Daily Archives: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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Trial witness: El Chapo’s lavish lifestyle included gambling in Macau
Guzman’s excesses were detailed at his U.S. trial early today [Wednesday, Macau time] by former cartel crony-turned-government witness Miguel Angel Martinez, who told jurors that a ... -
Pescod: Gov’t pivotal in boosting arts, cultural industry
Several jurisdictions across different regions are considering how to enhance their communities through cultural and creative industries, says Duncan Pescod, director of West Kowloon Cultural District ... -
Local man arrested after raping former wife
A 31-year-old local man has been arrested for rape, the Judiciary Police (PJ) reported yesterday. The victim is the suspect’s wife, but the pair had separated. ... -
Climate change debate to be held at CityU tomorrow
A debate on the topic of climate change will be held at the City University of Macau’s (CityU) Hoi Yin Convention Center from 6 p.m. to 8:30 ... -
Mainland, Macau ink new agreement on air transport
The aeronautical authorities of mainland China and Macau signed the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on air transport yesterday in Beijing. According to a statement issued ... -
Unemployment rate holds stable
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the general unemployment rate for August-October 2018 was 1.8 percent. The unemployment rate of local residents ... -
Policy Address | Many questions to Leong, most left unanswered
On the second day of the policy address for the Secretariat of Economy and Finance, the cascade of questions to Lionel Leong continued as in the ... -
Production firm gains brand establishment with Sands China partnership
A local micro firm has strengthened its brand building process following its collaboration with Sands China Ltd. Common Production, a local firm initiated by two young local ... -
Extra MOP5 charge approved for HKZMB taxi services
The government has granted the taxi industry approval to charge an additional fee of five patacas for taxis that provide services to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge ... -
Health | 15 HIV infections recorded until September
This year, from January until September, a total of 15 cases of HIV infection among local residents were reported, according to the Health Bureau. Ten cases ... -
Agnes Lam asks for real estate stats transparency
Lawmaker Agnes Lam has asked the government to increase Macau’s real estate information transparency, according to Lam’s written inquiry to the government. Lam first pointed out ... -
MICE events record drop during first three quarters of this year
A total of 966 MICE events were held in the first three quarters of 2018, a drop of 37 year-on-year, while the total number of participants and attendees ... -
Apple to tutor women in tech in bid to diversify industry
Apple is launching a new program designed to address the technology industry’s scarcity of women in executive and computer programming jobs. Under the initiative announced Monday, ... -
Disney sued for derailing Fox theme park at Malaysian casino
Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc. were sued by the owner of Malaysia’s only casino resort for pulling out of an agreement to sponsor ... -
Corporate Bits | Aux beaux arts wins wine awards
In 2018, MGM Macau’s Aux Beaux Arts received highest honors from three leading wine authorities – China’s Wine List of The Year Awards, the U.K.’s World of Fine ... -
Angola | President concludes state visit to Lisbon with multiple agreements
The Angolan president returned to Luanda on Sunday, after a three-day state visit to Portugal in which the two countries signed a set of 13 cooperation ... -
Mozambique | Public debt in 2018 is expected to exceed GDP
Mozambique’s public debt is expected to reach 102.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the year, with the economy likely to grow ... -
Analysis | Global trade is at stake as Trump and Xi come face to face
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, he was made for a moment like this: A high- stakes face-off. A ticking clock. A cagey adversary. The ... -
Religious persecution | Woman describes torture, beatings in Chinese detention camp
A member of the Uighur minority yesterday [Macau time] detailed torture and abuse she says she experienced in one of the internment camps where the Chinese government ... -
Dr Patrick Ho | US prosecutors say Hong Kong man in UN bribe case motivated by greed
Greed motivated a Hong Kong businessman to line the pockets of government officials in two African nations — bribes intended to land lucrative business deals and ... -
South Korea | Prosecutor apologizes over vagrants’ detention, forced work
South Korea’s top public prosecutor apologized yesterday over what he described as a botched investigation into the enslavement and mistreatment of thousands of people at a ... -
Sri Lanka | Lawmakers linked to disputed PM boycott Parliament
Sri Lankan lawmakers supporting disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa boycotted Parliament for a second day yesterday, accusing the speaker of bias during a political crisis that ... -
Rights group urges India to abandon plans to recover body of American
A rights group that works to protect tribal people has urged Indian authorities to abandon efforts to recover the body of an American who was killed by ... -
Mars touchdown: NASA spacecraft survives supersonic plunge
Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA’s InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like ... -
Kremlin warns of flare-up of hostilities in eastern Ukraine
The Kremlin has warned that the martial law that will go into effect in parts of Ukraine yesterday might trigger renewed hostilities in the separatist- held ... -
Syria | Hundreds of bodies exhumed from mass grave in Raqqa
Syrian workers have exhumed more than 500 bodies from one of the largest mass graves near the northern city of Raqqa, once the capital of the ... -
Briefs | Drone-car mashup model takes flight
A scale model of a flying drone-car mashup has driven and hovered across an Amsterdam exhibition hall, providing a glimpse of what could be the future ... -
Offbeat | Stranger returns lost wallet and adds extra cash
A South Dakota man has his lost wallet back with some extra cash thanks to a stranger. Hunter Shamatt thought he’d never seen the wallet again ... -
This Day in History | 1994 – Norway votes ‘no’ to Europe
Norway has voted to reject membership of the European Union in a referendum, for the second time in its history. With 92% of the referendum votes ... -
Rugby | All Blacks coaches confident one year out from World Cup
New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen has offered a sunny assessment of where his squad stands less than a year out from a Rugby World Cup ... -
French-American man abandons attempt to swim Pacific
A French-American man has given up his attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean after a storm broke the mainsail of his support ship, organizers said ... -
Ex-Korea international Jang gets life ban for match-fixing
Ex-South Korea international Jang Hak-yong has received a lifetime ban from the Korea Football Association (KFA) after an attempt to fix a domestic league game. Jang, ... -
World briefs
THAILAND The trial of a Thai billionaire construction tycoon charged with poaching an endangered black panther and other animals in a wildlife sanctuary began yesterday after months ... -
The Buzz | Sleeping pilot overflies Australian island destination
Airline officials say a pilot is under investigation after falling asleep in the cockpit of a freight plane and overflying his Australian island destination by 46 ... -
Six whales refloated after stranding on New Zealand beach
Conservation workers and volunteers in New Zealand managed to refloat six surviving stranded whales yesterday and were hoping the animals would soon swim away into deeper ...
