Daily Archives: Monday, March 12, 2018
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China makes historic move to allow Xi to rule indefinitely
China’s rubber-stamp lawmakers yesterday passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing a presidential two-term limit that will enable Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. The amendment upends a ... -
Rosa Montero shares her passion for writing with local audience
Award-winning novelist and journalist Rosa Montero shared her fiction-writing experiences with the public on the second day of the Macau Literary Festival. Born in Madrid, Montero ... -
Police to start wearing body cameras this week
A proposed measure for police officers on duty to wear body-mounted cameras will be implemented on Wednesday, according to the Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak. Wong, ... -
Ask the Vet | Basic Cat Ear Care
Maintaining basic cat ear care is an important part of cat health and hygiene. Owners should know how to clean a cat ear, and know what symptoms to ... -
Wynn settles Universal Entertainment suit for USD2.4 billion
Wynn Resorts Ltd. agreed to pay a total of USD2.4 billion to settle a lawsuit with Universal Entertainment Corp. over the forced redemption of the Japanese ... -
Macau opens first int’l exhibition by women artists
The exhibition “Women Artists – 1st International Biennial of Macau” opened last week, featuring 142 works by 132 women artists from 22 countries and regions, The ... -
Q&A | Victoria Willing – Artist and writer: ‘Men are still in power; all we need is more balance’
Victoria Willing is a well-known London-based actress, voice artist and writer, known for her work in several movies and TV series productions, such as “The Inbetweeners ... -
New Macau reaches crowdfunding goal one month before deadline
The New Macau Association (ANM) has surpassed its goal of HKD300,000 for an online crowdfunding campaign launched on FringeBacker on January 8 to raise money for ... -
Survey | Gaming: Workers pay increases by 4.3 percent
The number of full-time employees in the gaming sector increased by 1.5 percent year-on-year to 56,634 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017. Of ... -
3 cases of human trafficking reported in Macau last year, no accusations
According to data from the government’s Human Trafficking Deterrent Measures Concern Committee, there were only three reported cases related to human trafficking in the region last ... -
Lawyers criticize new judicial law
A few lawyers in the region expressed their sentiments over the finished draft of the new law proposal, which bars foreign judges from hearing national security and ... -
Briefs | 21-year-old dies from motorbike accident
A 21-year-old local resident died last week from a motorbike accident at Av. Marginal do Lam Mau. The deceased is believed to have lost control of ... -
Gaming | Experts question casinos’ plan to prevent sexual harassment
In the wake of the sexual misconduct scandal surrounding Las Vegas casino titan Steve Wynn, Nevada gambling regulators are developing regulations on workplace sexual harassment, but ... -
Diabetes drug developer Hua is said to pick HK for IPO
Hua Medicine Ltd., a Shanghai-based developer of diabetes drugs, has picked Hong Kong over the U.S. for its initial public offering as the Asian financial hub ... -
Election tests Hong Kong’s stomach for defying Beijing
Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters’ appetite for democracy in ... -
HKSAR seen draining liquidity with currency near ‘84 low
Hong Kong’s central bank will probably take steps to tighten liquidity in the financial system, a survey of analysts showed, as the city’s currency approaches the ... -
Minister says trade war would bring ‘disaster to global economy’
China’s trade minister Zhong Shan warned that a trade war with the U.S. would bring disaster to the global economy, but said his nation won’t start ... -
Search is on for the best summit site for Trump, Kim
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev will ... -
Rohingya living in ‘no man’s land’ insist they will stay
From their home, a tent hastily erected in a grassy field, the young Muslim Rohingya couple can see the village they left behind last year, fleeing ... -
East Timor | People give hero’s welcome to border talks negotiator
Thousands of East Timorese lined the road to the capital’s international airport yesterday to cheer returning independence hero Xanana Gusmao for leading negotiations that settled the ... -
Japan | 7th anniversary of tsunami that killed 18,000 marked
They bowed their heads, hands clasped or palms firmly pressed together. They stood in grassy areas or roadsides overlooking the choppy sea. In Japan’s capital, they ... -
US | AP Exclusive | National Rifle Association gave USD7m to hundreds of schools
The National Rifle Association has dramatically increased its funding to schools in recent years amid a national debate over guns and school violence, an Associated Press ... -
Analysis | Putin’s Russia: From basket case to resurgent superpower
Vladimir Putin and his Russia look more invincible than at any other time in his 18 years in power. Since he last faced election in 2012, ... -
This Day in History | 1993 – Bombay hit by devastating bombs
At least 200 people have died and 800 have been injured after 13 bombs exploded in Bombay. The explosives went off within 75 minutes of each ... -
Offbeat | Sumatran tiger fatally attacks man in western Indonesia
A rare Sumatran tiger fatally attacked a man in the latest human-tiger conflict in a western Indonesian region plagued by widespread deforestation, officials said Sunday. The ... -
Rugby | Six Nations Trophy: Ireland KO Scotland 28-8 to stay on Grand Slam track
The Grand Slam is on for Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Spicing it up a little more, Ireland go to Twickenham next weekend holding the Six ... -
EPL | West Ham fans invade pitch, force team owners to flee seats
West Ham captain Mark Noble grappled a pitch invader to the ground and the struggling English Premier League club’s owners were forced to flee their seats ... -
The Buzz | Lightning strike kills 16, injures 140 at church in Rwanda
A Rwandan provincial governor says at least 16 people were killed and 140 others injured when lightning struck a Seventh Day Adventist church in the country’s ... -
World Briefs
JAPANESE marked the seventh anniversary of a tsunami that took more than 18,000 lives on the northeast coast and triggered a nuclear disaster that turned nearby ... -
‘Mr. Records’ keeps Kenya’s last vinyl music shop alive
Tucked into a busy market in Kenya’s capital is arguably the country’s last record store. “Real Vinyl Guru” has been open for 28 years and now ... -
Insight | Many ‘blue cards’ have no other home, but are treated like coolies
In a move seen by many as discriminatory, the public hospital Conde de São Januário (CHCSJ) has proposed that the service fee of natural childbirth for ... -
Monday, March 12, 2018 – edition no. 3004
* NPC | Historic move allows Xi to rule indefinitely * Wong Sio Chak announces police body cameras start operating this week * Wynn resorts settles ...
