Daily Archives: Friday, August 7, 2020
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More surveillance cameras underway, gradual border opening in discussion
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak has given an update on the increase in the number of CCTV surveillance cameras and on developments toward the resumption ... -
Briefs | Special transport arrangements at various locations
Services to the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) bus stop will be temporarily suspended, starting from Saturday. As a result, seven bus routes will be diverted ... -
Triad boss arrested in Cambodia, reports HK media
Local businessman and alleged head of the triad organization known as “Water Room,” Lai Tong Sang, has been reportedly arrested by Cambodian law-enforcement agencies, according ... -
Standing Committee wants oversight on public department rentals
The Executive branch should task a specific department with the supervision and handling of public properties, a Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly has proposed. The ... -
Greater Bay | Shenzhen emerges as engine of China’s tech frontier
In the northern suburbs of tech city Shenzhen, a forest of tower cranes stand at the site of a cow farm that is being transformed into ... -
Covid-19 vaccine trials begin in Jiangsu province
Staff Reporter Human clinical trials of BioNTech and Fosun Pharma’s Covid-19 vaccine have begun in China’s Jiangsu province. As of August 5, some 72 participants have ... -
Measures on entrants from HK further tightened
Starting from 6 a.m. today, people who are entering Macau from Hong Kong or have been to Hong Kong in the preceding 14 days, will be ... -
Top model sees potential in Macau for Russian tourists
Living in Macau for the past 10 years, Mila Just is a well-known face among the modeling, entertainment, and promotion scenes. Less known is that Mila, ... -
China sentences third Canadian to death on drug charges
China has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries. The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate ... -
2003 Bali bomber smiles at guilty verdict
A court in Indonesia has convicted and sentenced to death a 41-year-old mechanic for his part in the bombing of two nightclubs in the island resort ... -
North Korea’s escalating virus response raises fear of outbreak
North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the ... -
Lebanon | Officials probe blast amid rising anger, calls for change
Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s ... -
Li Ka-shing’s group profit drops as pandemic slams business
CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.’s profit fell as the Hong Kong conglomerate founded by the city’s richest tycoon Li Ka-shing saw its retail, ports and real estate ... -
Pompeo urges cutting ties with Chinese tech companies
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged American companies to bar Chinese applications from their app stores, signaling that U.S. efforts to banish Chinese technology from U.S. ... -
Macau Racing Tips | The Bristol Class 3&4 1510 Metres (Sand) 2020-08-09 | Sun | 16:00
New Zealand gelding Pearl Lucky (pictured) by Red Giant out from Crystal Hill should follow through his upward racing curve come this Sunday. Trainer K. H. ... -
Police: Three teens inadvertently jump wall into Mar-a-Lago
Three teenagers fleeing police while carrying a semiautomatic gun in a backpack jumped a wall at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, but probably didn’t know that’s ... -
World Views | Hezbollah will not escape blame for beirut
As if the Lebanese haven’t suffered enough. For months, they have been caught between an economic meltdown, crumbling public services and a surging pandemic. Now they must ... -
Friday, August 7, 2020 – edition no. 3593
* From Russia with money — Former model Mila Just sees a lot of potential in Macau for Russian tourists * Escalating virus response raises fear ...
