Views on China | How bad is China’s debt problem, really?

For months now, China’s regulators have been warning about the dangers of rapidly expanding credit and the need to deleverage. With new plans to clean up bad loans at the

Koreas | Seoul: Senior North military officer defects to South

A colonel from North Korea’s military spy agency fled to South Korea last year in an unusual case of a senior-level defection, Seoul officials said yesterday. The announcement came three days

Thailand | Forget the drought, national water fight is on

Drought? What drought? Bring out the water guns! Thailand may be going through its driest period in 20 years, but the country’s military government wants visitors from around the globe to

Hiroshima | Kerry makes gut-wrenching visit to site of A-bomb

A gut-wrenched John Kerry said Hiroshima’s horrible history should teach humanity to avoid conflict and strive to eradicate nuclear weapons as he became the first U.S. secretary of state to

G-7 foreign ministers push nuclear disarmament in Hiroshima

  Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries, meeting yesterday in the atomic-bombed Japanese city of Hiroshima, called for a renewed push for flagging nuclear disarmament efforts as they

USA | Immigrant students blocked from enrolling in school, report says

Immigrant children living in the U.S. without legal status have been blocked from registering for school and accessing the educational services they need, according to a report on school districts

Obama: ‘No political influence’ in Clinton email probe

President Barack Obama is guaranteeing that evidence, not politics, will dictate the outcome of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of emails as secretary of state. Obama’s comments came during

Panama Papers | Law firm usurped name of Red Cross to hide money

Mossack Fonseca law firm routinely usurped the name of the Red Cross and other charities to help obscure the origin of millions of dollars in questionable funds, two newspapers involved

This Day in History | 1997 Bosnian bomb plot fails to stop Pope

Just hours earlier Bosnian police found at least 20 anti-tank mines under a bridge on the road between the airport and the city - the route planned for the Pope

Offbeat | Dubai’s Islamic authorities issue fatwa against WiFi theft

Dubai’s top religious authorities say that stealing WiFi from your neighbor would not be proper Islamic conduct. That’s according to a religious edict — known as a fatwa — from Dubai’s

Football | Leicester qualifies for Champions League for 1st time

  Leicester qualified for the Champions League for the first time and moved closer to the Premier League title with a 2-0 win at struggling Sunderland. Jamie Vardy scored both goals to

Football | Champions League Preview: Real Madrid hopeful of avoiding shocking elimination to Wolfsburg

Wednesday, 2:45am Real Madrid v Wolfsburg H 1.22, D 8.4, A 16 Zinedine Zidane was still playing when Real Madrid last produced the kind of comeback it needs this week to avoid elimination

American Football | Warrant: Ex-Saints player Will Smith was shot in back, torso

Ronnie "The King" Davis died Sunday from injuries sustained Saturday in a crash during a drag racing event at Rockingham Dragway. The track said Sunday that the 66-year-old Davis, from

Our Desk | On the plight of domestic helpers

In a recently published article in MDT, the Consul General of The Philippines, Ms Deapera stated that migrant workers, specifically Filipinos, are “doing well” in Macau. Not that I disagree

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 – edition no. 2535

* Protest against tighter regulations gathers few taxi drivers * Firemen busier than last year * Tui rejects ho Chio Meng’s appeal * ‘Shrek the musical’ to arrive in Macau   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | Hong Kong teen democracy activist forms new political party

Wong and several other young activists who led pro-democracy protests that gripped Hong Kong for 79 days in late 2014 said their new party is called Demosisto. The teenager was the

Kerry to offer no US apology for Hiroshima

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry won’t say sorry for America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima when he visits a revered memorial. A U.S. official traveling with Kerry ruled out an apology

World Briefs

HONG KONG Revelers dressed up as Donald Trump and several movie characters as they watched Fiji clinch its 16th title at Hong Kong’s biggest annual social event, the Rugby Sevens.

UM hosts Portuguese education event

The International Conference on Teaching and Learning Portuguese as a Second Language took place during the weekend at the University of Macau (UM). The conference, which was co-organized by the

Over 100 work safety violations in 2015

According to this data, 112 cases were reported during the previous year – 102 of which were linked to employees, 10 to employers. Referring to the reasons for such violations,

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