The Buzz | Eurozone deficit down to lowest level since early 2008

Following years of budget restraint, particularly in Greece, government deficits across the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since before the most acute phase of the

Macau Matters | Another way of supporting new small and medium enterprises

Rightly so, Macau government policies support the creation of new small and medium enterprises. Successful new businesses can create more jobs and wealth if they have an international

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 – edition no. 2790

* Seoul: N. Korea stages large-scale artillery drill to mark anniversary * Returning visitors challenge * Kirby recalls boston marathon run * Polling stations to be increased by six   DOWNLOAD

Trump 100 days: Full transcript of AP interview with the POTUS

A transcript of an Oval Office interview Friday with President Donald Trump by AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace. Where the audio recording of the interview is unclear, ellipses or

Cultural Affairs Bureau | Irregular employment contracts scrapped following CCAC report

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) will terminate employment contracts with 94 of its irregularly recruited staff, as stated in a report released by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC)

Tourism | Visitor arrivals for March show a slight increase

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals showed a 5.7 percent increase year-on-year to 2,501,219 in March, and a slight month-to-month

Legendary plane makes Macau stopover

Boarding the Douglas DC-3 is like returning to the era of black and white movies, when commercial aviation was making its first steps. A model of

Q&A | Rocio Medina – Vice President, Worldwide Nutrition Training: ‘We are living in an epidemic of bad nutrition and obesity’

Former nutrition and obesity professor Rocio Medina, who is one of the designers of a new study program to train professionals in the field at

Illegal inn probe finds several crimes

Acting on a tip-off of an alleged illegal inn operating in the NAPE area, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) investigated the premises and found that not

Rotaract Club of Macau awards trip to Nepal for best project

The 15th Goodwill Ambassador Program organized by the Rotaract Club of Macau has closed by unveiling the winning team, which won a trip to Nepal. The presentation

Second China Space Day marked with astronaut lecture

Macau marked the second anniversary of China’s Space Day yesterday by holding an educational session to promote interest in  astronomy  among young students.

Hong Kong | MTR Airport Express chief requests fee hike

MTR Corporation Chairman Frederick Ma has defended the proposed introduction of fare hikes in Hong Kong’s Airport Express MTR, stating that it is the first fee hike

Briefs | UM to confer honorary doctorate on Nobel laureate

The University of Macau (UM) will confer the Doctor of Science honoris causa on physics Nobel laureate Carl Edwin Wieman today. After the ceremony, Wieman will give a Doctor honoris causa Lecture

Wisconsin tribes clash in casino expansion fight 

At 85, Betty Putnam-Schiel has trouble standing, but she gets along well enough in her home on the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans’ northern Wisconsin reservation thanks to

Analysis | Corporate China needs much better control

When it emerged last week that China Minsheng Banking Corp. had sold USD436 million in suspect wealth-management products, fears rose of a collapse in the loosely

Politechs | Taiwan’s ‘hacker minister’ reshaping digital democracy

Taiwan’s “digital minister” Audrey Tang, a computer prodigy and entrepreneur who taught herself programming at age 8, says she’s a “civic hacker,” who like a locksmith uses

Economy | Jack Ma sees decades of pain as Internet upends old model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy. The world must change

Xi urges restraint on North Korea in phone call with Trump

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for restraint on North Korea in a phone call with Donald Trump, who also spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Briefs | Mainland risks spoiling global markets party as stocks tumble again

While global risk appetite returned yesterday on the heels of France’s presidential election, shares in China bucked the trend, dropping the most in three months. The Shanghai

American Samoa | Pence cites ‘challenging times’ to troops

US Vice President Mike Pence has thanked U.S. service members based in America Samoa, citing “challenging times” for the military in the Asia-Pacific. Completing a

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