Chris Froome wins his third Tour de France title

Sharing beer and Champagne with teammates, Chris Froome celebrated his third Tour de France title in four years yesterday. The Kenyan-born British rider finished safely at the back of the main pack during

IOC leaders stop short of complete ban on Russians from Rio

Olympic leaders stopped short yesterday of imposing a complete ban on Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Games, leaving individual globalsports federations to decide which athletes should be cleared to compete. The

F1| Hamilton wins Hungarian GP to take overall lead from Rosberg

Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was third, followed by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen of Red Bull. Hamilton now has five F1 victories this season for 192 points, with Rosberg on

Rio Olympics | Foreign athletes use Brazilian connections to make it to Rio

Rugby player Isadora Cerullo never lived in Brazil. Fencer Ghislain Perrier speaks very little Portuguese. Golfer Miriam Nagl played abroad most of her life. They’ll still be parading under the host

The Buzz | Fans in Vegas miss Olympic hoops exhibition due to glitch

Thousands of fans expecting to see the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team play against Argentina inside a Las Vegas arena were left outside because of a ticketing snafu. Box office staff

Boxing | Crawford beats Postol in title unification fight

Terence Crawford was so sure of his victory Saturday night that he spent part of the final round with his hands at his side, taunting Viktor Postol. What he’s not so sure of

World Briefs

CHINA Provincial authorities in northern China say they have suspended four local officials for inadequately responding to floods over the past week that killed 114 people and left 111 others

World Views | Xi’s deserted road turns sorry substitute for high seas

Think China’s plans to build railways across central Asia will be a boon for global trade? Consider this: The mighty Trans-Siberian Railway carried about as much east-west container traffic last year as

Ask the Vet | 6 Ways to Get Rid of Ticks in Cats Permanently

Its Parasite season again in Macau and here are 6 ways to get rid of ticks on your cat. Many of these can be done at home. Home care that focuses on

Nature | Millions of orchids grow on former mine site in upstate NY

Millions of orchids are now growing in a hundred-acre wetland in the Adirondack Park that developed on waste from a vast open-pit iron mine, a transformation scientists say is most

Tech | Google sprints ahead in AI building blocks, leaving rivals wary

There’s a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything, and Google has sprinted into the

Monday, July 25, 2016 – edition no. 2606

* Filipino workers strive to keep their families united in Macau * Beijing imperial palace hotel closed by MGTO * New Macau Association: Scott Chiang re-elected * Casino ‘Chinatown’ matures in the US   DOWNLOAD PDF     MDT

UM scholar to receive awards from APA

Brian Hall from the Department of Psychology at the University of Macau will receive three Early Career Awards from the American Psychological Association (APA) in August in Colorado. The three

Growth in consumer prices slows

The composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) for June 2016 increased by 2.26 percent year-on-year to 108.29, according to information released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). This has indicated

Gov’t says five-year plan gathering support

The MSAR has received some 10,800 opinions from residents during a two-month long consultation period on the proposal for the Five-Year Development Plan, which ended on June 30. The Policy

Animal Welfare | Canidrome presented with ultimatum: close or move

In a meeting held yesterday between the director of the Gaming and Inspection Bureau (DICJ) Paulo Martins Chan and representatives of the Canidrome (Yat Yuen) company, it was revealed that

IC opens Fringe Festival applications

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has announced that it is now accepting program proposals for the 16th Macau City Fringe Festival which will be held in January 2017. According to

Hong Kong teen leader Joshua Wong guilty in protest trial

A Hong Kong court yesterday found teen protest leader Joshua Wong guilty of taking part in an illegal rally that sparked massive student-led pro-democracy street protests in the southern Chinese city two years

AL Plenary | Wu Zhiliang says mainland China is priority in financial support from FM

The donation of RMB100 million from the Macao Foundation (FM) to Jinan University was one of the biggest highlights of yesterday’s plenary meeting at the Legislative Assembly (AL) in a

Infectious diseases building still not agreeable

Another of the highlighted topics of yesterday’s AL plenary session was one raised by Song Pek Kei’s spoken enquiry. The lawmaker was calling for a general plan of the infectious diseases

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