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Until October 25, visitors can toast
with German beer, experience
Bavarian cuisine and enjoy live music
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CHINA Organizers say
concern about the spread of
the Ebola virus is expected
to impact attendance at
China’s largest international
trade fair, which kicked off
yesterday. Spokesman for
the Canton Fair Liu Jianjun
was quoted in Chinese
newspapers as saying
he expects to see a fall
in the number of foreign
buyers, especially those
from African countries.
About 500,000 buyers and
exhibitors usually attend
the biannual event in the
southern city of Guangzhou,
including about 15,000 from
Africa. While no restrictions
have been placed on visitors
from Ebola-hit countries,
they will be closely
monitored, yesterday’s
China Daily newspaper
quoted Liu as saying.
CHINA Media say a rare
Siberian tiger released
into the wild by Russian
President Vladimir Putin
has attacked a henhouse
in northeastern China,
raising concerns that
farmers may hunt it down.
The official Xinhua News
Agency says the animal
known as Kuzya was
believed to have eaten
five chickens in a raid on
a farm in Heilongjiang
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GAMING
G
RANT Bowie predicts that
Macau’s gaming revenue
in October will continue to
head south. Nevertheless, he
has expressed his confidence in
the city and suggested that there are benefits brought by the
recent changes in the market.
“The Gaming Inspection and
Coordination Bureau (DICJ),
the official recorder of the revenue, will obviously give us an
indication of the [city’s gaming
revenue]. But I think everyone’s starting to get an indication that the trend of the last
three of four months is that
the market has contracted somewhat and is probably going
to be down for October”, he
said.
Nevertheless, he was confident that there would be a
revamp, though he did not indicate when that will happen.
“I think we all need to walk
through what is a significant
transformation of China. But I
am confident that we will come
out of this. We will rebound
and be stronger and diversified
as a result of the changes and
the consolidation we’re going
through at the moment”, he
stated.
The MGM CEO said that the
fall in gaming revenue has
prompted some investors to
reevaluate Macau. However,
Bowie predicts continued drop
in October revenue figures
he reiterated his confidence in
the city and its future.
“Any change to a market
always has implications to
the financial investors. And I
think they’re going through a
reassessment of how they see
Macau. I am very confident on
Macau and we are very solid”,
he said.
Mr Bowie also observed that
there has been a change in visitor patterns from China, with
tourists spread out more evenly throughout the year, which
he thinks is beneficial for the
territory.
“Clearly, the Chinese policy
is designed to take some heat
out of the market. I think we’re
starting to see that we’re getting more balanced visitation
to Macau. We’re also starting
to see the […] diversification,
with more families and young
people coming to Macau”, he
said.
The CEO also commented on
the recent protests in Hong
Kong. While he claimed to
Grant Bowie
be fully understanding of the
protestors in the neighboring
SAR, who he described as “very
passionate about their views”,
he said that people need to remember that expressing views
Oktoberfest opens in MGM Macau
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T’S the time of year when
kegs are opened and everybody enjoys their beer and sausage
as part of Oktoberfest 2014. The
event, hosted by MGM Macau,
began yesterday afternoon. Until October 25, participants will
be able to experience authentic
Bavarian cuisine and live German music at the local resort.
In his welcoming speech, the
CEO and executive director
of MGM China, Grant Bowie,
expressed his gratitude to the
German Consulate-General for
Hong Kong as well as to the
event partners and sponsors.
“In the sixth year of MGM Oktoberfest, we continue to offer
a unique MGM entertainment
experience. We’re passionate about Oktoberfest and are
proud to be hosting this annual
city-wide event again, and it’s
captivating to see its growing
popularity year by year”, he
said.
On the sidelines of the occasion, Mr Bowie said that Oktoberfest is a key event for
MGM. “I think it’s a celebration
[that] we’ve come to [appreciate at] the end of summer. And
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it’s one of the special times of
the year we can all enjoy being
outside. Therefore, this is really
our contribution to the culture
and also to the social fabric of
Macau”, he said.
When asked about his passion for beer, the CEO said
that, being a New Zealander, he
“must be a beer fan”.
The Times spoke to Mr Kuok
who went to yesterday’s opening with his colleagues. This is
the second time he has participated in Oktoberfest at MGM.
He thinks that this is a special
and successful event because
it has brought the elements of
German culture to Macau. He
also appreciates the atmosphere. Having had two glasses of
beer yesterday, Mr Kuok said
that he will go to the beerfest
again later with his friends, who
have been trying to reserve a
place at the event for more than
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or the enjoyment of other people’s lives.
IACM to study Chinese
white dolphins
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HE Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) is preparing a research project on Chinese white dolphins in
Macau’s waters with experts from the National Sun Yat-sen
University.
The bureau said that they have noticed cases of Chinese
white dolphins and finless porpoise becoming stranded on
beaches of Coloane. As a result, IACM wants to understand
more about the ecological conditions of Macau’s water.
Six IACM officials, accompanied by scholars from the National Sun Yat-sen University College of Marine Sciences
sailed to the water near Macau on September 23 to observe dolphin activities in the area. They found four groups of
dolphins during their trip, with a total of around 70 Chinese white dolphins spotted.
According to the data collected by the College of Marine
Sciences, there are currently 1,500 Chinese white dolphins
living at the mouth of the Pearl River. A preliminary investigation conducted by the college between 2011 and 2014
also showed that the areas in the Macau waters where the
activities of dolphins are observed are mainly at the east
and south of the Macau International Airport. There are
also a few records of Chinese white dolphin activities in the
south of Coloane and west of the Friendship Bridge.
Chinese white dolphins at the southern coast of China are
facing various threats, including water pollution, vessel collision and loss of habitat.
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Top legal officials vow for
judicial system reforms
Catarina Pinto
M
ACAU’S top legal officials have
vowed for changes to the territory’s judicial system in yesterday’s ceremony to mark
the commencement of the
2014/2015 Legal Year. The
President of the Court of Final Instance (TUI), Mr Sam
Hou Fai, pledged legal reforms that would maintain Macau’s political identity and
its current legal framework,
which is based in Portuguese
law.
In his speech, Sam Hou Fai
recognized that there is a
need to develop Macau’s legal framework based on the
constant and rapid changes
that society and the local economy are experiencing. He
added that this matter has
caught the attention of both
legal professionals and society in general, since there is a
need to perfect Macau’s legal
framework to meet social development demands.
TUI’s president recognized
that the Portuguese legal framework diverges in terms of
moral ethics, values, and cultural heritage from Macau, a
region “from the East” with
its own ancient culture and
history. He went further to
suggest that some of Macau’s
criminal penalties are “more
benevolent” than those found
in other Asia-Pacific regions.
Sam Hou Fai recalled that if
changes to current criminal
penalties are to occur, there is
a need to conduct an in-depth
assessment, since this would
affect the whole penalty system.
“Many personalities, even
lawmakers, have called for a
reform of the legal services’
management system. However, after conducting an indepth analysis, we have decided to maintain the then current framework. Today, with
an increase in the number of
judges, the situation has improved,” he said, referring
to the extensive wait period
sometimes experienced for a
legal process to unfold.
“When undertaking judicial
reform, we need to take into
consideration not only the
identity of [society’s] inherent values and the reasoning
behind our legal system, but
also the continuity, systematization and the steadiness of
legal policies,” he said. Sam
Hou Fai stressed that “there is a need to study the real
reason why citizens feel unsatisfied with how the law is
being enforced.”
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ding that although the number of cases handled by the
courts has risen, it did not
affect the ability of cases to
be effectively resolved.
However, the president of
the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), Jorge Neto Valente, criticized precisely the
slowness of legal services,
since there’s still a lack of
human resources while cases
handled by courts keep on rising. “Without any effective
change, the current year will
not change ‘the state of things.’ This means that under
pressure caused by a higher
number of cases, which are
With an
increase in
the number
of judges, the
situation has
improved
SAM HOU FAI
Sam Hou Fai
TUI’s president recalled
that there must be an introduction of timely amendments to the law and the legal regimes when needed.
Reviewing the previous legal year, Sam Hou Fai also
revealed some of the latest
figures on legal actions handled by Macau’s courthouses.
A total of 19,535 cases were
filed within the three courts – a number above that
recorded in the year before
(17,323). The Court of Final
Appeal saw an increase of
more than 50 cases handled
when compared to the previous year. Cases filed within
the Court of First Instance
and the Court of Second Instance have also risen.
The number of criminal
proceedings, he said, recorded “a great increase” in
recent years, as opposed to
civil proceedings, for which
figures remain steady.
Criminal proceedings handled by the Court of First
Instance (TJB) increased by
16 percent. The majority of
criminal proceedings include crimes linked to gambling
and other related activities.
Drug trafficking, as well as
trans-regional crimes, or offenses committed by foreigners, also continued to rise.
Sam Hou Fai stressed that
the effectiveness of trials has
improved significantly, ad-
Prosecutor General says legal reform
is ‘an unavoidable issue’
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ROSECUTOR General Ho Chio Meng
has said that legal reform “is an unavoidable issue.” He believes that Macau can
only prosper and reach a long-term stability if legal reform is undertaken.
Also delivering a speech in yesterday’s ceremony to mark the commencement of the
2014/2015 Legal Year, Ho Chio Meng recognized that the development of Macau’s
legal system has failed to keep up with social and economic changes. Ho Chio Meng
took the opportunity to review last year’s
figures on cases handled by the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), stating that legal officials at the MP are now feeling quite tired.
“The MP staff faced great challenges
and pressure at work,” he recalled. The
MP handled a total of 13,697 cases in the
previous year. They completed a total of
12,329 processes, and prosecuted 3,207
cases, which is an increase of 16 percent
when compared to the year before. Theft
and robbery, as well as crimes related to
illegal gambling and loan-sharking remained top of the list of most committed offenses. Among prosecuted cases are mainly drug related crimes and simple offenses
to physical integrity.
The Prosecutor General called on the
government to work on the continuous
training of MP legal officers. He added that
both junior and senior officers need further
training. “Currently, we have few staff with
a lot of cases [to handle]. Proceedings are
too complex. We [have been] tired while handling these cases and we don’t have
time for anything else (…) MSAR’s government should create favorable conditions for
legal officers to develop their skills through
effective training,” he stated.
distributed by an insufficient
number of legal officials, [the
pace of] justice is due to remain slow, and probably,
[providing] poorer quality,”
he stated.
Mr Neto Valente recognized that it is ever harder to
balance urgency for certain
court decisions with the need
among legal officials for careful consideration, especially given that some cases
entail complex matters.
“Showing an increasing lack
of respect for courthouses,
there are certain sectors publicly discussing and openly
criticizing [court] decisions,
especially through the media,
attempting to influence courts,” he said. Asked to elaborate on this statement when
speaking to reporters on the
sidelines of yesterday’s ceremony, the AAM president
said that there are association
leaders’ who change from one
association to the other, whenever it is most convenient
for them to convey certain
ideas.
Recalling that Macau’s legal system has failed to keep
up with social and economic
development, Neto Valente
suggested that an in-depth
reform of the Law on Judicial Organization is crucial
to solving this matter. “The
reform that was long needed,
now it is indispensable and
imperative,” he stressed.
Chief Executive Chui Sai
On said yesterday that the
government will continue
to support courts and legal
services in improving their
facilities, equipment, as well
as in reinforcing the training
of legal officers and development of human resources.
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C
HIEF Executive Officers Edward Tracy,
from Sands China Ltd.,
and Steve Wynn of
Wynn Resorts Ltd. are among
the top 100 best-performing
CEOs in the world – according
to a list compiled by Harvard
Business Review.
Edward Tracy first served as
the president and chief operating officer of Sands China from
July 2010 to July 2011, having
been appointed the company’s
CEO on July 27, 2011.
Mr Tracy has over 20 years
of hands-on management and
development experience in the
gaming and hospitality industries. He served as chairman
and CEO of Capital Gaming, a
multi-jurisdictional manager
and developer of regional casinos. He also served as CEO for
famous businessman Donald
Trump, at Trump Organization.
Prior to that, Edward Tracy served as vice president and general manager of the Sands Hotel
and Casino in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, according to Reuters.
He began his career in the hotel industry during his five-year
tenure (1978-1982) following
the inception of Hotel Investors
Trust, serving in several executive hotel management positions. Edward Tracy arrived in
Macau back in 2010, and his
accomplishments are quite impressive for someone who had
little prior experience in the
China market. This was proven
last year when he appeared in
Inside Asian Gaming Magazine’s article on the top ten most
influential personalities in the
gaming industry across Asia.
The publication sees him as
“the pilot in the engine room
of the Las Vegas Sands money
machine.”
The magazine also highlighted his strategy for attracting a
number of Hollywood stars to
the city, and for bringing seve-
Steve Wynn
Edward Tracy
Edward Tracy and Steve Wynn
among best performing CEOs
The Harvard
Business
Review annual
ranking looks
at over 3,000
CEOs across
the globe
ral pop star shows and boxing
matches to The Venetian Macao.
American casino magnate Stephen A. Wynn is the
chairman of the board and
CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd.
He is also chairman and
CEO of local casino operator
Wynn Macau Ltd, a majority
owned subsidiary of the company. He made a significant
profit revitalizing the Las Vegas Strip, Forbes wrote, and
owns four properties in Nevada and Macau. Wynn developed the famous Mirage and
Bellagio as well as Wynn Las
Vegas, and later his property
in Macau.
Wynn Palace will be his first
property on the Cotai Strip. The
USD4 billion resort project will
be reminiscent of the Las Vegas
Bellagio, the CEO revealed last
year.
In a statement, Wynn Resorts
recalled that “this prestigious
recognition is based on quantitative data, while evaluating
which CEOs delivered the most
concrete results during their tenure.”
The Harvard Business Review
annual ranking looks at over
3,000 CEOs across the globe.
Three metrics are incorporated in this analysis, namely industry-adjusted
shareholder
returns, country-adjusted shareholder returns and increase
in market capitalization.
CEO of Amazon, Mr Jeffrey
Bezos, was ranked 1st best-performing CEO, followed by John
Martin, from Gilead Sciences,
and John Chambers from Cisco
Systems. Mr Steve Wynn was
ranked 17th top performing
CEO this year, and Mr Edward
Tracy ranked 96th. CP
Sands China stocks rise, company
praises diversification strategy
H
ONG Kong stocks
rose yesterday, as
property companies and
casino operators lead
the advance. Declines in
Macau’s gaming revenue
for the past four months
didn’t stop Sands China
Ltd. from rising 2.2 percent to place gains among
Macau gaming shares.
A source from the industry told the Times
that “while most gaming
analysts and operators
focus on temporary gains
or losses in the casino
market’s share of revenue, Sands China leads
the industry consistently
in non-gaming diversifi-
cation and revenues, including Entertainment,
Events, Hotel, Food & Beverage, MICE and Retail.”
Sands China’s strategy
consists of elevating Macau’s profile as a travel
and leisure destination
through high-profile entertainment events that
have been broadcast to
over a billion viewers globally, the majority of these viewers being based in
China.
“At a time when the industry is struggling to
understand changes in
the market, Sands China
keeps a ‘steady hand on
the wheel’, focusing on
the rising middle class by
developing high quality,
affordable hotel rooms,
spectacular events and
diverse retail experiences,” the source revealed,
stressing also that “creating ‘memorable experiences’ is a key component in Sands’ strategy
to drive ongoing visitation to Macau and Sands
China’s four properties.
In the process, Sands
China’s hotel brands and
team members “have won
more quality service and
sustainability
awards
than any other operator.”
Sands China had the highest market share in Q3,
but when asked about the
significance of market
share of revenue, the
company’s CEO Edward
Tracy was quoted as
saying, “Market share of
revenue is only one figure
we look at. Market share
of EBITDA is the best indicator of overall efficiency of the operations and
the key to shareholder
value.”
Sands China has consistently delivered over 30%
of the entire market’s
EBITDA, as noted by
Union Gaming’s Grant
Govertsen in a recent
interview about market
shares.
The “Thai Fight World Battle” was one of the many events held
recently at The Venetian’s Cotai Arena
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Heritage Committee concerned
with LRT impact on Praia Grande
João Pedro Lau
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N the latest plenary meeting
of the Cultural Heritage Committee (CPC), members have
voiced their concerns regarding
the Light Rapid Transit (LRT)’s
impact on the view of the area in
the Praia Grande district facing
the Government Headquarters.
They have also expressed their
support for the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) to initiate the
evaluation procedure in order
to preserve a partly demolished
building on Rua da Barca.
In a press conference yesterday,
IC’s president Ung Vai Meng revealed that the officials from the
Transportation Infrastructure
Office (GIT) have introduced the
improved draft of the design for
the LRT stations at Praia Grande
and Sai Van Lake to members.
He said that some of them were
especially concerned with the
Praia Grande station because of
its relatively close proximity to
the Government Headquarters.
They were also worried that the
station may have an impact on
the landscape of the area.
Members have suggested that
IC’s president, Ung Vai Meng
the authorities should consider overall planning of the LRT
facilities and the lakeside area
opposite the Government Headquarters. They also advised the
authorities to improve the environment of that area in different
stages, which was agreed by the
officials from the urban planning
department at the Land, Public
Works and Transport Bureau.
Moreover, CPC members have
drawn attention to the building
on Rua da Barca that was partly
demolished at the end of last year
before halting due to public concern.
Ung Vai Meng said that the
general consensus among the
members is that they will support
the IC’s decision to evaluate the
building in accordance with article 19 of the Cultural Heritage
Protection Law and to determine
if it should be included in the cultural heritage list.
Although the top two stories of
the building have been demolished, Ung Vai Meng said that
his colleagues believe it can be
repaired at this stage from a technical perspective. He also does
not believe that the appeal launched by the building’s developer
is in conflict with the launching
of the evaluation procedure. The
IC president reiterated that the
law has already provided guidelines on how best to compensate
the owners of cultural heritagelisted buildings.
Architect Carlos Marreiros, the
CPC member responsible for external communication, attended
yesterday’s press conference. He
said that although the building in
question is not within the Historic Centre, members still think
that it has some special characteristics unique to 1960s architecture in Macau.
Since this is the first time such
an evaluation procedure has
been launched, some CPC members have given a positive response to the action.
Furthermore, they think that,
if it is preserved in the future, it
is crucial for the building to be
integrated into the nearby neighborhood.
Mr Marreiros later suggested that there are only very few
structures that have similar architectural characteristics to the
said building on Rua da Barca.
Therefore, he personally believes
that it is worth preserving.
When asked about the time frame, Ung Vai Meng said that the
evaluation procedure would involve a significant workload and
will likely to take some time. He
said that the procedure will officially begin in the first quarter
next year and will last for no longer than 12 months.
The IC president also suggested that there are other buildings
they found in this year during the
bureau’s cultural heritage survey that are believed to have the
potential to be included into the
cultural heritage list. They will
evaluate those structures alongside the Rua da Barca building.
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Tourists pay
more for goods
and services
The Tourist Price Index (TPI)
for the third quarter of 2014
increased by 4.89 percent
year-on-year to 135.14.
The Statistics and Census
Service (DSEC) attributes the
increase to higher charges
for hotel accommodation and
restaurant services, as well as
higher prices of clothing and
handbags. Notable increases
were observed in the price
index of the sections “Clothing
& Footwear” (+8.85 pct),
“Restaurant Services” (+7.97
pct), and “Accommodation”
(+6.29 pct). On the contrary,
price index of “Transport &
Communications” decreased by
4.60% year-on-year. DSEC also
revealed yesterday that TPI
for the third quarter of 2014
increased by 1.21% quarterto-quarter, of which the price
index of “Restaurant Services”
and “Accommodation” rose by
3.46% and 3.29% respectively.
The 2009/2010-based TPI
reflects the price change of
goods and services purchased
by visitors. According to DSEC,
sections of TPI goods and
services are selected according
to the consumption pattern of
tourists.
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China’s Alipay offers
mobile wallet for US sites Facebook, Apple
to offer egg
freezing benefits
Barbara Ortutay, Technology Writer, New York
Mae Anderson, Technology Writer, New
York
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HINA’S half billion online shoppers will soon
have an easier way to shop
in the U.S.
Alipay, the payments unit recently spun off from Chinese ecommerce powerhouse Alibaba,
is launching a service for U.S. retailers called ePass. Alipay has already been working in beta mode
with retailers such as luxury deal
site Gilt.com, The Gap and H&M.
“We want to demystify the Chinese consumer for U.S. retailers,”
said Jingming Li, president and
chief architect of Alipay, which has
a U.S. base in Santa Clara, California, alongside its affiliate Alibaba.
Alipay targets English-reading
young professionals in the four biggest regions of China (it doesn’t
offer a translation service).
The move will let U.S. retai-
lers tap into the estimated 500
million Chinese online shoppers
who spent USD298 billion online
in 2013. EPass will be available to
any U.S. retailer interested in reaching the Chinese consumer, Li
said in a press briefing.
And it comes as the payment-services category is heating up with
new offerings including Apple Pay,
and eBay’s plan to split off its PayPal
payments business next year.
Cross-border
shopping
is
growing. PayPal, which also offers
cross-border payment services,
estimates that by 2018, there will
be 130 million cross-border shoppers spending over $300 billion
globally.
It is possible for a Chinese customer to make purchases on U.S.
retail sites without ePass, but the
process involves using an international credit card and typically
brings mark-ups on Western products. EPass aims to ease the “fric-
tion” of international purchases, Li
said.
Users of ePass will see an ePass
payment option when they check out on a retailer’s site. Chinese
shoppers pay in yuan using their
Alipay account and Alipay transmits the payment to merchants in
14 currencies via 180 international
financial institutions. Customs duties are calculated at checkout.
Alibaba started Alipay in 2004 to
facilitate payments on its web sites
and spun off the unit in 2011 into
a company controlled by Alibaba
CEO Jack Ma. Because it was spun
off, Alipay was not part of Alibaba’s mammoth $25 billion IPO in
September, the largest ever.
Alipay says ePass can provide
retailers with payment processing
services, as well as shipping logistics and marketing services as needed. Alipay will take a cut of each
transaction but did not specify
how much the percentage is. AP
REE lunches, dry cleaning, massages — frozen
eggs?
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies have long offered
cushy perks to attract top talent and keep workers happy logging scores of hours on the job. But beyond dayto-day luxuries, Facebook and Apple will now give up
to USD20,000 in benefits to help employees pay for
infertility treatments, sperm donors and even to freeze
their eggs. The move comes amid stiff competition for
skilled engineers, and as many of the biggest firms try
to diversify their male-dominated ranks to include and
appeal to more women.
“Anything that gives women more control over the
timing of fertility is going to be helpful to professional
women,” said Shelley Correll, a sociology professor
and director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. “It potentially addresses the conflicts between the biological clock and the
clockwork of women’s careers: The time that’s most
important in work, for getting your career established,
often coincides with normal fertility time for women.
This can potentially help resolve that by pushing women’s fertility into the future.”
Facebook this year started offering to reimburse
workers for up to $20,000 worth of reproductive-related costs, over the course of employment. Apple’s
similar perks will start next year. The companies’ eggfreezing benefits were first reported by NBCNews.com
on Tuesday.
Freezing their eggs gives women an option to focus
on their career or education first, the “leaning in” that
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg
champions.
Dr. Alan Copperman, a fertility specialist at Mount
Sinai Hospital thinks Apple and Facebook are ahead of
the game in offering to cover the procedure, both as a
recruitment and retention tool and from a public health
perspective. He expects other companies to follow suit,
“because it’s the right thing to do and it’s going to send
a signal that women’s health should be a priority.” AP
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the venetian macao wins ttg travel “best
meetings & conventions hotel” award
The Venetian Macao has
been voted the Best Meetings & Conventions Hotel in
the 25th Annual TTG Travel
Awards 2014. The honor reflects industry recognition by
event planners and conference
organizers for this meetings
destination, demonstrating The
Venetian Macao’s service and
its facilities.
“Receiving this distinctive
award is an honor for us; it demonstrates the success of our
efforts to deliver the best experience to our clients, while we
strengthen MacaU’s position
as the premier destination for
business and leisure travellers
in the region and contribute to
the development of the MICE industry here,” said Ciaran Carruthers, Senior Vice President and
Director of Venetian and Plaza
Operations, Sands China Ltd.
“We will continue to strive for
the best, and to further cement
MacaU’s position as the leading
meetings destination in Asia.”
This latest recognition is the
11th time TTG has awarded
The Venetian Macao. The integrated resort has also won
the award for Best Meetings
& Conventions Hotel in Macau in the annual TTG China
Travel Awards for seven years
running. In addition, it was voted Best New Hotel in Macau in
the TTG China Travel Awards
2008, and Best Integrated Resort in the TTG Travel Awards
in 2008 and 2009.
ctm to offer iphone
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on 31 october
On Tuesday CTM announced it will offer iPhone 6 and
iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history,
beginning 31 October. Online
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and customers can pre-register
interest at https://www.ctm.net/
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nike sues over chuck taylor trademark
infringement
Nike’s Converse brand is
suing 31 companies, saying
they are selling knockoff versions of its Chuck Taylor shoes.
Converse is suing Skechers
USA, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,
FILA, Ed Hardy, K-Mart Corp.
and Ralph Lauren Corp.,
among many others. It says the
companies are infringing on trademarks that cover the look of
the shoe and the diamond pattern on the bottom of the sole.
Iconix Brand Group Inc., the
parent of the Ed Hardy brand,
declined to comment on the
lawsuit. Walmart did not immediately reply to a request for
comment.
The North Andover, Massachusetts, company filed its lawsuits Tuesday in the Eastern
District of New York and at the
International Trade Commission.
Converse says look-alike Chuck
Taylor shoes have become more
common in recent years, and
says it has served about 180
cease and desist letters related
to the issue since 2008.
Nike Inc. acquired Converse in 2003. Sales of the brand
rose 16 percent in the most recent quarter ended in August,
to USD575 million.
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Corporate taxes reduced to
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P
ORTUGAL’S proposed State Budget for 2015 includes a
reduction of two percentage
points on corporate tax – to
21 percent – in an effort to attract foreign investment, according to official
information.
If the budget is approved by Parliament, this will be the second drop
in two years of the Company Income
Tax (IRC).
The budget was
approved after an
18-hour meeting
With this measure, the government
is expected to lose around 200 million
euros in tax revenue, a loss that can
be offset with income resulting from
combatting fraud and tax evasion.
Approved early on Monday after an
18-hour meeting, the proposed State
Budget for 2015 outlines a deficit of
2.5 percent of Gross Domestic Pro-
Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho speaks to parliament
duct (GDP) and economic growth of
1.5 percent, as set out in the Fiscal
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in April. The draft law on the State
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The Tete-Maputo line, considered to
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The first alternating current transmission line, costing US$951 million will link
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The second line will carry direct current
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HONG KONG
Shai Oster
T
HE battle for Hong Kong’s
future is being fought with
bamboo barricades and bags
of dirty tricks.
Like in the pages of an airport thriller, potentially embarrassing tip offs are being
leaked to the press on both
sides of the Hong Kong democracy debate.
While the police used chain
saws and sledge hammers on
Oct. 13 to tear down some barricades of protesters who have
occupied swathes of the city for
more than two weeks in a fight
for free elections, a more subtle combat is also taking place.
The latest skirmish concerns Hong Kong’s leader, Chief
Executive Leung Chun-ying,
and allegations he failed to
disclose a HK$50 million
(USD6.4 million) payment
from an Australian construction company after it bought
a property services firm at
which he was a director. The
reports come as Leung’s ultimate boss, Chinese President
Xi Jinping, pushes ahead with
an anti-corruption campaign
that’s netted thousands of
party cadres.
The disclosure of UGL Ltd.’s
payment to Leung, published
by an Australian newspaper
last week, might offer China’s
top leaders a “face-saving formula” for easing him out only
if they don’t see an alternative,
said Willy Wo-Lap Lam, adjunct professor at the Center
for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ousting Leung would come
with risks, Lam said, because
Beijing doesn’t want to be seen
succumbing to pressure from
the streets. A long delay - one
of Leung’s predecessors, Tung
Chee-Hwa, waited two years
after large protests to quit might, however, cast a shadow
over the election of the next
chief executive in 2017.
“Beijing doesn’t want any
such speculation,” said Ivan
Choy, a political scientist at
the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. “They would
want him to stay on for one
or two years until things settled down. Otherwise, if he’s
forced to step down sooner, it
would create more trouble for
Beijing.”
The timing of the disclosure
is raising eyebrows about who
leaked the material and the
motive behind it.
“These documents weren’t
released as we have non-poach and non-compete agreements with some 100 executi-
AP PHOTO
Who leaked about Leung?
Faceoff runs from chainsaws to whispers
Pro-democracy protesters display a picture of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and “hell money” on a main road in an occupied area outside government
headquarters in Hong Kong’s Admiralty
ves, and they’re not published
or on-the-record,” UGL Chief
Executive Officer Richard
Leupen said in an interview.
“To our mind, it’s a confidential matter, so it was either
taken or leaked out by someone who had access to the information.”
UGL said in a statement the
payment was a routine noncompete clause as part of its
Nobody knows
where the leaks
are coming
from. Some
say it’s Beijing,
some say the
Americans. This
is speculation
about deep,
dark secrets.
The timing is
very intriguing
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRWOMAN
acquisition of DTZ, a bankrupt
real estate consultancy where
Leung was a director, shortly
before he took office in 2012.
“It’s clearly someone who is
trying to damage C.Y. or us. At
this point, we don’t know. It
could even be a competitor,”
Leupen said. “You do wonder
why it takes three years to
come out.”
John Garnaut, an editor at
the Sydney Morning Herald,
told the Voice of America that
he’d received the documents “out of the blue” from an
anonymous source.
“Nobody knows where the
leaks are coming from,” said
Emily Lau, chairwoman of
the Democratic Party. She is
calling for Leung’s resignation. “Some say it’s Beijing,
some say the Americans. This
is speculation about deep,
dark secrets. The timing is
very intriguing. It comes right
at a critical juncture.”
Even with his approval ratings slipping to their second
lowest since he took office and
tens of thousands of Hong
Kongers publicly clamoring
for democracy, Leung appears
to still have Xi’s support. China’s most senior official in
Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming,
said the payments to Leung
were were “common business
practice” and he didn’t see
“any big problem with it,” The
Age newspaper reported.
An even clearer indication
of Beijing’s “unwavering support” for Leung came yesterday in a front-page editorial in
the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s newspaper.
David Eldon, the Asia-Pacific
chairman of HSBC Holdings
Plc from 1999 and 2005, said
in an e-mail that “the recent
payment disclosures, which
I am sure were made legally,
will create such a fuss that a
lot of pressure will be put on
the chief executive.”
The Leung report is the latest
in a series of unusual events that have hit the two sides
of the Hong Kong protests.
Opponents of the demonstrations leaked the home address
of 18-year-old student leader
Joshua Wong. Supporters of
the protests posted misleading photos that suggested
China was sending in tanks.
Hong Kong police say members of triads, the city’s organized crime gangs, have infiltrated both camps.
As many as 300 people yesterday besieged the printing
plant of a Hong Kong newspaper whose owner is an ou-
tspoken critic of Beijing and
staunch supporter of the protesters, delaying delivery of
the Apple Daily and other
papers that share its printing
press, including the International New York Times.
Leung “is not fighting for us,
he is fighting against us,” said
Jimmy Lai, chairman of Next
Media Animation Ltd. and
the paper’s publisher, who
has supported the studentled protests for free elections
in 2017. Lai was the target of
a failed assassination attempt
in 2008. In recent months his
media empire has been targeted by hackers, including an
attack on Oct. 13 that disrupted its website.
He has also been the target of
anti-corruption investigations
after local newspapers were
given leaked company records
allegedly documenting undeclared donations to local prodemocracy lawmakers.
The leaks and other tactics
are creating an atmosphere of
suspicion, Lau said. “People
are gathering black propaganda and all those personal files. We are all under political
observation. Who we see and
what we say. Even now, as I’m
talking to you. It’s quite unnerving,” she said. Bloomberg
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HONG KONG
Police battle protesters to
regain control of key road
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China is “deeply concerned”
about the situation, he said.
Talks between the government and the student leaders
broke down last week, leading
to an impasse in the worst political crisis the city has seen
since its return to China in
1997. The government has
made contact with students
through a middleman in the
past few days to try and set
up a dialogue, Secretary for
Constitutional and Mainland
Affairs Raymond Tam said in
a briefing yesterday.
“The government and I are
willing to have talks with students’ representatives on political reforms, but the Federation of Students has different
preconditions for talks over
the past weeks,” Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said
yesterday. Leung postponed a
scheduled briefing to the city’s
lawmakers today because of
CHINA
security risks, his office said
in a statement on the government website yesterday.
Leung had earlier this week
signaled that the occupation
of the streets shouldn’t go on
for much longer, as it disrupts
traffic and commerce.
As the demonstrations wear
on, opposition to the protesters has widened. A coalition
of truck drivers last week said
they would tear barricades
down if demonstrators didn’t
open the roads by yesterday. Two previous attempts
by mobs to clear the streets
have led to scuffles and ended after police pushed them
back.
The protests are also polarizing the city with little sign of
a renewal in talks to end the
impasse.
Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest
man, urged student protesters
to return home, saying they
have successfully got their
message across.
“I urge everyone not to
be emotional, I plead with
everyone not to let today’s
emotions becomes tomorrow’s regrets,” Li said in an
e-mailed statement. “I earnestly urge everyone to immediately return to your families.” Bloomberg
Fion Li
H
ONG Kong police said they would
investigate a complaint alleging officers beat a pro-democracy
protester during clashes early
yesterday morning over control of a key road.
Ken Tsang, a member of the
Civic Party, was taken by several police officers to a corner at
Tamar Park and repeatedly hit
and kicked, according to local
television footage. The police arrested 45 people as they
drove back protesters who had
seized the central Lung Wo
Road underpass near the city
government’s headquarters.
The television images are
sparking public outrage, questions from lawmakers, and
may rally people to bolster the
thinning crowds of protesters
who have occupied key roads
for almost three weeks. The
tussle over the city’s streets
escalated this week after police shrunk the areas controlled by demonstrators, who are
seeking elections free from the
influence of China in 2017.
“We can’t ignore the fact
that the longer this lasts, it
does have an implication and
impact on the reputation of
Hong Kong,” Mark McCombe, global head of BlackRock
Inc.’s institutional client business and chairman of alternative investors, said yesterday.
Seven police officers were involved in the arrest of Tsang,
Hong Kong Police Senior Superintendent Hui Chun-tak
said yesterday. The police
force is investigating a complaint that the officers, who
have been removed from their
current duties, used excessive
force, he said.
The police should “immediately arrest” the officers and
start a criminal investigation,
said Alan Leong, head of the
Civic Party. Tsang was handcuffed using plastic tape before the assault, he said.
Another TV channel, Now
TV, broadcast footage that it
said showed Tsang throwing
pitchers of water onto police
in the moments before he was
detained.
Police carrying shields advanced on protesters on Lung
Wo Road early yesterday morning, shoving and kicking
them back. Some were wrestled to the ground and handcuffed before being led away.
The operation came after police used chain saws and sledgehammers to clear barricades to reopen some roads and
a tram line feeding the central
business district.
While condemning the alle-
ged use of excessive force
in the clashes, none of the
leading student and activist
groups behind the protests
have come out to claim responsibility for the attempt to
claim Lung Wo Road.
“There isn’t a leader, but people at Lung Wo Road agreed
and then took the action,” said
Long, a 20-year university
student who was at the road
last night and only wanted
to be identified by his family
name. “I understand the front
-line police have got their own
difficulties, but you can’t just
beat people up.”
The Hong Kong Federation
of Students, one of the organizers of the broader occupation, said in a posting on
its Facebook page that police
Commissioner Tsang Wai
-hung and the officer in charge of clearing students at Lung
Wo Road should resign.
The student-led movement
that started Sept. 26 is demanding that the government
in Beijing drop plans to vet
the candidates for the election
of the city’s chief executive in
2017.
Protesters are challenging
China’s authority, and should end the demonstrations,
Zhang Xiaoming, head of the
China’s Liaison Office in Hong
Kong, said in a statement.
AP PHOTO
amnesty: police officers must face
justice for attack on protester
A protester leans over barricades after scuffling with police as they were trying to remove barricades that protesters set up to
block off main roads in Central district
Ken Tsang
HONG KONG police officers involved in the beating and kicking
of a detained pro-democracy protester yesterday must face justice,
Amnesty International said in a
press release yesterday.
Local TV news footage shows social worker Ken Tsang Kin Chiu
being taken away by six police
officers in the early hours of yesterday.
Amnesty International spoke to a
lawyer assisting Tsang who confirmed the details of the attack,
and that the victim was taken by
police to a local hospital to receive
medical treatment. Police have
since said they will conduct an
investigation into the incident.
“This appears to be a vicious attack against a detained man who
posed no threat to the police. Any
investigation into this incident
must be carried out promptly and
all individuals involved in unlawful acts must be prosecuted,” said
Mabel Au, Director of Amnesty
International Hong Kong.
“It is stomach-churning to think
there are Hong Kong police officers
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that feel they are above the law.”
According to the lawyer, Tsang
was initially arrested for assaulting a police officer. The charges
against Tsang were then changed
to unlawful assembly and obstructing police officers from carrying out their duties. He remains
in police custody and will be interviewed after receiving medical
treatment.
The incident occurred at around
3am on Wednesday morning as
police attempted to remove prodemocracy protesters who had
occupied a road just off the main
protest site in downtown Hong
Kong. Police used pepper-spray
against scores of protesters. According to police 45 people were
arrested.
“All those being held solely for
exercising their rights to freedom
of expression and assembly must
be immediately and unconditionally released,” said Mabel Au.
“Amnesty International urges
the Hong Kong police to show restraint and avoid any unlawful use
of force.”
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AP PHOTO
Talks deadlocked as generals
leave without agreement
S Korean civic group members wave their national flags as they support sending balloons to N Korea containing anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets, in front of the
government complex in Seoul
Hyung-Jin Kim, Seoul
T
HE first military talks
between North and
South Korea in more
than three years ended
with no agreement yesterday,
with the rivals failing to narrow
their differences on how to ease
animosities following two shooting incidents last week, South
Korean officials said.
The two countries traded gun-
fire Friday after South Korean
activists floated balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border.
Earlier last week, their navies
exchanged warning shots along
the nations’ disputed sea boundary. There were no reports of
casualties from either incident,
but they served as a reminder of
tensions running high on the divided Korean Peninsula.
Yesterday, following a propo-
sal by the North, military generals from the two Koreas met at
a border village in the countries’
first military talks since February 2011, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry.
During the closed-door meeting, North Korea repeated its
demands that South Korea ban
activists from dropping leaflets and media outlets from publishing articles critical of the
North, ministry spokesman Kim
NEPAL
Avalanche, blizzard kill
12 in mountains
Binaj Gurubacharya,
Katmandu
A
N avalanche and
blizzard in Nepal’s
mountainous north have
killed 12 people, including
foreign trekkers, officials
said yesterday as weather
conditions improved.
An avalanche yesterday
buried four Canadians
and one Indian trekker
in Phu, said Devendra
Lamichane, chief administrator of Manang district. The snow buried the
trekkers’ bodies and digging them out would take
days, he said.
Three villagers were killed Monday in the same
district, about 160 kilometers northwest of the
capital, Katmandu, and
their bodies were recovered on Wednesday.
In the neighboring Mustang district, four trekkers
caught in a blizzard died
Tuesday. Rescuers recovered the bodies of the
two Poles, one Israeli and
one Nepali trekker from
the Thorong La pass area.
It was initially thought
the group had been caught in an avalanche, but
government official Yam
Bahadur Chokyal said by
telephone from Mustang
that the four trekkers instead had been caught in
the blizzard and died.
He said another 14 foreign trekkers have been
rescued so far, and two
army helicopters were picking up injured trekkers
and flying them to Jomsom town.
Chokyal said it was not
possible to say how many
trekkers were still on the
route stranded by the
deep snow but several of
them had reached safe
Min-seok said at a televised news
conference. South Korean delegates responded that they cannot
do so because South Korea is a
liberal democracy, he said.
The sides were also at odds
over the sea boundary, drawn
unilaterally by the American-led
U.N. command at the end of the
1950-53 Korean War without the
North’s consent, Kim said. There
have been several bloody inter
-Korean naval skirmishes along
ground yesterday because
of improved weather.
The rain and snow in Nepal were caused by a cyclone that hit neighboring
India several days ago.
October is the most popular trekking season in
Nepal, with thousands of
foreigners hiking around Nepal’s Himalayan
mountains.
The Thorong La pass is
also on the route that circles Mount Annapurna,
the world’s 10th highest
peak.
An avalanche in April
just above the base camp
on Mount Everest killed
16 Nepalese guides, the
deadliest single disaster
on the mountain. Climate
experts say rising global
temperatures have contributed to avalanches
on the Himalayan mountains. AP
the boundary in recent years.
“The atmosphere of today’s
talks was very serious because
South and North Korea both
have wills to improve ties ... but
they couldn’t narrow their differences,” Kim said. The two sides
didn’t set a date for a next meeting, he added.
After Friday’s gunfire exchange, South Korea said it would
sternly deal with any further
provocations by North Korea,
but stressed that the door for
dialogue remained open. North Korea urged South Korea to
stop hostile acts such as dropping leaflets if it wants improved ties.
Hopes for better relations were
given impetus after a group of
high-level North Korean officials made a rare visit to South Korea earlier this month and
agreed to resume senior-level
talks. South Korea’s Unification
Ministry, which is responsible for relations with the North,
said yesterday that it proposed
the senior-level talks for Oct. 30.
Seoul officials have said the talks
would be among government officials, not military officers.
The North Korean delegation
Wednesday was led by Kim
Yong Chol, a hard-line general
believed to have been behind
two attacks blamed on North Korea that killed 50 South
Koreans in 2010. South Korean
delegates reiterated during the
meeting that Pyongyang must
take responsibility for the attacks, according to South Korea’s
Defense Ministry.
It was not immediately known
how North Korea responded.
South Korean officials refused
to provide further details of the
talks.
The two Koreas remain in a technical state of war because the
Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. About
28,500 U.S. troops are deployed
in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea. AP
The remote Himalayan region
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EBOLA
Emily Schmall and
Nomaan Merchant, Dallas
A
second health care
worker at a Dallas
hospital who provided
care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S.
has tested positive for the disease, authorities said yesterday.
The worker reported a fever
Tuesday and was immediate isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the Texas Department of State Health Services
said in a statement.
Health officials said the worker
was among those who took care
of Thomas Eric Duncan after he
was diagnosed with Ebola. Duncan died last Wednesday at the
Texas hospital.
The department said a preliminary Ebola test was conducted
late Tuesday at a state public
health laboratory in Austin,
Texas, and that confirmatory
testing would be conducted at
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta.
The statement also said the
health care worker, who wasn’t
identified, was interviewed to
quickly identify any contacts
or potential exposures and that
others will be monitored. It added that the type of monitoring
will depend on the nature of
their interactions with the health care worker and the potential
of exposure to the virus.
Officials have said they don’t
know how the first health
worker, a nurse, became infected. But the second case pointed
to lapses beyond how one individual may have donned and removed personal protective garb.
“An additional health care
worker testing positive for Ebola is a serious concern, and the
CDC has already taken active
steps to minimize the risk to
health care workers and the
patient,” the CDC said in a statement released yesterday in
Atlanta.
The federal agency said yesterday that it was conducting
the follow-up testing to confirm
the preliminary Texas lab result.
And it said it also took part in
interviewing the second health
care worker to identify any contacts or potential exposures in
the community.
Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the
CDC, has acknowledged that the
government wasn’t aggressive
enough in managing Ebola and
containing the virus as it spread
from an infected patient to a
nurse at a Dallas hospital.
“We could’ve sent a more robust hospital infection control
team and been more hands-on
with the hospital from day one
about exactly how this should be
managed,” he said Tuesday.
AP PHOTO
2nd US health care worker tests positive
A hazmat worker moves a barrel while finishing up cleaning outside an apartment building of a hospital worker in Dallas
Officials said
they don’t
know how the
first health
worker became
infected. But
the second
case pointed to
lapses beyond
how one
individual may
have removed
protective garb
Frieden outlined new steps
this week designed to stop the
spread of the disease, including
the creation of an Ebola response team, increased training for
health care workers nationwide
and changes at the Texas hospital to minimize the risk of more
infections.
“I wish we had put a team like
this on the ground the day the
patient — the first patient — was
diagnosed. That might have prevented this infection,” Frieden
said.
The stark admission came as
the World Health Organization
projected the pace of infections
accelerating in West Africa to up
to 10,000 new cases a week within two months.
In a conference call late Tuesday, the nation’s largest nurses’
union described how the patient,
Duncan, was left in an open area
of the emergency room for hours. National Nurses United, citing unnamed nurses, said staff
treated Duncan for days without
the correct protective gear, that
hazardous waste was allowed to
pile up to the ceiling and safety
protocols constantly changed.
RoseAnn DeMoro, executive
director of Nurses United, refused to say how many nurses
made the statement about Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital,
but insisted they were in a position to know what happened.
A total of 76 people at the hospital might have been exposed
to Duncan, and all of them are
being monitored for fever and
other symptoms daily, Frieden
said. Nurse Nina Pham contracted the virus while caring
for Duncan. Health officials are
monitoring 48 others who had
some contact with Duncan before he was admitted the hospital
where he died. The Associated
Press reported Monday that
Pham was among about 70 hospital staffers who were involved
in Duncan’s care after he was
hospitalized, based on medical
records provided by his family.
Frieden said some of the wor-
ld’s leading experts on how to
treat Ebola and protect health
care workers are in the new response team. They will review several issues including how isolation rooms are laid out, what
protective equipment health
workers use, waste management
and decontamination.
In Europe, the WHO said the
death rate in the outbreak has
risen to 70 percent as it has killed nearly 4,500 people, most of
them in West Africa. The previous mortality rate was about
50 percent.
President Barack Obama,
speaking at the end of a meeting
with U.S. and allied military leaders, declared that the “the world is not doing enough” to fight
Ebola.
Pham, 26, became the first person to contract the disease on
U.S. soil as she cared for Duncan. The nurse released a statement Tuesday through Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital
saying she was “doing well,” and
the hospital listed her in good
condition. She has received a
plasma transfusion from a doctor who beat the virus and the
hospital CEO said medical staff
members remain hopeful about
her condition.
Pham was in Duncan’s room
often, from the day he was placed in intensive care until the
day before he died.
“I’m doing well and want to
thank everyone for their kind
wishes and prayers,” she said.
Pham’s parents live in Fort
Worth, where they are part of a
close-knit, deeply religious community of Vietnamese Catholics.
Members of their church held
a special Mass for her Monday
and her sorority sisters at the
Texas Christian University held
a candlelight vigil for her Tuesday.
Pham and other health care
workers wore protective gear,
including gowns, gloves, masks
and face shields — and sometimes full-body suits — when caring for Duncan. Health officials
have said there was a breach in
protocol that led to the infections, but they don’t know where the breakdown occurred.
Among the changes announced Tuesday by Frieden was
a plan to limit the number of
health care workers who care
for Ebola patients so they “can
become more familiar and more
systematic in how they put on
and take off protective equipment, and they can become
more comfortable in a healthy
way with providing care in the
isolation unit.”
Frieden said he was fully aware of the fear among health care
workers in Texas and elsewhere
about the risks of contracting
the virus.
“Ebola is unfamiliar. It’s scary,
and getting it right is really,
really important because the
stakes are so high,” he said. AP
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Steenkamps vow to return cash
Pistorius paid after killing Reeva
AP PHOTO
Christopher Spillane
and Paul Burkhardt
T
HE prosecutor in Oscar
Pistorius’s trial for killing
his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
said her parents rejected his offer to pay them 375,000 rand
(USD34,000) he got for selling
a car because they didn’t want
“blood money”.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel made
the announcement during Pistorius’s sentencing hearing for
his manslaughter conviction of
Steenkamp at the High Court in
Pretoria, South Africa’s capital.
Nel said the Steenkamps planned to repay the 6,000 rand a
month Pistorius paid them since
March last year, a month after
the athlete killed Reeva on Valentine’s Day.
“I can put on record and I’ll lead
evidence if I have to that those
monies will be paid back to the
accused in full, every cent,” Nel
said.
Nel discussed the payments
while cross-examining parole
officer Annette Vergeer, the se-
Oscar Pistorius, right, sits with defense lawyer Brian Webber prior to his third day of mitigation of sentencing at the high court
in Pretoria
cond witness called by defense
lawyer Barry Roux to argue that
Pistorius should be sentenced
to three years’ house arrest with
community service instead of a
prison term.
Vergeer said South Africa’s prison system couldn’t provide the
facilities Pistorius, a double amputee, would need.
“The exposure of the accused to
the inmates on his stumps will
have severe negative effects on
the accused,” she said. “The impact of imprisonment on the person who has never before been in
conflict with the law will be experienced as devastating.”
South Africa’s correctionalservices department disputed
Vergeer’s assertion, saying its
prisons “can cater for disabled inmates,” the South African Press Association quoted
spokesman Mthungzi Mhaga as
saying yesterday.
Judge Thokozile Masipa, 66,
will hand down the sentence after defense attorney Barry Roux
and Nel finish calling witnesses. His punishment could be as
many as 15 years in prison and
as little as a fine. The hearing adjourned and will resume today.
Masipa cleared Pistorius of
murder charges before convicting him of culpable homicide for
killing Steenkamp when he fired
four hollow-point bullets through
a toilet door in his house. Pistorius said he thought Steenkamp
was an intruder. Bloomberg
Peace agreement at stake as
country elects new leader
Salmond’s deputy sturgeon
set to take over leadership
Mike Cohen and Tom Bowker
Rodney Jefferson
M
OZAMBICANS formed long lines outside
polling stations to vote in
elections that will test the
durability of a peace deal
signed last month to end almost two years of sporadic
conflict between government troops and opposition
militiamen.
The Mozambican National Resistance, known as
Renamo, resumed attacks
in 2012 after accusing the
ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique, or
Frelimo, of violating a 1992
accord that ended a 17-year
civil war.
“If the election will be free
and fair, I’ll be the first to recognize it,” Renamo leader
Afonso Dhlakama said after
voting at a school in Maputo, the capital. “I hope it will
be the first time in Mozambique that the results will
be acceptable. We will see.
People want change, above
all the youth.”
Defense Minister Filipe
Nyusi, 55, is Frelimo’s presidential candidate and frontrunner to succeed Guebuza,
S
A woman with a child on her back casts her vote at a polling station as
the country goes to the polls in Maputo
who’s stepping down after
serving a maximum two terms. The post is also being
contested by Dhlakama, 61,
and Daviz Simango, 50, who
heads the Mozambique Democratic Movement and is
mayor of Beira, the second
-largest city.
“Violence is a worry for
us,” Teles Ribeiro, a researcher at the Center for Public
Integrity in Maputo, said
by phone Tuesday. “It is a
possibility. Renamo are still
armed.”
Guebuza voted at a school
in Maputo shortly after
polls opened at 7 a.m. local
time. Balloting proceeded
slowly and calmly at several
other polling stations in the
city, home to 708,812 of the
almost 10.9 million registered voters.
“Everything is on track,”
Paulo Cuinica, a spokesman
for the National Electoral
Commission, said by phone
from Maputo.
More than 4,000 local
observers and as many as
500 international monitors
are overseeing the election.
While voting is due to end at
6 p.m. local time, all those in
line before the deadline will
be allowed to cast ballots.
“There were no problems,”
said nurse Lucia Mustafa,
who waited in line for about
90 minutes before casting
her two ballot papers and
dipping her index finger in
indelible ink. “Everything is
going smoothly.” Bloomberg
COTTISH Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will take
over leadership of the government
in Edinburgh from Alex Salmond
following his resignation after voters
rejected their campaign for independence.
The Scottish National Party, which
runs the semi-autonomous administration that pushed for last month’s
referendum on leaving the UK, said
yesterday that Sturgeon, 44, was the
only nominee to replace Salmond as
leader. SNP members will approve
her appointment at their conference
next month.
Sturgeon, a lawyer by training who
worked in deprived areas of Glasgow, takes over a party whose membership has more than tripled since
the ballot. While 55 percent of voters opted to remain in the U.K., 1.6
million embraced the SNP’s flagship
policy of independence. Her main
task is to press Prime Minister David
Cameron to come good on the promises he made during the campaign
to cede more power to Scotland.
“Alex is a hard act to follow but I am
determined to lead the SNP, and the
country, from strength to strength,”
Sturgeon said in an e-mailed statement. “I will always make the case
for Scotland to be an independent
AP PHOTO
SCOTLAND
AP PHOTO
MOZAMBIQUE
A Yes campaign van drives past the Scottish
Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014
country, but with the Westminster
parties already backsliding on the
delivery of new powers, my immediate job will be to hold them firmly
to account.”
Salmond, 59, announced he would step down a day after losing the
Sept. 18 vote. He and Sturgeon had
spearheaded the campaign for independence since the SNP won a majority in the Scottish Parliament in
2011 and tabled the vote.
The SNP is scheduled to hold its
conference in Perth on Nov. 1315, when Sturgeon will be formally
anointed. Membership stands at
more than 80,000 compared with
25,000 before the referendum, according to the party. Bloomberg
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<The Worm Talks # Macau> The First Solo
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The Portuguese Music
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Calendar Illustrations by Guan
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Until: December 28, 2014
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s/n, NAPE
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Macau Arts Window: Pictures of Nothing at
All - The Art and Poetry of Kit Kelen
Time: 10am-7pm
(Closed on Mondays, no admission after 6:30 pm)
Until: October 19, 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
Historical Paintings of Macao
in the 19th Century
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
1978 Polish bishop is new Pope
cineteatro
16 Oct - 22 Oct
Macau Grand Prix Museum & Wine Museum
Time: 10am-8pm (Closed on Tuesdays)
Venue: Rua Luis Gonzaga Gomes, 431,
basement (Tourism Activities Centre-CAT)
Admission: Free Enquiries: (853) 8798 4108 / 2833 3000
this day in history
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
Cardinals at the Vatican have chosen the first nonItalian Pope for more than 400 years. Catholics around the world have been astonished by the choice
of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the Archbishop of Krakow.
Few people had suggested him as a possible successor to John Paul I, who died last month after just
33 days in office. He is barely known outside his native Poland.
After two days and eight votes, the result of the final, conclusive vote giving a two-thirds majority plus
one to the Polish bishop was signalled with a plume
of white smoke above the roof of the Sistine Chapel,
in accordance with ancient tradition. The new Pope,
who will be known as John Paul II, is also the youngest this century, at 58 years old.
In the early evening, the new Pope appeared before
the crowd of about 200,000 who had gathered in St
Peter’s Square. He stepped on to the central balcony
of St Peter’s to a rapturous ovation from the crowd,
and gave his first blessing as Pope.
Then, in a speech that was at times emotional,
he told how he had been afraid to accept the nomination, but had done so in obedience to Christ.
Speaking in fluent Italian, he put paid to fears that a
non-Italian would not be able to communicate effectively, saying, “in speaking your - our - language, if I
make mistakes, then correct me.”
The crowd roared its approval, and the Pope smiled
in response, with a hint of the informality that characterized the style of his predecessor, John Paul I.
The appointment brought an ecstatic response from
Poland, where as Bishop of Krakow Karol Wojtyla
took an uncompromising stand against the Communist regime.
There has been no official response from the government in Warsaw. More than 80% of Poland’s 35
million people are practising Catholics, maintaining
their faith in the face of strong opposition and sometimes brutal suppression from the Communist authorities.
The new Pope warned as recently as last year that
the Church was facing the threat of “programmed
atheisation” in eastern Europe. It is thought likely that
the fight for freedom of religion in the Communist
bloc will be a major theme of his papacy.
Offbeat
Higher views for tourists
Dubai’s tallest tower
Courtesy BBC News
In context
to
Visitors to the world’s tallest building in Dubai can
now get an even more elevated view of the Middle
Eastern city.
The owner of the 828 meter Burj Khalifa skyscraper
says that starting yesterday, visitors can pay to ride up
to a new observation deck on the 148th floor.
That is 555 meters above street level, making it the
world’s highest observation deck, according to Guinness World Records. To get there, they have to change
elevators on level 125.
Earlier, tourists could only go to a still operational
observation deck on the 124th floor. Nearly 1.9 million
visitors did so last year.
The higher views come with steeper prices. Prebooked tickets for the new attraction cost the equivalent of USD109, or $136 for immediate entry. AP
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
Pope John Paul II celebrated the 25th year of his papacy in
2003, and his term of office was among the longest in the
history of the Church. It was almost cut brutally short in 1981,
when a Turkish fanatic, Mehmet al-Agca, shot and seriously
wounded him in St Peter’s Square. After a long recovery, he
visited and forgave his would-be assassin.
His approach was “hands-on”, with frequent humour and
informality, endearing him to millions across the world. However, he took a conservative stand against divorce, abortion,
homosexual unions and rights for unmarried couples, and
his critics accused him of being out of touch with the modern
world.
He travelled widely, visiting more than 100 countries. One of
the earliest trips, in 1979, was to Poland.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2001, and began to have trouble completing speeches. In 2002 he returned
to his native Poland. The visit was widely viewed as a farewell
to the Catholic community closest to his heart.
The Pope died at 2137 (1937 GMT) on Saturday 2 April 2005
after he failed to recover from a throat operation due to
breathing problems.
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Taurus
Mar. 21-Apr. 19
April 20-May 20
Try not to push those feelings down
deeply today — you need to make
sure that you’re feeling everything
directly! It’s a good time to mix it
up with friends or family, just to let
them know you care.
You need to push yourself at least
a bit today — otherwise, things are
sure to get a little out of control
before you reach mid-afternoon.
Try to ask important questions,
especially related to romance.
Gemini
Cancer
May 21-Jun. 21
Jun. 22-Jul. 22
Make that to-do list with care
today — you’re likely to regret it
if it’s too long! Still, you need to
organize your activity, so make
sure that you’re thinking things
through before getting to work.
Something new begins today —
probably fairly early — and if it
doesn’t fill you with joy, it at least
gives you a positive lift just when you
need it. This kind of energy is great
for family business!
Leo
Virgo
Jul. 23-Aug. 22
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
Your intuition is working overtime
today! That could mean that you
need to just turn off your rational
mind entirely and let your instincts
guide you. That might take some
explaining later, though!
You need to spend extra time with
your friends or family today — if only
to recharge your emotional batteries.
You are tapped into your emotional
side in a new way, and that’s kind of
exciting.
Libra
Sep.23-Oct. 22
Oct. 23 - Nov. 21
You need to deal with a situation
that is likely to have you laughing
like a loon all day long — so prepare
for happiness! It’s a great night to
celebrate with friends and family if
you can.
Capricorn
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
One of your relationships is making
life more complicated — but also
a lot sweeter! It takes up more of
your time than you would have
expected, but you just don’t seem
to mind all that much.
You’re feeling somewhat out of
sorts, especially if you’ve been
cooped up in one place for too long.
Wanderlust may be too strong a
word for it, but you are inclined to
try a new venue.
Aquarius
SUDOKU
WEATHER
Easy
Medium
Hard
Feb.19-Mar. 20
Now is a good time for you to move
on from your typical pastimes.
Your energy is a bit restless, and
you should be able to keep yourself
from languishing in a bad place
while this phase passes.
Your dreamy side is manifesting
in full force today — but don’t
worry about missing out on
anything! More likely, you’ll
notice things nobody else does, so
watch out for clues.
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golfer’s clubs; 5- Sicilians, e.g.; 6- Swindle; 7- Romain de Tirtoff, familiarly; 8- Elevate;
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Yesterday’s solution
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greatly; 38- Adhere closely; 41- Photograph;
43- First principles; 46- Cpl.’s superior; 48First place?; 51- Chow; 53- Encroachment;
55- Gravy, for one; 57- Former spouses; 58Bits of thread; 59- Res ___ loquitur; 61- Golf
club which can be numbered 1 to 9; 63- Yes
___?; 64- Gave temporarily, holy period of
40 days; 65- “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
author; 67- Mine find; 68- Assist
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15- When said three times, a 1970 war movie; 16- ___-Croatian; 17- Cornerstone
abbr.; 18- Direct opposite; 20- Labyrinthine; 22- End for Siam; 23- Prepare to be
shot; 24- ___ soup yet?; 26- Leisure; 28- Alert; 32- Felt; 36- At all; 37- Early computer;
39- Conger catcher; 40- Places to sleep; 42- Fur scarf; 44- Be bold; 45- Property
claims; 47- Author Zola; 49- Actress Peeples; 50- Infuriate; 52- Unpublished; 54School orgs.; 56- FBI guys; 57- New Haven students; 60- Mai ___; 62- Register; 66Horseshoe crab; 69- Nabisco cookie; 70- Belgian painter James; 71- San Francisco’s
___ Tower; 72- Part of A.D.; 73- Cabinet department; 74- Wraps up; 75- Specks;
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Scorpio
None of today’s problems are
as terrible as they seem at first
glance, so see if you can just think
about them with a clear heart and
see what new ideas pop into your
mind. Flexibility is key!
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JM Theodore by Prema returns
to Macau to defend the Grand
Prix title it won last year. It has
expanded its team to three cars to
create the largest Theodore entry in
25 years.
The trio of SJM Theodore by Prema entries for the 2014 event, which utilize Mercedes-Benz powered
Dallara Formula 3 cars, will be driven by Frenchman Esteban Ocon,
Antonio Fuoco of Italy and Canada’s
Nicholas Latifi.
Lotus F1 Junior Team driver Ocon
was crowned champion of the FIA
European Formula 3 Championship
last week, while Fuoco, a member of
the Ferrari Driver Academy, stands
in the fifth place overall. Latifi is in
tenth place before the race in Hockenheim this weekend.
Theodore Racing has been synonymous with the Macau Grand Prix
since its founder Teddy Yip, known
as “Mr Macau Grand Prix”, first
competed as a driver in 1956, going
on to enter or sponsor racing teams
until 1992, amassing a record total
of six Macau Grand Prix victories.
His son, Teddy Jr, revived the team
name last year for what proved to be
a triumphant return, as British driver
Alex Lynn scored the seventh Macau
Grand Prix victory for Theodore.
According to a press release issued
yesterday by Theodore Racing and
the team’s title sponsor Sociedade
de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM), of
the 26 drivers who competed at Macau for Theodore from 1978-92, no
MACAU GP
Theodore expands its
team to three cars
fewer than 25 went on to become
Formula 1 drivers. Four of Theodore’s drivers also went on to become
future World Champions: Keke Rosberg, Alan Jones, Mika Hakkinen
and the legendary Ayrton Senna.
Speaking about the strengthened partnership between SJM and
Theodore, Ambrose So, chairman of
the board of directors of SJM, said,
“SJM is delighted and honoured to
expand sponsorship of the Theodore Racing Team. With a local heritage that parallels SJM, Theodore
Racing is a Macau institution with a
winning tradition.”
Mr Teddy Yip Jr. said: “We are delighted to return to Macau with our
partner SJM. Following on from the
Macau GP victory last year we return
with an expanded three-car team.
My father ran drivers who went on
to become F1 World Champions,
and I hope in time the drivers we run
will do the same. Two of them are
already contracted F1 junior drivers
and certainly on paper all three of
them have the talent to do so.”
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Marussia hits out at
‘false’ Bianchi reports
F
ORMULA One team Marussia has hit back
at claims it contributed to Jules Bianchi’s life-threatening crash at the Japanese Grand Prix
by urging him to ignore yellow warning flags.
Marussia refuted news reports that Bianchi
had been told to ignore the yellow flags and keep
racing at full pace in the wet and dim conditions
at the race earlier this month, saying the claims
were “entirely false.”
The French driver lost control of his car and
went off the circuit, hitting a mobile crane that
was inside the trackside barriers to collect another car. Bianchi remains in a hospital in Japan
in a critical condition with severe head injuries.
“At a time when its driver is critically ill in hospital and the team has made clear its highest
priority is consideration for Jules and his family, (Marussia) is distressed to have to respond
to deeply upsetting rumors and inaccuracies in
respect of the circumstances of Jules’ accident,”
the team said in a statement released yesterday.
Marussia said telemetry data from the car
showed Bianchi did slow in the part of the track
where marshals were waving yellow flags. Marussia said this data had been provided to the
FIA and Charlie Whiting, the race director for
F1’s governing body, had examined it and confirmed that Bianchi did reduce speed.
The team also provided to the FIA a full transcript of its radio communication with Bianchi during the race at the Suzuka circuit, and
said that transcript showed that the team never made any instruction for him to ignore the
yellow flags. AP
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The cumulative total number of ‘Likes’ attracted by posts on the official Facebook
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the 100 million mark, making him the social
network’s most popular man ever. In a video
message to his fans posted on Tuesday, the
Real Madrid and Portugal player described
the milestone as “an honour”, adding that
“your exceptional support inspires me.” Ronaldo started the page in 2009 and regularly
posts updates about his personal and professional life. This summer, on Children’s Day (1
June), he published a photograph of himself
and his son that more than 3.4 million Facebook users tagged with a ‘Like’ - said to be the
most ever achieved by any single post on the
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revolution folds
China has the Great Hall of the People. Hong Kong
has the “Great Hall of the Tycoons.” The above-mentioned phrase was uttered by Briton David Webb on Saturday night as he addressed a crowd of demonstrators
in Hong Kong. Webb, a shareholder-rights activist who’s
earned the enmity of Hong Kong’s powerful oligarchs,
cut right to the heart of things in his rousing speech.
“The government claims to believe in free markets and
competition, but where is the free market in leadership?”
Webb asked, perched atop a ladder. “Don’t worry about
the small economic impact of these protests,” he added.
“Think about the large economic benefits of a more dynamic economy, ending collusion between the government
and the tycoons who currently elect the chief executive.”
If Beijing learns anything from the biggest frontal assault on its authority since the British returned the keys
to Hong Kong in 1997, it should be this: Hong Kongers
want competent leaders, not cronies. As the Umbrella
Revolution begins to fold up - at least for now - here are
three things President Xi Jinping can do to keep the former British colony from succumbing to an endless cycle
of protests and crackdowns:
Dump the current chief executive: No one seriously
expects Xi to fire Leung Chun-ying this week, no matter
how much of a lightning rod he’s become. Forcing Leung
out now would be an open admission that the current
system of choosing leaders is flawed. It might also inspire
copycat protests across China calling for mayors, party
secretaries and even Xi to step down. But China must at
least begin telegraphing Leung’s departure in the weeks
ahead.
Xi could spin the sacking as part of his anti-corruption
drive. Leung faces a fast-growing number of questions
about the more than USD6.1m he reportedly received
from an Australian engineering company before taking
office in 2012. Leung’s toxic presence hasn’t been helped by his daughter’s Facebook updates mocking the
city’s urban poor. Really, where does Beijing find these
people?
Some in the Communist Party may see Leung as a
useful patsy to enact unpopular laws. The CE couldn’t
be any more disliked or compromised, so why not use
him to impose new limits on press freedom and political
assembly? Doing so, however, would court even bigger
protests and risk turning Hong Kong into the next Bangkok. Better to dump Leung at the earliest opportunity
and start afresh.
Find a decent replacement: Each of the three CEs chosen since the handover has been worse than the other.
And Beijing’s proposed system for electing the next one
in 2017 promises to produce yet another dud: A rule
change that requires any candidate to win 50 percent support from a tightly controlled election committee will ensure that loyalty to Beijing is the main criterion for victory.
China has one more shot at this. A smart, creative
leader who serves Hong Kongers, not the tycoons, and
addresses the causes of inequality would greatly ease
public discontent. At the least, any new CE should exhibit
a competence to match Hong Kong’s institutions, which
have by and large handled this crisis with patience and
skill. Yes, Hong Kong’s police erred when they fired tear
gas at demonstrators on Sept. 28, and again on Tuesday night, when TV cameras caught them apparently
beating and kicking one defenseless protester. But until
that point, they had displayed an impressive degree of
professionalism.
Learn from Hong Kong’s youth: Xi’s generation of
Chinese leaders would be wrong to view the architects of this standoff as some ideological fringe. Even the
shopowners and triad gangs complaining about lost
business have a stake in what protesters are demanding. While anger has coalesced around Leung, those
lining the streets cite everything from Beijing’s meddling
to inequality to pollution to inflation as driving forces
behind this revolution. Addressing any of these grievances requires greater openness, transparency and
accountability. That’s as true in China as it is in Hong
Kong.
“There is no large economy in the world with high levels of prosperity that does not have democracy,” Webb
told protesters on Saturday night. “So if China wants
world-class prosperity, and not the current 20 percent of
world-class, then it must have democracy and the civic
freedoms that go with it. Freedom of speech, freedom of
assembly, and freedom of the media.”
It’s this ability to speak, gather and write freely that
made Hong Kong the vibrant place it is today. If they were
honest, even the tycoons would admit that China should
be emulating Hong Kong’s success, not strangling it with
incompetent courtiers. Bloomberg
WORLD BRIEFS
AP PHOTO
China should act as umbrella
CHINA Eight people were
killed in a clash between
construction workers
and villagers in China’s
southwestern region
of Yunnan, authorities
said yesterday, as land
disputes grew more
violent. The Tuesday
clash on the construction
site for a warehouse
and logistics center in
Jinning county also left 18
people injured, the local
government said in an
online statement. It said
six construction workers
and two villagers were
killed.
KOREAS Military generals
A fight breaks out on the pitch between Serbian fans and Albanian national team players
Serbia accuses Albania of
provocation after brawl
Dusan Stojanovic, Llazar Semini
S
ERBIAN officials accused Albania yesterday of
a deliberate political provocation after a drone flew an
Albanian nationalist banner
over a stadium in Belgrade
during a match between the
two Balkan rivals, sparking
violence between players
and fans.
The referee halted and then
abandoned the scoreless
European
Championship
qualifying match in the 41st
minute Tuesday night when
a Serbian player grabbed
the banner — which carried
a map of Albania enlarged to include chunks of its
neighbors — and Albanian
players tried to protect it. As
the players clashed, Serbian
fans then ran onto the field
and clashed with Albanian
players.
Serbian police announced
an investigation into who
remotely piloted the drone
that flew for several minutes
over the stadium, while Albania’s team returned home
to a heroes’ welcome for defending their nation’s honor.
UEFA, the European soccer
body, said it will open disciplinary cases against both
Serbia and Albania over the
violence at the stadium.
The incident spiked political tensions between two
Balkan states that have been
at odds for decades, mainly
over the former ethnic Albanian-dominated Serbian
province of Kosovo, which
declared independence in
2008. Serbia — which con-
siders Kosovo the cradle of
its statehood and religion —
has never accepted Kosovo’s
independence.
Albanian fans had been
warned by their own soccer
federation against attending
Tuesday’s game in Belgrade
due to political tensions.
At the start of the match,
the Albanian anthem was
loudly jeered by Serbian fans
and derogatory chants were
heard throughout the first
half. Serbian supporters also
threw flares at the field.
Serbian minister Aleksandar Vulin said the drone incident was “carefully staged,”
aiming to discredit Serbia
and present the nation as a
regional security risk.
“Had someone from Serbia
flown a ‘Greater Serbia’ flag
in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the
U.N. Security Council meeting,” said Serbian Foreign
Minister Ivica Dacic, referring to the Albanian and Kosovo capitals.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter tweeted: “Football should never be used for political messages. I strongly
condemn what happened in
Belgrade last night.”
The stadium clashes brought into question next week’s
planned visit by Albanian
Prime Minister Edi Rama to
Belgrade, the first by an Albanian prime minister in 70
years.
Serbian fans have a long
history of violence at soccer
stadiums. In October 2010,
the Italy-Serbia European
Championship
qualifier
was disrupted in Genoa by
violent Serbia fans. UEFA
eventually awarded Italy a
3-0 win.
Outside the airport in Tirana, the Albanian capital,
up to 3,000 flag-waving supporters gathered early yesterday to cheer the team as it
returned home. Rama, who
was abroad, praised players
on his Twitter page for “the
pride and joy they gave us,”
and said he was “present in
my heart” at the airport reception.
Albanian Foreign Minister
Ditmir Bushati tweeted that
“Football should not be highjacked by extremism,” adding “Proud of our #Albania
team: showed courage and
maturity.”
Albania goalkeeper Etrit
Berisha thanked the fans for
the welcome, writing on his
Facebook page that “defending our national symbols is
a duty for us!”
Captain Lorik Cana said
the team unanimously decided not to continue with the
game.
“We considered our physical situation, with some
injured players, which was
not good,” he said, adding
that players also felt threatened. “Our situation was
clear, we could not continue
the match. And the security
situation was not adequate
either.”
Cana, who was born in Kosovo, said Albanian players
“showed our neighbors we
know how to respect them
and also walk with our heads
high.” AP
from North and South
Korea meet at a border
village for talks on how to
ease animosities between
the rival countries following
two shooting incidents last
week, South Korean media
say. More on p12
PAKISTAN’s military says
Indian forces have fires
across the border into the
Pakistan-administered
portion of the disputed
Himalayan region of
Kashmir, wounding four
children.
AUSTRALIA Australian
literature-lovers cheered
yesterday after Richard
Flanagan won the
prestigious Booker Prize
with a visceral story of
wartime brutality and its
aftermath — a novel the
head of the judging team
said was as powerful as a
kick in the stomach. The
country’s government
may be less pleased.
Flanagan in a post-awards
interview that Prime
Minister Tony Abbott’s
environmental policies
made him “ashamed to be
Australian.”
AUSTRALIA-IRAQ
Australia’s prime minister
says Australian special
forces sent to Iraq haven’t
been able to enter the
country yet because the
Iraqi government has not
provided the necessary
legal guarantees.
YEMEN Shiite rebels
who last month overran
Yemen’s capital win
another stunning victory,
capturing a key port
city on the Red Sea in
a move that underlines
their apparent intent to
create a “mini-state” in
the mostly chaotic and
lawless country at the
southern tip of the Arabian
Peninsula. Control over
the city of Hodeida gives
the rebels, known as
the Houthis and widely
suspected of links to Shiite
Iran, a vital sea outlet
needed to lend viability
to any future entity, but
adds considerably to the
troubles of Yemen’s U.S.backed president.