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Growth of Angola’s economy expected to contract to 3.9 pct
The rate of growth of Angola’s economy is expected to decelerate to 3.9 percent in 2014 after posting growth of 6.8 percent in 2013, with the ... -
Portugal puts 31.5 pct of national postal company up for sale
The Portuguese government plans to sell the 31.5 percent stake that the state still holds in Portuguese postal company CTT – Correios de Portugal, state shareholdings ... -
Apple reviewing claims of new labor violations in China
Apple, which is planning to unveil new iPhones in less than a week, is dispatching a team to investigate claims of unsafe labor practices at a ... -
Macau casino bulls seen capitulating after stocks tumble
Macau casino analysts are a persistent bunch. After shares of Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. and five listed peers tumbled an average 27 percent in the past ... -
Corporate Bits | HK diva Liza Wang performs at the Venetian
Hong Kong diva Liza Wang graced The Venetian Theatre with her first-ever Macau concert, Forever Love of Liza Wang Saturday, treating audiences to a night of ... -
HONG KONG | UK accepting chief executive election limits ‘insult,’ Chan says
Ting Shi and Jasmine Wang The U.K. government’s acceptance of China’s plan for limiting free elections in its former colony of Hong Kong is a “great ... -
Alibaba seeks to raise up to USD24.3b in IPO record
China’s Alibaba Group is seeking to raise up to USD24.3 billion in its upcoming IPO — an amount that would be the most raised by a company ... -
Xi delays Pakistan trip over rally
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Saturday that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to the country has been postponed over the mass anti-government demonstrations shaking its capital, ... -
BRIEFS | Authorities kill nearly 5,000 dogs to control rabies
Chinese authorities killed almost 5,000 dogs in one city after blaming five human deaths on rabies, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. The city of Baoshan in ... -
NORTH KOREA | Detained American gets trial date
Detained American Matthew Miller will be tried next Sunday, North Korean state media said, less than a week after the detainee made a rare foreign media ... -
NORTH KOREA | Foreign scientists seek volcano secrets
More than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing ... -
MALAYSIA | Gov’t to send team to Ukraine jet crash site
Malaysia aims to send a search team to the crash site in Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before winter sets in to gather physical evidence to prove ... -
INDIA | Monsoon floods kill nearly 300 in Kashmir
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in large swaths of northern India and Pakistan, officials said yesterday. Five ... -
UKRAINE | Rebel shelling claims lives, sets houses ablaze
Clashes broke out yesterday outside the main rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, throwing the freshly forged cease-fire agreement between government troops and Russian-backed separatists into further ... -
USA | Obama defends decision to delay immigration action
President Barack Obama says that the surge of immigrant children entering the U.S. illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off ... -
UK | London offers Scotland more autonomy ahead of vote
The British government plans to offer Scotland more financial autonomy in the coming days as polls predict a very close vote in the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence. ... -
This Day in History: 1986 – Pinochet survives rebel ambush
The president of Chile has escaped an attempt on his life in a fierce attack which killed five of his bodyguards and wounded 11 more. General ... -
Offbeat | Maine lobstermen catch 2 albino lobsters in week
It’s no white lie: Two lobstermen in Maine caught a pair of rare albino lobsters within a week. The Portland Press Herald reports that Bret Philbrick ... -
BOXING | Pacquiao has Algieri next, but Floyd is out there
Even as Manny Pacquiao prepares for undefeated junior welterweight champion Chris Algieri, the name Floyd Mayweather is never far away. Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight ... -
High expectations at the Macau Bats Junior Rugby Club
The Macau junior rugby season is set to kick off this coming weekend. According to a press release issued by the Macau Bats Rugby Club, there ... -
BRIEFS | TENNIS: Japanese fans rejoice in Nishikori’s US Open win
Japanese fans celebrated Kei Nishikori’s stunning win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic at the U.S. Open, staying up to the wee hours of yesterday morning to catch ... -
Hillary Clinton: US should lead on clean energy
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week that the U.S. should become what she called the world’s 21st-century clean energy superpower, during remarks ... -
ASK THE VET | Most Common Older Cat Problems
I currently see a lot of older cats in Macau with a lot of similar problems. If we can identify these problems earlier we can start ... -
Whisky’s worries mirror economic fears in Scotland
Carl Reavey plunged his nose into the glass, inhaled the amber liquid’s scent, then sipped. Slowly. It’s said that Scotch tastes of the place where it ... -
Monday, September 8, 2014 – editon no. 2146
* 21 local food producers used Taiwan gutter oil * La Casa del Habano opens eyeing Cuban cigar aficionados * Hong Kong skilled laborers in Macau ... -
The Buzz: Nespresso settles with French regulator on knockoff capsules
Nestle SA, the owner of Europe’s largest single-serve coffee brand, reached a final agreement with France’s competition regulator to lift obstacles to makers of knockoff capsules ... -
TAIWAN | Niu says Chinese civil war film changed his life
Niu Chen-zer has fulfilled a longtime dream to make a film paralleling his father’s journey as a soldier who left China for Taiwan during the civil ... -
World briefs
CHINA An Apple supplier in China is violating safety and pay rules despite the computer giant’s promises to improve conditions, two activist groups said yesterday, ahead ... -
Local delegation enters final stage of Asian Games preparation
Macau’s delegation will soon depart for Incheon, in South Korea, as the 2014 Asian Games kick off on September 19. Over 100 athletes will be joining ... -
New Era bus hits Border Gate pillar, 12 injured
A New Era bus hit a concrete pillar inside the Border Gate underground bus terminal yesterday at around 6 p.m., which resulted in 12 people, including ... -
Briefs: CCAC unveils corruption case
The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has accused the president of a building management association of falsifying documents in a corruption case that also involves a supply ... -
UM old campus to be used for evening classes
UM’s Dean of students, Mr Peter Yu, has told TDM that the University of Macau’s old campus in Taipa will be used for evening classes and ... -
Images captured by flying drones trigger complaint at GPDP
The Office for Personal Data Protection (GPDP) and the Public Security Police Force (CPSP) have received a complaint over an alleged violation of data protection, involving ... -
Former NY Mayor returns to lead Bloomberg
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is returning to lead the financial data and news company he founded in 1981 but left to serve three terms in City Hall. The ... -
Trainmakers CNR, CSR suspend shares following merger report
China’s two biggest train manufacturers CSR Corp. and China CNR Corp. halted their shares from trading after Caixin magazine reported that the Chinese government wants to ...
