FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
In an ornate Brussels concert hall, Bashar Murad, a Palestinian songwriter, stood before hundreds and delivered a mournful performance of Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It
Top executives from major U.S. tech, finance and industrial firms have been invited to join President Donald Trump on this week’s trip to China, according to a White
Asia’s first defenses against energy shocks from the Iran war are running short and a more consequential second wave of impacts is beginning to hit. When
Hungary’s Péter Magyar took his oath of office on Saturday to become the country›s new prime minister, kicking off a fresh political era after 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic rule.
Owners of some iPhones are in line to get cash payments of up to $95 from Apple after the company this week reached a $250 million settlement in
A Czech court on Monday convicted a former associate of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of fraud and handed her a three-year suspended sentence and a fine.
The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela is scheduled to land today in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, seven years after the U.S. Department
An international task force formed to crack down on violence as a criminal service has led to 280 arrests in its first year, the European Union’s police
Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released draft legislation yesterday it
Gunmen raided an orphanage in north-central Nigeria and abducted 23 pupils, authorities said yesterday. Fifteen have since been rescued. The attack took place in an “isolated area”
Cambodia and China yesterday held their first meeting of what is called a “2+2” Strategic Dialogue Mechanism, bringing together both countries’ foreign and defense ministers to deepen
Oil prices climbed more than 5% while world shares were mixed yesterday as a standoff between Iran and the U.S. prevented tankers from using the Strait of
President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a bill extending a controversial surveillance program until April 30, a short-term renewal that sets up another showdown in Congress. The bill was
Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies, the head of the International Energy Agency said yesterday in a wide-ranging interview, warning of
More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and
More than 17,000 American and Filipino military personnel will participate in one of their largest annual combat exercises in the Philippines that underscore the United States’ staunch commitment
The U.S. military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting yesterday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and accepting
A 9-year-old boy has been rescued after living locked in his father’s utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized,
Oil prices climbed back toward $100 per barrel yesterday, while stock markets worldwide slow following their big gains from the day before. The S&P 500 was nearly unchanged in midday
Stock markets are surging worldwide, and oil prices are plunging back toward $90 per barrel after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force a
The Afghan man had fled the Taliban for refuge in upstate New York when U.S. immigration authorities ordered him deported to Uganda. The Cuban woman was working
The head of the European Central Bank says that businesses may be quicker to raise prices in response to the oil shock from the Iran war due
A strong preliminary magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean yesterday, prompting coastal evacuations but no wider tsunami warnings. The United States Geological Survey said
The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in
Portugal’s High Council for the Judiciary (CSM) has opened applications for two Portuguese judges to serve in Macau’s first-instance courts, with the selection process running until March 31.
U.S. companies will be allowed to do business with Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company after the Treasury Department eased sanctions, with some limitations, yesterday as the
Asia shares advanced yesterday, with benchmarks in Japan and South Korea jumping as oil prices fell back slightly despite a barrage of attacks by Iran on its
The escalating war with Iran is pushing parts of the world into energy triage, forcing governments to choose where to cut demand or absorb costs, while prioritizing
U.S. President Donald Trump said he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as Iranian strikes continued to rain down on Gulf countries yesterday.
With no clear end in sight to the war involving Iran, oil prices surged yesterday, pushing Brent crude briefly above $100 per barrel and sending global stocks
Cambodia hopes to shut down all of the country’s notorious online scam centers by the end of next month, the head of the Southeast Asian nation’s effort
China said yesterday it will be resuming passenger trains to North Korea after service was halted during COVID. Trains will run between Beijing and Pyongyang, four times
“Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day and
A counterprotester demonstrating against a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting
A court convicted a Syrian man yesterday of stabbing and seriously wounding a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial just over a year ago, and sentenced him to 13 years
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