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News of the World | San Francisco hotels are world’s priciest as rates surge 88 percent
San Francisco already is one of the priciest U.S. cities for apartment renters and companies seeking office space. Now the area has a new ... -
News of the World | Japan’s secret navy bunker gives glimpse of war’s final days
On a hillside overlooking an athletic field where high school students play volleyball, an inconspicuous entrance leads down a dusty, slippery slope — and ... -
News of the World | India, China need cleaner air just to keep death rate steady
Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to ... -
News of the World | Walt Disney’s wild ride with surrealist Salvador Dali
It turns out the man behind Mickey Mouse liked quirky cats. Besides his love of wholesome entertainment, Walt Disney also had an appreciation for ... -
Thawing of US-Cuba relations inspires Havana tourism dreams
Tourism dreams are growing in Cuba. The thawing of U.S.-Cuba relations has inspired many Cubans to think big. Visits by Americans were up 36 ... -
Exclusive | From tycoons to state bosses: key people in Chinese business
The most successful of China’s entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s biggest companies and amassed stunning fortunes. Often they are little known outside ... -
News of the World | For Afghanistan’s abandoned children, help is scarce
Starved and beaten by his step-mother, the little boy with big brown eyes was already withdrawn and unhappy by the time his father ... -
Migrants take long, winding road to reach EU gateway Hungary
From a Budapest hilltop overlooking a panorama of central Europe, Jean-Paul Apetey reflects on how far he’s come, how improbable and unexpected his journey ... -
History | Artifacts lost in shipwreck 191 years ago returned to Hawaii
A museum in Hawaii is preparing to open a treasure-trove of artifacts from the shipwreck of a royal yacht sunk off the island of ... -
TV series | ‘A.D. The Bible Continues’ goes beyond the biblical epic
The people are restive, the priesthood is scheming and a fanatic band of insurgents known as the zealots are plotting assassinations — and now ... -
Yoga teacher Rita launches a studio of her own: ‘Om is where her heart is’
Do you know the McDonald’s building in Senado Square? Most of Macau has probably walked inside it at one time or another to get ... -
George Chinnery leaves lasting legacy of Macau
Visitors coming to Macau for the first time see a skyline worthy of Manhattan, with skyscrapers shimmering in the night sky and an incessant ... -
Five cars getting attention at the Geneva auto show
Volkswagen’s functional Passat family car may have taken top honors as car of the year at the annual Geneva motor show, but there is ... -
Where in the world is Tyler Kuan?
Do you remember the “Where’s Wally?” books? Dressed in a red stripy t-shirt and hat, young protagonist and adventurer Wally would turn up in ... -
Stories of former illegal immigrants who fled to Macau during the’ 70s | ‘In search of freedom and a better life’
In the 1970s and 80s, numerous mainlanders illegally entered Macau and Hong Kong in search of freedom and better lives. Scholars later dubbed the ... -
In Macao. BY CHARLES A. GUNNISON
PRESS OF COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING CO. 34 CALIFORNIA ST., S.F. (1892) continued from 16 January III The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from ... -
In Macao. BY CHARLES A. GUNNISON
Introduction David Brookshaw, Lit. Professor, Un. Bristol A late nineteenth-century Californian view of Macau: Charles Gunnison’s ‘In Macao.’ Charles A. Gunnison (1861-97), the ... -
New book reveals hidden history of Portuguese of Burma
Many of us here were born in Portugal or at least Goa. We have spent many years here in Burma. We always feel like ... -
TRAVELOG | Desert storm Heavy snowfall, strong winter storm hits Middle East
Snow fell in parts of the Middle East this week as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing two Syrian refugees in ... -
News of the World | Religion in India bubbles over into politics
Powerful Hindu nationalist leaders — some with close ties to Modi’s government — say they intend to ensure India becomes a completely Hindu nation. ... -
NEWS OF THE WORLD | Bold booty or sheer reveal: 2014 was big on flesh
Skin was definitely in, but was 2014 all about the big, bold booty or a sheer reveal up top? On runways, Marc Jacobs sent ... -
NEWS OF THE WORLD | Merriam-Webster names ‘culture’ word of the year
The word “culture” joins Oxford Dictionaries’ “vape,” a darling of the e-cigarette movement, and “exposure,” declared the year’s winner at Dictionary.com during a time ... -
News of the World | Gangnam becomes hot spot for Korean startups
Many young South Koreans, some educated overseas, are going to Gangnam to start mobile or Internet businesses. Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and Japan ... -
Rod Stewart tribute band to start resident show at Venetian next Spring
In the next few decades the original rockers who brought us the best of rock’n’roll will no longer be around to play live and ... -
News of the World | Private firms filling Latin America’s security gap
A panic alert flashed across Alberto Herrera’s computer screen. Men claiming to be with the notorious Gulf Cartel had stopped a convoy transporting chemicals ... -
NEWS OF THE WORLD | Japan biotech for bluefin tuna
Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro Yamazaki, who is known in ... -
Businesses cash in as women chase bigger butts
The U.S. booty business is getting a big bump. Companies are cashing in on growing demand from women seeking the more curvaceous figures of ... -
News of the World | Germany after the Berlin Wall: Not always best in west
In the German city of Dresden, trumpet player Ludwig Guettler takes pride in the soaring spires of the Baroque Frauenkirche church, rebuilt from the ... -
The secret of record success
On a balmy autumn night in a sleepy island village somewhere in the South China Sea, all is not what it seems. The familiar ... -
NEWS OF THE WORLD | MDT/AP Exclusive: Driving up revered N Korea mountain
The Kaema Plateau, the “Roof of Korea,” is a stunning, forest-covered highland nestled in such treacherous mountains that it was never taken by the ... -
DIGITAL LIFE | Tea ceremony still a respite from fast-paced world
Despite the rapid pace of our high-tech world, or perhaps because of it, the ancient Japanese tradition of tea ceremony is as popular as ... -
DIGITAL LIFE | Stir Kinetic smart desk makes you stand up
Why does a desk need to be smart? One answer is that it has motors and needs smarts to control them. The motors raise ... -
MDT FEATURE | Italian theatre brings Vincenzo Bellini’s opera ‘Norma’ to town
In Roman occupied Gaul, Norma is a powerful Druid priestess who compromises her ideals in the name of love. Upon discovering her lover’s infidelity, ... -
TRAVELOGUE |Port wine in Portugal and Douro River vineyards
Ribbons of bright green grape leaves alternated with golden stone walls as far as I could see along the steep banks of Portugal’s Douro ... -
NEWS OF THE WORLD | Even seemingly benign causes draw China crackdown
More than 30 people had gathered at Beijing’s most august Buddhist temple to remember the siblings, children and parents lost exactly six months earlier ...
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