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

Koreas Tension | South, allies brace for North follow-up act

Fresh off an immense North Korean parade that revealed an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, rival South Korea and its allies are bracing for the

Vietnam bank aims to fetch USD700m selling major stake

The first Vietnamese bank granted government approval to sell a majority stake to a foreign investor could attract an investment of at least USD700 million. Saigon

The Buzz | Trump’s presidency: The 100-day milestone

For a little over 100 days, President Donald Trump has rattled Washington and been chastened by its institutions. He’s startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough

France | Vote for Macron, Le Pen shuts out mainstream politics

French voters shut out the country’s political mainstream from the presidency for the first time in the country’s modern history, and yesterday found themselves being courted

French stocks soar to near-decade highs as Macron tops poll

As relief rallies go, this may be as good as they come. European markets have jumped higher, with France’s main index hitting its highest

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