Daily Archives: Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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Wang Sai Man inaugurated, takes his seat as lawmaker
Wang Sai Man, the winner of the Legislative Assembly (AL) indirect constituency’s by-election has been inaugurated as a lawmaker, taking his seat at the AL for ... -
Briefs | Three complaints so far on new plastic bag charge
The Consumer Council has received three complaints regarding the plastic shopping bag charge since the new law came into effect on November 18. A Green Future ... -
Members of Chinese press report receiving threats ahead of Xi’s visit
The Macau Portuguese and English Press Association (AIPIM) has said that the organization has not received any reports of threats from its community, contrary to what ... -
Legislative Assembly | Macau’s 20-year review dominates lawmaker discourse
The topic of the 20th anniversary of Macau’s handover accounted for half of yesterday’s interventions from lawmakers at the Legislative Assembly (AL) during the period before ... -
Crime | Two get lucky in retrieval of lost phones
The Public Security Police Force (PSP) has retrieved and returned two lost phones to their owners. Last Friday, at 1:45 a.m., a woman reported her lost ... -
Zhuhai police confirms arrest of man on HKZMB
The man who reportedly went missing on the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge (HKZMB) while on his way to Macau has been arrested for cartel crime, the Zhuhai ... -
Baidu: still a while before self-driving cars operate on roads
Search engine giant Baidu has said that it will be a while before autonomous vehicles finally get working on the roads. Last year, the Chinese firm ... -
LRT service suspended during Xi Jinping visit
The operator of the Light Rapid Transit has said that the newly-opened service will be suspended during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Macau, starting ... -
Fitch warns credit rating depends on political, economic autonomy
Fitch Ratings yesterday affirmed the Macau SAR’s credit ratings (long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings) at “AA”, however it warned that they might not ... -
MUST rector Liu Liang | Chinese medicine was the first in medical history
The Rector of the Macau University of Science and Technology has called for traditional Chinese medicine to more closely align with modern science, adding that being ... -
Markets | Hong Kong dollar’s longest rally in five years is burning shorts
Hong Kong dollar bears are abandoning bets the currency will weaken, squeezed by the longest streak of gains in more than five years. The local dollar ... -
Xi Jinping says Hong Kong faced ‘grimmest’ challenge in 2019
President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong this year faced its “grimmest and most complicated” situation since returning to Chinese rule, urging the city to come back ... -
Hong Kong | Ad campaign touts protest-stricken city’s freedoms
Hong Kong authorities have taken out an advertisement overseas for the second time in three months, aiming to reassure the world that the Asian financial hub ... -
Aviation | Boeing considers halting production of 737 Max
Boeing Co. dropped the most in nearly two months on news that the company is weighing a temporary production halt for the grounded 737 Max. With ... -
Cantopop band The Wynners returns to The Venetian Macao
Popular Cantopop The Wynners will return to the Cotai Arena at The Venetian Macao on February 1, 2020, to perform “Suncity Group Presents: The Wynners Chinese ... -
St. Regis Macao launches new family traditions program
The St. Regis Macao, Cotai Central is delighted to launch the next evolution in the St. Regis Family Traditions Program featuring a ‘Chá Gordo Macanese Afternoon ... -
Xinjiang | Chinese TV pulls Arsenal game coverage after Ozil criticism
Chinese television pulled coverage of Arsenal’s Premier League match against Manchester City on Sunday after Mesut Ozil, a forward for the London club, criticized Beijing’s brutal ... -
Trade War | Trump deal buys Xi time before next US-China battle
For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the phase-one trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t exactly a reason to pop open the champagne. After months of ... -
First group of Chinese immersion students enter high school
Tamblyn Lonergan remembers crying at the kitchen table when she was in fourth grade as she told her parents how difficult it was to learn Chinese. ... -
India | Opposition building against citizenship law
Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India’s capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the ... -
Japan | Former official sentenced for killing reclusive son
A Tokyo court sentenced a former senior government official to six years in prison yesterday for fatally stabbing his socially reclusive son with a kitchen knife. ... -
UK | PM Johnson to welcome new lawmakers, get Brexit rolling
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ready to give a pep talk yesterday to a new group of Conservative Party lawmakers as he begins his push ... -
Germany | Merkel mulls how to attract skilled labor from outside EU
Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting top German business and union officials early today [Macau time] to discuss how to attract skilled workers from outside the European ... -
France | Transport workers enter new week of strikes over pension changes
French transport strikes against a planned overhaul of the pension system entered their twelfth day yesterday as French president Emmanuel Macron’s government remains determined to push ... -
Offbeat | Wandering camel, cow, donkey to be featured in live Nativity
A camel, cow and donkey that were found roaming together along a Kansas road have been booked to appear in a Christmas Nativity scene. The trio ... -
This Day in History | 1968 – Mary Bell found guilty of double killing
An 11-year-old girl has been sentenced to life in detention after being found guilty at Newcastle Assizes of the manslaughter of two small boys. Mary Bell ... -
In reversal, Hallmark will reinstate same-sex marriage ads
The Hallmark Channel, reversing what it called a “wrong decision,” said it will reinstate commercials featuring same-sex couples that it had pulled following a complaint from ... -
Football | Ronaldo scores 2 as Juventus beats Udinese in Serie A
JUVENTUS 3, UDINESE 1 Cristiano Ronaldo is back to his imperious best. The Juventus forward scored twice over the weekend to help the Bianconeri to a ... -
Boxing | Fury changes trainers ahead of Wilder rematch; Crawford unbeaten
Tyson Fury has changed trainers two months before his likely heavyweight rematch with WBC champion Deontay Wilder. Fury split with Ben Davison after two years and ... -
World briefs
CHINA’s government said Arsenal forward Mesut Ozil was “blinded and misled” when he criticized Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang. The government said Ozil was ... -
The Buzz | Putin hails Russian arms sales abroad
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that arms sales abroad have continued to increase over the past year. Speaking yesterday at a meeting with top officials, Putin ... -
WWII allies, ex-enemy Germany mark 75th Battle of the Bulge
Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked yesterday the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II ... -
Macau Matters | River Trash Collection
One of the things I love about the World Wide Web is how you can serendipitously find interesting information and technologies. I especially like finding things ... -
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 – edition no. 3438
* Lawmakers review 20 years of autonomy * Checkpoints enforced on mega bridge, Zhuhai confirms arrest * Fitch has reaffirmed the SAR’s credit ratings but ...
