Arts | Macau’s Venice Biennale exhibition opens tomorrow

Macau’s exhibition at the 56th International Art Exhibition: Biennale di Venezia entitled “Path and Adventure – Works By Mio Pang Fei”, will be inaugurated tomorrow. According to a press release issued

‘Cultural and Creative Map’ themed store unveiled

The themed store at C-Shop will stock a map of cultural and creative organizations (that can be obtained at the shop for free), and have local original products available for

Consultation on sexual harassment bill later this year

The government is currently conducting a full review of the Penal Code, including an assessment of the legislation regarding sexual crimes, according to the Law Reform and International Law Bureau

Gov’t building statistical system for emerging industries

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) acting director, Ieong Meng Chao, took office as the bureau’s director yesterday. He said that the bureau had started building a statistical index system

Lionel Leong | No changes envisaged in factors affecting gaming slump

The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Lionel Leong, said that he doesn’t envisage any substantial changes to be made to the combination of factors affecting the gaming revenue downturn. As

Report: ‘Legal firewall’ shields Chinese firms from lawsuits 

Chinese companies are shielding themselves from lawsuits in America, denying U.S. businesses and investors their day in court, a report from a federal watchdog says. The report published yesterday by the U.S.-China

Corporate Bits | MGM Macau holds second “MGM dealer Olympics”

The participants were mainly the supervisors and dealers of table games such as Baccarat, Roulette and Blackjack. Nearly 100 candidates participated in three different categories of the game, while pre-rounds

China gains importance in Angola and Mozambique

The latest official data for Angolan oil exports, recently released, indicated that China bought more than 116 million barrels of oil last year, four times more than the second largest

Soccer stocks trouncing the market on Xi’s stimulus

  Xi Jinping’s plan to make China a soccer superpower is winning over fans in an unlikely place: the nation’s USD7.7 trillion stock market. Nine listed companies with ties to the country’s soccer league

Shanghai bans top officials’ spouses from running businesses

Shanghai banned spouses and children of senior officials from private business, making the Chinese financial hub the first to impose such strict controls over the family wealth of Communist Party

Regulators to lift price controls on most drugs starting June 1

Chinese regulators will lift price controls on most pharmaceutical drugs starting June 1 in hopes that the market-driven pricing system will keep medical costs in check, the National Development and

Afghanistan | Poppy farmers say new seeds will boost opium output

It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as they

Human trafficking | Thai police find new prisoner camps; crackdown intensifies

Police found two more camps yesterday believed to have held human trafficking victims in southern Thailand — one recently abandoned and the other containing a buried skeleton — days after

Thailand | 87-year-old king makes rare public appearance 

Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej made a rare public appearance yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of his coronation. All television stations carried the event live, as the 87-year-old monarch emerged

USA | Islamic State claims responsibility for Texas cartoon attack

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility yesterday for a weekend attack at a center near Dallas, Texas, exhibiting cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. An audio statement on the extremist group’s

Syria | Rights group condemns atrocities in city of Aleppo

Syrian government forces and insurgents have both committed abuses in the contested northern city of Aleppo, but some of the government’s actions amount to crimes against humanity, an international rights

Somalia | Kerry visits Mogadishu; 1st such trip for a secretary of state

Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Somalia yesterday in a show of solidarity with a government trying to defeat al-Qaida-allied militants and end decades of war

This Day in History: 1994 President and Queen open Channel

After travelling through the tunnel, which took eight years and billions of pounds to build, the Queen said it was one of the world’s great technological achievements. The tunnel is the

Offbeat | US: UC Berkeley’s Mark Twain project finds cache of new writing

In the letters, the man who would write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, likened the city’s police chief to a dog chasing its

Boxing | Pacquiao could face disciplinary action for shoulder

Manny Pacquiao could face disciplinary action from Nevada boxing officials for failing to disclose a shoulder injury before his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Nevada Athletic Commission chairman Francisco Aguilar said

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