Monthly Archives: June 2019
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Gaming | Chicago will get a casino as part of Illinois gambling expansion
Illinois legislators approved a giant gambling-expansion bill that allows sports betting and as many as six new casinos, including one in Chicago, one of the world’s ... -
China’s plan to boost baby formula output hits foreign suppliers
A2 Milk Co. led stock market losses of USD875 million among infant-formula providers in Australia and New Zealand after China unveiled a plan to boost local ... -
MGM wins prestigious ‘Asia responsible entrepreneurship award’
MGM received the “Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award” (AREA) from Enterprise Asia, making it once more the only enterprise in Macau to have won this regional accolade, ... -
Sands China employees take the ‘clean plate challenge’ for fifth year
Sands China employees completed the Clean Plate Challenge between May 27 and 29, marking the fifth year in a row the company has held the sustainability ... -
Testimony | Tiananmen or when China shifted from solidarity to stability
The young woman lay on a mat in the concrete hallway of a Beijing hospital on June 4, 1989. She weakly held up an X-ray showing ... -
China issues US travel alert warning of official harassment
China issued a travel warning for the U.S. yesterday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment ... -
30 Years On | China handles Tiananmen anniversary with usual silence
Dissidents silenced. Security tightened. References scrubbed from the internet. China imposed an information lockdown yesterday on the 30th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters ... -
Pompeo vs Beijing: war of words
China responded pointedly to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s comments on the 30th anniversary of the Chinese army’s bloody suppression of student- led pro-democracy protests centered ... -
Philippines | US to launch new program to fight extremism
U.S. and Philippine officials yesterday were discussing a new program to thwart efforts by Muslim extremists to recruit and mobilize followers in the country’s south after ... -
India Officials looking to recover bodies on Himalayan mountain
Indian officials were working on a plan yesterday to retrieve five bodies believed to be mountaineers from a team of international climbers that went missing on ... -
North Korea | Kim’s sister back in public eye at mass games
The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a public event in Pyongyang for the first time in more than 50 days, ... -
Australia | Cardinal set to appeal child sex convictions
The most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse will ask an Australian appeals court today to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys ... -
Eid al-Fitr | Faithful Muslims around the world begin celebrating end of Ramadan
Muslims across the Middle East and beyond began marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, one of the most celebrated holidays for the world’s 1.5 billion ... -
Trump turns from pomp to business in UK visit
Moving from pageantry to policy during his state visit to Britain, President Donald Trump yesterday urged embattled Prime Minister Theresa May to “stick around” to complete ... -
Offbeat | David Lynch, Wes Studi among honorary Oscar recipients
The first Oscar winners of the season are already here. Groundbreaking filmmaker David Lynch, Cherokee-American actor Wes Studi director Lina Wertmüller and actress Geena Davis will ... -
This Day in History | 1989 – Election boost for Solidarity
Solidarity, Poland’s anti-communist party, looks set to claim a remarkable success in the country’s elections, with initial results suggesting it has done much better than predicted. ... -
Football | Nations League Ronaldo’s Portugal looks for another title
Thursday, 2:45am Portugal v Switzerland H 1.7, D 3.92, A 6 The inaugural UEFA’s Nations League reaches its conclusion this week with the competition’s Final Four ... -
UEFA plots 2022 World Cup qualifying path via Nations League
European teams will get a qualifying path to the 2022 World Cup via the Nations League competition. UEFA is preparing a qualifying format that should see ... -
The Buzz | Paulo Taipa appointed to Portugal’s National Electoral Commission
Former Macau Legislative Assembly adviser Paulo Taipa was appointed to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) in Portugal by the Portuguese government, the Times has learned. Taipa ... -
Chambois | South of D-Day beaches, another slaughter is remembered
In the spring that followed the terrible D-Day battle, the grass grew especially thick and green, fertilized by thousands of corpses that had been plowed into ... -
Animal Farm | 2019: Macao inflation will be lower!
The rate of inflation gives us a rough idea of the loss in our purchasing power. It is risky to trust these indicators too much as ... -
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 – edition no. 3304
* Lawrence Ho can see Japan from Australia * Memory of Tiananmen kept alive | Hundreds in Senado Square watched by police * Morpheus, MGM Cotai ... -
Pearl Horizon buyers given one month to buy public house
Starting from June 17, buyers of the former Pearl Horizon project can apply to purchase the government’s public housing units, according to a dispatch published yesterday ... -
Legislative Assembly | Sulu Sou proposes amendment to include trade union rights
Despite the failure of his colleagues to pass any of the 10 previously submitted trade union bills at the Legislative Assembly (AL), lawmaker Sulu Sou submitted ... -
Crime | Taxi drivers conspired to keep passenger’s money
Three taxi drivers have been brought to the prosecution authority, being accused of conspiring to retain possession of a passenger’s property, the Public Security Police Force ... -
Courts | Attack on lawyer is ‘attack on profession and rule of law’
The attack on lawyer Jorge Menezes on a Macau street on May 16, 2013, which resulted in him sustaining several injuries, was not just an attack ... -
Reflections from Macau | We don’t talk (enough) about Tiananmen
Today is the 30th anniversary of the violent crackdown that ended seven weeks of nation- wide protests calling for political reform. Remembered as the June Fourth ... -
Fun fair aims to raise environmental sustainability
Grand Coloane Resort held its first green fair on Sunday, featuring eco-friendly products and sustainable workshops for children. The “Boa Vida All Things Green Fun Fair,” ... -
Artworks by people with disabilities showcased at USJ
The “Step with Love, Leaps with Art – Asia Pacific Accessible Art Festival 2019” is featuring over 100 artworks in different styles from various cultures created ... -
Six killed in Guangdong landslide
Six people, who had been buried under a landslide in south China’s Guangdong Province early Sunday morning, have been confirmed dead, local authorities said. A landslide ... -
Hong Kong | Property just hit an all-time high
In the world’s most-expensive real estate market, the sky’s the limit. Property prices in Hong Kong have reached an all-time high after relentless gains over the ... -
Leicester City owners set to win renewal for Thai airport duty-free deal
The billionaire family that owns Leicester City soccer club is set to win renewal of airport retail contracts that helped build its fortune. Airports of Thailand ... -
Prosperity, repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen
Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China’s economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of ... -
‘Tank man’ photographer urges Beijing to open up on Tiananmen
The American photographer who shot the iconic image of a man standing in front of tanks at the 1989 Tiananmen protests says it’s time for the ... -
A look at key events in the 1989 protests
Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro- democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square became China’s greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution ...
