Monthly Archives: January 2019
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Venezuela | Congress names new leader, vows to battle Maduro
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress opened its first session of the year Saturday, installing a fresh-faced leader who struck a defiant tone and vowed to take up the ... -
US | New York city keeps getting safer as murders, robberies decline
New York City experienced another record-setting crime reduction in 2018, continuing a more-than two decade decline that has cut the number of homicides to a fraction ... -
France | Year’s first yellow vest event brings tear gas, fires
French security forces fired tear gas and flash- balls after a march through picturesque central Paris went from peaceful to provocative Saturday as several thousand protesters ... -
Offbeat | Couple reunited with engagement ring dropped in sewer
Police in New York City say they helped a couple ring in the new year by reuniting them with their missing engagement ring. NBC New York ... -
This Day in History | 1990 – Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to public
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been closed to the public for the first time in 800 years amid speculation the structure is on the verge ... -
Motorsports | Alex Zanardi takes center stage as he wheels around Daytona
Alex Zanardi popped out of his wheelchair and onto the concrete garage floor to await his turn to climb into the race car. He pushed his ... -
Football | Asian Cup opens with UAE-Bahrain draw, Gulf political issues
Asian Cup host United Arab Emirates needed a late penalty from a handball to salvage a 1-1 draw with Bahrain on Saturday in the opening match ... -
World briefs
MALAYSIA King Sultan Muhammad V abdicated yesterday in an unexpected move, after just two years on the throne. It marked the first abdication in the nation’s ... -
The Buzz | Direct flight links Shenzhen, Johannesburg
A direct flight between south China’s Shenzhen city and Johannesburg in South Africa was launched Friday. The first flight CA867 of Air China left Shenzhen Bao’an ... -
Gaga, ‘A Star Is Born’ poised to dominate Golden Globes
When the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards get underway today [Macau time], who takes home statuettes is only a small part of the intrigue. What the ... -
Tax Matters | The importance of the Tax Treaties for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
It is openly declared by many people that Macao should play a more important role as an international platform for the investment in Portuguese- speaking countries. ... -
Monday, January 7, 2019 – edition no. 3203
* Taiwan calls for democratization | Tsai Ing-wen sets conditions for talks with Beijing * Study | In Occupy Central shadow, Macau youth want universal suffrage ... -
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 ...
