Daily Archives: Wednesday, September 12, 2018
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12,000 expected to fill the streets for 37th Marathon
The 37th Macao Galaxy Entertainment International Marathon will take place this year with an expected 12,000 participants running the three available distances in the early hours ... -
Cyber security bill insists on real name registration for SIM cards
The Chief Executive Council has completed its discussion of the cyber security law and has proposed real name registration for SIM cards in addition to the ... -
Gaming | Macau casinos sink on concern high rollers hit by China slowdown
Macau casinos shares tumbled yesterday on concerns that a softening Chinese economy is damping the allure of the baccarat tables for high rollers. The Bloomberg Intelligence ... -
Letter to the Editor | Plastic straws and public shaming
Dear editor, Today, while transporting my own daughter to school following her lunch break, I had the displeasure to observe a middle aged man deride a ... -
Briefs | PSP to receive demonstration notices from tomorrow
Starting from tomorrow, demonstrators will be required to submit their demonstration notice to the Public Security Police Force (PSP). According to Macau’s new demonstration and assembly ... -
Melco Resorts files registration for Studio City IPO
Melco International Development has announced that it has publicly registered Studio City with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission in a bid to launch an initial ... -
Hotel Estoril | ‘Not a case of breaking and entry,’ says Scott Chiang
Activists Scott Chiang and Alin Lam were tried yesterday for breaking and entering into Hotel Estoril in 2016, where they put up a banner against the ... -
Au renews decade-old call for seawater flushing
Lawmaker Au Kam San has once again called on the Macau government to establish a seawater-based flushing system, this time in the new urban zones currently ... -
Responsible corporate citizenship: Melco CSR initiatives for women
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a big trend in business, and when companies are serious about CSR, communities clearly stand to benefit. With its roots deep ... -
Amanda Liu | Powerlifter and bodybuilder: From books to barbell | The story of a lawyer-weightlifter
Born in mainland China, Amanda Liu came to live in Macau at the age of 10. At 18, she packed her bags and headed to Portugal ... -
Hong Kong | Battered from all sides, stocks fall into bear market
A rout in technology stocks, emerging market contagion, currency weakness, an economy under threat. Welcome to Hong Kong, where just about every problem afflicting global equity investors ... -
Sands china launches ‘Myfitness’
Sands China Ltd. is launching “myFITNESS,” a new initiative aimed at encouraging healthy habits to support team members’ physical fitness, health and well-being. The first campaigns to ... -
Alibaba inks USD2b joint venture with Kremlin fund, Mail.ru
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is setting up a USD2 billion joint venture with a Kremlin-backed fund and billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s Mail.ru Group Ltd. to grow its ... -
China, Sao Tome and Principe sign 3 agreements
China and Sao Tome and Principe have signed three cooperation agreements to social housing, setting up a Confucius Institute and granting a donation of USD29 million, ... -
Entrepreneurs | Private companies increasingly interested in Africa
China’s private companies have shown growing interest in expanding their businesses in Africa, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported citing entrepreneurs attending a recent Sino-African economic ... -
Demographics | Authorities move points to possible end of birth limits
China is eliminating a trio of agencies responsible for enforcing family planning policies in a further sign the government may be planning to scrap long-standing limits ... -
Couple who immigrated from China killed on Oregon Coast
A wave hit two recent immigrants from China as they visited the Oregon Coast, sweeping them out into the ocean and killing them. Miaochan Chen, 49, and ... -
Russia, China kick off biggest war games in decades, amid tensions
Russia’s largest war games in recent history have kicked off in the Far East. The Defense Ministry said in a statement yesterday that the largest military ... -
Belt & Road Report: Chinese building projects narrowing economic gaps
Chinese-financed railways and other projects in Africa and Asia are helping to reduce economic inequality between regions in the countries where they are built, a group ... -
Beijing ato regulate online religious activity amid crackdown
China is rolling out new rules on religious activity on the internet amid an ongoing crackdown on churches, mosques and other institutions by the officially atheist ... -
India | Bus accident near Hyderabad kills at least 55 people
A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road yesterday, killing at least 55 people including four children, ... -
Afghanistan | Suicide bomber kills 32 in Nangarhar
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled vest among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 32 and wounding about 130, ... -
Vietnam | Hanoi urges residents to stop eating dog meat
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital are urging residents to stop eating dog meat because it hurts the city’s image and improper raising and slaughtering of the animals ... -
North Korea | Mass rally wraps up 70th anniversary events
Tens of thousands of North Korean students rallied in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square in the final major event of the country’s 70th anniversary, an elaborate ... -
USA | Bolton says International Criminal Court ‘already dead to us’
America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction ... -
Surge, wind, rain, floods | Hurricane Florence could hit hard
Mandatory evacuations were imposed for parts of three East Coast states Tuesday as millions of Americans prepared for what could become one of the most catastrophic ... -
Offbeat | Rapper Kamaiyah pleads guilty in airport disturbance
Rapper Kamaiyah has pleaded guilty to creating a public disturbance at Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport in May when police say she went on a profanity-laced tirade ... -
This Day in History | 2001 – US declares war on terror
The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. In ... -
Football – UEFA Nations League | Portugal adds to Italy’s struggles with win
PORTUGAL 1, ITALY 0 As Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyed his time off at the French Riviera, his Portugal teammates were busy handing Italy another disappointing result in ... -
Tennis cartoon | Serena Williams’ treatment resonates among black women
When Serena Williams told the umpire at the U.S. Open final that he owed her an apology, that he had stolen something from her, and then ... -
World briefs
VIETNAM-INDONESIA Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said yesterday that his country and Vietnam have agreed to cooperate more in fighting illegal fishing and hope to boost two-way ... -
The Buzz | Humanitarian group says 100 migrants die off Libyan coast
Doctors Without Borders says more than 100 people have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast and the remaining survivors are being held in detention ... -
Discovery of dog saves Oregon man from sex-crime conviction
The discovery of a black Labrador named Lucy led to the unraveling of a criminal case yesterday [Macau time] against an Oregon man who had begun ... -
Macau Matters | The deluded world of air-conditioning
Living in Macau we are all well aware of the great value of air-conditioning (and refrigeration). As countries develop, the first thing that their emerging middle ... -
Wednesday, September 12, 2108 – edition no. 3130
* Sino-US trade war | Gaming chips crash amid possible VIP rout * Amanda Liu | The story of a lawyer-weightlifter * Plastic straws and public ...
