In its transformation into a city that is more than just gambling, Macau is progressing far slower than its U.S. rival, Las Vegas. This is
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has invested 1 billion riyals (USD267 million) into music streaming company Deezer, his first deal since being detained last year in
Heineken, the world’s second-largest brewer, has struck a deal to expand in China, the world’s biggest beer market. Heineken said Friday it is buying a
It’s been less than a year since Beijing cut back red tape on drug approvals and already Chinese patients can expect to get some breakthrough medicines
China said Friday it is poised to impose retaliatory tariffs on USD60 billion worth of U.S. imports, including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals, if Washington goes
Back in April, giant Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. ordered its thousands of staff to move faster in getting projects to market. The human and
Asia’s top diplomats pressed North Korea on Saturday to turn a pledge to completely dismantle its nuclear arsenal into reality amid concerns that it’s proceeding with its
With their heads bowed and wearing orange robes, the members of the boys’ soccer team rescued from almost three weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Myanmar on Saturday to immediately release two Reuters journalists held on charges of possessing secret documents. Pompeo said in
Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired tear gas and used batons on Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesting students angry over the traffic deaths of two fellow
An old-time propeller plane crashed near-vertically at high speed into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board, police said yesterday. The Junkers Ju-52 plane,
The Workers’ Party in Brazil named jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday as its nominee for the country’s top job in October’s election.
Italy’s government fired the opening salvo in what promises to be a fractious period of negotiations ahead of the 2019 budget, in a high- stakes process that’s
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast
The USSR has launched its second cosmonaut into space just four months after Yuri Gagarin made his historic venture. Major Gherman Titov, aged 25, has amazed
Chinese Superleague team Shanghai Shenhua has accused an opposing player of racially abusing its Senegalese star forward Demba Ba during a match Saturday. Shenhua coach Wu
Christian Fittipaldi plans to retire from driving after the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the January race he was won three times. The 47-year-old Brazilian racer announced
Kento Momota of Japan defeated Shi Yuqi of China 21-11, 21-13 in the men’s final at the badminton world championships yesterday. Momota won the final eight
INDONESIA A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok yesterday, killing at least three people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has called for the rebuilding of 11 schools torched by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Pakistan. No one was wounded in
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