Monthly Archives: December 2018
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Goodridge adds China film expert to his team
For the second year in a row, Mike Goodridge is IFFAM’s artistic director. Having guided the festival through its extremely successful second year, the director reminds ... -
Marriott security breach exposed data of up to 500m guests
Hackers stole information on as many as 500 million guests of the Marriott hotel empire over four years, obtaining credit card and passport numbers and other ... -
Deutsche Bank CEO doesn’t expect to become target in probe
Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing said he doesn’t expect to be personally targeted in a money laundering probe by German authorities that led ... -
Corporate bits | Sands China co-hosts celebrity mentor workshop
Motivational speaker and entrepreneur Brian Cha conducted a workshop on sales and consumer behavior last week at The Venetian Macao, as part of the Celebrity Mentor ... -
Green Book | A road tale in segregated America
Fresh from winning the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film chosen open the festival was Green Book – a moving comedy ... -
The geography of crafty filmmaking in THE COMPETITION – I
Eleven feature films of a variety of topics and origins are in competition for the top IFFAM Award 2018. They will be shown in Macau venues ... -
Party agents watch over Uighur funerals, weddings
The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong. One was his 39-year-old sister; standing at her side was ... -
Snooker players handed big bans for fixing matches
Two Chinese snooker players were handed long bans on Saturday for fixing matches in one of the sport’s biggest corruption scandals. Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng ... -
Macau International Film Festival & Awards 2018
The International Film In its third year, the International Film Festival and Awards Macao (IFFAM) is back. With a new category added – Chinese new cinema ... -
US, China put brakes on trade dispute with cease-fire
The United States and China reached a 90-day cease-fire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came ... -
Vietnam | Two ex-police generals jailed for role in gambling ring
A court in northern Vietnam on Friday jailed two former police generals for protecting a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring as the Communist government steps up its crackdown ... -
Singapore urged to plug talent gap in money laundering fight
Singapore, which is increasingly using technology to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, faces a shortage of skilled data analysts who can help banks track down ... -
Indonesia | West Papuans demand independence at rally
About 300 West Papuan demonstrators calling for independence for the restive Indonesian region faced off with counterprotesters Saturday in the country’s second-largest city. The demonstrators in ... -
US | Bush mourned as a great statesman, a man of uncommon decency
Former President George H.W. Bush is returning to Washington as a revered political statesman, hailed by leaders across the political spectrum and around the world as ... -
France | Riot debris covers Paris streets; 133 injured, 412 arrested
Paris police said yesterday that 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital during France’s worst ... -
Dramatic downfall of Carlos Ghosn reverberates in Lebanon
He may have fallen from grace internationally as one of the auto industry’s most powerful leaders, but Carlos Ghosn can count on continued support in at ... -
This Day in History | 1989 – Malta summit ends Cold War
The leaders of the two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, have declared an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks ... -
Offbeat | DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card
A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man’s state driver’s license as he sought a marriage license because she ... -
Germany and Netherlands to meet in Euro 2020 qualifying
Germany will face the Netherlands in a challenging qualifying group for the 2020 European Championship in a swift reunion between the sides after meeting in the ... -
Football | River plate refuses to play final match in Madrid
The title match of South America’s club football championship was thrown into disarray again when Argentina’s River Plate refused to play the rearranged final in Spain. ... -
The Buzz | Airport workers’ bus hits taxi on Hong Kong road, killing five
A bus ferrying workers to Hong Kong International Airport slammed into a stopped taxi on a highway Friday, killing five people and injuring more than 30, ... -
Entertainment | Netflix tiptoes into theaters, demands secrecy
Netflix Inc. has an Oscar contender on its hands with “Roma,” a drama about a Mexico City family from Academy Award- winning director Alfonso Cuaron. The ... -
World Briefs
VIETNAM A court in northern Vietnam has jailed two former police generals for protecting a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring as the Communist government steps up its crackdown ... -
Insight | Where are the poets, the wild ones?
Looking at the Chinese literary scene, one wonders, where are the poets, the non-conformists? Where are, as Kerouac put it, “the mad ones, the ones who ... -
Monday, December 3, 2018 – edition no. 3183
* US, China put brakes on trade dispute * Groups oppose embalming of BoBo bear * Filipino community celebrates Christmas * Kenyan athletes dominate Macau Marathon ...
