Yearly Archives: 2019
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Thailand | Court accepts dissolution case over princess nomination
A Thai court said yesterday that it will take up the case of whether to dissolve a political party that nominated a member of the royal family ... -
Iraq | In heart of Baghdad, IS war museum honors fallen militiamen
A few steps from Baghdad’s cultural heart and its famous book market on al-Mutanabi Street lies the Iraqi capital’s latest tourist attraction: a war museum glorifying the ... -
Poland | Pompeo says ‘confronting Iran’ key to Mideast peace
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday at a security conference in Warsaw that Iran is the top threat in the Middle East and confronting ... -
This Day in History | 1983: Hundreds die in Assam poll violence
Hundreds of people have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to the election. Villages have been set on fire and bridges and ... -
Offbeat | A very prompt Marc Jacobs welcomes back a ‘90s supermodel
Marc Jacobs didn’t waste a second before starting his runway show yesterday [Macau time]. Literally. The designer, whose high-profile show traditionally closes out Fashion Week, was ... -
Football | Champions League: Son becoming indispensable for Spurs, inspiring Dortmund win
Son Heung-min has every reason to be constantly smiling, and Tottenham has many reasons to be thankful. For a footballer so understated, so seemingly undemanding, the ... -
Sailing | High-tech SailGP series hits the water on Sydney Harbour
Boats skippered by Australian Olympic gold medalists Nathan Outteridge and Tom Slingsby are among the favorites in the inaugural SailGP races starting on Sydney Harbour today. ... -
The Buzz | British IS schoolgirl ‘Wants to return home’ – report
One of three schoolgirls who left east London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group says she has no regrets, but wants to return to ... -
Papua New Guinea on hunt for 275 cars missing after APEC
A Papua New Guinea police superintendent yesterday was hot on the trail of one of the many high-end cars he’s trying to recover after an international summit. ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES The head of a Philippine online news site who was arrested by government agents in a libel case accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration yesterday of acting ... -
Kapok | There can be only one
Elections are in the air — it has become palpable. Just a few days ago, Judge Song Man Lei was for the second time appointed as ... -
Friday, February 15, 2019 – edition no. 3229
* Environment | Hac Sa Beach affected by red tide * Caritas head says some pedestrians disrespect elderly traffic assistants * IPIM expands service counters * ... -
Smoke on the water
• At the world’s largest pilgrimage in Prayagraj in northern India, tens of millions of Hindu faithful travel to the sacred sangam – the confluence of ... -
‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ a gloriously gory art-world satire
The art installation, so often a playground in the contemporary art museum, is in Dan Gilroy’s gloriously gory satire “Velvet Buzzsaw” a terror chamber. Interactivity is ... -
‘Killer Collective’ is another page turner from Barry Eisler
At first blush, Barry Eisler’s new thriller resembles one of those cartoonish action movies in which a handful of retired covert operators who don’t trust each ... -
Beck, Patti Smith, Unkle inspired by ‘Roma’
Beck, Patti Smith, Unkle, DJ Shadow and Billie Eilish are part of a large and diverse group performing songs inspired by Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” resulting in ... -
News of the World | Naked pot-smoking sect grows at Indian Hindu fest
The Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, is a series of baths by Hindu sadhus and sadhvis, holy men and women, and other pilgrims who believe the ... -
The Oriental Republic
Covering some 176,000sqkm and with a total population of just under 3.5 million, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay is the 2nd smallest in area and ... -
Technology | Drivers, connect your Wi-Fi! iRacing a hit in NASCAR
Ray Alfalla got hooked on NASCAR in the late 1990s after his family left Cuba and settled in the Miami area. He’s the type of die-hard ... -
Greyhound adoptions set to complete by end-March
The process that aims to provide a solution for all the greyhounds from the former Macau Canidrome, will likely conclude by the end of next month, ... -
Education | UM appoints two new vice rectors
The University of Macau (UM) has appointed Ge Wei, an expert in reproductive biology, as its vice rector for Research, and the historian Billy So as ... -
Electoral Commission head commits to open election
The Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission for the Chief Executive (CE) Election, Song Man Lei, has pledged that the fifth CE election will be “open, ... -
Melco announces additional rest day for non-management staff
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has announced that effective from July 1, all non-management operational employees whose mandatory rest day falls on a statutory holiday will be ... -
HK’s pro-democracy lawmakers fear proposed update on extradition law
HONG Kong’s Security Bureau has proposed to allow extraditions to Macau, Taiwan and mainland China on a case-by-case basis, following a high-profile murder in Taiwan. Hongkonger ... -
Legislative Assembly | Ho Iat Seng ‘prudently considers’ CE candidacy
The president of the Legislative Assembly (AL), Ho Iat Seng, acknowledged yesterday to be “actively considering” his candidacy to be the next Chief Executive when the ... -
Briefs | Illegal football betting trial commences
The trial involving a group of 15 people, including Malaysian businessman Paul Phua, known for his connections to the gambling underworld, commenced earlier this week following ... -
Approvals of residential and commercial loans increase
Approvals of of both residential mortgage loans (RMLs) and commercial real estate loans (CRELs) in Macau rose in December 2018, the Monetary Authority of Macao revealed ... -
Dancing Water show suspended for refurbishment
Melco Resorts and Entertainment has suspended performances of its long-running show The House of Dancing Water (HODW) until April 24 for refurbishment and facility upgrades, according ... -
Residential property price index up 8.5pct in 2018
The overall residential property price index of Macau rose by 8.5 percent year-on-year to 265.5 in 2018, a slowdown from the 11.6 percent growth seen in ... -
Indonesia | Instagram removes gay Muslim comics after warning
Instagram has removed an account that published comic strips depicting the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia following a frenzy of moral outrage online in the ... -
Lawyers leading defense of Nissan ex-chairman Ghosn resign
Motonari Ohtsuru, the lawyer heading the defense for Nissan Motor Co.’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, has resigned. Ohtsuru’s office and a statement submitted to the court ... -
Corporate Bits | Sands China organizes training trip to Shenzhen
Sands China Ltd. recently led a delegation to Shenzhen as part of the company’s professionalism training initiatives. The second “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Visit” was ... -
Tesla rushes Model 3s to China before trade war truce expires
At least three ships roughly the length of two football fields are slated to arrive at ports in China by the end of this month, each ... -
Sci-Fi writer sparks debate on slack in state economy
China’s most prestigious science fiction novelist revealed that a lot of his work was written during work hours at a state-owned power plant, sparking debate about ... -
Trade war | US, China envoys hold last talks before March 1 deadline
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are meeting this week for their final trade talks before President Donald Trump decides whether to escalate a dispute over technology with ...
