Offbeat | US YouTube star in Thailand finds coin stunt falls flat

An American expat in Thailand who is a YouTube star with 3.29 million subscribers is in hot water for posting a video of an age-old practice among kids:

This Day in Hhistory | 1965 – South Korea’s first president dies in exile

The former leader of the Republic of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, has died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90. In

Football | FIFA’s second most senior official arrested in graft probe

Police arrested the head of Spain’s soccer federation, throwing the leadership of the sport in the World Cup-winning nation into disarray a year before the next

Golf – British Open | Lego scene recreates Justin Rose’s Birkdale moment

Royal Birkdale is where it all began for Justin Rose. Now, there’s a Lego scene to prove it. Rose was a slight 17-year-old golfer

Cycling – Tour de France | Matthews wins Stage 16, Froome keeps yellow jersey

Michael Matthews won a sprint to the line on Stage 16 of the Tour de France as Britain’s Chris Froome kept the yellow jersey yesterday

World briefs

US-IRAN The Trump administration slapped 18 Iranian individuals and groups with sanctions yesterday for aiding the country’s non-nuclear weapons programs, in a bid to show that

The Buzz | Doctors find 27 contact lenses in woman’s eye

Doctors intending to perform cataract surgery on a 67-year-old woman in Britain found something rather unexpected: 17 contact lenses mashed together in her right eye. In a

Macau Matters | Flawed Career Expectations

For the first time since 2009, I have recently started teaching Project Management courses for university undergraduates. (By the way, I strongly believe that understanding teams and projects

Turkey Six human rights activists jailed pending trial

A court in Istanbul ordered six human rights activists — including Amnesty International’s Turkey director — formally arrested yesterday pending a trial over accusations that they aided an armed terror

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – edition no. 2847

* Japan says this is a time to raise pressure on North Korea * UM to admit 1,535 local students this year * Dead dolphin found floating off coast * ‘Passionate about cinema’   DOWNLOAD

Uber Macau suspends ride-sharing services

Uber Macau is suspending its services from this Friday, after nearly two years of operating in the MSAR, a region with no regulations in relation to

Aged Portuguese mansion a window into India colonial history

Age sits lightly on the sprawling, 4-centuries- old Figueiredo Mansion. The home is a lived-in repository of memories tracing to the days when the west-coast Indian

Macao Orchestra launches 2017-18 Concert Season

The Macao Orchestra (OM) launched its 2017-18 Concert Season, themed “Along with the musical joy” yesterday at Mandarin Oriental Macau. The new season, which

Crime | Mainland men lost HKD200,000 to casino fraud

Three mainland men were cheated out of HKD200,000 by a mainland man who claimed to be a junket promoter in Macau, the PJ announced yesterday.

Anima petitions for global greyhound adoption campaign

Animal rights group Anima (Macau) has appealed to organizations around the world to volunteer for the adoption of some 650 greyhounds once the Macau (Yat Yuen)

Briefs | Junket association calls for stricter requirements

Kwok Chi Chung, president of the Association of Gaming & Entertainment Promoters of Macau, has said that the MSAR government’s financial requirements for junket promoters are too

Education | Portuguese-speaking academics to gather in Macau

The 12th International Congress of the Lusitanian Association (Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas) (AIL) will be held for the first time in the East, in Macau.

Hong Kong’s cartel cop sees staff exit amid fight for change

It took 10 years of talks for Hong Kong to pass an antitrust law. But about 18 months after it took effect, the city’s Competition

Corporate bits | Top honors for MGM in institutional investor magazine

MGM China Holdings Limited has received six awards from a leading financial publication, Institutional Investor. The company received honors in all polled categories under the gaming and lodging

Scholar defends Chinese-American researcher jailed in Iran 

A Chinese-American graduate student sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly “infiltrating” the country and sending confidential material abroad is innocent of all charges

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