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How Malaysia Airlines can salvage its brand
Malaysia Airlines is in uncharted territory after the disappearance of Flight 370 in March with 239 people aboard was followed last week by the downing of ... -
Brazil and China sign agreements worth USD7.5 billion
Brazil and China have boosted their commercial partnership through credit lines worth USD7.5 billion for Brazilian mining company vale and the acquisition of 60 passenger aircraft ... -
East Timor oil fund grows
The Timor Leste (East Timor) Oil Fund at the end of the first quarter of the year totalled USD15.7 billion, according to a report on the ... -
China, Russia leaders seek South American inroads
It’s enough to make an aging U.S. Cold Warrior shudder. During overlapping visits to Latin America, the leaders of China and Russia have been welcomed with ... -
Mainland’s clout on show with BRICS bank formation
A developing nation version of the World Bank was formally agreed this week two years after India proposed the idea to Brazil, Russia, China and South ... -
RIMPAC | Beijing sends spy ship as vessels join largest US naval drill
China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off Hawaii just as the country participated for the first time in the world’s largest naval exercise that’s held ... -
Highway collision kills at least 43
The death toll from the southern China highway collision between a bus and a truck loaded with flammable liquid rose to 43 yesterday. The state-run Xinhua ... -
Strongest storm in decades in south China kills 18
The strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades has killed 18 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, the government and state media ... -
MH17 | Anti-Russia sentiment running deep in Malaysia
Many Malaysians are urging their government and world leaders to take a tough stance against Russia after pro-Russia rebels allegedly shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet, ... -
Monday, July 21, 2014 – editon no. 2111
* MH17 Tragedy | 196 bodies recovered in Ukraine airliner crash, world leaders corner Putin * Facebook vigilante group shames appalling taxi drivers * Prison suffers ... -
AUSTRALIA | AIDS conference honors victims of jet crash
An international AIDS conference opened in Australia yesterday with a tribute to several delegates who were killed en route to the gathering when their plane was ... -
MH17 | Without radar, missile may not have identified jet
If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian ... -
MH17 | ALMOST 200 | Recovered Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto refrigerated train ... -
US building case tying separatists to airliner crash
The United States began building a case linking pro-Russian separatists to the downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine as a somber President Barack Obama declared ... -
Prayers across Netherlands for victims
Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed yesterday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over ... -
This Day in History: 1969 Man takes first steps on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon’s surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at ... -
Offbeat | ‘Bonnie & Clyde’: US couple pilfers replica of baby dino from museum
Police are looking for a man and a woman caught on video stealing a baby dinosaur replica from a North Carolina museum. The theft at the ... -
BOXING | ‘Macau Kid’ defeats New Zealand Champion
Macau’s boxer Ng Kuok Kun defeated a New Zealand national champion by a close but unanimous decision in a six-round super welterweight bout at Saturday night’s ... -
Cotai Arena sees ‘Champions of Gold’ score 6 KO wins
For the fifth time, Macau’s Cotai Arena has thrilled a large crowd of spectators with a multi-bout boxing event. Last Saturday night’s “Champions of Gold” was ... -
PHOTO SHOP | Black tie Mayhem! White-collar boxing raises MOP300K for charity
Macau’s inaugural white-collar boxing fight-night took place at The Venetian Macao on Friday and raised over MOP300,000. Net proceeds from the charity dinner, which included silent ... -
Heavy rains, landslides hit southern China, at least 18 die
Heavy rains have killed at least 18 people in southern China and a state news agency said six more were missing yesterday after a landslide. Southern ... -
295 people feared dead | Both sides in Ukraine deny shooting down Malay plane
Peter Leonard & Mstyslav Chernov, Kiev Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down yesterday as it flew over the country, and both ... -
COOPERATION | Macau to jointly develop Cuiheng New District
The local government and the Zhongshan Municipal People’s Government have reached an agreement following consultation to set forth the Framework Agreement on Cooperation in Construction of ... -
Journalists’ Association says scholars persecuted for political reasons
The Macau Journalists’ Association has released a statement asking the universities, relevant government departments and the Chief Executive to give an explanation in regards to the ... -
Sistine Chapel Choir performs in Macau for the first time
The ‘Sistine Chapel Choir: Reverberating Heavenly Tunes in Greater China’ concert will be held on September 19 at 8 p.m. at Macau’s Cathedral. The concert is ... -
Soho Special
Those who tire of Soho, have tired of life itself; and if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. We are, of course ... -
Soho Special | New York City: If you can make it in Soho…
Elisa Mala, New York Special to Extra Times It’s the most famous saying about New York City: “If you can make it here, you can make ... -
SOHO Special | London: Buzz of energy and hunger for newness
Sylvia Hui, London Special to Extra Times They say those who tire of London, have tired of life itself: There is always such constant change and ... -
‘Boyhood’ – simple story, stunningly told
Early in “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater’s bracingly original, utterly enthralling new film about the passage of time through the lens of one boy’s life, we find our ... -
‘Days of Rage’ is fast-paced thriller
The world of Special Ops seems to be a new trend in publishing, but author Brad Taylor, a former Delta Force operative, knows how to unveil ... -
Jazz masters evoke joy, sadness on duet CD
There’s a sense of both joy and sadness to “Last Dance,” which surprisingly is the first album in pianist Keith Jarrett’s illustrious nearly 50-year career to ... -
Friday, July 18, 2014 – edition no. 2110
* Malay plane shot down over Ukraine-Russia border, 295 feared deal * Heavy rains, landslides hit China * Sistine Chapel Choir performs in Macau for the ... -
World briefs
USA A woman from China, Mo Yun, 42, awaiting trial in Iowa on charges she conspired to steal trade secrets from U.S. seed corn companies is ... -
THE BUZZ: Japanese vagina selfie artist vows legal battle against obscenity charges
A Japanese artist who made figures of Lady Gaga and a kayak modelled on her vagina said she was outraged by her arrest and vowed a ... -
Scientists name Puerto Rico water mite after JLo
Pop singer Jennifer Lopez may be thinking life is funny after a group of scientists named a water mite in her honor after discovering a new ...
