Monthly Archives: May 2019
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General unemployment rate remains stable
The general unemployment rate of Macau remained stable at 1.7 percent for the first quarter this year as compared with the previous period (from December 2018 ... -
MGM executives explore the Greater Bay Area
Grant Bowie, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MGM China, recently led a delegation of more than 20 members from the company’s senior management team ... -
Market regulator ends Three Gorges takeover bid for EDP
The applications for registration of the takeover bid for Portuguese power company EDP – Energias de Portugal and EDP Renováveis by the China Three Gorges group ... -
Real Estate Matters | 5 ground rules for home buying success
Sam Lee is a marketing manager and property consultant at JML Property. JML was established in 1994 and offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in ... -
Trump met with Foxconn CEO about Wisconsin project
Foxconn Technology Group is moving forward with its plan to build a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin and President Donald Trump has promised to visit when production ... -
Huawei | UK’s fired defense secretary furiously denies leak
Britain’s former defense secretary ferociously denied allegations that he leaked details from private government discussions about the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, as opposition leaders called yesterday ... -
Corporate Bits | Melco team members attend exhibition on national security
Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited’s management and a team of 50 colleagues from various departments attended the National Security Education Exhibition with the aim of raising awareness on ... -
Ex-CIA officer admits to espionage conspiracy with Beijing
An ex-CIA officer pleaded guilty yesterday [Macau time] to conspiring with China to commit espionage after receiving a promise from his Chinese handlers that he would ... -
Canada plans farm loans, canola trade push amid China feud
Justin Trudeau’s government is expanding a loan program for farmers and launching a trade mission to Japan and South Korea as Canadian canola exports get caught ... -
Facing death, a former European shipbuilding hub turns to China
Its portholes without glass and covered in rust and seagull guano, the Santiago I tanker sits moored in the Adriatic Sea abandoned by striking shipyard workers ... -
Widow, daughter of Korean Air chairman appear at trial
The widow and daughter of Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho appeared in a South Korean court yesterday over charges they unlawfully hired housekeepers from the Philippines. ... -
Australia | Jury convicts man in Etihad flight bomb plot
An Australian jury on Wednesday convicted a man of plotting to blow up an Etihad Airways airliner on a flight from Sydney to the United Arab ... -
Wikileaks | Assange refuses extradition to US; long legal fight expected
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court yesterday that he wouldn’t agree to be extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring ... -
Cyprus | Justice minister resigns over serial killer case
The justice minister in Cyprus resigned yesterday amid mounting criticism that police bungled their investigations when some of the seven foreign women and girls slain by ... -
Offbeat | Squirrel initially scares, then snuggles with subway riders
A surprise passenger hitched a ride on a Boston commuter trolley, frightening some people at first, but warming their hearts when it willingly snuggled in a ... -
This Day in History | 1968 – Surgeons conduct UK’s first heart transplant
Britain’s first heart transplant was successfully carried out today by a team of 18 doctors and nurses at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. The ... -
Football | Messi hits 600 goals with a brace, Barca beats Liverpool
BARCELONA 3, LIVERPOOL 0 Facing its toughest opponent of the season, Barcelona once again turned to Lionel Messi to move the team within one step of ... -
World briefs
CHINA A group of at least six foreigners who have been punished by a court in southern China for their alleged involvement in an international methamphetamine operation includes ... -
The buzz | Carrie Lam tells Japanese minister to engage in HK’s public works projects
Chief Executive Carrie Lam met Japan’s Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport & Tourism Keiichi Ishii at Government House yesterday. According to HK’s information bureau, Lam welcomed Ishii’s visit to the ... -
Leonardo drawing, portrait marks 500 years since his death
A drawing of a bearded, pensive-looking man owned by Queen Elizabeth II is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a royal art adviser said yesterday on ... -
Bizcuits | Dignified Selfies
As part of his state visit to China, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has come to Macau and, with a lingering ... -
A strong Efron, but little else new in Bundy biopic
When Ted Bundy died in the electric chair 30 years ago in Florida, a witness to the execution — a prosecutor in the case of a ... -
Eight shades of Leonardo
* Movies: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile * Books: Cape May by Chip Cheek * Music: Stay Around by J.J. Cale * Science: Black holes ... -
‘Cape May’ novel is full of drink and lust to a fault
It is early fall of 1957 when the young newlyweds arrive at Cape May for their honeymoon. This is the offseason, and the New Jersey beach ... -
J.J. Cale’s posthumous album is vital and inviting
J.J. Cale’s “Stay Around” is a posthumous collection of 15 previously unreleased tracks that is as authentic as any of the original and compilation albums he’s ... -
News of the World | Eight things you may not know about Leonardo da Vinci
Studies of hands for the Adoration of the Magi, by Leonardo da Vinci , as seen under ultraviolet light This year marks the 500th anniversary of ... -
Science | Seeing is believing: Black holes are cosmic prisons
Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of last month’s first image of the shadowy ... -
Friday, May 3, 2019 – edition no. 3282
* US regulators | Record $35m Wynn fine a deterrent * Marcelo tours the city in 24h | Macau at heart of Sino-Portuguese relations * Gaming ... -
Indonesia | Authorities jail Polish tourist who met Papuan activists
A Polish tourist sentenced yesterday to five years in prison in Indonesia for treason after meeting with Papuan independence supporters said that he was the victim of ... -
Editorial | Senhor Presidente
Paulo Coutinho In an interview published in these pages, lawyer Paulo Cardinal summons up the sentiment of many of us in Macau that Portugal has been ... -
Leong withdraws candidacy for Chief Executive
The Economy and Finance Secretary Lionel Leong has confirmed that he is no longer planning to run for the post of Macau Chief Executive (CE). Leong ... -
Portuguese President tours Macau today
The President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, arrived yesterday in the Macau Special Administrative Region. His agenda for today is very full, as ... -
Tourism authority buckles up for May 1 holiday
Due to the expected influx of 600,000 tourists during the Labor Day holiday period, as anticipated by the Public Security Police Force (PSP), the Macao Government ... -
Court reexamines Scott Chiang case conclusions
Democracy activist Scott Chiang was back at Macau’s Court of First Instance yesterday, repeating proceedings from last year that were found by Macau’s second court to ... -
Victims of taxi accident ‘severely injured’
Two of the three pedestrians hit by a taxi that allegedly did not give way at a pedestrian crossing were reported as severely injured and are ...
