Just five months after her party took power, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is facing international pressure over recent reports that soldiers have been killing, raping and burning homes of the country’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims. The U.S. State
Pakistani police launched a nation-wide crackdown overnight, arresting at least 1,500 supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ahead of an opposition rally planned later this week in Islamabad, officials said yesterday. The
Hillary Clinton enters the final full week of the presidential race on defense once again over her use of a private email system. Meanwhile, a newly emboldened Donald Trump is
The UK’s deputy Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe, has resigned. He informed the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of his decision at around 1800 on Thursday. Sir Geoffrey said the reasons for his
Many viewers of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” took the shocking deaths of two fan favorites in the latest season premiere as personally as a death in the family. One Arkansas
No one from Japan has more than Hideki Matsuyama’s three PGA Tour victories. No one from Japan ever won a World Golf Championship. None of this might have been possible if
Vietnam has reported its first case of microcephaly likely linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The 4-month-old girl with an abnormally small head was born in central Vietnam to a mother
IRAQ’s state-sanctioned Shiite militias claim that some 5,000 fighters have joined their push to encircle the country’s second-largest city of Mosul and cut off Islamic State fighters there. CHINA-PHILIPPINES China’s Foreign
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami warned against excluding outsiders and rewriting history as he accepted the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Murakami spoke yesterday in Odense, Denmark, the birthplace of Andersen,
I know this is a recurrent topic and despite the fact that almost everybody has had a few words on the topic, I still think it is necessary to address
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A woman who was raped and nearly murdered on Saturday night has survived the traumatic attack, after a passing motorcyclist discovered her body in a garbage station in Fai Chi
The president of the Legislative Assembly (AL) Ho Iat Seng announced at the AL’s Open Day on Saturday that the government and the law-making body have come to an agreement
Another powerful earthquake shook Central Italy yesterday, sending panicked residents running into piazzas, raining boulders onto highways and toppling a Benedictine cathedral and other historic edifices that had withstood several
South Korean airline Jeju Air yesterday inaugurated a new route connecting Macau to Seoul’s Incheon airport. In a ceremony held yesterday afternoon at the departure hall of the Macau International Airport
The 7th Sands China Macau Eco TrailHiker took place Saturday along different natural trails in Coloane. The event attracted 2,000 participants with registration filling up in a record time of
As the Golden Week of China’s National Day came to an end, the Macao Economic Services (MES) interviewed 1,200 merchants in the Macau Peninsula and Taipa to investigate the situation
Portuguese- style gastronomy, music, dance, games and street decorations filled the area around the Taipa Houses-Museum during the the 19th Lusofonia Festival. The three-day festival associated with the culture of the
Organised by the Sport Bureau (ID), the activity “Walk in the Mountain – Fall” was held yesterday morning at the Hac Sa Reservoir Country Park, attracting about 2,000 participants. Several
Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries fell 11.22 percent in the first eight months of the year compared to the same period of 2015, according to figures from the Chinese
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