Singapore | Ruling party faces unprecedented electoral contest 


Singapore's political parties officially started campaigning yesterday for general elections in which, for the first time in the island-nation's history, the ruling People's Action Party faces contests in all available

Australian, Thai journalists acquitted of defaming Thai navy 


An Australian journalist and his Thai colleague were acquitted yesterday in a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Thailand's navy over an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from

Thailand | Prime minister says main suspect in bombing arrested 


Thailand's prime minister said yesterday that authorities have arrested a man they believe is the main suspect in a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago that

State Dept releases Clinton emails

The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails late Monday night (yesterday, Macau time), including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because

USA | 
Obama paints doomsday scene of global warming in Alaska 


President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in

Ukraine | Death toll from violent protest rises to 3 


The death toll from violent protests in Ukraine rose to three yesterday when two more National Guard officers died from injuries suffered in a grenade explosion, officials said. In the worst

Hungary | Gov’t shuts down rail traffic for westward-bound migrants 


Hungary suspended all rail traffic yesterday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany —

FOOTBALL | Australia coach worried over pay dispute

Coach Ange Postecoglou is concerned that a bitter pay dispute between players and Football Federation Australia has impinged on Australia's preparation for Thursday's World Cup qualifying match against Bangladesh. Australian

Kenya celebrates athletes but more doping probes underway

  Some of Kenya's newly crowned track and field world champions returned home yesterday and were ferried to a celebratory breakfast in a convoy of limousines bearing the logo "Hotbed of

World Views | Easy money creates the most dangerous bubbles

Economists finally seem to be recognizing what most people have long considered obvious: Overconfident investors can drive the prices of everything from tulips to Chinese stocks far above their intrinsic

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The Buzz | Monk relaxing atop wind turbine spotted by drone

A Benedictine monk who works at a Rhode Island school has discovered that finding solitude is no easy feat, even 53 meters in the air. Brother Joseph Byron was recently

World briefs

MALAYSIA’s prime minister vows he will not quit over a USD700 million financial scandal, and accuses protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his

Xinhua: Journalist ‘confesses’ to causing China market crash

A leading journalist at one of China’s top financial publications has admitted to causing “panic and disorder” in the stock market, in a public confession carried on CCTV, the state

GDP contracts 26.4 pct as casino slump threatens surplus

Macau’s economy dipped to its lowest since 2011 as high-end gamblers avoided the world’s largest casino market amid a widening crackdown on graft in China. The region where gambling accounts

Centralized online system for kindergarten next year

Local kindergartens will no longer experience long queues of parents waiting outside to obtain and submit application forms next year, as the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has announced

Report | Pawn shops still helping flout currency rules

Authorities believe that the scam facilitated by pawn shops in town is also being used by corrupt officials and businesspeople to transfer ill-gotten money out of the mainland. According to a

Tourism master plan awarded for MOP18m

The local tourism development master plan has been awarded to AECOM Asia Company Limited for over MOP18.3 million, according to a notice published yesterday in the government’s Official Gazette (BO). The

BRIEFS | Seminar for bilingual professionals to be held this month

The Forum Macau and the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) have joined forces to organize a seminar in Chinese-Portuguese language training and its importance to the development of cooperation between China

ONE YEAR AFTER THE CE | Reelection Gaming downturn is Chui’s greatest challenge

Chui Sai On was reelected as Macau’s Chief Executive one year ago, with 380 votes cast by a small Electoral College. The election may have been seamless, but the region’s

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