China begins to ease its 2,000-year-old monopoly on salt

China has started an overhaul of its salt industry, easing a monopoly that has existed in some form for more than 2,000 years and predates the Great Wall.

Trump claim on N. Korean nukes may underestimate program

U.S. President- elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to vow that North Korea won’t develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the United States.

Video weakens Myanmar claims it’s not abusing Rohingya

Newly revealed video of Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state has weakened months of government claims that its forces have not committed abuses in the tense

South Korea | President refuses to testify in impeachment trial

South Korean President Park Geun-hye refused to testify yesterday in the impeachment trial that will decide her future, prompting the prosecutors to question why she has publicly

Indonesia terminates JPMorgan partnerships after downgrade

Indonesia’s government said it terminated all business partnerships with JPMorgan Chase & Co. after the U.S. bank downgraded its assessment of Southeast Asia’s largest economy following Donald Trump’s election

France | Left-wing candidates take risky stance: pro-Europe 

Two men hoping to clinch the left-wing nomination for France’s presidential race are pursuing a risky strategy: They want to save the much- maligned European Union.

Spain | Border guards find migrants hidden in suitcase, car

Guards on the border of Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, say they have recently detained one Moroccan suspected of attempting to smuggle migrants concealed in a suitcase

US | Republicans primed for push to dismantle Obama’s policies 

Members of the 115th Congress were sworn in yesterday, setting off an aggressive campaign by Republicans who control the House and Senate to dismantle eight years of

Germany | Interior minister proposes domestic security shake-up

Germany’s interior minister is proposing a security shake-up that could include creating “federal departure centers” to ease the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers and centralizing the country’s

This Day in History | 1958 – Explorer Hillary arrives at South Pole

Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott’s expedition in 1912. The

Offbeat | Twins delivered minutes apart have different birth years

Twins delivered 10 minutes apart at an Arizona hospital over the New Year’s weekend have different birth years. Phoenix TV station KNXV-TV reported that parents Holly

Skiing Shiffrin skies out in first run, misses cup slalom record

Mikaela Shiffrin’s seven-race winning streak in women’s World Cup slaloms came to end yesterday, leaving the American one short of the record for most consecutive victories in the discipline.

Football – EPL | Guardiola tetchy despite City beating Burnley with 10 men

Pep Guardiola was tetchy and terse even though his Manchester City side needed only 10 men to beat Burnley 2-1 on Monday in a swift recovery from

The Buzz | Annotated version of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ a hit in Germany

An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. News agency dpa reported yesterday that 85,000 copies of the book

World briefs

CHINA has started an overhaul of its salt industry, easing a monopoly that has existed in some form for more than 2,000 years and predates the Great Wall. 

Singapore | Home prices fall for third year amid gov’t curbs

Singapore home prices fell 3 percent in 2016, the third straight year of declines as the government held steadfast on property cooling measures. An index

Views on Asia | Japan tries to break the culture of workaholism

The same problems come up again and again in discussions of what Japan needs to do to revive its economy. The first is low white-collar productivity. The second

Tuesday, January 4, 2017 – edition no. 2017

* Ex-Hong Kong chief Tsang pleads not guilty to bribery charge * New health record scheme * ‘Old Macau’ blogger prepares biography * Factories violated anti-smog measures   DOWNLOAD

Airport passenger volume reaches record high 6.6m

Macau International Airport (MIA) reported yesterday a record of 6.6 million passenger traffic volume in 2016, with over 56,000 aircraft movements, representing a 14 percent and 2 percent increase respectively

Gaming revenue extends recovery to rise 8 percent in December

Casino revenue in Macau increased in December, extending the industry’s recovery to a fifth month as the Chinese gambling hub’s efforts to reinvent itself drew more tourists from beyond

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