Platini wants to stop top teams signing all the best players

UEFA President Michel Platini wants to stop top teams stockpiling the best players to ensure football remains competitive. The European football chief wants to force clubs to use more homegrown players.

Insight | Is Macau also built on greed?

I’m not a big fan of the public consultation concept, at least the way it is done in Macau. It seems that the local obsession with public consultations is linked

Ask the Vet | 10 Dog illness symptoms that require emergency care

1. Loss of Consciousness A change in consciousness can manifest as sudden collapse, tremors, staggering, sudden withdrawal or lack of responsiveness, coma, convulsions or sudden blindness. A dog may also exhibit

Nature | Analysis: The freakish year in broken climate records

The annual State of the Climate report is out, and it’s ugly. Record heat, record sea levels, more hot days and fewer cool nights, surging cyclones, unprecedented pollution, and rapidly

Housing | Luxury-home lottos rethought in Boston affordability squeeze

Carolyn Lane, on a salary of less than USD50,000 a year, moved in May into one of Boston’s most luxurious new rental complexes. She has access to a rooftop pool,

Monday, July 20, 2015 – edition no. 2359

* Ancient riverside foundations found under Sun Yat-Sen’s historic pharmacy * Hacking team’s ‘opaque operations’ * Cuenca beats Yang to win world title * Nuclear deal won’t change policy to us   DOWNLOAD PDF   * Brazil:

The Buzz | FIFA ethics panel wants to lift strict secrecy rules

FIFA’s ethics committee wants to lift secrecy rules that protect accused officials from being identified and keep case details private. FIFA prosecutor Cornel Borbely and judge Joachim Eckert say more openness

Gaming alert | MGM to build USD100M venue to lure artists to Vegas

MGM Resorts International plans to build a USD100 million, 5,300-seat theater at its Monte Carlo casino-hotel to attract top musicians for weeks at a time. The project will be built next

World Briefs

AUSTRALIA Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, is charged with illegally bringing the couple’s dogs to Australia — an incident that captured global attention after the nation’s agriculture minister angrily ordered

Wikileaks Macau emails | CCAC says investigations comply with the law

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has made assurances that all of its investigations comply with the law following reports that Macau’s anti-graft agency had shown interest in acquiring cyber-surveillance software. Emails

10 years after unesco listing | Report grills gov’t over heritage neglect

As Macau celebrates the tenth anniversary of its cultural heritage being listed as UNESCO World Heritage, the association has criticized the government for its “limited representations” of the historic buildings’

Tam visits Portugal to discuss educational partnerships

Alexis Tam is visiting Portugal and has met with the Portuguese Minister of Education, Nuno Crato, to discuss partnership projects between Macau and Portugal, particularly in the fields of special

Gaming | Mega casino in Vietnam hopes to attract Chinese gamblers

One of the largest real estate firms in Vietnam has announced plans to construct a mega-casino resort in Haiphong. The resort island project will cater exclusively to tourists visiting Haiphong

RETAIL | Luk Fook sales drop in Macau, HK

Luk Fook’s gem-set jewelry dropped 18 percent during the quarter, with branches in Hong Kong and Macau specifically down 19 percent. In contrast, same-store sales in mainland China surged 23

Architects advocate for Hotel Estoril façade preservation

Representatives of the architecture, urban planning and heritage conservation sector advocated yesterday for the preservation of Hotel Estoril’s façade, which will be revamped and turned into a youth recreational and

Tigerair partners with MGTO

Tigerair Taiwan, a budget carrier joint venture between Taiwan’s China Airlines and Singapore’s Tiger Airways, said yesterday that it has partnered with the Macau Government Tourist Office on a two-month

Netflix delivers strong 2Q with 3.3 million more customers 

Netflix’s second-quarter performance followed a familiar script of accelerating subscriber growth that has turned the Internet video service into a stock market sensation. The company added 3.3 million worldwide subscribers during the

Uber fined USD7M for keeping info from California regulators

Uber picked up a hefty tab Wednesday (yesterday in Macau) when a judge fined the taxi-alternative’s California subsidiary USD7.3 million for refusing to give state regulators information about its business

Corporate Bits | Mome tv first year anniversary o2o wechat campaign

From July 17th to August 7th, on Transmac buses with Mome TV installed, participants can link to the MOMEplay interactive game platform with their smartphones via Bluetooth and WeChat “Shake”

Real Estate Matters | The rental process for tenants part 1 – Finding a property

Juliet Risdon is a Director of JML Property and a property investor. Having established the company in 1994, JML Property offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in managing properties

Authorities probe detained South Africans over terrorism activity

Chinese authorities are investigating at least five South Africans detained in the country over possible involvement in a terrorist organization, according to South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation. “No

Tibet | Group: Lama’s body cremated against family’s wishes

Chinese authorities cremated the body of a Tibetan lama in a prison yesterday against the wishes of his family, who had wanted to perform Buddhist funeral rites on the body

Beijing | says Japan defense bills upset regional security balance

China said Japan’s approval of “unprecedented” legislation to expand its military role risked unsettling the region’s security. Japan’s lower house of parliament yesterday approved legislation that would allow an expanded role

Chinese, Japanese diplomats meet in Beijing

China’s top diplomat met yesterday with the head of Japan’s National Security Council for talks expected to touch on a possible summit between the leaders of the countries later this

Japan | Q&A: The ruckus over Abe’s new military legislation 

The opposition walked out before the vote, and thousands of protesters took to the streets the previous night, but none of that stopped Japan’s lower house of parliament from approving a contentious

Indonesia | 3 airports closed due to eruptions at 2 volcanoes

Eruptions at two volcanoes yesterday caused closures at three Indonesian airports, including one serving the country’s second-largest city. Mount Raung on the main island of Java blasted ash and debris up

Japan | Robots do check-in and check out at cost-cutting hotel

From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that’s an automated trolley taking luggage up to the room, this hotel in southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel,

Greece | MPs vote through harsh austerity package as protests turn violent

Greece’s troubled left-wing government was seeking urgent relief from European lenders yesterday, after it pushed a harsh austerity package through parliament, triggering a revolt in the governing party and violent

Space | Pluto and Charon shock NASA scientists with the unexpected

Cable news channels have been airing the latest images from Pluto all week. Twitter is filled with #PlutoFlyby musings. Popular brands have photoshopped themselves onto the far-away dwarf planet to

This Day in History | 1987 – Ex-Guinness boss owes millions

The High Court heard Mr Ward had acted illegally by failing to disclose a transfer of funds to Guinness’s directors during the £2.5bn takeover of drinks company Distillers Group last

Offbeat | China reprimands online companies for spread of sex video

Sex may sell, but clothing retailer Uniqlo is finding the adage a bit uncomfortable after a Beijing store was said to be the setting of a steamy online video. Online searches

Exclusive interview with Bob Arum | Top Rank to promote 28 boxing events in mainland China next season

For the territory, Mr Arum believes that “it’s very important that Macau brings in boxing and presents boxing in a superior way because I think it shows that are

Boxing | Victory at The Venetian – IK Yang vows to take down Cuenca for first world title

Chinese boxing fighter Yang Lian Hui has pledged to take home the vacant International Boxing Federation junior welterweight world title in a showdown at the Venetian Macao against his undefeated

China’s golden boy rolls up his sleeves for comeback at year-end

China’s two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming’s defeat in the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world championship fight, held in March, barely discouraged him from realizing his world title dream. At

Bizcuits | Hello, Mr Chips

It’s easy to blame massification of tertiary education for the fact that educators have now to consider maintaining discipline in the classroom. In the past, with engaged, clever students, a

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