Enjoy your cheap summer airfares: You’ll pay more next year

During the summer vacation season, think of a commercial airplane as a flying, broken cash machine: It spits out profit from June to September, but come autumn, the money slows. That’s

Discount jumps most since 2012 on Adama stake sale to ChemChina

Discount Investment Corp. saw the biggest gain in almost four years after entering into an accord to sell its remaining stake in Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd., the world’s largest maker

Corporate Bits | Grand Coloane to host ‘Summer Open Day’

The Grand Coloane Resort has announced the hosting of a Summer Open Day on Sunday, July 24. All children who have been pre-registered will enjoy a full-day of free activities in

Chinese woman brought to US as nanny treated like slave

A Minnesota woman is charged with beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny, holding her in a state of “slavery or indentured servitude,” a prosecutor

Cities’ expansion plans could house 3.4b people

New areas planned by China’s small cities could accommodate 3.4 billion people by 2030 - or almost half the world’s current population - a target that even Chinese state media

53 arrests following investigation into Shenzhen deadly landslide

China’s Cabinet said Friday that 53 people are in custody in an investigation into a landslide that killed 73 people and left four others missing in the southern city of Shenzhen

2Q economic growth steady, signaling stabilization

China’s economic growth held steady in the most recent quarter, suggesting policies meant to counter the slowdown in the world’s second biggest economy are paying off for the moment. The economy expanded

Top US Navy admiral to visit Beijing, discuss South China Sea

The U.S. Navy’s top admiral is making a three-day visit to China and meeting with his Chinese counterpart at a time when Beijing has rejected an international tribunal’s ruling that invalidated its

Bangladesh stops open defecation in just over a decade

Answering nature’s call was once a nightmare for Rashida Begum, who had to creep around the jungle for a suitably private spot. Her home had no toilet, like the thousands

India | Family of man killed by mob accused of cow slaughter

Nearly a year after a mob in northern India killed a Muslim man over rumors that he had slaughtered a cow, his family faces prosecution for alleged cow slaughter following a neighbor’s

Vietnam detains dozens in anti-China protest in Hanoi

Dozens of Vietnamese who gathered for an anti-China protest in central Hanoi were taken away by authorities yesterday as they tried to rally support for an international tribunal’s ruling rejecting

France calls up reservist forces after deadly Nice rampage

France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a

This Day in History | 2000 Sarah Payne’s body found

A farm worker found the human remains less than 12 miles from where Sarah went missing near her grandparents’ home near Littlehampton on 1 July. The partly covered body was lying

Offbeat | Haitians trek to sacred waterfalls in Voodoo festival

Some carrying candles or calabash bowls with offerings of goat meat, thousands of Haitians made a Saturday pilgrimage to bathe in sacred waterfalls and pray for everything from a good

Boxing | Wilder retains WBC heavyweight title, stopping Arreola

Despite fighting mostly one-armed for half the fight, Deontay Wilder remained in control in the ring before quickly heading to the hospital. Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title with a technical

Olympics | Head of Rio Games: Golfers skip because no money involved

The head of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics says the world’s top four male golfers have withdrawn from the games because there is no money to be won — not

The Buzz | China: eight killed after construction elevator falls

Eight people in an eastern Chinese city were killed when the construction elevator they were in plummeted from an apartment building, the local government said yesterday. The Longkou city government in

Another inmate dies of unknown causes at Coloane Prison

A 42-year-old inmate died on Friday evening at Macau’s Public Hospital (CHCSJ) after being transported there by the Coloane Prison services on the previous day, the Correctional Service Bureau (DSC)

HK, Macau investors victims of property fraud in UK

A Hong Kong lawmaker on Saturday urged the UK consulate to intervene in the property fraud scams that have allegedly victimized nearly 300 buyers, including investors from Hong Kong and

Rear Window | Pandora’s Box

We have to admit that as far as symbols go, Pandora’s Box - a million problems caused by an unwise interference that is hard to forestall - is combative and

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