The University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) recently organized a workshop to address the effects of passive smoking on public health. At the event, six renowned experts
With his country struggling to stave off financial collapse, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was trying to convince European creditors to agree on a new bailout program yesterday at an emergency eurozone
The Family Fun package includes: One night’s accommodation in a suite, one complimentary Deluxe Room, and complimentary Internet access at the hotel. The Friends Getaway package includes: One night’s accommodation in
The visit by the President of France, François Hollande, to Angola resulted in the signing of letters of intent to order hundreds of millions of euros of shipbuilding and infrastructure
Brazil is the ninth largest shareholder of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the first international financial institution established by China, according to state English- language newspaper China Daily. With a stake
China opened yesterday an exhibition of guns and photos of massacres to commemorate the World War II victory over Japan, part of a propaganda push to stir up nationalism by observing
For Chinese President Xi Jinping, mission No. 1 has been preserving Communist Party rule. That now means stabilizing the stock market. Xi’s government rushed out an unprecedented series of measures in
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the South African central bank to establish a yuan-clearing center in South Africa.
Aditi Mendiratta’s biggest worry as she’s swiping left and right is hiding the smartphone notifications that read “Congratulations! You have a new match” from her parents. “They wouldn’t be cool with
Malaysian authorities have frozen six bank accounts as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred from a state investment fund to the personal
A military court in Thailand released 14 student activists from detention yesterday but said they still face sedition charges — and the prospect of several years in prison — for
Britons paused in silence and walked in solidarity yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of suicide bomb attacks on London’s transit system. Four British men inspired by al-Qaida blew themselves up
Bill Cosby’s admission that he obtained quaaludes to give young women he was pursuing for sex could bolster defamation claims lodged by his accusers, the women’s lawyers said after The Associated Press
Iran nuclear talks busted through their second deadline in a week yesterday, casting new questions about the ability of world powers to cut off all Iranian pathways to a bomb through diplomacy.
Biggs, 35, escaped by scaling a 30ft wall with three other prisoners at 1505 BST today. A ladder was thrown over the wall from the outside during the prisoners’ afternoon exercise
Amy Schumer and Aziz Ansari will be the headliners this year when the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival hits the road looking for laughs. The tour presented by Funny or Die
Decades ago, when the Williams sisters were kids in California, taking tennis lessons from Dad on a municipal court and imagining playing at Grand Slam tournaments one day, it was
The 38-year-old failed to pay the WBO a USD200,000 fee to administer the fight by the 3 July deadline, BBC reported yesterday. Mayweather had been expected to relinquish the title by
The International Hockey Federation has confirmed 12 teams which qualified for the 2016 Olympic tournaments in Rio de Janeiro. Six men’s and six women’s teams earned places in the 12-nation Olympic
China’s financial world has officially entered the paranoia zone. As the Shanghai stock market experiences its worst three-week rout since 1992 – in defiance of government efforts to reverse the
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