Daily Archives: Monday, December 10, 2018
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Music | Fifteen choirs join third annual choir festival
The third International Choir Festival of Macau (MIC) has attracted some 410 vocalists from 15 choirs representing eight different countries to perform in the region. Performing ... -
Border Gate bus terminal to reopen on Saturday
The Border Gate underground bus terminal is just about ready and will reopen for public use on Saturday, fulfilling a pledge made earlier by the Secretary ... -
Opinion | Macau chips are down for America’s casino kings
If any worsening of the trade war leads China to call for a boycott of U.S. companies, America’s casino kings will be sweating. Three American companies ... -
Cebu Pacific launches Macau-Cebu route
Budget airline Cebu Pacific has started to operate flights between Macau and Cebu in the Philippines. The launch of the third direct route from the airline ... -
Science Center holds series of activities for 9th anniversary
The Macao Science Center is holding a series of events that will last until December 22 in order to celebrate its 9th anniversary. The anniversary event, ... -
Health Bureau free flu vaccination starts tomorrow
This year’s Health Bureau (SSM) program aimed at providing vaccines against influenza virus to high-risk groups of the resident population will start from tomorrow, the SSM ... -
Residential property price index drops slightly
The overall residential property price index in Macau decreased by 0.6 percent to 268.7 over the previous period from July to September. According to the Statistics ... -
Number of hotel employees increases
The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released the results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the third quarter of 2018. Survey coverage for ... -
Policy Address | Zheng continues pressuring government over Land Law
Lawmaker Zheng Anting has continued to pressure the government, in particular the Secretary for Transport and Public Works, Raimundo do Rosário, regarding the region’s Land Law ... -
Noble Group is said to work on pre-agreed insolvency process
Noble Group Ltd. is preparing for an insolvency filing after Singaporean regulators blocked a key element of its USD3.5 billion debt restructuring, according to people familiar ... -
Canadian telecoms face USD1b to remove Huawei tech: G&M
Canada’s Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. may face at least $1 billion in costs if the country bans telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei Technologies Co. ... -
Corporate bits | MGM promotes responsible gaming
To further support the “Responsible Gambling Promotions 2018”, MGM has hosted a two-week program themed “Gambling is Not Business, Stay in Control” for its Golden Lion ... -
Pioneering mission to far side of moon launched
China launched a ground-breaking mission Saturday to land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space ... -
Chinese group to buy Wilson tennis racket maker for USD5.2 billion
A Chinese investor group led by Anta Sports Products Ltd. reached a USD5.2 billion deal to acquire the maker of Wilson tennis rackets and Louisville Slugger baseball ... -
Canada’s detention of Huawei exec ‘vile in nature’
China summoned the Canadian ambassador to protest the detention of a top executive of leading Chinese tech giant Huawei, calling it “unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in ... -
Meng Wanzhou’s rise through the company’s ranks
Before her dramatic arrest in Canada, few in the U.S. had heard of Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 46, is chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of the ... -
Yoon says languages needed for ‘next level’ career
Lim Yoon A, also known as Yoona, is one of the most recognizable names in Asian entertainment and one of the talent ambassadors for this year’s ... -
Q&A | Nicolas Cage: Chinese cinema is musical, operatic… and violent
Prolific actor, director and producer Nicolas Cage was asked this year to become a talent ambassador for the International Film Festival and Awards – Macau and ... -
Japan | Divisive bill allowing more foreign workers approved
Japanese lawmakers early Saturday approved government-proposed legislation allowing hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers to live and work in a country that has long resisted accepting ... -
New Zealand | Police find body they believe is British tourist
New Zealand police said yesterday they found a body they believe to be that of missing 22-year-old British tourist Grace Millane. Police said the body was ... -
Malaysia | Big rally by Muslims calls for upholding privileges
Tens of thousands of Malaysian Muslims rallied Saturday in Kuala Lumpur against any attempt to strip the ethnic Malay majority of its privileges, in the first ... -
Philippines | Duterte seeks martial law extension in the country’s south
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in the country’s south by another year amid continuing concerns over possible militant attacks, although ... -
In Gaza protests, Israeli troops aim for the legs
Israeli forces deployed along the volatile border with the Gaza Strip have fired live rounds at rock-throwing Palestinian protesters ever since demonstrations against Israel’s long-running blockade ... -
France | Paris cleans up after latest riot as pressure builds on Macron
Paris tourist sites reopened, workers cleaned up broken glass and shop owners tried to put the city on its feet again yesterday, a day after running ... -
This Day in History | 1990: Iraq frees British hostages
The first of the hostages held in the Gulf for four-and-a-half months have arrived in Britain after their release by Saddam Hussein. A total of 100 ... -
Offbeat | California teacher arrested for forcibly cutting boy’s hair
A high school teacher in central California was arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment after forcibly cutting the hair of one of her students while ... -
Baseball | Ex-major leaguers Valbuena, Castillo die in Venezuela crash
Former major league players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in a car crash in Venezuela caused by highway bandits who then robbed them, officials ... -
Man City’s Raheem Sterling says media coverage fuels racism
British newspapers are helping to “fuel racism” with their portrayal of black footballers, Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling said Sunday as police investigate whether he was ... -
Figure Skating | Teenage Japanese star Rika Kihira wins Grand Prix Final
Teenage Japanese star Rika Kihira won the Grand Prix Final women’s title Saturday. The 16-year-old had a combined score of 233.12, despite stumbling on a jump ... -
Football | PSG’s Qatari owners enlist Neymar’s help to promote biggest bank
Paris Saint Germain’s Qatari owner is enlisting the club’s hottest star to help promote the country’s biggest bank. After advertising products from razors and headphones to ... -
Ship saves British sailor after storm in Southern Ocean
A cargo ship on Friday rescued a British sailor after a violent storm ripped off her mast and flung her yacht end over end in the Southern ... -
The Buzz | Fosun Tourism is said to raise USD426 million in Hong Kong IPO
Fosun Tourism Group, a unit of billionaire Guo Guangchang’s drugs-to-insurance conglomerate, raised HK$3.34 billion ($426 million) after pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering at the ... -
World Briefs
CHINA’s export growth sank in November as global demand weakened, adding to pressure on Beijing ahead of trade talks with Washington. Exports rose 5.4 percent ... -
Rear Window | Macau reinventing itself…again
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Lisbon, ending in a tour that took him to the G-20 in Argentina, to Panama and Spain, would necessarily ...
