Monthly Archives: May 2018
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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 ... -
Court hands Sou, Chiang a 120-day fine sentence
Suspended lawmaker Sulu Sou (pictured) and activist Scott Chiang were found guilty today (Tuesday) of an act of aggravated disobedience by the Court of First Instance ... -
More police officers will be equipped with cameras
The security authority plans to purchase another 100 cameras for frontline police officers, the Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, announced yesterday at the press conference ... -
Beijing approves 13 new Ivanka Trump trademarks in three months
Ivanka Trump’s brand continues to win foreign trademarks in China and the Philippines, adding to questions about conflicts of interest at the White House, The Associated ... -
Health | New Malo dental clinic expected to open next month
The first of two dental clinics that Paulo Maló pledged to open in Macau one year ago to the Times will soon be launched in Central ... -
Hong Kong Secretary dismisses concerns over new bridge
Hong Kong lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung brought the issue of public concern regarding an increase in vehicles on Hong Kong roads and the consequence on traffic congestion ... -
Gov’t: ‘Innovative’ joint border solution
The Secretary for Security is positive about the joint implementation of immigration checkpoints across all of Macau’s land borders, Wong Sio Chak’s office revealed yesterday in ... -
New Beijing-Macau agreements inked
During a visit to Beijing, the Chief Executive, Chui Sai On, attended the launch ceremony the Beijing-Macau Cooperation Partnership 2018, where he called for “open-minded and ... -
Crime | Baby abandoned at commercial area in Northern district
A local woman is suspected of abandoning a baby in the lobby of a shopping center at the Avenida de Tamagnini Barbosa within the Northern district, the ... -
Disability access deemed inadequate
Nearly 70 percent of the city’s accessible facility users are dissatisfied with them, according to the latest survey conducted by the Collective Wisdom Policy Center. The ... -
MGTO licensing proposal may be presented to AL this year
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is eyeing having its proposal, which was submitted to the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ), presented to the Legislative Assembly this ... -
Unemployment rate continues to hold stable
The general unemployment rate (1.9 percent) and the unemployment rate of local residents (2.6 percent) both held stable in the February-April 2018 period as compared with ...
