FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MONDAY T. 25º/ 29º Air Quality Good MOP 8.00 3782 “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” N.º 31 May 2021 HKD 10.00 MACAU’S GDP DROPPED BY 0.9% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN REAL TERMS IN THE FIRST VIETNAM DISCOVERS NEW CORONAVIRUS VARIANT THAT’S QUARTER OF 2021, A MILDER CONTRACTION COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS QUARTER A HYBRID OF STRAINS FIRST FOUND IN INDIA AND THE UK P3 P8 AP PHOTO Philippines has demanded RETRIAL AGAINST CHANG that China withdraw its ships and fishing vessels from the vicinity of a Philippine- occupied island in the Former IPIM South China Sea, where president Jackson the Chinese military has asserted its sovereignty Chang is slated and vowed to “unswervingly safeguard” the disputed to be tried again territory. The exchange for the crimes of of protests by the Asian neighbors over the island, corruption, money internationally called Thitu, is the latest flareup in a long laundering and simmering territorial feud in the strategic waterway that abuse of power, has escalated in the last two the TSI ruled - months. following an appeal lodged AP PHOTO by the Public Prosecutions Office Indonesia A large ferry six months ago with nearly 200 people on P2 board caught fire while traveling to a remote island in northeastern Indonesia, forcing passengers and crew to jump into the sea but causing no casualties, officials said. The KM Karya Indah was in the Molucca Sea heading for Sanana, a port on the island of Limafatola, when the fire broke out at around 7 a.m. yesterday, said Wisnu Wardana, a spokesperson for the sea transportation directorate general. The blaze began 15 minutes after the vessel had departed Ternate, the provincial capital of North Maluku province. AP PHOTO RENATO MARQUES RENATO Indonesian authorities said Saturday that two oil tankers — the Iranian- flagged MT Horse and COVID-19 VALLES LYNZY Local Panamanian-flagged MT Freya — were released after biologist a four-month detention Time to for illegally transferring oil in one of Indonesian waters. The two this year’s ships were freed on Friday, double and their captains were 15 National allowed to leave despite down on being sentenced Tuesday Geographic to a year in prison for not complying with shipping prevention Emerging channel regulations. Explorers measures P2 More on backpage P4 page 2 www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU 澳門 31.05.2021 mon MACAU’S LEADING NEWSPAPER The TSI, meanwhile, rejected the appeal of IPIM’s Residency Former IPIM chief Jackson Application and Legal Affairs Division chief, Miguel Ian Iat Chun – who had been found Chang to be tried again guilty of secrecy breaches and LYNZY VALLES -ranking public official, along forging documents related to a with his wife and daughter. residence application. ORMER president of the However, in the October ver- He was sentenced to four FMacau Trade and Invest- dict, the former high-ranking years in jail. ment Promotion Institute, official was not convicted of Also, in this case, eight de- Jackson Chang, will be tried bribery, but was found guilty fendants were found guilty. again for the crimes of corrup- of leaking confidential infor- Other convicted felons were tion, money laundering and mation to third parties. also given sentences of va- abuse of power, according to Chang was not indicted on rious years of imprisonment TDM Radio. four counts of receiving bri- in October. This comes after the Public bery, though he was convicted Last week, IPIM announ- Prosecutions Office (MP) lo- of leaking confidential infor- ced that it will conduct revi- dged an appeal in November mation. Chang was also found sions to permanent residen- against the sentence acquit- guilty of inaccurately declaring cy approvals of several cases, ting Chang of bribery charges. his wealth. following the graft buster’s Accordingly, the Court of Meanwhile, TSI fully upheld recent report that a busi- Second Instance (TSI) has ru- the appeal filed by Gloria Ba- nessman is suspected of for- led that Chang would be tried talha Ung, acquitting the IPIM ging documents to support again at the first instance. executive director of the three applications for a Macau ID. In October, the Court of crimes of violation of secrecy The IPIM pledged that it will First Instance (TJB) senten- Jackson Chang and one of abuse of power, and “strictly comply with the law ced Chang to two years behind cancelling the sentence of one in the performance of its own bars. corruption, money launde- after he was placed in custody. year and nine months in jail – functions and, in addition, to He was officially charged ring and breach of secrecy in The MP has filed char- a sentence upheld by the first continuously inspect and re- for several crimes, including January last year– six months ges against the former high- instance. view [applications].” Biologist who discovered DSSOPT promises Conditional Macau tiny ant named Permit no longer operational Nat Geo Emerging Explorer SSUANCE of Conditional OCALLY born and IPermit to applicants for te- Lraised biologist chnical registration is no lon- Danny Leong Chi Man ger happening, Chan Pou Ha, has recently be named VALLES LYNZY Land, Transport and Public one of this year’s 15 Works Bureau (DSSOPT), has AGENCY PHOTO MACAU National Geographic said in response to the accusa- Emerging Explorers, tion made by the Commission and is also the only Against Corruption (CCAC). Asian person this year to In the recent CCAC An- attain the title. nual Report, the counter-cor- His studies focus on ruption entity lambasted the the biodiversity that DSSOPT for issuing Condi- process their registrations or se does not solely rely on the exists alongside human tional Permits, which should get them renewed. applicant. Therefore, the Con- beings and the impact not have happened after the However, the CCAC disco- ditional Permit was issued. of urbanization on wil- enactment of the Qualifica- vered that the DSSOPT issued The CCAC added that the dlife and ecosystems. tion System for the Urban Conditional Permit to those DSSOPT has taken on the for- One of his important Danny Leong Construction and Planning who should have attended the mer’s opinion, promising that achievements is the dis- Aspects. special training course. there will be no more of this covery of the Macau tiny nal Geographic Society tific research. For ins- According to the system, In defend, the DSSOPT has type of permit. All those who ant in the city. said on its website. tance, this year’s awar- holders of legally-recognized said that there were various have been issued with the Apart from his role On his social media dees include a polar degrees who have registe- conditions affecting whether Conditional Permit are now as a scientist, he is also page, Leong described conservationist, a wil- red with the DSSOPT or have an applicant can finish the fully trained and issued with a an environmental edu- being “excited” when he dlife photographer and practiced in the aspects by special training course. Fur- full Permit. cator and advocate. came across the news filmmaker, a culinary January 5, 2015 could enjoy a thermore, some technicians The CCAC has also ques- “He is passionate about about his title. “[I’m] historian, and more. waiver of professional exami- said that they could not meet tioned why only the latest fostering empathy for thrilled to join the global “We identify, invest nations under certain condi- the registration deadline even six livestreams of the Urban animals and promo- community of National in, and uplift inspiring tions. if they were attending the spe- Planning Committee Plenary ting the importance of Geographic Explorers,” individuals who are Other workers in the aspec- cial training course. As such, were kept online. The DS- conservation through he wrote. changing the world ts, meanwhile, would have to the DSSOPT considered that SOPT director said keeping educational programs, The title is given to one idea at a time,” the attend training courses hos- whether an applicant could the videos take a significant public talks, and media individuals not necessa- group wrote on its web- ted by the DSSOPT in order to finish a special training cour- amount of memory. AL interviews,” The Natio- rily in the field of scien- site. AL 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! 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BLOOMBERG The government’s ge- half income last year neral account revenue has VERALL income terprises to acquire tech- recorded a drop of 38.36% Omade by small and nologies and funds is the in the first quarter when medium sized enterpri- key to pacing up economic compared year-on-year, ses (SMEs) across Asia has revivals.