Daily Archives: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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Currencies | Questions over dollar peg will fade, says FX strategist
A foreign-exchange strategist has said that talk of Hong Kong abandoning its currency peg to the U.S. dollar missed the broader point: the economic rise of ... -
Agnes Lam urges clarity on LRT plan for bridge
Lawmaker Agnes Lam has inquired about the government’s plan to swap the lanes on the Sai Van Bridge underpass. Lam asks the government to provide more ... -
Memory Lane
Hac Sa Beach is the largest beach in Macau. Located at the south side of Coloane Island, Hac Sa bay faces southeast into the South China ... -
Grant Bowie confident local companies will resist recession
Following the warning that Macau’s economic recession will continue into the third quarter of 2019, MGM China is confident that local companies are better prepared than ... -
Gross gaming revenue headed for September rebound
Gross gaming revenue might be heading for a September rebound, market analysts suggested yesterday, on signs of a VIP recovery. The news comes as Macau’s Secretary ... -
Briefs | Ho departs for Beijing appointment
Chief Executive-elect, Ho Iat Seng, yesterday departed for Beijing where he will be officially appointed by national officials. The appointment will come in the form of ... -
Commission of Audit report | government spat escalates over ‘many failures’ of public recruitment
The response from Kou Peng Kuan, director of the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP), to a Commission of Audit (CA) report that highlighted mismanagement ... -
Sands China’s responsible gaming efforts continue to strengthen
Sands China Ltd. has been enhancing its Responsible Gaming efforts by further reaching out to the local community and making it a better place to live. ... -
Nearly 1,200 MGM employees honored in ceremony
Nearly 1,200 MGM employees graduated from the gaming operator’s talent development programs yesterday at MGM Cotai. The development programs are across three major categories. First, Local ... -
Personal data watchdog explains use of facial recognition
The Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) has issued a letter explaining its stance regarding the installation of facial recognition technology in some of Macau’s surveillance cameras. ... -
Macao Film Week held alongside GBA Film Trade Fair
The “2019 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Film Production Investment and Trade Fair” was officially opened yesterday at the Macau University of Science and Technology. The ... -
National Geographic opens Hengqin facility
National Geographic opened its first “National Geographic Ultimate Explorer” family entertainment facility in the southern China region in Hengqin’s Novotown on Monday. The facility aims to ... -
Hong Kong | Rail operator MTR denies fatality during protest chaos
Hong Kong’s subway operator denied that a fatality occurred when riot police stormed into a station in pursuit of pro-democracy protesters on one of the most ... -
Shenzhen | Smartphone maker heads for Shanghai
Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., whose mobile handsets outsell iPhone and Galaxy smartphones in Africa, is planning an initial public offering on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star Board to ... -
Hong Kong | In leaderless movement, officials don’t know who to negotiate with
As a top adviser to Hong Kong’s government, Bernard Chan is searching for any protester who can strike a deal to end more than three months ... -
Floating Adriatic port closer to easing Russian gas dominance
On a recent late-summer’s day, 24-meter-high pile drivers shook a rocky beach on the Croatian island of Krk with bone-jarring thumps. Where blue waters meet the ... -
Singapore | Economy shows some signs of hope as trade war drags on
It may not be all doom and gloom for Singapore’s economy. Recent data and anecdotal evidence suggest gross domestic product will probably grow in the third ... -
Alibaba’s Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company yesterday at a time ... -
A pork meme shows why officials worry about soaring prices
China’s pork prices are soaring so quickly that an internet meme has emerged suggesting the newest way to show off wealth: a necklace made of pork belly. Inflation ... -
Ambassador to South Africa attacks Trump over trade
Lin Songtian, China’s ambassador to South Africa, took out a half-page advertisement in a key local newspaper to attack the stance of the U.S. and President ... -
Accused Mar-a-Lago trespasser proclaims innocence; thanks US
A Chinese businesswoman defending herself on charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lied to Secret Service agents gave one of the ... -
North Korea fires two projectiles after offering talks with US
North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea yesterday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States ... -
Thailand | Cabinet minister denies drug conviction report
A Thai Cabinet deputy minister says an Australian newspaper report that he was imprisoned there for four years on a drug smuggling conviction was concocted by ... -
Hurricane survivors struggle to start new life in Bahamas
Thousands of hurricane survivors are filing off boats and planes in the capital of the Bahamas, facing the need to start new lives after Hurricane Dorian ... -
Irishman set to lead EU future trade talks with UK, US
The incoming president of the European Union’s powerful executive arm yesterday nominated Irishman Phil Hogan to lead future EU trade talks, which could put him in ... -
This Day in History | 2001 – US rocked by day of terror
The United States is in a state of shock after a day of attacks which have left thousands dead and New York’s World Trade Center destroyed. ... -
Offbeat | Sweden rejects TRUMP vanity license plate request
Swedish authorities say that a man has been denied a vanity plate with the letters TRUMP because it violated motor vehicle department rules, calling the letter ... -
Toronto Film Fest pays tribute to Streep, Phoenix
In a gala dinner held yesterday [Macau time] amid the Toronto International Film Festival’s unspooling premieres, the festival paid tribute to Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep, filmmaker ... -
Pyer Moss celebrates black culture with fashion and music
There was a huge choir that veered from stirring, soaring gospel, then spit verses from Cardi B and sang lines from Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.”; a spoken ... -
Nascar | Drivers left out of playoffs still fighting to achieve goals
Jimmie Johnson made one thing perfectly clear when he walked out of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s infield medical center. He might be out of the playoffs ... -
Formula 1 | Report: Schumacher treated in secrecy in Paris hospital
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has been admitted to a Paris hospital to be treated yesterday with cutting-edge stem-cell therapy, according to a French newspaper. ... -
The Buzz | Iranian female soccer fan dies after setting herself on fire
An Iranian female soccer fan has died after setting herself on fire outside a court after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for ... -
For 9/11 families, mixed views on Trump-Taliban talks
If President Donald Trump’s now-canceled plan for secret talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents on U.S. soil was stunning, the date chosen was perhaps even more so: ... -
World Briefs
CHINA Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company yesterday at a ... -
World Views | The rule of law finally prevails over US ‘watch list’
In an important constitutional decision, a federal district court in Virginia has held that the government must give people on the Terrorist Screening Database, better known as ...
