Macau Business Daily, April 30, 2014

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MOP 6.00 Closing editor: Sara Farr Publisher: Paulo A. Azevedo Number 529 Wednesday April 30, 2014

Up-tick in March exports

Year III

Macau exports jumped 10 percent in the month of March, mainly due to the high demand for watches

and clocks in the Hong Kong market. Exports of such goods went up more than three-fold year-on-year to 100.6 million

patacas last month, while the total value of exports reached 831.7 million patacas (US$104 million) Page

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Low expectations April gaming revenue growth will slow down, investors predict, in anticipation of May’s Golden Week Page 2

Retiring gracefully

MGM first quarter results hit new high Page 16

The office for the Secretary for Public Administration and Justice has agreed to legislators’ suggestions regarding the one-off compensation for the city’s outgoing principal officials who are not from a civil service background. This means such officials could receive a higher compensation ratio of the salary for their official post Page 5

Kowloon Development revenue surges The upsurge in the company’s revenue here was due to presales of its Pearl Horizon and Lotes T+T1 in Areia Preta. The pre-sales of the two projects raked in over HK$10 billion. As many as 260 flats from the Lotes T+T1 complex have already been sold Page 8

Income disparity widens China’s income gap between rich and poor is among the largest in the world, and has already surpassed that of the U.S. An added challenge for President Xi Jinping as growth noticeably slows Page 9

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VIP revenue slowdown Page 3

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No flights to India yet

%Day

China Unicom Hong K

6.44

China Mobile Ltd

4.57

Hang Lung Propertie

4.48

Sino Land Co Ltd

3.66

AIA Group Ltd

3.60

Bank of East Asia Lt

3.49

China Resources Ent

3.20

Hong Kong & China G

3.11

Sands China Ltd

-2.61

Galaxy Entertainme

-4.59

Source: Bloomberg

Air links between Macau and India are far from becoming a reality in the near future due to “commercial reasons”. This despite the number of Indian tourists to Macau increasing 8.8 percent in the first quarter of the year

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