This Day in History | 1978 – Nightclub ordered to lift race ban

A Birmingham nightclub has been ordered to open its doors to black and Chinese people. The year-long investigation into popular nightspot Pollyanna’s was held

Football – Champions League Preview | Barcelona, Manchester City look to seal spots in last 16

Thursday, 3:45am Celtic v Barcelona H 12, D 6.25, A 1.3 Lionel Messi is back, and that’s the best news Barcelona could have ahead of its Champions

Goal of the year | Messi, Neymar, Robson-Kanu go for FIFA award

Lionel Messi, Neymar and a Johan Cruyff-style turn from Hal Robson-Kanu are among 10 candidates to win the FIFA Puskas Award for goal of the year. Messi has been

The Buzz | Police seize party drug MDMA in Sydney and arrest two Chinese

An Australian police operation has seized more than 500 kilograms of the party drug MDMA in Sydney worth 60 million Australian dollars (USD44 million) and arrested two Chinese

World briefs

JAPAN’s Meteorological Agency says the earthquake that struck yesterday off Fukushima was an aftershock of the massive 2011 quake. Northeastern Japan was jolted by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake. “But nothing

Vehicle pile-up leaves 17 people dead, 37 injured

Dozens of vehicles collided amid snowy weather in northern China, leaving 17 dead and 37 injured, state media reported yesterday. A total of 56 vehicles were involved

Public to vote on names for Atlanta zoo’s twin panda cubs

Atlanta’s zoo is inviting the public to vote on names for twin giant panda cubs born in September. The twin pandas will be named on

Views on China | In Trump versus China, everyone can win

For now, China’s leaders seem to be discounting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to punish them for allegedly unfair trade practices. The fact is that if they were to

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 – edition no. 2690

* Chinese-made USD100 billion city near Singapore ‘scares everybody’ * Hengqin: more land made available to Macau * Political reform, the skeleton in the closet * Transasia to shut down after suffering losses   DOWNLOAD

AL Plenary | Government budget continues to increase in 2017

The Legislative Assembly has passed the government’s proposed budget for 2017, albeit with many doubts raised by the lawmakers. The budget for next year is estimated to

MDT Interview | Norbert Riezler, LVS: Macau is ‘our center of excellence  for furniture buying globally’

Meet Norbert Riezler, an Austrian-born American, in his 40s, who holds two key positions in Las Vegas Sands’ management and strategy. His double-task is to

No blueprint for medical professionals, groups say

Two medical groups are disappointed over the Chief Executive’s 2017 Policy Address last week concerning local health care infrastructure, stressing the need for a “more proactive approach” tothe currently

Macao Big Data Forum 2016 | Computer engineers voice opinions on smart city development

Three experts on data management were invited to the University of Macau, to participate in the Macao Big Data Forum 2016, last week. Their expertise was called

Bill to ban construction in Coloane vetoed for the third time

For the third time, a proposal that aims to protect Coloane’s environment in a more meaningful way has been rejected in the Legislative Assembly. The motion was supported by

Seminar discusses banality of fraud

A  seminar on fraud and ways to detect it in modern businesses and public institutions was held last week at the Master in European Studies Alumni Association,

IFT plans to create training hotels on its Taipa campus

The first training program at the Global Center for Tourism Education on “Tourism Capacity Building for Government and Public Officials,” concluded yesterday. The event was attended by

Briefs | IPM first place in debating contest

Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM) was awarded first prize at the 7th  IPM Portuguese Debating Competition for Higher Education Institutions in China and Asia. Held last week at

Corporate bits | Sands China hosts fifth cohort of graduates

Sands Retail Academy recognized its fifth cohort of graduates last week at a graduation ceremony at Conrad Macao, Cotai Central, honoring the latest group of Sands Shoppes

Asia-Pacific summit closes with call to work for free trade

Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific nations ended their annual summit with a call to resist protectionism amid signs of increased free-trade skepticism, highlighted by the victory of Donald Trump

Three black Americans see China as their land of opportunity

Entertainer Douglass Fearon attributes part of his success to the fact that “I’m an anomaly — I’m a black man in China.” For some of the relatively few

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