Trump or Biden? Big turnout, few hiccups as voters choose

Millions of voters braved coronavirus concerns and occasional long lines today (Tuesday, U.S. time) to choose between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden in an epic election that

New Russian infections soar; UK, Germany widen testing

Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. announced plans  Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections

China stops Jack Ma’s $35 billion Ant IPO from going ahead

China halted Ant Group Co.’s $35 billion share sale, shocking investors who’d lined up for a piece of what was expected to be the world’s biggest initial public offering. Authorities

Nation by nation, the world watches US Election Day

For four years, the world's nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn't. Longtime alliances have been strained, agreements wiped away, tariffs

Sean Connery, the ‘original’ James Bond, dies at 90

Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in

Asia Today: Virus arrives in once-clear Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands has reported its first cases of the coronavirus after two people who flew from Hawaii to a U.S. military base tested positive. The small Pacific nation had been

Asia Today: S.Korea reports 110 cases, half in Busan hospital

South Korea has reported 110 new cases of the coronavirus, half of them linked to a hospital in Busan. The numbers released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on

Police raided Hong Kong media tycoon’s private offices, executive says

Media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai said Hong Kong police raided one of his private offices, months after he was arrested under a new national security law and the

Weather bureau to lower signal to T3 at 7pm

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) will lower the current typhoon Signal No. 8 to Signal No. 3 at 7 p.m. tonight, after nearly 12 hours of hoisting the higher

Acting CE sees Nangka as ‘real test’ for Civil Protection Structure

Acting Chief Executive André Cheong said today that this typhoon is the “real test” for the Civil Protection Structure. This issuance of Typhoon Signal No. 8 is the first after the

Typhoon Signal No. 3 to be hoisted only ‘in the evening’

The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) will only

Typhoon signal No. 8 to be hoisted at 7:30am

Typhoon signal no.3 was hoisted at 8 p.m. Monday. According to the weather bureau, the tropical storm Nangka located in the northern part of the South China Sea is moving west-northwest

Court: Jackson Chang convicted of leaking information, but not bribery

The former president of the Macau Investment Trade Promotion Institute (IPIM) has not been convicted of bribery but was found guilty of leaking confidential information to third parties. The court

The upside in Crown Sydney ‘was from the international VIP business’: Packer

Crown Resorts Ltd.’s billionaire shareholder James Packer today (Thursday) acknowledged he knew that junket operations in Australian casinos were vulnerable to money laundering, and that there were rumors that some

World Press Photo Foundation investigating exhibition closure

The World Press Photo Foundation says it is following up with local partner Casa de Portugal em Macau (CPM) to find out why the World Press Photo Exhibition unexpectedly closed

Greek court rules Golden Dawn party criminal organization

A Greek court ruled today (Wednesday) that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, following a politically charged five-year trial against dozens of defendants, including former

Half a billion travelers show China’s economy moving past Covid

  Hotel prices shot up, ride-hailing apps crashed, tickets to the Great Wall sold out: after more than nine long, housebound months, almost half a billion Chinese people are taking a

Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask

President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night (today, Macau time) after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care

AirAsia ceases operations in Japan as pandemic wipes out travel

AirAsia Group Bhd. will cease operations in Japan immediately as it tries to reduce cash burn amid the coronavirus outbreak that’s wiped out travel demand globally. AirAsia Japan has stopped operations

Asia Today: Remote learning begins in virus-hit Philippines

Grade school and high school students in the Philippines began classes at home today (Monday) after the coronavirus pandemic forced remote-learning onto an educational system already struggling to fund schools. The

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