US A pair of 70-year-old reservoir dams that protect downtown Houston and a levee in a suburban subdivision began overflowing yesterday, adding to the rising floodwaters from Harvey
A 92-year-old local male resident was found dead in Sai Van Lake in Macau yesterday, according to a report by TDM. The Judiciary Police (PJ) has preliminarily confirmed
An Indiana senator who is a longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries says he’s finalizing his sale of stock in a family arts and
The government performance in managing the recent crisis caused by Typhoon Hato has revealed some major problems of governance in Macau. All the textbooks on managing crises, especially
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The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has initiated an inquiry into the procedures of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) for typhoon forecasting and internal management of
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee yesterday continued its review of the draft laws on the national anthem, suggesting the inclusion of the national anthem in
Two local siblings, a 73-year-old man and his 68-year-old sister, have been presented to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for spreading rumors related to the typhoon,
It was mid-morning on Wednesday, August 23, when Typhoon Hato violently hit Macau, creating dreadful havoc for anything in its path. Almost all the areas
The 29th Macao International Fireworks Display Contest, which was slated to begin on September 2, has been cancelled, following an official announcement. The government has announced that a
Both the water and electricity supply have been reestablished to almost everyone, according to information provided by persons responsible for both utilities in a joint press conference,
Authorities in California say they have found a smuggling tunnel that carried dozens of people across the border from Mexico into the United States. Agents detained 23 Chinese
World stocks were mostly lower yesterday as the euro’s gains sent European shares lower and investors waited for damage assessments from Tropical Storm Harvey, which battered Texas’
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been named Uber’s top executive, taking the difficult job of mending the dysfunctional ride-hailing giant and turning it from money-losing behemoth to
The capacity of China’s central bank to surprise markets is so great that, last week, it left investors chewing over whether a data error was a policy
The Chinese conglomerate that owns Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment yesterday denied a report by a U.S. website that its chairman was detained by Chinese authorities that prompted
China’s government announced yesterday it will combine the world’s biggest coal producer and a major power utility as part of a marathon campaign to make state industry,
A proposed Chinese law threatens those making inappropriate use of the country’s national anthem with up to 15 days in jail, state media reported yesterday, amid
India and China have agreed to pull back their troops from a face-off in the high Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet, signaling a thaw in
A would-be suicide bomber was sentenced to seven and a half years prison for plotting to bomb a guard-changing ceremony at Indonesia’s presidential palace in Jakarta, her lawyer said
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