tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79982088237919757532024-03-05T21:29:08.550+08:00O ProtestoUm olhar sobre Macau e a ChinaNuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.comBlogger617125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-18780748147041202762014-09-02T18:34:00.000+08:002014-09-02T23:20:25.999+08:00Flying over Macau<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/104840203" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
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Some notes from the author of this amazing video, my friend Sérgio Perez:</div>
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«"Flying Over Macau" is a personal project of mine, done throughout weekends. many nights and early mornings, with my good friend Pedro Luz, who gave me great support. <br />
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I did this video to showcase Macau through a different perspective. As we focus, in our daily lives, on the rush, stress and pace of the city, surrounded by it, we often forget how beautiful and unique it is. What if we could just fly up, if for only a moment -a day- look at it from high above, as if in the clouds, and enjoy it, without concern of time? I hope this takes you on a journey, through the clouds, above the limited perception of the "Asia's Las Vegas" stereotype, allowing you to see a glimpse of the beauty of this unique city in China, the result of more than 450 years of the coexistence in harmony of the East and the West, the Chinese and Portuguese.<br />
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Let the music play and the imagery take you on this small journey above the clouds...<br />
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Videography, Editing and Camera Operation by: Sérgio Perez<br />
Technical Consultant and Cooperation: Pedro Luz<br />
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Special thanks to my friend Elisabela Larrea for that 6am support and help in a difficult shooting day!<br />
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Sorry for the watermark and © with name, but I've been stolen footage before, this is the safest way to prevent it. <br />
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For better viewing on a TV Screen or big display, download the source 1080p video!»Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-70501702497639461812014-08-26T19:30:00.003+08:002014-08-26T19:44:12.027+08:00A notícia das detenções na imprensa britânica<em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Five organisers of unofficial referendum arrested in Macau</span></strong></em><br />
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Authorities in the semi-autonomous Chinese city Macau have detained five organisers of an unofficial political referendum, amid fears of tightening restrictions on freedom of speech in the former Portuguese colony.<br />
Soon after organisers opened an unofficial seven-day "civil referendum" on Sunday morning, police shut down electric polling stations across the city. They detained five volunteers, including Jason Chao Teng-hei, the leader of Open Macau Society, one of the vote's organisers. Chao was charged with "serious disobedience with police" and referred for prosecution. All five volunteers have been released.<br />
The referendum, which was inspired by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/hong-kong-unofficial-pro-democracy-referendum-beijing" title="">a similar ballot organised by Hong Kong activists in June</a>, asked Macau residents if they were satisfied with the rule of Fernando Chui, the territory's chief executive, and whether they would support universal suffrage in future elections.<br />
Currently, the chief executive is elected by an elite committee of 400 people, most of whom are business-focused and loyal to Beijng. Chui, the son of a construction tycoon, will almost certainly be re-elected next Sunday for a second five-year term. <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/877937.shtml?" title="">He has called the ballot unlawful</a>.<br />
As of Monday evening about 5,700 of Macau's 600,000 residents had <a href="https://turnout.macau2014.org/" title="">cast votes</a>.<br />
"It is inherently illegitimate for personal information to be collected and handled for the purpose of the so-called civil referendum," Yang Chongwei, deputy coordinator of the Office for Personal Data Protection, a government agency, said at a press conference following the arrests. The office had warned the organisers before the vote opened that the ballot violated the territory's privacy law, according to local media.<br />
The ballot asked for participants' phone and ID card numbers to prevent fraudulent voting. "We had asked [voters'] permission first before we collected their identity cards and related information," Bill Chou, vice president of the New Macau Group, another ballot organiser, told Reuters. "There is no reason for the police and other law enforcers to intervene and to arrest our people in charge."<br />
Like its neighbour Hong Kong, Macau is officially a part of China but enjoys a free press, an independent judiciary, and civil liberties unknown on the mainland. Yet critics say that these freedoms have been slowly eroding under pressure from Beijing. Earlier this month Bill Chou Kwok-Ping, an associate professor of political science at the University of Macau, said the university would not renew his contract because of his social activism. Chou was elected vice president of the New Macau Association, the territory's most prominent pro-democratic group, in June. The university denied that he was suspended for his beliefs.<br />
Another professor in Macau, Eric Sautedé of the University of St Joseph, was sacked in June, also ostensibly for his political outspokenness.<br />
Although Macau residents are generally considered less politically active than their Hong Kong counterparts, the territory has been gripped this summer by a wave of political activism. In May 20,000 people gathered to protest against a bill that would give the chief executive power over the courts – perhaps the territory's biggest protest since 1999, when it was handed back to Chinese rule. The following month 2,000 people gathered to mark the 25th anniversary of Beijing's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.</div>
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Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-12455680320075651432014-08-25T21:26:00.002+08:002014-08-26T19:42:30.395+08:00Polícia de Macau faz detenções no referendo pela democracia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A peça é do <em><a href="http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/policia-de-macau-detem-activistas-durante-referendo-simbolico-sobre-eleicoes-democraticas-1667462"><strong>Público</strong></a></em> de hoje e noticia comportamentos das autoridades de Macau que vão na esteira de outras situações recentes de repressão da actividade de académicos locais. O território parece estar a trilhar caminhos sombrios; neste caso concreto, também com culpas históricas para Portugal, que, ao contrário do Reino Unido, não foi capaz de garantir que a Lei Básica de Macau previsse a evolução do seu sistema eleitoral para o sufrágio universal.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-53542605594649278452012-12-20T13:35:00.001+08:002012-12-22T12:59:12.715+08:00A Última Nau<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No dia em que se assinala o 13.º aniversário da transferência de soberania de Macau para a China, o programa de debate «A Última Nau» é dedicado, precisamente, ao processo de transição daquele território. Na RTP África, às 22h55, e na RTPi, às 23h13 (ambas, horas de Portugal Continental).<br />
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Adenda em 22/12/2012: este programa já se encontra disponível no <a href="http://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p28917/c102925">sítio da RTP na <em>Internet</em></a>.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0Portugal38.719804742642367 -9.1186523437537.134792742642368 -11.70043934375 40.304816742642366 -6.53686534375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-63676365306742826732011-08-25T01:15:00.000+08:002011-08-25T01:15:29.372+08:00O Razzie da idiotice!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qZUZCzwQRj8/TlUw4cJxFWI/AAAAAAAAD8k/rqQWrf0CPoM/s1600/Escudo+nacional.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" qaa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qZUZCzwQRj8/TlUw4cJxFWI/AAAAAAAAD8k/rqQWrf0CPoM/s320/Escudo+nacional.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A chamada <strong><em>Lei da Reunificação</em></strong> (<a href="http://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/1999/01/lei01.asp">Lei n.º 1/1999, de 20 de Dezembro</a>) determina, em sede de «interpretação das expressões e designações constantes da legislação previamente vigente», que «o preâmbulo e a parte com assinaturas não são ressalvados, não fazendo parte integrante da legislação da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau» (alínea <em>1)</em> do n.º 1 do artigo 4.º). É uma parvoíce, até porque os preâmbulos são importantes elementos de interpretação dos diplomas legais. Em todo o caso, houve o bom senso de não se ir ainda mais longe na asneira, não se fazendo, por exemplo, qualquer menção aos símbolos de Portugal constantes dos <em>Boletins Oficiais</em>.<br />
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Pelos vistos, a <em>Imprensa Oficial</em>, querendo ser mais papista do que o Papa (o que até nem é uma atitude original na Administração de Macau pós-99, como sabemos), resolveu que também o escudo nacional estava a mais nos <em>B.O.</em> anteriores ao <em>handover</em>. Para ela, aqui vai, pois, o meu voto para <em><strong>Razzie</strong></em> da idiotice. Parabéns, <em>Imprensa Oficial</em>!Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-13336405566684903762011-08-05T10:20:00.001+08:002011-08-25T01:15:56.442+08:00Removeram o escudo nacional português?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wL92CAGrQHk/TjtSRZtwqhI/AAAAAAAAD8A/X6KIMH8JSdI/s1600/BO+26-12-1994.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wL92CAGrQHk/TjtSRZtwqhI/AAAAAAAAD8A/X6KIMH8JSdI/s320/BO+26-12-1994.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0hHJnFVbOQ/TjtSW0rZdOI/AAAAAAAAD8E/rs26kLUekZs/s1600/BO+24-8-1998.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0hHJnFVbOQ/TjtSW0rZdOI/AAAAAAAAD8E/rs26kLUekZs/s320/BO+24-8-1998.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div>É impressão minha ou, nos <em>pdf</em> da <em><a href="http://pt.io.gov.mo/default.aspx">Imprensa Oficial</a></em>, <strong>o escudo português foi removido</strong> da primeira página dos <em>Boletins Oficiais de Macau</em> anteriores à transferência de soberania do território? Será possível?Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-26057165976484765502011-02-26T00:53:00.004+08:002011-02-26T00:59:58.550+08:00Fórum Internacional de Sinologia<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HIt6rVM30ew/TWfewwyGqUI/AAAAAAAAD70/mndNr44OBkA/s1600/F%25C3%25B3rum%2Bde%2BSinologia.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 290px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577671592831789378" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HIt6rVM30ew/TWfewwyGqUI/AAAAAAAAD70/mndNr44OBkA/s400/F%25C3%25B3rum%2Bde%2BSinologia.jpg" /></a>Está a decorrer, desde ontem e até amanhã, o <strong>6.º Fórum Internacional de Sinologia</strong>, organizado pelo Instituto Português de Sinologia. As sessões têm lugar nas instalações do Museu do Oriente, em Lisboa, podendo o respectivo programa completo ser consultado <a href="http://www.ipsinologia.com/6FIS.pdf">aqui</a>.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-17657281855247267622011-02-01T22:44:00.005+08:002014-08-26T19:39:45.232+08:00A guerra da família Ho no Financial Times<div align="center">
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Chama-se «E depois das presidenciais?», foi <a href="http://hojemacau.com.mo/?p=8047">publicado</a> no <em><strong>Hoje Macau</strong></em> do passado dia 26 de Janeiro e é da autoria de Arnaldo Gonçalves.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TUb_G1HQuoI/AAAAAAAAD7E/gVk8EPdBnrQ/s1600/E%2Bdepois%2Bdas%2Bpresidenciais%252C%2BHoje%2BMacau%252C%2B26-1-2011.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568418482092030594" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TUb_G1HQuoI/AAAAAAAAD7E/gVk8EPdBnrQ/s400/E%2Bdepois%2Bdas%2Bpresidenciais%252C%2BHoje%2BMacau%252C%2B26-1-2011.jpg" /></a> Folgo em ver que, finalmente, alguém - além de mim - se pronuncia na comunicação social sobre o que se tem passado no PSD-Macau desde as últimas eleições para os seus órgãos, em Julho de 2007, para um mandato de dois anos. São já três anos e meio (!) à deriva, sem assembleias gerais, sem reuniões da comissão política e sem qualquer actividade para os militantes. Apenas serviços de criadagem ao deputado José Cesário, o "padrinho" da golpada impunemente cometida por três ou quatro lacaios que tudo fazem para se manter nas suas boas graças; quem sabe, na expectativa de que um dia, quando o PSD estiver novamente no poder, o seu <em>boss</em> se lembre deles e lhes retribua a cega fidelidade. Até quando teremos que aturar isto?Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-90018287422166494032010-10-28T20:53:00.000+08:002010-10-29T03:54:21.191+08:00Estados de alma<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMnQWyRSLKI/AAAAAAAAD60/9cgEcoAH-oc/s1600/Estados+de+Alma.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 325px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533182707071331490" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMnQWyRSLKI/AAAAAAAAD60/9cgEcoAH-oc/s400/Estados+de+Alma.jpg" /></a> Foi hoje inaugurada, na Delegação Económica e Comercial de Macau em Lisboa, a <strong>exposição de aguarelas</strong> «Estados D'Alma», da autoria de Maria Luísa Vilhena, antiga professora do Liceu de Macau e também aluna da Academia de Artes Visuais do território, onde frequentou vários cursos de pintura tradicional chinesa, desenho, pintura contemporânea, gravura e história da arte. A exposição está patente ao público até 3 de Dezembro.<br /><br />Para lá da beleza dos trabalhos expostos, foi uma oportunidade para rever amigos e conhecidos de Macau, como os simpáticos e sempre disponíveis responsáveis da Delegação, Eng.º Raimundo do Rosário e Dr.ª Gabriela César, entre diversos outros.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMnQW5E2K7I/AAAAAAAAD6s/-wyO5C7N3GE/s1600/Estados+de+alma+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533182708898212786" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMnQW5E2K7I/AAAAAAAAD6s/-wyO5C7N3GE/s400/Estados+de+alma+2.jpg" /></a></div>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-3034746739697854722010-10-26T02:00:00.006+08:002010-10-29T03:28:37.932+08:00Iniciativas sobre Macau em Lisboa<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMXF7RkmxmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/Xue7NWh3Fxk/s1600/Presen%C3%A7a+inglesa+em+Macau.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532045339414414946" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TMXF7RkmxmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/Xue7NWh3Fxk/s400/Presen%C3%A7a+inglesa+em+Macau.jpg" /></a>No próximo dia 5 de Novembro, pelas 18h00, a <a href="http://www.decmacau.pt/">Delegação Económica e Comercial de Macau</a> em Lisboa vai ser palco do lançamento de um livro do académico e ex-residente do território Rogério Miguel Puga sobre a <strong>presença inglesa em Macau nos séculos XVII e XVIII</strong> (imagem acima). <p>Exactamente uma semana antes, a 29 deste mês, entre as 14h30 e as 18h30, a <a href="http://www.casademacau.pt/">Casa de Macau de Portugal</a> receberá um seminário sobre a vida e obra de <strong>Henrique de Senna Fernandes</strong>.</p><p>Mais pormenores poderão ser consultados <a href="http://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/lisboa-homenageia-senna-fernandes/">nesta</a> peça do <em>Ponto Final</em>.</p>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-72240819854300145062010-08-03T23:50:00.005+08:002010-08-04T04:55:09.970+08:00Português de Macau<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TFg7Dxl5niI/AAAAAAAAD54/-wgey0EIlmI/s1600/FLiP+8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 295px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501211880871009826" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TFg7Dxl5niI/AAAAAAAAD54/-wgey0EIlmI/s400/FLiP+8.jpg" /></a>Segundo li no semanário <em><a href="http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Tecnologia/Interior.aspx?content_id=180229">Sol</a></em>, a <em>Priberam</em> acaba de lançar uma nova versão, a oitava, das suas já famosas ferramentas da língua portuguesa (<strong><a href="http://www.flip.pt/">FLiP</a></strong>), que uso há largos anos.<br /><br />O curioso da notícia é a menção de que o produto contém a variante do português de Macau, coisa que eu desconhecia existir... Será o português pré-Acordo Ortográfico? É que a única palavra que vi até hoje ser "oficialmente" escrita de forma diferente em Portugal e em Macau é «logótipo», que aparece sempre no <em>Boletim Oficial</em> do território sem acento (por exemplo, <a href="http://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2010/30/ordem62.asp">aqui</a>).Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-69243913288923484302010-07-19T06:27:00.005+08:002010-07-19T09:48:24.169+08:00Chegou a concorrênciaEm Maio de 2008, estive lá e <a href="http://oprotesto-macau.blogspot.com/2008/05/vem-a-concorrncia.html">fotografei</a> o que então era apenas um gigantesco estaleiro de construção. Parece que o mega-resort de Sheldon Adelson em Singapura foi, finalmente, inaugurado. O magnata do jogo passa a jogar em dois tabuleiros no Sudeste Asiático. Quais as consequências para Macau?<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8DJX81OFKVY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=pt_BR&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8DJX81OFKVY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=pt_BR&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;">Jardins suspensos em três torres marcam novo resort de Singapura</span></em><br /></strong><a href="http://fugaspublico.blogspot.com/2010/07/jardins-suspensos-em-tres-torres-marcam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Fugas+%28fugasB%29"><strong>Fugas</strong></a><br /><em>17 de Julho de 2010</em><br /><br />Quartos: 2561, dos quais 230 suites de luxo. Funcionários directos: 10 000. Capacidade diária do casino: 25 000 pessoas. Visitantes esperados por ano: mais de 18milhões. Investimento: 4765 milhões de euros. Os números chegam para impressionar, mas o Marina Bay Sands Resort não se ficou por aqui e transformou-se no mais recente ex-líbris de Singapura. A imagem da cidade está agora marcada por estas três gigantes torres de vidro, unidas por uma megaplataforma com o formato de um convés de um luxuoso navio-cruzeiro. Trata-se de um SkyPark, de 1,2 hectares, que integra uma impressionante piscina infinita de 150 metros e um restaurante com a assinatura do conceituado chefe Justin Quek, tido com um dos maiores de Singapura. Mas há mais: Mario Batali e Daniel Boulud, ambos de Nova Iorque, Wolfgang Puck, de Los Angeles, Santi Santamaria, de Barcelona, Guy Savoy, de Paris, e Tetsuya Wakuda, de Sydney, prometem em conjunto criar um destino gastronómico ímpar. Além dos mais de cinquenta restaurantes disponíveis, o resort, que foi inaugurado oficialmente a 24 de Junho, inclui ainda 75 000 metros quadrados de área comercial (onde não faltam marcas de topo: Cartier, Chanel, Fendi, Prada ou Yves Saint Laurent), teatros com um total de quatro mil lugares, um museu e um pavilhão de cristal. Não esquecendo, claro, o já mencionado casino — ou não se estivesse a falar de um empreendimento da norte-americana Las Vegas Sands, gigante americano de casinos —, que só por si deverá gerar receitas anuais de quase sessenta milhões de euros.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-45779330476984160212010-06-24T03:57:00.002+08:002010-06-24T04:11:57.487+08:00Semana de Macau em Lisboa (II)<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnreJ5KDI/AAAAAAAAD5s/P7c_BFfuCjU/s1600/Imagem+028.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486061292617279538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnreJ5KDI/AAAAAAAAD5s/P7c_BFfuCjU/s400/Imagem+028.jpg" border="0" /></a>Aqui ficam algumas imagens do espaço promocional de Macau no Centro Comercial Colombo, na capital portuguesa, integrado nas actividades da «Semana de Macau em Lisboa», que teve início na última sexta-feira e termina hoje.<br /><br />Infelizmente, nas três vezes que por lá passei, o movimento não era muito. O calígrafo e o adivinho concentravam as atenções dos visitantes, mas julgo que a imagem de Macau merecia outra vitalidade num evento destes.<br /><br />Além disso, dada a enorme comunidade de naturais de Macau e ex-residentes do território a viver actualmente em Lisboa, faria todo o sentido a organização de um evento aberto onde a comitiva do Chefe do Executivo pudesse receber os seus "concidadãos", à semelhança do que o consulado português costuma fazer quando membros do nosso Governo arribam àquelas paragens.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnrKHDw1I/AAAAAAAAD5k/SEJ0p3EZsUI/s1600/Imagem+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486061287236682578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnrKHDw1I/AAAAAAAAD5k/SEJ0p3EZsUI/s400/Imagem+012.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnqnufJcI/AAAAAAAAD5c/7PrtDSz_c5A/s1600/Imagem+035.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486061278006814146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnqnufJcI/AAAAAAAAD5c/7PrtDSz_c5A/s400/Imagem+035.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnqZLdI7I/AAAAAAAAD5U/moHc75oK_3M/s1600/Imagem+038.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486061274101785522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TCJnqZLdI7I/AAAAAAAAD5U/moHc75oK_3M/s400/Imagem+038.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div></div>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-21812957128108401042010-06-19T03:06:00.003+08:002010-11-29T10:15:51.556+08:00Pensões ilegais<span style="color:#ffff00;"></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TBvD3tyM4SI/AAAAAAAAD5I/rkB7BxnB0eQ/s1600/Conceito.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484192333204087074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TBvD3tyM4SI/AAAAAAAAD5I/rkB7BxnB0eQ/s400/Conceito.jpg" /></a>Li esta norma da proposta de lei intitulada «<strong>Proibição de exploração de pensões ilegais</strong>», que o Governo da RAEM apresentou na Assembleia Legislativa (e, ao que parece, já foi <a href="http://www.al.gov.mo/proposta/pensoes_ilegais/po.htm">aprovada na generalidade em 5 de Janeiro passado</a>), e fiquei na dúvida se é um disparate pegado ou sou eu que não estou a ver bem as coisas...<br /><br />Pelos vistos, para estarmos perante uma pensão ilegal, é preciso que se verifiquem cinco critérios cumulativos:<br />- Tratar-se de uma fracção autónoma não destinada a fins hoteleiros;<br />- Ser utilizada para proporcionar alojamento ao público;<br />- Os hóspedes serem maioritariamente não residentes;<br />- Não se conhecerem bem entre si; e<br />- Ocuparem a fracção com horas distintas de entrada ou de saída.<br /><br />Ora, sem ter lido ainda o resto da proposta ou a sua nota justificativa (parei logo aqui...), pergunto-me: e se a maioria dos hóspedes for residente? A pensão passa a ser legal mesmo que todos os outros critérios fiquem preenchidos? E se forem não residentes, mas tiverem sido todos recrutados no mesmo lugar da <em>mainland</em> (numa aldeia ou numa fábrica, por exemplo) e, por isso, já se conhecerem bem? E se forem <em>mainlanders</em> a trabalhar todos no mesmo lugar em Macau (como é bem possível) e praticarem os mesmos horários de entrada e saída, mesmo que não se conhecessem antes?<br /><br />Podia continuar, mas tenho que sair. Dão-se alvíssaras a quem me iluminar...<br /><br /><strong>Nota:</strong> agradeço a simpática <a href="http://delitodeopiniao.blogs.sapo.pt/2340656.html">referência</a> a esta posta no <em>Delito de Opinião</em>.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-37311417583854572562010-06-17T01:45:00.004+08:002010-06-17T01:56:32.390+08:00Semana de Macau em LisboaÉ já nesta sexta-feira que começa a semana de Macau em Lisboa, prolongando-se até quarta-feira seguinte. Uma óptima oportunidade para rever velhos amigos e matar saudades do Oriente.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TBkNwznc3uI/AAAAAAAAD48/3Yz4ptcTtNo/s1600/Semana+de+Macau+em+Lisboa.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483429153440849634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/TBkNwznc3uI/AAAAAAAAD48/3Yz4ptcTtNo/s400/Semana+de+Macau+em+Lisboa.jpg" border="0" /></a>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-62411015706303749242010-05-28T02:50:00.004+08:002010-05-28T03:19:32.180+08:00O glorioso Boavista de Macau<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S_6_IWS684I/AAAAAAAAD4w/28oM6kOjies/s1600/Boavista+de+Macau.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476024347073901442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 271px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S_6_IWS684I/AAAAAAAAD4w/28oM6kOjies/s400/Boavista+de+Macau.jpg" border="0" /></a>Nos idos de 1997, um grupo de residentes de Macau sócios e adeptos do Boavista Futebol Clube juntou-se e organizou a equipa que surge nesta fotografia, reforçada com um ou dois amigos que, embora preferindo outros emblemas, simpatizavam com a equipa das "camisolas esquisitas", como alguém uma vez lhe chamou numa competição europeia. <p>Para a posteridade, aqui fica o nome dos eleitos: atrás, da esquerda para a direita - Paulo Nascimento, Nuno Lima Bastos, Alexandre Bastos e Fernando Botelho; à frente, na mesma ordem - Carlos Nascimento, José Manuel Costa, Luís Correia e Victor Chung.</p><p>O tempo passa, mas a memória desse belo momento fica aqui imortalizada. Obrigado, amigos!Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-68553699146351573152010-01-21T22:15:00.003+08:002010-01-21T22:21:20.393+08:00Um país, um sistema para os dissidentes<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1hizCpqjwI/AAAAAAAAD3c/u9KHzDjAfLY/s1600-h/Zhang+Hongbao+(SCMP).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 397px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429197979819609858" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1hizCpqjwI/AAAAAAAAD3c/u9KHzDjAfLY/s400/Zhang+Hongbao+(SCMP).jpg" /></a><em><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Dissident HK handed to mainland jailed 9 years<br /></span></strong>Defendant should not have been tried over border: lawyers</em><br /><br /><em>Minnie Chan and Phyllis Tsang</em><br /><strong>South China Morning Post<br /></strong><em>January 21, 2010<br /></em><br /><em>Questions over the implementation of "one country, two systems" have been raised by the jailing of a former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests by a Sichuan court after he was handed over to the mainland by Hong Kong immigration authorities.</em><br /><br />The Shehong County People's Court sentenced Zhou Yongjun, 42, to nine years in jail on Friday after convicting him of attempted financial fraud and fining him 80,000 yuan (HK$90,840), the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.<br /><br />One of Zhou's lawyers, Chen Zerui, said his case stemmed from a complaint by Hang Seng Bank about a suspicious request to transfer overseas HK$6 million from a Hong Kong account registered to Wang Xingxiang, whose name was on the phony Malaysian passport Zhou used to try to enter Hong Kong.<br /><br />The signature on the transfer form did not match that of the original account holder and the name was placed on a money-laundering watch list.<br /><br />He said Hong Kong police had found no evidence linking Zhou to the transfer request during 48 hours of questioning following his arrival from Macau on September 28, 2008, and comparing his signature with that on the transfer form. He said Zhou was then passed back to Hong Kong immigration authorities, who handed him over to the mainland after he declined to reveal his true identity.<br /><br />Another of Zhou's lawyers, Mo Shaoping, said there were jurisdictional concerns about the case, because the alleged fraud was committed in Hong Kong and the alleged victim was Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank.<br /><br />"Firstly, it has to do with the location where the alleged crime was committed," Mo said. "It was allegedly committed in Hong Kong and Sichuan has no jurisdiction over that.<br /><br />"Hong Kong is a special administrative region. Under 'one country, two systems' none of the mainland judicial authorities have the right to handle a Hong Kong lawsuit."<br /><br />He said that if Hong Kong immigration authorities wanted to turn Zhou away, the proper procedure would have been to send him back to Macau; there was no reason to send him to a third location, Shenzhen.<br /><br />"If they have doubts about his identity, they should send him back to Macau, where he came from, instead of sending him to Shenzhen," Mo said.<br /><br />Zhou's human rights had also been violated, with Shenzhen authorities having detained him for seven months without notifying his family in the US or Sichuan, he said.<br /><br />Speaking from Los Angeles, Zhang Yuewei, Zhou's girlfriend and the mother of their two-year-old daughter, said the Hong Kong government had violated the "one country, two systems" formula by sending him to the mainland.<br /><br />Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan believes Zhou's sentence is related to his background as a student leader during the Tiananmen protests in 1989. Ho, a member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, said the Hong Kong government had not provided details of Zhou's case, including his 48 hours of questioning by Hong Kong police, even though he had asked for such information months ago on behalf of Zhou's legal team.<br /><br />"The Hong Kong government might have political considerations behind this arrangement," Ho said. "If we had been able to obtain this information, it might have helped Zhou's plea."<br /><br />Zhou, from Sichuan, captured global attention in 1989 by kneeling on the steps of the Great Hall of the People beside Tiananmen Square with two other students and pleading for top Beijing leaders to acknowledge student calls for political reform and the stamping out of corruption.<br /><br />Zhou managed to get out of the mainland in 1993 and moved to the United States. He returned in 1998 to visit his elderly parents after his mother fell ill, and was sentenced to three years in a labour camp in Mianyang, Sichuan.<br /><br />His name made headlines again after Hong Kong immigration authorities handed him over to Shenzhen authorities in September 2008 for using the phony passport bearing the name of Wang Xingxiang. The name was a pseudonym used by Zhang Hongbao, founder of a mainland qi gong organisation known as Zhong Gong, to open bank accounts overseas. Zhang was wanted by mainland police for rape, illegally collecting money and other charges from the early 1990s. He fled to the United States in 2000 and died in a car accident on July 31, 2006.<br /><br />Zhou's girlfriend said he denied the fraud charge and that he was the victim of bad luck and mistaken identity.<br /><br />She said he had obtained the fake passport through an immigration agency - a practice common among exiled dissidents, many of whom found themselves stateless when Beijing refused to renew their passports.<br /><br />A Hong Kong police spokesman said the force would not comment on an individual case. A spokeswoman for Hang Seng Bank also declined to comment, as did the Hong Kong government.<br /><br />Chen said Zhou had decided to appeal.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Additional reporting by Associated Press</span></strong>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-59914404863630842362010-01-21T16:21:00.002+08:002010-01-21T16:25:01.387+08:00Louvor por quatro dias de trabalho!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1gOy0k4NVI/AAAAAAAAD3I/dQSTSc4nlqQ/s1600-h/Nomea%C3%A7%C3%A3o+e+exonera%C3%A7%C3%A3o.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 388px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429105617064703314" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1gOy0k4NVI/AAAAAAAAD3I/dQSTSc4nlqQ/s400/Nomea%C3%A7%C3%A3o+e+exonera%C3%A7%C3%A3o.jpg" /></a> <div>Quatro dias de serviço dão direito a um louvor no <em>Diário da República</em>! Mais palavras para quê?</div>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-69671804282074264342010-01-20T01:30:00.000+08:002010-01-20T06:39:20.191+08:00Os avos e os cêntimosAnunciava o <em>JTM</em> de <a href="http://www.jtm.com.mo/news/20100119/news_images/00_19_01_2010.pdf">ontem</a> um aumento de dois cêntimos na tarifa da electricidade em Macau. E eu que pensava que a moeda local se dividia em cem <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataca#Pataca_de_Macau"><strong>avos</strong></a>...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1YyvVdURbI/AAAAAAAAD20/D1EbaW7oKxw/s1600-h/JTM,+19-1-2010+(c%C3%AAntimos+e+avos).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428582189637060018" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1YyvVdURbI/AAAAAAAAD20/D1EbaW7oKxw/s400/JTM,+19-1-2010+(c%C3%AAntimos+e+avos).jpg" /></a>Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-38674655656305414002010-01-19T03:26:00.004+08:002010-01-19T03:48:35.894+08:00Na hora da despedida<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1S2IcH82nI/AAAAAAAAD2o/a9aZgpNexug/s1600-h/Ponto+Final,+15-01-2010.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428163706993039986" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S1S2IcH82nI/AAAAAAAAD2o/a9aZgpNexug/s400/Ponto+Final,+15-01-2010.jpg" /></a>A menos de um mês de regressar a Portugal, após quinze anos a viver em Macau, o jornal <em>Ponto Final</em> convidou-me para uma derradeira <a href="http://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/%E2%80%9Cforam-me-sempre-cortadas-as-pernas-para-outros-voos%E2%80%9D/">troca de impressões</a>. Agradeço o interesse da sempre competente Isabel Castro e deste matutino onde tantas vezes partilhei o que pensava da realidade do território que foi a minha casa durante década e meia.<br /><br />O momento é de pausa na escrita e forte abrandamento deste blogue (o tempo não dá para tudo...), mas espero voltar paulatinamente ao teclado quando assentar arraiais na capital portuguesa.<br /><br />Por agora, aqui deixo os meus votos de tudo de bom para Macau - a minha terra de adopção - e, em especial, para os portugueses e amigos de todas as comunidades que aqui fazem a sua vida! Até sempre, meus amigos!Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-91121135524116181772010-01-05T14:24:00.007+08:002010-01-11T22:57:32.475+08:00Onde?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S0Ly-ygikyI/AAAAAAAAD2A/m9dTe_uYZUY/s1600-h/Dez+mais+altos+do+mundo+(P%C3%BAblico,+5-1-2010).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 210px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423164061831566114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/S0Ly-ygikyI/AAAAAAAAD2A/m9dTe_uYZUY/s400/Dez+mais+altos+do+mundo+(P%C3%BAblico,+5-1-2010).jpg" /></a>Foi inaugurado ontem o <em><strong><a href="http://www.burjdubai.com/">Burj Dubai</a></strong></em>, o edifício mais alto do mundo; aliás, a construção humana mais alta de sempre. <p>Já me referira a ele neste espaço em <a href="http://oprotesto-macau.blogspot.com/2008/08/burj-dubai-tower.html">Agosto de 2008</a> e tive oportunidade de o ver <em>in loco</em> em Maio passado, quando visitei o Dubai. É, em boa verdade, majestoso, especialmente quando visto à distância e comparado com os prédios vizinhos.</p><p>A propósito da efeméride, o jornal <em>Público</em> divulgou uma <a href="http://static.publico.clix.pt/homepage/infografia/mundo/dubai/http://">infografia</a> dos dez edifícios mais altos do mundo (incluindo um ainda em fase de arranque, o novo <em>World Trade Center</em> de Nova Iorque), segundo a qual Taipé fica na Tailândia e o <em>Two International</em> fica numa localidade de Hong Kong chamada Finance Center... E eu que pensava que Taipé era a capital de Taiwan (ilha Formosa) e que o dito edifício se chamava <em><a href="http://www.ifc.com.hk/english/ifconetwo.aspx">Two International Finance Centre</a></em> (cfr. também <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Finance_Centre">aqui</a>) e estava localizado no bairro de Central, em Hong Kong (na ilha do mesmo nome)...</p><p>Enfim, errar é humano, mas há erros um bocado grosseiros...</p><p><strong>Adenda em 11 de Janeiro:</strong> entretanto, o <em>Público</em> <a href="http://static.publico.clix.pt/homepage/infografia/mundo/dubai/">republicou</a> a infografia já indicando Taipé como sendo em Taiwan. Ficou por corrigir o equívoco sobre a localização do <em>Two International</em> de Hong Kong...Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-79106589315313528312009-12-21T19:26:00.002+08:002009-12-21T19:29:03.988+08:00Explicações por dar<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy9bktzTDyI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/iKi0NKIO_HA/s1600-h/Chui+Sai+On+e+Hu+Jintao+(SCMP).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417649563078168354" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy9bktzTDyI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/iKi0NKIO_HA/s400/Chui+Sai+On+e+Hu+Jintao+(SCMP).jpg" /></a><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>We must be told why Macau shut the door</strong><br /></span></em><br /><em>Leader</em><br /><strong>South China Morning Post</strong><br /><em>December 21, 2009</em><br /><br />Change is to be expected whenever a new government takes office. Macau's chief executive, Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on, did not disappoint at his inauguration yesterday, pledging policies centred on clean governance and transparency. Such words offer hope after scandals under the previous administration. But hope needs to be fed by action, and the barring of more journalists and political observers from the special administrative region is not an auspicious way to begin.<br /><br />Two Hong Kong reporters, one on assignment to cover the ceremony, were denied entry by immigration officers on Saturday. They were told they posed a threat to public security - the same unfathomable reason a photographer from this newspaper was in February twice prevented from covering the trial of disgraced former secretary for transport and public works Ao Man-long. More than a dozen pro-democracy activists were also turned back on Saturday. Barring from Macau people anxious to test the openness and transparency Chui spoke of represents not change, but continuation of flawed ways.<br /><br />The city's Basic Law guarantees freedom of the press and of movement. These are essential if Macau is to grow socially and politically. Chui's promises are hollow without them.<br /><br />Macau has put much effort into policing the gambling industry to improve its sometimes seedy image. Ao's jailing for corruption illustrates the magnitude of the problem. Journalists have a role to play in bringing to light such issues, and in helping build confidence that the city is serious about tackling the spectre of corruption. Yet the barring of Hong Kong reporters and people eager for the growth of democratic government in China hardens perceptions that authorities have little time for rights and freedoms - all necessary for equitable, peaceful and orderly development.<br /><br />Chui has promised to usher in a new era for Macau. The preventing of people who can help him bring that about from attending the inauguration of his government augurs poorly. He has to prove he means what he says. Publicly and clearly explaining why the journalists and activists were barred is a sound starting point.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-75836917385507681392009-12-21T19:18:00.004+08:002010-01-09T01:02:07.654+08:00Activistas de Hong Kong novamente barrados<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy9ZuYj7OpI/AAAAAAAAD1E/ezmUQbrKv0g/s1600-h/Harmony+in+Macau+(SCMP).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417647530151983762" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy9ZuYj7OpI/AAAAAAAAD1E/ezmUQbrKv0g/s400/Harmony+in+Macau+(SCMP).jpg" /></a><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Macau shuts door again as Hu hails security law<br /></strong></span>We were roughed up by security officers, HK activists say</em><br /><br /><em>Fanny W. Y. Fung and Fox Yi Hu in Macau and Ng Kang-chung</em><br /><strong>South China Morning Post</strong><br /><em>December 21, 2009</em><br /><br />Three more Hong Kong activists were barred from Macau yesterday, where President Hu Jintao lauded the enactment of a controversial national security law and stressed the importance of harmony and stability.<br /><br />Chui Pak-tai and Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong, of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, said they had been roughed up by Macau security officers after arriving at the city's main ferry terminal in the morning and before being turned back to Hong Kong.<br /><br />At the inauguration of the new Macau government yesterday, Hu said in a speech that the city's smooth passage of the security law, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, demonstrated strong commitment to protecting the national interest.<br /><br />"The smooth completion of the legislation based on Article 23 of Macau's Basic Law early this year shows that the Macau government, the legislature and people of various sectors have a strong sense of responsibility to uphold national security and interest," he said at the Macau Dome.<br /><br />Hu also praised Macau for its lack of political disputes. "United, people can move mountains," he said.<br /><br />The president arrived in Macau on Saturday for a two-day trip to mark the 10th anniversary of the return to Chinese rule.<br /><br />Yesterday, Hu took the unusual step in his speech of highlighting Hong Kong's role in the practising of the "one country two systems" policy. Some analysts said he was putting pressure on Hong Kong to follow Macau in enacting a national security law.<br /><br />Hu delivered his speech as the three Hong Kong activists were denied entry, following two journalists and more than a dozen activists from the city who were turned away on Saturday.<br /><br />Chui and Tsoi arrived at the ferry terminal with three other members from the alliance. They planned to petition the central government to release dissident Liu Xiaobo , who has been detained on the mainland since December last year for charges of inciting subversion.<br /><br />After presenting their identity documents at the checkpoint, they were told they were not allowed to enter. They said they were detained for an hour. Chui said he was dragged, kicked and pushed to the ground.<br /><br />"One officer kicked me in my private parts. ... I fell back six or seven feet away," he said. Tsoi, vice-chairman of the alliance, said: "After they attacked us, we requested to complain to their department. They just refused," he said.<br /><br />The pair took a ferry back to Hong Kong. Their three companions, who were allowed to enter Macau, returned with them because they had planned to act together.<br /><br />Youth Union chairman Kong Kwai-sang was also turned away by Macau, over security concerns. Kong, who was allowed to enter in October, yesterday planned to go to Macau for private meetings with lecturers from the University of Macau.<br /><br />Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on, who was sworn in as Macau's new chief executive, said his government respected press freedom and that immigration officers had acted in accordance with the law.<br /><br />A Hong Kong government spokesman said: "We respect the jurisdiction of other places in exercising immigration control in accordance with their rules and laws. We will not seek to interfere with the decisions of other immigration authorities in individual cases."<br /><br />During the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, Hu took two minutes of his 18-minute speech to stress the importance of the "one country two systems" policy to Hong Kong and Macau. He said that for the policy to advance, it would need the joint effort of the central government, Hong Kong and Macau.<br /><br />In a speech in Hong Kong in 2007 to mark the 10th anniversary of the city's handover, the president did not mention Macau.<br /><br />Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan said: "[Hu's words] are a clear order to the Hong Kong government. That this [legislating for national security] is the standard by which good governance is measured."<br /><br />Dr James Sung Lap-kung, a political scientist at City University, agreed that Hu's remarks showed Beijing had taken it to heart that Hong Kong had not passed Article 23 legislation.<br /><br />"But Beijing is well aware of the political situation in Hong Kong. Hu knows well that if he presses Tsang to enact the national security law here, it is asking Tsang to commit political suicide."<br /><br />Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam Sui-lung said the government had no plans to go ahead with national security legislation. He said the Hong Kong government's priority was consultation on the electoral reform proposals.<br /><br />Executive Council convenor Leung Chun-ying said he did not see Hu's remarks as criticism against Hong Kong, but added that the city should attach importance to what Hu said.<br /><br />The drafting of a national security law in Hong Kong was shelved in 2003 after half a million people took to the streets in protest against the bill. Critics said it could be abused to curb civil rights and freedoms.<br /><br />The Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club said the action taken by Macau yesterday was ominous. It said barring the journalists was an attack on press freedom and could damage relations between Hong Kong and Macau.<br /><br />It said such actions were particularly distressing in the wake of Macau's enactment of national security legislation.<br /><br />About 1,000 Macau residents staged a protest against corruption, a lack of democracy, excessive labour importation and other social problems.<br /><br />The protesters, led by democratic legislators Antonio Ng Kuok-cheong, Au Kam-san and Chan Wai-chi, marched from North district to the government headquarters in Nam Van yesterday afternoon.Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998208823791975753.post-77051313453625742782009-12-21T14:24:00.003+08:002009-12-21T17:49:56.760+08:00RAEM, dez anos: a vergonha recordada<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy8w2Y23FrI/AAAAAAAAD0g/U38O9tYTmcs/s1600-h/Rocha+Vieira+e+a+FJA.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 348px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417602587693618866" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noFDRuQE-lo/Sy8w2Y23FrI/AAAAAAAAD0g/U38O9tYTmcs/s400/Rocha+Vieira+e+a+FJA.jpg" /></a>«(...) <em>lembro-me do que senti quando foi noticiada a constituição da Fundação Jorge Álvares. Vergonha. Desconforto. Embaraço. Uma instituição criada à última hora, no maior segredo, com dinheiros de Macau, para dar emprego e meios financeiros ao último governador e seus antecessores, era mau demais para ser verdade, na perspectiva de quem cá tinha ficado. Mais tarde ainda veio explicar-se que Edmund Ho tinha dado o seu assentimento – e Belém também. Quanto a mim, isso nada mudou de substancial. Em todo o caso, no momento em que a notícia foi conhecida, esses dados não eram sequer conhecidos. Julgo que não terei sido o único na comunidade portuguesa a sentir vontade de desaparecer, especialmente quando o jornal Ou Mun publicou um cartoon com o ex-governador a bordo de uma aeronave, com dois sacos de dinheiro pelas mãos</em>».<br /><br />(<em>in</em> «<a href="http://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/editoriais-e-opiniao/">Uma Promessa por cumprir</a>», Ricardo Pinto, <em>Ponto Final</em>, 18 de Dezembro de 2009)<br /><br />«(...) <em>de uma forma geral, para os jornalistas portugueses as mudanças foram para melhor. O Governo de Lisboa "interferia muito com a imprensa, e foi um alívio libertarmo-nos de uma administração que se preocupava tanto com a sua imagem, para fazer esquecer os anos Melancia" e sair o melhor possível na fotografia dos últimos anos da presença portuguesa na China. Havia "pressões constantes, despedimentos", afirma. "O lema de Rocha Vieira era que quem não estava com ele não era bom patriota. Havia os bons e os maus portugueses." Era frequente Ricardo Pinto ser considerado um "mau" português</em>».<br /><br />(<em>in</em> «<a href="http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/noticia/20-12-2009/vitorias-e-derrotas-numa-terra-obediente-e-lealmacau-18449096.htm">Macau - Vitórias e derrotas numa terra "obediente e leal"</a>», Francisca Gorjão Henriques, <em>Público</em>, 20 de Dezembro de 2009)Nuno Lima Bastoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282429148526249186noreply@blogger.com0