Uber’s ride-hailing rival Grab gets USD150m from Yamaha

Grab is attracting more global backers as the Asian ride-hailing service fights Uber Technologies Inc., with a motorcycle maker becoming the latest investor. Yamaha Motor Co.

Asian investors are abandoning the pound

Asian investors have a message for the U.K. government: get your act together or asset managers will stop trading the pound completely. Comedy and roller coaster

China’s rich rush to shelter USD1 trillion from new taxes

Wealthy Chinese are rushing to shelter assets and income in overseas trusts before new tax rules go into effect next month, including provisions that target offshore

Corporate Bits | CEM holds occupational safety training

CEM organized the “Safety Training for Contractors”, attracting over 80 employees from among CEM’s contractors to attend. Professionals from the Labor Affairs Bureau and CEM shared

Detention of Canadians raises stakes in China-US-Canada row

China confirmed yesterday it has detained two Canadian men, raising the stakes in a three-way dispute over a Chinese technology executive facing possible extradition from Canada

Beijing suspected in huge Marriott data breach, official says

Investigators believe hackers working on behalf of China’s main intelligence agency are responsible for a massive data breach involving the theft of personal information from as

Indonesia | Migrant girls vanish into Asian trafficking networks

The stranger showed up at the girl’s door one night with a tantalizing job offer: Give up your world, and I will give you a future.

US seeks to counter growing Chinese influence in Africa

Trump administration wants to see an increase in U.S. investment and trade in Africa as part of a new strategy aimed at countering China’s growing influence on

Brexit | May seeks EU lifeline after surviving confidence vote

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking a lifeline from European Union leaders today after winning a no-confidence vote among her own Conservative lawmakers. May

Offbeat | Five charged with running massive movie piracy ring in LA LA land

A Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted five men who allegedly ran an international piracy ring that offered hundreds of stolen movies and TV shows online, including

This Day in History | 2003 – Saddam Hussein captured

The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers. “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” US administrator Paul Bremer told

Rugby Academy | Bats & company win U16 Premiership final

Local rugby team the Macau Bats played last Sunday in the Hong Kong Premiership Bowl play-off final. The Bats have combined forces with the Flying

Football | Champions League | Mourinho selection backfires, United misses out on top spot

MAN UNITED 1, VALENCIA 2 Manchester United missed the chance to finish top of its Champions League group as an understrength team lost 2-1 at

World briefs

CAMBODIA’s Parliament passed legislation yesterday that could allow the lifting of a five-year ban on political activity by some top opposition politicians. THAILAND A policeman

The Buzz | Janet Jackson, Def Leppard, Nicks join Rock Hall of Fame

Janet Jackson joins her brother Michael and the Jackson 5 as members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, earning induction yesterday along with Stevie Nicks and

Lu Guang | Police confirm arrest of Chinese photographer, wife says

Police have confirmed they have arrested a prominent Chinese photographer who had been missing more than a month, his wife said. Authorities informed relatives of

Indonesia arrests five foreigners in Bali for drug smuggling

Indonesian police said some of the five foreigners who have been arrested for alleged drug smuggling on the tourist island of Bali since the end of

Kapok | Yellow is the new red

In a recent op-ed published in the South China Morning Post, renowned blogger Jason Ng draws an instructive parallel between the on-going Yellow Vests Movement

Friday, December 14, 2018 – edition no. 3192

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Shadow, the master’s Three Kingdoms saga

  * Movie: The Mule * Book: Broken Ground by Val McDermid * Music: The Prophet Speaks by Van Morrison * Wine: The Nomenclatural

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