Xi’s handwriting betrays paradox at core policy

The order came down from the highest levels of China’s government, in a handwritten message from President Xi Jinping to officials charged with fixing the country’s crashing stock market: Make

Trade falls sharply in February

Exports fell 25.4 percent from a year ago to USD126.1 billion, worsening from January’s 11.2 percent contraction, customs data showed yesterday. Imports shrank 13.8 percent to $93.5 billion, an improvement

Beijing says it won’t budge on South China Sea sovereignty

China’s foreign minister took a hard line yesterday on the country’s claims to virtually all the South China Sea, saying Beijing won’t permit other nations to infringe on what it

South China Sea | US general: Air Force to keep flying over region

  The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly daily missions over the South China Sea despite a buildup of Chinese surface-to-air missiles and fighter jets in the contested region, with

Cambodia | Iranian couple in resettlement deal return home

An Iranian couple who resettled in Cambodia under an expensive program funded by Australia to keep asylum-seekers from its soil returned to their homeland, Cambodian and Australian officials said yesterday. Gen.

Japan | For rancher near Fukushima, tending herd is act of defiance

  Since the 2011 meltdowns ended their future as prized black “wagyu” beef, a rancher near the Fukushima nuclear power plant has given his cattle a new mission: They’ve become protesters. Defying

Philippines | Court rules Sen. Grace Poe can run for president

  The Philippine Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Sen. Grace Poe is eligible to run for president in May 9 elections, overturning an elections commission decision to disqualify her and removing

Migrant crisis | Palestinian Syrian relives parents’ fate in becoming refugee

  Nearly 70 years after Abeer al Hosary’s parents fled Palestine, she is reliving their fate, forced to leave home with nearly nothing and start again from scratch in a foreign

Russia, West differ on UN report on Iran’s nuclear program

Russia and the West overcame differences to strike a landmark nuclear deal with Iran but are now divided on how well the U.N. atomic agency is reporting on whether Tehran

This Day in History | 1967 Stalin’s daughter defects to the West

The American Mutual Radio network broke the news but the American State Department has so far refused to comment. Since her father’s death in 1953, little has been heard of 42-year-old

Offbeat | Lost goldfish case in Norway closer to being solved

Bodo Police spokesman Tommy Bech says investigators “were very close to solving” the case of the lost goldfish, found abandoned Saturday in a shopping bag at a soccer stadium in

World Cup 2006 | More questions are raised about Beckenbauer’s role

From his days as the backbone of the defense to his days roaming the sidelines, Franz Beckenbauer has been synonymous with the best of German soccer. “Der Kaiser” won the World

Tennis | Three sponsors cut ties with Sharapova after positive drug test

  Three of Maria Sharapova’s major sponsors are cutting ties with the Russian tennis star after she acknowledged failing a doping test at the Australian Open. Sportswear giant Nike, Swiss watch brand

Macau Matters | The email pioneer

Ray Tomlinson, the man who created the software to send the first email message between two computers in 1971 died on 5 March 2016 at the age of 74. He

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* China’s exports plunge 25.4 percent year-on-year in February * Hotspot for money laundering * Gender inequality persists * US sanctions Chinese tech supplier   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | American company bungled Ebola response

An Associated Press investigation has found that an American company that bills itself as a pioneer in identifying emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola

Tokyo zoo to work on changing living conditions for elephant

  A Tokyo zoo said it will work on improving the living conditions for its 69-year-old elephant after an animal welfare expert recommended simple additions such as infrared heaters and new

World Briefs

INDIA Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a polluted lake in India’s southern technology hub of Bangalore. People spotted the dead fish floating in Ulsoor

Pessimistic about EU future

For Pereira’s talk at the University of Macau, the main purpose of his visit, the former vice president of the European Parliament opened by explaining that he is “very pessimistic

China must adapt to avoid impending internal collision

  Portuguese political analyst, historian and politician José Pacheco Pereira yesterday told reporters that China can not continue indefinitely as a country run by simultaneous yet contradictory ideologies and systems, warning

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