HEALTH | MERS SCARE | Tour groups to South Korea canceled

Macau group tours to South Korea that were booked for this month have been cancelled by travel agencies, as reported cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea

Education | IPM Seniors Academy students graduate with sense of fulfillment

IPM’s Seniors Academy was established in 1999, and is dedicated to realizing life-long education for the elderly in the city. Last year, the academy offered a wide range of subjects

European-style antique clock store opens, eyeing Asian market

Macau’s first antique gallery specializing in European clocks opened on Monday at Fisherman’s Wharf, with the owners hoping to capture the attention of an increasingly “romantic” Asian market. Sergey Rylov, owner

Over 3,000 fines issued over smoking ban breaches

The Health Bureau (SSM) has issued a total of 3,077 fines to citizens found breaching the smoking ban between January 1 and May 31. SSM said that it had undertaken 119,367

Corporate Bits | “Ik” Yang Lian Hui returns to the Venetian in world title fight

Undefeated No. 2 world-rated junior welterweight contender “IK” Yang Lian Hui of China will get his first world title shot in a homecoming fight when he battles Cesar “El Distinto”

Hong Kong to combat fat fingers with stock limits

Hong Kong’s markets regulator will back a plan to stop fat fingers and rogue algorithms from causing erroneous swings in the city’s biggest stocks. The Securities and Futures Commission will support

HSBC slashes jobs as it shifts focus back to Asian roots 

HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest bank by market value, will cut up to 25,000 jobs around the world to reduce costs and shift its center of gravity back toward the fast-­growing

Angola’s president visiting China to sign economic agreements

Angola’s president visiting China to sign economic agreements Angola and China will negotiate “a new financial package to tackle the difficulties” created by the fall in global oil prices, said the

Portugal | Thai Group offers 82.5 million euros for hotel chain

The Minor hotel group of Thailand has offered 82.5 million euros to buy the Hotéis Tivoli hotel chain, whilst also taking on “all current liabilities,” which in December 2014 amounted

Small investors flying blind in latest market boom

Li Haitao, a 24-year-old employee at a steel trading company, did no research last June before he joined a stampede of novice investors into China’s surging stock market. He paid for his risk-taking. “I

Man sues actress over her intense stare in TV show

Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to a new concern over frivolous claims, such as one in which a man says actress Zhao Wei stared at him

Gov’t plans national park system to protect few unspoilt areas, FT says

China plans to introduce a national parks system in a move that could help address administrative problems that have so far plagued attempts to protect the country’s few remaining natural

5 killed, including 2 police, in mass rural shooting

Five people were killed, including two police officers, in a shooting yesterday in rural northern China, police said. The early morning shooting in Hebei province’s Suning county marked a rare

Philippines | Court orders 9 jailed Chinese fishermen freed

A Philippine court has ordered the release of nine Chinese fishermen who served a year in prison for poaching and taking hundreds of endangered giant sea turtles from a disputed South China

Pakistan | Execution of youth suspect stayed for 4th time

A death-row prisoner whose family says was just 14 years old when he was convicted of killing a 7-year-old has had his execution stayed for a fourth time, authorities said

Nepal | Political agreement paves the way for eight states, new constitution

Nepal’s main political parties have reached agreements on several disputed issues that could lead to the drafting of a much-delayed constitution in the Himalayan nation. The agreement was signed by leaders

South Korea | Gov’t says its deadly MERS outbreak may have peaked

South Korea believes its MERS virus outbreak may have peaked, and experts say the next several days will be critical to determining whether the government’s belated efforts have successfully stymied a disease

Australia | 19 hurt after pickup truck slams into cafe

Nineteen people were hurt after a pickup truck smashed into a cafe in northern Australia yesterday, sparking a fire that engulfed the building, police said. Officials were trying to figure

USA | Protests follow video of officer pointing gun at bikini-clad black teenager

Hundreds of demonstrators marched Monday night (yesterday, Macau time) to the pool where a white police officer pinned a black teenage girl to the ground and pulled a gun on

Israel | Gov’t isn’t on UN list of parties that kill or injure kids 

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest list of parties that kill or injure children in armed conflict does not include Israel — as some U.N. officials had recommended — but the U.N.

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