Daily Archives: Friday, September 13, 2019
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Briefs | Mainland woman arrested after assaulting police
Police have corroborated as genuine a video spreading on the Internet, in which an allegedly drunken woman was seen yelling at and fighting with police officers. ... -
Schools to face mandatory suspension under new rainstorm warning
Schools will be mandatorily suspended when the new Level 3 rainstorm warning is put into effect, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) explained yesterday, revealing ... -
Times Higher education | MUST makes world ranking debut, overtaking UM
The Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has made the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the first time. According to the guide, it ... -
Motorsports | Guia Circuit upgraded to Grade 2 classification this year
Macau’s Guia Circuit has been upgraded from the previous Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Grade 3 to Grade 2, as revealed yesterday during the press conference ... -
Alexis Tam leads tourism delegation to St. Petersburg
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam led a local delegation to the World Tourism Organization (WTO) in St. Petersburg this week to discuss issues ... -
Gov’t replies to Sulu Sou on social credit system
The Policy Research and Regional Development Bureau has reiterated the “one country, two systems” principle and the stipulation on the protection of fundamental rights and freedom ... -
Sands China honors employees at graduation ceremony
Sands China Ltd. held its Diversified Local Talent Graduation Ceremony for the Sands China Academy this week to celebrate the achievements of its local employees that participated in ... -
Airport conducts drill for landing accident
Macau International Airport conducted an emergency drill in the early hours of yesterday, simulating an accident in which an aircraft veered off the runway and crashed ... -
Portugal-China ties best ever, says ambassador
Portugal’s relationship with China is the best it has ever been, according to an article penned by the Chinese ambassador to Portugal in the China Daily ... -
Belting out protest song is latest act of HK movement
Thousands of Hong Kong people belted out a new protest song in karaoke-style at shopping malls in the latest act of resistance that highlighted the creativity ... -
Hurdles mount for Hong Kong Exchange’s $36.6 billion London bid
The Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. plan to take over London Stock Exchange Group Plc is running into multiple obstacles less than 24 hours after ... -
Filipinos dropping out of the workforce benefit economy
Low unemployment in the Philippines may be masking the fact that more people are opting not to work – and preferring to stay in school for ... -
China video app seeks funds at $25 billion value before US IPO
Chinese startup Kuaishou is considering to go public in the U.S. to bankroll its expansion in short videos and fend off competition from TikTok owner ByteDance ... -
Corporate Bits | Social media users win getaway at Conrad’s Presidential Suite
Facebook fan of Conrad Macao, Cotai Central, Wing Chan from Hong Kong, and Instagram fan Fernando Alberto Xavier Pereira from Macau, have each won a getaway ... -
Taiwan’s president rises from the ashes with a hand from Hong Kong unrest
Heading into 2019, Tsai Ing- wen looked at risk of becoming Taiwan’s first one-term president. Then came the unrest in Hong Kong. Tsai had clawed back ... -
Truce | China buyers asking about US soy, pork before trade talks
Chinese importers are asking U.S. suppliers for prices of soybeans, pork and other farm goods, the Commerce Ministry said yesterday, in a possible goodwill gesture ahead ... -
Chinese businesswoman guilty in Mar-a-Lago trespassing case
Yujing Zhang’s desire to meet President Donald Trump and his family turned the Chinese businesswoman into an American felon. A 10-woman, two-man federal jury convicted Zhang ... -
Cambodia, Laos, agree to step up border demarcation effort
The leaders of Cambodia and Laos agreed yesterday to step up efforts to complete demarcation of their border, where disputes have led to armed confrontations in ... -
Kashmir | Indian soldiers injured in boat incident with Chinese army
Chinese and Indian army boats collided on a lake in an area of Kashmir claimed by both countries, injuring some Indian soldiers, but the incident has ... -
Australia | Canberra presses Iran to release three citizens from prison
Australia’s foreign minister said yesterday her government is pressing Iran to free three Australian citizens from a Tehran prison and she did not believe their arrests ... -
Afghanistan | Taliban want US deal, but some in bigger hurry than others
Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders agreed they wanted a deal with the United States, but some were in more of a hurry than others. Taliban negotiators were at ... -
Offbeat | Court cuts jury award, warns Steinbeck kin to end litigation
A federal appeals court attempted to close the book on endless litigation between the relatives of author John Steinbeck (pictured) in a ruling that upheld a ... -
This Day in History | 1993 – Rabin and Arafat shake on peace deal
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, have shaken hands before cheering crowds on the White House lawn in Washington. ... -
A Biblical Valley
• The Israeli Prime Minister’s last-minute vow to annex the Jordan Valley if re-elected next week has sparked discontent of biblical proportions in the Arab world ... -
Jennifer Lopez steals the show in ‘Hustlers’
Hustlers saves all of its tricks for the end. It’s a banger of an ending, too, which is something that so few films manage to nail. ... -
Clive Cussler fans will savor ‘The Titanic Secret’
The investigation of an explosion in a mine propels Isaac Bell into a conspiracy with ties to the doomed ocean liner in “The Titanic Secret,” the ... -
Charli XCX, pop’s avant-garde princess, returns
Charli XCX could easily have turned in a safe, hit-heavy pop-dance album this year. But where’s the fun in that? If Jack White is the mad ... -
News of the World | A look at the Jordan Valley Netanyahu has vowed to annex
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last-minute vow to annex the Jordan Valley if re-elected next week has sparked Arab condemnation and injected the Palestinians into a ... -
F&B | No-spray zone divide French farmers from anxious neighbors
When tractors laden with pesticides and other chemicals start spraying the vineyards that produce fruity Bordeaux wines, Marie-Lys Bibeyran’s phone starts to ring. “People call ... -
Life & Style | Michael Kors pays tribute to American style on 9/11
There were no flag outfits, but Michael Kors’ show for New York Fashion Week was very much a patriotic tribute as he saluted American fashion with ... -
Rugby | Wallabies embracing adversity for World Cup campaign
Adversity isn’t necessarily a bad thing for the Wallabies leading into a Rugby World Cup. Firing fullback Israel Folau sent Rugby Australia into turmoil at the ... -
Football | Clubs to get 1/4 of income from Champions League prize money
The 32 clubs kicking off the Champions League next week will rely on UEFA prize money for one quarter of their total revenue this season. UEFA ... -
World briefs
China-US Chinese importers are asking U.S. suppliers for prices of soybeans, pork and other farm goods, the Commerce Ministry said yesterday, in a possible goodwill gesture ... -
The Buzz | European Central Bank deploys new stimulus to help economy
The European Central Bank delivered a new blast of monetary stimulus yesterday to help the shaky economy in the face of uncertainties like the U.S.-China trade ... -
House committee approves guidelines for Trump impeachment hearings
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says there’s no confusion about what his committee is doing: It’s an impeachment investigation, no matter how you want to phrase ...
