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* Yuan down | Steep devaluation bad for mass gaming • Retailers have mixed feelings * Hundreds swindled out of MOP8.53 million in phone scams * Chui to al: ‘cautiously optimistic’ on gaming,
Hong Kong police arrested five Uber drivers and searched the ride-hailing app’s office in the Asian financial center. Police said yesterday that officers posing as customers arrested the five drivers in
CHINA’s military is staging live-firing exercises in the country’s west as part of a series of drills involving more than 140,000 troops, state media reported yesterday. The “Joint Action-2015D” exercises
Landlords on Hong Kong’s Russell Street a year ago could boast the highest retail rents in the world. Now they are adjusting to a new reality. Burberry Group Plc, Kering SA
Sympathy amongst local Internet users poured in after footage was released by the Chinese online media outlet Macau Concealers yesterday showing allegedly illegal vendors selling beverages and food to immigrant
The government is looking to make a final decision on whether to retain the special lane for motorcycles on Sai Van Bridge by the beginning of next year, the Secretary
The government is planning to draft further regulations on food safety by 2017, according to the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) president Alex Vong. “We have administrative regulations And
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung is currently visiting Zhuhai with other senior government officials. He plans to meet with leaders of the Zhuhai Municipal Government. Mr Leung will also
The committee’s president, lawmaker Chan Meng Kam, told the media after the meeting that these issues are closely associated with the livelihoods of residents, and thus have received considerable attention
Heated discussions flared at the Urban Planning Committee’s plenary meeting yesterday on the greatly relaxed height and density restrictions for the Fisherman’s Wharf resort planning. Regarding the government’s draft plan
Chao Sao Fung, president of the association, appealed to the legislative assembly in a letter that he had submitted to its representative in the afternoon, stating that the officials “should
June recorded MOP3.9 billion worth of new residential mortgage loans being approved by Macau banks, representing an increase of 5.7 percent month-to-month. In terms of value, the new loans to
According to industry sources, the Gross Gambling Revenue (GGR) of tables at Macau casinos reached MOP4.8 billion during the first nine days of August, Citigroup reported yesterday. The daily run rate
Some 2.8 million people visited Taiwan from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau in the first half of 2015, according to official data. The figure accounts for 55 percent
Google is creating a new company to oversee its highly lucrative Internet business and a growing flock of other ventures, including some — like building self-driving cars and researching ways to prolong
InvoTech Systems provides advanced Linen Management, Uniform and Laundry Systems that integrate the latest RFID technology to increase profitability for hotels, resorts, casino operators, sports arenas, convention centers and theme
China devalued its tightly controlled currency yesterday following a slump in trade, allowing the yuan’s biggest one-day decline in a decade. The central bank said the yuan’s fall was due to
China’s decision to devalue the yuan is good news for dollar bulls. China’s central bank cut the yuan’s daily-fixing rate by a record 1.9 percent yesterday after the International Monetary Fund
China devalued its tightly controlled currency yesterday. The central bank said it was trying to make the state-controlled exchange rate more market-oriented. In recent months, the yuan has strengthened along with
Lawmakers in Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s conservative government yesterday agreed on a target of curbing carbon gas emissions to at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The target
Andrinof Chaniago, the national development planning minister, told reporters yesterday that a decision on which proposal to accept could be made in about two weeks. The high-speed rail, which will connect
Thailand’s royal palace announced Monday that 87-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej is recovering from several ailments, including excess fluid in the brain and difficult breathing due to congested lungs. The Royal Household
A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor yesterday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster. Kyushu Electric Power Co. said yesterday it had
Greece has agreed on the broad terms of a new three-year bailout package with international creditors, with only a few details left to iron out, officials said yesterday. Euclid Tsakalotos sounded upbeat about
Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early yesterday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American by a
Dutch prosecutors have said for the first time that they have found possible parts of a BUK missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
A 91-year-old retired surgeon has been charged with importing cocaine hidden in soap into Australia, prompting police to warn travelers to beware they are not tricked into becoming drug mules. Victor
A Japan Airlines jumbo jet has crashed on a remote mountainside 70 miles (112km) from Tokyo in Japan. There were 15 crew and 509 passengers on board, mostly holidaymakers. There are no
It is, of course, much too early to try to read something into the first round of matches in a Premier League season that has another 37 games and more
Thirteen rowers on the 40-member U.S. team came down with stomach illness at the World Junior Rowing Championships — a trial run for next summer’s Olympics — and the team
The Chinese were introduced to currency wars via a best-selling series of books by Hongbing Song during the financial crisis, but many observers concluded the country had finally entered the
* Netizens back illegal vending business near Cotai worksites * Safety lane: fewer accidents on Sai Van bridge * Forecast: August gaming revenue may top MOP19b * Polluted Rio: us rowers fall ill
Italian customs police have seized 49 kilograms of pure cocaine hidden in a container transporting frozen totani, a kind of squid, on a cargo ship from Argentina. Reggio Calabria prosecutor Federico
Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a
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