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MYANMAR-USA An

influential Washington

think tank is criticizing

Myanmar’s government

for presiding over

a “humanitarian

catastrophe” in western

Rakhine state and

doing little to track

down perpetrators of

Buddhist-on-Muslim

violence around the

country.

AUSTRALIA’s prime

minister says he’s

considering a personal

request from President

Barack Obama to send

a medical team to

Africa to fight Ebola,

but that priority remains

responding to an

outbreak in the Asia-

Pacific region.

USA All travelers who

come into the U.S. from

three Ebola-stricken

West African nations

will now be monitored

for three weeks, the

latest step by federal

officials to keep the

disease from spreading

into the country. The

move is in sync with a

new AP poll showing

Americans want tighter

screening for Ebola.

UAE Many Asian and

African women working

as domestic workers

in the United Arab

Emirates say their

employers beat them

with sticks or cables,

punched and slapped

them, and there’s little

they can do because

they’re excluded from

the country’s labor law

protections, a rights

group says.

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FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho

“ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ”

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MSAR seen as a platform for regional trade services

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ONE THIRD OF HENGQIN RESIDENTS TO COME FROM MACAU

LIONEL LEONG WILLING TO TAKE UP GOVERNMENT JOB “Regardless of the job post, and as

long as I am granted an opportunity

to serve my country and Macau, I am

willing to accept it,” Lionel Leong said

Nabbed Guangzhou party chief has Macau links P3

P2 MIF

LOCAL SUPPORT FOR PROTESTERS GROWS, SURVEY SAYS

A public opinion poll conducted by

the Chinese University of Hong Kong

showed 37.8 percent of respondents

support the Occupy movement

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GUANGDONG AND MACAU COOPERATE ON CHINESE MEDICINE

GUANGDONG AND Macau

have signed a cooperation agree-

ment for the Traditional Chinese

Medicine Park in Hengqin Island,

where a business incubation

center will be created. The ex-

ecutive director of the Macau

Trade and Investment Promotion

Institute (IPIM), Ms Echo Chan,

said that the agreement features a

permanent exhibition and health-

care business platform within

the existent Traditional Chinese

Medicine Park located in Hengqin

and negotiations but we would

like for more partners to join this

project,” she told the Times. Be-

hind the agreement there are two

main goals: it will be a platform to

promote different types of health-

care practices. This platform will

also focus on promoting quality

control, while showing potential

business opportunities within the

healthcare sector.

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Catarina Pinto

COMING from not only nei-ghboring regions but faraway

countries, entrepreneurs are ga-thering at the 19th Macau Inter-national Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), seeing the MSAR as a privileged location to further their businesses. The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Francis Tam, believes that MIF is helping Macau to become a pla-tform enhancing regional trade, which will ultimately allow it to gradually diversify its economy.

Speaking at MIF’s inaugura-tion ceremony yesterday, Fran-cis Tam recalled that Macau has seen a rapid and stable economic development, leading to the im-provement of employment rates. He added that the city is stepping up efforts to establish itself not only as a world center for tou-rism and leisure, but also as a regional platform for trade ser-vices. This is particularly evident when it comes to enhancing the

MACAU Executive Council Member, Mr

Lionel Leong, said yester-day that he’s willing to ac-cept any government po-sition if invited. His name has emerged as one of the

Lionel Leong willing to take up gov’t job

MIF

Macau seen as a platform for regional trade services

On’s second term. On the sidelines of a ceremony held at the Macau Inter-national Trade & Invest-ment Fair (MIF), Lionel

Leong told reporters that he is willing to take on any government post throu-gh which he could serve the people of Macau and mainland China.

“Regardless of the job

post, and as long as I am granted an opportunity to serve my country and Macau, I am willing to accept it. But I would like to stress that at this mo-ment we should focus on

the current government, and how they do a better job acting as platform to tackle social problems, while boosting our eco-nomy,” he said.

Upon being asked whe-

ther Mr Chui had already invited him to serve as one of the government’s

would not comment any further on the matter.

Current Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Francis Tam, did not

-ving his post after serving for 15 years.

relationship between China and the Portuguese-speaking coun-tries.

This year’s MIF is focusing precisely on encouraging closer business ties between mainland China and Portuguese-speaking countries, with Macau playing the role of a facilitator of such re-lations. A special pavilion show-casing food and beverage related products from the Portuguese- speaking countries is one of this year’s highlights.

The chairman of the Portu-guese Agency for Foreign Trade & Investment (AICEP), Miguel Frasquilho, told the Times that the fair is now of great impor-tance, with very “dynamic” trade and investment relations enhan-ced here. He believes that Portu-gal can have a crucial role in the relationship between China and the Portuguese-speaking coun-tries too, given its history and strategic geographic location.

“There’s this idea that China, through Macau, wishes to have

closer ties with the Portuguese- speaking community. Portugal is able to play an important role. Since it’s located in Europe, it’s part of the European Union, it’s the European country closer to the United States and the whole American continent, as well as being also close to Africa,” he re-called.

Miguel Frasquilho said that over 70 Portuguese companies and entities have gathered at MIF this year, and expectations are good, since some of them are already doing business in Macau.

Casa Angola International is one of them. The company has been exporting a wide range of products to Macau, mostly food and beverages, and has been at-tending MIF for ten years now.

The company’s CEO, Rui Mo-reira, believes that MIF offers a good opportunity to get a sense of current local market trends and needs. “We are able to un-derstand which products are having a good impact on the

market, or which products the market is lacking,” he said. This year, they are trying to introduce soy products here, particularly soy milk.

Acushla, a Portuguese com-pany exporting organic olive oil, is participating in the fair for the

-tive Joaquim Moreira said that the Asian market is appealing, since they have already been ex-porting olive oil to Japan. With a gourmet, organic product, who-se quality remains an important feature, Acushla is hoping to fur-ther its business ties with Asia. “We want to be present in this part of the world,” he stressed.

Another MIF highlight this year is a section featuring electronic

the hi-tech industry has become

development. Mary Li, from Rapoo Technolo-

gy, a company focusing on selling

are participating in the fair, as

one of the enterprises invited by

Association. They see Macau as an interna-

tional city, with a high number of businessmen passing by. “Like Hong Kong, Macau is an inter-national city and does business [with companies] from across the world. Businessmen from different countries often come here looking for business oppor-tunities,” she said.

Her company is already doing business in Macau, as they have a representative in Hong Kong who also works with the Macau market. They are hoping to fur-ther promote their products in this year’s MIF.

Yesterday, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) also inaugurated its pavilion, which will be dedica-ted to Macau’s music industry. Seminars and live shows will be held throughout the fair, which ends on Sunday, in a total of 19 activities. IC’s president, Ung Vai Meng, handed a series of awards

-signers who were granted a sub-sidy through different IC pro-grams.

Mr Ung also inaugurated the

Cultural Industries Fair-Macao Expo, which will also serve to ti-ghten business and cooperation opportunities on culture and creative industries between the two regions.

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