Housing | Many investor-owned properties remain empty

Property owners with a solid financial status prefer to keep properties empty than to rent them lower than the asking price, according to what several experts have told the Times.

Public transport lane might be extended

Starting from next month, the public transport-only lane in the Inner Harbor area will become a permanent fixture, with considerations already in place over whether to extend it further toward

Australian elections | Overseas voting opens but inconvenience may keep some away

Overseas voting for the Australian Federal Election began on Monday, for the nationwide decision that will culminate in Election Day on July 2. Australians living in Macau who are intending to

Gaming | Ho says Studio City needs better marketing

Melco Crown Entertainment CEO Lawrence Ho said in an interview with Barron’s Asia that the poor quarterly performance of the company’s partly-owned property, Studio City, is due to a marketing

Gaming | Football betting hurts Macau casinos

The Euro 2016 football tournament is contributing to a further slowing of Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR), according to Japanese brokerage Nomura. Previous instances of major footballing tournaments such as the

Education | UM students win award for barrier-free car seat design

Three students from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology received the Best Paper Award at the annual symposium of the Control, Automation

Ink paintings exhibition opens at IACM

The “Roaming Vision + Digital: Exhibition of Ink Paintings by Leung Kui Ting” is now open at the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau’s (IACM) Temporary Exhibitions Gallery. 28 art pieces

Final round of University IT competition to kick off in July

The final round of the 2017 Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition will be held on July 4 and 5 at the Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM). Fifty teams

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge expected to boost hotel industry

The future landscape of the hotel market in Hong Kong and Macau was discussed yesterday at the Business Luncheon of American Chamber of Commerce in Macau at the St. Regis

Hong Kong-Singapore stars fade with boom-to-gloom in finance

Asia’s financial-hub twins, Hong Kong and Singapore, are facing increasing brakes on growth even before potential turmoil from a Brexit vote in their ex-colonial master, with China’s slowdown and the

Markets | Chinese stocks advance most in week as traders weigh Brexit odds

China’s stocks rose the most in a week, while Hong Kong’s equities extended gains to a fourth day as traders weighed the odds of Britain staying in the European Union. The

Internet | China, US, EU pledge to tighten product safety in e-commerce

U.S., European and Chinese regulators said yesterday they will jointly enforce product safety in online commerce, and an American official said they are making progress on crafting standards for hoverboards. The

Corporate Bits | Members of society of operations engineers visit CEM

In a move to promote safe, efficient and environmentally sustainable engineering operation and professional development, Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM) hosted a delegation comprising the Trustee Board members of

Analysis | Putin heads to Beijing to cement ties, but obstacles remain

With President Vladimir Putin heading to China this weekend, officials in both countries extoll a blossoming “strategic partnership” between the two former communist rivals. But despite Moscow’s push to strengthen ties

US, North Korean diplomats attend meetings in Beijing

Diplomats from the U.S. and North Korea are attending a six-nation security forum in Beijing yesterday, in a rare opportunity for contact between them after the North fired two suspected

USA-China | In Utah speech, Dalai Lama says actions spread compassion

The Dalai Lama delivered his message of peace and compassion yesterday to thousands of people during a visit to Utah that included a luncheon with the governor and a planned

The People’s Daily hits US over sea dispute

The flagship newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party has issued a harsh attack on U.S. policies in Asia, accusing it of seeking to turn the disputed South China Sea into

Koreas | South military: North fires 2 suspected midrange missiles

In a remarkable show of persistence, North Korea yesterday fired two suspected powerful new Musudan midrange ballistic missiles, U.S. and South Korean military officials said, its fifth and sixth such

Australia | Asylum seeker boats have been turned back

Australia’s ruling party said yesterday that it had turned back 28 boats to prevent asylum seekers reaching Australia during its three years in power and warned that such vigilance would

USA Elections | Dump Trump movement preparing fight at GOP convention

The “dump Trump” movement is gaining followers among delegates to next month’s Republican National Convention, an effort that could tarnish Donald Trump’s coronation even if it ultimately fails. Several hundred Republican

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