Monthly Archives: June 2018
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Sport Views | Video replay for refs makes World Cup better
Football can be annoying, especially to those who watch only the big tournaments. There are too many fouls, baffling referee errors and players without a scratch ... -
Monday, June 25, 2018 – edition no. 3074
* Greater Bay Area – Electoral rules | Gov’t: No plans to allow votes * São João Festival draws locals, tourists to the St. Lazarus district ... -
Cambodia | Chinese influx stirs resentment in Sihanoukville
It’s against the law for Cambodians to gamble. Yet in Sihanoukville, a once-sleepy resort town where three dozen casinos have sprung up, most in the past ... -
Pearl Horizon | Buyers call for refund and meeting with developer
A group of approximately 70 Pearl Horizon buyers gathered at the Polytec Asset Holdings Limited headquarters to request a meeting with the company’s chairman Or Wai Sheun. ... -
Food and Beverage | Meat 2.0? Clean meat? Spat shows the power of food wording Candice Choi
If meat is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided by regulators, but for ... -
Food and Beverage | Sip and ship: Tourists can now send distillery whiskey home
Until recently, whiskey tourists in Kentucky had been allowed to sniff the aromas of bourbon-making and sip the finished product during distillery tours. But they couldn’t ... -
Anima makes its last ‘wake-up call’ to the gov’t
The Anima – Society for the Protection of Animals in Macau is giving the government its last “wake-up call” after nine years of campaigning to call ... -
Indonesian Muslims celebrate Eid-al-Fitr in town
Some one hundred Indonesian Muslims in the city have celebrated Eidal-Fitr at the Macau Mosque and Cemetery, with an Eid prayer and following its tradition of ... -
Casinos said to be preparing to join non-mandatory fund
Macau’s Non-Mandatory Central Provident Fund System has received a total of 15,215 applications from individuals for the Provident Fund Scheme. Iong Kong Lo, President of the ... -
Tourism experts suggest finding niche products in the SAR
Executives of Skål International remarked that Macau has a variety of unique offerings which have effectively attracted millions of tourists annually, yet it faces challenges in ... -
Int’l Youth Dance Festival to kick off with 650 dancers
The biennial International Youth Dance Festival will be held between July 20 and 26, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) announced. The purpose of the ... -
Edmund Ho and Lionel Leong visit Lisbon
Edmund Ho, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and former Chief Executive, met with the Minister of Foreign ... -
Environment | Report shows continual air quality improvement in PRD
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Pearl River Delta Regional Air Quality Monitoring Network released a report on its 2017 monitoring results, which showed continual improvement in the air ... -
Galaxy accused of secretly tracking staff social media posts
Gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) is being accused of using illegal measures to track social media posts by their staff members after complaints over working ... -
Loi expands Australia property portfolio
Local gaming mogul Loi Keong Kuong has reportedly acquired a new property to add to his Australian property portfolio, The Australian reported. According to reports, Loi ... -
Real Estate Matters | Is diversification good? Systemic vs. unsystemic risk
Risk. Just seeing that word may have made you balk. It’s an uncomfortable and irksome word for most people, and if we think about it too ... -
Carmakers seen wasting billions on electric, autonomous vehicles
Automakers are in a pickle. If they don’t invest in electric cars and self-driving technology, investors shun them. If they do, they risk burning billions of ... -
China says US swinging ‘big stick’ of unfair trade tactics
China yesterday accused the United States of using bullying tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports, ... -
HK in most ‘crisis’ danger in next 3 years, Nomura says
Emerging markets are in far greater danger of a financial crisis than their developed peers, and Hong Kong has the most to fear, according to an ... -
Xiaomi: A startup out to challenge Google, Amazon
Xiaomi, a Chinese startup that helped pioneer the trend toward ultra-low-priced smartphones, is preparing for what would be the biggest initial public offering since e-commerce giant ... -
Indonesia | Military vows to recover bodies from sunken ferry
Indonesia’s military chief said yesterday that specialist navy equipment will be deployed to pinpoint a ferry that sank in the crater lake of an ancient supervolcano, ... -
Malaysia | Skyscraper project goes ahead despite stolen funds
Malaysia said yesterday it will not cancel a skyscraper project billed as the tallest in Southeast Asia, even though 3 billion ringgit (USD747 million) from the ... -
Thailand preparing total ban on import of electronic waste
Thai authorities, who began a series of raids last month on factories accused of illegally importing and processing electronic waste, say they may use special powers ... -
US | Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern
President Donald Trump’s reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep ... -
This Day in History | 1981 Chapman pleads guilty to Lennon murder
A man has pleaded guilty to shooting dead former Beatle John Lennon in New York. The court heard Mark Chapman dramatically change his plea to admit ... -
Offbeat | No beer at this time of year?
A British trade group says there’s a shortage of carbon dioxide in Northern Europe, sparking fears that drinks may lack fizz just as thirsty soccer fans ... -
Football amid ruins | World Cup inspires unusual fields in Peru
Excitement for football has reached a fever pitch in Peru’s crowded capital, where a lack of open spaces has forced residents to play pickup games squeezed ... -
World Cup 2018 | Mbappe sends France into 2nd round with 1-0 win over Peru
Kylian Mbappe’s first World Cup goal put France into the round of 16. The teenage forward tapped in a ball headed toward goal in the 34th ... -
World briefs
CHINA accused the US of using bullying tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports, ramping up ... -
Preview | Neymar to start in unchanged Brazil team to face Costa Rica
Neymar will start for Brazil in an unchanged lineup against Costa Rica today [8 p.m. Macau time] at the World Cup. Although Brazil coach Tite said ... -
The Buzz | Terminally ill man gets last wish to gamble in Atlantic City
A terminally ill New Jersey man says he got one of his last wishes fulfilled this week: to drink a cold beer and play a few ... -
New Zealand | PM welcomes newborn girl ‘to our village’
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to a daughter yesterday and posted a message welcoming the healthy newborn “to our village.” She is the ... -
Bizcuits | From plastic-free-July to product stewardship
I knew it was bad: I had sailed dinghies in that murky delta water, ignored whatever happened to be floating past; I had pulled shredded flotsam ... -
Friday, June 22, 2018 – edition no. 3073
* Cambodia | Casinos sprung in once-sleepy city * Pearl Horizon | Aggrieved home buyers seek refund from developer * Indonesian celebrate end of Ramadan * ... -
Smiling Russians? | World Cup hosts defy glum, hostile image
• Russians largely see this World Cup as an opportunity. And they appear surprisingly eager to set aside political tensions, welcome visitors and share their rich ...
