Daily Archives: Friday, January 4, 2019
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Hong Kong has a USD64 billion plan to build islands for new homes
Hong Kong, the world’s least affordable property market, has a plan to tackle its housing crisis: build four artificial islands equal to about a fifth the ... -
Macau | The state of land reclamation
Macau has been a world leader in land reclamation since at least the early 20th century, presiding over a threefold increase in its total land area ... -
Sulu Sou proposes amendments to social, economic housing bill
Lawmaker Sulu Sou is calling on Chief Executive (CE) Chui Sai On to allow the Legislative Assembly (AL) to debate on the housing bill amendments, stressing ... -
Gaming | Macau Legend completes land purchase near Angkor Wat
Macau-based casino operator Macau Legend Development Ltd will purchase 1,200 hectares of land in Cambodia’s Siem Reap Province from Howing Enterprises Co. Ltd, for the development ... -
Jockey Club presents MOP4.5b investment plan to the AL
The Macau Jockey Club has made an investment plan, supported by a maximum MOP4.5 billion in funding, for its development in the next 20 years or ... -
Crime | Two arrested for pick-pocketing in casino restaurants
Two mainland residents have been arrested for pick-pocketing inside restaurants located in casinos, the Judiciary Police reported yesterday. The two male suspects are named Mo (aged ... -
Briefs | Residents can provide proof of life at Praia do Manduco Centre
Beneficiaries currently receiving old-age or disability pension from the Social Security Fund (FSS) are required to provide proof of life in January each year. The FSS ... -
Macau airport reaches 8.2m passengers, breaking record
The Macau International Airport (MIA) achieved a new record for passenger traffic in 2018, registering 8.26 million arriving and departing passengers, which is 15 percent more ... -
China P2P lending crackdown may see 70pct of firms close
The number of Chinese peer-to-peer lenders may drop by 70 percent this year, a research firm that tracks the industry says, as the nation intensifies a ... -
Apple drops iPhone bombshell on already reeling stock market
Apple acknowledged that demand for iPhones is waning, confirming investor fears that the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its luster. The reckoning came ... -
Corporate bits | Sands China halts use of plastic straws
Sands China Ltd. has discontinued its use of plastic straws at all its properties, in an effort to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics. The company’s ... -
Analysis | Why slowing economies could prod US and China to reach deal
The Trump administration and China are facing growing pressure to blink in their six-month stare-down over trade because of jittery markets and portents of economic weakness. ... -
Chinese spacecraft lands on ‘dark’ side of moon in world first
China’s burgeoning space program achieved a first yesterday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations — the United States, the former ... -
Dire Strait | Even Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly opposition cool to Xi’s plan
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposal for a Hong Kong-style union with Taiwan has instead spurred a rare show of unity between the island’s fiercely combative political ... -
Koreas | South lawmaker: Spy agency says North diplomat in hiding
North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul yesterday. ... -
India | Hindu hard-liners paralyze state over women at shrine
Hindu hard-liners shut shops and businesses and clashed with police in a southern state yesterday to protest the entry of two women in one of India’s ... -
Red alert | Thailand braces for powerful storm at southern beach towns
Thai authorities suspended ferry services and began evacuations yesterday ahead of a powerful tropical storm that is expected to pound the Southeast Asian nation’s famed southern ... -
USA | Trump gives new Pentagon chief a taste of his world view
On his first working day in charge of the Pentagon, Pat Shanahan got a taste of President Donald Trump’s scattershot way of looking at the world. ... -
Saudi Arabia | Prosecutors say five face death penalty in Khashoggi killing
Saudi Arabia announced yesterday it will seek the death penalty against five suspects in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a killing that has ... -
Offbeat | Uffizi urges Germany to return painting stolen by Nazis
The director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is urging Germany to return a Dutch masterpiece stolen by Nazi troops during World War II, dramatizing its ... -
This Day in History | 1958 – Explorer Hillary arrives at South Pole
Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole – the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott’s expedition in 1912. The New ... -
Tennis | Some words from the coach inspire Osaka’s quarterfinal win
Naomi Osaka responded to some courtside advice from her coach in the most emphatic way after dropping the first set in the Brisbane International quarterfinals, conceding ... -
Football | Son ‘sad’ and ‘sorry’ to be leaving Tottenham for Asian Cup
Son Heung-min is looking forward to making history with South Korea at the upcoming Asian Cup. He’s just sorry it has to come at the expense ... -
World briefs
JAPAN An earthquake shook southwestern Japan yesterday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami watch was lifted within an hour. THAILAND Authorities ... -
The Buzz | UN Security Council gets new members, and one gets presidency
The United Nations Security Council has five new members, and one of them — the Dominican Republic — is starting out as the group’s president. Belgium, ... -
Hasan Minhaj | Netflix criticized for yanking comedian’s episode in Saudi
Muslim-American comedian Hasan Minhaj Netflix faced criticism from human rights groups for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” series that ... -
Bizcuits | Political activism in baking bread
Leanda Lee It was many months ago, but it has been sitting uneasily on my mind. A close associate had been developing skills and knowledge of ... -
Friday, January 4, 2019 – edition no. 3202
* Land reclamation continues in Macau | Plan to build 4 islands stirs controversy in HK * China | Spacecraft lands on ‘dark’ side of moon ... -
Seen from high above
• News of 2018 as seen from satellite imagery puts our troubles in perspective * Movies: Destroyer * Books: “Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard ... -
Nicole Kidman as a hardened LA cop in ‘Destroyer’
A different Nicole Kidman stares out at us under the harsh Los Angeles sun of the neo-noir “Destroyer.” The actress who famously donned a prosthetic nose for ... -
In ‘Seduction,’ Howard Hughes’ Hollywood no haven for women
Hollywood history for the #MeToo movement, Karina Longworth’s “Seduction” is an astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe ... -
Mellencamp puts fearless touch on American classics
In his youth John Mellencamp was known to be cocky. That brashness carried him to the big stage, where he became a stadium- scale rocker with ... -
News Of The World | Memorable news satellite photos of 2018
From Russian war games to lava flows on Hawaii to raging fires in California, images gathered from high above Earth by satellites in 2018 delivered a ... -
The Rhodanien Analogue
Even if bestowed with singular character and outstanding quality, many grape varieties nonetheless remain at the regional level rather than becoming international varieties; not that becoming ... -
food & beverage | Low carb? Low fat? What the latest dieting studies tell us
Bacon and black coffee for breakfast, or oatmeal and bananas? If you’re planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you’re sure to find a fierce ...
