Star Chinese investor pleads guilty in stock case

A celebrity Chinese stock trader who was arrested after last year's market collapse has pleaded guilty to insider trading and manipulating share prices, a court announced yesterday. Xu Xiang

Human Rights Watch | Mainland’s opaque anti-graft probes rife with abuse

Torture, solitary confinement and coerced confessions are rife in investigations of Chinese Communist Party officials detained on suspicion of corruption, according to a report issued yesterday by Human Rights

South Sudan | Another 120 peacekeepers deployed

The first 120 troops of a 700-member Chinese U.N. peacekeeping force have departed for South Sudan, deepening China's commitment to the troubled East African nation, where two of its

Bangladesh | Rohingya who fled Myanmar recount killings, rapes, burnings

The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors

Briefs | Thailand – New king appoints small council

Thailand's new king named an 11-member council of advisers yesterday, bringing in three new officials, including a former army chief and two representatives of the ruling junta.

South Korea | Lawmakers say president will accept impeachment outcome

South Korean President Park Geun-hye is willing to "calmly" accept the outcome if the opposition-controlled parliament votes for her impeachment this week, but prefers to resign on her own

Japan | Abe won’t apologize at Pearl Harbor

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won't apologize for Japan's attack when he visits the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor later this month, a government spokesman said yesterday. Chief

NATO chief trumpets new ‘momentum’ with EU military ties

NATO and the European Union are moving forward on deepening cooperation, the alliance's chief said yesterday, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump insists European allies start pulling their own military

Putin’s Russia seeks to project power with modern military

With an aircraft carrier deployed off Syria's shores and hundreds of new jets, missiles and tanks entering service each year, President Vladimir Putin can project Russian military power on

Offbeat | Police nab suspects, fowl accomplice in break-in

Two suspects in a weekend break-in at a Massachusetts convenience store had a fowl accomplice. Northampton officers investigating a robbery in progress at a store quickly found two men

This Day in History | 1993 – Activists lose battle over chestnut tree

Dozens of people have been injured at the end of a 20-year battle to save a 250-year-old chestnut tree in east London. Twenty protesters were arrested after they

Golf | More time needed before Tiger Woods is judged by his scores

A flop shot that required feel. A wedge to a back pin that he had to trust. Tiger Woods followed those two birdies with a perfect 6-iron that he

World briefs

CHINA-SOUTH SUDAN The first 120 troops of a 700-member Chinese U.N. peacekeeping force depart for South Sudan, deepening China's commitment to the troubled East African nation, where two of

The Buzz | Court rejects Hou Chio Meng’s appeal, trial starts Friday

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) rejected the request filed by former prosecutor general, Hou Chio Meng, contesting the participation of the court’s president, Sam Hou Fai, in the

Poland’s top court upholds refusal to extradite Polanski

Poland's Supreme Court yesterday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. The ruling upholds the decision of a lower court

Macau Matters | Coin Concerns

Everybody in the developed world is very familiar with the problems posed by coins. When you buy stuff with cash you pay mostly with notes and get change mostly

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 – edition no. 2700

* PISA TEST | Macau students are getting smarter * Rueibin Chen | The Pianist * Its the Housing, Stupid * IFFAM Names attending directors and producers * Uber

Repossessed lands to be back in the market in public tender

The Secretary Raimundo do Rosário has announced that several lands reclaimed by the government will be put out for public tenders next year. Raimundo’s statements

Policy Address – Raimundo do Rosário | Public transportation and waste separation heavily discussed

The major concern raised by lawmakers yesterday was over the city’s problematic transportation system. The inefficiencies of the system have been evident in traffic jams, traffic

Reports lead to prosecutions of drug consumption

Two reports, one from a shopping mall and another from the public hospital (CHCSJ) have led to separate accounts of the prosecution of two Macau residents on

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