FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo FRIDAY T. 21º/ 23º Air Quality Bad MOP 8.00 3754 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 16 Apr 2021 HKD 10.00 THE GOVERNMENT’S REVENUE DENIS MURREL AUTHORITIES HAVE DETAINED THREE IN THE FIRST QUARTER STOOD AT PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF MONEY MOP12.76 BILLION, FAR LESS THAN THE SHOWCASES ARTWORKS LAUNDERING AMOUNTING TO HKD8.67 MOP20.70 BILLION RECORDED LAST YEAR AT REALTY AGENCY MILLION WITH LINKS TO AUSTRALIA P5 P2 P4 AP PHOTO North Korea Mask- wearing people danced in a plaza or climbed a Pyongyang hill yesterday to mark the 109th birthday of the country’s founder amid pandemic fears and economic woes. April JUST INThe National TIME Security Education 15, called “The Day of the Sun” in North Korea, Exhibition rolled out at an ‘opportune is the most important public holiday. No major time’ with Ho Iat Seng pledging events like a military parade were expected this year as North Korea to double down on strengthening typically stages them for anniversaries that end in national security, while Wong Sio Chak zero and five. hints at plans to enhance legislation P3 AP PHOTO India’s two largest cities imposed stringent restrictions on movement and one planned to use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 yesterday amid a devastating surge that is straining a fragile health system. New Delhi announced stay-at-home orders for the weekend, though essential workers will be able to move about if they have a pass from local authorities. Restaurants, malls, gyms and spas will be shut down. AP PHOTO Australia will complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in September in line with the United States and other allies, the prime minister said yesterday. Australia’s contribution to the BLOOMBERG HONG KONG NATO-led mission had COVID-19 once exceeded 15,000 personnel, but only 80 Schools remain. “In line with Import of the United States and devote a day other allies and partners, AstraZeneca the last remaining Australian troops will to China’s depart Afghanistan vaccines in September,” Prime national Minister Scott Morrison suspended said. security More on backpage P3 P6-7 page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 16.04.2021 fri MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER COVID-19 Denis Murrel showcases No artworks at realty agency pregnant women ANTHONY LAM ACAU-BASED artist taking MDenis Murrell show- LAM ANTHONY vaccine in cased his artworks in his first commercial exhibition Macau: SSM at realty agency Ambiente’s main office. The exhibition was part of HONEY TSANG a series called Art@Ambiente. As explained by the firm’s ma- IRECTOR of the Health naging director, Suzanne Wa- DBureau (SSM) Alvis Lo con- tkinson, this move highlights firmed yesterday that no preg- and consolidates the firm’s nant women have received Co- position as its client’s lifestyle vid-19 vaccines in Macau. solution. Lo’s remarks came after an Although she admitted announcement from Hong that realty operations are the Kong’s Department of Health firm’s “bread and butter”, it is on April 14 reporting two cases crucial to stress that it is not of miscarriages after receiving all about leasing and buying. BioNTech vaccines. There are other ways in which As of now, there is no scienti- a realty firm should show its fic evidence to prove that recei- colors. ving the Covid-19 vaccine will Murrell, an Australian na- heighten the risk of miscarriage, tive who moved to Macau in Lo said, adding that every medi- 1989, has gained an enthu- cal event has a certain probabi- siastic following of studen- lity of occurring. ts, friends, art collectors and He said that the Covid-19 vac- general admirers of his art cines have been proven to have since his move to Macau. His no adverse impacts on animal paintings have been exhibited foetuses; however, data is still in Macau and overseas and lacking regarding any potential can be found in many public impact on the human fetus. and private collections. The “We have to be objective; to techniques of his particular consider and analyze any medi- style of painting make use of cal events, including miscarria- acrylic and other water-based ges, after inoculations,” he said. pigments, Chinese ink and all Different countries and ci- types of absorbent tissue. ties have different guidelines Describing the exhibition, as to whether pregnant women he said it was unique: since should receive the vaccinations previously, he only held exhi- or not. For relatively high-risk bitions with schools and mu- places, pregnant women are seums, among others. Doing a usually suggested to take the session at a commercial entity jabs, he added. is a first for him. “However, considering the In the city’s artistic lands- [stable] pandemic situation in cape, “there has been a lot of Macau, we do not include preg- training going on since the nant women within our target handover,” he recalled. He vaccination groups, and do not pointed out that there are a lot provide inoculation for them of programs and institutions for safety purposes,” Lo stres- training young artists, but the sed. city’s small size has left them If a pregnancy is discovered lesser chances of holding lar- after receiving the first dose of ger-scale exhibitions. at home, they may not have menting on the issue. “You for Western painting in the vaccine, Lo said that while no Furthermore, artists in Ma- enough space. They may need need to keep it up [to] get Second Macau Biennial Art special medical treatment is cau are usually part-timers, to take into account the fee- good work out of it.” Exhibition in 1995. In Novem- needed, it was suggested that meaning that they have to do lings of family members, or Macau has the resources to ber 2012, the Macau Museum the individuals do not proceed art on the side of their regular the responsibility of taking train good artists, he conclu- of Art held an exhibition of with the second dose. or main working hours. “Even care of children. ded, but the problem is that over 20 works that Murrell Currently, the SSM prohibits me, I do some part-time tea- He stressed that there is there is not enough space for had donated over the years to pregnant women in Macau from ching,” Murrell admitted. no such thing as a “weekend creating and exhibiting arts. the museum’s collection, as receiving Covid-19 vaccines. Moreover, even when stu- painter” if an individual wan- In that case, he said, “[artists] well as those that had come Lo calls on residents to pay dents have the energy or de- ts to be an artist. “The wheels won’t improve or develop.” into the museum’s possession more heed to their health status dication to continue painting get rusty,” Murrell said, com- Murrell won the first prize in other ways. prior to vaccination. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION ASSISTANT EDITOR_Lynzy Valles SENIOR WRITER_Honey Tsang CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Leanda Lee, Severo Portela, Sheyla Zandonai ADMINISTRATOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Anthony Lam, Emilie Tran, Irene OFFICE MANAGER Juliana Cheang [email protected] REACHING OUT! Sam, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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It serves as Tpended the import of AstraZe- neca Covid-19 vaccines from the a platform to bolster public manufacturer, which were originally awareness of national se- slated to arrive in Macau in the third curity and promote the no- quarter of 2021, director of the Heal- tion of patriotism in Macau, th Bureau (SSM) Alvis Lo revealed Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat yesterday. Seng stated in the opening The government’s decision came ceremony. after a series of cases were reported In Ho’s opening speech, in other countries, in which patients he stressed that the exhibi- were diagnosed with a rare yet se- tion has been rolled out at rious blood-clotting disorder after an opportune time, as 2021 receiving the AstraZeneca vaccina- marks the 100th anniversary tion. of the founding of the Com- “Currently, Macau has a suffi- munist Party of China. It is cient amount of vaccines to provide also the first year of the 14th inoculations for the city’s residents. Five-Year Plan, which was As a result, the city does not have a approved at the National “resolutely oppose any ex- Committee of the 12th Na- Hong Kong’s government pressing need to bring in AstraZene- People’s Congress during the ternal forces interfering with tional People’s Congress also held a symposium yes- ca vaccines at this stage” Lo told the annual Two Sessions in Mar- Macau’s affairs”, Ho empha- approved the National Se- terday to commemorate the press after the opening ceremony ch and sets out the nation’s sized.