Daily Archives: Friday, September 21, 2018
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Elderly residents demand action on greyhound noise
A group of elderly residents hand-delivered a petition to the government yesterday afternoon to protest the relocation of some 500 greyhounds to their Coloane neighborhood, which ... -
Briefs | Mooncake sample fails food tests
The government has announced the test results for 40 mooncake samples, one of which was revealed to have not met required standards. The Civic and Municipal ... -
Gov’t listening to opinions on typhoon casino closures
The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Leong Vai Tac, told reporters yesterday that there was no specific regulation in Macau currently enabling the government to order ... -
MDT Exclusive | Rutter returns to Macau with new team and lofty ambitions
Eight-time Macau Grand Prix winner Michael Rutter is returning to the streets of Macau with a new team and grander ambitions. The British rider will race ... -
Breast cancer made Faye Ho change perspective
Many had questioned the reasons behind local businesswoman Faye Ho’s apparent exit from Macau and her subsequent shift to the U.K. Ho told the Times the ... -
English-language teaching relies too heavily on textbooks, says USJ vice rector
The University of Saint Joseph’s vice-rector, Keith Morrison, says an unbalanced methodology for language learning may negatively impact students’ English proficiency. Speaking at yesterday’s breakfast talk ... -
UM launches massive open online course
The University of Macau (UM) will launch its first massive open online course (MOOC) on September 26. The free course, titled ‘Creativity,’ aims to help learners ... -
CCM to present Swedish dance show
The Gothenburg Opera Dance Company will perform its show “Noetic” in Macau on November 18 at the Grand Auditorium of Macau Cultural Centre (CCM). The Swedish ... -
Macao Fashion Festival 2018 to kick off on October 18
This year’s Macao Fashion Festival will take place during the 23nd International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF) at The Venetian Macao from October 18 to 20. ... -
Gaming | MGM bounces on rumor investor wants out of Macau
Casino stocks in the U.S. rose this week on the back of a news report that suggested an activist investor in U.S. casino giant MGM Resorts ... -
Melco delivers mooncakes to organizations
Some 240 volunteers from Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited visited eight local organizations to deliver a total of over 1,000 donated boxes of mooncake to those ... -
Real Estate Matters | Does taping your windows actually work during a typhoon?
As you know, Macau just went through another suspenseful event of facing a Super Typhoon. Although innocently named after the Thai word for the fruit Mangosteen, ... -
Taiwan components maker is said to explore billion-dollar sale
Precision Motion Industries Inc., whose components are used in semiconductor equipment, is exploring a sale that could value the Taiwanese company at more than USD1 billion, ... -
China races to get toys and car parts to US before tariffs hit
The race is on to get Chinese goods into the U.S. before President Donald Trump’s tariffs bite. At sea and in the sky, the U.S. president’s ... -
Offbeat | Too soon? Fans find Red Sox division title banner in street
The Boston Red Sox have not clinched this year’s American League East division championship, but a banner marking the accomplishment has already been accidentally unveiled. Boston-area ... -
New iPhone no help to assembler as Hon Hai slides down rankings
The contrast between Apple Inc.’s ascension to a USD1 trillion stock and the share performance of its biggest iPhone assembler just got even starker. Hon Hai ... -
This Day in History | 1998 – Clinton’s Grand Jury testimony released
Bill Clinton’s testimony about his relationship with a young female assistant has been released to the United States public. The video of the American president’s 17 ... -
Billionaire blues | Prosecutors in Minneapolis to review Liu sexual assault case
Minneapolis police have finished their initial investigation into a sexual assault allegation against Chinese billionaire Richard Liu and have turned the case over to prosecutors for ... -
Inconvenient truth | China is hitting reality now on ‘Impossible’ tax, deficit goals
China’s government is grappling with an inconvenient truth: you can’t cut taxes, boost spending and reduce the budget deficit all at the same time. Having promised ... -
Football No Ronaldo? No problem for Madrid, Juventus in Champs League
Real Madrid managed to win easily in the Champions League without Cristiano Ronaldo. So did Juventus, after its superstar signing was tearfully sent off within 30 ... -
Taiwan | Authorities tracing US gun company owner accused of sex with girl
Taiwan said yesterday it is looking for the owner of a Texas company that makes untraceable 3-D printed guns who is wanted on an arrest warrant ... -
World briefs
KOREAS A beaming South Korean President Moon Jae-in, freshly returned home yesterday from a whirlwind three-day summit with Kim Jong Un, said the North Korean leader wants ... -
The Buzz | Trump to Spain: ‘Build a wall’ across Sahara to solve migrant crisis
President Trump suggested building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister said yesterday cited by the BBC. Josep Borrell, also ... -
Hong Kong | Doctor gets life term over yoga ball killings
An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life ... -
Giant bong, huggable buds: Marijuana museum opens in Vegas
A glass bong taller than a giraffe. Huggable faux marijuana buds. A pool full of foam weed nuggets. Las Vegas’ newest attraction — and Instagram backdrop ... -
Good for gaming | Japan’s Abe re-elected as party head, to stay on as PM
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a landslide yesterday, paving the way for up to three ... -
World Views | Donald Trump’s stance on refugees is a disgrace
President Donald Trump’s decision to cut the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. hardly comes as a surprise. Even by this administration’s standards, however, the ... -
Indonesia | Widodo imposes moratorium on new palm oil plantations
Indonesia’s president has signed a moratorium on new palm oil development and ordered a review of existing plantations, an official said yesterday, in a blow to ... -
Philippines | New landslide kills 21, buries houses in disaster-prone archipelago
A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain yesterday, killing at least 21 people and sending rescuers scrambling to find survivors after some ... -
Friday, September 21, 2018 – edition no. 3136
* Exclusive | Aspire-Ho is born | Faye Ho, Michael Rutter team up to win GP * MGM bounces on rumor investor wants Macau exit * ... -
The Accidental Tourist
• The places Moon Jae-in visited during his three-day trip to North Korea are glimpses into the secluded country and how it sees itself * ... -
USA | Trump’s immigrant roundups increasingly net noncriminals
A daughter who never returned home, a son gunned down point-blank, a mom who was brutally attacked — all deaths at the hands of immigrants in ... -
‘Life Itself’ is star-studded, earnest but lacking
Hallmark sentimentality, passionate defenses of Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” and horrific head traumas are thrown together in Dan Fogelman’s “Life Itself ,” a curious ... -
Brexit | EU, UK fail to resolve border row as deadline looms
Britain and its European Union partners failed yesterday to secure a breakthrough in Brexit talks, largely because of seemingly intractable divisions over the best way to ... -
Underwood struggles to get personal on ‘Cry Pretty’
For the first time in her career, Carrie Underwood took over co-producing duties on her new album, “Cry Pretty,” and co-wrote nine of the 13 tracks. ...
