Monthly Archives: April 2018
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Briefs | TSI rejects Sulu Sou appeal again
The Court of Second Instance (TSI) has again rejected Sulu Sou’s appeal to void the suspension of his mandate decided by the majority of lawmakers. Sulu ... -
Gaming | Wynn Resorts adds female board members
Wynn Resorts Ltd., the casino operator coping with a sexual-harassment scandal tied to its former chief executive officer, named three new board members – all of ... -
Arts | Exhibition of new works from MAM’s collection opens today
An exhibition of new works from the Macau Museum of Art (MAM) collection will open today. The showcase features eight vertical scrolls depicting flowers, plants and ... -
Tourism | MGTO promotes local destinations in Australia
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and the Fujian Provincial Tourism Development Commission have collaborated to promote their destinations in Melbourne and Sydney from April 16 ... -
Business boosted by CNY festivities
The business of restaurants & similar establishments as well as retail trade was boosted in February by this year’s Lunar New Year festivities. According to a ... -
Real Estate Matters | How Will the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Affect the Local Market?
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) is due to open for traffic later this year and has been the talk of the town for quite some time, ... -
Atlantic City | Hard Rock casino resort announces June 28 opening
Hard Rock will open its Atlantic City casino resort on June 28. Jim Allen, the global entertainment and hospitality company’s CEO, made the announcement Wednesday at ... -
Amazon’s Prime service has 100m members
AMAZON has persuaded more than 100 million shoppers to subscribe to its Prime service that offers free two-day shipping and other perks that help bind people ... -
Belt & Road | E-commerce giant Alibaba sets plans for Thailand
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has agreed to step up investments in Thailand as competition between online retailers heats up in fast-growing Southeast Asia. The founder ... -
Opinion | Why Trump’s tariff plan would be a drag on growth
Why are President Donald Trump’s tariffs such a bad deal for the U.S. economy? It’s not just because they might start a trade war. It’s because ... -
Qualcomm plan ‘has difficulty’ resolving concerns
Qualcomm Inc.’s latest proposal for its USD44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors “has difficulty” resolving concerns of Chinese anti-monopoly regulators, a government spokesman yesterday. The Commerce ... -
Strait Diplomacy | Taiwan calls Chinese military drills a threat to region
Taiwan’s government said yesterday that recent Chinese military drills are aimed at intimidating the island and are a threat to regional peace and stability. China is ... -
PLA holds live-fire drills off coast in warning to Taipei
China has held live-fire exercises off its southeast coast, state media said, in an apparent warning to the democratic, self-ruled island of Taiwan against what Beijing ... -
Japan | Finance official denies sexual misconduct allegation
Japan’s vice finance minister denied sexual misconduct allegations against him yesterday and challenged a TV station’s report that its employee was a victim. Junichi Fukuda announced ... -
North Korea | Trump leaves open possibility of bailing on meeting with Kim
President Donald Trump said that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull ... -
Cuba | Bureaucrat Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as president
A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro’s place as the president of Cuba today [Macau time] as a government led by a single family for six decades ... -
USA | Trump says he’ll sanction Russia as soon as they deserve it
President Donald Trump said that nobody has been tougher on Russia than him and that he’ll hit Moscow with new sanctions “as soon as they very ... -
This Day in History | 1968 Powell slates immigration policy
The Conservative right-winger Enoch Powell has made a hard-hitting speech attacking the government’s immigration policy. Addressing a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham, Mr Powell said Britain ... -
Offbeat | Australian bank charges dead client service fee for a decade
Financial advisers working for Australia’s largest bank continued charging clients service fees after they died — in one case for more than a decade — a ... -
Football | Serie A: Napoli closes the gap to Juventus ahead of title showdown
Monday, 2:45am Juventus v Napoli H 2.11, D 3.4, A 4.05 Juventus was held to a 1-1 draw at Crotone and will not be able to ... -
World briefs
CHINA-TAILAND Jack Ma met with Thailand’s prime minister yesterday and later signed several agreements, including one to help set up a “smart digital hub” in a ... -
The Buzz | Karl Lagerfeld calls models ‘sordid creatures’
An organization that protects the rights of models has called for action against outspoken fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was quoted by a French magazine as ... -
Nepal honors first conquest of Everest without bottled oxygen
Nepal’s government yesterday honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen 40 years ago. Minister for Tourism Rabindra Adhikari praised ... -
Southwest Airlines pilot lauded as hero for handling crisis
The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage ... -
Kapok | Reconciling the irreconcilable
Maybe it was mere slip of the tongue. Maybe it was simply a manner of speaking. Or maybe it was truly what was meant. Yet, when ... -
Friday, April 20, 2018 – edition no. 3031
* Cambridge Analytica with links to Macau * EPM 20 years | Manuel Machado: ‘The school has established itself in the MSAR’ * Chui Sai On ... -
No Cash Accepted
• More pros than cons for food chains going cashless – it’s a tradeoff * Movies: Kodachrome * Book: “The Art of the Wasted Day” , ... -
Road trips and redemption in Netflix’s ‘Kodachrome’
The characters in the new film “Kodachrome ,” a good-natured if by-the-numbers road trip and relationship drama with Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris, are ... -
‘The Art of the Wasted Day’ explores silence and solitude
Critically praised Patricia Hampl invites readers to take a journey to explore the idea of a life steeped in leisure without schedules. In “The Art of ... -
Sting and Shaggy collaborate on sunny reggae album
The fact that Shaggy and Sting are teaming up on a CD does, admittedly, sound like a gimmick. Why are these two very different artists together? ... -
News of the World | Tradeoff: No cash but faster lines as restaurants forgo cash
The lunchtime lines at Dos Toros move faster these days — customers don’t fumble for bills or coins, and employees don’t make change. Since around New ... -
The Alpine Bastion II
(Continued from “The Alpine Bastion” on 30 March 2018) The Swiss Confederation comprises a total of 26 cantons, sharing amongst themselves 4 official languages, namely German, ... -
Food & Beverage | The Parisian restaurants to present cuisines from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Le French GourMay, the festival of French cuisine and wine culture, will return to Hong Kong and Macau in May, focusing on the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte ... -
Hainan to offer visa-free access to tourists from 59 countries
China will offer greater visa-free access for tourists from 59 countries to Hainan from May 1, in a move to support reform and opening up in ... -
Gov’t called to return flooded cars’ auction money and refund taxes
A group of approximately 200 residents is calling on the government to refund taxes pertaining to their vehicles which were damaged during last year’s Typhoon Hato, in ...
