Xi says growth should be at least 6.5 percent

President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China needs at least 6.5 percent economic growth in coming years to raise living standards and become “moderately prosperous.” The ruling Communist Party also announced plans

South China Sea | US commander says sailing past PRC isles not a threat

The U.S. Navy’s challenge last week to China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea was not designed as a military threat, the head of U.S. Pacific military forces said yesterday in a mostly

Xinjiang | Authorities to prosecute former head of border guards

Zhang Genheng has been expelled from the party and the military, and his case has been sent to prosecutors, according to a notice on the website of the party’s anti-corruption

Comfort women | Japan, S Korea agree to work to resolve WWII sex slave issue

The leaders of South Korea and Japan resumed formal talks Monday after a 3½-year freeze and agreed to try to resolve the decades-old issue of Korean women forced into Japanese

Malaysia | UN group says Anwar jailing politically motivated

Imprisoned Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was prosecuted for political reasons and should be released, a U.N. body concluded after reviewing the case widely seen as politically motivated. The government

Myanmar | Anti-Muslim backlash casts shadow over election

Standing before a glistening monastery, Myanmar’s most infamous monk adjusts his saffron robe and then does something that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago: He launches into the formerly untouchable

Egypt | El-Sisi dismisses Islamic State claim to Russian plane crash

Egypt’s president dismissed Islamic State’s claim that it brought down a Russian airliner on Egyptian soil over the weekend, as investigators tried to piece together clues to what caused the

South Africa | Prosecutor seeks murder conviction as Pistorius case goes to appeal

A prosecutor yesterday sought a murder conviction against Oscar Pistorius before South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, saying a lower court erred in acquitting the double-amputee athlete of that charge

This Day in History | 1956 – Soviet troops overrun Hungary

At least 1,000 Soviet tanks are reported to have entered Budapest and troops deployed throughout the country are battling with Hungarian forces for strategic positions. The Soviet invasion is a response

Offbeat | Israel minister proposes street cats leave the country

A Cabinet minister has drawn outrage and mockery after suggesting transferring the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country. The Yediot daily published what it

Briefs | Rugby – All Blacks to celebrate World Cup title with parades

Already enduring the worst run of results in his Chelsea career, Jose Mourinho will be banned from the stadium for Saturday’s match at Stoke after being punished by the English

Horse racing | Female jockey makes history with 1st win at Melbourne Cup

Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup yesterday when she rode the 100-1 outsider Prince of Penzance to victory in Australia’s richest horse race. Payne pushed

F1 | Briton who intruded Singapore track jailed for 6 weeks

A British national who walked into the track while cars were hurtling toward him at about 280 kilometers per hour during Singapore’s Formula One night race was yesterday sentenced to

Made in Macau | Modern Day Greeting: Busy?

There are different things we say when meeting people we know on the street. Among these, the most common greeting used to be “最近好嗎 Zui jin hao ma?” which translates

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 – edition no. 2431

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The Buzz | France’s Mont-Saint-Michel recovers its island status 

French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalizing 10 years of construction. The former causeway that used

OBITUARY | East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86

Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died yesterday

World Briefs

CHINA A cult leader in southern China accused of selling toxic food, swindling followers and seducing dozens of women with promises of supernatural powers has been convicted of rape and

Lai Man Wa | Customs chief commits suicide, authorities say

The city was shocked over the weekend by the alleged suicide of the director-general of the Customs Service, Lai Man Wa, who was found dead last Friday at a public

Gaming | Casino revenue extends fall despite more holiday arrivals

Macau’s casino revenue fell for the 17th straight month, as increased visits over China’s National Day holiday week failed to boost traffic at betting tables in the world’s largest gambling

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