Monthly Archives: November 2018
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Health | Counseling psychologists not to be included in new qualification regime
Counseling psychologists will not be included in the range of professional activities covered by a bill that will regulate the qualification and registration of health professionals. ... -
Brazil’s economic dependence on China can slow Bolsonaro
Brazil’s economic growth in the past few years has been directly related to China’s growth and trade, and this might be an influence on the policies ... -
Real Estate Matters | Surviving the check-out process
If you sit down and think about it, renting a home from somebody is kind of a funny concept. We might rent a tuxedo for a ... -
Innovation | Amazon’s new goal: Teach 10 million kids a year to code
Amazon wants to get more kids thinking about becoming computer engineers. The company launched a program yesterday that aims to teach more than 10 million students ... -
HK reveals crypto rules in push to tame wild market
Hong Kong’s securities watchdog unveiled new rules for cryptocurrency funds and said it may regulate digital-asset exchanges, joining a global push to improve supervision of an ... -
Japan | Victory over mobile carriers triggers USD34b rout
NTT Docomo Inc. led a 3.8 trillion yen (USD34 billion) stock rout of Japan’s top three mobile carriers after it appeared to cave in to pressure ... -
Corporate Bits | Macau shopping festival returns next month for 8th edition
The annual Macau Shopping Festival, now in its eighth edition, will return to the city from December 1 to 31, under the theme “Make Shopping Fun”. ... -
US senator says China, America ‘competitors but not adversaries’
China and America are “competitors but not adversaries,” U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang yesterday, despite a spiraling trade war and other tensions ... -
Goldman says yuan will hit 7 as Beijing avoids heavy meddling
China’s policy makers will likely allow the yuan to hit the key level of 7 per dollar within the next six months without conducting heavy intervention, ... -
Xi hosts El Salvador as nations cut ties with Taiwan
Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing yesterday, just months after the small Central American nation broke its diplomatic ... -
Opinion | China has the wrong medicine for endangered species
China’s decision to reverse a 25-year-old ban and allow trade, in “special cases,” in products made from critically endangered tigers and rhinos has provoked a predictable ... -
Sri Lanka | President summons Parliament after PM turmoil
Sri Lanka’s president has summoned Parliament to meet next week as pressure grows for him to resolve the turmoil set off when he sacked the Cabinet ... -
India | Towering statue of independence leader unveiled
India’s prime minister has unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key independence leader being promoted as a national icon in the ruling ... -
Maldives | Ex-president returns from exile
The first democratically elected president of the Maldives returned home yesterday after more than two years in exile to escape a long prison term. The plane ... -
Koreas | Moon soon to meet Kim
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will “soon” visit Seoul as part of a series of high-profile diplomatic ... -
56,800 dead and missing: The hidden toll of migration
As migration rises worldwide, so has its toll: The tens of thousands of people who die or simply disappear during their journeys. Barely counted in life, ... -
Germany | Health minister sets out pitch for Merkel succession
Germany’s health minister said yesterday the country’s main center-right party needs to make clearer what it stands for as he competes to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel ... -
This Day in History | 1995 Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders
Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan has been charged with murder. General Malan was arrested today with 10 other former senior military officers. They ... -
Offbeat | Halloween Times! Men arrested in pumpkin smashing crime spree
Police in the southern Oregon town of Grants Pass have arrested two men suspected in a pumpkin-powered crime spree, ending weeks of incidents of smashed gourds ... -
Rugby Academy | Bats fought like tigers
Local rugby team the Macau Bats participated in the new season’s first rugby tournament in Hong Kong hosted by USRC Tigers last Sunday. An early morning ... -
Football | Spanish league launches campaign to show support for US game
The Spanish league is launching a campaign hoping to show that American fans are behind its plan to host a regular-season football game in the United ... -
Vinicius Junior big winner from Real Madrid coaching change
Brazilian teenager Vinicius Junior has become the immediate beneficiary of Real Madrid’s coaching change. The 18-year-old forward impressed in his first start for Madrid on Wednesday, ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Divers in Indonesia recovered one of the crashed Lion Air jet’s flight recorders from the seafloor yesterday, a crucial development in the investigation into what ... -
The Buzz | Bus recovered 4 days after deadly plunge off Chinese bridge
Official Chinese media say rescuers have salvaged the wreckage of a bus that plunged off a bridge into the Yangtze River four days earlier and have ... -
Brazil | Carwash judge to be Bolsonaro’s justice minister
The lead judge in Brazil’s sprawling four-year corruption investigation known as Operation Carwash is to become justice minister with expanded powers in the government of President- ... -
Kapok | The art of irrelevance
Eric Sautedé Let’s be honest, mumbling half-hearted speeches full of empty promises year after year borders on art. More so when you happen to be an ... -
Friday, November 2, 2018 – edition no. 3161
* Gaming | Growth slows on weaker China economy * South Korean leader says Kim Jong Un expected to visit Seoul ‘soon’ * ‘Activist-in-residence’ * Weather ... -
Fashion Infusion
• Macau has its yearly shot at mixing top international brands, designers and models on the Cotai Strip * Movies: Bohemian Rhapsody * Books: Elevation ... -
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ won’t rock you, but Malek will
Where does a preening, pansexual rock god get his powers? The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” traces his sonorous majesty to an unlikely place: his back ... -
Stephen King raises the bar with ‘Elevation’
After more than four decades of banging out best- sellers, Stephen King still has the power to surprise his beloved “constant readers.” Consider “Elevation,” which the ... -
Cash’s ‘She Remembers Everything’ finds her ambition intact
Rosanne Cash brings in a fair share of collaborators on her latest album, both for songwriting and singing. T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Sam ... -
Macau Events | Fashion Festival connects brands and people
This year’s Macao Fashion Festival was a three-day event, organized by the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM) and the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion ... -
The Marmite Issue
It is almost unfair that Marmite remains the most widely accepted shorthand, in English at least, for something that is either loved to death or loathed ... -
Macau Lawyers Association Valente running unopposed again
Lawyer Sérgio de Almeida Correia has withdrawn his candidacy for president of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), leaving the way open for incumbent Jorge Neto Valente ... -
AL Plenary | Rosário assures that Border Gate bus terminal will be a ‘Christmas gift’
The Secretary for Transport and Public Works, Raimundo do Rosário, assured yesterday at the Legislative Assembly (AL) plenary session that the works being done at the ...
