Myanmar | Suu Kyi allies with beleaguered speaker Shwe Mann

Myanmar’s parliament reopened yesterday for its final session before November’s national elections, with the spotlight on the influential speaker — who was violently ousted just days ago as head of the

USA | Probe of Clinton’s server could find more than just emails

Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. Clinton last week handed

Russia | Ex-Kremlin Internet ‘troll’ wins suit against ex-employer

A Russian court on Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble (USD0.01) to a former “Kremlin troll” who sued her ex-employer and demanded closure of what she describes as a

Turkey | 6 migrants drown off coast trying to reach Greece

Six Syrian migrants, including an infant, drowned off the Turkish coast yesterday as they tried to reach a Greek island, a rescuer said, underscoring the deadly risks taken by migrants

This Day in History | 1991 – Hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev

Mr Gorbachev is reported to be under house arrest at his holiday home in the Crimea. News of the coup was broken in an announcement on state radio earlier on Monday. It

Offbeat | US: Group files complaint against judge over marriage sentence

A group that advocates the separation of church and state has filed a complaint about a Texas judge who ordered a man to marry his girlfriend as a condition of

Tennis | Fish opens next-to-last tournament with upset of Troicki

Mardy Fish surprised even himself. Fish opened the next-to-last tournament of his career with a convincing 6-2, 6-2 victory over 20th-ranked Viktor Troicki in the first round of the Western &

Football | Bilbao holds off Barcelona to win Super Cup 5-1 on aggregate

Athletic Bilbao ended a 31-year trophy drought with a 1-1 draw at Barcelona yesterday (Macau time), claiming the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-1 aggregate victory over the reigning European

Artifacts | Tehran and a tale of the topsy turvy

Like the oil wells this pariah Persian state is most dependent on, Iran’s population erupted in spontaneous celebrations last month following the signing of the long-awaited nuclear accord. With the

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 – edition no. 2381

* Gov’t partners with WHO to create Chinese Medicine center * Traffic: 4 pct annual cap on vehicle growth * Gaming: August blues * No survivors in Indonesia plane crash DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | Man charged in stabbing death of Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter

Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the fatal stabbing of actor Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter on a Manhattan street. Lamar Davenport, of New York City, was charged with second-degree

World briefs

THAILAND A bomb exploded at a popular shrine near a key political protest site in central Bangkok yesterday evening, the government said, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and

Aviation | Indian airline makes huge order for 250 Airbus jets

Indian budget airline IndiGo finalized an exceptionally large order for 250 single-aisle Airbus A320neo jets yesterday to keep up with rapid growth in the country’s air travel. IndiGo, India’s largest domestic

Gaming alert | Packer’s rising casino debt making bond market wary

Australian billionaire James Packer’s casino empire borrowings are rising too fast for some bond investors’ comfort. With Crown Resorts Ltd.’s debt pile swelling and profits down, the cost of insuring the

Booming app innovations boost youth IT entrepreneurship

With a growing number of local youths participating in information technology (IT) entrepreneurship in recent years, the industry is seeing a diverse range of innovations, many with the intention of

International student card applications open

The Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) has opened applications for the International Student Card. Local students who are enrolled in Macau’s higher education institutions or attending universities abroad can apply

Briefs | Fiscal surplus down by 60 pct year-on-year

Macau’s fiscal surplus between January and July has dropped by 59.1 percent when compared with the same period of last year, standing at over MOP27.18 billion, according to the latest Central

Property | Transaction value and numbers see snapback in Q2

However, the transactions total for the first half of the year suffered a year-on-year plunge, with a price drop of 45.4 percent, while the number of transactions fell 38 percent. In

Pereira Coutinho runs for Portuguese Parliament, denies new party link

Macau’s Legislative Assembly lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho has confirmed his intentions to run for a seat at the Portuguese Parliament this autumn, but denied that he will be running for

Crime | Mainland woman nabbed for aggravated theft after half a year at large

Local police arrested a woman from the mainland last Friday who has been at large since February, when she allegedly stole HKD15,000 worth of cash from a male friend in

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