Offbeat | Vermont couple looking for family peacock among the turkeys

A Vermont woman whose family peacock ran off with a flock of turkeys says she’s hopeful to get close enough to catch it with a net.

This Day in History  | 1967 – De Gaulle says ‘non’ to Britain – again

The French President, Charles de Gaulle, has for a second time said he will veto Britain’s application to join the Common Market. He warned France’s five

Koreas win UNESCO recognition of traditional wrestling

Divided for seven decades, North and South Korea together won their first international recognition of Korean traditional wrestling yesterday. The Koreas had earlier pushed

Football – EPL | First loss of season exposes Chelsea’s frailties under Sarri

It took one dreadful 90-minute performance to expose the growing list of shortcomings in the Chelsea team that its coach had forewarned for much of the

World briefs

CAMBODIA Police yesterday arrested more than 200 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China over the internet. JAPAN Police said yesterday they found six bodies

The Buzz | Belt & Road: Three Chinese charged in Kenya with bribing investigators

Three Chinese nationals will be charged by the country’s anticorruption authority for paying a bribe to influence the outcome of fraud investigations, Kenya’s director of public prosecutions said

Dictionary.com chooses ‘misinformation’ as word of the year

Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen yesterday as Dictionary.com’s word of the year on the tattered coattails of “toxic,” picked earlier this month for the

World Views | Asia’s liquidity squeeze is the worst since 2008

Liquidity is getting tight in Asia. Leave aside Japan, where the printing presses are still pumping out yen. In rest of the region, central banks’ supply of currency

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – edition no. 3179

* Flörsch discharged from hospital, vows to return to Macau GP * Student charged with multiple house robberies * ‘Mild power leakage’ kills dog at St. Augustine Square * Bernardo Bertolucci dies at

Tired of ‘stalling’ gov’t, Sou to introduce own minimum wage bill

New Macau Association has released an eight- point statement laying out arguments for lawmaker Sulu Sou’s new minimum wage bill that will be submitted to the Legislative

Adelson retains top place in Asian Gaming Power 50

Sheldon Adelson, Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and Sands China, has topped the Asian Gaming Power 50 – an annual ranking of the most influential

Ask the Vet | Signs of cataracts in dogs

Here in Macau we see a lot of cataracts in dogs. It is often an inherited condition that causes clouding of the eye lens, impaired vision and sometimes total blindness. 

Demonstrators oppose holiday amendment proposal

Some 300 residents participated in a demonstration yesterday calling on the government to withdraw the controversial “three in four” proposal. Demonstrators, despite the rain,

HKZMB recorded 64,000 daily users monthly

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge has recorded an average of 64,000 crossings on a daily basis during the past month, according to the Ministry of Transport of China. 

Visitor arrivals to Macau up by 9.2pct in October

Visitor arrivals to Macau surged by 23.2 percent month-to-month in October 2018 to 3,154,291, corresponding to a year-on- year increase of 9.2 percent. The increase was due

Briefs | IC clears Marreiros of plagiarism

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has accepted the explanation offered by the architecture firm of Carlos Marreiros and will now resume with the project plan. Following a

Policy Address | Sonia Chan announces plan to restructure gov’t departments

On the second day of the policy address for the Secretariat for Administration and Justice, Secretary Sonia Chan announced  the government’s intention to restructure more than a

Macau Grand Prix | F1 drivers association says Flörsch crash raises concerns about ‘sausage’ kerbs

The Formula 1’s Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) will discuss teenage driver Sophia Flörsch’s Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 accident with the FIA. GPDA director Romain Grosjean

Courts | Polytec vs Son Pou sentence to be delivered Dec 17

Polytec Group’s lawsuit against local newspaper Son Pou was described by the defendant as the real estate company taking advantage of the case in order to achieve

Retail | Singapore malls try big gambit before online shopping catches on

Online shopping in Singapore is lackluster even after Amazon Inc. debuted its Prime service in mid-2017. The island’s malls are trying hard to keep it that

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