Daily Archives: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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Sou, Chiang sentenced to 120-day fine
The Court of First Instance (TJB) found suspended lawmaker Sulu Sou and activist Scott Chiang guilty of a co-authored act of unlawful assembly, which was charged ... -
MH370 | Leader of failed wreckage hunt hopes to search again
The head of a U.S. technology company that scoured the Indian Ocean seabed for more than three months looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said yesterday ... -
Analysis | Sulu’s road to Assembly back in sights
Maverick lawmaker Sulu Sou narrowly avoided permanent disqualification from the Legislative Assembly yesterday after the Court of First Instance found him guilty of the lesser crime ... -
Lawyers express unhappiness and surprise
Exiting from the court building yesterday evening, the lawyers representing Sulu Sou and Scott Chiang, Jorge Menezes and Pedro Leal respectively, expressed unhappiness and surprise at ... -
UM to hold 5th Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences
The Fifth Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences, organized by the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), will be held between June 8 and ... -
Portugal needs experts on Chinese instruments, said scholar
The absence of Portuguese experts in Chinese music in Portugal remains a challenge, and will continue to be a setback if its institutions don’t establish networks ... -
Macau climbs seven places on passport index
The Macau SAR has climbed seven places to become the joint 29th strongest passport in the world, according to the latest Henley Passport Index published by ... -
18 arrested in raid for human smuggling
Eighteen people were arrested over the weekend as part of a crackdown on human smuggling, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said at a press conference. They were ... -
IFT Café closed after two-year operation
The IFT Café has been closed for business since yesterday. Inaugurated in June 2016, and located next to Nam Van Lake, the café was being run ... -
Study suggests casinos to increase scale of donations
The Macau University of Science and Technology and the Macau Tourism Association jointly launched a report on both the 2011-2017 Macau Gaming Corporate Philanthropy Responsibility Development ... -
IC announces activities for cultural heritage carnival
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) will hold the “Macau’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Carnival” at Mandarin’s House and Lilau Square on June 9 and 10, in response ... -
Briefs | Abandoned baby’s mother arrested
The mother of an abandoned baby, reported by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Monday, has been found and arrested, the PJ reported yesterday. The abandoned baby ... -
Starbucks to close over 8,000 stores in the US for anti-bias training
Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 stores nationwide to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its ... -
Alibaba Leads a USD1.38b investment in delivery giant ZTO
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading the purchase of 10 percent of Chinese delivery service ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. for USD1.38 billion, a deal that’ll augment ... -
Beijing’s reach and Europe’s money meet in Balkan outpost
A short hike from the fishing village of Brijesta, where the Croatian mainland’s rocky coastline across the bay melts into the Adriatic, a four-story concrete pier ... -
US, PRC make world safe for fraud
China and the U.S. are presenting themselves as exemplars of opposite models of political governance. China has laid out its vision for a rejuvenated nation: a ... -
Stumbling Blocks | Trump’s trade agenda hits China, NAFTA
President Donald Trump’s hard-line views on trade, a staple of his message long before he entered politics, are beginning to collide with the cold realities of ... -
Trump-Kim | Diplomacy heats up before summit, with trips by US, N. Korea
Diplomacy accelerated yesterday ahead of a potential summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a team of American diplomats ... -
Japan | Navy spots suspected China ship next to N. Korea tanker
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday that a Japanese navy surveillance aircraft has spotted a suspected Chinese-flagged ship apparently transferring fuel to a North Korean tanker on ... -
USA | American freed from Venezuela jail returns home to Salt Lake
Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man ... -
Middle East | Israel military: More than 25 mortar shells fired from Gaza
Gaza militants fired more than 25 mortar shells toward communities in southern Israel yesterday, the Israeli military said, in what appeared to be the largest single ... -
Offbeat | Sting receives honorary degree, sings at Brown University
English musician Sting sang “My One and Only Love” at Brown University after he and his wife Trudie Styler accepted honorary degrees. Brown presented them with ... -
This Day in History | 2001 – French ex-minister jailed over sleaze
Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has been jailed for six months in the country’s biggest sleaze scandal in recent history. The 78-year-old judge and close ... -
Football | Russian hooligans in World Cup crackdown after 2016 rampage
At their peak, Russian hooligans felt like gods. “We’re on Mount Olympus right now and it had to be done,” is how one veteran hooligan from ... -
World briefs
US-CHINA The Trump administration has renewed its threat to place 25 percent tariffs on USD50 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it says are ... -
The Buzz | Study: Deadly pesticide use increases at illegal pot farms
Researchers and federal authorities are finding what they say is an alarming increase in the use of a powerful pesticide at illegal marijuana farms hidden on ... -
Belgium | Man kills three in Liege with guns of stabbed police officers
A knife-wielding man stabbed two police officers yesterday in the Belgian city of Liege, stole their weapons and shot them and a bystander dead in an ... -
Animal Farm | The divine rule of three!
In 2013 the Macao Government decided to set a ceiling of growth in gaming tables at three percent. Economically, for the industry and for the government ... -
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 – edition no. 3057
* Guilty as charged | Sou, Chiang sentenced to hefty fines * Four-year hunt for missing MH370 plane ends, mystery remains * Macau rises on passport ...
