Corporate Bits | Oktoberfest Macau at MGM celebrates 10th anniversary

MGM kick-started Oktoberfest Macau at MGM 2018 at MGM Cotai yesterday. Marking its tenth anniversary, the event is being hosted for the first time at MGM’s newest integrated

Real Estate Matters | What is rent control and does it work?

Sam Lee is a marketing manager and property consultant at JML Property.  JML was established in 1994 and offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in managing

Disney bets USD20m to ensure Florida isn’t the next Vegas

A Florida ballot initiative this November would give voters the power to block any expansion of casino gambling, a move some argue would effectively crush gaming companies’ long and

Q&A: Torsten Müller-Otvös Rolls-Royce CEO | Rolls-Royce will never make a hybrid car: CEO

This week, Rolls- Royce unleashed its USD325,000 Cullinan on the back roads and double-diamond ski runs of Wyoming’s Grand Teton mountain range. The press launch

Mattis meets his Chinese counterpart, but no new agreements

U.S. officials say they sense that relations with the Chinese military, after a rocky few months, may be stabilizing, although face-to-face talks between their respective defense chiefs

HK hit by rush-hour chaos after glitch delays trains

Hong Kong’s metro trains suffered delays due to a rare, simultaneous signaling glitch on four of its lines, causing chaos at stations and inconveniencing thousands of commuters

Tesla secures land in Shanghai for first factory outside US

Electric auto brand Tesla Inc. said it signed an agreement Wednesday to secure land in Shanghai for its first factory outside the United States, pushing ahead with development

Philippines | Key allies quit Duterte Cabinet to run in elections

Close allies of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have resigned from his Cabinet to run in elections next year that will test his popularity and could determine his

India | Protesters stop females ages 10 to 50 from entering temple

A temple in southern India and one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage centers opened its doors to females of menstruating age on Wednesday to comply with a

Vietnam | Popular blogger freed on condition she leave for US

Vietnam has freed a well-known blogger after two years in prison on the condition that she leave for the United States. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known

As Canada legalizes pot, other countries likely to follow

More than two dozen countries have relaxed their marijuana or other drug laws, and a number could consider legalizing in the not-too-distant future. The South American

Science | Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of

Man linked to Saudi prince at consulate when writer vanished

A man who previously traveled with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage to the United States entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just before writer Jamal Khashoggi

Offbeat | Film with Fan Bingbing, Bruce Willis canceled after tax case

The director of “Air Strike,” featuring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, says the film’s release has been canceled in the wake of her disappearance and conviction on tax

This Day in History | 1987 – Shares plunge after Wall Street crash

The world’s stock market has collapsed after shares on Wall Street suffered a wave of panic selling. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted by a record

Gerard Pique juggles business with football at Barcelona

With his plan to revamp tennis’ Davis Cup, Barcelona defender Gerard Pique is laying the groundwork for a life after football. Barcelona, however, needs its budding

World briefs

CHINA Emergency services said yesterday that about 6,000 people were evacuated after a landslide in Tibet blocked the flow of one of the region’s key rivers, creating

New Zealand Leader taped speaking inappropriately

New Zealand’s opposition leader has been secretly recorded calling one of his own lawmakers “f---ing useless” and making other questionable remarks as turmoil in the conservative National

The Buzz | China may have USD5.8 trillion hidden debt with ‘titanic’ risk

China’s local governments may have accumulated 40 trillion yuan (USD5.8 trillion) of off-balance sheet debt, or even more, suggesting further defaults are in store, according to S&P Global

Shanghai | Airport automates check-in with facial recognition

It’s now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial recognition systems in China that

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