Gaming | Experts question casinos’ plan to prevent sexual harassment

In the wake of the sexual misconduct scandal surrounding Las Vegas casino titan Steve Wynn, Nevada gambling regulators are developing regulations on workplace sexual harassment, but employment

Diabetes drug developer Hua is said to pick HK for IPO

Hua Medicine Ltd., a Shanghai-based developer of diabetes drugs, has picked Hong Kong over the U.S. for its initial public offering as the Asian financial hub makes

Election tests Hong Kong’s stomach for defying Beijing

Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters’ appetite for democracy in the

HKSAR seen draining liquidity with currency near ‘84 low

Hong Kong’s central bank will probably take steps to tighten liquidity in the financial system, a survey of analysts showed, as the city’s currency approaches

Minister says trade war would bring ‘disaster to global economy’

China’s trade minister Zhong Shan warned that a trade war with the U.S. would bring disaster to the global economy, but said his nation won’t start one

Search is on for the best summit site for Trump, Kim

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev

Rohingya living in ‘no man’s land’ insist they will stay

From their home, a tent hastily erected in a grassy field, the young Muslim Rohingya couple can see the village they left behind last year, fleeing attacks

East Timor | People give hero’s welcome to border talks negotiator

Thousands of East Timorese lined the road to the capital’s international airport yesterday to cheer returning independence hero Xanana Gusmao for leading negotiations that settled the sea

Japan | 7th anniversary of tsunami that killed 18,000 marked

They bowed their heads, hands clasped or palms firmly pressed together. They stood in grassy areas or roadsides overlooking the choppy sea. In Japan’s capital, they lit

US | AP Exclusive | National Rifle Association gave USD7m to hundreds of schools

The National Rifle Association has dramatically increased its funding to schools in recent years amid a national debate over guns and school violence, an Associated Press analysis

Analysis | Putin’s Russia: From basket case to resurgent superpower

Vladimir Putin and his Russia look more invincible than at any other time in his 18 years in power. Since he last faced election in 2012,

This Day in History | 1993 – Bombay hit by devastating bombs

At least 200 people have died and 800 have been injured after 13 bombs exploded in Bombay. The explosives went off within 75 minutes of each other across

Offbeat | Sumatran tiger fatally attacks man in western Indonesia

A rare Sumatran tiger fatally attacked a man in the latest human-tiger conflict in a western Indonesian region plagued by widespread deforestation, officials said Sunday. The victim,

Rugby | Six Nations Trophy: Ireland KO Scotland 28-8 to stay on Grand Slam track

The Grand Slam is on for Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Spicing it up a little more, Ireland go to Twickenham next weekend holding the Six Nations

EPL | West Ham fans invade pitch, force team owners to flee seats

West Ham captain Mark Noble grappled a pitch invader to the ground and the struggling English Premier League club’s owners were forced to flee their

The Buzz | Lightning strike kills 16, injures 140 at church in Rwanda

A Rwandan provincial governor says at least 16 people were killed and 140 others injured when lightning struck a Seventh Day Adventist church in the country’s south.

World Briefs

JAPANESE marked the seventh anniversary of a tsunami that took more than 18,000 lives on the northeast coast and triggered a nuclear disaster that turned nearby communities into

‘Mr. Records’ keeps Kenya’s last vinyl music shop alive

Tucked into a busy market in Kenya’s capital is arguably the country’s last record store. “Real Vinyl Guru” has been open for 28 years and now

Insight | Many ‘blue cards’ have no other home, but are treated like coolies

In a move seen by many as discriminatory, the public hospital Conde de São Januário (CHCSJ) has proposed that the service fee of natural childbirth for non-local workers

Monday, March 12, 2018 – edition no. 3004

* Wong Sio Chak announces police body cameras start operating this week * Wynn resorts settles lawsuit for USD$2.4b * ‘All we need is more balance’ * Election tests HK stomach for defying

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