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P5 More on backpage collects 1st gold medal for Macau 22.08.2018 wed 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Football bettors URBAN RENEWAL tend to be younger Gov’t launches public From the beginning of this year until consultation on plan for now, the Social Affairs Bureau (IAS) received 11 football betting partici- pants looking for assistance from the bureau. The number represents temporary housing a slight increase year-on-year, and it also represents 10 percent of the total number of people who sought is now in public consultation.” Although help from IAS due to a gambling di- he admitted, “the owners might not have sorder. IAS says that it will analyze financial capacity to acquire a new hou- the relationship between the increase sing with the [amount granted] by the and this year’s World Cup once the compensation.” department has the statistics for third On the topic, the Land, Public Works quarter. The gamblers tend to be you- and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) director nger, and are between the ages of 30 Li Canfeng hinted that more than simply and 39. Some are part-time students. removing whole buildings, what is more likely to happen is the reduction of the li- ving areas of some buildings following the restoration or rebuilding works. Accor- ding to Li, “the rebuilt [houses] can suffer Doctor wants a reduction in 20 to 30 percent in terms of size; this is a normal thing.” regulation on Questioned by the media on which land plots the government would consider for building these temporary lodging hou- Lao Pun Lap Lao Pun Lap medical aesthetical ses or trade housing units for the project of Urban Renewal, Li noted that for the devices Renato Marques housing buildings and continue to live time being, the only land plot available in them, and “If they can go back to the which met the conditions is the former The president of the Plastic Surgery HE government, through its Po- original place that would be the ideal,” “Pearl Horizon” development. He added, Division of the Macau Surgical Asso- Tlicy Research Office, has officially he noted while remarking that in some “in the future we will claim back more ciation, Io Shun, wants the govern- launched from today and for a period cases that might not be possible due to [land plots] and there will be some land ment to regulate matters concerning of 30 days, a public consultation on “matters of public interest.” plots that we can consider.” devices for medical aesthetics. Accor- the “Juridical Regime of the tempo- These matters of public interest would Lam added also that the houses to ding to Io, in recent years, medical rary housing and trade housing units be land plots that might be targeted with practitioners administering unqua- regarding Urban Renewal.” The legal government projects to add value to the lified drugs to patients have been framework will be used to implement city, such as the creation of new or wi- reported frequently. However, Io said the government projects for the re- dening of streets and roads, or the esta- that the medical practitioners nor- newal of old neighborhoods. blishment of social equipment or public The amount of the mally don’t know that the drugs are The interdepartmental group responsi- services. spurious products, and the patients ble for its creation presented the public In such instances, the government pro- compensation to can only notice problems five years consultation document yesterday in a poses two options: the payment of com- pay to the owner later. Io also highlighted that medical press conference held at the Policy Re- pensation to the owners who would use aesthetics is not an independent sub- search Office in Taipa. the money to find a new home in another will be calculated ject in Macau. The document presents two different building or another area of the city; or a methods on how residents can make use trade-off, in which they would, instead, according to the of the plan for the reconstruction of the acquire one of the public housing units old buildings (over 30 years old), and built by the government which would market value of the Gov’t to hold 96 also establishes rules that will allow the become privately owned units under this unit. buyers of the “Pearl Horizon” develop- instance. LAM CHI LONG percent of LRT ment in Areia Preta to acquire some of The document raised many questions, the housing units that the government most of them unanswered despite the be built by the government will have company shares plans to build on the very same land plot. presence of several government officials different rules from “normal” public Although the document is one of signi- from different bureaus. They justified housing in terms of the possibility ficant relevance for the implementation their silence, saying that “such details of trade, sale and rentals, Lam also The Macau SAR government will con- of the Urban Renewal project, in fact it should be a matter to be addressed by added the government “admits to gi- trol 96 percent of the city’s Light Rapid does not present many concrete measu- the legal regime or urban renewal,” in the ving some benefits and will not follow Transit company’s shares. The LRT res, being mostly a general draft of the words of Lam Chi Long, assistant com- strictly the market criteria” as well as public company will be set up before scope of the government’s intentions. missioner for the Commission Against “the criteria for decoration will also the LRT operation starts and will have The office coordinator, Lao Pun Lap, Corruption (CCAC). be different when compared to the three shareholders: the Macau SAR go- during the presentation of the public Questioned also about the expropria- public housing units built.” vernment, the Industrial and Commer- consultation document, said that the do- tion of the land plots for reasons of public As a final note, addressing the topic cial Development Fund (three percent cument aims to establish “a balance be- interest, Lam replied, “The amount of the of whether the government was estab- share) and the Science and Technology tween the public interest and the rights compensation to pay to the owner will be lishing a criteria of preference for Pearl Development Fund (one percent sha- of the private owners” in the process of calculated according to the market value Horizon buyers, Lao added, “It’s not a re). The city’s law requires a company “revitalizing the old neighborhoods.” of the unit,” noting once more that de- preferential regime for Pearl Horizon, we to have a minimum of three sharehol- As Lao said also in reply to the media’s tails regarding the procedures of com- are just creating the legal basis including ders. The two funds were selected be- questions, the government hopes that pensation or rehousing would, again, the case [of Pearl Horizon] and other si- cause the field that they are involved in in the large majority of cases, the owner “be addressed by the legal regime of the milar developments that might occur in relate to the LRT operation. can proceed with the renewal of their urban renewal and not by this one, that the future.” www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Grace Yu, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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