Australia’s prime minister ordered a sweeping investigation yesterday into alleged abuse at a juvenile detention center after video emerged of Aboriginal teens being tear-gassed, stripped naked and shackled to a chair. Prime
Police in Bangladesh’s capital raided a five-story building yesterday that was used as a den by suspected Islamic militants, killing nine of them, the country’s police chief said. Authorities were investigating to see
When President Barack Obama blamed North Korea in December 2014 for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment, he had little to lose. The stakes are higher with Russia, as speculation swirls that
Two attackers seized hostages yesterday in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen, killing one hostage by slitting his throat before being shot and killed by police, a French
A bomb has exploded at a crowded concert in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting this year’s Olympic Games. Two people are reported to have been killed and firefighting officials say as
A Buddhist monk was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than USD260,000 from the Louisiana temple he led and gambling most of the
Whistleblower Yulia Stepanova’s hopes of competing in the Summer Olympics are all but over. Her fight to expose doping and corruption is not. “It’s OK to lose a good fight,” Stepanova’s
Olympic champion Alexander Dyachenko and four other Russian canoeists have been barred from competing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after being named in a recent report alleging a state-sponsored
The entrepreneurs who created the Macau Grand Prix did a wonderful thing, but the government department that has managed it for many years has done nothing to improve on their
A film production company yesterday admitted health and safety breaches over an accident on the set of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” that broke the leg of star Harrison Ford. The
The world’s first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made history yesterday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on an epic
CHINA Nine people were killed and two others injured after two SUVs collided in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, according to government sources. The collision happened on a highway in Fuyuan
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A Chinese military court yesterday sentenced a former top general to life in prison for taking bribes, concluding China’s highest-level prosecution of a military figure in decades. Guo Boxiong was also
The government is planning to ban employees of the gaming sector from entering casinos during non-working hours. In recent years, a number of crimes involving gaming employees have been reported. Most
New Macau Association (ANM) delivered a letter to be addressed to the Urban Planning Committee members yesterday, as they were gathering for a meeting at the Land, Public Works and
SP Entertainment singers Hyper Lo, AJ and Josie Ho are set to release their newly composed song for the Rui Cunha Foundation, “Paradise” in early August. The singers shot the new
The Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has completed its two-month public consultation for the “Macau Tourism Industry Development Master Plan,” according to a statement from the office, having collected over 1,100
The leader of the Macau Federation Family Reunion’s (MFFR), Lei Iok Lan, has been found guilty of the crime of qualified disobedience and sentenced to three months imprisonment with suspended
The work of Portuguese architect Manuel Vicente is the theme of “Macau: Reading the Hybrid City,” launched earlier this month at the Rui Cunha Foundation. Published by the non-profit organization, Docomomo
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