The Buzz: Huge magma chamber spied under Yellowstone supervolcano

The discovery fills a missing link in Yellowstone’s volcanic plumbing system. But scientists said it doesn’t increase the risk of an eruption, which is estimated to happen every 700,000 years. Researchers

Nobel Laureate | Shuji Nakamura: Education system should change to get youth involved in science

The education system in Asia must be improved in order to engage more young people in science, said Nobel Prize winner Shuji Nakamura. The Japanese professor, who invented blue LED

World Briefs

MALAYSIAN police said yesterday that they have detained 12 men with suspected links to the Islamic state group who are believed to be plotting attacks on strategic government targets in

Republican Meeting-Jewish Coalition : Presidential bets in Vegas

Inside a conference room Friday night at the Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip, top boosters for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker mingled with some of his biggest potential donors, including

Tourism | MGTO attends PATA Board meeting in Sichuan

The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) attended the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Board Meeting held in Leshan, Sichuan province yesterday. Throughout the last few days of the conference, MGTO

Gaming | US-based union on the watch for junkets

US-based International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) has sponsored the launch of a website called Macau Gaming Watch. The organization, which claims to represent over 2,000 stationary engineers in Nevada

Blast at Coloane power station injures one CEM employee

The blaze, which broke out around 10:30 a.m, was extinguished within six minutes by the fire service that arrived on the scene shortly after. The G08 generation unit at the

CRIME | Suspected member of Korean prostitution ring arrested

A Korean man approached the police authorities at the airport asking for help over the weekend as he was subjected to illegal detention and physical violence by four other Korean

GGCT raises travel alert for Nepal

The city’s Tourism Crisis Management Office issued a travel caution yesterday afternoon, warning local citizens to ditch trips to the quake-ravaged country of Nepal. The office said it has so

Elaine Wynn loses dissident drive to retain Wynn board seat

Elaine Wynn lost her bid for re-election to the board of Wynn Resorts Ltd. after failing to win over enough shareholders to back her dissident campaign. Wynn, 72, was asking investors

Jean-Jacques Annaud delivers lecture at MUST

French film director Jean-Jacques Annaud gave a lecture to Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) students on Friday for the MUST International Film Exhibition Lecture. The lecture focused on

Health | Hospital publicizes new infant death, doctors call for vaccination

Doctors from the Conde de São Januário Central Hospital (CHCSJ) explained that the main cause of the child’s death was not the influenza B strain of the virus but multiple

Expert calls for specific legislation on fundamental rights

Paulo Cardinal, legal adviser to the Legislative Assembly over the past 20 years, launched his book “Studies on Fundamental Rights in Macau’s legal system” last week at the Rui Cunha

International Museum Day carnival

Analysis | Cirque du Soleil will have a tough time in China

It’s no secret that Cirque du Soleil has been in need of a savior. After spreading to 271 cities around the world in the 1990s and 2000s, the producer of

Corporate Bits | MGM offers recreational tour to IFT students

On April 21, MGM Macau partnered with Special Olympics Macau and the Charity Association of Macau Business Readers to organize an Art Workshop for more than 60 Special Olympics athletes

Angola plans to raise external funding

The Angolan government plans to raise USD10 billion to build infrastructure that it considers essential, including a new oil refinery, the Angolan Economy minister told the Financial Times. “There are projects

Mozambique | Int’l construction fair held in 2016

The 1st Mozambique International Construction Fair is due to take place in the first half of 2016 under an agreement signed Thursday in Maputo by the Portuguese Industrial Association Foundation

Feminist: Long hours of interrogations after release 

One of five leading Chinese feminist advocates said she went through lengthy and verbally abusive interrogations after she was conditionally released in a case that has attracted international attention. Wu Rongrong,

South China Sea | Philippines urges ASEAN to stop Beijing

  The Philippines yesterday urged its fellow Southeast Asian countries to take immediate steps to halt land reclamation by China in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, warning that

Nepal | More than 2,500 confirmed dead in earthquake

Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, the Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing yesterday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,500

WWI ANZAC Anniversary | Thousands honor soldiers on 100th year of Gallipoli battle 

For the first time at age 95, Bill Grayden has come to Gallipoli, where his father stormed the beach and took a bullet through his lung during the ill-fated British-led World

Japan | Man arrested over drone at prime minister’s office

Japanese police have arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone with low-level radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s nuclear energy

USA | Thousands march in Baltimore protest

Thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand answers in the case of Freddie Gray, the largest rally since the 25-year-old black man died in police custody. After hours

White House Correspondents’ dinner | Obama turns 2016 hopefuls into comic fodder

A presidential election just getting into gear provided U.S. President Barack Obama plenty of new material to work with on the night he describes as Washington celebrating itself. “It’s amazing how time flies,” Obama told

This Day in History | 1971 – Protest disrupts Welsh language trial

The case, in which the eight are accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English language road signs in Wales during a rally last December, is regarded as a

Offbeat | Angola opposition allege police killed 700 sect members

Angolan authorities cordoned off an area where police and armed religious sect members clashed last week, leaving hundreds dead, according to the main opposition party. Journalists, human-rights activists and family members

Golf | Wu wins Volvo China Open for 1st European Tour title

With two Chinese golfers tied for the lead going into the final round of the Volvo China Open, there was a good chance one of them would become the first

Juventus beaten 2-1 by Torino in derby marred by violence

Juventus was prevented from clinching a fourth consecutive Serie A title with a 2-1 loss at Torino yesterday in a derby marred by fan violence. After Andrea Pirlo put Juventus ahead

OCA secretary says Bach visit is boost for Indian sports

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s visit to India will boost the profile of Olympic sports in the country regardless of whether it bids for the Games, according to a

Rear Window | May power

Inspired by the slogan that proclaims “Only Macau is Macau”, we are ready to believe this presumed uniqueness and stubborn localism refers to everything going on the small territory. In

Ask the Vet | Feline Onychectomy (Cat Declawing) Pros and Cons

Cat Declawing Surgical Procedures A human’s nail is actually a type of skin and if torn off, the nail will grow back. Cat’s claws attach to bone. During a declaw surgery, the bone that

NATURE | Olympic sailing events may be moved from Rio’s polluted bay

The world governing body of sailing threatened Friday to move all of its events for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics out of the city’s Guanabara Bay if action isn’t

China debt mess brings out the Yin and Yang in policy makers

China has a USD28 trillion problem. That’s the country’s total government, corporate and household debt load as of mid-2014, according to McKinsey & Co. It’s equal to 282 percent of

Monday, April 27, 2015 – edition no. 2299

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