Monthly Archives: November 2018
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Ask the Vet | Signs of cataracts in dogs
Here in Macau we see a lot of cataracts in dogs. It is often an inherited condition that causes clouding of the eye lens, impaired vision and sometimes total blindness. Symptoms ... -
Demonstrators oppose holiday amendment proposal
Some 300 residents participated in a demonstration yesterday calling on the government to withdraw the controversial “three in four” proposal. Demonstrators, despite the rain, gathered at ... -
HKZMB recorded 64,000 daily users monthly
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge has recorded an average of 64,000 crossings on a daily basis during the past month, according to the Ministry of Transport of ... -
Visitor arrivals to Macau up by 9.2pct in October
Visitor arrivals to Macau surged by 23.2 percent month-to-month in October 2018 to 3,154,291, corresponding to a year-on- year increase of 9.2 percent. The increase was ... -
Briefs | IC clears Marreiros of plagiarism
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has accepted the explanation offered by the architecture firm of Carlos Marreiros and will now resume with the project plan. Following ... -
Policy Address | Sonia Chan announces plan to restructure gov’t departments
On the second day of the policy address for the Secretariat for Administration and Justice, Secretary Sonia Chan announced the government’s intention to restructure more than ... -
Macau Grand Prix | F1 drivers association says Flörsch crash raises concerns about ‘sausage’ kerbs
The Formula 1’s Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) will discuss teenage driver Sophia Flörsch’s Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 accident with the FIA. GPDA director Romain ... -
Courts | Polytec vs Son Pou sentence to be delivered Dec 17
Polytec Group’s lawsuit against local newspaper Son Pou was described by the defendant as the real estate company taking advantage of the case in order to ... -
Retail | Singapore malls try big gambit before online shopping catches on
Online shopping in Singapore is lackluster even after Amazon Inc. debuted its Prime service in mid-2017. The island’s malls are trying hard to keep it that ... -
Dolce&Gabbana founders make video apology to China
The co-founders of Dolce&Gabbana apologized Friday in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor ... -
Terrorism | Four killed in brazen attack at Chinese consulate in Pakistan
Armed separatists stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense hour-long shootout during which two Pakistani civilians, two ... -
British man seeks China state TV ban for forced confession
A British corporate investigator filed a complaint Friday to U.K. regulators about China’s state TV channel, saying its British license should be revoked because it aired his ... -
Taiwan | Ruling party suffers major defeat in local elections
Taiwan’s ruling party was handed a major defeat in local elections Saturday that were seen as a referendum on the administration of the island’s independence-leaning president ... -
Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum
Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will ... -
India | Police map area of island where US man was killed
Police said they have mapped the area of a remote Indian island where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary ... -
Malaysia | Jho Low’s presence at 1MDB meeting was erased from audit report
Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho’s appearance at a 1MDB board meeting was scrubbed from a government’s audit report on the troubled state firm, the auditor general ... -
Japan | Osaka to host 2025 World Expo, beating Russian city
The Japanese city of Osaka will host the World Expo in 2025, after beating out cities in Russia and Azerbaijan in the race to host an ... -
EU endorses Brexit divorce deal but hard work lies ahead
In a bittersweet landmark, European Union leaders yesterday approved an agreement on Britain’s departure next year — the first time a member country will have left ... -
France | Police fire tear gas, water cannons at Paris fuel-tax crowds
Police used tear gas and water cannons to control thousands of protesters on the Champs- Elysees in Paris, some of whom were setting fires, as a ... -
In South Sudan, a new approach in ending child soldiers’ use
After coming face to face with “unpredictable” gun-waving children almost 25 years ago, the former commander of the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission during the Rwandan genocide ... -
This Day in History | 1992 Queen to be taxed from next year
A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. The Prime Minister, John Major, told the House of Commons the ... -
Offbeat | Canadian scientist names beetle after Jose Bautista
Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around. Entomologist Bob Anderson of the Canadian Museum of Nature has dubbed a newly discovered species of beetle Sicoderus ... -
Rugby Academy | A bright start for Macau Bats on Sandy Bay
The Macau Bats attended the second Hong Kong rugby festival of the season in mid-November. The tournament was hosted by Hong Kong University at Sandy Bay, ... -
Football | Copa Libertadores final postponed after Boca bus attacked
Argentines expected the final of the century between their country’s biggest clubs and eternal rivals. Instead, the world witnessed one of the biggest embarrassments in South ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong developers offer discounts as property boom goes flat
Hong Kong developers are offering discounts at new projects in the latest sign the city’s housing boom is coming off the boil. Country Garden Holdings Co. ... -
Trial starts for Hong Kong businessman in bribery case
The New York trial of a prominent Hong Kong businessman charged in a United Nations-linked bribery conspiracy is set to begin with jury selection today. The ... -
World Briefs
THAILAND Police have arrested two brothers from Britain wanted on drug trafficking charges in their homeland. INDIA Tens of thousands of Hindus gathered in northern India yesterday ... -
Rear Window | Boldly inaccurate
Despite a sort of social commotion rooted in a long-time bonding with Bobo, one would have said that the Flora Garden’s oldest (?) inmate passing away ... -
Monday, November 26, 2018 – edition no. 3178
* Local elections | Taiwan’s ruling party suffers major defeat * Protestors brave rain to demand holiday amendment withdrawal * Sou proposes minimum wage bill * ... -
Analysis | Serving the citizens, really?
For years we have complained that the policy address was a mere exercise in shortsightedness resting on a catalogue of administrative measures, mostly expressed in quantitative ... -
New Central Library | Marreiros denies plagiarism claims
Architect Carlos Marreiros yesterday denied allegations of plagiarism regarding the façade of his project, the New Macau Central Library, which bears similarities with an award-winning auditorium ... -
Sonia Chan’s Policy Address for 2019 more a review of 2018
The Secretary for Administration and Justice, Sonia Chan was yesterday at the Legislative Assembly (AL) to present her Policy Address for the fiscal year of 2019, ... -
Forum Macau delegation tours Angola and Portugal
A delegation of the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macau, has toured Angola and Portugal from November 7 to 12, as informed in a statement. During the visit ... -
Q&A | Kris Kaminsky | General manager of Four Seasons Hotel Macao: New phase of Four Seasons targets to be city’s ‘Premier Product’
Four Seasons Hotel Macao is set to hold its annual charity event Run of Hope Macau, a community program that aims to support the fight against ... -
‘Latin Parade’ organizers expect 30 percent surge in participants
This year’s Macao International Parade, formerly known as the “Parade through Macau, Latin City”, will see an increase in the number of participating groups and an ...
