Cinema | Hoping for a blockbuster, studios plan movie on Tetris game

It lacks the building blocks of characters and a plot for now, but a Chinese-American studio hopes to turn the Tetris video game into a blockbuster movie. Threshold Global Studios is

Cultural Revolution| Garbage picker in military attire sings Mao’s praises

Zhao Shunli’s transformation takes place several times a week in a simple bedroom filled with Mao Zedong memorabilia, its concrete walls lined with posters portraying the founder of the communist

Taiwan | Panda’s ‘proof of life’ photo debunks death rumors

Photos released by the zoo this week show Tuan Tuan looking at the papers laid out in front of his inner enclosure. The zoo's director said in a statement that

Hong Kong | City in lockdown as Zhang Dejiang attends meeting

Hong Kong authorities stepped up security for a top Chinese government official’s appearance at a business conference yesterday, preventing pro-democracy protesters from getting anywhere close to the venue. As many as

China stages war games days ahead of Taiwan inauguration

China is staging joint war games featuring mock beach landing, helicopter assaults and tank battles along its east coast facing Taiwan, just days before the inauguration of the self-governing island’s

Afghanistan | Medical charity urges US to pay Kunduz hospital victims

A leading medical charity that suffered massive losses when U.S. helicopter gunships mistakenly struck its clinic in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz is criticizing the United States for failing

US-North Korea | Trump says he’d speak with Kim Jong Un over nukes

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’s open to speaking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to halt the communist nation’s nuclear program. “I would speak to him,

Philippines | Communist rebels welcome Cabinet post offer

Communist rebel leaders welcomed yesterday a possible offer from the Philippines’ presumptive president-elect of four Cabinet posts, raising the prospect of a government that includes Marxist guerrillas who have long

UK | Sugar tax, spaceports meet pageantry in Queen’s Speech

Queen Elizabeth II donned an ermine-trimmed robe and diamond-studded crown  yesterday to announce government promises to put Britain at the cutting edge of technology and social progress in the 21st

USA Elections | Clinton discloses millions in book royalties, speaking fees

Hillary Clinton has filed financial documents showing that in 2015 she earned more than USD5 million in royalties from her book “Hard Choices” and about $1.5 million in speaking fees

This Day in History | 2004 Angry dads hit Blair with purple flour

The PM was speaking at the despatch box during his weekly question and answer session soon after midday when father-of-two Ron Davies threw two missiles from the front of the

Offbeat | Texas woman sells ‘housebroken’ bison she let wander inside

Bullet the bison was transported this weekend from Karen Schoeve’s home in Argyle to her new home, which she will share with two cows, 15 miles away in Flower Mound. Schoeve

Football | United beats Bournemouth 3-1, finishes fifth in EPL

Manchester United beat Bournemouth 3-1 in an English Premier League game hastily rearranged because of a bomb scare, sealing fifth place and a spot in the Europa League group stage

Badminton | Wang beats Marin in 3 games in Uber Cup

Wang Shixian beat top-ranked Carolina Marin 19-21, 21-18, 21-19 as China dispatched Spain 5-0 in Uber Cup badminton this week. Marin eliminated Wang at the world championships last year, but Wang

HK Observer | A pan-quagmire

State leader Zhang Dejiang’s visit here is about Hong Kong’s finance and acumen to revive the Silk Road and reaching out to the community - both potentially very positive as

Thursday, May 19, 2016 – edition no. 2560

* ‘The numbers in Macau were great but not real’ * Vips wooed to tropical isles * Studios plan movie on Tetris game * Zhang’s visit puts HK in Lockdown   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | Thirty-one caught in retests of 2008 Beijing Olympic samples

In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in this year’s Olympics after they were caught in retesting of

World Briefs

CHINA’s official media reaffirmed the Communist Party’s longstanding judgment that the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophic mistake. MYANMAR The Obama administration lifted sanctions against 10 state-run Myanmar companies and banks yesterday

Loneliness hurts: Senior health about more than disease

Grandma’s cholesterol is OK, but maybe the doctor should be asking about her social life, too. Think about health during the senior years, and a list of common ailments pops to mind. But

Briefs | Hospital claims that it is not the source of wastewater leak

Recently, some neighboring residents of the Macau Public Hospital (CHCSJ) have expressed concerns over the possibility of a leakage in the sewage system in front of the hospital’s Emergency building.

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