec- last name, sounded ecstatic plots outside Moscow were [and others] of the opposition leader’s tions since 1996. about the well-equipped local sold off years ago to proper- agenda. Once a searing critic of school and kindergarten and ty developers, the Lenin State are viewed “We have too many bureau- President Boris Yeltsin, the likes Grudinin. But she won’t Farm evolved into a success- crats and no one is responsi- 73-year-old Zyuganov and vote for him. ful private business, growing as a Kremlin ble,” Grudinin said on state the Communists have been “We need to vote for Putin vegetables and raising lives- television. “If I tell the rich coopted by the Kremlin. The- because he is a strong lea- tock. Its signature product is ploy to boost ‘instead of buying yachts, se days, the Communists der,” she said. “This is Putin’s strawberries, accounting for a participation in you should pay a higher inco- support all crucial Kremlin place.” AP third of all of them produced me tax here, just like they do in Russia. an election that abroad,’ then maybe we will While metal or wooden replenish the budget and we strawberries adorn lamppos- has a foregone will modernize education and ap photo ts, fences and farm buildin- health care.” gs in the town, Grudinin’s conclusion Grudinin, who has decla- self- promoted image of a red 157 million rubles ($2.8 farmer is not the whole story. Grudinin owns 44 percent million) in income in the past He admits that his company of the farm and runs it with six years, is no political novi- over the years has made only 33 other shareholders. The ce. He sat on the local council a third to half of its income Communist-capitalist prides in the early 2000s and was a from agricultural production, himself on reinvesting the member of the ruling United which he blames on a lack of profits back into the business Russia Party until 2010. government subsidies and or creating housing, educa- In Putin’s first presidential low wages for consumers who tion and other benefits for the election in 2000, Grudinin cannot afford his organic community. was one of 100 proxies for produce. The small town that bears the him, representing or speaking In fact, the Lenin State Farm same name as the farm is do- on his behalf in the campaign. makes most of its money from minated by two Disneyland- Asked if it feels strange now Children play in the yard of a kindergarten in the Lenin state farm with the property deals, leasing and like castles with spires and a to run against Putin, Gru- Disneyland-like towers in the background fri 02.02.2018 th Anniversary

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een flyhalf Matthieu Rugby | Six Nations Jalibert and fullback Geoffrey Palis will make their test de- Tbuts in France’s Six Nations opener against Ireland to- Jalibert, Palis make debuts in morrow. France coach Jacques Brunel has named an experimental -looking side in his first ma- France team against Ireland tch in charge since replacing Guy Noves, who was fired Jonathan Davies, Dan Biggar, after failing to win any of the Liam Williams, Dan Lydiate - four matches in the November ap photo the Welsh selectors went with test series. known combinations in an Noves has also selected four effort to compensate for lack uncapped players among his of experience. Gatland hopes reserves, in what is likely to North and Williams will be be a stern test for a France available to play England next team in transition. week. The 19-year-old Jalibert will Scarlets have reached the play alongside scrumhalf Ma- European Champions Cup xime Machenaud, who will quarterfinals - the first Welsh make his 32nd test appearan- club in six years - and Gatland ce and will take the kicking has predictably leaned on duties at Stade de France. them to pick 10 starters and Although Brunel has picked two more in the reserves. an experienced front row, “It’s great that the Scarlets with captain Guilhem Guira- have made the quarterfinals do at hooker next to props Je- of Europe, we’ve got players fferson Poirot and Rabah Sli- coming in with confidence mani, lock Arthur Iturria will and self-belief,” Gatland said. start his first game in only his “Familiarity is important, it second test for France. fast-tracks us in terms of pre- Kevin Gourdon, who usually paration.” plays at flanker, moves to No. Making a timely return at 8 for the first time at interna- No. 8 was Ross Moriarty, who tional level. suffered nerve damage in his In the backs, Teddy Thomas back in the first match of the and Virimi Vakatawa start on Lions tour in New Zealand the wings with Henry Chavan- and didn’t play again until this cy will combine with Remi La- month. Plus, openside flanker merat at center. Josh Navidi and blindside Aa- France finished third last ron Shingler, who started to- year and Ireland was second Maxime Machenaud (left) Antoine Dupont (center) and Matthieu Jalibert run during a training session at the National Rugby gether three times in the au- behind England. Center in Marcoussis, south of Paris, yesterday tumn tests, were kept, leaving Also tomorrow, Wales plays Lions flanker Justin Tipuric against Scotland in Cardiff in ch Warren Gatland said this The rest of the Wales backli- of the more pragmatic Gare- in the reserves. the opening round. week. “We’ve been impressed ne all came from Scarlets, al- th Anscombe, who was in the “The No. 7 jersey was a big The regular starts and re- with him.” though the club could count reserves. Patchell, capped five debate,” Gatland said. “Na- gular scoring this season in Adams got his break becau- Adams, too. He went through times, will continue his club vidi was outstanding in the Britain earned the Worcester se George North and Hallam the Scarlets academy before combination with scrumhalf autumn and he deserves to Warriors’ Josh Adams a debut Amos were underdone. North, leaving for Worcester in 2015. Gareth Davies. retain that jersey. Having for Wales side. coming back from a left knee Cohesion was a tipping fac- With eight British Lions Tipuric on the bench, we “We have been watching injury, has been released back tor in picking Rhys Patchell out - North, Sam Warburton, know the quality he brings.” Josh closely,” Wales coa- to his Northampton club. as the starting flyhalf ahead Taulupe Faletau, Rhys Webb, MDT/AP

Football making a debut appearance The Australian challenge and with international stars will be headed by Sydney such as Belgian internatio- FC, which qualified for the Chinese clubs spend less but nal Axel Witsel, Alexandre competition by dominating Pato of Brazil and Fran- the 2016-17 A-League sea- ce’s Anthony Modeste, the son. The Sky Blues are in want more Asian success team has a chance with new first place so far this season. coach Paulo Sousa. Preparation for the wes- John Duerden, Kuala Lumpur 2018 Champions League sole representative, in Korea’s Ulsan Horangi. “It is great inspiration for tern half of the group stage title, however, to add to its Group G. “We know we have to im- Chinese football because has been overshadowed by hinese Super Lea- wins in 2013 and 2015. Only the top two from prove in the group,” Oscar there will be a new Chi- the blockade of Qatar, ins- Cgue clubs may have “The club has a proud re- each of the eight groups of said after Shanghai de- nese team playing in the tigated by four countries in reined in the massive spen- cord in Asia,” said coach four, which are split into feated Changrai United of Asian Champions League,” the region in June 2017. ding that made headlines Fabio Cannavaro after re- two geographic zones in the Thailand in a Jan. 30 playo- said Sousa, who succeeded On Jan. 26, the Asian in recent years in the 2018 placing Luiz Felipe Scolari east and west of the conti- ff to move into the group Cannavaro as head coach Football Confederation ins- winter transfer window, as head coach of the team nent, progress to the kno- stage. “We will be playing in December. “We have the tructed teams from Saudi but the country’s leading that has won the last se- ckout stage. against some of the best in faith to continue our jour- Arabia and the United Arab clubs still have ambitions to ven Chinese Super League Shanghai SIPG made the Asia, but we have experien- ney successfully, to overco- Emirates, two countries win the 2018 Asian Cham- titles. “We know that it will semifinal in 2017 and then ce in the tournament now me every opponent and go involved in the blockade, pions League that begins not be easy but are looking saw boss Andre Villas-Boas and that will help us.” further.” to play Qatari opposition Feb. 12. forward to testing oursel- depart in November. Star Shanghai also faces Tianjin will face Jeonbuk home and away and not, Guangzhou Evergrande ves against the best teams players Oscar and Hulk, Kawasaki Frontale. The Ja- Motors. South Korea’s No. as requested, at neutral ve- has refrained from making in Asia.” both signed in 2016 at panese champions are the 1 cub won the 2016 tourna- nues. an expensive signing from Guangzhou will take on a combined cost of over country’s biggest hope after ment but was barred from West Asian teams have Europe, reiterating its tar- Cerezo Osaka of Japan, USD100 million, remain. Urawa Reds, Asian Cham- defending its title last year won just one Champions get to field an all-Chinese South Korea’s Jeju Uni- Both will be key in a group pions last year, failed to after a club scout was found League title since 2005, team by 2020. It is still a ted and Buriram United of containing Melbourne Vic- qualify for the 2018 edition. guilty of bribing referees in with the eastern half of the realistic contender for the Thailand, Southeast Asia’s tory of Australia and South Tianjin Quanjian is the K-League in 2013. continent dominating. AP THE EU nationals won’t get same rights Station Air quality BUZZ after Brexit Roadside 65-95 Moderate Prime Minister Theresa May says European diate period but I’m clear there’s a difference Union nationals who come to Britain during a between those people who came prior to us lea- High transition period after the country leaves the ving and those who will come when they know Density 60-80 bloc should not have the same rights to remain the U.K. is no longer a member of the EU,” she Residental as those who come earlier. said. Moderate Speaking to reporters on a trip to China, May Britain and the bloc have agreed in principle Area opinion said she will fight proposals to give EU nationals to a period of about two years after March 29 full residency rights if they arrive after Britain during which the U.K. will follow EU rules but Ambient 65-95 leaves the EU in March 2019. without having a seat at the decision-making Moderate source: dsmg source: Kapok “This is a matter for negotiation for the imme- table. Eric Sautede WORLD BRIEFS p in smoke U Pope’s briefing system under India-Nepal India’s foreign minister arrived Back in October 2014, it was announced that in Nepal yesterday, days in order to comply with the Environmental Pro- before an alliance of tection Planning of Macao (2010-2020) and the scrutiny after Chile gaffe Communist parties with Transport Policy of Macao (2010-2020), both of strong connections to which had been designed at a time when “sunshi- China takes power in the ne government” and “scientific policy-making” Himalayan nation. were the new-speak of a not-so-promising newly ap photo selected Chief Executive, a scheme to phase out highly-polluting vehicles would be put in place.

The decade-long Environmental Protection plan ap photo had rather limited ambitions, as the promise “to control the number of motor vehicles properly and continue to eliminate the high-pollutant emitting vehicles” were seen as “long-term” goals, only to be reached by 2016-2020. Thus, one could argue that the decision to eliminate from our roads hi- Russia The Communist ghly-polluting vehicles was two years early, and Party’s candidate for moreover grounded on very solid data: according president would seem to to a study released by the Environmental Pro- be an odd choice: He’s tection Bureau at the time, “two-stroke motorcy- a millionaire and proud cles and older diesel vehicles aged 10 years and of it. He also openly more” were the biggest culprits. rejects the basic tenets It was estimated that if two-stroke motorcycles of Communism. Pavel made only 5% of the total number of vehicles Grudinin is the Russian on the road, they were responsible for 22% of party’s first new nominee all hydrocarbon emissions! And if diesel vehicles in 14 years as it hopes aged 10 years and more barely represented 1% to rejuvenate itself and of the total, yet their emission of fine particulates ust how well informed plete agreement with his se- arranges his own visitors’ broaden its appeal from (PM2.5) accounted for 40% of the total! The cal- Jis Pope Francis about the cretary of state on the topic. schedule, often without the its traditional base of culation was that by phasing out at least 50% of goings-on in his 1.2-billion “It is therefore surprising knowledge of the Vatican’s aging voters who are these highly polluting vehicles all types of emis- strong Catholic Church? and regrettable that the con- protocol office. He neither nostalgic for the old sions would be reduced by 6 to 20%. Soviet Union. More on p14 The scheme to phase out highly-polluting mo- That question is making trary is affirmed by people watches TV nor browses the torcycles was ultimately announced in June the rounds after the pope in the church, thus fostering internet but reads the Rome 2017, and owners willing to take their nefarious seemed completely unaware confusion and controversy,” daily Il Messaggero and a se- engines to the test for proper disposal were of the details of a Chilean sex said Vatican spokesman lection of press clippings for ap photo promised a MOP3,500 subsidy. It was announ- abuse scandal, a failing that Greg Burke. his non-Vatican news. ced this week that exactly 5,457 dirty-smoking soured his recent trip the- Francis lives at the Vati- Some of his information two-wheelers had been scrapped and that this re and forced him to do an can’s Santa Marta hotel ra- arrives in person, some of amounted to a whooping “slaughtering rate” about-face. It also came up ther than the Apostolic Pala- it on paper, left for him in a of 52%, that would translate into a staggering after his abrupt, no-explana- ce, where he can more easily red leather-bound folder at reduction in emissions of between 2% to 11%. tion dismissal of a respected keep his door open at all the Santa Marta front desk, Poland’s Foreign All seems to be going according to plan then — Ministry says new long-term included — except that two questions Vatican bank manager. hours, and where a network brought upstairs by a Swiss And it rose to the fore when of friends, informants and Guard and handed over to legislation to regulate remain: where are the other 48% (that is more Holocaust speech is he was accused by a cardinal advisers provide back chan- one of the pope’s two private than 5,000 motorcycles) and what about the die- intended to “fight all sel-powered older trucks? Where is the scheme of not realizing that his own nels of information to him. secretaries. forms of denying and to phase these out and when is it going to bear diplomats were “selling out” Francis has two main ga- distorting the truth fruits? Is 2020 still the goal? By my calculation, the underground Catholic tekeepers, Monsignor Yoan- about the Holocaust we are still missing 75% of the promise made in Church in China for the sake The Vatican nis Lahzi Gaid, an Egyptian as well as belittling 2010… of political expediency. Copt who used to work in the the responsibility of its If one now turns to the total number of vehicles Some Vatican observers issued a Vatican’s secretariat of state, actual perpetrators.” on the road, there is no doubt that the 2015 tax now wonder if Francis is get- and Monsignor Fabian Pe- hike on newly registered vehicles (going from remarkable ting enough of the high-qua- dacchio, an Argentine priest France’s national 30%-50% to 40%-72% depending on the size rail operator has and price of the car) decided by the government lity briefings one needs to be defense who Francis, when he was a world leader, or whether archbishop of Buenos Aires, been convicted of has had significant effects, despite the nay- of Francis’ discrimination against sayers at the time, among which Zheng Anting Francis is relying more on dispatched to Rome in 2007. more than 800 Moroccan and Angela Leong were the most vocal in the his own instincts and infor- information He also has the prefect of employees throughout Assembly. Between 2000 and 2013, the number mants who slip him unoffi- the papal household, Mon- their career. The SNCF of private vehicles doubled, reaching more than cial information on the side. flow and signor Georg Gaenswein, had been sentenced 100,000. Up to 2015, it was still climbing by 5% In his five years as pope, who arranges official au- to pay more than on a yearly basis, reaching an all-time high of Francis has created an in- his grasp of diences and decides who 170 million euros in 112,794 light automobiles in January 2016: as formal, parallel information gets to greet the pope after compensation. of November 2017, the total number of light au- structure that often rubs up the delicate his weekly Wednesday gene- tomobiles stood at 107,126, thus a reduction of Spain Lawyers 5%. An increase in tax coupled with measures against official Vatican chan- ral audience. nels. That includes a papal China dossier Sometimes popes suffer representing three jailed to restrict parking spaces and punish illegal sta- Catalan separatists have kitchen cabinet of nine car- when their gatekeepers fail tioning have clearly been successful, and could lodged a case with the have been even more so if the whole network of dinal advisers who meet “The problem is he’s the them: Pope Benedict XVI United Nations Working public transportation had in parallel been entirely every three months at the victim of the Santa Marta famously lifted the excom- Group on Arbitrary revamped and rationalized. Vatican and have the pope’s syndrome,” said Massimo munication of a Holocaust- Detention over their Yet, some figures do not add up: there were ear, plus the regular briefin- Franco, columnist for the denying bishop, unaware “unlawful” imprisonment. only 128 electric automobiles registered in Ma- gs he receives from top Vati- Italian daily Corriere della that a simple Google search cao by November 2017, whereas there were can brass. Sera. “The pope wanted to would have turned up the Cuba A flight from 10,649 such vehicles in Hong Kong by the same The Vatican this week is- live there because he didn’t bishop’s belief that the Nazi Moscow to Cuba was month. In Macao, electric cars should be a must sued a remarkable defense want any filter from the se- gas chambers were a myth. diverted to New Jersey given the average length of travel per day and after the plane suddenly the overall network of roadways (only 324.1km), of Francis’ information flow cretary of state. But the other But more than his imme- and his grasp of the delica- side of the coin is that he’s diate predecessor Bene- became low on fuel. The and yet they only make up 0.1% of private cars airline, Azur Air, was versus 1.8% in the other SAR. “To promote and te China dossier. The Holy condemned to receive quite dict, Francis still relies on a taking 294 passengers encourage the development and application of See press office insisted that casual information, and not close circle of friends from and 14 crew members renewable energies” was indeed also among the Francis followed the China always very accurate.” his days in Argentina and to Havana when it had long-term goals of the Environmental Protection negotiations closely, was At Santa Marta, the pope as a high-ranking Jesuit to to make an emergency Planning of 2010… being “faithfully” briefed by sets his own agenda, makes give him the pulse of what’s landing for refueling. his advisers and was in com- his own phone calls and going on. AP