Greece | First visit by Turkish president in decades off to tense start

The first official visit by a Turkish president to Greece for six decades got off to a tense start yesterday, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeating comments that

This Day in History | 1980 John Lennon shot dead

Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician’s New York apartment. The 40-year-old was shot several times

Offbeat | Ex-DJ says USD1 payment to Taylor Swift sent by mail last week

A former radio DJ who was ordered to pay a symbolic USD1 to Taylor Swift for groping her at a photo op says he mailed her

Football | Manchester Derby: United looks to halt City juggernaut

Monday, 00:30 Man United v  Man City H 3.55, D 3.6, A 2.22 There will be USD1 billion worth of talent on the field,

World briefs

HONG KONG A judge put off sentencing yesterday for young democracy leader Joshua Wong in a contempt case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The

The Buzz | Jerusalem status: Trump’s wild card could have deep repercussions

Traditional US allies are among a growing chorus condemning President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Saudi Arabia called it “unjustified and irresponsible”, while France

Little-known face of famed Nazi hunters shown in Paris

Their heroic quest to bring down fugitive Nazis such as the so-called “Butcher of Lyon” is widely known. But there’s more — a lot more — to the

Kapok | Scaring a monkey to safeguard the chicken

It is no secret that Macao’s political system is not only overly executive-led and highly dependent on the admonitions coming from up north, but also bogged down by

The Capital of Discord

  * Movies: Wonder Wheel * Books: The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen * Music: Who Built the Moon? by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds * Wine: The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg V *

Woody Allen goes in circles with dark ‘Wonder Wheel’

The great playwright Eugene O’Neill looms as large over Woody Allen’s latest film as the giant Ferris wheel that dominates the movie’s Coney Island setting. It’s

‘The Vanishing Season’ has precise prose, suspenseful plot

Ellery Hathaway, junior officer on the police force in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, will do almost anything to convince her boss that three locals who disappeared over the

Noel Gallagher widens sound on ‘Who Built the Moon?’

His younger brother Liam’s new album has been heaped with praise, he turned 50 in May and a recent TV appearance featured a French bandmate playing scissors,

News of the world | Newly crowned by US as Israel’s capital, Jerusalem is unique

  Here is a look at some of the extraordinary facts about the city that Israel claims as its capital, even though nearly 40 percent of its population

The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg V

(Continued from “The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg IV” on 1 September 2017) Besides being the capital and the largest city of Württemberg and indeed Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart is one

Food & Beverage | Caffé B: A Taste of Southern Italy

A  cozy and stylish Italian restaurant that hugs the Nam Van lakeside is back with a new face. Fronted by restaurant manager Cristiano Cannata, who exudes a

Friday, December 8, 2017 – edition no. 2944

* IMF on China | Debt levels pose stability risk, banks under-capitalized * ‘Macau is like a big movie set’ * Students’ art exhibition kicks off * Delta bridge tolls proposed   DOWNLOAD

Blacklist may affect Portugal-Macau relations

Macau’s inclusion on a European Union (EU) tax blacklist of 17 countries and regions has made the front page in the Portuguese financial daily

Documentary tackles dreams, sacrifices of domestic workers in HK

Independent documentary “The Helper” recently premiered in Hong Kong, revealing the sacrifices of domestic helpers, commonly dubbed as the unsung heroes of Hong Kong. Aiming to

WeChat has become Macau’s most-used new media

A joint survey by the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), the Sun Yat-Sen University, the Communication Association of Macau, and the Macau Creative Intelligence Development

Football | Benfica pitted against at least one N. Korean team at AFC Cup

The team draw for the AFC Cup East Asian group play-off was decided in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, pitting local team Benfica Macau against North Korea’s April

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