Penny Lam is a documentary filmmaker and the curator of the Macau International Documentary Film Festival, the first of which was held last month, concluding on May 1. The festival brought
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 tools to uphold Chinese sovereignty: Magicians,
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 only the occasional swipe at the
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 the July 2 poll. Prime Minister Malcolm
Muslim militants have threatened to kill three more hostages in their jungle base in the southern Philippines more than a week after beheading a Canadian man when their multi-million dollar
Once dismissed as a fringe contender, businessman Donald Trump now is all but certain to lead the Republican Party into the fall presidential campaign against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton —
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 neon. Boom! His sight goes black.
Graham Colclough is a British city planning specialist and city transformation expert, who was invited last week by the Macau government to be the keynote speaker at the Smart City
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 public debate over the closure of
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 for two centuries but became caught
North Korea stepped up its calls yesterday for South Korea to return 12 waitresses whom Pyongyang says Seoul abducted from a restaurant in China. Seoul says the waitresses willingly defected to
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 made from human blood plasma, rallied to
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 congress in 36 years later this
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 economy with personal and business tax
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 — and ignited a debate over
Leicester City completed one of the greatest ever sporting achievements yesterday when the 5,000-1 underdogs won the Premier League for the first time. Leicester players were crowded around a television
Street artistic performances” are the solution chosen by the government to “bring the arts closer to people,” said the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, in his introductory
Fewer people than in previous years took part in the traditional May 1 marches that mark the International Workers’ Day. Some of the issues the demonstrators called the government’s attention to
Gross gaming revenue decreased 9.5 percent to MOP17.3 billion (USD2.2 billion), according to data from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, marking 23 consecutive months of declines. Casinos have been in
Luxury-watch retailer Halewinner will almost double its store count in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, where casinos want time to be irrelevant, dealing another blow to Hong Kong’s staggering
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