Civil protection | Preventive measures to ensure water supply during disasters

The Macao Water Supply Company (SAAM) and the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) yesterday gave an overview to the media of the works jointly undertaken

DSEJ says sexual cases are related to younger students

In the past academic year (2017/2018), 22 sex-related cases involving underage students were recorded, according to DSEJ head, Leong Vai Kei. The number represents one case more than

Zhuhai train station and Macau LRT connection project outsourced

The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) announced the public tender results for four new boundary control points which will connect Macau to mainland China. The four projects are:

Venezuela | One of the greatest currency devaluations in history launched 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro carried out one of the greatest currency devaluations in history over the weekend - a 95 percent plunge that will test the capacity

‘Made in Cambodia’ may become new fashion label with tariffs hitting China

The next designer handbag you buy is less likely to bear a “made in China” label. Fashion companies, eager to diversify their supply chains, were

Corporate Bits | Wynn unveils new mooncake gift boxes in time for mid-autumn festival

Wynn Macau has unveiled three designed mooncake gift boxes that feature flowers and butterflies in time for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, with each pattern representing a

Trade War US firms to Trump: Don’t raise tariffs on more Chinese goods

Fishermen off the Alaskan coast. A Florida maker of boat trailers. A building materials distributor in Tennessee. Those and hundreds of other American businesses are

Malaysia hopes China will sympathize with its fiscal woes

Malaysia’s leader said yesterday that he hoped China would sympathize with his country’s fiscal problems as he met with the country’s leaders after suspending multibillion-dollar construction projects financed

Yuan jumps to strongest in a week

The Chinese currency rose 0.51 percent to 6.8514 per dollar, its strongest since Aug. 10, as of 4:38 p.m. in Shanghai. The PBOC strengthened its fixing,

Myanmar | Verdict scheduled for next week in reporters’ trial

A judge in Myanmar said he will issue a verdict next Monday in the trial of two Reuters journalists accused of possessing secret state information, a case that

India | Massive cleanup begins as rains diminish in Kerala

Thousands of people in flood-ravaged south India waded yesterday through muck and mud to begin the immense task of cleaning their homes and businesses. Rains have

North Korea | Tourists go off beaten path on sacred volcano

Foreign tourists looking to go off the beaten path in North Korea can now camp out on the country’s biggest volcano. Hoping to open up a

Quake swarm jolts Indonesian islands, killing at least 12

Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least a dozen people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor

Turkey | Shots fired at gate of US Embassy; no one hurt

Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn yesterday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies.

Afghanistan | Gov’t forces free 149 hostages taken by Taliban in ambush

Afghan forces launched a lightning operation in northern Kunduz province yesterday, rescuing 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier, officials

Report | Experts knew Genoa bridge had weakened 20 percent

Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 percent — a

Offbeat | Baby boom at Arizona hospital with 16 pregnant nurses

A baby boom is brewing at a suburban Arizona hospital where 16 intensive care nurses recently discovered they are all pregnant. The nurses at Banner Desert

This Day in History | 1973 – ‘Bloody Sunday’ inquest accuses Army

The coroner presiding over the “Bloody Sunday” inquest has accused the British army of “sheer unadulterated murder”. The accusation came from the Londonderry City coroner, Major Hubert

Asian Games | Sun Yang unfurls another win after flag flap

Sun Yang won his second gold medal in as many nights at the Asian Games and this time he was rewarded with the raising of a red

Four Japanese players kicked out after ‘night out with women’

Four Japanese basketball players were kicked off their Asian Games team and sent home yesterday after delegation head Yasuhiro Yamashita said they “spent the night in

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