Friday, July 17, 2015 – edition no. 2358

* Bob Arum announces 28 boxing events in mainland China next season * Alexis Tam visits Portugal * Architects want to preserve Hotel Estoril * Japan’s parliament oks expanded military role   DOWNLOAD

Guzman II : The grand escape

* Movies: Irrational Man * Books: Armada by Ernest Cline * Music: The Cure  by Jah Cure, * Wine: The Mediterranean Heart II * Food: Democratization Of Good Food   DOWNLOAD

Allen’s latest is a meditation on meaning and murder

Woody Allen has always been interested in man’s search for meaning in life — a search he clearly sees as futile. Who can forget the young woman in “Play it

Ernest Cline returns with new novel, ‘Armada’

Zack is a high school senior, and he’s counting the days until he graduates. He works at a video game store that specializes in classic games. Zack and his friends

Jah Cure delivers certified classic with ‘The Cure’

Jah Cure, one of Jamaica’s most talented contemporary artists, brings musical therapy to your ears with his latest album, “The Cure.” Cure, who co-produced the album, branches out of his comfort

News of the World | Drug lord’s escape tunnel an audacious feat of engineering

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the most wanted of Mexico’s drug lords, would have breezed along the mile-long tunnel dug just for him on a specially modified motorcycle or one of

The Mediterranean Heart II

(Continued from “The Mediterranean Heart” on 15 May 2015) There are but a handful of wine regions that are simultaneously UNESCO World Heritage Sites, eg. Austria’s Wachau, Germany’s Rhine Gorge, Hungary’s

Food | democratization of good food

I believe we'd all agree that we have many top-notch restaurants in Macau, yet almost all of them are located inside hotel properties. However, sometimes we just do not feel like

Pool | Redfoo bringing down the house

The pool party season kicked off last Saturday with the return of the region’s longest running and most loved pool party – Splash at the City of Dreams. This year,

The Buzz | Portugal’s prime minister cites Greece as warning for voters

Portugal’s prime minister is pointing to Greece’s troubles as he seeks to persuade voters to re-elect his center-right coalition government and reject anti-austerity proposals from the main opposition Socialist Party. With

World Series of Poker | 9 players left, 1 will win USD7.7 million in November

For nine poker players, the dream is just beginning after they outlasted 6,411 others in days of near marathon-length games to advance to the final table of the World Series

World Briefs

TIBET Chinese authorities have refused to release the body of a Tibetan lama who died in a Chinese prison, prompting a sit-in outside the prison by more than 100 Tibetans,

PJ records increase in gaming-related crime

There has been an increase in gaming-related crimes, namely illegal detention and  loan-sharking in casinos, revealed Chau Wai Kuong, director of the Judiciary Police (PJ), yesterday morning at the police

French National Day Reception | ‘Our partnership is stronger than ever’

Diplomatic relations between France and China have never been so good, the French Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau claimed yesterday. A reception to celebrate the French National Day,

Boxing | Rex Tso and Ng Kuok Kun visit Fuhong Society’s Happy Market

The Fuhong Society of Macau is a non-profit organization founded by a group of volunteers to serve the needs of Macau’s mentally handicapped community. Happy Market is a social enterprise

JLL foresees a stable property market before year-end

The property market in the region is expected to progress steadily in the second half of the year despite the plummeting gaming revenue, according to analysts at the local branch

GAMING ALERT | Boston says Wynn reps knew of mob ties to land

Recently discovered interviews with at least five people suggest Wynn Resorts knew a mob associate with felony convictions would profit from his stake in the waterfront land where the Las

Born in Macau, yet still non-resident | Parents of sick baby faced with astronomical hospital bills

Baby Chyn’s parents have launched a fundraising campaign on Facebook and Indiegogo to gather funds for the operation. As they’re both non-resident workers, their baby daughter is not entitled to any

Macau Slot profits from World Cup

Macau Slot’s profits rose to MOP121.84 million in 2014, MOP18.4 million more than in the previous year. The better results, published yesterday in the Official Gazette, have been attributed to

10 years after UNESCO listing | IC organizes guided visits to heritage sites

Before attending university, Liu Ziliang wants “to know the world,” and hence decided to join yesterday’s guided visit of Macau’s cultural heritage, which he believes differs from Chinese heritage due

Tsipras braves parliament on aid as Greek outlook worsens

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras braved a revolt in his own party as parliament in Athens began to debate a bailout of up to 86 billion euros (USD95 billion) that

Corporate Bits | Mastercard masterpass arrives in hong kong

MasterCard yesterday launched MasterPass, a new digital payment platform, for the first time in Hong Kong. With MasterPass, consumers can securely store their MasterCard and other branded card information all

Portugal suspends issuing golden visas

The decision is the result of a legal vacuum created by new law 63/2015, which does not regulate certain matters that were originally written in the form of legal articles

China supports professional training in Angola

Angola continues to experience rapid socio-economic development, which means it is urgent to implement continual training of its citizens, the Chinese Ambassador to Angola said Tuesday in Luanda. Ambassador Gao Kexiang

2Q economic growth steady at 7 percent

China’s economic growth in the latest quarter held steady at 7 percent, its weakest performance since the global crisis, but better retail sales and factory output in June suggested efforts to

Hong Kong | Regulator orders Hanergy stock to remain frozen 

Hong Kong’s securities watchdog took the unusual step yesterday of ordering a stock trading suspension to remain in place for a Chinese solar panel maker it’s investigating after a plunge

Authorities detain 20 foreigners from South Africa, UK, India

A group of 20 travelers from Britain, South Africa and India were detained in northern China, a relative said yesterday. A South African aid group said some of them are accused

Tibet | Family fails to get lama’s body after prison death

Chinese authorities have refused to release the body of a Tibetan lama who died in a Chinese prison, prompting a sit- in outside the prison by more than 100 Tibetans, a

Reform politician Wan Li dies at 99

Wan Li, a Chinese politician known for his reform policies, died yesterday at the age of 99, state media said. The state-run digital publication The Paper, citing Wan’s son, said he

Japan | Protests rage in Tokyo as Abe’s security bills look to expand military role

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bills to expand the role of the military will go to a lower house vote today, after weeks of debate that has eroded his support

South Korea | Gov’t picks China consortium to lift sunken ferry 

South Korea yesterday selected a Chinese-led consortium as a preferred bidder to salvage a sunken ferry that killed more than 300 people in April last year in one of the

Germany | Former Auschwitz guard, 94, convicted as accessory to murder

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted yesterday on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison. Oskar Groening

Iran nuclear deal | Fine ‘new chapter’ or ‘historic mistake’? 

Overcoming decades of hostility, Iran, the United States, and five other world powers struck a historic accord Tuesday to check Tehran’s nuclear efforts short of building a bomb. The agreement could

This Day in HIstory | 1995 Serbs force Muslims out of Srebrenica

United Nations officials say it is the biggest “ethnic cleansing” operation since World War II. Some 40,000 women, children and elderly people have been ordered to leave the compound at Potocari

Offbeat | Polish cow on the run for 2 years is finally caught

Matylda finally moo’ved back home. The cow escaped from her Polish farm two years ago and lived a life on the lam in a nearby forest, sometimes damaging crops. She has

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