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POLITICAL REFORM THE TRANSASIA TO SHUT DOWN HENGQIN , : SKELETON IN THE CLOSET AFTER SUFFERING LOSSES MORE Political reform was, perhaps The company is at the center of LAND MADE inadvertently, the issue that air-safety investigations for the AVAILABLE dominated Sonia Chan’s disasters in 2014 and 2015 that TO MACAU presentation yesterday at the AL killed a combined 91 passengers P2 P3 POLICY ADDRESS P9 WED.23 Nov 2016 T. 15º/ 22º C H. 80/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2690 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS GAMBLING CRACKDOWN AP PHOTO China formally JAPAN’s Meteorological Agency says the P7 earthquake that struck yesterday arrests Crown staff off Fukushima was an aftershock of the massive 2011 quake. Northeastern Japan was jolted by a magnitude-7.4 AP PHOTO earthquake. “But nothing fell from the shelves.” More on p12 HONG KONG Police launched yesterday a citywide hunt for a gang of robbers after they escaped with 81 gold bars worth about HKD22.68 million “in a 20-second daylight hold- up yesterday,” SCMP reported. Another 177 gold bars worth about 50 million were left at the crime scene in Fanling. The robbers struck on a street when a man was unloading bags of gold bars from a delivery van onto a trolley. It’s the biggest bullion heist in five years. AP PHOTO HONG KONG The Walt Disney Co. and Hong Kong are launching a USD1.4 billion expansion of the southern Chinese city’s Disneyland resort that includes the company’s first themed areas based on the movie “Frozen” and Marvel superhero characters. More on p11 CHINA A top executive at German automaker Daimler’s China operation is fired after being accused of yelling insults about Chinese people and using pepper spray in Chinese-made USD100 billion city a dispute over a parking spot. More on p11 P10 More on backpage near Singapore ‘scares everybody’ 23.11.2016 wed th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Bridge to reclaimed land estimated to cost MOP305m Hengqin’s director says China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been assigned more land could be the contract to build a bridge connecting the new reclamation project, known as the Macau New Urban Zones (Zone A), to the Macau made available to Macau Peninsula. The local government chose CHEC, according to a notice gqin, but should be concerned signed by the Chief Executive and Julie Zhu about spending enough time published in the government’s Official Gazette. The company will HE director-general of the thinking about its projects. be paid MOP305 million for the THengqin New Area Admi- “Everyone should spend project, with the final installment to nistrative Committee, Niu more time thinking about how be settled in 2018. According to the Jing, pledges that the park to make their projects run Transportation Infrastructure Office, is not the only place Zhuhai well, instead of thinking whe- the bridge will be approximately 400 has prepared within the sco- ther the land is still there. The meters long with six traffic lanes. It pe of Guangdong-Macau coo- lands will be there, for sure,” will connect the north of Zone A to peration. Niu Jing disclosed guaranteed Niu. the Rotunda de Amizade. this information during yes- According to Niu, until the terday’s Guangdong-Macau end of October of this year, Casino staff Industrial Cooperation Park 669 out of the 25,235 regis- meeting of 2016. tered enterprises in Hengqin represent one-third “I have been saying that for are Macau companies, repre- of problematic years, that regarding Heng- senting an increase of 102.11 qin’s lands, besides the park percent year on year. gamblers there are other lands prepa- Another aspect revealed to red for Macau’s projects,” said the media by the Hengqin The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Niu. head concerns the topic of says that 33 percent of problematic Sixteen of the first 33 invest- Macau’s single-plated car en- gamblers who seek help from the Niu Jing ment projects of the Macau tering Hengqin. Niu stated, IAS are employed within the gaming government, in 2014, with the park, which belong to Ma- “of course,” when asked whe- industry. IAS has reported that cau. The director-general said ther the policy will be annou- each year there are approximately respect to Hengqin, specifi- cally in the Guangdong-Ma- that the Hengqin government nced this year. 130 to 150 cases concerning casino “The Prime Minister has employees. No notable increase cau Industrial Cooperation authority is currently holding If Macau’s already confirmed. We are has been registered in this year. In Park, have already been as- discussions on several projec- projects need all compelling [him] to push the first half of 2016, there were signed lands in the Hengqin ts which will be located outsi- forward the work,” said Niu. approximately 780 recorded cases area. In fact, 12 of them have de the park. big pieces of of gamblers asking assistance already initiated construction “As long as the projects are On November 17, Guang- from IAS. These people are mainly works, and are expected to be good, and as long as they can land, we will dong’s Party Standing Com- aged between 40 and 70 years old. completed in two years. have the effect of pushing mittee organized a meeting to Problematic teenage gamblers Currently, there are five forward the diversification supply them. discuss the topic. normally prefer to seek help from square kilometers of land in of Macau’s industry, we are “We are closely discussing it their friends and families, which Hengqin which are specifically willing to provide land and re- NIU JING with the Macau government. means that gambling addiction cases prepared for the park to ope- sources,” said Niu. We must fulfill Prime Minister within the youth population are less rate projects jointly organized Niu also said that Hengqin is pieces of land, we will supply Li Keqiang’s promise made in commonly registered. by Macau and by Guangdong looking for high-end projects, them,” said Niu. Macau,” said Niu. Province. considering that such projects The director-general also Currently, both governments Grade repetition Niu said that there are com- can “save the land and be res- voiced his opinion that Ma- are working on the last stage mercial buildings already bui- ponsible to Macau.” cau does not need to worry of the projects, according to below fourth grade lt in Hengqin, not located in “If Macau’s projects need big about having no lands in Hen- Niu. discarded The latest recommendation on the metric to evaluate Macau’s students’ IPM to organize conference on higher education performance has suggested removing grade repetition for students in HE conference titled ‘The New Fron- ning quality assurance systems, deep year levels below the fourth grade Ttiers of Teaching and Learning Qua- learning, outcome-based approach to of primary school. According to the lity Assurance in Higher Education,” or- teaching and learning, student evalua- Education and Youth Affairs Bureau ganized by Macao Polytechnic Institute tion of teachers (SET) and teacher self- (DSEJ), the draft states that unless the (IPM) and co-organized by the Asia-Paci- evaluation (TSE), voice of students to student’s parents apply for the child fic Quality Network (APQN), will be held enhance teaching effectiveness and such. to repeat a grade, the school can not require students to do so. The draft at the institute today and tomorrow. According to the institute’s statement, also points out that the repetition rate This two-day conference will consist of the event is intended to be a platform must be below 4 percent in fifth and presentations of more than 20 papers for participants to learn about the latest sixth grades of primary schools, and by academics and experts coming from trends of international quality assurance must not exceed 8 percent in middle countries and regions such as the U.K., and best practices of international insti- school. In primary school, fifth and Portugal, Australia, Japan, India, Sri tutions, thereby promoting the advance- sixth grade students would now be Lanka, mainland China, Hong Kong and ment of the quality of higher education in dustry experts. allowed to move to sixth grade and to Macau. the territory. The conference opening and keynote graduate respectively if they fail only The conference themes include: theo- The conference will also feature a num- sessions will commence at 2.30 p.m. to- one subject. ries and practices of teaching and lear- ber of parallel sessions and a talk by in- day in IPM’s Wui Chi Building. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] DESIGN EDITOR_João Jorge Magalhães [email protected] | NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_ SECRETARY Denise Lo [email protected] PER MONTH Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, Irene Sam, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. Cheong, ADDRESS Av. da Praia Grande, 599, Edif. 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