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Gucci quits US anti-counterfeiting group after Alibaba joins
Gucci America has quit the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the second defection since the Washington, D.C.-based group allowed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to become a ... -
Kim says North Korea won’t use nuclear weapons first
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use its nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is invaded and announced a five-year economic ... -
Philippines | Candidates make final push for votes as campaigns end
Philippine presidential candidates made a final push for votes in rallies on Saturday that drew thousands of supporters two days before the tightly contested ... -
Canada | Massive Alberta wildfire expected to burn for months
The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground. And Canadian officials say they expect to fight ... -
Football | Bayern secures unprecedented fourth straight Bundesliga title
Bundesliga top-scorer Robert Lewandowski scored twice for Bayern Munich to clinch an unprecedented fourth successive title with a 2-1 win at Ingolstadt on Saturday. The Poland ... -
Education | Um signs collaboration agreement with Porto University
The University of Macau (UM) yesterday signed an agreement with the University of Porto (UP) to promote their collaboration in humanities, science and technology, ... -
Wong orders immigration clearance system review
The Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, has ordered a review of current arrangements and an update to contingency plans in order to avoid ... -
Hotel Central to be restored to ‘its former glory’
The owners of Hotel Central are making preparations to “restore the hotel to its former glory,” according to law firm Manuela Antonio, which represents ... -
Gaming | Macau stake cut stoking Crown buyout speculation
The sale of Crown Resorts’ USD800 million stake in its Macau venture, reported yesterday by the Times, is fueling speculation that James Packer is preparing ... -
Disney CEO meets Chinese president ahead of park opening
The head of entertainment giant Disney had a rare official meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday, a month before the opening of its ... -
Some howl over Alibaba’s place in anti-counterfeiting group
The prospect of sitting in a Hyatt Regency ballroom in Florida and listening to Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, deliver the ... -
Philippines | Corruption allegations hound Binay in Monday’s presidential election
In a poor Southeast Asian country with a soft spot for the underdog, Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay has tried to turn online jokes ... -
Corruption complaint filed against front-runner candidate
A Philippine senator filed a corruption complaint yesterday alleging that the front-runner in the country’s presidential race, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, hired 11,000 ... -
USA | Complaint details kidnapping death of girl on Navajo nation
On the far side of a desert hilltop in the shadow of the Shiprock Pinnacle, a towering monolith sacred to the Navajo Nation, the ... -
Football | Madrid rivals return to Champions League final
One city, two rivals — for the biggest prize in club soccer. Real Madrid, now coached by Zinedine Zidane, and Atletico Madrid, led by ... -
Panama Papers | Macau CPPCC member holds Singapore identity
One of the five standing committee members who represent Macau in the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) has failed to disclose his secret ... -
Gaming | James Packer sells down Macau stake
Melco Crown Entertainment (MCE) announced yesterday that it had entered into a share repurchase agreement with Crown Asia Investments (CAI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ... -
Penny Lam: Int’l Documentary Film Festival curator | ‘We want to continue to develop this festival’
Penny Lam is a documentary filmmaker and the curator of the Macau International Documentary Film Festival, the first of which was held last month, ... -
South China Sea | After ships and planes, Chinese singers assert maritime claims
China’s military has dispatched ships and planes — even constructed new islands to assert its maritime claims. Now it’s deploying a new set of ... -
Media pulls punches on Trump’s escalating rhetoric
While increasingly harsh attacks on China help propel Donald Trump to the Republican presidential nomination, the country’s state media has largely shown restraint, taking ... -
Australia | Prime minister decides on July 2 election
Australia’s election campaign will officially start soon with climate change policy and union corruption in the national building industry shaping into key battlegrounds for ... -
Philippines | Muslim militants threaten to kill more hostages
Muslim militants have threatened to kill three more hostages in their jungle base in the southern Philippines more than a week after beheading a ... -
USA Elections | Trump, Clinton all but certain to face off in fall campaign
Once dismissed as a fringe contender, businessman Donald Trump now is all but certain to lead the Republican Party into the fall presidential campaign ... -
New Sports | Meet the next competition of the modern age: Drone racing
Decked out in high-tech goggles, pilot Steve Zoumas dives low and sees the final gate zooming toward him: a 20-foot-tall metal-framed box ringed with ... -
Graham Colclough: City planning specialist | Macau ‘could be capital for autonomous cars’
Graham Colclough is a British city planning specialist and city transformation expert, who was invited last week by the Macau government to be the ... -
Animal Welfare | Macau: Anima slams Canidrome management for avoiding debate
The Society for the Protection of Animals (Anima) criticized the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome, for failing to respond to Anima’s call for a televised ... -
Animal welfare | World trends: Last dance: Final performance for Ringling Bros. elephants
The curtain fell a final time for elephants performing at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as the circus ended a practice that enthralled audiences ... -
North Korea says waitresses working in China tricked into going to South
North Korea stepped up its calls yesterday for South Korea to return 12 waitresses whom Pyongyang says Seoul abducted from a restaurant in China. ... -
Health | Blood shortages pump life into USD16 billion drugmaker
During the darkest days of China’s stock-market crash last summer, one drugmaker relentlessly defied gravity. Shanghai RAAS Blood Products Co., a seller of treatments ... -
Analysis | North Korea: Details of party congress secret, but goals clear
North Korea, the world’s last great master of Cold War-era spectacle, is likely to deliver a big one when its ruling party holds its first ... -
Australia | Canberra plans to halve budget deficit within three years
Australia’s government said yesterday it plans to reduce its budget deficit by more than half in three years while maintaining momentum in a sluggish ... -
Migrant crisis | German Jews divided over fears of one million Muslim newcomers
When the leader of Germany’s Jews spoke out against the flow of Muslim migrants to Europe, a rabbinical student denounced his views as racist ... -
Football | Against All Odds: Leicester wins English title for first time in its 132 years
Leicester City completed one of the greatest ever sporting achievements yesterday [Macau time] when the 5,000-1 underdogs won the Premier League for the first ... -
Street performers could be subject to permits
Street artistic performances” are the solution chosen by the government to “bring the arts closer to people,” said the Secretary for Social Affairs and ... -
Labor Day crowds smaller than previous years
Fewer people than in previous years took part in the traditional May 1 marches that mark the International Workers’ Day. Some of the issues ...
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