A U.S. Navy warship sailed past one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea yesterday, in a challenge to Chinese sovereignty claims that drew an angry protest from
Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 339. According to Afghan and
Indonesia’s leader looked to cement his nation’s growing ties with the United States, declaring after a meeting Monday with President Barack Obama that Southeast Asia’s largest economy intended to join a
Nearly 60 percent of refugees are living in cities today and there are currently more Syrian refugees in Istanbul than in all the rest of Europe, the head of the
House Republican leaders struck a budget deal made with the White House aimed at averting a government shutdown and forestalling a debt crisis. The deal would take budget showdowns and government
The Islamic State group killed three of its captives in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, then blowing the structures up with
He was welcomed at Heathrow airport by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who paid tribute to China as a “great and historical nation which has a crucial role to play in
Police in Russia’s far east stopped a hearse speeding on a highway — only to find half a ton of caviar stashed inside. The Interior Ministry’s department in the Khabarovsk region
Supersized Maori from New Zealand, diminutive Aeta from the Philippines and native peoples of all shapes and sizes in between tested their mettle at the first World Indigenous Games, a
When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country’s economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in
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The Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff’s Association and an anti-smoking concern group met the health authorities yesterday after over 100 Wynn Macau employees staged a strike at the casino the previous
The Sports Development Board (ID) revealed some of the local athletes’ results in the first edition of the nationwide games. In taekwondo, Freeman Yiu was knocked down by Shenzhen’s Ren Ming
Dore Entertainment is reportedly planning to close the two VIP rooms it operates in Wynn Macau. On the sidelines of yesterday’s Legislative Assembly plenary session, lawmaker Pereira Coutinho, who has
CAMBODIA Two members of Cambodia’s opposition party are beaten up outside the National Assembly by protesters demanding that the deputy opposition leader step down as parliamentary vice president. BANGLADESH Police in
Lawmaker Song Pek Kei urged the government to use the current “slowdown” in the real estate sector to establish measures to facilitate the acquisition of property in the private market,
The New Macau Association (ANM) was at the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday to deliver a petition with 1,705 signatures, requesting a clear timetable for the recovery of land by the
The Macau Films & Television Productions and Culture Association (MFTPA) and the International Council for Films, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) are promoting a series of joint initiatives to celebrate
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors from mainland China decreased by 1.4 percent year-on-year to a total of 1,572,868. Of that figure, the biggest contributors
Ferry operator Shun Tak Holdings said a preliminary inspection on the boat that hit an “unidentified object” off a small island in Hong Kong’s western waters Sunday evening found damage
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