Daily Archives: Friday, May 11, 2018
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Royal Flight Airlines launches regular flight to Moscow
Royal Flight Airlines will start offering a regular weekly service between Macau and Moscow, as announced yesterday at the launch ceremony of the Macau-Moscow route at ... -
Malaysia | Mahathir has ‘clear mandate to govern’ the country, vows reforms
Malaysia’s former authoritarian ruler Mahathir Mohamad, who in a stunning political comeback led opposition parties to their first election victory in six decades, said yesterday they ... -
Film | Max Bessmertny’s works explore themes of sin and misfortune
Local filmmaker Maxim Bessmertny is showing a selection of shorts and commercials from the last seven years of his career in his first ever solo exhibition ... -
Music | Fado singers join Chinese Orchestra
Fado music played by the Macao Chinese Orchestra, featuring Portuguese singers Mísia and Pedro Moutinho, will take place on May 31 at the Cultural Center. The ... -
Claims of sexual abuse at local kindergarten
Yesterday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) reported that it had not yet found any sign of sexual assault on two kindergarten students who were allegedly abused by ... -
Briefs | Population passes 650,000
The total population in Macau was 656,700 as of the end of March this year, an increase of 3,600 quarter-to-quarter, the Statistics and Census Service said ... -
Tender for LRT Barra station construction project opens
The public tender for the construction project of the main body of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) Barra station opened this week, according to an official ... -
Environment | Solid waste reduction target of 30 percent set for 2026
The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSAP) is expecting to reduce Macau’s solid waste by 30 percent by 2026. In a recent meeting with the advisory council of ... -
Chui meets with Thai Prime Minister
During the final stretch of his visit to Cambodia and Thailand, the Chief Executive yesterday met with the Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayuth Chan-ocha. Both parties ... -
Local creative products showcased at Shenzhen fair
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and the Cultural Industries Fund have jointly set up the “Macao Creative Pavilion”, promoting the participation of the city’s design and ... -
Int’l alliance bands together to fight money laundering
The formation of an international alliance against money laundering was announced this week in Hong Kong, involving government representatives from China, the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia. ... -
CCAC investigation over Ilha Verde land’s ownership
The Association of Synergy of Macao has urged the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) to investigate the ownership of a land plot in Ilha Verde district, the ... -
AL Plenary | Lawmakers focus on shortage of qualified professionals
The Legislative Assembly (AL) plenary convened again yesterday to continue to hear the spoken enquiries from lawmakers and responses from the government, regarding the lack of ... -
Real Estate Matters | Why do property prices move slower than stock prices?
When asked to point out the difference between investing in property and stocks, many investors remark that the property market is not as volatile as the ... -
China Merchants Bank is accused of racial discrimination in suit
China Merchants Bank Co. was accused of discriminating against African-Americans in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a former executive who claims she was fired for ... -
Gaming | Hard Rock granted casino license in Atlantic City
Hard Rock had an easy time with New Jersey gambling regulators on Wednesday, gaining a license to reopen a casino and begin Atlantic City’s recovery from ... -
Rolls-Royce debuts its first SUV
Rolls-Royce has officially entered off-road territory. Yesterday, the Goodwood-based, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG brand debuted the USD325,000 Cullinan, its first SUV. Named after the largest diamond discovered to date, the ... -
Wu Xiaohui | Court sentences Anbang founder to 18 years for fraud
A court in Shanghai sentenced the founder of the Chinese insurance company that owns New York City’s Waldorf Hotel to 18 years in prison yesterday after he ... -
ZTE | Tech giant crippled, US imports held amid trade spat
A Chinese tech giant brought to its knees and delays for imported U.S. cars, apples, lumber and other agricultural products are early signs the widening trade dispute ... -
Afghanistan | Suicide bombers strike in Kabul, killing seven
Suicide bombers struck two police stations in Afghanistan’s capital yesterday [Macau time], killing at least seven people and wounding 17, officials said. Interior Minister Wais Ahmad ... -
Indonesia | Militants surrender to end detention center riot
Dozens of Islamic militant prisoners who took over a police detention center near Indonesia’s capital and killed five officers surrendered to police yesterday, the country’s top ... -
Golan Heights | Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage
The Israeli military yesterday said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions ... -
Terrorism | Europe’s convicts gain freedom to improvised response
Over the next two years, terrorism convicts will walk free from European prisons by the dozens — more than 200 inmates who largely formed the first ... -
This Day in History | 1971 Britain’s oldest tabloid closes
The Daily Sketch newspaper which was founded in 1909 has been published for the last time. Enclosed in today’s souvenir issue was a copy of its ... -
Offbeat | Japanese musician cancels Iran concert as band has Americans
A Japanese new-age musician named Kitaro has reportedly cancelled a concert in Iran because his band includes Americans, just after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. ... -
World briefs
INDONESIA Dozens of Islamic militant prisoners who took over a police detention center near Indonesia’s capital and killed five officers surrendered to police yesterday, the country’s ... -
Football | Stoke, West Brom lose identity, EPL status; Swansea set to follow
They were perennial mid-table finishers boasting some of the clearest identities in the English Premier League. Stoke City — physical, tough and with a hostile home ... -
Cycling | Battaglin wins 5th stage as Dennis maintains Giro lead
Enrico Battaglin surged ahead at the perfect moment to win the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia yesterday [Macau time] as Chris Froome and most of ... -
The Buzz | Britain apologizes ‘unreservedly’ for kidnapping of Libyan
Britain has apologized “unreservedly” for its role in the capture of a Libyan dissident who was later tortured by the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s government. Attorney ... -
Trump gives freed Americans flag-waving, wee-hours welcome
Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward ... -
Spears says stage persona is ‘healthy’ way to combat shyness
If you thought the workout videos Britney Spears recently posted on social media looked grueling, the pop superstar confirms that they were — even if she ... -
Bizcuits | Casual and laborious contempt
The most recent decision in relation to increasing the charges to foreign-worker mothers in hospital fees for giving birth at the public hospital is triple- whammy ... -
Friday, May 11, 2018 – edition no. 3045
* Macau, Moscow linked with regular flights * Mahathir: the oldest leader in the world * Local films explore theme of sin * Claims of sexual ... -
The graduate | #MeToo & U
• This graduation season at universities, the podium is all hers * Movies: The Seagull * Book: He: a Novel by John Connolly * Music: ... -
‘The Seagull’ a lively but uneven Chekhov adaptation
Productions of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” almost always tip too far into farce or wade too deeply into tragedy, unable to sustain the play’s elusive balancing ...
