Monthly Archives: November 2018
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AL Plenary | Affordable house ranking returns to points-based system
The ranking of candidates for affordable houses will be points-based once the Macau SAR government implements the new amendment to the affordable housing law, which was ... -
Wagyu beef at USD150 per kilo threatened by 9-cent China straw
The world’s most pampered cows are finding that a key supplement in their carefully designed diet is getting harder to come by thanks to thousands of ... -
Internet traffic hijack disrupts Google services
An internet traffic diversion rerouted data through Russia and China and disrupted Google services on Monday, including search, cloud-hosting services and its bundle of collaboration tools ... -
Corporate bits | Galaxy holds seminar on GBA opportunities
Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) held a seminar titled “Construction of Greater Bay Area and Macau’s Roles and Opportunities” last week at Oasis at Galaxy Macau. The ... -
Direct air links between China and Portugal expected to resume
Direct flights between China and Portugal, which have been suspended since October 15 by Capital Airlines, are expected to resume in the coming months by air ... -
São Tomé and Principe | French-Angolan consortium plans to prospect for oil
São Tomé and Príncipe’s National Oil Agency has begun negotiations with a consortium to sign an oil exploration contract in Block 01 of the archipelago’s Exclusive ... -
Xi expands China’s footprint in Pacific as Trump stays in U.S.
For Xi Jinping, diplomatic wins rarely come this easily: Just showing up at an Asia-Pacific summit this week would help to score a victory for China. ... -
Animal rights | Tiger bone, rhino horn trading postponed
China is postponing its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts a bare two weeks after the easing of the ban had raised fears ... -
Li Keqiang says reforms, not stimulus, vital for growth
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says the country needs reforms to support business to help drive growth as it weathers a trade war with the U.S., rather ... -
Top diplomat defends crackdown in Xinjiang
China’s foreign minister defended a security crackdown effecting one of the country’s largest Muslim minorities as a necessary response to terrorism, in Beijing’s highest-level response yet ... -
Hong Kong | World-beating IPO market starts to show cracks
A mid a banner year for Hong Kong listings, cracks are starting to show in the world’s biggest market for initial public offerings. A parenting website part-owned ... -
Pakistan | Group says millions of girls deprived of education
Millions of girls in Pakistan are still out of school, mostly because the government spends less money on education, a leading international rights group said yesterday ... -
Japan | Debt market’s secret probed as more bonds go unsold
Japanese regulators are starting to look into underwriting practices in the nation’s corporate bond market, where banks routinely say deals are successful even in cases when ... -
Singapore | Facebook stands ground after criticism over 1MDB post
Facebook Inc. stood its ground after Singapore called the social media giant unreliable for declining a request to remove a post, which the government had said ... -
North Korea missile bases outed in report that undermines Trump
Thirteen undeclared North Korean missile operating bases were identified in a new report, undermining the Trump administration’s claims that its outreach to Pyongyang is making progress ... -
Southeast Asian summit puts focus on trade tensions, trends
The potential damage to global trade brought on by President Donald Trump’s tariffs battle with Beijing is looming as leaders of Southeast Asian nations, China, the ... -
Obituary | A universe of flawed heroes: Stan Lee was ahead of his time
It became easy, in recent years, to dismiss him as the wisecracking grandpa of the American comic book, a past-his-prime gimmick who cameoed alongside Earth’s angstiest ... -
After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war
When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban ... -
This Day in History | 1991 US accuses Libyans of Lockerbie bombing
Two Libyan intelligence officers have been accused of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing. The United States has called on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to hand over the ... -
Offbeat | This is heavy: The kilogram is getting an update
The kilogram is getting an update. No, your bathroom scales won’t suddenly become kinder and a kilo of fruit will still weigh a kilo. But the ... -
Football | UEFA warns clubs over financial abuses after Man City leaks
Previously concluded Financial Fair Play cases could be reopened, UEFA warned on Monday as evidence grows of Manchester City’s attempts to disguise its source of income ... -
Baseball | MLB All-Stars visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda were among the members of Major League Baseball’s All-Star tour of Japan who visited ... -
Preview GT World Cup – Big names seeking major achievements
This year’s FIA GT World Cup, one of the headline events of the Macau Grand Prix, will count as participants many of the big names that ... -
Preview | WTCR to continue the ‘legacy’ of Guia Race
Debuting in the Guia Circuit is the first running season of the FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR). The series comes to plug the gap left ... -
Thailand | Child boxing debated after 13-year-old’s death
The death of a 13-year-old boy who was knocked out during a kickboxing match in Thailand has sparked debate over whether to ban matches involving children. ... -
Preview | Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup to make GP debut
Running for the first time, and in lieu of the previously held Chinese Racing Cup, the Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup has made its way into ... -
Football | Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole retires at 37
Former England and Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole has retired from football. The 37-year-old Cole completed his career with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the United Soccer ... -
The Buzz | US airman in Japan dies in stabbing; Japanese woman arrested
The U.S. Air Force says a U.S. airman in Japan has been stabbed and later died at a hospital. Japanese police say they have arrested a ... -
Heaviest fighting since 2014 convulses Israel-Gaza border
Israelis and Gazans woke to another day of rocket fire and airstrikes yesterday, adding new urgency to efforts to quell fighting that is the heaviest since ... -
World Briefs
CHINA’s premier sought yesterday to reassure its neighbors that Beijing will push ahead with reforms needed to support growth across the region and also keep the ... -
Macau Matters | To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
I grew up fascinated by the clockwork mechanical systems of our industrial world and studied systems engineering at university, but hated the seemingly meaningless, messy complexity ... -
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 – edition no. 3170
* New affordable housing rules green-lighted * Top diplomat defends crackdown in Xinjiang * 200 exhibitors at MGS show * Ho Iat Seng: ‘No need to ... -
Gaming | MGS Entertainment Show kicks off
The sixth annual MGS Entertainment Show will run from today until Friday at the Venetian Macao Cotai Expo Hall A and B. This year’s show features ... -
Gov’t sets up committee for building up Greater Bay
The government has formalized the establishment of the Working Committee for the Construction of the Greater Bay Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau by a publication from the Chief ... -
70 non-local workers complain about salary cuts
A group of 70 construction workers at the Lisboa Palace project visited the Labor Affairs Bureau (DSAL) yesterday to complain about a salary issue, according to ...
