CRIME | Police inquiry continues after woman strangled to death in flat

The Judiciary Police (PJ) launched a probe yesterday morning after a local woman was allegedly strangled to death inside her own apartment near the Casa Garden. The victim, aged 60, was

TOURISM | COOPERATION |Taiwanese delegation visits Macau, Zhuhai

A local committee created for the enhancement of the tourism industry organized a delegation of Taiwanese media and travel agency executives to visit Macau and Zhuhai. According to a press

Li Ka-Shing’s Cheung Kong offers USD11.6b to buy power assets

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. offered USD11.6 billion in stock to buy Power Assets Holdings Ltd. as Li Ka-shing seeks to combine his utility businesses for further expansion. Cheung Kong Infrastructure

Corporate Bits | Cotai Water jet launches eighth anniversary promotions

From Sept. 15 to Dec. 15, customers purchasing an adult city route or airport route ferry ticket via the Cotai Water Jet IOS or Android mobile app will be able

Japanese economy contracts 1.2 percent in April-June quarter

Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data yesterday, as economists warned China’s slowdown and financial market turmoil might weaken an

Brazil, Angola and China are the source of new investments in Portugal

Nearly half of foreign direct investment in Portugal in 2014 originated in Brazil, Angola and China, contributing to increasing interconnectedness between these economies, according to official data. The latest data from

Hainan Airlines likely to link Beijing to Fortaleza

China’s Hainan Airlines and Brazil’s Azul signed an agreement to launch a connection between China and Fortaleza in the Brazilian state of Ceará, with a stopover in Lisbon, Portugal, reported

Trade shrinks in latest sign of economic weakness 

Chinese exports and imports contracted in August in the latest sign of weakness for the world’s second-biggest economy. Customs data posted online yesterday showed that shipments of goods last month shrank

Business group says Beijing running out of time for reform 

A European business group warned yesterday that China is running out of time to keep slowing economic growth on track and needs to speed up market-opening reforms promised in a 2-year-old development

Foreign reserves fall after spending on yuan support 

China’s foreign exchange reserves fell by a record USD93.9 billion in August as the central bank spent heavily to support its currency’s exchange rate following a surprise devaluation. Reserves declined to $3.557

Tibet | Beijing holds ceremony marking 50 years of autonomous government

Schoolchildren waved flags and paramilitary troops marched in full battle dress as the Chinese government yesterday staged a mass spectacle marking 50 years since Tibet’s establishment as an ethnic autonomous

Court publicly apologizes for wrongful convictions

The apology from the People’s High Court for the eastern province of Anhui appeared in a local newspaper on Monday. The court said it wished to help restore the reputations

Koreas | North and South to hold Oct. 20-26 reunions of war-divided families

North and South Korea agreed yesterday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that

Japan | Abe, running unopposed, on course to be longest serving PM

Shinzo Abe is on course to become Japan’s longest-serving prime minister in more than four decades after standing unopposed in his ruling party’s leadership election. Abe’s re-selection yesterday as president of

Australia | Critics: Deal to send refugees to Cambodia damaged

A multi-million dollar deal to resettle refugees from an Australia-run detention camp on the Pacific nation of Nauru to Cambodia has been irreparably damaged by a Rohingya refugee’s decision to

Myanmar | Suu Kyi opens election campaign on Facebook

Just five years ago, when Aung San Suu Kyi was still under house arrest, she commented that one day she hoped to get a Twitter account and chat with the

European migrant crisis | Germany prioritizes refugee funds as Hungary speeds up fence

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe is facing a defining moment tackling the largest influx of refugees since World War II as diverging paths for handling the crisis came into

Catholic church reform | Pope speeds up, simplifies process for marriage annulments

Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages yesterday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure. Francis

Cecil the lion | Minnesota dentist who killed beloved lion returns to work

The American dentist at the center of an international uproar over the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe returned to his clinic in suburban Minneapolis yesterday after weeks out

This Day in History | 1976 – Chairman Mao Zedong dies

His death - at 10 minutes past midnight - was announced by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the State Council, the Standing Committee of the National People’s

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