Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet has risen to a two-year high in separate opinion polls published this week by public broadcaster NHK and the Yomiuri newspaper. The Abe
Government plans to hold an opinion poll in February on whether gay marriage should be legalized in Australia suffered a blow yesterday when a gay government senator announced that he opposed the
Police arrested nearly 400 people for looting and vandalism in India’s information technology hub of Bangalore after a curfew was imposed to quell violence set off by a court ruling
World leaders need to better manage the frustration over the failure of globalization to deliver widely shared benefits, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. While the world has enjoyed unprecedented economic
The Dalai Lama says there should be dialogue with Islamic State extremists to end bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, and argues that religion is never a justification for killing. The Tibetan
The politician who led the drive to impeach president Dilma Rousseff lost his mandate himself during a congressional trial that could rattle her successor’s government. An overwhelming majority of 450 Brazilian
Two days after the British Government ordered the expulsion of 25 alleged Soviet spies, the USSR has retaliated by throwing out 25 British nationals. It follows the defection of Soviet double-agent
More than 200 of Cambodia’s nearly extinct royal turtles were released yesterday in muddy waters at a new breeding and conservation center that was built in hopes of keeping the
The favorite to become UEFA president has criticized the secret deal - accelerated ahead of today’s election - guaranteeing four Champions League group-stage places for Europe’s top four leagues. In an
Singapore says it is investigating the strain and severity of its locally transmitted Zika virus, amid a rising number of cases. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong told Parliament yesterday that it
CHINA’s booming electric vehicle industry, a flagship for Beijing’s technology ambitions, has been rocked by scandal after five companies were caught collecting millions of dollars in subsidies for buses they
At the neoclassical Concert House in Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt, busts of German composers Beethoven, Bach and Handel looked on as the 65 musicians took their seats for a sold-out weekend concert. The
I note with interest the recent sit-in by a subcontractor complaining about construction and progress payment delays on the project to develop a new prison at Ka Ho on Coloane
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The school year at Haileybury College’s campus outside Beijing began with three People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching on a running track as the Chinese national anthem played over loudspeakers. Seven
The annual World Press Photo (WPP) tour will be coming to Macau once again this year and will be held at Casa Garden between October 1 and 23. The exhibition, which
The current president of Casa de Portugal (CPM), Maria Amélia António, has announced that she will again stand for the position this year, after earlier indicating that she would not
The suicide rate in the territory has hit the lowest level since 2005, the Health Bureau (SSM) informed in a statement. According to data cited, the suicide rate amongst residents of
The New Macau Association (ANM) is organizing an online petition to “support Hong Kong in opposing political violence.” Lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong, together with social activists Scott Chiang, Sulu Sou
The Chief Executive (CE), Chui Sai On co-presided, together with the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, a meeting of the Macau-Portugal Joint Committee, held yesterday in Lisbon
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