Monthly Archives: July 2018
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Challenges to establishment of LRT management company
After attending a meeting with lawmakers, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário admitted that the establishment of a Light Rapid Transit (LRT) managing ... -
Gaming | Revenue to fall in Q2, Morgan Stanley predicts
Macau casinos’ earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) will report a fall by as much as 6 percent for the second quarter of the ... -
Briefs | Marriage seeking woman lost MOP240,000 to fraud
A mainland woman lost MOP240,000 after falling victim to fraud. The suspect, a Hong Kong resident (56), has been arrested in relation to the case. The ... -
Gaming | Hard Rock, Bet365 plan sports betting in New Jersey
Hard Rock has signed a deal with a British online gambling company to offer sports betting as soon as the arrangement is approved by New Jersey ... -
Media | Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox ups Sky bid to beat rival Comcast
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox increased yesterday its bid to take full control of lucrative European pay TV service Sky in a prolonged battle ... -
Inequality helps explain why young billionaires are so boring
Early in Warren Buffett’s life, his father failed to get hired at the family grocery store during the Great Depression. Without a job, and without any ... -
Qin Yongmin | Veteran rights activist sentenced to 13 years’ prison
China sentenced a veteran pro-democracy campaigner to 13 years in prison on vaguely defined subversion charges, one day after releasing the widow of a Nobel Peace ... -
Beijing vows retaliation for latest US tariff threat
China slammed the U.S. threat to expand tariff hikes to imports including apples, fish sticks and French doors as a “totally unacceptable” escalation of their trade ... -
China joins 20 most innovative economies, US falls to No. 6
China joined the world’s top 20 most innovative economies for the first time while the United States fell out of the five top-ranked countries, according to ... -
Thailand | Rescued boys make victory signs from hospital beds
The 12 boys rescued from deep within a flooded cave in northern Thailand made two-finger victory signs from their hospital beds yesterday in a moving video ... -
Interview | US rescuer details high-risk mission
The Thai boys saved from a flooded cave endured dives in zero visibility lasting up to half an hour. In places, they were put into harnesses ... -
Cambodia | US firm says Chinese hackers infiltrated election commission network
Last month, the daughter of a jailed Cambodian opposition party leader received an email from a well-seeming activist at a reputed Cambodian non-profit. For weeks, the ... -
India | Top court slams government for ignoring upkeep of Taj Mahal
India’s top court yesterday slammed the federal government for a second time within weeks for being slow in taking steps to protect the Taj Mahal, the ... -
US | Government falls short of deadline to reunite kids, parents
Some immigrant toddlers are back in the arms of their parents, but others remained in holding facilities away from relatives as federal officials fell short of ... -
Europe-US | Trump claims Germany ‘controlled’ by Russia
President Donald Trump claimed a pipeline project has made Germany “totally controlled” by and “captive to Russia” during a combative breakfast yesterday that kicked off what ... -
Offbeat | Video shows moment of Clooney crash, actor thrown in air
Actor George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane Tuesday and was thrown several meters in the air on ... -
This Day in History | 1990 – Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists
The populist politician and president of the Russian parliament, Boris Yeltsin, has resigned from the Soviet Communist Party. The resignation has also led to a declaration ... -
Analysis | With World Cup title, France could launch a dynasty
It’s good the French make lots of Champagne, because with the trophy-winning potential of its team that will play in the World Cup final on Sunday, ... -
World Cup 2018: France 1, Belgium 0 | Les Bleus advance to final against Croatia or England
They’re young, they’re brash and they’re collectively worth a billion dollars. The one thing missing for this French squad is an international title. Kylian Mbappe, Paul ... -
Tennis | Goerges, Kerber aim for all-German Wimbledon final
It’s been 87 years since two German women played in a Wimbledon final. Julia Goerges likes the sound of a repeat, though. “It sounds crazy to ... -
World briefs
MYANMAR’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s military commander yesterday opened a major conference with representatives of ethnic minority groups to try to move ... -
The Buzz | Courts finds suspect in neo-Nazi trial guilty of 10 killings
A Munich court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of murder over the killing of 10 people — most of them ... -
India asks top court to decide on law criminalizing gay sex
India’s government asked the country’s top court to rule on whether to repeal or keep a controversial law that criminalizes homosexual acts. Government attorney Tushar Mehta ... -
Made in Macao | The superstition of seven
The number seven has many representations in different cultures. From the biblical point of view, the creation of our world was done in seven days. The ... -
Thursday, July 12, 2018 – edition no. 3087
* AL Plenary | Investment residency scheme slammed * Typhoon Maria barrels into mainland China after pounding Taiwan * Wushu masters challenge returns * Jho Low ... -
1MDB financial scandal | Malaysia police request arrest of Jho Low
The Royal Malaysia Police sent a formal request to Macau authorities requesting the arrest of businessman Low Taek Jhow, also known as Jho Low. Malaysian authorities are ... -
Hong Kong | Official sees ‘most opportune time’ for foreign investors
Hong Kong predicts unprecedented business opportunities lying ahead in the Belt and Road Initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau Bay Area, an official of the HKSAR ... -
Health | 90 percent of patients already contacted for drug replacement
The contingency plan for the recall and replacement of six antihypertensive medicines that were found to contain N-Nitrosodimethylamine impurities in the drug valsartan is on track, ... -
Briefs | New central library design expected this year
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) hopes to announce the design for the new central library this year, the head of the Department of Public Library Management ... -
CE continues to tour ‘Greater Bay’ cities
A delegation from the Macau government led by the Chief Executive (CE) Chui Sai On continues to tour cities that compose the “Greater Bay Area”, visiting Zhaoqing ... -
Hong Kong makes special arrangements for greyhounds’ importation
Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) has agreed with the Macau Authority to a special arrangement for the importation of greyhounds by Hong Kong ... -
Liu Xia | Beijing frees Nobel widow from house arrest that drew outcry
China allowed the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to be freed from house arrest and leave for Berlin yesterday, ending an eight-year ... -
Advisor: Gas accidents often happen through negligence
Leong In Pong, deputy-coordinator of the advisory committee of the Northern district, said that most accidents relating to gas leaks happen because of owners’ negligence. This ... -
New Era and TCM to merge on August 1
Bus companies TCM and New Era will merge beginning August 1. The merged bus operator will remain named TCM, according Leong Mei Leng, General Manager of ... -
Gaming | Elaine Wynn backed Harrah’s ex-CEO Satre for Chairman role
In the latest sign of tension between Elaine Wynn and the casino company she co-founded, the billionaire said she backed a candidate for chairman or vice ...
