Yearly Archives: 2019
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Offbeat | Christina Aguilera to launch Las Vegas residency in May
Christina Aguilera is joining the growing number of musicians launching residencies in Las Vegas. The singer announced this week that “Christina Aguilera: The Xperience” will open ... -
Football | Man City’s title hopes dented, Solskjaer’s winning run ends
NEWCASTLE 2, MAN CITY 1 Rafa Benitez never won the Premier League in his six years with Liverpool but he has done his old team a ... -
Rugby | Top officials discuss new global competition
Rugby’s world governing body says “positive and productive” meetings have taken place between officials from the sport’s top nations regarding the introduction of a new global ... -
The Buzz | US urges China to release jailed human rights lawyer
The Trump administration is calling on China to immediately release a jailed human rights lawyer who was convicted of subverting state power. The State Department says ... -
Organized crime | Kate del Castillo glad to not testify in ‘El Chapo’ trial
Kate del Castillo said she’s relieved she wasn’t called to testify in the New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. But she ... -
Made In Macao | The DON’Ts for CNY
Jenny Lao-Phillips For many people, especially ladies, every weekend is shoe shopping time. But in the last week of the lunar year, there are even more ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES A grenade was thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines where Muslim teachers were sleeping early yesterday morning, killing two of them and injuring four, ... -
Thursday, January 31, 2019 – edition no. 3221
* New aviation services ‘here to stay’ • Company picks Macau for fixed base operation * Bangkok shuts hundreds of schools over air pollution concerns * ... -
Education | Private school regime considered unfair to school operators
The Second Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) members consider the regime of the System Framework for Private School of Non-tertiary Education unfair to schools ... -
Crime | PSP dismantles drug selling spot in Toi San
The Public Security Police Force (PSP) spokesperson told the media at a press conference this week that a selling point of the drug known as ‘ice’ ... -
Health Bureau notes difficulties inspecting illegal smoking in VIP rooms
A representative from the Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday that its smoke inspectors face difficulties when inspecting certain areas of the gaming venues, especially inside VIP rooms. ... -
Legislative Assembly | HKZMB connections and traffic issues take over AL session
The commencement into operation of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) in late October last year, which added traffic congestion pressure to an area already suffering from ... -
Gaming | Nevada regulators to fine Wynn Resorts over sex allegations
Nevada gambling regulators announced a settlement yesterday with casino mogul Steve Wynn’s former company over allegations that former executives failed on multiple occasions to investigate claims ... -
Xi Jinping to attend MSAR’s 20th anniversary
President Xi Jinping is set to visit Macau to mark the 20th anniversary of the SAR’s handover, Guangdong’s security chief revealed. A South China Morning Post ... -
Briefs | GBA railway network plan expected in 2019
The unveiling of a railway network plan for the Greater Bay Area (GBA) is expected to be introduced in the first half of this year, according ... -
Zhuhai property market is underestimated, real estate agent says
Zhuhai’s real estate market has been underestimated and there is no room for the city’s housing prices to go down, according to Roy Ho, director of ... -
Heavier penalties for phone use, no seat belt when driving
The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has proposed a public consultation on the amendment of the road traffic law. According to DSAT Director Lam Hin San, the amendment ... -
Music | OM to play Valentine’s Day concert
The Macao Orchestra (OM) will present the “Valentine’s Day Concert – Piano in Love” on February 16 at 8 p.m. at the Macau Cultural Centre Grand ... -
Corporate Bits | Sands holds carnival for children with special needs
Around 60 Sands Cares Ambassadors assisted children with special educational needs and their families at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo Sunday for an afternoon of fun activities ... -
China | Provinces slash growth goals as slowdown hits home
Chinese provinces are downgrading their targets for economic growth in 2019 as exports and consumption slow, pointing to a lower national goal likely to be agreed ... -
Gaming | US: Luxor Capital to own Atlantic City’s Ocean Resort Casino
A New York hedge fund that lent money to Atlantic City’s Ocean Resort Casino is assuming ownership of it. Luxor Capital Group was identified as the new ... -
East Timor | Non-oil economy expected to grow by 5 percent
The growth rate of East Timor’s non-oil economy is expected to be around 5.0 percent by 2019, after two years of political uncertainties that have negatively ... -
Angola wants to be self-sufficient in food products
The Angolan government wants the Program to Support National Production, Export Diversification and Import Substitution (Prodesi) to be the turning point for increasing domestic production and ... -
Trade War | US charges against Huawei could inflame China talks
The Trump administration’s unveiling of criminal charges against the Chinese tech giant Huawei has complicated high-level talks set to begin today in Washington that are intended ... -
Beijing to Washington: Stop ‘unreasonable crackdown’
China called on Washington yesterday to “stop the unreasonable crackdown” on Huawei after the U.S. escalated pressure on the tech giant by indicting it on charges ... -
Duke moves to reassure grad students after Chinese complaint
Duke University moved quickly yesterday [Macau time] to offer apologies, launch an investigation and reassure a core group of graduate scholars after a medical school administrator ... -
Canada’s foreign minister says why China envoy fired
Canada’s foreign minister said yesterday [Macau time] the country’s ambassador to China was fired because he expressed views that were contrary to the federal government’s position ... -
Pakistan | Top court upholds acquittal, frees Christian woman
Pakistan’s top court yesterday upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, clearing the last legal hurdle and freeing Aasia Bibi to ... -
Al-Araibi | Australian PM asks Thailand to free detained soccer player
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged Thailand to stop the extradition to Bahrain of a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia, his ... -
Malaysia | Mahathir suggests China-backed rail plan may be axed
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that proceeding with a multi-billion-dollar China-backed rail link project would “impoverish” the country, saddling the government with excess debt ... -
Exclusive | US Nobelist was told of gene-edited babies
Long before the claim of the world’s first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who objected ... -
USA | Trump hits Venezuela with oil sanctions to pressure Maduro
The Trump administration yesterday [Macau time] sanctioned Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, ratcheting up pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro to cede power to the U.S.-backed opposition ... -
Brexit | British Jews apply for German nationality as deal looms
Simon Wallfisch grew up in London as the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor, who had sworn to never return to the country that murdered her parents ... -
This Day in History | 1965 Last farewell to Churchill
Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Britain’s greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who was buried today after a full state funeral. Silent ... -
Offbeat | Michael Jackson family condemns new documentary on accusers
Michael Jackson’s family members said yesterday [Macau time] that they are “furious” that two men who accuse him of sexually abusing them as boys have received ...
