CRIME | 37 arrested at ‘drug party’

The Judiciary Police arrested 37 people on Friday for their involvement in a suspected drug party that took place at a karaoke parlor in NAPE. Of the 37 people arrested,

Annual charitable Eco TrailHiker run attracts more participants

Up to 2,000 runners representing 500 teams braved the searing heat yesterday as they completed in the territory’s annual race, Sands China Macau Eco TrailHiker. The sixth edition of the

André Couto crowned GT 300 champion in Japan

“I have to say that ‘we are the champions.’ Chiyo and Tomita , it was a great season. Thanks to the team, they are great (...) I would like to

Labor | Hotel workers stage dramatic protest over unpaid salaries

Ten employees of the Beijing Imperial Hotel (formerly New Century Hotel) in Taipa staged a protest on Saturday, calling for eight months of unpaid salaries. They conducted the protest on

Hundreds take to the streets, protest Pearl Horizon uncertainty

Hundreds of Pearl Horizon buyers once again took to the streets on Saturday to protest the lack of progress currently being made on the waterfront property project in Areia Preta.

Six students sexually abused in military training camp

An instructor at a military camp in Coloane allegedly abused six students from local schools aged 12 to 14 years old. The students, all males, were participating in a three-day

Education | UM announces this year’s honorary doctorates

The University of Macau (UM) has announced its annual allocation of honorary doctorates to distinguished individuals with outstanding professional achievements and contributions to society. This year, the five individuals are

Statistics | Growth in retail receipts falls to lowest since 2004

According to government data, growth in retail receipts has fallen to its lowest rate since 2004 - a slowdown in the year-on-year growth to only 4.3 percent, which amounts to

New baby policy lifts kid stocks, sinks condom maker

Shares of companies that make diapers, baby strollers and infant formula got a boost Friday from China’s decision to scrap its one-child policy. But for the maker of a popular brand of

China’s manufacturing contracts for 3rd straight month

China’s manufacturing contracted for the third consecutive month in October in a sign of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy, official data showed yesterday. The National Bureau of Statistics said that

Corporate Bits | Cam staff visit tdm tv station

Vodafone Group Plc. said criminals accessed customer account details, including phone numbers and some bank details, in the second hacking attack in just over a week on a UK phone

Cartoonists a casualty of Beijing’s intolerance of dissent

Bai Budan took a morning stroll on Tiananmen Square to find inspiration for a new series of satirical cartoons, an art form only barely alive in China. He wondered about the sheer

End of one-child policy welcome, not game-changer 

Everyone should have the chance to have more than one child, say Chinese parents who welcome the government’s loosening of its population policy. But just because all couples can now

Human rights | Merkel meets activists in Beijing after Xi talks

Merkel met a group of human rights lawyers, writers and bloggers at the German Embassy in Beijing on Thursday evening, a government official said on the condition of anonymity because

Myanmar | Ethnic minorities fear election victory by military 

During nearly seven decades the villages of the Karen have been torched, their men summarily executed and their women raped as the ethnic minority battled Myanmar’s military regime in the world’s longest-running

Diplomacy | S. Korea, Japan, China leaders agree to mend strained ties 

The biggest result of the first meeting of South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders in more than three years? More meetings. But for three Northeast Asian economic and diplomatic heavyweights who

Egypt | Official says crashed Russian plane was in good shape

An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said yesterday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to

Turkey | Public votes again as ruling party seeks to claw back a majority

Turks headed to the polls yesterday for the second time in five months in a crucial election that will determine whether the ruling party can restore the parliamentary majority it

Somalia | Islamic extremists attack hotel in capital, kill 9 

Somalia’s Islamic extremists attacked a hotel at dawn yesterday in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and injuring 10, a police official said. Security forces ended the siege by

This Day in History | 1951 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt

Hastings and Valetta aircraft brought in most of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards from Tripoli in Libya, in an effort to try to quell anti-British disturbances in the region. Over the

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