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macau ferry terminal
renovation delayed
no secretaries to attend
november policy address
Upgrades to the Ferry Terminal will
not be finished until the end of this
year since works are being carried
out with the terminal in operation
Chui Sai On said that no Secretaries
will be attending the AL session
in November when he reviews his
previous term
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MACAO FASHION FESTIVAL
Catwalk showcases local and
overseas designers’ creations
Catarina Pinto
T
HE 5th edition of the Macao Fashion Festival kicks
off this Thursday, with local designers showcasing their creations at The Venetian Macao,
as part of the Macao International Trade and Investment Fair
(MIF) which also takes place
this week.
The director general of the
Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM), Mr Shuen Ka Hung, said
the festival is intended to boost
Macau’s fashion industry, providing an opportunity for designers to showcase their collections and to build a network
which will allow them to take
their brands overseas.
“The government has stepped
up its efforts to promote the development of cultural and creative industries, and we have increased the number of fashion
shows featuring local designers
to three in total,” he said in a
press conference on Friday.
This year’s edition of the Macao Fashion Festival takes place
between Thursday and Sunday
(October 26), at the same time
and venue of MIF. Ms Victoria Kuan, senior manager at
CPTTM, revealed that 64 local
fashion designers will present
their creations, including clothes, jewelry and other accessories.
Seven of these designers al-
ready have a brand, she added.
The festival’s program features two fashion seminars, six
fashion shows, and an exhibition showcasing 13 collections
from fashion designers. The
festival also comprises of designers from Taiwan and mainland China.
The opening performance of
the Macao Fashion Festival,
“Style – A moment of encounters,” is organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC). It showcases the creations of seven
local designers, who have been
granted with the 2013 Subsidy
Program for Fashion Design on
Sample Making.
“They will display 64 sets of
stylish outfits which they have
meticulously designed and produced, including men’s sweaters, casual wear and leathers,
as well as women’s formal evening dresses, fashionable women’s clothing and wedding
gowns,” Mr Leong Ieng Va, acting chief of IC’s Department
for the Promotion of Cultural
and Creative Industries, revealed.
The IC is looking to help
promote Macau’s designers
creations locally by organizing
fashion shows, which serve as
a platform to introduce their
products to the market. Leong
Ieng Va said they have already launched the 2014 subsidy
program, “to continue [supporting] local fashion designers.”
He added that the IC is also
looking into the possibility of
providing subsidies to help designers promote their creations
abroad. CPTTM’s director general said that local designers’
work has become more professional over the years, and that
they also intend to help them
promote their brands outside
Macau.
If investments are needed,
Leong recalled that Bank of
China, the festival’s banking
partner, provides loans to local
fashion designers interested in
expanding or launching their
brands.
The Macao Fashion Festival
is also intended as a platform
for designers to exchange ideas
and experiences with professionals from other regions, hoping
to expand the reach of the local
fashion industry and brands.
The Macao Fashion Festival
is organized by CPTTM and the
Macao Trade Investment and
Promotion Institute (IPIM).
lack of human resources
THE DIRECTOR general of the
Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM), Mr
Shuen Ka Hung, told journalists
on Friday that despite the recent
evolution of the Macau fashion industry, there is still a lack of human
recourses and facilities with which
to produce clothing and accessories. He recalled that after Macau’s
handover to China, factories in the
city closed and relocated to the
mainland. CPTTM launched training programs for fashion designers,
which he said helped to revitalize
the industry. However, “when it
comes to sewing and producing
clothing, we need more space and
human resources. That’s what we
are lacking,” he said.
Bill Chou accuses UM of violating internal rules and academic freedom
F
ORMER professor at
the University of Macau (UM), Bill Chou, has
accused the educational
institution of violating internal rules and academic
freedom, after his suspension and the subsequent
non-renewal of his contract with the university.
The political scientist fa-
ced a disciplinary process
for allegedly imposing
political views on students. In August, he revealed
that UM was not going to
renew his contract.
Chou, who was this year
elected vice-president of
the New Macau Association, has now revealed the
internal procedure behind
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the non-renewal of his
contract, which he said
was based on two letters.
TDM News reported that
one anonymous letter was
sent to university management; the other came
from Hou Kong School,
and was submitted to the
Chief Executive.
The letter sent to UM
presented a series of
complaints against Chou,
while the other document
alleged that he provided
marks based on his students’ political orientation. The professor rejects
all accusations. Furthermore, he recalled that students were never allowed
by the university to testify
as witnesses during his
disciplinary procedure.
The letter sent by the
Hou Kong School was
related to a complaint
against Chou and other
members of the New
Macau Association, who
distributed flyers at the
school’s door calling for
clean elections for the Le-
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gislative Assembly.
Bill Chou told Radio Macau that the university has
violated its internal rules for
appeals against his suspension. He also recalled that
the distribution of flyers had
nothing to do with his activity as a UM professor, and
claimed academic freedom
had not been respected.
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T
HE 51st Asia-Pacific Broadcasting
Union (ABU) General Assembly
and Associate Meetings will be held
in Macau from today until October
28. The event, which is being hosted
by local broadcaster TDM and serves
to commemorate ABU’s 50th anniversary, will gather together over 550
regional broadcasting leaders, professionals and scholars in Macau.
The opening ceremony of ABU’s general assembly will be held next Monday (October 27) at the Conrad Hotel.
Macau’s Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai
On, will be officiating the ceremony
and delivering a keynote speech, organizers said in a press release.
This year’s general assembly focuses
on “future-proofing broadcasting in
a fragmented media world,” looking
at how the rapid development of media platforms and technology allows
audiences to choose the content they
want to watch. The challenges that
traditional media broadcasting has
faced while other media platforms
emerge will also be addressed during
the assembly.
The event features not only the general assembly, but also a TV song festival, which will be held on Saturday
(October 25) at 8:00p.m. at the Sands
Theatre. The festival gathers wellknown singers from the Asia-Pacific
region, who will be competing here
in Macau in a program produced by
TDM, with live-broadcast available on
TDM’s Portuguese and Chinese channels.
A gala awards dinner will also be
held on October 27 at the Sheraton
Hotel. It aims at recognizing outstanding TV and radio programs among
ABU members in different categories,
namely news, documentary, drama,
and entertainment. The gala is also
produced by TDM and will be livebroadcast on the “澳門/Macau” satellite channel.
ABU was established in 1964 as a
non-profit, professional association to
assist in the development of the AsiaPacific region’s broadcasting industry.
Currently, ABU has over 255 broadcast members from over 60 countries
and territories. TDM joined ABU in
1983 as an additional full member.
TDM’s Portuguese News and Program
Controller, Mr João Francisco Pinto,
was recently elected chairman of the
Asiavision News Group, which is part
of ABU.
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Macau Ferry Terminal
renovation delayed
D
IRECTOR of the Marine
and Water Bureau (DSAMA),
Wong Soi Man, has revealed
that renovations to the Macau Ferry Terminal (also known as the
Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal) will not
be finished until the end of this year.
She explained that the delay was inevitable because the renovation is being
carried out while the terminal is still in
operation.
The director says that there are
always obstacles in construction projects. She thinks that this requires all
parties to collaborate with each other,
and that the delay is not only the fault
of the contractor.
“Since our terminal is renovated
while it is still operating, it is very
natural that there will be delays on
plans of relocation or tests of systems. We have enquired about it to
the department responsible for public works and [learnt that the renovation] can complete at the end of
this year,” she said.
Another long-delayed project is the
Taipa Ferry Terminal at Pac On. Wong
Soi Man said that, according to the
Infrastructure Development Office
(GDI), the terminal can be handed to
DSAMA at the end of the year, as previously expected, although she is not
certain about the current progress of
the project.
The renovation project for the Outer
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Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting
Union general
assembly
MACAU
Harbor Ferry Terminal started in July
last year and was first expected to finish in July of this year, but it has since
been delayed until September.
The renovation is expanding the facilities, including an increase in the
number of service counters for booking
ferry tickets: hotel and travel agency counters will be doubled, from the
current 23 to 45, while the number of
airline registration counters will be increased from 8 to 12. New elements are
also being introduced, like a new baggage claim area.
Compared to the renovation project at
the Outer Harbor terminal, the delay of
the Pac On ferry terminal completion
is much more serious. The construc-
The delay of
the Pac On ferry
terminal completion
is much more
serious
tion of the new Taipa terminal started
in 2005 and was expected to finish in
2009. However, it was postponed until
mid-2013, before a further extension of
the construction period to the second
quarter of this year. The latest GDI account stated that the works would be
completed at the end of this year. JPL
Lusophone pavilion
highlight of this year’s MIF
João Pedro Lau
O
NE of the highlights of
this year’s Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), which will
take place between October
17 and 20 at The Venetian
Macao, will be the Portuguese-Speaking
Countries
Pavilion. The president of
the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) says that the
pavilion will occupy around
1,500 square meters of the
MIF venue, with more than
260 lusophone participants
attending.
“I think [the participation
of Portuguese-speaking enterprises is very important
because Macau is acting as a
platform for those countries.
And a lot of people from
mainland China are expecting to meet some of those
enterprises”, the president
said on the sidelines of an
MIF media lunch yesterday.
With the announcement
by the central government
Jackson Chang
about the creation of three
centers in Macau, IPIM has
allocated space in the fair for
a Portuguese-speaking countries food pavilion. Jackson
Chang has confirmed that
participants can expect new
companies in the lusophone
area, especially enterprises
from the food sector.
Moreover, the president
believes that the number of
local small- and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs)
participating in MIF is not
insignificant. He points out
that, apart from setting up
booths in MIF, local SMEs
can simply show up at the
event. “You don’t have to
really participate in the fair
[with booths]. We have a business-matching centre. We
can call you and match you
with other companies coming from other parts of the
world,” he said.
Like MIF in previous years,
participants from Latin American countries will join the
event. Jackson Chang said
that they are glad to see the
presence of ministerial-level
officials from Peru this year.
Other countries mentioned
by Mr Chang include Madagascar. “They hope to use
this platform to get more business, and to access mainland China,” he said.
Before he spoke to the media, the IPIM president gave
a speech to the attendees of
yesterday’s media lunch. He
said that this year’s promotion on MIF is satisfying,
with more than 4,500 people
from around 50 countries
and regions already registered for the event. Apart from
Peru, it is also the first time
representatives from Indonesia will participate in MIF.
The participants from PLP
also exceed 260 this year,
the greatest in the 19-year
history of MIF. During the
four-day event, two exchange sessions will be held for
food and beverage.
The president later revealed that there will be at least
48 agreements signed during
MIF this year.
70 portuguese companies attend
ABOUT 70 Portuguese companies are taking part in this year’s
MIF, the largest show of products held in the region. The Portuguese-speaking pavilion is mainly filled with companies from
Portugal who have returned to Macau representing the food and
service sectors. After the fair, the Portuguese companies are going
on a tour of China to cities such as Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Jiangmen,
Guangzhou, Foshan and Beijing, where they are going to participate in “events and seminars” to advertise Portuguese products.
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No Secretaries to attend
November Policy Address
T
HE Chief Executive Chui
Sai On said that no government Secretaries will
be attending the Legislative
Assembly (AL) session in
November when he reviews
his governance over the
previous five years. He explained that this is because
changes will be made regarding the Secretaries in his
new government.
Mr Chui said that he made
the decision after taking reference of the change of administration in 2009. Since
it is only a review in November, Secretaries do not need
to debate with lawmakers on
government policies. Only
in the first quarter next year
will he deliver his Policy Address for 2015.
“In the new [government
leadership] team, I would like to be able to deliver
the Policy Address in March [2015]. In August [next
year], I have learnt from
my previous experience and
will attend the AL to answer
lawmakers’ questions befoad
re delivering another Policy
Address in November”, he
stated.
Moreover, the CE said that
he is optimistic about the
response from central government to a series of requests he made to senior Beijing
officials, including Chinese
President Xi Jinping, in their
previous meetings. Those re-
quests include the extension
of border-crossing hours at
the Border Gate checkpoint,
24-hour crossing at the Hengqin checkpoint and the
opening of the Zhuhai-Macau Cross Border Industrial
Zone checkpoint to more
passengers.
“We still have an optimistic
attitude towards [the reply]
and hope that the central
government can give a reply that benefits the management of the borders and
helps in channeling the congested passenger flow, especially during the rush hours.
I am optimistic, but cannot
say when [the reply will
come]”, he said.
When asked about the fact
that some Ilha Verde residents have expressed their
concern regarding the possible security and traffic
issues brought by the opening of the Industrial Zone
checkpoint, the CE only said
that he will continue to listen
to public opinion.
The issue of 24-hour bor-
IPIM participates
in IMEX America
A
We hope that
the central
government
can give a
reply that
helps in
channeling
the congested
passenger
flow
CHUI SAI ON
der crossing has been discussed for a long time in Macau. Some have suggested
that the measure will help to
alleviate pressure on the local property market, as some
Macau residents and non-resident workers may choose
to live in Zhuhai.
IMING to promote the strengths of Macau´s
convention
and
exhibition industry and to attract a
greater number of
renowned
MICE
events to the reIrene Lau
gion, a delegation
of three from the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Bureau (IPIM) led
by IPIM’s executive director Irene Lau,
went to Las Vegas, USA, from 14 to 16
October to participate in IMEX America
2014, organized by the IMEX Group.
According to a press release issued by
IPIM, IMEX America is currently the largest worldwide exhibition for incentive
travel, meetings and events in the Americas. The event has been growing, attracting over 2,600 exhibitors, 2,690 qualified buyers and 10,000 visitors from 150
countries and regions each year.
During the three-day event, IPIM held
a promotional session to introduce the
business environment and advantages of
Macau’s MICE industry.
IPIM’s representatives also visited the
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for friendly exchanges and networking. Both parties exchanged opinions on how their respective governments could support the development of
the exhibition industry through incentives and other measures.
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T
HE
Judiciary
Police (PJ) has
detained a woman alleged to
have defrauded the casino she worked for out of
HKD270,000.
The authorities received a report on Sunday
from a casino in Taipa,
alleging that one of its
employees had been involved in fraudulent activity with an associate.
The accused is a 25-yearold local female who
worked in the casino
cage. It is alleged that
while working there a
gambler, believed to be
her associate, had given her HKD30,000
in exchange for a slot
machine voucher of the
same amount; and that
the female suspect had
deliberately keyed in
HKD300,000 – ten times the correct amount
– and given a voucher
with the excess sum to
her associate.
Her associate then immediately took the voucher to another cage in
the casino and successfully exchanged it for
cash. PJ is still trying to
locate the suspect’s associate and the defrauded money.
Employee defrauds casino out
of hundreds of thousands
that it was a forged document.
The suspect claimed
that she had come to
Macau intending to
prostitute herself, but
did not want to use her
real identity to register
for a hotel room. Therefore, she asked a man
to forge the fake document for her, as well as
the arrival declaration.
She also claimed that the
man did not receive any
money from her.
After receiving the forged documents, she entered Macau with her
real travel permit on
September 13 and registered for two rooms in
the same hotel with the
fake passport.
psp finds mop600k of
drugs in illegal inn
In a separate case, the
Public Security Police
(PSP) has detained an
18-year-old
mainland
woman for using a forged Chinese passport to
register for a hotel room
in the Central district.
PSP information suggested that they received
an anonymous tip-off several days ago. On
October 15, PSP officers
arrived at the hotel in
question to investigate.
They found the suspect
in a hotel room, and entered to investigate with
her permission.
The woman showed
Macau Anti-domestic Violence
Coalition files report with UN
on legal loopholes
T
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CRIME
BLOOMBERG
João Pedro Lau
MACAU
HE Macau Anti-Domestic Violence Coalition has
filed a report with the United
Nations, warning of loopholes
in the domestic violence bill
currently being drafted.
The group said they fear
that the future legislation on
domestic violence will unveil
fundamental legal loopholes
without providing adequate
protection.
The coalition, comprised of
nine civic groups, has been
urging the United Nations to
pressure Macau’s authorities
into listing domestic violence
as a public crime.
The government has not yet
presented a final draft, but the
Social Welfare Bureau (IAS)
announced early this year
that it would consider listing
domestic violence as a public
crime, but only in cases where
there is evidence of “repeated
violence.” The term, however,
has generated controversy.
The Macau Domestic Violence Legislation Concern Group
criticized IAS for failing to
acknowledge the complexity
of domestic violence as a se-
rious offense, and its impact
on both victims and children
who might witness violent
behavior.
The report recently filed with
the United Nations is intended to further clarify Macau’s
domestic violence situation,
as the UN is preparing for an
official debate on the implementation of the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women, taking place between
October 20 and November 7.
The UN will receive official
information from the countries signing conventions, and
the Human Rights Committee
also assesses reports filed by
civic organizations.
The coalition believes that
the situation in Macau has not
improved, since one in ten women have experienced domestic violence, whether physical,
psychological or sexual. They
also mention the lack of adequate legislation and security
forces trained to deal with domestic violence cases, a phenomenon that “[has] created
obstacles and prevents victims
the officers a Chinese
passport and an arrival declaration issued
by the PSP immigration department. Since
the photo quality of the
passport was poor, the
officers then interrogated her. The woman
eventually
admitted
from seeking help.”
Sister Juliana Devoy, who
leads the Good Shepherd Center, and scholar Cecilia Ho, are
part of the Macau Anti-Domestic Violence Coalition and
have met with the Macau government regularly to discuss
the legislation details.
They believe that certain
aspects of the law should be
further clarified, since it still
includes unclear concepts,
such as “domestic” or even the
word “violence.”
Members of the coalition
recall that, according to their
information, the bill addresses cases of domestic violence
between spouses or between
parents and sons, excluding
violence between siblings or
brothers-in-law.
Furthermore, the coalition
thinks that the law focuses too
much on physical violence and
neglects other forms of violence, such as psychological and
sexual abuse.
The coalition has urged the
UN to encourage Macau to
precisely and clearly define the
words “violence” and “domestic,” taking into consideration
international standards. They
have also campaigned for the
listing of domestic violence as
a public crime, and for further
training of legal officials in domestic violence-related matters. MDT/Lusa
THE PUBLIC Security
Police (PSP) has detained a
25-year-old mainland resident from Liaoning, after
finding illicit substances
worth MOP600,000 in an
illegal inn where he lived.
The operation was triggered by an anonymous
tip-off, which claimed that
there were illegal drugs in a
residential apartment near
Hotel Lisboa. The authorities located the detained
man and intercepted him
at Praça Ferreira do Amaral. PSP officers found a
small amount of ketamine
on him. They then entered
the illegal inn and found
six different types of drugs
in the man’s room. PSP
also found four other men
at the illegal inn, but believed that they were not
connected to the case. The
man will be charged with
drug dealing and will be
handed to the Public Prosecution Office.
DIASPORA
Associations form International
Macanese Alliance
M
ACANESE associations
in Canada, the United States, Macau and Portugal have
recently gathered in Toronto to
establish the International Macanese Alliance (IMA).
In founding a new organization, the Macanese associations
are looking to build deeper relationships between Macau and
Macanese communities living
abroad.
Roy Xavier, a scholar from the
University of Berkeley in California, is due to be appointed
president of the group. He told
Tribuna de Macau that some
of these associations have not
been accredited by the Council for Macanese Communities.
Therefore, IMA is looking to develop projects that have never
had the support of the Council.
He added that this organization
has remained “virtually isolated” from the Macanese diaspora.
Xavier revealed that IMA intends to further develop partnership opportunities between
cultural, commercial, academic,
and governmental institutions
and the Macanese diaspora living across the globe.
In addition, they are hoping to
work on international projects that could benefit Macanese
communities living in different
parts of the world. A historical
archive of the Macanese community is just one of the projects that have already been envisioned.
The archive will be an online
platform collecting photos, documents, videos and other materials related to the Macanese
community. This initiative is
aimed at preserving the history
and culture of Macanese communities living in different parts of the world. The associations
working on the archive have
already submitted a request to
the Macau Foundation looking
to be granted financial support.
Information on the archive is
due to be provided in English,
Portuguese and Chinese.
Xavier also revealed that the
International Macanese Alliance has gathered the support of
different personalities in Macau, such as lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho, and the deputy
general of the permanent secretariat of Forum Macau, Rita
Santos.
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LIFESTYLE
Coloane: Living on the greener isle
Catarina Pinto
W
HEN
Georgia
Creeden first laid
eyes on Coloane back in the
1990s, “green” was the word
that first came to mind. Here,
it’s really all about nature.
“The moment you would get
off the causeway, which is now
the Cotai Strip, the minute you
arrived at that point, it was all
green. It’s still all green. To
me, this always felt good. Still
does,” she recalled.
After developing a manufacturing business in China and
living in Hong Kong for five
years, Georgia Creeden moved to Macau in 1997. After
spending two years on Macau’s other island, Taipa, she
was looking to find a place that
exuded a similar feel to her hometown. “In 1999, I moved to
Hac Sa Beach, where I am now.
I moved there because my hometown is on the coast of New
Hampshire and I am accustomed to the water, the beach.
Green, lots of green and healthy things,” she recollected.
At the time, apartments were
larger and prices more affordable. “A couple of years later,
when everyone still considered the prices to be high, we
bought a flat. But comparing
[the prices] to now is laughable,” she said.
When Georgia moved to Coloane, to the Hellen Garden
building, she was frequently
travelling back and forth to
China. “My business involves manufacturing clothing
in Asia. But it was primarily
China and Vietnam, so Macau
was great for wherever I had
to go,” she recalls.
Commuting frequently to
China back then, Georgia
would use the Hengqin Island
or the Zhuhai border. “It was
crucial to coordinate timing in
order to attend my appointments on the other side.” The
hurdles of commuting weren’t
drastic, and travelling back
and forth seemed feasible.
Today, however, the scenario
would probably not be as bright. “Nowadays, I don’t know
how I would be able to do that,
because transportation is very
different from the way it was.”
Taxis are hard to get, especially when returning home
after a night out. Indeed, when
Georgia thinks about what has
changed the most in Coloane since then, transportation
is one of the most obvious
answers. “To get from Hac Sa
to Taipa, it’s not unusual [for
it] to take one hour” if traffic
is too chaotic.
Another hurdle is the lack
Georgia Creeden
To get from Hac
Sa to Taipa, it’s
not unusual to
take one hour
GEORGIA CREEDEN
of supermarkets. Apart from
grocery shops in the village,
and a recent supermarket opening in the Seac Pai Van building complex, expats living
in Coloane shop primarily in
either Macau or Taipa.
“The shops are great for vegetables and fruit, and prices
are good. But for anything
else, meat, fish, anything else,
you have to go to Taipa.”
The island, and small, picturesque Coloane village in
particular, is known for its
ageing population, many of
whom worked as fishermen
back when Coloane was a thriving fishing port, with boats
queuing up along the island’s
coast.
Others worked as salted
fish traders. Some still own
small restaurants and grocery
shops, giving the island its
unique and charming look.
The European-style houses
along the village, the stilt houses on the water, and even the
South China Sea views have
attracted many expats in re-
cent years, who have flocked
to Macau as the city grew into
an entertainment and gambling hub, but still wished to
remain as close to nature as
possible.
Looking back, Coloane was
a good choice for Georgia. “I
love it. I dread the day we might leave, because I am right
on the beach, a few steps away
from the sea.”
Still, there are problems to be
solved. Despite Coloane’s reputation as the greener island,
pollution remains an issue.
Waste materials, likely originating from factories within
the Pearl River Delta region,
often wash up on the shore.
“We see debris in the beach, shoes, clearly it’s coming
from factories, lot’s of syringes. Who’s dumping it in the
river?” Georgia questioned.
When thinking of the future, she hopes Coloane’s charm
will not fade as new developments emerge. “I wouldn’t
be surprised if it changes a
lot. When I moved to Macau,
Portuguese people would say
that Coloane ‘is the lungs of
Macau.’ They use this term,
which is strange, but I understand. It’s like it can’t be changed. But it has changed. And it
bothers me.”
She fears that if new developments take shape, the atmosphere will no longer be the
same. “It will no longer be this
charming village. You can’t
build history.”
Katrien Scott, who also lives
in Hellen Garden in Hac Sa
Beach, shares a similar opinion. New developments, she
said, would ruin Coloane. “It
would be devastating if they
knock down something and
build a casino. Macau needs
different places too, and the
village will not be the same if
it’s packed with high-rise bui-
Most families
living there
appreciate
the fact that
children can
play outside
without
worrying about
being hit by a
car. With a park
and a beach
nearby, it’s
also easier to
find different
activities to do
on weekends
ldings. I am sure other people
feel the same.”
Coloane has managed to remain one of the most peaceful places in Macau. It is one
of the most untouched areas,
currently spared from largescale developments mushrooming around the Peninsula
and Taipa.
Born in the Netherlands,
Katrien previously lived in cities such as Amsterdam and
Glasgow. When she moved to
Macau with her husband in
2008, they felt it was time for
a change and settled outside
the city center.
“We felt the happiest here,”
she said, despite having considered settling in Taipa too.
“I can hear the sea in the morning and pretend the air is totally fresh,” she laughed.
With three children, Hac Sa
seemed an even more appropriate location. “To me, [it]
is the best place, especially
for three hyperactive boys
who want to be outside all the
time,” she acknowledged.
Most families living there
appreciate the fact that children can play outside without
worrying about being hit by a
car. With a park and a beach
nearby, it’s also easier to find
different activities to do on
weekends.
“It seems more like a village,
instead of having a city feel.
And we are so close by. I’m
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7
Macau needs
different places
too, and the
village will not
be the same
if it’s packed
with high-rise
buildings
KATRIEN SCOTT
Katrien Scott
often quicker at school than
friends who live elsewhere,
because they have to go through all the traffic,” Katrien recalled.
Although people may think
Coloane is too distant from
everything else in Macau, and
coming all the way from Hac
Sa seems a bit of a nightmare,
Katrien suggests otherwise.
Her children attend The International School (TIS) in Taipa,
and she says that by leaving
a little bit before 8:00a.m.
everyday, she arrives at the
school within a few minutes.
“A lot of people have that
image that it’s really far away
but it’s not far away at all. And
there’s hardly any traffic, only
that traffic that comes from
Ka Ho village, where the docks and cement factory are. I
try to avoid trucks by leaving
a bit earlier in the morning,”
she explained.
Living anywhere else in Macau does not appeal to her.
She likes to see the colour
green every day. Life seems
brighter among the sea, hills,
and trails.
It gets busier on weekends,
she noted, as more tourists visit Coloane. “There are more
tourists but that’s why we are
all here, because of the tourism and Macau’s expansion.
And we’re helping.”
One the greatest hurdles,
along with difficulties in getting taxis, is related to rising
rental prices. Like on the Macau peninsula and Taipa, residents in Coloane also complain of skyrocketing prices.
“We are now paying double
the amount we paid in 2008,
although we live in a big-
ger apartment. What people
are saying is that when Oasis
opens [next to Seac Pai Van
park], people think they can
ask the same prices here in
Hellen Garden, which is an older building,” she stated.
Katrien hopes they can carry on living in Coloane even if
prices go up. “It’s still cheaper
than Taipa, although you can
find less expensive [residences] in the Macau peninsula,”
she added.
Like Georgia, Katrien also
thinks that a supermarket
would make a difference in
Coloane. A lack of parking is
also a hurdle, particularly in
Coloane village. “Parking here
is a big problem. It’s better to
use the bus when you want to
come to the village,” she added.
Away from the hustle and
bustle of the city, away from
its casinos and hotels, its
piping horns, Katrien feels
isolated in a good way. “It’s
nice to get away from everything.”
The same quietness and a
view of the South China Sea
also convinced Oyuna Delegsuren and John W. Altizer to
move to Coloane about eight
years ago. John, an American
national, and Oyuna, from
Mongolia, were living in Sai
Kung, Hong Kong.
John travels to China every
week for work, and part of the
reason why they moved to Macau was to make his commute
a bit easier. “The company I
worked for had just opened an
office here. So it worked (…)
The Lotus Bridge was custom
-made for me, because I commute every day to China (…)
the Hengqin border has no
It’s fantastic,
we live
overlooking the
South China
Sea. What more
could we ask
for? It’s a very
tranquil country
set within a city.
It’s pretty cool!
JOHN ALTIZER
Oyuna and John Altizer
waiting line, and makes commuting really easy, unless it’s
a holiday.”
Moving from Hong Kong,
property rental prices seemed
more reasonable in Macau.
Getting their children into
school was simpler, too.
“Our oldest son was in the
7th grade and he goes to TIS.
Hearing a school saying ‘no
problem, we can take him’ after living in Hong Kong, where is difficult to get children
into a school, we almost fell
off the chair, because there
it’s a big hurdle,” John recalled.
Having settled in one of the
villas facing the South China
Sea, near Cheoc Van Beach,
the couple says what sets it
apart from other places they
have lived is the silence. “Just
listen… you hear nothing, and
I don’t know if there are other
places in Macau where you
can get that,” John said.
Oyuna also likes the fact that
Coloane is a mixture of cultures. “If you go to Coloane
village, we find so many different cultures. It’s Western,
Portuguese, Macanese, Chinese, I really like it here.”
Besides a supermarket, the
lack of a hospital is another
concern for Oyuna. “There’s
a clinic in the village, but
there’s no emergency service
there.”
She also said that house prices, either to sell or rent, have
gone up exponentially.
“Just like everywhere else,
there are insane demands
on rental property, although
[these villas] are 60 percent
empty. I think now it’s because of the prices,” John added.
With three children, Coloane still feels like the right place. “We are very happy here,”
says Oyuna. When describing
it to friends, John says he is a
little sarcastic: “I say we live
all the way out in Coloane, all
the way out. I could sell real
estate,” he laughed, before
adding, “It’s fantastic, we live
overlooking the South China
Sea. What more could we ask
for? It’s a very tranquil country set within a city. It’s pretty
cool!”
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BLOOMBERG
Apple looks for big screen
boost as iPhone 6 hits China
A woman counts Hong Kong dollar banknotes as people resell Apple iPhones across from the company’s Causeway Bay store during the sales launch of the iPhone 6 and
iPhone 6 Plus in Hong Kong, China
A
PPLE’S large screen
iPhone 6 Plus is finally available in
the world’s biggest
smartphone market and Chinese consumers don’t have to
resort to smugglers.
The new device went on sale
Friday in China, almost a
month after their global debut. The 4.7-inch iPhone 6
starts at 5,288 yuan (USD863)
through Apple’s China outlets
which compares with $649 for
the same model without a contract on its U.S. website.
Strong demand, especially for
the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, saw
Chinese consumers pay black
market vendors almost double
the Hong Kong price for phones brought illegally across the
ad
border after its global release.
While the debut comes as China’s wireless carriers cut subsidies on devices, the new Apple
phones will outsell previous
models, said Bryan Wang, China country manager for Forrester Research.
“The large screen iPhones
are going to sell better in China for the first weekend than
last year’s iPhone 5s, but may
not be multiple folds,” Wang
said.
As many as 20 million consumers registered to buy the new
devices through various channels, according to a report on
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Tech.
qq.com website. Usually about
10 percent to 15 percent of registrations result in sales, im-
plying sales between 2 million
and 3 million units, Wang
said.
About 150 people lined up at
Apple’s store in China Central
Place in eastern Beijing Friday
to pick up devices they pre-ordered as staff in blue shirts
clapped and chanted “iPhone
6” in Mandarin.
Among the first was 27-year
-old doctoral candidate An
Le, who has used Apple since
getting an iPhone 4s and bought the 6 Plus. He had been
waiting for Apple to release
a larger screen phone to rival
devices from Samsung.
“Samsung has already had
large screens for years, and
I’ve been waiting for Apple to
catch up,” An said. “Now that
it’s finally here I really want to
give it a try.”
Apple and other high-end
smartphone makers are facing changes in how China’s
wireless carriers sell devices
as operators move to lower
the amount they spend on
subsidizing new devices. China Mobile, the world’s largest
carrier, is taking steps toward
eliminating $2 billion in smartphone subsidies.
At the carrier’s store in Beijing’s Wangfujing shopping
street, staff explain there are
no unique packaging or pricing plans for the iPhone 6
and no subsidies for any smartphones on display.
Instead, customers are offered discounts on calling plans
depending on their monthly
spending. On the most expensive plan, the total discount
adds up to 3,264 yuan over
two years, or about 62 percent
of the cheapest iPhone 6.
Apple is also rolling out the
new iPhones in India and
Monaco and the phones will
reach an additional 36 countries this month. By the end
of October, the devices will be
available in 69 countries and
on pace to reach 115 countries
by year’s end, Apple said in a
statement.
Still, none of those markets
can compare to China, where
Apple got $5.9 billion of sales in the three months ended
June 28, or about 16 percent
of the company’s total revenue. The China region for which the company discloses sales
includes Taiwan and Hong
Kong.
Fever for the largest devices had buyers in Beijing last
month paying 12,000 yuan
for the 128 gigabyte iPhone
6 Plus, or 87 percent more
than the Hong Kong list price.
That model cost 7,788 yuan at
Apple from Friday, according
to its China website.
“The outlook for the iPhone
6 and 6 Plus seems positive
in China,” said Tay Xiaohan,
a Singapore-based analyst
with International Data Corp.
“Apple has always been a very
popular brand with the Chinese, and with the demand
for larger screen sized phones
growing in China, we are not
surprised to see the high number of pre-orders for iPhones
in the market.” Bloomberg
20m
As many as 20 million
consumers registered
to buy the new devices
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XINHUA
HE Cape Verdean government plans to
invest USD62.2 million in the four international airports in the country, by 2017, the
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers said.
Minister Démis Lobo Almeida said that
USD40.8 million would be used for expansion of Nelson Mandela International Airport, in Praia.
The modernization of Amilcar Cabral International Airport on Sal Island will cost
US$8.2 million, the expansion of Aristides
Pereira International Airport, in Boavista
Island, US$6.6 million and improvements to Cesaria Evora International Airport in
São Vincent Island are estimated at US$5.2
million.
“These are important investments to be
made from the beginning of next year and
continue until 2017, notwithstanding various other investments by the year 2030
and at five-year intervals,” said the minister.
In addition to the four international airports, approved by the International Civil
Aviation Authority (ICAO), Cape Verde has
airfields on the islands of São Nicolau, Maio
and Fogo, which receive domestic flights.
The Santo Antao airfield has been closed to traffic since an air crash in 1998.
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to strengthen cooperation
Cape Verde
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中葡論壇
Li Yuanchao (r) meets with Timor-Leste’s former President Jose Ramos Horta at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing
T
HE Vice President of
China, Li Yuanchao
said at a meeting in Beijing
with former President of
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Jose Ramos-Horta, that his
country intended to increase cooperation with TimorLeste.
According to the Xinhua
news agency, Li also said
that China and Timor-Leste have cooperated successfully since establishing diplomatic relations in 2002.
The Chinese Vice President advocated for greater
cooperation between the
two countries in order to
promote the strategic partnership between them established in April this year.
Ramos-Horta said in turn,
he was available to work
towards the development
of relations between TimorLeste and China.
Li said
that China
and East
Timor have
cooperated
successfully
since
establishing
diplomatic
relations in
2002
The Democratic Republic
of Timor-Leste was established on 20 May, 2002 and
on the same day the country established diplomatic
relations with the People’s
Republic of China. At the
time Ramos-Horta was the
minister for foreign affairs.
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AP PHOTO
Art colony’s free-speech illusion shatters Chinese artist Ma Ming stands in front of one of her abstract paintings at her studio in Beijing
Jack Chang, Beijing
J
UST a few weeks ago, oil
painters in eastern Beijing’s
Songzhuang art district had
welcomed foreign reporters
into their studios and shown
off works tackling such touchy subjects as China’s prisons
and Communist Party politics.
Over lunch, they candidly lamented the state of free speech in China while chewing on
chicken and downing glasses
of beer.
In a tightly controlled society where dissent is quickly
squashed, the artists of Songzhuang appeared to be enjoying a rarely seen degree of
creative and political freedom.
But then, on Oct. 1, that illusion was shattered.
Police first detained poet
Wang Zang after he posted on
Twitter a picture and message supporting pro-democracy
demonstrators in Hong Kong.
The next day, police rounded
up another seven people who
were heading to a poetry reading advertised on social media as supporting Hong Kong
protesters. A total of 13 people
living or working in the art colony were ultimately detained
on charges of “creating trouble,” according to Wang Zang’s
wife, Wang Li.
This past weekend, the police
buildup was everywhere, with
uniformed officers patrolling
the aisles of Songzhuang’s art
shops and riding in golf carts through its sleepy winding
streets. Artists who weeks earlier had opened wide their studio doors were apologetically
warning away visitors, fearful
that speaking too freely could
get them into trouble.
Since Songzhuang was founded two decades ago, its artists have largely avoided official
harassment by following a few
tacit rules: If they produced
provocative work, they showed
it only to each other, and if
they sold it, they did so privately. Most importantly, they
kept a low profile.
Painter Tang Jianying, known
as one of Songzhuang’s most
outspoken artists, said his neighbors had crossed that line by
taking their dissent to the Internet.
“Among friends, we can speak
freely,” Tang said by phone
hours after police had called to
check in on him. “But if you’re
in public, you have to watch
what you do. If you’re on the
Web and you speak too freely,
they’ll get you.”
Although China’s constitu-
Among friends,
we can speak
freely. But if
you’re in public,
you have to
watch what you
do. If you’re on
the Web and
you speak too
freely, they’ll get
you
TANG JIANYING
PAINTER
Chinese artist Li Dapeng talks to reporters in front of one of his works at his studio in the Songzhuang art district
tion promises free speech rights, in reality, figuring out what
you can say or write has always
been a guessing game.
Authorities have in recent
months tolerated grass-roots
protests on environmental issues but at the same time, violently cracked down on Muslim Uighurs in China’s far west
who have denounced the central government’s policies on
minorities. Watchdog groups
such as Amnesty International say free speech restrictions
have only tightened during the
nearly two-year-old government of President Xi Jinping
with police detaining dozens
of lawyers, journalists and activists and even closely monitoring non-political groups
such as Christian churches and
community libraries.
Last Wednesday, Xi told the
country’s most well-known directors, writers and artists gathered in Beijing that their art
should be patriotic and reflect
socialist values, according to
the official Xinhua News Agency. That message was prominently displayed across state
media and dominated that evening’s main newscast.
“Fine art works should be like
sunshine from blue sky and
breeze in spring that will inspire minds, warm hearts, cultivate taste and clean up undesirable work styles,” Xinhua
quoted Xi as saying.
Zhou Shifeng, a defense
lawyer whose firm represents
several of the Songzhuang detainees, said the government
has been eager to quiet any
criticism during a particularly sensitive few weeks. Thousands of pro-democracy pro-
testers remain in the streets of
Hong Kong denouncing China’s plan to screen candidates
for the semi-autonomous city’s
top executive. This week, the
Communist Party’s top leaders
are gathering in Beijing for a
much-watched plenum.
“It seems to me that current
political factors are more relevant than the rule of law,”
Zhou said.
Despite the tougher environment since Xi’s rise to power,
Songzhuang’s artists seemed
confident during the Sept. 20
visit by about a dozen foreign
journalists that they could
avoid government notice as
long as they followed the district’s long-standing unspoken
rules.
With a booming voice, Li Dapeng couldn’t wait to show off
his series of oil paintings depicting Chinese families, leaders
and aristocrats — all topped off
with grotesque pig faces. One
painting, which he kept a copy
of on his iPad, even depicted
what appeared to be top Communist Party cadres with pig
snouts and pointy ears, gazing
down from a balcony.
“This is a happy thing. It’s
not necessarily a criticism,” Li
said. “It’s a way to talk about
things that you can’t talk about
if you paint people. But it’s fun
if you use pigs.”
He added, however, that he
didn’t publish the more provocative work in art books and
had sold his pig paintings only
to a private purchaser.
Down the street from Li’s studio, several of artist Ma Ming’s
paintings showed insects flying
into giant white orifices that
looked conspicuously like va-
ginas. She said it was a commentary on child abductions
in China.
“It’s like a wound,” Ma said
of her work. “The sex workers
I’ve met were very sad because sex is supposed to be about
life and joy, so this represents
their feelings.”
The pressure for more open
political speech has only been
growing in China, as more of
its citizens go online and engage with the rest of the world,
said William Nee, a Hong Kong
-based researcher with Amnesty International.
“On the one hand, combined
with increasing censorship and
increasing numbers of people
being detained and arrested, it
doesn’t look good for freedom
of expression in China,” Nee
said. “But on the other hand, in
the broader picture, if you look
online and see how people’s attitudes are changing despite all
the censorship and how much
of an appetite there is for real
news and analysis, then I think
there’s something new.”
Still, the price for Wang
Zang’s political speech has
been steep.
Neither his wife, Wang Li, nor
Sui Muqing, the family’s attorney, have heard from him since his detention in Songzhuang
more than two weeks ago, Sui
said Friday. Wang Li added
that all those detained in the
district were still in police custody. Local police declined to
comment on the cases.
“Despite all these troubles, I
think my husband did the right thing,” Wang said. “Everything he did wasn’t for himself,
it was for everyone else. I still
support him.” AP
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HONG KONG
H
ONG Kong’s leader
has claimed that
“external
forces”
are participating in
student-led
pro-democracy
protests that have occupied
parts of this financial capital
for more than three weeks, but
provided no evidence to back
his accusation.
Chief Executive Leung Chun
-ying’s statement in a televised
interview Sunday was the first
time he has alleged foreign
involvement in the unrest,
echoing accusations by China’s central government, which also has not backed them
with any evidence. Leung’s
statement comes just before
his government is scheduled to
hold talks with student leaders
today.
When asked on the “Newsline” program about a Chinese
official’s comments on outside involvement, Leung said,
“There is obviously participation by people, organizations
from outside of Hong Kong.”
Leung added that the foreign
actors came from “different
countries in different parts of
the world,” but didn’t specify
which countries.
The Hong Kong Federation of
Students immediately rejected
the accusations, with Secretary
General Alex Chow saying Leung was “just making it up.”
“He’s the chief executive, he’s
an accountable official,” Chow
told reporters. “If he’s putting
forward these accusations,
then we hope he also puts
forward the evidence. But he
shouldn’t just say that foreign
powers are meddling without
evidence.”
Protesters, mostly young
college students, are pressing
Leung: ‘External forces’
involved in protests
AP PHOTO
Jack Chang and Kelvin Chan,
Hong Kong
CHINA
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Kok district after two pro-democracy legislators, Fernando
Chiu and Claudia Mo, arrived
late Sunday night and helped
calm tensions.
Earlier
Sunday,
police
spokesman Steve Hui said an
unnamed 23-year-old was arrested on the charge of accessing a computer “with criminal
or dishonest intent” and unlawful assembly. Hui said the
suspect had “incited others on
an online forum to join the unlawful assembly in Mong Kok,
to charge at police and to paralyze the railways.”
In what has
become a
daily pattern,
police have
driven away
students from
streets during
the night, only
to see them
regroup and
resume their
sit-ins
Protesters stand guard behind a barricade at the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong
for a greater say in choosing the
semiautonomous Chinese city’s
leader in an inaugural direct
election, promised by Beijing
for 2017. They oppose Beijing’s
ruling that a committee stacked
with pro-Beijing elites should
screen candidates in the election. That effectively means
that Beijing can vet candidates
before they go to a public vote.
In what has become a daily
pattern, the police have driven
away the students from some
streets during the night, only
to see them regroup and occupy the areas and resume their
sit-ins. The protests stretched
into their fourth week yesterday with thousands of demonstrators camped out in downtown Hong Kong and two other
sites in the city of 7.2 million.
After two nights of violent
clashes, protesters and police
settled into an uneasy peace in
the densely commercial Mong
It was the first arrest for online protest activity since the
demonstrations began.
Police also said Sunday that
33 people had been arrested
during the protests on common assault, criminal damage
and other charges.
Nearly 300 people have been
taken to hospital emergency
rooms with injuries related to
the protests since Sept. 28, the
city’s Hospital Authority reported yesterday. AP
C
HINA has donated
USD6 million to help
stave off food shortages in the three African
countries worst affected
by the Ebola virus, the
World Food Program
announced
yesterday,
part of Beijing’s growing
assistance to a continent
where its companies have
become major investors.
WFP China representative Brett Rierson said
the money is being spent
on one month of emergency food rations of
mainly rice, lentils and
yellow peas for 300,000
people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The Ebola outbreak
in those countries has
killed more than 4,500
people out of the 9,000
infected and led to wi-
despread transport disruptions, higher food
prices and the abandonment of crops and livestock by some farmers
fleeing to areas considered safe.
The WFP has now raised $59 million of a
$179 million appeal for
emergency Ebola food
aid, with the U.S. contributing $8.8 million and
Japan $6 million.
Altogether,
donors
have given nearly $400
million to U.N. agencies
and aid groups, still far
from the $988 million
requested.
China has already dispatched several planeloads of medical material and aid teams to
the three worst affected
countries, and at least
one Chinese pharmaceutical firm is among those
working on a vaccine.
With the world’s second-largest
economy
and a permanent seat on
the U.N. Security Council, China is beginning
to make larger contributions to international aid
efforts.
China now
spends
about $5 billion annually
in foreign aid, about 55
percent of which is offered in the form of low-interest loans, according
to a government report
issued in July. Just over
half of the money goes
to African countries, helping China build market
share in a continent where its companies have
found customers for infrastructure, telecommu-
AP PHOTO
Beijing gives USD6 million for food in Ebola countries
People from a community affected by Ebola virus receive food aid from World Food program in Monrovia, Liberia
nications and manufactured goods.
China is Africa’s lar-
gest trading partner,
with about $200 billion
in commerce between
them, twice the level of
Africa’s trade with the
United States. AP
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INDONESIA
Joko Widodo sworn in as new president
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center
party, the first in the country’s
history following an inauguration. After a few kilometers,
he left his car and took a horse
and cart, flashing victory signs
JAPAN
AP PHOTO
Trade, justice ministers
quit amid scandals
Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi bows during a press
conference at her ministry in Tokyo
Mari Yamaguchi and
Elaine Kurtenbach, Tokyo
J
APAN’S trade and justice ministers resigned yesterday after allegations they
misused campaign funds in
the biggest setback so far for
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s
conservative administration.
The two ministers were
among five women Abe
named to his Cabinet in a
reshuffle early last month.
Their resignations may help
to control the damage to his
relatively high popularity
ratings, but are a blow to efforts to promote women in
politics and business as part
of economic revival policies.
Yuko Obuchi, daughter of a
former prime minister and a
rising star in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned early yesterday as trade
minister, saying she needed
to focus on an investigation
into discrepancies in accounting for election funds. She
did not acknowledge any
wrongdoing.
Justice Minister Midori
Matsushima resigned after
the opposition Democratic
Party of Japan filed a criminal complaint against her
over distribution of hand-held fans or “uchiwa.”
Matsushima also faces com-
and shaking countless hands.
“To the fishermen, the
workers, the farmers, the
merchants, the meatball soup
sellers, the hawkers, the dri-
plaints over using parliament-provided housing while keeping security guards
at her private residence in
downtown Tokyo.
Speaking to reporters
shortly after he accepted
Matsushima’s resignation, a
somber Abe told reporters he
was also responsible because
he appointed the two women
to his Cabinet.
“I deeply apologize to the
public,” Abe said.
Within hours, Abe named
replacements, choosing Yoichi Miyazawa, 64, a former
finance ministry official as
trade minister. Miyazawa,
from Hiroshima, served as a
secretary years ago to his uncle, former Prime Minister
Kiichi Miyazawa.
Abe chose Yoko Kamikawa,
61, a female lawmaker who
has worked on demographic
issues, as the new justice minister.
Abe’s first term in office, in
2006-2007, was marred by
gaffes and resignations by
his Cabinet ministers and he
stepped down, citing ill health. His current term has been
smoother, particularly in the
first year as the stock market
soared along with his popularity ratings.
Pressure for faster action
on economic reforms has risen, however, as the recovery
faltered following a 3 percentage point increase in the sales tax in April. AP
vers, the academics, the laborers, the soldiers, the police,
the entrepreneurs and the professionals, I say let us all work
hard, together, shoulder to
NEPAL
Authorities to end rescue
operation on trekking route
Binaj Gurubacharya, Katmandu
N
EPAL was wrapping up rescue operations in its northern
mountains yesterday, saying all
the hikers believed to have been
stranded on a trekking route by a
series of deadly blizzards are now
safe.
At least 38 people, including
trekkers from Canada, India, Israel, Slovakia, Poland and Japan,
died in the blizzards and avalanches that swept the Himalayas
last week, battering the popular
Annapurna trekking circuit.
The last flights by rescue helicopters in Mustang, Manang and
Dolpa districts were planned for
yesterday, said Yadav Koirala
of Nepal’s Disaster Management
Division. All the casualties were in
those three districts, located northwest of the capital, Katmandu.
“We believe that all the trekkers
and guides have been helped and
as far as we know there are no
more people stranded on the route,” Koirala said, adding that some
soldiers would remain camped
out in the area.
So far, 34 bodies have been identified. Most of them have been
flown to nearby towns or Katmandu for autopsies.
Rescuers retrieved the bodies
of nine Nepalese porters Sunday
AP PHOTO
J
OKO Widodo completed a journey from
riverside shack to presidential palace yesterday, cheered through the
streets following his inauguration by tens of thousands of ordinary Indonesians in a reminder to the opposition-controlled parliament of the strong
grass-roots support that swept
him to power.
The 53-year-old must make
tough decisions to stand a
chance of boosting economic growth in Indonesia,
a sprawling nation of 250
million people. Fears that any
reforms he tries to enact could
be blocked by a hostile opposition led by the Suharto-era
general he defeated in July’s
election have seen the rupiah
weaken and stock market fall
in recent weeks.
But those thoughts were put
aside momentarily yesterday
when Widodo and his deputy
traveled from the parliament
building to the presidential
palace in an organized public
shoulder, because this is a historic moment,” Widodo said in
his inauguration speech, witnessed by regional leaders and
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry.
Widodo, better known by
his nickname of Jokowi, was
elected with 53 percent of the
vote, with most of his support
coming from poor, non-urban
Indonesians attracted by his
simple demeanor and record of
hard work as Jakarta governor.
The son of a furniture maker,
he grew up in a rented bamboo shack on the banks of the
river Kalianyar in Solo, a town
on Java Island, and is the first
Indonesian leader not to come
from the country’s super rich,
and often corrupt, political,
business and military elite.
“I was moved by Jokowi’s
inauguration speech this morning, it was so beautiful,” said
Rukasih Wanti, standing under a blue umbrella with her
two kids waiting for the president. “He deserves to get the
people’s respect and a celebration the likes of which has never happened in the past.” AP
AP PHOTO
Niniek Karmini, Jakarta
Nepalese army rescue team members
carry the body of an avalanche victim at
Thorong La pass area in Nepal
from a mountain slope. The bodies were spotted a day earlier
by a rescue helicopter, but it took
hours for rescuers to reach them
on foot.
Also Sunday, Nepalese officials
closed a section of the popular Annapurna trekking circuit because
new groups of hikers had been
streaming into the area where
most of the victims died.
The snowstorms were whipped
up by the tail end of a cyclone that
hit the Indian coast a few days
earlier. Hikers were caught offguard when the weather changed
quickly.
Most of the victims were on or
near the Annapurna trekking
route, a 220-kilometer collection
of trails through the Annapurna
mountain range. AP
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EBOLA
Nigeria virus free as WHO says
outbreak can be contained
AP PHOTO
Daniel Magnowski
and Yinka Ibukun
T
HE World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola-free after
the disease killed seven
people in Africa’s most populous country.
“The outbreak in Nigeria
has been defeated,” Rui Vaz,
WHO’s country representative
for Nigeria, told reporters today
in Abuja, the capital. “This is a
spectacular success story that
shows the world that Ebola can
be contained.”
Liberian-American
Patrick
Sawyer introduced the virus
to Nigeria in July when he arrived on a flight to Lagos, the
country’s biggest city with an
estimated 20 million people.
Sawyer, five health workers and
the protocol officer who received him at the airport, died of
Ebola, according to Nigeria’s
health ministry.
A key reason for Nigeria’s
success was that all agencies
Nurses are trained to use Ebola protective gear by WHO workers, in Freetown, Sierra Leone
involved in the anti-Ebola effort worked together, Health
Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu
told reporters in Abuja. “This
is one factor we believe may be
lacking in the control efforts of
other countries,” he said.
Nigerian officials said they
were expecting the declaration
42 days after the last contact
was cleared in early September. They led a two-month
campaign during which contact tracers made 18,500 home
visits to more than 800 people
who came into contact with
infected persons in Lagos and
the southeastern oil center of
Port Harcourt. Africa’s biggest
economy with more than 170
million people recorded 19 cases.
The current outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
has infected about 9,000 people and killed nearly 5,000, the
WHO said on Oct. 15. Another
man who traveled from Liberia,
the worst-hit nation, to Dallas,
Texas, and died from the virus
while in isolation at a hospital.
His case was the first Ebola infection confirmed in the U.S.
“One of the key things that
worked for Nigeria was the fact
that we knew the index case
and we were able to trace all
the contacts back to him,” Tom
Aba, the senior data manager
at the Ebola Emergency Operation Center, said in Sept. 30
phone interview from Lagos.
Nigerian and WHO officials
say the country remains at risk
while the outbreak of the virus
is yet to be brought under control in West Africa.
“Nigeria’s geographical position and extensive borders
make the country vulnerable
to additional imported cases,”
WHO’s Vaz said.
Nigeria still needs “to maintain a state of high alertness at
points of entry,” Chukwu, the
health minister, said. Bloomberg
IRAQ
US planes drop weapons,
ammunition to Kurds in Kobani
Suicide blast hits Baghdad
Shiite mosque killing 17
Sinan Salaheddin, Baghdad
AP PHOTO
Joe Sobczyk and
Toluse Olorunnipa
A
T
HE U.S. military dropped weapons, ammunition and medical
supplies to the besieged
Syrian town of Kobani,
as Turkey said it would
allow Kurdish fighters
from neighboring Iraq to
come to the town’s aid.
The air drop was the first
such mission by the U.S.
Air Force to the town’s
Kurdish defenders, who
have held off an Islamic
State offensive for almost
a month.
Turkey would allow Kurdish Peshmerga forces “to
cross into Kobani to support” the city’s defense,
its Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday. “We are in cooperation with the coalition”
to prevent Kobani’s fall,
Cavusoglu said at a news
conference.
Turkey’s decision to
allow Kurdish reinforcements to reach Kobani
will boost the U.S. and
its coalition partners as
they seek to undermine
Smoke rises after an airstrike in Kobani, Syria as fighting intensified
between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group
support for Islamic State.
A successful defense of
Kobani would prevent the
group from further extending its grip over a stretch of the border between
Syria and Turkey.
Cavusoglu’s comments
reflect a change in tone
following the U.S. air supply of Kobani. On Oct.
18, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said
that it would be “impossible” to support supplying
weapons to the town’s
defenders, who are largely members of a group
called YPG. The group is
an affiliate of the Turkish
group called the Kurdistan Workers Party, or
PKK, which is classified
as a terrorist organization
by the U.S., Turkey and
the European Union.
President Barack Obama informed Erdogan
about the plan during a
telephone call on Oct. 18,
according to an administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
Central Command said
Sunday that while the
militants’ advance had
been slowed, the “security situation in Kobani remains fragile.” It said its
planes have conducted
more than 135 airstrikes
against Islamic State forces in Kobani. Bloomberg
suicide bomber struck a Shiite
mosque in central Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 17 worshippers and
wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said.
The attack comes a day after a suicide
bombing targeted another Shiite mosque in Baghdad, this one in the western Harithiya neighborhood, killing
28 people.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the two attacks but
they bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaida-breakaway Sunni militant group
known as the Islamic State, which has
car bombings kill
people in karbala
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IRAQI OFFICIALS say three car
bombings in the revered Shiite shrine
city of Karbala have killed at least 16 people. A police officer said yesterday that
the explosives-laden cars were parked
in commercial areas and parking lots
near government offices. He says 41 others were wounded in the explosions. A
medical official confirmed the casualty
figures. Both officials spoke on condition
of anonymity as they were not authorized
to talk to media. Karbala is home to two
revered Shiite saints and is located about
90 kilometers south of Baghdad.
AP PHOTO
ISLAMIC STATE OFFENSIVE
Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters
gather to defend the city of Haditha, 240 km
northwest of Baghdad
recently claimed several large bombings in the Iraqi capital, particularly in
Shiite areas.
The IS says it has a foothold inside
Baghdad but Iraqi officials deny this,
though they acknowledged the militants likely have sleeper cells in the
city.
In yesterday’s attack, the bomber
detonated his explosives-laden vest
as people were leaving the al-Khairat
mosque in Baghdad’s Sinak commercial area following noon prayers, a police officer said. At least 28 people were
wounded in the explosion, he said.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on
condition of anonymity as they were
not authorized to talk to media.
This summer, the Islamic State
group captured large chunks of territory in western and northern Iraq,
plunging the country into its worst
crisis since the U.S. troops left at the
end of 2011. AP
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TV canal macau
6th Cultural Week of China
and Portuguese-speaking Countries
- Music and Dancing Performance
Time: 7pm-11pm
Until: October 23, 2014
Venue: Senado Square
Enquiries: (853) 8791 3368
13:00
TDM News (Repeated)
13:30
News (RTPi) Delayed Broadcast
14:30
RTPi Live
17:45
Heavy Load (Repeated)
18:30
TDM Sports (Repeated)
19:30
Soap Opera
20:30
Main News, Financial & Weather Report
Oktoberfest 2014
Time: 6pm-midnight
Until: October 25, 2014
Venue: Vista II, MGM Macau,
21:00
TDM Interview
21:45
Happy Endings S1
22:10
Heavy Load
23:00
TDM News
23:30
Miscellaneous
00:30
Main News, Financial & Weather Report (Repeated)
Av. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, NAPE
Admission: MOP120 (including one standard drink)
Enquiries: (853) 8802 2666 Calendar Illustrations by Guan Huinong
Time: 10am-7pm
(Closed on Mondays, no admission after 6:30 pm)
Until: December 28, 2014
Venue: Macau Museum of Art,
Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE
Admission: MOP5
(Free on Sundays and public holidays)
Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814
this day in history
cinema
cineteatro
16 Oct - 22 Oct
Western Views on China:
Prints of the 19th Century about China
Time: 10am-7pm
(Closed on Mondays, no admission after 6:30 pm)
Until: December 31, 2014
Venue: Macau Museum of Art, Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n,
NAPE
Admission: MOP5
(Free on Sundays and public holidays)
Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814
Chinese Art Treasures – Collection and
Works of Wu Hufan from the Palace Museum
and Shanghai Museum
Time: 10am-7pm
(Closed on Mondays, no admission after 6:30 pm)
Until: November 16, 2014
Venue: Macau Museum of Art,
Av. Xian Xing Hai, s/n, NAPE
Admission: MOP5
(Free on Sundays and public holidays)
Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814
Grand Taipa Natural Park
Park and Sculpture Zone:24 hours
Grass-skiing field: 2:30pm-5:30 pm (Tuesdays to
Fridays); 10:30am-5:30 pm (Weekends and public
holidays, closed on Mondays)
Venue: Rampa do Observatório, Taipa
Admission: Free
Enquiries: (853) 2888 0087
THE GIVER_
room 1
2.15 4.00, 5.45, 9.30 pm
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep
Language: English (Chinese)
Duration: 97min
ANNABELLE_
room 1
7.30 pm
Director: John R. Leonetti
Starring: Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard
Language: English (Chinese)
Duration: 98min
LET’S BE COPS_
room 2
2.15,4.05, 5.55, 9.30 pm
Director: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Rob Riggle
Language: English (Chinese)
Duration: 104min
JUON - THE BEGINNING OF THE END_
room 2
2.15, 4.00, 5.45, 9.30 pm
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Starring: Shô Aoyagi, Yoshihiko Hakamada,
Yasuhito Hida
Language: Japanese (Chinese/English)
Duration: 91min
Offbeat
Another
month, another
global heat record broken
September brought more record heat globally, and
U.S. meteorologists say Earth is now on pace to tie
for the hottest year ever recorded. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees
Fahrenheit. That was the hottest September in 135
years of record keeping. It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August.
The first nine months of 2014 have a global average temperature of 58.72 degrees, tying with 1998 and
2010 for the warmest first nine months on record. While parts of the U.S. Midwest, Russia and central Africa were slightly cool in September, it was especially
hotter than normal in the U.S. West, Australia, Europe,
northwestern Africa, central South America and parts
of Asia.
WHIPLASH_
room 3
2.30, 4.30, 7.30, 9.30 pm
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
Language: English (Chinese)
Duration: 106min
macau tower
09 Oct - 22 Oct
DRACULA UNTOLD_
2.30, 4.30, 7.30, 9.30 pm
Director: Gary Shore
Starring: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon
Language: English (Chinese)
Duration: 92min
2001 Anthrax claims
third victim in US
A third person has been diagnosed in the US with
the most serious form of anthrax.
The unnamed Washington postal worker is being
treated for inhalation anthrax but doctors expect him
to make a full recovery.
This is the ninth confirmed case of anthrax in the
United States since infected mail began turning up
in Florida, Washington and New York following the 11
September attacks.
The only person to die from anthrax in this scare
had the inhalation form of the disease but it was not
caught as early.
The other victims have been infected through the
skin, a less serious form of the disease.
The latest victim works at the Washington mail centre which processed an anthrax-tainted letter sent to
Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle.
But it is not known whether he was exposed to the
disease through this letter.
US Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge said that
the strain of anthrax used in the attacks on US media
companies and the Senate appeared to be the same.
“We are obviously preparing for more,” he said.
Nearly 40 people in the United States, including 28
who work at the US Senate, have been exposed to
anthrax bacteria in the past month.
Teams of hazardous material experts have been
checking the House of Representatives after an anthrax-tainted letter was found in the Ford House Office Building mailroom.
The US is offering $1m for information on who is
behind the anthrax attacks.
The US postal service is sending cards to every
home and business - 147 million addresses - telling
people how to deal with suspicious post.
Courtesy BBC News
In context
There were a total of 18 cases of anthrax in the United States
in 2001, five people died.
The offices of prominent politicians and media figures were
among the targets.
All mail addressed to the US Government is now irradiated to
kill anthrax.
Investigations in 2002 concluded the spores used in the 2001
attacks were less than two years old. This proved that the
spores had been grown and could therefore be grown again.
It is not yet known who was behind the attacks. Original suggestions pointed to the al-Qaeda network as the attacks began
shortly after the 11 September attacks but experts now believe
it was the work of a lone man with a highly scientific background.
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Taurus
Mar. 21-Apr. 19
April 20-May 20
You need to try something new
and healthy — maybe an exercise
regimen or an end to a bad habit.
Whatever you decide, you should
have an easier time sticking with it.
Have confidence!
You are feeling quite attached to
someone new today — or maybe to
an old friend who’s been distant of
late. It’s a good time for you to use
this great energy to deepen your
connection.
Gemini
Cancer
May 21-Jun. 21
Jun. 22-Jul. 22
You need to consider all the
angles today — even though you’d
probably rather shoot from the hip.
The left side of your brain needs
some exercise, and you are sure to
do better if you give it what it wants.
Today is perfect for organizing
people and information — both
short-term and long. Your energy
is just right for making plans and
ensuring that everyone involved is
on the same page.
Leo
Virgo
Jul. 23-Aug. 22
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
You need to review your financial
information today — even if it
seems like you just did this a month
or so ago. Things have changed,
and your mental energy is just right
for spotting discrepancies.
Your mental energy is perfect for
today’s problems — so see if you can
get yourself focused on whatever
is most important in the moment.
Long-term planning can wait for a
few days.
Libra
Scorpio
Sep.23-Oct. 22
Oct. 23 - Nov. 21
You’ve got something nagging at
you — maybe you’ve forgotten a
responsibility, or maybe you’ve
got to take care of an errand on the
periphery of your memory. Listen
to that little voice!
Something small and strange
captures your imagination today
and makes you see the light. It’s a
good time for you to open up and
try new things, but it may take some
time to slog through the details.
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
You need to deal with a boss
or teacher who thinks they’re a
paragon of wisdom — but you know
better. It’s hard to be diplomatic in
this situation, but you’ve got to do
your best or things might get weird.
Your energy kicks into overdrive
midday and you find yourself
working through all your tasks at
double speed. It’s a good time for
you to push ahead and make sure
that you’re on task.
Aquarius
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YOUR STARS
Aries
INFOTAINMENT
SUDOKU
WEATHER
Easy
Medium
Feb.19-Mar. 20
You are feeling much more
grounded today — so make sure
that you’re dealing with the big
emotional issues that you’ve been
putting off. It’s one of those days
when you’re sure to find closure.
This is a terrible time for
dithering — so get to work! Just
abandon all pretense of planning
and jump into whatever seems
to make the most sense in the
moment. It all adds up later.
Hard
Crossword puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com
DOWN: 1- Fishing reel; 2- Draft classification; 3- Corker; 4- Garage sale sign;
5- Exchange need; 6- Chatter; 7- Came down to earth; 8- Like most movies; 9Straddle; 10- Arm cover; 11- Mr. Moto
portrayer; 12- One who uses an abacus;
Yesterday’s solution
13- Glass ornament; 21- Donkey; 23Hawaiian city; 25- Bullwinkle, e.g.; 27Drinking vessels; 28- Competent; 29Boor; 30- Sweet potato; 34- Born in the
___; 35- Teacher; 36- Do a number; 37Wrinkly fruit; 38- “Only Time” singer; 40Augment; 41- Baseball’s Bando; 43- ___
about (approximately); 44- Handcuff; 45Isolate; 47- Prom duds; 48- Slowpoke;
49- Kett and James; 50- Kind of cat; 52French 101 verb; 53- Easy to steer; 55Arrest; 56- Streetcar; 57- Give an edge to;
58- General Bradley; 61- Sunburnt
Beijing
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17
Harbin
-6
7
clear
Tianjin
12
19
overcast/clear
Urumqi
8
21
clear/cloudy
Xi’an
10
22
cloudy/clear
Lhasa
2
16
clear/cloudy
Chengdu
15
25
cloudy
cloudy/clear
CONDITION
foggy/clear
Chongqing
17
25
Kunming
13
23
cloudy/drizzle
Nanjing
17
23
shower/drizzle
Shanghai
20
26
clear/moderate rain
Wuhan
16
22
moderate rain/cloudy
Hangzhou
19
27
cloudy/shower
Taipei
23
31
clear/cloudy
Guangzhou
20
30
cloudy
Hong Kong
25
29
cloudy
Moscow
-2
5
flurry/drizzle
Frankfurt
7
17
drizzle
Paris
9
17
drizzle
London
10
15
drizzle
New York
10
15
overcast/drizzle
WORLD
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ACROSS: 1- Like some bears and icecaps; 6- Attire; 10- Thick slice; 14- Busy; 15Winglike parts; 16- Rich supply; 17- Museum piece; 18- Fragments; 19- Mother of
the Valkyries; 20- Sickness at the stomach; 22- Tied up; 24- Belief; 26- Chauffeur; 27West Indian musical style; 31- Land in la mer; 32- German submarine; 33- Perform
better than; 36- Litigate against; 39- Purple fruit; 40- Magazine copy; 41- Indication;
42- Collector’s goal; 43- ___ a time; 44- Virile; 45- SASE, e.g.; 46- Earache; 48- Lady
of Spain; 51- Flee; 52- Fully; 54- Combining form meaning “ yellow “; 59- Makes lace;
60- Chemical used on trees; 62- Billiards shot; 63- Iranian coin; 64- Shrivelled, without
moisture; 65- Climbing vine; 66- Otherwise; 67- Watched intently; 68- Bugs bugs him;
MAX
CHINA
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Pisces
Jan. 20-Feb. 18
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Emergency calls 999
Taxi (Yellow) 28 519 519
Fire department 28 572 222
Taxi (Black) 28 939 939
PJ (Open line) 993
Water Supply – Report 1990 992
PJ (Picket) 28 557 775
Telephone – Report 1000
PSP 28 573 333
Electricity – Report 28 339 922
Customs 28 559 944
Macau Daily Times 28 716 081
S. J. Hospital 28 313 731
Kiang Wu Hospital 28 371 333
Commission Against
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IACM 28 387 333
Tourism 28 333 000
Airport 59 888 88
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FOOTBALL | CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PREVIEW
Steve Douglas
Sports Writer, Manchester
AP PHOTO
City looks to escape trouble;
Messi, Ronaldo chasing records
CSKA Moscow v Man City
Home 6.6, Draw 4.4, Away 1.59
T
HIS was supposed to
be the season Manchester City finally
made a sustained push
in the Champions League.
It’s not working out that way
for the English champions.
City is the most high-profile
team in early trouble in Europe’s elite club competition after
picking up just one point from
its first two group games.
It means City manager Manuel Pellegrini is already treating today’s [Wednesday 0:00]
trip to CSKA Moscow, the first
of a double-header against the
Russian side, like “a final.”
There are no such problems
for Champions League heavyweights Real Madrid, Bayern
Munich and Borussia Dortmund, who all have a maximum
six points heading into the third
round of group matches.
The standout fixture in Matchday 3 is Liverpool vs. Madrid
tomorrow [Thursday 2:45] — a
match between clubs who have
won Europe’s biggest prize a
combined 15 times.
Here are some things to know
about the upcoming Champions League games:
CITY’S STRUGGLES. Since
an influx of Abu Dhabi cash in
2008, Man City has won every
trophy going in English football, including the Premier
League title twice. Success in
Europe is proving much harder
to come by.
In three seasons in the Champions League, City has twice
failed to get out of its group
and was eliminated in the first
round of the knockout stage the
other time.
So far this campaign, City has
lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich and
was disappointing in a 1-1 home
draw with Roma that left the
English champions facing an
uphill struggle in Group E.
“We have two games against
CSKA Moscow (and) we need
win to win both of them,” Pellegrini said. “The best way is to
treat every game as a final, try
to win it and then win the next
final.”
The match will be played in
front of no fans as punishment
for CSKA for racist incidents
by its supporters. City midfielder Yaya Toure was a target of
racist abuse by CSKA fans last
season.
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SWIMMING
Athlete tries
for record
breaking swim
in Bahamas
An Australian endurance athlete
has started an attempt to achieve
a world-record 128-kilometer
swim in the open waters of
the Bahamas. Chloe McCardel
started her solo swim yesterday
morning from Eleuthera island.
She hopes to finish some 48
hours later in Nassau, the capital
of the sprawling archipelago off
Florida’s east coast. The 29-yearold athlete from Melbourne
is making the attempt under
Marathon Swimmers Federation
rules, which means she can’t
intentionally touch her support
boat or hold on to anything.
McCardel last year gave up
her quest to swim from Cuba
to Florida because of painful
jellyfish stings.
RUGBY
Steroids
in Kenya
sevens team
supplements
Cristiano Ronaldo
EVERGREEN TOTTI. Roma
hosts Bayern in the other match
in City’s group, with its striker
and captain Francesco Totti enjoying a new lease of life as he
helps the team challenge on two
fronts this season.
Totti became the oldest scorer in the Champions League’s
22-year history in the last round of fixtures, when he netted
the equalizer against City three
days after his 38th birthday.
The forward is also closing in
on Silvio Piola’s all-time Serie A
top scoring record of 274 goals.
He scored penalties in each of
his last two games to take his
tally to 237.
Roma was without several
of its star players in a 3-0 victory over Chievo Verona on Saturday, with Juan Iturbe and
Gervinho expected to return
against 2013 champion Bayern.
one in a qualifying round. Messi has 68 goals, and will get the
first shot at Raul’s record today
[Wednesday 2:45] when Barcelona hosts Ajax in Group F.
Ronaldo will have to wait one
more day for Madrid’s visit to
Liverpool in Group B, in which
he has scored in both his games
so far.
Ronaldo is having a superb
start to the season. The Ballon
d’Or holder established the best
scoring start to a Spanish league season on Saturday when
he scored his 14th and 15th
goals through the first eight
rounds.
Messi can overshadow that
feat next weekend when Barcelona visits Madrid in La Liga.
The Argentina forward needs
one goal to match Telmo Zarra’s all-time leading tally of 251
goals that has stood since 1955.
SCORING RECORDS. Lionel
Messi has the chance to become the all-time leading scorer
in both the Champions League
and the Spanish league this
week.
Cristiano Ronaldo might,
though, beat him to the milestone in Europe.
Records are falling fast for the
world’s top two players, and
both will again take aim at Raul
Gonzalez’s all-time mark of 71
goals in the Champions League.
Ronaldo has scored 70 goals
in the competition— including
PSG INJURIES. Paris SaintGermain’s 3-2 win over Barcelona on Matchday 2 gave the
French champions some breathing space atop Group F.
They might need it, given their
injury problems.
Ahead of the trip to play Apoel
Nicosia in Cyprus today [Wednesday 2:45], PSG coach Laurent Blanc could be without his
entire back four of Thiago Silva
(hamstring), David Luiz (thigh), Marquinhos (thigh) and
Lucas Digne (knee), while key
midfielder Blaise Matuidi has
a hip injury. Winger Ezequiel
Lavezzi (hamstring) is also out.
Blanc’s biggest dilemma, however, is over Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The Sweden star has missed
seven straight games — five in
the league for PSG and two with
Sweden — as he tries to shake of
a nagging heel injury.
With Edinson Cavani suspended for PSG’s crucial league game
against title rival Bordeaux next
weekend, Blanc may be better off
resting Ibrahimovic against Apoel
— even if he is fit to play — rather
than rushing him back.
DORTMUND IN CRISIS. The
Champions League can’t come
quickly enough for Borussia
Dortmund, which plays Galatasaray tomorrow [Thursday
2:45] in Turkey.
After four defeats in five
Bundesliga games without a
win, 2013 finalist Dortmund is
looking to European competition for relief.
“You can call it a crisis. What
else?” said Dortmund sport director Michael Zorc after Saturday’s 2-1 loss at Cologne, the
third in a row.
Dortmund has two wins
from two Group D games in
the Champions League, however, with no goals conceded
against Arsenal or Anderlecht.
It contrasts starkly with the side’s domestic form, which has
seen goals conceded in every
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An investigation has found
steroids in supplements given
to players on Kenya’s national
rugby sevens team. A report
by an anti-doping task force
set up by the government says
Kenya’s sevens head coach Paul
Treu of South Africa and five
members of his coaching staff
should be called to anti-doping
disciplinary hearings over the
discovery. The report also called
for the head coach and assistant
coach of the 15-a-side national
team to face disciplinary
proceedings. The report, which
has been handed over to the
Kenyan government, says
“there were strong suggestions”
that the coaches violated antidoping regulations after they
introduced supplements to the
players.
FOOTBALL
MP & Silva keeps
Serie A world TV
rights to 2018
MP & Silva has won the vote
to distribute Serie A TV rights
internationally for another
three seasons. The London-and
Singapore-based company will
pay 172 million euros (USD219
million) for the first year of the
deal, 185 million euros ($236
million) for the second year
and 200 million euros ($255
million) for the final year. It’s
a big increase from the average
annual fee of 117 million euros
(nearly $150 million) for the
previous deal with MP & Silva.
MP & Silva president Riccardo
Silva says it’s “a considerable
investment considering the
crisis of Italian football,” adding
that he’s confident in Serie
A’s ability “to bounce back
competitively.”
THE
Indian player dies from injury in goal
BUZZ celebration
UKRAINE
As if insults ever work
It has been more than 20 days since the Occupy movement in Hong Kong began. Frankly,
I only anticipated that it would last for a week,
but different incidents that helped fuel the protest
kept happening.
One thing that has marked this movement is
not how it has physically altered the Hong Kong
streets, but how it has changed, or rather, destroyed a bunch of relationships. People have
unfriended each other on Facebook because of
their differing opinions regarding the movement.
It is like the Middle Ages when people were constantly on the hunt trying to sniff out anyone around them spreading heresy.
At the very beginning, I thought that people were
truly passionate about the cause and hence could
not stand any of their friends or family suggesting
anything that did not match their views. But on closer examination, I found that maybe some despised the opposite point of view so much not for how
wrong differing opinions are, but because of how
many insults they faced from their opponents. It is
even possible that nasty comments have pushed
those who previously did not have a strong opinion to take a very extreme stance on the issue.
Since the beginning of the Occupy movement,
my Facebook page has been inundated by posts
and comments from both sides of the argument.
While some of them have tried to express their
point of view in a rational manner, others have
simply deployed insults and accusations liberally
without properly arguing for their case.
For example, one of the most common accusations and insults against those who support the
students is that they (the supporters and the students) are being deceived; that there are some
“external forces” that have supported or even
funded the Occupy movement.
This is insulting because it implies that those
who have supported the movement are spies
who intended to sabotage Hong Kong. It is also
an insult because it suggests that those occupiers and their supporters are somehow incapable of individual thinking and are easily manipulated. It is even worse when some of the students
were described as “useless youth” who have only
taken part in the movement because they failed
to achieve anything in their lives.
Some similar claims and insults were also launched against those who disagree with the movement. They are mostly suggestions that the
opponents are willingly collaborating with the
authorities and are becoming their “slaves” and
“propaganda machines”.
And what can these charges achieve? Nothing
except further angering their opponents, who
may decide to hit back with even sharper comments. And the cycle continues.
Is it not obvious that now is not the time for bickering but for genuine discussion? Insults are
not going to solve the problem. They only go to
serve as distractions, preventing essential debates from taking place. Only through presenting
your case and evidence in a rational and civil
manner will you win the argument or even win
your opponents over.
The whole thing reminded me of an episode
of the American television drama, “Drop Dead
Diva”, in which the protagonist was involved in
a court case. When the opposing attorney was
losing his case, he described the protagonist’s
approach as “ridiculous”, which earned the comment from the judge: “A lawyer’s last resort – an
insult”. TV dramas are not usually a creditable or
authoritative source, but just like in that episode,
only those who have a flawed argument will resort to insulting their opponents.
So if you do not have a good case, either you
change heart and join the opposing side, or you
maintain your stubborn silence and save your bitter comments so that you do not further humiliate
yourself.
Parliament says
100s died in battle
Peter Leonard, Kiev
A
report by Ukraine’s parliament revealed yesterday that more than 300
soldiers were killed during
a weeks-long battle that
marked a crushing setback in
the military campaign to root
out pro-Russian separatist
forces in the east.
The report is the first official
confirmation of the scale of a
defeat in the city of Ilovaisk
that critics of the country’s
military command have described as the result of disastrous leadership.
It is believed the ultimate
number of servicemen lost
may be even greater, and the
parliamentary inquiry into
the Ilovaisk battle complained that military authorities
have failed to cooperate.
“Neither the Defense Ministry nor the General Staff has
responded to queries from
the investigating committee
about losses in the armed
forces,” the committee said
in a statement.
Ukrainian forces mounted
an assault on Ilovaisk in early August only to eventually
find themselves besieged by
heavily armed separatist fighters.
The city and surrounding
villages still bears signs of
heavy shelling.
A cease-fire deal struck a
month ago by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko,
Russian President Vladimir
Putin and the rebel leadership is often violated.
AP PHOTO
João Pedro Lau
Smoke rises after yesterday’s
shelling in the city of Donetsk
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel said yesterday “there’s a long way to a cease-fire, unfortunately,” given the
number of people who have
been killed since the deal was
struck. Europe is seeking full
compliance with the ceasefire, clear border controls
and local elections in eastern
Ukraine in compliance with
Ukrainian law, and not under auspices of the rebels.
Speaking in Slovakia, where
she met with its prime minister, Robert Fico, Merkel said
Ukraine’s territorial integrity
must be ensured “not just on
paper” and that the cease-fire
plan has to become effective
in all its details.
The U.N. estimates more
than 300 people have been
killed since the cease-fire
was announced, and at least
3,660 people have been killed over six months of fighting.
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In Ilovaisk city in August,
government troops sustained heavy losses of life attempting to flee the area and
were easily picked off by rocket and artillery fire as they
fled in columns. AP reporters counted more than 30
charred Ukrainian military
vehicles on the route out of
the city in early September,
when the battle had come to
a close.
The defense minister in
command at the time resigned last week.
Ukraine maintains that rebel forces have been amply
supplied with weaponry by
Russia and that their military setbacks would not have
occurred without Moscow’s
interference. Russia denies
such claims.
The intensity of fighting in
the east has abated since late
September, when the warring sides agreed on the nominal cease-fire, but shelling
continues daily.
Yesterday, a powerful explosion shook the largest
rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, causing shockwaves
that were felt over a radius
of several kilometers. Numerous buildings, including the
Shakhtar Donetsk football
club, were damaged as a result.
The explosion, which occurred at a rubber processing
factory used to create components for ammunition,
was succeeded by multiple
barrages of outgoing rockets
fire from the city. AP
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Our Desk
his celebration went bad, he was stretchered off
the field to a local hospital. Mizoram Football
Association general secretary Lalnghinglova
Hmar called Biaksangzuala “a very good and
disciplined footballer” who hoped to play in the
national I-League. The football association is
planning to organize a match in his memory.
Air quality
EPA
AUSTRALIA’s Parliament
House lifts a short-lived ban
on facial coverings including
burqas and niqabs after the
prime minister intervenes.
Yesterday, the Department
of Parliamentary Services,
or DPS, said people wearing
face coverings would be
allowed in all public areas of
Parliament House.
YEMENI security officials
say al-Qaida militants have
captured a town south of the
capital Sanaa as they fought
fierce battles elsewhere
against Shiite rebels known
as Houthis. The officials say
al-Qaida’s Sunni militants
yesterday seized al-Adeen
town 200 km south of from
Sanaa in Ibb province.
USA Ebola fears begin to
ease for some in the U.S. as
a monitoring period passes
for those who had close
contact with a victim of the
disease and after a cruise
ship scare ended with the
boat returning to port and a
lab worker on board testing
negative for the virus.
Federal officials, meanwhile,
ramp up readiness to deal
with future cases.
AP PHOTO
opinion
The Mizoram Football Association says a
23-year-old Indian soccer player has died after
injuring his spine while celebrating a goal with
somersaults. Peter Biaksangzuala landed on his
back while doing flips last Tuesday in the northeastern state of Mizoram. He died Sunday.
Biaksangzuala scored in the 62nd minute. After
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UK The Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge have
confirmed that their second
baby is due in April — the
first time they’ve offered a
month for the royal birth.
Kensington Palace also said
in a statement yesterday
that the duchess, who
has been sidelined by a
prolonged bout of severe
morning sickness, continues
to improve.
GERMAN prosecutors say
they’ve detained two more
people following weekend
raids on suspected
supporters of the Islamic
State group and an
ultraconservative Syrian
rebel organization, Ahrar
al-Sham. Two suspected IS
supporters were arrested in
western Germany Saturday.
Authorities searched the
homes of 13 more people
suspected of links to the
two groups.
LUXEMBOURG EU nations
Politicians, contemporary witnesses, and students go on a commemorative hike yesterday on
the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the border monument in
Hoetensleben, Germany
are working to find 1 billion
euros to help fight Ebola
in West Africa and seeking
a common approach in
dealing with the disease
outbreak. EU foreign
ministers have opened a
week of talks so that their 28
leaders can agree by Friday
on a package of measures
which should include
anything from financial aid
to common repatriation
procedures, treatment
facilities on site and training
for health workers.