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Macau the host
for the region’s first sex fair
The region’s first sex fair, Asia Adult expo, will be
held at the Venetian convention and exhibition
centre in macau from december 4 to 7. About
60 exhibitors from Japan, the United States, the
mainland and Hong Kong will showcase a range
Soft landing
of adult products, including sex toys, lingerie, sexy
shoes and sex dolls. Performers from Japan and
Australia, including an ‘artist’ who draws with his
In an attempt to keep air traffic flowing private parts, will provide entertainment. durex
through the cash crisis, landing taxes
will also sponsor a 3-metre ‘condom tree’ made of
are being slashed at the airport
10,000 condoms. The fair hopes to attract 50,000
visitors, both buyers and the general public. Tickets
are 100 patacas and you must be over 18.
T
he Macau International Airport Company (CAM) recently
announced cuts in its transit charges in a bid to keep business
moving amid the global financial crisis. As well as the cut in taxes paid
by the airlines which land at the airport – which for the most common
commercial plane in Macau - the Airbus A320 - represents a drop of
40 percent - CAM also proposed to the Civil Aviation Authority (AAC)
a substantial increase in the annual subsidies payable to companies that
increase the number of passengers transported to the city.
Boost traffic
A source in the aviation sector told Lusa News agency that at
present, CAM pays the airlines who increase the number of passengers,
by 145 percent of the tax collected from people that use the infrastruc-
ture, a value that is “substantially increased in the proposal”.
After approval of the CAM proposals by regulators, the new tariffs
will be implemented for three months, after which their effects will be
analysed.
The number of passengers traveling through the Macau airport,
which in 2007 reached 5.5 million, has been declining, not only due
to cuts in tourism as a result of decisions by the mainland Chinese
authorities, but also the global financial crisis.
Between January and October, airport numbers fell 3 percent in
plane traffic, dropping to a total of 42,835, the number of passengers
fell 4 percent, to 4,377,144 and air cargo fell 40 percent, to 89,918 tons,
while airmail dropped 13 percent, to 141 tons.
Hong Kong hit too
Taiwan and China sign
Cross-Strait Accords
The crisis is also affecting Hong Kong, where the numbers also
registered a fall in October. Data from the Hong Kong Airport Authority
Taiwan and china signed four agreements early
last month on direct postal, cargo and air links
shows that in October, the number of passengers decreased 1.4 percent
across the Taiwan Strait to the chinese mainland.
to 4.12 million, compared to the same month in 2007. Cargo dropped
Formerly, air and sea cargo shipping between the
9.2 percent to 320 thousand tons over the same period. During the period divided states had to be transited at Hong Kong,
under analysis, the numbers for the former British colony’s airport are macau, and Japan. direct charter flights were
still, crisis notwithstanding, positive, with passenger traffic up 3.2 percent
also extended from 36 weekly flights to 108 with
to 40.7 million, and cargo up 1.6 percent to 3.1 million tons.
Taiwanese President ma Ying-jeou promising
Hong Kong has already entered a technical recession with the
regular passenger flights by June next year. These
new direct routes, unidentified by both parties as
Gross Domestic Product falling 0.5 percent, in real terms, during the
domestic or international and only referred to as
third quarter, compared to the same period in 2007, after a drop of
‘special cross-strait routes’, were amongst the first-
1.4 percent in the second quarter.
ever formal talks between Taiwan and china.
december 2008
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