AP investigation | Mattel fought elusive cyber-thieves to get USD3m out of China

The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc.’s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China. It was well-timed, arriving on Thursday, April 30, during a tumultuous period

Taiwan | Police officer stabbed day after girl decapitated

A transit police officer was stabbed in the head yesterday, one day after a young girl was decapitated in apparently random knife attacks in Taiwan’s capital. The officer attacked at the

A look at where journalists face renewed pressure

  In many countries across Asia, governments are growing less tolerant of critical reporting, even arresting journalists and closing media outlets in some cases. In China, authorities recently removed an online

Obama meets leaders as Asia tensions rise

  President Barack Obama will be meeting with Asian leaders in Washington this week as fears grow that long-smoldering tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea risk

Indonesia says 10 citizens held hostage

Indonesia said yesterday that 10 of its citizens are being held hostage in the Philippines after their ship was hijacked in the often-insecure border region between the two countries. The Foreign

Egypt plane drama ends: hijacker arrested, passengers freed

  An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane during a routine domestic flight to Cairo and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus yesterday has surrendered and was

Greece-Macedonia | Migrant protests intensify at border

Police have clashed with some 300 migrants and refugees at the Greek border with Macedonia, as protests intensified and thousands ignored government instructions to move to organized shelters. Youths threw rocks

Poland | President heads to US but no talks planned with Obama

Poland’s president is traveling to Washington for a security summit but has no meeting scheduled with President Barack Obama. Observers in Poland say controversial government policies may be the reason. President

This Day in History | 1951 Rosenbergs guilty of espionage

Julius Rosenberg, 33, and his 35-year-old wife, Ethel, were accused of stealing technical information from the atom research centre in Los Alamos and turning it over to the KGB. A radar

Offbeat | US Police: We’d go to next Easter egg hunts after weekend mess

Police in a Connecticut town say they’d want to be present at future Easter egg hunts at candy company Pez’s visitor center after a hunt over the weekend turned into

Tennis | Miami Open: Serena Williams upset by Kuznetsova in three sets

  Serena Williams had been out of the tournament for less than 20 minutes when she climbed into her white Mini Cooper with the checkerboard top and pulled away from the

Cricket | World Twenty20 | Morgan hopes knowing New Delhi pitch will be an advantage

Captain Eoin Morgan is hoping that England’s experience of twice winning in New Delhi will give it an advantage against New Zealand in the first semifinal of the World Twenty20

Made in Macao | Ching Ming – A time for love

‘Tis the season to be jolly… and I’m not talking about Christmas. The best season for us “Macaoians” should be this spring season. Why? It is not that the rain

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 – edition no. 2527

* Egyptair drama ends | Plane hijacked in the ‘name of love’ * Macau junket named in Manila hearing on the ‘heist of the century’ * Undercover agents proposed to improve taxi

The Buzz | Gongbei Customs auctions off smuggled gold

Gongbei Customs will hold an auction for 30 kg of smuggled gold today. There will be 30 gold items up for bidding. Two years ago, Gongbei Customs seized the gold from

Xi welcomed with defaced flags

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the Czech Republic for a visit designed to boost economic and political ties. His arrival in the central European country reflects the more

World Briefs

CHINA A Chinese dissident writer says police in his hometown are holding three of his siblings in retaliation for an article he wrote condemning the detention of a fellow writer

Palau-bound flight delayed for two days | Hundreds of passengers stranded at local airport

Sixty-eight passengers flew to Palau on Saturday after a two-day delay due to equipment failure, leaving hundreds of mainland Chinese visitors stranded at the airport. A Mega Maldives Airlines flight was

Old buildings in need of regular inspection and maintenance

The Macao Association of Concrete Inspection, Maintenance and Waterproofing announced its inception last week, holding an inaugural ceremony yesterday to welcome its leaders. The association aims to develop durable concrete

Poker | APPT president Danny McDonagh leaves Macau

Poker authority McDonagh is internationally regarded as one of the game’s most prominent figures, and was inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame in 2012. He has made a significant

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