1. society
2. crime

cage,
arnold &
sly may
attend
clash in
cotai
P2
cases of ‘naked chat’
blackmail soar
sjm announces q3 results,
revenue drops
The number of extortion cases has
jumped from 35 over the first nine
months of 2013 to 79 in the same
period this year
SJM’s net income for the first nine
months of the year decreased by 4
pct year-on-year. Considering only
Q3, net income dropped by 16.4 pct
P3
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“ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ”
WORLD BRIEFS
CHINA Liaoning Province
has started to use
drones with remote
sensing systems to battle
air pollution, a local
environment watchdog
said yesterday. Since bad
traffic and snowstorms
disturb air quality checks,
Liaoning will use drones to
detect polluters and control
smog. The drones provide
real-time inspection of the
source of pollutants, said
Wu Di, deputy director of
the Liaoyang environmental
inspection bureau.
VIETNAM A Vietnamese
maritime official says
authorities are searching
for eight sailors who went
missing after their cargo
ship collided with another
vessel off the country’s
southern coast.
Improvement of traffic flow
tops citizens’ concern
P5 MDT REPORT
111,246 opinions and suggestions reached
Chui Sai On’s campaign office and were
delivered in September to the government
for analysis (pictured). The results reveal
that traffic, housing and healthcare are the
population’s greatest concerns. P3
NORTH KOREA The U.N.
agency that has provided
food aid to North Korea for
nearly two decades says it
has enough donations to
stay open for the rest of this
year but is uncertain whether
it will be able to operate
there beyond next March.
IRAN The Obama
administration is facing its
last best chance to curb
Iran’s nuclear program —
not just to meet an endof-the-month deadline
to secure a deal, but get
one done before skeptical
Republicans who will
control Congress next
year are able to scuttle
it. U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry, Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif and
European Union adviser
Catherine Ashton are
trying to work toward
an agreement in talks in
Oman.
LIBYA The Islamic State
group has established an
outpost in the Libyan city
of Darna, about 1,000 miles
from the nearest territory
controlled by the extremists
who are trying to set up a
“caliphate” in the region.
Activists and others in the
city tell The Associated
Press that religious courts
have ordered public killings
and floggings, as well
as segregating male and
female students in what
could be a model for the
group as it seeks to expand
its control.
More on backpage
Gov’t backtracks, domestic violence
to be listed as public crime
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Letter to the Editor
Red cards, yellow taxis
I am writing in response to the opinion
piece “Kapok: Red card for yellow cabs”
by Eric Sautedé in last Friday’s Macau
Daily Times.
Whilst wholeheartedly agreeing with
the grand majority and general thrust of
Mr Sautedé’s article, I should point out
some inaccuracies in the article.
I am not the founder of the Macau Taxi
Driver Shame Facebook group. It was in
fact founded by a local man, Mr Sloane
Jorba, after a particular horrific experience with Macau’s black taxis. I was
however one of the very first members
of the group and am the most active administrator. I guess I have become the
“face” of the group over time, although
that was not my initial intention.
Mr Sautedé claims Macau Taxi Driver
Shame is “designed to humiliate and discriminate against part of the community, making it very divisive and a trigger
for equally acrimonious counter-strategies from those ‘shamed’.” While I accept Mr Sautedé goes on to acknowledge
some virtues of our group and the Macau
Taxi Passenger Association which was
born from Macau Taxi Driver Shame, our
group is not designed to “humiliate and
discriminate”. All we are doing is shining
a light on (or, if you prefer, holding up a
mirror to) the chronically unethical and
illegal behavior of some (perhaps most)
of Macau’s taxi drivers. It is not MTDS
which is divisive; it is the bad taxi drivers
themselves, who divide their prospective customers into “gullible mainlander
tourists” and “everyone else”, preferring
to scam the former whilst ignoring the
essential transportation needs of the latter. And so far we have seen little, if any,
“acrimonious counter-strategies from
those ‘shamed’.”
Mr Sautedé continues, “It creates a cycle of distrust and, although it allows
disgruntled users to vent their repressed
resentment, ultimately it addresses the
symptoms and not the ailment.” I would contend it was the drivers themselves
who created the cycle of distrust. As for
addressing “the symptoms and not the
ailment”, I would dispute that entirely.
We have reiterated time and time again
that we are a long-term forward-thinking
group, constantly looking for ways to address the issue holistically on a systemic
basis.
I should, however, reiterate that I enjoyed and agreed with Mr Sautedé’s article on the whole, especially his closing
line, “All stakeholders have to be involved if the whole community is to benefit
in the end.”
Andrew W Scott
President, Macau Taxi Passengers
Association
Administrator, Macau Taxi Driver Shame
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Star studded boxing event?
Cage, Arnold & Sly may
attend Clash in Cotai
T
he highly anticipated Pacquiao–Algieri
fight to be staged at the
Venetian Cotai Arena on
Nov 23 “has the celebrity
rumor mill overheating
with excitement,” a source close to the event told
the Times.
This is partly due to the
celebrity sightings this
week at Venetian’s Bellini
Lounge where five of the
world’s greatest musicians performed an intimate masterclass of classic rock and roll. David
Beckham and his entourage came to see the show
on Saturday along with
a who’s who of the casino industry. “Celeb names such as Stallone and
Schwarzenegger
were
being buzzed about as
possible fight attendees
and one fan mentioned
that Nicolas Cage might
be in attendance.”
All three have a relationship with Venetian
and have made appearances in the past. Asian
celebs rumored to attend the HBO global
broadcast event ranged
from action film stars to
pop stars, and business
Actor Nicholas Cage in Macau, 2013
“royalty” from HK and
China.
Furthering these rumors,
sightings of Sands China’s
CEO Edward Tracy huddling with high profile
media executives from the
US and China also encouraged speculation.
If part of the gossip is
accurate, Venetian stands
to offer up “another
powerful entertainment
event that furthers the
global reputation of Macau as a leader in unique
entertainment offerings,”
an industry source said.
They added that in these
times of gaming revenue
slowdown, “this can’t be
but a positive thing for
the city.”
MDT was unable to confirm the information by
closing time.
The largest gathering
of Hollywood and Asian
stars in Macau occurred in October last year,
when over 80 celebrities
from Asia and around the
world attended the Huading Awards. Attendees
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CRIME
Cases of ‘naked chat’ blackmail soar
João Pedro Lau
F
igures from the Office
of the Secretary for Security revealed that there were
10,576 crimes committed
between January and September
this year, 3.8 percent higher than
the same period in 2013. Among
all types of criminal cases, the
number of extortion cases has
jumped by 125.7 pct from 35 over
the first nine months of 2013 to 79
in the same period this year.
The Secretary for Security
Cheong Kuoc Va suggested that
the surge in extortion cases between January and September
this year can be attributed to the
increase in ‘naked chat’ blackmail
cases.
“The reason [for the significant
increase of extortion cases] is
that there is a type of case that is
extortion after online nude chats.
There have been 48 of those cases
so far this year. Therefore, most of
the increased amount of extortion
still no words on cheong’s future
Cheong Kuoc Va was asked
about the recent speculation on the
new government Cabinet members
during yesterday’s press conference. He said that the government
would be making an announcement soon. “Everybody should
have some patience,” he said. “As
for my role, I am also waiting on
the government’s arrangement and
the official announcement by the
administration,” he added. At least
two lists of alleged future Cabinet
members have been circulating on
the Internet. In the latest one that
was reported by the Times, it was
claimed that Cheong Kuoc Va will
be replaced by Wong Sio Chak, the
current director of the Judiciary
Police.
cases came from the nude chat cases,” he explained.
Another type of crime that has
seen a considerable increase this
year is usury. There were 177 cases of usury between January and
September this year, a year-onyear increase of 48.7 pct. Cheong
Kuoc Va pointed out that among
all the people who are caught
participating in usury crimes, 98
of them were from the mainland
and eight were from Hong Kong.
Only two Macau residents were
involved in such cases.
Moreover, the published figures
also showed that there is a considerable increase in the number
of cases where mainland residents overstay their visa. In the first
nine months this year, 31,198
mainland visitors who are holders of documents other than the
individual visit scheme visa were
found to have overstayed, 21.5 pct
more than that in the same period
of 2013.
Cheong Kuoc Va said that the
amount of people caught overstaying their visa continued to
increase in the first half of this
year. However, the local government changed the penalties on
visa overstay and introduced a
higher fine and tighter restrictions in July. The number of
days that holders of transit visas
from the mainland are allowed
to stay in Macau has also been
reduced from seven to five days.
Mr Cheong believes that the
measures are helping to curb
Beckham praises Macau, looks
forward to further cooperation
I
t has been nearly a year
since David Beckham
first joined the bustling
hospitality industry in Macau in partnership with
Sands China. On his return
to the region last weekend,
the famed British sportsman showed his intent of
“bringing enjoyment in
different areas” for visitors
who come to town.
Talking about his partnership with Sands, Beckham stressed that “it’s
been very successful so
far” and is set to be a “longterm relationship.”
“Everything that we’ve
done is on a high level,
Macau is a
place that’s
changing so
quickly and
so rapidly
David Beckham
on a level that has made
people happy and people
enjoy,” he told the Times
in a question and answer
session held on Saturday.
“I think what we’ve tried
to do, especially on my side
over the last five years, is
go from being the face of
the sponsorship of things
into ownership, part-ownership and being partner
with these brands,” the
global icon revealed.
“It’s
not
something
like a year-or-two relationship; it’s a long-term
relationship. This is some-
thing where we are looking
to make things bigger, to
make things better and to
bring enjoyment to people
in many different areas,”
he added.
The partnership is based
around developing dining,
retail and leisure concepts at Sands’ properties in
Macau. Last Saturday, Beckham visited the renewed
Shoppes at the Four Seasons, where a crowd of admirers was thrilled by his
appearance.
When a fan told Beckham,
“you’ve been my idol since
I was five years old,” the
star blushed bright red and
gave him a hug. The former
sportsman said he wanted
to set a good example for
his children that their father is still working hard
despite retiring as a football
player.
Speaking of what he has
in common with his business partner, Beckham
said, “I love the way that
Sands look after the people, look after the staff,
look after the charities as
well. And that’s one of the
things why I was very excited and interested to be
involved with Sands.”
Having served as a UNICEF ambassador for a decade, Beckham acknowledged that charity is what
gives him “the most enjoyment and satisfaction”
other than his family and
the soccer field.
“It always has been the
most important thing to
me. Either while I’ve been
playing or in my life, the
thing that I get most out
the rise in overstaying, which
has led to the number of cases
dropping from 4,262 in July to
3,315 in September.
Nevertheless, he insisted that
it will take a longer period to determine the effectiveness of these
new measures. Mr Cheong also
suggested that the authorities can
again adjust the regulation and
further increase the penalties if
necessary.
Other crimes that recorded considerable increases include intimidation, rising by 23.4 percent
to 206 this year; while property
damage cases also rose to 801, a
10.5 percent increase. However,
the number of drug consumption
cases has dropped by almost half
from 246 in 2013 to 124 this year.
Although decreasing, theft cases still account for a large proportion of crimes. During the
first nine months of the year
there were 2,583 thefts (297 less
than in the same period of 2013)
and 92 cases of robery (versus
105 in 2013).
Aggression cases, typified as
“simple offenses to physical integrity” are also slighty decresing
(1,314 compared with the 1,271 up
to the end of September last year).
Nevertheless, cases of “serious aggression” were 12, four more than
in the same period of 2013.
of is being part of the different charities I’ve been
part of over the years. It’s
something that I enjoyed
the most, something at
the end of my career I was
looking forward to doing
the most,” he said.
The star also recognized
a significant change in
Macau since his first visit
to the city about two years
ago, adding that seeing
new things happening on
every visit is a reason why
he’s always enjoyed coming back.
“It’s a place that’s changing so quickly and so rapidly, and every time I come
back here, even though
I was here a month ago,
it feels that things have
changed and got bigger,”
he told the Times.
Speaking of his impression of the “Macau lifestyle” that he’d recommend
tourists to experience,
Beckham said it’s simply
the “enjoyment of coming
here.” “There’s a place you
can go and find great food,
great shopping, great nightlife and obviously the
casinos,” he explained.
“But it’s surrounded with
great people. It’s a place
where people are so friendly, and people come here
to enjoy themselves. So
it’s somewhere every time
I come, I have fun, I eat
great food,” he added.
beckham’s eldest son signs
for arsenal
david Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn Beckham
has been signed to a shortterm contract by Arsenal.
The teenager’s two brothers
Romeo and Cruz already play
in the club’s youth set-ups.
Brooklyn was wanted by
both Manchester United and
Chelsea, but after showing his
skills at the Gunners’ train-
ing ground, he was quickly
snapped up until the end of
the season. An Arsenal source
said that the 15-year-old “is
talented and he has stood out
in all of the training sessions
and games he has played.”
There is the potential for a
long-term deal for Brooklyn if
he continues to shine on the
pitch for the under-16s.
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T
he government will be suggesting listing domestic violence as a public crime, the Social Welfare Bureau’s president
revealed yesterday.
After months of discussion,
Iong Kong Io has said that consensus has been reached and
the current draft legislation will
treat domestic violence as a public crime. This means that the
investigation and prosecution of
domestic violence cases will no
longer depend on a complaint
filed by the victim.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, the president of the Social
Welfare Bureau (IAS), Iong
Kong Io, said that they hope to
finish drafting the bill this month. “According to society’s current will, it will be [listed as] a
public crime. The government
agrees,” he revealed, adding that
it will not only include cases of
physical violence but also of psychological abuse.
The last version of the domestic violence bill, however, was
quite different, as the authority
was still considering listing domestic violence as a public crime only in cases of “repeated
violence.” The term had raised
controversy, with domestic violence concern groups urging the
government to change its position, arguing that Macau’s administration had failed to acknowledge the complexity of the
crime and its impact on victims
and their families.
Iong Kong Io brought attention to the fact that the government and IAS took into account
public opinion when deciding
to list domestic violence as a
public crime. “After gathering
stakeholders’ opinions, parti-
photo archive
Gov’t backtracks, domestic violence
to be listed as public crime
The campaign to list domestic violence as a public crime has been ongoing for over a year, as this June 2013 picture shows
cularly those of social solidarity
associations, the government
conducted a in-depth study of
the matter,” he said.
More controversial issues of
According
to society’s
current will, it
will be [listed
as] a public
crime. The
government
agrees
Population grows
by 7,000 in Q3
Macau’s total population stood at 631,000 as
of the end of September 2014, up by 7,000
quarter-to-quarter, according to the Statistics
and Census Service (DSEC). The bureau
attributes the increase to the higher influx of
non-resident workers, which totaled 162,877
at the end of the third quarter, an increase
of 7,567 over the previous quarter. The
statistics revealed yesterday show that there
were 1,971 live births delivered in the third
quarter of 2014, an increase of 305 quarterto-quarter. Meanwhile, there were 419
mortality cases, a decrease of 58 quarter-toquarter. Considering the first three quarters
of 2014, mortality cases went up by 53 yearon-year to 1,445. A total of 957 marriage
registration cases were recorded in the third
quarter, up by 12 quarter-to-quarter. In the
first three quarters of 2014, there were 3,069
cases of marriage registration, down by 90
year-on-year. The region’s female population
totaled 319,100, accounting for 50.6% of the
total.
Iong Kong Io
IAS president
the domestic violence bill are
also being re-assessed, IAS president stressed, cited by TDM.
Iong Kong Io stated that IAS
and the government are still
working on the concept of domestic violence. He said it has
to be limited, but they’re hoping
to reach a clear definition of this
type of violent behavior.
Recently, local LGBT advocacy
group, Rainbow of Macau, launched a campaign pushing for
same-sex couples to be protected by the domestic violence bill.
However, this is unlikely to happen, Iong Kong Io confirmed
yesterday. He added that domestic violence cases involving
same-sex couples will be considered aside from the domestic
violence legislation, since there
is no legal framework in Macau
for same-sex marriage.
He added that the government
is being cautious regarding this
matter, but if any victim has any
difficulties, “IAS will provide support.”
The authoriry’s decision to list
domestic violence as a public
crime comes right after another
report issued by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW), released last
Friday. The Committee had urged Macau to list domestic violence as a public crime.
The UN entity provided a series of recommendations to the
MSAR’s administration, including strengthening the system
of data collection on all forms of
violence against women, particularly on rape; encouraging the
reporting of all forms of violence against women; and ensuring
GAMING
SJM announces Q3 results,
revenue drops
S
JM Holdings Ltd net income for the nine months of the year decreased
by 4 pct year-on-year to
HKD5,430 million. Considering only the third
quarter (Q3), net income
dropped by 16.4 pct to HKD1,528m.
The gaming operator announced the unaudited
Q3 2014 results yesterday.
SJM’s gaming revenue in Q3
decreased by 14.1 pct yearon-year to HKD18,091m.
From January to September
it decreased by 1.6 pct to
HKD62,203m considering
the same period last year.
During Q3, the group’s
VIP gaming revenue totalled HKD10,375m, a decrease of 23.6 pct from
HK$13,575m in Q3 2013.
Mass market gaming revenue stood at HK$7,359m,
an increase of 3.1% from
HK$7,141m, and slot machine (and tombola) revenue was HK$357m, an
increase of 5.4% from
HK$339m. SJM’s Q3 total income amounted to
HK$18,254m, including ho-
tel, catering and related services revenue of HK$163m.
Considering an average
of three month-end counts, during the third quarter
SJM operated an average
of 564 VIP gaming tables
(Q3 2013: 585), 1,190 mass
market gaming tables (Q3
2013: 1,186) and 2,806 slot
machines (Q3 2013: 3,348).
During Q3, the gaming
revenue of SJM’s flagship
Casino Grand Lisboa decreased by 11 pct from 2013
to HK$6,878 million. In
the nine months preceding
effective investigation of complaints and the prosecution of
violence acts against women.
CEDAW also urged the government to ensure that the future
bill will provide for the use of
protection orders. It also advocates for the provision of sufficient
and adequate shelters for women
who are victims of violence.
The Committee noted that
progress has been made by the
MSAR’s government in combating violence against women,
but said it remains concerned
“at the prevalence of violence
against women.”
CEDAW is especially concerned that the MSAR has not yet
established a human rights institution.
Local anti-domestic violence
groups have been advocating
for the recognition of domestic
violence as a public crime over
the past few years. Scholar and
member of the Macau Anti-Domestic Violence Coalition, Melody Lu, had already revealed
on Sunday that the government
was considering listing domestic violence as a public crime.
She recalled that after the bill is
drafted, it will be submitted for
civil groups’ scrutiny.
Professor of the Macau Polytechnic Institute, Cecilia Ho,
welcomed the government’s decision and said Macau’s administration was very open to society’s
opinions, Radio Macau reported.
She stressed that it is crucial
to ensure a good coordination
between entities dealing with
domestic violence. The scholar
thinks there is a need to look at
domestic violence as a human
rights issue, and not as a mere
private matter. CP
September 30 2014, Grand
Lisboa’s gaming revenue
decreased by 0.3% year-onyear to HK$23,086m.
Speaking about the third
quarter results, SJM’s CEO
Ambrose So said: “In spite of well-publicized headwinds this year which
have primarily affected the
VIP segment of the Macau
market, SJM has turned in
a decent performance in
the year-to-date period. In
particular our mass market
business has continued its
growth and overall our EBITDA margin has been stable. SJM is well-capitalized
and is moving ahead at full
speed on construction of
our Lisboa Palace project
in Cotai, while we continue
striving to optimize gaming
table utilization at our existing properties.”
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Catarina Pinto
I
mprovement of traffic
flow issues is among Macau
citizens’ top concerns, a report released by the government’s Policy Research Office
shows. The report, which is based
on 111,246 opinions and suggestions that reached Chui Sai On’s
campaign office in August, reveals
that traffic, housing and healthcare are the Macau population’s
greatest concerns.
The highest number of opinions
related to traffic flow problems,
as local residents are concerned
about the growing number of
vehicles on Macau’s roads, difficulties in getting a cab, as well
as how public transportation is
managed.
In a press conference held yesterday, the coordinator of the Policy Research Office, Lao Pun Lap,
revealed that 87,425 opinions or
suggestions given by citizens regarded traffic matters.
He did not disclose how many
of these are related to taxi services, but hinted that it’s a high
percentage. “Many of these opinions regarded taxi services, but
I do not have an exact figure at
the moment. But the proportion
of opinions on this matter is quite
diverging opinions
on gov’t policies’
efficiency
The Policy Research Office
coordinator, Lao Pun Lap, said
that with over 100,000 opinions
and suggestions collected during
Chui Sai On’s campaign, it is clear
that Macau’s population is concerned with a wide range of issues.
“The work [performed by the government] is still falling short of the
population’s expectations, because
society is constantly changing,” he
said. On the other hand, the Policy
Research Office’s main consultant, Mi Jian, said he thinks that
government policies did not fail.
“In reality, I don’t think there was
a failure in government action. On
the contrary, the government has
paid great attention to stabilizing
the economy over this term (…)
and the population [demands improvements] in the traffic, housing, and healthcare areas.”
Improvement of traffic flow
tops citizens’ concern
Lao Pun Lap
high,” he stated.
The coordinator acknowledged
that the taxi services have not
been responding to citizens and
tourists’ needs. Gathered opinions show that Macau residents
face hurdles not only in trying to
get a taxi but they also complained of being refused by certain
drivers and of overcharging. They
urged the government to increase
the number of taxis and address
offenses related to these services.
Mr Lap stressed that citizens
suggested for the government to
truly implement a policy giving
priority to public transportation.
They also think that the authorities should limit the number
of vehicles on Macau’s roads, increase the number of parking lots,
speed up the LRT construction
works, and improve the overall
traffic flow.
As expected, housing is a top
concern too, with 75,068 collected opinions on this matter. Lao
Pun Lap acknowledged that housing isn’t an issue that just affects those with lower incomes, but
indeed a problem affecting the
whole of society. “Even the middle
class feels that it is difficult to acquire a house. So there should be
a fund to support people in acquiring a first house, or bank credit
without the need to pay interest,”
he revealed.
Locals are expecting the government to perfect long-term housing policies, demanding an in-
crease on the number of housing
units on the market.
A high number of opinions also
addressed the need to have more
land where additional housing
could be built. Macau’s population provided concrete suggestions on housing policies, namely
the revitalization of industrial buildings, recovering unused land,
and requesting more land from
the Central Government.
Citizens are also demanding higher quality healthcare, as a total
of 48,456 opinions show. They
urge the government to work
towards providing an efficient
medical care mechanism. Further
investment in resources, optimization of healthcare services and
improvement of the patient-physician relationship were some of
the suggestions provided.
Respondents have also demanded that the government accelerates construction works for the
new public hospital in Coloane.
Diversifying Macau’s economy
is a priority too, with 44,488 opinions gathered on the matter. Citizens are hoping the government
will be able to create conditions
for small and medium-sized enterprises to prosper. They are
hopeful that the government will
maintain its cash handout policy,
too.
The establishment of an efficient
social security system is another
concern addressed in 43,480 opinions collected by Chui Sai On’s
Lao Pun Lap
campaign office. They’re demanding a social security mechanism
that can be run permanently.
Many have also voiced their
concerns about the safeguarding
of local residents’ employment
opportunities. Some have insisted
that casino job posts, such as casino dealers, should remain available for residents only.
The development of the politi-
citizens’ opinions/suggestions in numbers
te, which was the organizer
of the event.
Two of the winners from
each of the upper primary,
junior and senior high
school categories, and up
to three winners of the
college category will have
the chance to participate in the nationwide “21st
Century Cup” competition.
The organizer hopes that
the contest will encourage
young people to not only
acquire more knowledge,
but to develop a more global vision at the same time.
The Times spoke to one
of the judges, Bev Harrison, head of Off-Side Programs from Bell Educational Services. She was very
impressed by the performance of the contestants. “I think that there are
some extremely accomplished young children
in Macau. I think one of
Traffic issues
87,425
Housing
75,068
Healthcare
48,456
Economic issues
44,488
Social issues
43,480
Employment
22,468
Legal and political issues
21,320
Public Administration
12,255
Culture and education
9,787
Sports and leisure
6,443
Youth issues
6,355
Regional cooperation
5,921
Professional training
4,313
Environmental protection
2,547
Urban planning
1,686
Speech contest seeks to foster young local talent
ontestants had
an in-depth discussion
about important issues
such as gender equality
and animal rights in the
13th Macau-wide English
Speech Contest & 20th
“21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition Macau Regional
Contest. The final round
and award ceremony took
place last Sunday at the
Macau Polytechnic Institu-
cal system also worries Macau’s
population, with some urging
the government to implement
universal suffrage for the Chief
Executive election. The Policy
Research Office’s coordinator did
not disclose how many opinions
demanding universal suffrage
were issued.
Lastly, in a list of 18 main areas
of concern compiled by the Policy
Research Office, there was also a
call for improvements to the reform of public administration.
Chui Sai On’s campaign office
collected opinions and suggestions from Macau’s population
during his 14-day campaign last
August. The incumbent Chief
Executive gave a voice to citizens
in conferences, meetings, public
sessions, visits and meetings with
associations. Citizens also submitted their suggestions and opinions via letter, telephone calls,
fax, official website, email and
WeChat.
The campaign office compiled a
total of 111,827 opinions and suggestions but only 111,246 were
considered valid.
There should
be a fund to
support people
in acquiring a
first house, or
a bank credit
without the
need to pay
interest
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the things that impressed
me the most is their global perspective on things,
the range of reading they
had, their understanding
of what’s happening in
the world [and] also their
confidence; that they were
able to put their ideas
across so confidently,” she
said.
In her opinion, Ms Harrison believes that it is a
combination of English
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proficiency, the manner in
which contenders put their
argument forward, and
their ideas and creativity
that is important. She also
suggested that contestants could further improve
their performance by delivering their speeches in a
more natural way instead
of presenting them in a
rehearsed manner.
“I think they are so intent
on getting their messages
across and doing their best
that they want [the speech]
to be very polished. Sometimes, it’s nice if it is more
of a dialogue with the au-
dience,” she said.
Meanwhile, the champion of the competition’s
open category, Qian Qiao,
told the Times that this is
the fourth time he has participated and felt that his
hard work finally paid off.
The University of Macau
postgraduate student said
that from his observation,
many of his colleagues in
the university have reached a high level of English
proficiency due to the fact
that they were exposed to
an English speaking environment during their
school years. JPL
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D
eutsche Bank AG’s co-head of
corporate banking and securities,
Robert Rankin, will leave to join Australian billionaire James Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings Ltd.
Rankin, an Australian, will leave his job
in London in January to become chief
executive officer of Packer’s investment
firm, Deutsche Bank said in a statement
Saturday. A successor will be named “in
due course,” the Frankfurt-based lender
said.
“I see Rob as my partner going forward,”
Packer, 47, said in a telephone interview.
“I’ve known Rob for a long time, he is
someone I have great faith in and great
trust in.”
At Deutsche Bank, Rankin oversees the
corporate finance unit, which houses the
advisory arm, debt and equity underwriting, while Colin Fan, the other co-head
of the investment bank, is responsible for
trading. Rankin, 51, took up the position
in March 2012.
Deutsche Bank hired Rankin, a former
head of investment banking for Asia-Pacific at UBS AG, as CEO for the region excluding Japan in 2009. He was initially
hired to improve the bank’s standing in
advisory in Asia. At the time, the company ranked behind firms such as UBS.
In its statement, Deutsche Bank said its
share of the global corporate finance fee
pool increased to 5.5 percent in the first
nine months of 2014 from 5 percent in
2011.
Packer will remain as chairman of Consolidated Press Holdings. Born into an
Australian media dynasty started by his
grandfather Frank, Packer has a net worth of about USD5.2 billion according to
Bloomberg Billionaires. His investments
include casinos from Melbourne to Macau.
“I look forward to working with the bank
as a client in the future,” Rankin said in
the statement. Bloomberg
Hong Kong-Shanghai stock
link gets green light
Kelvin Chan, Business Writer,
Hong Kong
C
hina is opening its
stock market wider to
foreigners, approving a
cross-border trading link
yesterday that will allow
investors in Shanghai and
Hong Kong to buy and sell
shares on both exchanges.
In a joint statement,
the China Securities Regulatory Commission and
Hong Kong’s Securities and
Futures Commission said
trading via the long-awaited Shanghai-Hong Kong
Stock Connect link would
start on Nov. 17.
Approval had been widely expected to come in
October but was delayed
as Hong Kong was roiled
by pro-democracy protests that shut down some
streets in the financial
district. China’s Shanghai
Composite stock index rose
2.3 percent on news of the
approval. Hong Kong’s
Hang Seng was up 1.6 percent.
Foreign access to China’s stock markets is closely
managed, mainly through a
quota program for institutions that represents a sliver of the overall market.
While Hong Kong is officially considered a part
of China after Beijing regained control of the former
British colony in 1997, the
Asian financial center has
its own separate legal and
financial system and currency.
China’s stock markets
have languished since hitting a peak in 2006. They
Trading
via the long
awaited
ShanghaiHong Kong
Stock
Connect link
will start on
Nov. 17
have largely been a vehicle
for the government to recapitalize struggling and inefficient state-owned companies rather than a source
of capital for up-and-co-
ming private businesses as
in other countries.
The trading link is also
expected to promote international use of China’s tightly controlled currency as well as boost Hong
Kong’s role as a hub for
yuan trading. China is gradually loosening controls
on its currency and movements of capital. But it is
likely to be many years before its financial markets
and banking industry are
sophisticated enough for
full liberalization.
Authorized investors in
both cities will be allowed
to buy and sell up to 23.5
billion yuan (USD3.8
billion) of stocks in certain companies each day
through the link. Mainland Chinese investors
will get up to 10.5 billion
yuan of that daily limit,
while investors in Hong
Kong get the rest.
To prepare for the launch, numerous training and
education sessions were
held and market participants also had to agree trading rules and other operational arrangements.
“The stock exchanges
and the clearing houses
have completed a series
of market rehearsals with
market participants in both
markets and reported that
the systems are ready and
contingency plans are in
place,” the regulators said
in a statement. AP
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count basie orchestra to perform at the
venetian macao
The legendary Grammy
award-winning Count Basie
Orchestra will bring its unique
style of jazz and swing to The
Venetian Theatre on Sunday,
Dec 7. The intimate venue will
see the 19-piece orchestra,
made up of 17 sidemen and
vocalists Alexander Stewart
and Carmen Bradford, led
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Deutsche Bank’s
Rankin named
CEO of Packer’s
Consolidated Press
BUSINESS
through a catalogue of hits by
two-time Grammy Award winner Scotty Barnhart, who was
announced as the new director
in September 2013. Barnhart
is committed to continuing the
excellent history started by Basie of stomping and shouting
the blues, as well as refining
those musical particulars that
allow for the deepest and most
moving of swing. Tickets for
the concert go on sale today.
Founded by jazz icon William
James “Count” Basie in 1935,
the “The Swingingest Band in
All the Land” has continued to
tour and release albums since
the death of Basie in 1984 and
has won a total of 18 Grammy
Awards and 20 Downbeat and
Jazz Times polls.
4th mgm macau international lion dance
championship concludes
The 4th MGM MACAU International Lion Dance Championship
came to a conclusion after two
days of competition. Kuong Ngai
Dragon & Lion Dance Association from Malaysia took home
the title of the 4th MGM MACAU
International Lion Dance Champion, while the troupes from Hong
Kong, the Philippines and Macau
were awarded with the Gold Trophy in the Female Lion Dance
Performance Competition.
The final round of the “Male
Lion Dance Competition” was
held yesterday, and the troupes
wowed the crowd with gravitydefying moves while performing
acrobatic pole-jumping routines. The “Female Lion Dance
Performance Competition” was
presented by eight lion dance
troupes from China, Hong Kong,
Macau, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the
Philippines. The troupe from Italy
forfeited the tournament due to
injuries.
starworld hotel opens new sichuan
restaurant “feng wei ju”
As StarWorld celebrates its
eighth anniversary, the five-star hotel announced the official
opening of its new Sichuan and
Hunan restaurant, Feng Wei
Ju, offering diners authentic Sichuan and Hunan flavors.
Feng Wei Ju is headed
by Chef Chan Chak Keong,
StarWorld Hotel’s Executive
Chinese Chef and a widely acclaimed figure in the culinary
industry. Chef Keong has devoted himself to the study of local
specialties across China’s many
provinces and, for over a year,
he has searched the country
for chefs who share his passion
and exceptionally high standards to join the restaurant’s
kitchen team. Now, under the
efforts of these elite chefs, Feng
Wei Ju is recreating the essence of Hunan and Sichuan using
fresh local ingredients. From the
refreshing hot and sour of Hunan to the spiciness of Sichuan
dishes, as well as the delicate
hand-made ‘al dente’ noodles
and dim sum, diners can look
forward to a new dining experience.
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T
erra Peregrin – Participações SGPS, owned by Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos
Santos, the daughter of Angola’s
president, has launched a tender
offer for the entire share capital
of Portugal Telecom (PT) SGPS,
in an announcement filed with
the market regulator.
According to the statement issued by the Portuguese security
markets regulator CMVM, the
company intends to pay 1.35
euros for each of the more than
896 million shares of the Portuguese group.
In the preliminary announcement of the offer, Terra Peregrin says it may withdraw PT
SGPS from the stock market if it
takes at least a 90 percent share
of the company.
PT SGPS’s only assets are
now a 25 percent stake in Brazilian operator Oi and a loan to
Rioforte, of the Espírito Santo
bloomberg
Mobile devices and terrestrial phone handsets sit on display inside a Portugal
Telecom SGPS SA mobile communications store in Lisbon
group, of slightly less than 900
million euros.
A week ago, French group
Altice made a proposal to pay
7.025 billion for PT Portugal,
excluding its business in Africa,
the debt to Rioforte and financial vehicles. MDT/Macauhub
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Joint Mozambique
S Korea plant to assemble
Hyundai cars
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n assembly plant of
South Korean car brand
Hyundai was inaugurated
Thursday in the industrial
zone of the city of Matola,
near Maputo, as part of a
Mozambican-South Korean
partnership, according to local news agency AIM.
The partnership, called
Somyoung Motors, is a private investment between Somotor of Mozambique, the majority shareholder and YoungSom of South Korea, which
invested USD5.45 million
including construction of the
factory and purchase of the
equipment needed to assemble the vehicles.
The plant has an installed
capacity to assemble 4,500
cars per year and in an initial
phase will assemble five vehicles per day, which will increase to 1,200 units in 2015
and 2,500 in 2016.
Somyoung Motors is currently assembling Hyundai
i10 model cars, which are sold
at a unit price of US$12,000,
and the Accent 1.6 model,
which will be placed on the
bloomberg
Angolan president’s
daughter bids to buy
Portugal Telecom
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A worker looks at the engine bay
beneath the cab of a Hyundai HD72
light truck
market priced at US$23,000
each.
Mozambique’s
President
Armando Guebuza said at
the plant’s inauguration ceremony, that 542,000 cars are
currently registered in Mozambique and 95 percent of
the 45 existing brands in the
country are of Asian origin.
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has no interest in returning to
Wan Chai.
“It’s not really good for me,”
she said. “I want to do something better, something positive.”
More than
160,000
Indonesians,
almost all
women, have
taken perilous
routes to jobs
as maids,
nannies and
housekeepers
in Hong Kong
A Filipino domestic worker, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Babylen, speaks during an interview at a shelter opened for unemployed domestic workers
Jack Chang, Hong Kong
A
t every stop, the path
from
Tritin
Kartika’s
poor Indonesian hometown
to her job as a live-in maid in
a Hong Kong apartment put
her at risk of exploitation.
Back home, she signed an
employment contract that required her to give up most of
her first six months of wages,
to repay her hiring agency for
travel and other costs. When
she arrived in her new city, the
agency confiscated her passport to make sure she paid her
debt.
And she soon saw what many
migrant workers do if they
lose or abandon their jobs:
A friend took her to the bars
of Hong Kong’s Wan Chai redlight district, where many Indonesian and Filipino women
earn money having sex with
foreign men.
“I just wanted a better salary,
something more than what I
could make at home,” said Kartika, 32, whose 5-year-old daughter is still in Indonesia. “I
just wanted to help my family.”
More than 160,000 Indonesians, almost all women, have
taken similarly perilous routes
to jobs as maids, nannies and
housekeepers in Hong Kong,
lured by salaries as much as
five times higher than at home.
Now, they’re mourning two of
their own — Seneng Mujiasih
and Sumarti Ningsih, former
domestic workers in their 20s
who were found stabbed to
death last weekend in the luxury apartment of British investment banker Rurik George
Caton Jutting.
Jutting, 29, has been charged with two counts of murder in a case that has shocked
the former British colony and
Hong Kong
Domestic workers
struggle in risky jobs shed light on the often hidden
and dire circumstances facing
many of these women.
All told, 320,000 foreign domestic workers clean, cook and
care for children in Hong Kong,
making up nearly 5 percent of
the city’s population, according to a 2013 report by the
human rights group Amnesty
International. Most hail from
Indonesia and the Philippines,
and together they send home
hundreds of millions of dollars
each year.
The women’s slayings elicit a
mixture of horror and shame
among Indonesians.
“They understand very well
when people become trapped
in those kinds of forced conditions,” said Eni Lestari, a
domestic worker who helps
run the advocacy group Asian
Migrants’ Coordinating Body.
“But they also feel bad and ask
why people are taking these
sex worker jobs.”
Domestic workers and labor
activists say such women are
made vulnerable to abuse by
Indonesian laws that require
people who seek work abroad
to go through hiring agencies,
as well as Hong Kong regulations that tie domestic workers
to their employers, even requiring that they sleep in their
places of work.
Workers end up deep in debt
and vulnerable to fraud and
abuse by the agencies, said
Norma Muico, a migrant rights researcher with Amnesty
International. Many women
endure sexual harassment and
abysmal living conditions but
are legally unable to move out
of their employers’ houses without giving up their work visas.
Hong Kong’s domestic worker
policies have drawn the attention of several U.N. human rights committees, with two of
them calling for the repeal of
the live-in requirement.
“This is exploitation at its highest level,” Muico said. “Very
rarely do you see this type of
manipulation and way of extracting money from migrant
domestic workers.”
Like Kartika, Mujiasih and
Ningsih had signed contracts
requiring they pay their agencies back for travel and other
costs, according to Lestari,
who said she has talked to the
women’s relatives and friends.
Typical salaries for maids
in Hong Kong run about
USD500 a month, according
to Lestari’s group. Agencies
can require workers to give up
about $335 from each paycheck.
After Mujiasih was fired, she
chose a sadly common option,
Indonesian officials say. She
overstayed her work visa and
hit the bars and nightclubs of
Wan Chai to make money off
the mostly Western male cus-
tomers — a much more lucrative, if risky, job.
Kartika is done repaying the
employment agency and has
her passport back. She said she
is sending money home and
For a Filipino domestic
worker, who asked to be identified only by her first name,
Babylen, the past year and a
half in Hong Kong has been a
bitter disappointment.
An injury on the job led to
her dismissal in March. Now,
she’s waiting to receive compensation while sleeping in a
shelter opened for unemployed
domestic workers. The former
schoolteacher and mother of
two boys said she was forced
to go abroad after her husband
died.
“It seemed like slavery to me,”
she said of working for a Pakistani family in Hong Kong. “All
day or night, I can’t say no
because I might lose my job.
I just want to feed my family.
Everyone depends on me.” AP
tests planned for british banker in murder trial
Rurik George Caton Jutting sits in a prison bus arriving at a court in Hong Kong
The British banker charged
with murdering two Indonesian
women in Hong Kong will undergo
a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he is fit to enter
a plea in his trial. Rurik Jutting
appeared briefly yesterday at a
pre-trial hearing before the judge
adjourned proceedings for two
weeks while the psychiatric assessments are carried out. Rurik’s case
has transfixed the Asian financial
center. He is charged with murdering two young Indonesian women
found dead in his 31st floor luxury
apartment in the Wan Chai red
light and nightlife district, includ-
ing one found stuffed in a suitcase
on his balcony. A lawyer for Jutting
said he has not yet agreed to participate in a police reconstruction at
the crime scene but did not rule out
giving consent in the future. Jutting did not speak at the hearing,
which lasted only a few minutes
before he was remanded back into
prison custody. Jutting, a Cambridge graduate who had worked
for Bank of America Merrill Lynch,
is accused of killing Seneng Mujiasih, 29, who was in Hong Kong on
an expired domestic worker permit,
and Sumarti Ningsih, 25, who was
on a tourist visa.
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Christopher Bodeen, Beijing
C
hinese President
Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took a major step in easing more than
two years of high tensions over
contested islands and wartime
history with an ice-breaking
meeting yesterday during an
Asia-Pacific conference.
The spat between China and
Japan
over
uninhabited
East China Sea islands has
raised concerns of a military
confrontation between Asia’s
two largest economies, which
could draw the U.S. into the
fray alongside ally Japan. China also deplores what it sees
as Japan’s efforts to play down
its brutal 20th century invasion of China, a lingering sore
point for its 1.3 billion people.
The closed-door meeting raises hopes that the countries
can dial down tensions and
burnishes Xi’s image as a statesman ahead of a summit today of 21 world leaders including President Barack Obama
and Russian President Vladimir Putin. China hopes to
use the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation summit to assert
its ambitions for a larger leadership role in U.S.-dominated trade structures.
Although core divisions between China and Japan won’t
be resolved soon, Abe told
reporters that the countries
made a “first step” toward reconciliation.
“I believe that not only our
Asian neighbors but many
other countries have long
hoped that Japan and China hold talks,” Abe said. “We
finally lived up to their expectations and made a first step
to improve our ties.”
Earlier, before heading into
a meeting room at Beijing’s
Great Hall of the People, the
two men shook hands in front
of cameras, unsmiling. Abe
could be seen speaking briefly
to Xi, who gave no response
and looked toward the cameras for the remainder of the
handshake.
In a break from the usual protocol, Abe was made to wait
for Xi to arrive at the meeting,
rather than being greeted by
him on arrival. China’s Foreign Ministry also described
the meeting as being at Abe’s
“request,” a phrase not used
in its reports on Xi’s meetings
with South Korean President
Park Geun-hye and other foreign leaders yesterday.
China’s official Xinhua News
Agency said Xi urged Japan
to “do more things that help
enhance the mutual trust between Japan and its neighbo-
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Xi and Abe hold ice-breaking meeting China’s President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on the sidelines of the APEC
meetings in Beijing
ring countries, and play a
constructive role in safeguarding the region’s peace and
stability.”
The two sides issued a joint
statement on Friday agreeing
to gradually resume political,
diplomatic and security dialogues and reaffirming the central pillars of their post-World
War II relations.
In the statement, Japan said
it acknowledged differing
views over the status of the
islands, called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japan,
a concession likely to please
Beijing. China has long de-
The meeting
marks a turning
point in ChinaJapan relations
and lays a good
foundation
for future
developments
Feng Lei
professor Center for Japanese
Studies, Fudan University
manded that Tokyo acknowledge that the islands’ sovereignty is in dispute, something Japan has refused to do
for fear that would open the
floodgates to further Chinese
demands.
China and Japan have had
poor relations for decades,
rooted in Beijing’s enduring
sense of victimhood and Japanese fears of China’s economic and political rise.
Japan’s nationalization of
the islands in September 2012
infuriated Beijing, sparking
anti-Japanese riots and raising regional security fears as
Chinese patrol ships repeatedly entered the surrounding
waters to confront Japanese
coast guard vessels.
China upped the ante last
year by declaring an air defense zone over the East China Sea, including the islands.
Japan, the U.S. and others denounced the move and refused
Chinese demands that their
aircraft declare themselves to
Beijing when passing through
the area.
Abe, a conservative nationalist who was elected in late
2012, infuriated China last
year when he visited Tokyo’s
Yasukuni Shrine honoring
Japan’s war dead, including
executed war criminals, an act
Beijing said showed Abe’s insensitivity to China’s suffering
during the war.
China had hoped that Abe
would pledge not to visit Yasukuni Shrine again while
in office, although it wasn’t
clear if any such commitment
was made. For its part, Japan
hopes to restore robust economic exchanges with China
that have suffered during the
tensions, and to gain Beijing’s
support for a dialogue on maritime safety in the East China Sea.
While anti-Japanese sentiment remains strong among
the Chinese public, Xi’s apparent willingness to set animosity aside and meet with Abe
casts him in the role of global
statesman, playing to China’s aspirations to be treated as a political equal by the
West.
“The meeting marks a turning point in China-Japan relations and lays a good foundation for future developments,” said Feng Lei, a professor
at the Center for Japanese
Studies at Fudan University in
Shanghai.
“China needs a peaceful and
stable international environment for its growth and an
overarching antagonism would be detrimental to both si-
des,” Feng said.
Today, APEC leaders are
due to take up a Chinese-led
regional free trade initiative despite American worries
that it might distract from a
separate U.S.-promoted pact,
the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Progress on TPP has bogged
down in disagreements about
its ambitious market-opening
goals.
On Saturday, trade ministers of the 21 APEC economies endorsed a call for the
group to launch a study of
the Chinese-led initiative,
the Free Trade Area of the
Asia-Pacific. Chinese analysts say Beijing sees the initiative as a way to boost its role
in trade policy.
APEC countries account for
40 percent of global trade, so
any progress in market-opening initiatives could have
worldwide implications.
The chief U.S. trade envoy,
Michael Froman, said Sunday
that Washington doesn’t see
the two initiatives as “being in
competition.” He said, however, that Washington wants
Beijing to focus on making
progress on a proposed U.S.Chinese investment treaty
and a regional pact to lower
market barriers to trade in information technology. AP
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Insurgents kill 9
police officers in
separate attacks
Afghan officials say that nine
police have been killed in two
separate attacks in volatile parts
of the country. Din Mohammad
Darwesh, spokesman for the
provincial governor in eastern
Logar province, says six
police officers, including their
commander, were killed in a
suicide attack yesterday on police
headquarters in the capital,
Puli Alim. He says the suicide
attacker was wearing a police
uniform when he infiltrated
the compound. A civilian was
wounded, he says. In the second
attack, three police officers were
killed when a bomb carried
on a motorbike exploded near
their vehicle in Nangahar
province, says Hazrat Hussain
Mashreqiwal, spokesman for
the provincial police chief. The
Taliban claimed responsibility for
the Logar attack.
India
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Top court lifts
ban on female
makeup artists
India’s Supreme Court yesterday
ordered the lifting of a ban on
women working as makeup artists
in the movie industry, ending
a decades-long discriminatory
practice. India’s film industry is
among the most prolific in the
world with nearly 1,500 films
produced annually, most of them
in Bollywood, as the Mumbai
Hindi film industry is called. The
Cine Costume Makeup Artists and
Hair Dressers Association had
an unofficial ban on women as
makeup artists, though they could
work as hairdressers to the stars.
Judge Dipak Misra also struck
down a regulation that people
had to live in a particular city or
town for five years to become a
member of the association. The
court order came on a petition by
Charu Khurana, a female makeup
artist who challenged the two
clauses as being discriminatory.
Her case was supported by the
National Commission for Women,
a state organization that protects
women’s rights. The association
said it was trying to ensure that
male makeup artists were not
deprived of work in the film
industry.
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Youkyung Lee, Business Writer,
Beijing
S
outh Korea says it has
agreed to sign a free trade deal with China that
will remove tariffs on
more than 90 percent of goods
over two decades but won’t include rice or autos.
The announcement from South Korea’s presidential office
yesterday came after South Korean President Park Geun-hye
met with Chinese President
Xi Jinping at the Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit
being held in Beijing.
Negotiators held a 14th round of trade talks before Xi and
Park met but failed to resolved
outstanding issues.
A statement from South Korea’s presidential office said
Xi and Park declared that the
agreement was now “virtually”
reached. Xi said negotiations
had made “significant progress.”
Two-way trade between China and South Korea was
USD229 billion in 2013.
The deal covers 22 areas including finance and online commerce. South Korea said it was
the first time for China to include finance, telecommunications
and e-commerce industries in a
free trade deal.
South Korea’s rice industry
will not be included in the trade
deal but trade in 70 percent of
agricultural goods will be liberalized.
South Korean trade officials
said that LCDs and automobiles were among toughest areas
to negotiate. They said South
Korean automakers were concerned that foreign carmakers
would ship their vehicles directly from China to South Korea if import tariffs on automobiles were removed.
For LCDs, which is an area
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, front, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
South Korea
Seoul, Beijing agree to
sign free trade deal where China is catching up
with South Korean technology,
the two sides agreed to remove
tariffs 10 years after the trade
deal takes effect.
Ahn Jong-beom, Park’s top
economic adviser, told reporters that the two parties have no
outstanding “sensitive issues”
and will finalize the agreement’s wording. The China-
South Korea trade deal will be
formally signed early next year.
South Korea’s government will
seek parliamentary approval in
the following months.
China and South Korea began
the trade negotiations in May
2012.
Jee Mansoo, an economist at
the Korea Institute of Finance,
said the impact of the trade pact
Seoul fires warning shots
near N. Korea border Kim Tong-Hyung, Seoul
S
outh Korean troops fired warning
shots yesterday after North Korean soldiers approached too close to the border
separating the rival countries, Seoul defense officials said.
The firing heightens animosities between
the rival Koreas, even as North Korea’s
tensions with the United States seem to
have eased after the announced release of
two detained Americans a day earlier.
About 10 North Korean soldiers retreated
without returning fire after South Korean
troops fired 20 rounds of warning shots,
the officials said on condition of anonymity because of office policy. There were no
reports of casualties.
South Korean troops have detected North Korean soldiers approaching the border
several times this year, but this was only
the second time that the South fired war-
ning shots, the officials said.
The incident happened inside the 4-kilometer-wide Demilitarized Zone that was
created when the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice.
Tensions between the Koreas remain
high following two incidents last month
involving exchanges of gunfire, although
no casualties were reported in either one.
In the first incident, troops from the two
countries traded gunfire over propaganda
leaflets South Korean activists sent across
the border by balloon. In the second, North Korean soldiers were seen too close to
the border, triggering a gunfire exchange.
North Korea said its soldiers were engaging in routine patrol missions.
At the center of the recent animosities is
North Korea’s demand that South Korea
prevent activists from launching the antiNorth leaflets. South Korea has said it cannot do so, citing freedom of speech.
is unclear because the economic situation has changed since
negotiations began.
Some South Korea industries
that were expected to benefit
from increased exports to China, such as steelmaking, are no
longer likely to benefit because China has made strides in
improving its domestic industries, he said. AP
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North Korean soldiers watch the south side with
cameras at the border village of Panmunjom
The conflict over the leafleting appears to
have derailed talks on a high-level meeting
between the two Koreas, which had been
offered by North Korea during the September Asian Games and had been discussed for October or November.
Over the weekend, North Korea released the last two Americans it has been detaining — Matthew Miller of Bakersfield,
California, and Kenneth Bae of Lynnwood,
Washington — in a move widely seen as an
attempt to break a long deadlock with the
U.S. over talks on the North’s nuclear program. AP
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Josh Lederman, Beijing
H
is influence at
home quickly fading,
President
Barack Obama is
looking east to China, the opening stop of a three-country
tour that will test his ability
to play a commanding role on
the world stage during his final two years in office.
Once treated like a global superstar, Obama arrived yesterday in Beijing under far different circumstances, with his
most powerful days behind him.
At home, Republicans are
still rejoicing at having pummeled Obama’s political party in the midterm elections,
relegating Democrats to the
minority in both chambers of
Congress. His counterparts in
Asia surely have noticed.
Upon his arrival in the Chinese capital, Obama stepped
off Air Force One and onto a
red carpet, where an honor
guard of dozens lined his path
to a waiting limousine. First
up was a sit-down with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, where Obama lived as a
child.
Widodo, who was sworn in
last month amid high hopes
for progressive leadership,
said his election showed Islam and democracy can go
together, and pledged to keep
fighting extremism in his
country. Obama was effusive,
calling his election an “affirmation of the full transition
Indonesia has made to a thriving democracy and a model
for the kind of tolerance and
pluralism that we want to see
all around the world.”
Obama suggested Widodo
might even visit Washington
next year. Reviving a phrase from his youth, Obama
thanked the assembled reporters in Bahasa Indonesia, the
country’s official language.
Later yesterday, Obama was
to give a speech about U.S.
ties to Asia at a high-level
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, then join
key Asian leaders for dinner
and fireworks at the Beijing
National Aquatics Center.
During his three days in China, Obama will also meet with
Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The leaders of the world’s two
largest economies will address
reporters before the state visit
draws to a close Wednesday
and Obama flies to Myanmar.
The trip marks one of Obama’s final opportunities to
deliver on his goal to amplify
U.S. influence in Asia. In China, Myanmar and Australia,
leaders will be rendering judgment on whether Obama’s lofty
ambitions in Asia-Pacific have
been sidetracked by festering
crises in Eastern Europe, Africa
and the Middle East.
“This is going to be a tough
trip for the president,” said Ernest Bower, an Asia expert at
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Barack Obama, center, walks out with S Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, far left, and his wife Iriana, second from the left,
following the APEC Summit family photo
Diplomacy
In China, Obama tests global
clout post-election
Once treated like a global
superstar, Obama arrived
yesterday in Beijing under far
different circumstances, with his
most powerful days behind him
the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He said Asian leaders were
viewing Obama’s trip with a key
question in mind: Who is Barack Obama after the midterm
elections?
“They’ll be trying to discern
whether he has the commitment and political capital to
follow through,” Bower said.
Even
before
the
election, Obama’s commitment to
the region and his ability to
boost U.S. clout there was in
doubt in many capitals.
U.S. allies such as Japan and
South Korea have pressed for
a greater American presence, partly to counter China’s
growing influence. Yet Obama’s mission against the Islamic State group and his government’s Ebola response have
diverted U.S. military and financial resources elsewhere.
“The president remains deeply committed to his Asia rebalancing strategy, and its implementation will remain a top
priority throughout the second
term,” said Obama’s national
security adviser, Susan Rice.
U.S. presidents often immerse themselves in foreign affairs during their last years in
office, when the focus on the
next presidential race saps the
energy from their own domestic efforts. In the wake of last
week’s elections, White House
officials spoke optimistically
about Obama’s prospects for
clinching trade deals in Asia
and elsewhere now that Republicans are set to control Congress.
Under Obama, U.S. trade negotiators for years have been
pursuing the Trans-Pacific
Partnership, a major trade
pact being negotiated with 11
nations. The talks have repeatedly blown past their deadlines, and other nations have
been wary about Obama’s ability to push an eventual deal
through Congress, where Democrats have been sensitive to
the concerns of labor unions.
But with Republicans in
charge, Obama’s prospects
may have improved, so the
argument goes. Republicans
tend to support trade deals as
a way to boost the U.S. eco-
nomy, and GOP leaders have
spoken positively about giving
Obama so-called “fast track”
approval that would subject
the final deal to an up-ordown vote, preventing lastminute amendments that could sink the whole deal.
China’s not part of the talks,
and is pursuing its own free trade deals in the region. What’s
more, Chinese leaders have
viewed Obama’s focus on Asia
with suspicion, fearing an attempt to contain China’s growth and influence in the region.
In a sign of the political climate facing Obama in China,
state-run media have been
mocking him in the days before his visit.
“Obama always utters ‘Yes, we
can,’ which led to the high expectations people had for him,”
read an editorial in the English-language Global Times.
“But he has done an insipid
job, offering nearly nothing to
his supporters. U.S. society has
grown tired of his banality.”
Another reminder of the tensions in the region came hours
before Obama left on Saturday when North Korea released two American detainees
after Obama’s spy chief made
a secret mission to Pyongyang
to secure their release.
In his meetings with Xi, Obama also plans to address human rights issues, officials
said, including the treatment
of journalists as well as prodemocracy protests in Hong
Kong that erupted in September to the dismay of Chinese
officials. Climate change — a
key concern in smog-filled
Beijing — and China’s aggressive behavior toward its
neighbors are also on Obama’s agenda. AP
obama: hong kong priority is to avoid violence
President Barack Obama
says his priority when it comes to
pro-democracy protests in Hong
Kong is to ensure that violence
is avoided. Obama is speaking
in Beijing about protests that
erupted in September in Hong
Kong demanding open nominations in the city’s elections. Obama
says China isn’t in the same place
as the U.S. when it comes to development. But he says it would
be unrealistic for the U.S. to set
aside its concerns about human
rights. He says the U.S. won’t stop
speaking out about the things it
cares about. Obama says the U.S.
doesn’t expect China to follow the
U.S. model in all circumstances.
He says China’s relationship with
Hong Kong has historically been
complicated. Obama’s comments
come on the first day of a threeday visit to China.
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Exhibition of Watercolor Works by Sio Ieng
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Time: 10am-7pm (opened on public holidays)
Until: November 16, 2014
Venue: UNESCO Centre of Macau, Alameda Dr.
Carlos d’Assumpção
Admission: Free
Enquiries: (853) 2872 7066
The 61st Macau Grand Prix Exhibition
Time: 10am-7pm (Mondays to Sundays)
Until: November 17, 2014
Venue: Rui Cunha Foundation/Av. da Praia Grande
Nº 749 -R/C, Macau
Admission: Free
Enquiries: (853) 2892 3288
Artistic Perspectives
Time: 10:3 am-6:30pm (Closed on Mondays)
Until: November 23, 2014
Venue: 10 Fantasia Creative Industries Incubator,
Calçada da Igreja de S.Lázaro, 10
Admission: Free
Enquiries: (853) 2835 4582
14th Macau Food Festival
Time: 5pm-11pm
(Mondays to Thursdays)
3pm-midnight (Fridays to Sundays)
Until: November 23, 2014
Venue: Sai Van Lake Square
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Enquires: (853) 2857 5756
Time & Routes of free shuttle bus (3 routes): 5pm11:30pm (Mondays to Thursdays)
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Macau Fringe 2014: Multi-media Arts
Exhibition
Time: 12pm-6pm (November 10-16, 2014)
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Duration: 134min
Eleanor Cunningham of Howes Cave, New York, has
bested former President George H.W. Bush. He celebrated his 90th birthday by skydiving; she made the
big leap to mark her centennial.
Cunningham kissed her 7-month-old great-greatgranddaughter before suiting up for her 100th birthday
jump Saturday at Saratoga Skydiving in Gansevoort. It
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this day in history
2004 Veteran leader
Yasser Arafat is dead
The veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died in
hospital in Paris, France, aged 75.
The man who led his people’s struggle for more than 40
years suffered multiple organ failure at 0330 local time
(0230 GMT).
He had been in a coma since 3 November and two days
ago suffered a brain haemorrhage.
He was brought to a military hospital near Paris from
Ramallah on the West Bank at the end of last month as
his condition deteriorated.
The exact nature of his illness remains a mystery, although doctors ruled out cancer and rejected the allegation by
Palestinian militant groups that he had been poisoned.
His body was flown this evening to Cairo, Egypt, where
his funeral will be held tomorrow, attended by Arab and
other leaders.
He will be buried in Ramallah on Saturday.
In the Palestinian territories news of his death was greeted with open displays of grief. The authorities have declared 40 days of mourning.
Tributes came in from around the world. The French
President, Jacques Chirac, said the Palestinian leader
was “a man of courage and conviction who for 40 years
incarnated the Palestinians’ fight for recognition of their
national rights”.
The White House simply described the death as a “significant moment in Palestinian history” and offered condolences.
The Israeli government, which has long labelled Mr Arafat a terrorist, said his death could be a turning point for
peace in the Middle East.
Mr Arafat spent his last three years held a virtual prisoner by the Israeli authorities in his partially-destroyed
compound in Ramallah.
Relations between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government deteriorated since 2000, when he was
blamed by Israel and the United States for the failure of
peace talks at Camp David.
Mr Arafat always insisted the deal he was offered was
less generous than it has since been portrayed.
Under the Bush administration, he has been shunned by
the United States as complicit in terrorism.
Since the 1950s Mr Arafat has been the public face of
Palestinian opposition to Israel, first as the leader of Fatah, the Movement for the Liberation of Palestine, and
then at the head of the PLO.
There is a long-standing question mark over his involvement in attacks by Palestinian guerrillas from various factions. Mr Arafat refused to discuss such attacks, though
he always denounced terrorism as a tactic.
Then in 1993, he began negotiating with Israel’s Prime
Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in secret talks in Oslo.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Mr
Rabin and Shimon Perez, after signing the Oslo Accords,
seen as a breakthrough towards an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace with Israel.
Courtesy BBC News
In context
After his funeral in Cairo, attended by leaders and representatives from 40 countries, Yasser Arafat was buried in Ramallah
amid chaotic and emotional scenes.
Soil from the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, where Palestinians
hope he can one day be reburied, was used in his grave.
Elections were held in January 2005. They were won by former
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who had already succeeded
Yasser Arafat as leader of the PLO after serving as his deputy since
1969.
In September 2005 Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip and evicted
Jewish settlers, and there have been tentative moves towards
renewed peace talks despite continuing violence on both sides.
Yasser Arafat’s medical records were released in 2005, and appeared to show that doctors could not determine the underlying
cause of his death.
The records said Mr Arafat died from a stroke that stemmed from
an unknown condition.
Speculation continues over the cause of his death, with many
Palestinians believing he was poisoned by Israel.
The Israeli government has denied this.
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Taurus
Mar. 21-Apr. 19
April 20-May 20
You have to do something about
your clutter — or maybe all that
empty space in your house! You’ve
got to balance your possessions with
your needs, and if it takes all day, so
be it.
Your intensity makes life great for
you and your people — you don’t let
go of anything good, while forcefully
dismissing all the bad. It’s one of
those days when you really need to
revel!
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You need to throw a party — or an
intimate gathering — so invite folks
over for dinner or more. You know
how to make people feel welcome,
and once you get things rolling, it
becomes unstoppable!
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Virgo
Jul. 23-Aug. 22
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
You can’t believe what you’re
hearing today — about yourself!
It’s one thing to know others talk
behind your back, but another
thing entirely to actually catch
them in the act.
Your thoughtful, philosophical side
is out on display today, and you
couldn’t be happier. It’s a great time
to dig deeply into big issues and
see what comes of them. The little
details can wait for another day.
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YOUR STARS
Aries
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Weather
Easy
Sep.23-Oct. 22
Oct. 23 - Nov. 21
You need to be a little more open
to new possibilities — which isn’t
all that hard for you, fortunately.
Of course, you may not like what
you’ve got to do at first, but it is
sure to grow on you!
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
You need to be a little more open
to new possibilities — which isn’t
all that hard for you, fortunately.
Of course, you may not like what
you’ve got to do at first, but it is sure
to grow on you!
Your softer side is on the surface
now, and you may find that you
can more easily tell your sweetie
(or crush) how you feel. It’s a really
good time for romance, so go for it
soon!
Aquarius
Pisces
Jan. 20-Feb. 18
Feb.19-Mar. 20
The past is catching up with you —
but that can be a good thing! As long
as you don’t just wallow in nostalgia
or regret, you can take pride in your
accomplishments and ensure that
the future is bright.
Your attractiveness is heightened
today — so go fishing for a new
romance or a new job! You can
make a great first impression
without trying very hard, and your
new confidence is amazing!
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Australia beats Samoa
44-18 in 4 Nations Champs
a major impact, highlighted by
his 34th-minute try.
Samoa cut the lead to 28-12
after six minutes of the second
half with a try to Ben Roberts
and, after Australia had pulled
ahead with Cronk’s second try,
rallied again with a try to David
Fa’alongo.
Australia inflated its winning
margin with tries in the last five
minutes to Josh Papali’i and
Josh Mansour.
The final will be played Saturday in Wellington. AP
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reg Inglis and Cooper
Crock shared four of Australia’s eight tries in a 44-18
win over Samoa to seal a place
opposite New Zealand in the
final of rugby league’s Four Nations Championship.
New Zealand clinched its finals spot with a 16-14 win over
England on Saturday, which left
it unbeaten in round-robin play
after a 30-12 win over Australia
and 14-12 win over Samoa.
Australia needed to win Sunday’s match to avoid missing
the final for the first time in 60
years. Samoa would have gone
through with a win by eight
points or more and England
would have reached the final if
Samoa had won by fewer than
eight points.
Australia eliminated those
possibilities with its best performance of the tournament,
scoring five tries to take a 28-6
halftime lead.
Australia was much more confident and effective in possession Sunday than in had been
in its loss to New Zealand and
a contentious 16-12 win over
England.
Cronk scored the first of his
tries in only the second minute
to lift any early pressure from
the Kangaroos and Inglis’ first
gave them a 10-0 lead in even
time.
Samoa hit back with the first
score card
Cooper Cronk
of its tries, to Tim Simona, to
cut the lead to 10-6 midway
through the first half. But Australia broke away in the next
20 minutes with Inglis’ second
try and others to Daly Cherry
-Evans and David Klemmer to
take a decisive lead to halftime.
Cherry-Evans’ was probably
the best try of the match: he
sold a dummy on the short side
of a defensive scrum and sprinted 70 meters through a disordered defense to score. Klemmer came off the bench to make
Australia 44 (Cooper
Cronk 2, Greg Inglis 2, Daly
Cherry-Evans, David Klemmer,
Josh Popali’i, Josh Mansour
tries; Cameron Smith 4 goals;
Daly Cherry-Evans 2 goals), Samoa 18 (Tim Simona, Ben Roberts, David Fa’alogo tries; Tim
Lafai 3 goals). HT: 28-6.
N
ew Zealand defeated England 24-21 on
Saturday, bossing a home
side that’s desperate to
make Twickenham a fortress heading toward the
Rugby World Cup it will
host in 10 months.
Instead, the All Blacks
added to their aura with a
news flash of their own: It
was their seventh win in eight matches on England’s
turf in the last decade, and
they will feel right at home
when they come back to
defend the Cup.
All Blacks coach Steve
Hansen, however, insisted
the result would have no
bearing on the World Cup,
where New Zealand and
England could meet only
as early as the semifinals.
Of the All Blacks earning
a psychological advantage, Hansen said, “That’s a
load of baloney.
“The All Blacks have
shown many times you
can be top dog and not
get there. Today is about
winning today.
“There’s no psychological advantage because
World Cups have shown
time and again that prior
history goes out the door.”
The All Blacks were set
back by an unexpectedly
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All Blacks beat England 24-21 at Twickenham
England’s Mike Brown runs with the ball as he is challenged by New Zealand’s Aaron Smith
strong start by England,
playing its first test in
five months, but the visitors gradually took charge, took the lead for good
in the 46th minute, and
squeezed the life out of
England in the second
half, despite a yellow card
and heavy rain.
Putting away their customary flash and dash, New
Zealand played smart, patient, textbook rugby in
scoring three tries, and
overcame making only
three goalkicks out of ei-
ght shots.
Not until reserve prop
Charlie Faumuina burrowed over from a ruck
after 22 phases to make it
24-14 with nine minutes
to go were the All Blacks
safe on the scoreboard,
but the match was already
in the palm of their hands.
“I’m proud of the way
the guys, after a slightly
dodgy start, held our nerves, and got the points
we needed in the second
half,” captain Richie McCaw said. “I’m especially
happy, when it was really
bucketing down, that we
held the ball to get across
the line.”
In that second half, they
overturned all of the statistics in which they were
in deficit in the first half:
Possession, territory, line
breaks, penalties conceded, tackles.
England had barely
touched New Zealand’s
half in the second spell
when the rain began and
hooker Dane Coles was
sin-binned for retaliating
at opposite Dylan Hartley.
But thanks to wise substitutions and savvy leadership, the All Blacks still
dominated, bombing two
tries and a penalty in front
of the posts. When Coles
returned, his teammates
had won the period 3-0,
and Hansen believed that
was key.
“The reality is we won
the game in that 10 minutes because we were
able to play with 14 men,”
Hansen said. “Yes, Coles was ill-disciplined,
but what pleased us most
was that our guys showed
their fortitude, we won
that period, and that hurt
England.”
They then constructed
a try of awesome ease for
Faumuina, and put a fifth
straight win over England
to bed.
England finished as it
started, with a try, but
the penalty try off a maul
in the dying moments
merely flattered the scoreline.
A year ago on the same
ground, New Zealand shot
ahead 17-3 in even time.
England should have pulled off the same feat on
Saturday.
England winger Jonny
May plucked out a solo
try in the third minute
by beating center Conrad
Smith and last man Israel
Dagg on speed.
England should have
had two more tries by the
10th minute but May missed an unmarked Owen
Farrell, and fullback Mike
Brown, with the overlap,
dropped a beautiful pass
from inside center Kyle
Eastmond.
New Zealand flyhalf Aaron Cruden crashed over
to finish a 70-meter counterattack, then England
struck back with two
Farrell penalties for 115, while Cruden levelled
with two of his own.
Farrell’s third penalty sent England into the
break with a deserved
three-point lead, but it
lasted only six minutes
into the new half.
The second try was an
example of All Blacks
poise and smarts featuring lock Sam Whitelock,
Aaron Smith, and No. 8
Kieran Read. When New
Zealand swung the ball
left, it had a three-on-one, and McCaw his 25th
test try.
The All Blacks finally
led, and never let go. AP
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體育
Ernie Vandeweghe poses in 1947
Beth Harris, Sports Writer
E
rnie Vandeweghe, a New York
Knicks player in the post-World
War II era and father of former NBA
star Kiki Vandeweghe and three other
top athletes, has died. He was 86.
The death was confirmed night by
Kiki Vandeweghe, who said his father died of natural causes at his
home in Newport Beach.
Vandeweghe averaged 9.5 points
and 4.6 rebounds in 224 regularseason games for the Knicks from
1949-56. In college, he averaged 19.1
points in four seasons at Colgate.
“I am so lucky to have spent so
many years with him learning and
growing,” granddaughter CoCo Vandeweghe, a pro tennis player ranked
40th in the world, said in a Facebook
post Saturday. “He is now in a better
place with his beloved wife. He will
be missed dearly. Love you Pal.”
Ernie Vandeweghe’s wife, Colleen,
died in 2010. She won the 1952 Miss
America pageant.
Born in Montreal, Vandeweghe
went to medical school while in the
NBA and was a physician in the U.S.
Air Force. He was chairman of the
President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and served on the
Olympic Sports Commission. He
also was the Lakers’ team physician
when the team moved to Los Angeles
from Minneapolis.
“He’s never really gone because the
lessons are still there,” said Kiki Vandeweghe, who as a 5-year-old didn’t
understand why his physician father
would often be gone on weekends.
“He used to take care of the athletes
and their kids. I found out he never
charged any of those people. When
you can afford to give back, you do.”
Kiki Vandeweghe played 13 seasons in the NBA and was a two-time
All-Star who averaged 19.7 points
for his career. Daughter Tauna won
a U.S. swimming championship in
the backstroke and competed in the
1976 Montreal Olympics. Son Bruk
was a beach volleyball player, and
daughter Heather captained the U.S.
women’s polo team. Coco is Tauna’s
daughter.
Ernie Vandeweghe grew up in New
York on Long Island and played football, basketball and baseball in high
school. AP
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Football | European Roundup
Arsenal stumbles, Juventus
cruises and PSG wins
A
rsenal was left to rue its
defensive vulnerabilities for
the second time in a week after
again failing to defend a lead in
a 2-1 away loss to Swansea on Sunday.
The defeat followed a 3-3 draw at
home to Anderlecht in the Champions
League on Tuesday, which Arsenal had
led 3-0.
Title holders Juventus had no such problems, following a 7-0 rout of Parma to
strengthen its lead at the top of Serie A.
Two-time defending champion Paris
Saint-Germain closed the gap on league
leader Marseille with a 2-0 home win
against its bitter rival, while Borussia
Dortmund finally got back to winning
ways, beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 1-0 in the Bundesliga.
ENGLAND. Arsenal and Tottenham
slumped to 2-1 losses in the Premier
League as their weaknesses were exposed, while Newcastle’s resurgence continued with a fourth straight win.
After throwing away a 3-0 lead against
Anderlecht in the Champions League in
midweek, Arsenal conceded twice in less
than three minutes at Swansea to drop
out of the top four.
Chile forward Alexis Sanchez scored for
the fourth straight league game to give
Arsenal a 63rd-minute lead, only for Gylfi Sigurdsson to equalize with a stunning
free kick in the 75th and Bafetimbi Gomis to grab the winner barely 90 seconds
after coming on as a substitute.
Spurs lost at home to Stoke to fall to
12th in the standings and increase the
scrutiny on new manager Mauricio Pochettino.
“We need to improve quickly because
you never have a long time in football,”
Pochettino said. “My challenge in the
next few weeks is to change the mentality.”
That is something Alan Pardew has
managed at Newcastle, which was without a win until Oct. 18 but has surged
up to eighth in the table.
Young Spanish striker Ayoze Perez scored for a third straight game to set Newcastle on its way to a 2-0 win at West
Brom. Argentine defender Fabricio Coloccino headed in the second goal.
Everton drew 1-1 at Sunderland and is
in 10th place.
FRANCE. PSG overcame a poor start
before getting the better of title rival
Marseille 2-0 thanks to goals from Brazilian winger Lucas and Edinson Cavani.
Marseille started the stronger team.
Top scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac hit the
crossbar with a header in the fifth minute and the visitors then missed other
chances.
PSG’s night was capped by the return
from injury of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who
has missed the past seven weeks with
a heel injury. He came on in the 65th
minute but failed to score and ignored
better-placed teammates on several occasions.
The win moved PSG to within one point
of league leader Marseille, with Lyon
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Former NBA
player Ernie
Vandeweghe
dies at 86
SPORTS
Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez, third from right, scores his side’s second goal during a Champions League,
Group D soccer match
two points behind Marseille in third place after beating Guingamp 3-1 at home,
thanks to Alexandre Lacazette’s 11th goal
of the season and two from midfielder
Nabil Fekir.
Sixth-place Saint-Etienne drew 1-1 at
home to Monaco, and Reims beat Lille
2-0.
GERMANY. Christoph Kramer’s bizarre own goal gave Borussia Dortmund
a 1-0 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach to end the side’s five-game losing
streak and lift it out of the Bundesliga’s
relegation zone.
World Cup winner Kramer converted
into his own net from the center circle in
the 58th minute when he inadvertently
chipped an attempted back pass over his
goalkeeper and could only watch helplessly as the ball bounced in.
After its first defeat of the season,
Moenchengladbach is third — seven
points behind Bayern Munich.
Wolfsburg beat Hamburger SV 2-0 and
consolidated second place, four points
behind Bayern, with its eighth consecutive win in all competitions.
ITALY. Carlos Tevez scored a stunning
goal to help Juventus crush Parma 7-0
and move three points clear at the top of
the Serie A table.
Tevez ran most of the length of the field
and beat four men to score Juventus’
fourth before doubling his tally minutes
later.
Fernando Llorente and substitute Alvaro Morata also both netted twice, and
Stephan Lichtsteiner was also on target
to send Parma to its heaviest defeat in
Serie A.
“We had a great game,” Tevez said. “It
was important to win and we were good
in making hardly any errors. After the
last international break, we missed so
many scoring opportunities. Today we
made up for our previous mistakes.”
Second-placed Roma beat Torino 3-0
thanks to goals from Vasilis Torosidis,
Seydou Keita and Adem Ljajic, while
Napoli went third with a 1-0 win at Fiorentina with a winner from Argentina
forward Gonzalo Higuain.
Inter Milan’s inconsistent form continued with a 2-2 home draw against
Hellas Verona, while Lazio lost 2-1 at
Empoli.
Chievo Verona beat fellow struggler
Cesena 2-1 to move off the bottom of the
table, while Palermo drew 1-1 at home to
Udinese. Cagliari was held 1-1 by 10-man
Genoa.
SPAIN. Goals by Carlos Vela and Imanol Agirretxe gave lowly Real Sociedad a
2-1 home win against 10-man defending
champion Atletico Madrid.
The defeat leaves left Atletico in fourth-place on 23 points — four behind leaders Real Madrid.
Also, Victor Casadesus struck late to
give lowly Levante a 1-1 draw at Sevilla
in a fierce match.
Sevilla left-winger Víctor Machin headed in Gerard Deulofeu’s pinpoint cross
in the 31st minute.
But Casadesus pounced on a poor clearance by Sevilla goalkeeper Antonio Alberto Bastos to equalize in the 80th. The
game lasted 96 minutes due to injury
stoppages, including Bastos who was
treated three times for a bleeding jaw.
The game had to be stopped five times
to treat players off the field.
Sevilla occupies fifth place on 23 points. Real Madrid leads the standings on 27
points, two ahead of Barcelona. AP
McDonald’s key sales figure
BUZZ declines in October
THE
World Views
Roger Moorhouse, Bloomberg
US meth users
turning to cheaper
Mexican-made drug
Ambient
60-80
Moderate
NIGERIA A suicide
bomber disguised
in school uniform
detonated explosives
at a high school
assembly in the
northeast Nigerian city
of Potiskum yesterday,
killing at least 48
students, according to
survivors and a morgue
attendant.
EGYPT Ansar Beit
al-Maqdis, a jihadi
organization based
in the Sinai Peninsula
that has carried out
several attacks targeting
Egyptian security
forces, has pledged
allegiance to the Islamic
State group. The
announcement reflects
the growing regional
appeal of the Islamic
State, an al-Qaida
breakaway group that
has carved out a selfstyled caliphate in Syria
and Iraq and demanded
the loyalty of the world’s
Muslims.
A Franklin County police officer counts pills containing pseudoephedrine during a raid of a suspected meth
house in Gerald, Mo.
Jim Salter, St Louis
S
eizures of homemade methamphetamine
labs are down by nearly
half in many Midwestern
states, but use of the drug
remains high as people increasingly turn to cheaper,
imported Mexican meth.
Meth lab busts and seizures are down 40 percent
or more in states that traditionally lead the country
in that category, narcotics
experts told The Associated
Press.
Enforcement and stricter
laws are partly responsible,
but the meth now coming
through Mexican cartel
pipelines is so cheap and
pure that it is supplanting
meth made in homes. The
cartels have even expanded
their meth reach to rural
areas and small towns.
“The great news is that
meth from Mexico doesn’t
explode, doesn’t burn
down your house and your
neighbor’s home, doesn’t
contaminate your property, doesn’t kill children the
way meth labs have done
here in the U.S. for decades,” said Jason Grellner,
the chief narcotics officer in
Franklin County, Missouri.
Meth lab seizures peaked
nationally in 2004, when
nearly 24,000 labs were
seized. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported 11,573 seizures last
year, up 363 from 2012.
The Mexican cartels have
long controlled the market
for illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Meth was
trickier. For years, many
U.S. users have chosen to
make their own, first in
homemade labs that often
caught fire or ruined houses. The Drug Enforcement
Administration’s website
lists thousands of homes
contaminated by meth.
When federal and state
lawmakers began imple-
Jim Shroba, special agent
in charge for the DEA’s St.
Louis office. The price over
that same period has fallen
sharply, from USD290 per
pure gram to around $100
per pure gram.
Marijuana is by far the
most seized drug in the
United States, with DEA
statistics showing 268,000
kilograms seized in 2013.
That compares to 22,500
kilograms of cocaine, 3,990
The Mexican cartels have
long controlled the market
for illegal drugs such as
cocaine and heroin. Meth
was trickier. For years, many
U.S. users have chosen to
make their own
menting laws limiting the
sale of key meth ingredient
pseudoephedrine in the
mid-2000s, it became difficult to obtain enough for
large batches.
Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have increased their
meth-making, using the organic compound phenylacetone — banned in the U.S.
but obtainable in Mexico,
according to the DEA — rather than pseudoephedrine.
The purity of Mexican
meth increased from 39 percent in 2007 to essentially
100 percent today, said
kilograms of meth and 965
kilograms of heroin.
At first, the Mexican
meth was aimed mainly at
big cities and suburbs. Indiana’s meth suppression
commander Niki Crawford said it is increasingly
showing up in her state’s
mid-sized cities.
“We all know that if we get
a handle on meth labs, we
will still have meth addicts
who will work very hard to
get their drug,” Crawford
said. “This is where the
Mexican cartel meth will
fill the void.” AP
SOUTH AFRICA
Prosecutors said
yesterday their
application to appeal
against Oscar Pistorius’
manslaughter conviction
and five-year prison
sentence will be heard in
a South African court on
Dec. 9.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made headlines around the world last week when he defended
the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, by which
Stalin and Hitler agreed secretly to divide Eastern
Europe between them. It was, Putin said, in line with
the normal “methods of foreign policy” of the time.
“What is so bad about it, if the Soviet Union did not
want to fight?” he asked.
Putin’s language was harsher than when last he
spoke publicly on the subject, at a 2009 commemoration of the outbreak of World War II, when he dismissed “all treaties” with the Nazis as “morally unacceptable” and “politically senseless.” The reason for
the shift in tone seems clear: Over the last year or so,
relations between Moscow and the West have all but
broken down and there is no mileage for Russia in
accommodating Western sensibilities.
More worrying, though, are the uncanny historical
parallels to the era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that seem
to have accompanied Russian actions in the last
year: the sabre-rattling, the talk of rescuing Russian
minorities, the border provocations, the mysteriously
downed aircraft, the invasion of neighbouring Ukraine and the annexation of its territory. The Kremlin
playbook that guided Stalin in 1939-40 would appear
to have found a new reader.
Look a little closer, though, and the substance of
Putin’s argument on the Nazi-Soviet Pact hasn’t
changed. Last week, as five years ago, he echoed
a familiar Soviet-era justification of the agreement,
according to which, Stalin was forced into the deal
by the perfidy of the West and his decision to sign it
was “defensive” in motivation.
Both propositions are thoroughly disingenuous.
Nothing prior to Hitler’s attack on Russia in 1941 suggested Stalin’s motivation in signing the Pact was
defensive. On the contrary, the available evidence
suggests strongly that his goal was to encourage
Hitler to attack and undermine his old enemy, the
Western Imperialists. At that point, he surmised, he
would be able to march westward unopposed and
turn the entire continent of Europe communist.
We know this was the thrust of Kremlin thinking,
because numerous senior Soviet politicians said so
at the time. They made little mention of not wanting
to fight. We know it, too, because the Soviet Union
was not shy of fighting when the war began – just not
against Hitler.
The attempt to shift blame for the Pact on to the
West is similarly mendacious. When Putin said in
2009 that all treaties signed with Nazi Germany were
morally unacceptable, he was juxtaposing the NaziSoviet Pact with the Munich Agreement of 1938.
It is certainly true that collective security had failed
by 1938, and each state was seeking to make the
best bilateral arrangements it could. But the British
and French effort to placate Hitler in 1938 cannot seriously be viewed in the same category as Stalin’s
pact with him of the following year. One was a failed
attempt to preserve the peace (at the expense of
Czechoslovakia); the other was a successful attempt
to launch a war. One was a political arrangement to
head off a crisis, the other opened a two-year economic and strategic relationship that was an alliance
in all but name. Including both under the rubric of
“treaties with the Nazis” is a deliberate and cynical
obfuscation.
So, what about Putin’s contention that the NaziSoviet Pact (better known by the names of the two
foreign ministers involved, Vyacheslav Molotov and
Joachim von Ribbentrop) was “not so bad.” Well, it
depends on where you were standing. From the safety of the Kremlin, perhaps it might have seemed
so, but few people further west would have agreed.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact launched World War II and divided Eastern Europe between the Nazis and Soviets, directly affecting at least 50 million people. Hitler
invaded Poland 10 days after the deal was signed
and Stalin followed suit a little more than two weeks
later. Poland was divided and enslaved by the two
most hideous and murderous totalitarian regimes the
world has seen.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact was an archetype of cynical,
Machiavellian, totalitarian politics, a natural product
of the two hateful regimes that spawned it. It may
well have been “typical” by the perverted standards
of Stalin’s Soviet Union or Hitler’s Third Reich, but
that does not mean that modern politicians can glibly
play it down, make light of it or rehabilitate it. The fact
that – in 2014 – Putin is openly prepared to do so
should concern us all.
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Organized crime
Putin’s Hitler-pact defense
Air quality
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opinion
region, the Middle East and Africa.
McDonald’s APMEA division has been
trying to bounce back since the summer,
when a TV report in China showed workers
at one of its suppliers repackaging meat that
was alleged to be expired. The claim has not
been publicly confirmed by the supplier or
the government.
The Oak Brook, Illinois company said comparable sales for Europe fell 0.7 percent.
source: dsmg
McDonald’s Corp. says that a key global sales figure slipped 0.5 percent in October, with
weakness in the U.S. and ongoing difficulties
from a food-safety scandal in China weighing
down its business.
The world’s biggest hamburger chain said
yesterday that the decline in global sales at
locations open at least 13 months included a 1
percent drop in the U.S. and a 4.2 percent decline for the unit that includes the Asia-Pacific
Station
SPAIN About 1.6 million
people in Spain’s
northeastern region of
Catalonia voted Sunday
in favor of breaking
away from the country
and carving out a new
Mediterranean nation in a
mock independence poll,
but more Catalans stayed
away either because of
the poll’s
USA With the completion
of a 21-day incubation
period for Ebola
yesterday, a nurse who
successfully fought
efforts to restrict her
movements hopes to
resume a normal life.
Kaci Hickox says she
fought quarantines in
New Jersey and Maine
on behalf of all health
care volunteers who go
to West Africa to fight
Ebola.