FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
The noodles smothered in peanut sauce are as much a trademark of Wuhan as deep-dish pizza in Chicago or spaghetti in Rome. Zhou Guoqiong still isn’t allowed to serve customers
CHINESE officials say dry conditions, high temperatures and a sudden change in wind direction all contributed to the deaths of 19 people in a forest fire in mountainous southwestern China.
Soldiers patrol the streets with their fingers on machine gun triggers. The army guards an exhibition center-turned-makeshift-hospital crowded with rows of metal beds for those infected with the coronavirus. And
Kim Byung-rok survived tuberculosis when he was 23, but was left with one good lung. In his work polishing and mending shoes, he inhaled too much dirt. So when he bought
They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages. And the coronavirus has made their already difficult lives harder, and more hazardous. And so a
A coding machine used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II has been stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. Police said the thief is
Spain’s coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number yesterday as the country’s medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients, and the World Health Organization
In a world convulsed by market volatility, there’s one surety (for now): Hong Kong’s currency will continue outperforming the greenback. Elevated local rates relative to the U.S. have made the city’s
RUSSIA Moscow woke up to a lockdown obliging most of its 13 million residents to stay home, and many other regions of the vast country quickly followed suit to stem
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments yesterday related to the global economy, the work place and the
The Labour party is on course to win the general election with a majority of about 100 seats in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Harold Wilson has hailed the result
In an abrupt turnaround, President Donald Trump extended lockdown measures across the United States as deaths in New York from the new coronavirus passed 1,000. Spain yesterday became the third
Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions
PANDEMIC Bells tolled in Madrid’s deserted central square and flags were lowered in a day of mourning yesterday as Spain raced to build field hospitals to treat an onslaught of
An American electrical engineer and his wife have been found guilty by New York’s Federal Court of passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Julius Rosenberg, 33, and his 35-year-old wife, Ethel,
Spain and Italy have demanded more European help as they fight still-surging coronavirus infections in the continent’s worst crisis since World War II. In the U.S., authorities urged millions around
The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned yesterday as smoldering hotspots in nursing homes and a growing list of stricken cities
NORTH KOREA yesterday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, continuing a streak of weapons launches that suggests leader Kim Jong Un is trying
Crises such wars, depressions, natural disasters and pandemics can reveal differences in how effectively a society organizes itself. In the 1600s and 1700s, for example, Britain’s more advanced tax system
The number of coronavirus infections were set to top a half-million worldwide yesterday as both Italy and the United States appeared poised to surpass China, where the pandemic began, and
Copyright © Macau Daily Times 2008-2022. All Rights Reserved
