China-Singapore tensions spill into open after customs spat

For decades, Singapore has walked a careful line between the U.S. and China. Now, the tiny Southeast Asian state is finding itself in Beijing’s cross hairs. China has

USA | Obama welcomes four Nobel Prize laureates, minus Dylan

President Barack Obama welcomed four recipients of the Nobel Prize to the White House yesterday . Singer Bob Dylan wasn’t among them. Obama used the Oval

The Andes tragedy | Pilot told Colombia controllers ‘no fuel’ before crash

The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to

Offbeat | Dog lost, then found by Mexican airline

Photographs on the airline’s Twitter account this week show Mika reunited with her owner Pamela Alvarez of Houston. Details were not immediately available on where the

This Day in History | 1954 US pledges to defend Nationalist China

US President Dwight D Eisenhower has announced the signing of a pact of mutual security with the Nationalist Chinese Government. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles

Football – EPL | Under pressure: Pardew’s position looking fragile at Palace

It took Swansea’s new American owners less than three months to make their first managerial change, installing Bob Bradley in a bid to steer the club to

World briefs

PHILIPPINES Police officials say they have captured two local sympathizers of the Islamic State group who tried to detonate a bomb near the U.S. Embassy, prompting authorities

The Buzz | Docomomo to hold heritage seminar

Docomomo Macau has organized the “3rd Docomomo Macau Seminar – Hertiage Protection Strategies”, which will take place tonight at 6 p.m. in the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT)

Bizcuits | On/off again, Japan casinos

In the latter part of the year, for the last few years, there have been storms of analysts and would-be investors in Japan’s casino IRs talking up the

Airbnb agrees to limit private rentals in Amsterdam

Airbnb has agreed to limit private home rentals in Amsterdam, in a move city authorities had wanted to curb complaints about illegal hotels. The Dutch capital and the online

Friday, December 2, 2016 – edition no. 2697

* Official survey | China factory activity rises to 2-year high * Memories of a Macanese * Alexis Tam rolls out plans * Father-daughter duo set for classical recital   DOWNLOAD

Paris’ Secret

* Movies: Jackie * Books: Ruler of the Night" by David Morrell * Music: 24K Magic by Bruno Mars * Wine: The Vinous

In ‘Jackie,’ a fractured Kennedy fable

 History, lately run amok, is ordered with such tidy, forceful finesse by Natalie Portman’s Jacqueline Kennedy in in the piercing “Jackie.” Summoning a journalist to Hyannis Port in 1963,

‘Ruler of the Night’ transports readers to Victorian London

David Morrell’s conclusion to the trilogy featuring Thomas De Quincey is another example of stellar writing and storytelling. In the two previous novels featuring the essayist and opium

Bruno Mars channels ‘90s R&B grooves on ‘24K Magic’

Bruno Mars pays homage to his musical influences with a groovy, R&B- inspired collection that sounds straight outta the ‘90s. “24K Magic” is a party album that recalls

News of the World | Victoria’s Secret rocks Paris with USD3m bra and Lady Gaga

ANGELS IN RED Guests shuffled into the huge steel-and-glass atrium of Paris' Grand Palais to the sound of a string orchestra playing softly from a huge Arc

The Vinous Bel Canto

Covering just under 22,300 sqkm and with a total population of approximately 3.75 million, Tuscany (Toscana) is the fifth largest and ninth most populous amongst Italy’s 20 regions.

Food & Beverage | Cheers! Culture you can drink: Belgian beer gets UN approval

Next time you raise a glass of Belgian beer, rest assured: It’s a cultural experience. UNESCO added Belgian beer to the list of the “Intangible Cultural Heritage

Hong Kong | Disqualified separatist lawmakers lose appeal

Two separatist Hong Kong lawmakers lost their appeal yesterday against a ruling disqualifying them from office because they altered their oaths with an anti-China insult. The Court of

Elections | Law revision triggers alarm over democratic prospects

A revision to Macau’s Legislative Assembly (AL) Election Law that would bar AL candidates from standing for office if they are found to have violated the territory’s Basic Law,

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