Figo and Kaka in Pakistan to launch World Football Stars event

Football greats Luis Figo and Kaka arrived in Pakistan yesterday to launch the World Football Stars event in a country more known for its cricket.

Youth Olympics in 2020 aims to overcome Swiss bid skeptics

After voters in Switzerland rejected three Olympic bids since 2013, the city that’s home to the IOC headquarters will still stage a Winter Games in one

Qatari broadcaster asks Italy to move football game from Saudi

Qatari state-owned sports broadcaster beIN has asked Italy’s football league not to play a showpiece match in Saudi Arabia, accusing the country of backing the pirating

World briefs

THAILAND Four paramilitary volunteers were killed yesterday while guarding a school in southern Thailand, the latest of several recent attacks in a region troubled by a Muslim separatist insurgency

The Buzz | Suspect faces court in Belgium over Jewish museum attack

The trial of a man accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium in 2014 after fighting alongside extremists in Syria started in Brussels

Holympics | Vatican launches track team of Swiss Guards, nuns

About 60 Holy See runners — Swiss Guards, priests, nuns, pharmacists and even a 62-year-old professor who works in the Vatican’s Apostolic Library — are the

Kapok | Opaque and unaccountable

How many times have you heard the assertion “information is power”? Then, if politics is not only understood literally or even figuratively, and yet, on the conservative side

Friday, January 11, 2019 – edition no. 3207

* Animal rights | Canidrome paid MOP25m fine over greyhounds * Nam Van with new graffiti display * Over 500 smoking room applications * Kim looking to ‘achieve results’   DOWNLOAD

Three is a crowd

  * Movies: Cold War * Books: “The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George * Washington” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch * Music: “Mi Luz Mayor” by Eddie Palmieri * Wine: The

In ‘Cold War,’ a love exiled by communism

Joanna Kulig plays the role of a striking, sultry blonde named Zuzanna, or Zula It took “Aquaman” two and a half hours just to put a fancy trident

‘The First Conspiracy’ unspools plot on Washington in 1776

George Washington faced some big problems as he tried to fortify New York City against British forces in the summer of 1776. His ragtag army was woefully short on

Eddie Palmieri’s latest will move you to dance

It might be the winter season for the U.S., but Eddie Palmieri brings the sunshine and warmth with his latest album, “Mi Luz Mayor.” The Spanish Harlem,

News Of The World | No more than one wife: Israel looks to tackle Bedouin polygamy

On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife. She hasn’t seen him since he

The Stateside Spirit

Comparatively unchained by customs and traditions, the great U.S. of A. boasts arguably the widest range of whiskey styles anywhere on earth. Having said that, bourbon remains the

food & beverage | Key tips on how to avoid making your tabbouleh salad soggy

Tabbouleh is a signature Levantine salad made of bulgur, parsley, tomato, and onion steeped in a penetrating mint and lemon dressing. We started by salting the

First edition of the Macao Cup International Regatta kicks off today

The first-ever edition of the Macao Cup International Regatta kicks off today and will run until Sunday, with 20 teams divided into two different competitions.

Gaming and hotel employees’ skills competition to be held next week

The first Macau Integrated Tourism and Leisure Enterprise Vocational Skills Competition will kick off next Tuesday, the Macao Federation of Trade Unions announced this week.

LRT Taipa section to open in second half of this year

The Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) issued a statement on Tuesday announcing that the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) will open in the second half of 2019.

ANM calls for probe on delayed annulment of Ocean World plot

The New Macau Association (ANM) handed a petition letter to the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday, urging lawmakers to investigate the government’s delay in terminating the

466 overloaded vehicle cases recorded in 2018

A total of 466 cases involving overloaded vehicles were recorded throughout 2018, according to statistics released yesterday by the Public Security Police Force (PSP). In 2018, the PSP continued

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