Yearly Archives: 2018
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Retail sales up 12.8 percent in Q3
The total value of retail sales during the third quarter of 2018 increased 12.8 percent year-on-year to MOP18.19 billion, according to the latest data from the ... -
Advertorial | WHOLE PERSON DEVELOPMENT: Melco committed to enriching employees’ lives and careers
Melco Resorts & Entertainment as one of Macau’s biggest employers has the capacity to make a significant positive contribution to the Macau community by providing life-transforming ... -
Policy Address | Leong highlights ‘Good Effects’ of economy measures, more to come
To present in a more detailed way the economic measures planned by the government in 2019, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong started by positively ... -
Las Vegas is now home to the ‘world’s biggest’ weed store
Come for the giant neon lotus flowers, stay for the weed. That’s the pitch from Planet 13, a Las Vegas marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the ... -
UK | May fights to sell Brexit deal to a skeptical country
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was starting a frantic two-week race yesterday to convince the British public, and a skeptical Parliament, to back the Brexit deal ... -
Corporate Bits | Sands China purchases goods from Congjiang county
Sands China Ltd. received its second batch of products from Guizhou’s Congjiang County yesterday at The Venetian Macao’s loading bay. The gaming operator was the first integrated ... -
South China Sea Watch | US carrier in Hong Kong after bombers fly over waters
A U.S. aircraft carrier docked in Hong Kong last week, days after a pair of American B-52 bombers flew over the South China Sea. The arrival of ... -
Exclusive | First gene-edited babies claimed in China
A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with ... -
Dolce&Gabbana fiasco shows importance, risks of China market
Don’t mess with China and its growing cadre of powerful luxury consumers. Dolce&Gabbana learned that lesson the hard way when it faced a boycott after Chinese ... -
New Zealand | 145 pilot whales die in stranding on beach
All of the 145 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote New Zealand beach have died. However, conservation workers are hoping to save some of ... -
India | Officials cautious as they look to recover American body
Indian officials have traveled repeatedly in recent days near the remote island where an American missionary was killed by people who have long resisted the outside ... -
Obituary | Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77
Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the world, died yesterday. ... -
Turkey | Military helicopter crashes in Istanbul; four soldiers killed
Four Turkish soldiers died while another was fighting for life after their helicopter crashed yesterday into a residential area of Istanbul. Even though the helicopter struck ... -
Iran | Number of injured in 6.3 magnitude quake rises to 716
Iranian authorities said yesterday that the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. No fatalities ... -
Offbeat | Vermont couple looking for family peacock among the turkeys
A Vermont woman whose family peacock ran off with a flock of turkeys says she’s hopeful to get close enough to catch it with a net. ... -
This Day in History | 1967 – De Gaulle says ‘non’ to Britain – again
The French President, Charles de Gaulle, has for a second time said he will veto Britain’s application to join the Common Market. He warned France’s five ... -
Koreas win UNESCO recognition of traditional wrestling
Divided for seven decades, North and South Korea together won their first international recognition of Korean traditional wrestling yesterday. The Koreas had earlier pushed separate bids ... -
Football – EPL | First loss of season exposes Chelsea’s frailties under Sarri
It took one dreadful 90-minute performance to expose the growing list of shortcomings in the Chelsea team that its coach had forewarned for much of the ... -
World briefs
CAMBODIA Police yesterday arrested more than 200 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China over the internet. JAPAN Police said yesterday they found six bodies believed ... -
The Buzz | Belt & Road: Three Chinese charged in Kenya with bribing investigators
Three Chinese nationals will be charged by the country’s anticorruption authority for paying a bribe to influence the outcome of fraud investigations, Kenya’s director of public ... -
Dictionary.com chooses ‘misinformation’ as word of the year
Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen yesterday as Dictionary.com’s word of the year on the tattered coattails of “toxic,” picked earlier this month for the ... -
World Views | Asia’s liquidity squeeze is the worst since 2008
Liquidity is getting tight in Asia. Leave aside Japan, where the printing presses are still pumping out yen. In rest of the region, central banks’ supply ... -
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – edition no. 3179
* Policy Address | Lionel Leong: Gaming sector growth to be strictly controlled * Flörsch discharged from hospital, vows to return to Macau GP * Student ... -
Tired of ‘stalling’ gov’t, Sou to introduce own minimum wage bill
New Macau Association has released an eight- point statement laying out arguments for lawmaker Sulu Sou’s new minimum wage bill that will be submitted to the ... -
Adelson retains top place in Asian Gaming Power 50
Sheldon Adelson, Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and Sands China, has topped the Asian Gaming Power 50 – an annual ranking of the most ... -
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 ...
