Illegal Immigrants
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A greater problem for Barata is illegal immigrants from China, of whom Macau's one prison now holds 2,000. Eight hundred were rounded up in a week not long ago. It is quite clear that Macau is easy to enter, that its police are incapable of preventing determined illegal entry and that between the Macau and Zhongshan authorities the system of returning these immigrants has not exactly been streamlined.
New Airport
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Governor
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9. I have minuted separately on the commercial aspects of this. Melancia regards the airport very much as his baby. Assuming the Portugese President is re-elected, and that he re-appoints Melancia, both of which seem likely, then the Governor should still be in Macau to see it completed. due to be ready on 11 October 1993. Macau International Airport Consortium (MIAC) Project Manager Greg Cook agreed major decisions will be politically weighed the reclamation contractor will be Chinese and the Portugese carrier TAP will help set up Macau's new airline. Edmund Ho hopes to team up with Jardine Airways for a ground handling concession which may be the right combination of political interest and commercial experience. Stanley Ho will be omnipresent, partly in conjunction with mainland interests. The airport, with all the additional infrastructure both promised (direct links to the mainland) and inevitable (hotels, car hire, catering and servicing in general) will have an enormous impact on Macau. It will, if successful, be much trumpeted by the Portugese, and leave them with some permanent commercial interest in Macau.
Summary
10. Activity in Macau seems the expression of a government keen for tangible achievements. The Portugese may feel that their 430 year tenure so far lacks these. The programme they have embarked on new airport, port, bridges and roads, greatly expanded educational system and localised administration - would greatly alter their legacy to the Chinese. Happily a recent survey confirmed that these planned developments are what the people of Macau want. Macau has few concerns about 1999; there is no lease to be terminated, and almost all who want them have Portugese passports. Confidence is not so predominant an issue as it is in Hong Kong. It exists in new found government energy and low profile discussions between the Chinese of Macau and the mainland. I will explore the nature of those discussions, and BLCC and JLG matters, in more detail in the future.
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