All around Chow Tak-yee’s neighborhood in the working-class edges of Hong Kong, the 26-year-old can feel the spreading influence of nearby mainland China on the prosperous, open-minded city she›s always called home. The
Rudd faces up to seven years in prison on the threatening to kill charge, although his lawyer Craig Tuck said the prosecution case boils down to an angry phone call,
South Korea’s prime minister has offered to resign amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country’s No. 2 post, officials said yesterday, in the latest political crisis
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent religious offerings yesterday to a Tokyo shrine that honors convicted World War II leaders among its war dead, a likely signal that he won’t
An Egyptian criminal court yesterday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to
Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly attacks on foreign-owned shops. South Africa’s anti-immigrant attacks, in which seven people have been killed this month,
Italian prosecutors yesterday began building their case against the traffickers responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the Mediterranean, as European Union leaders mulled a new plan to
President Duvalier, who declared himself “president for life” in 1964, died at the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. He is believed to have been seriously ill for some time - his ailments
Egyptian court has sentenced a popular Armenian belly dancer to six months in prison for “insulting the Egyptian flag” after she allegedly wore a tight dress in its red, white
Lelisa Desisa ran through the rain to earn a second Boston Marathon victory and his first chance to enjoy it. The 25-year-old Ethiopian broke the tape again on Boylston Street as
Yasiel Puig, Jose Abreu and other Cuban baseball players arriving in the major leagues in recent years all come from the same pipeline: state-run academies that produce hundreds of players
Melky Cabrera capped Chicago's four-run ninth inning with an RBI single off Cody Allen to send the White Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians yesterday (Macau time). Six
Asia has a China problem. Beijing has just initiated its biggest cut in bank reserve requirements since 2008, a move that underscores just how worried it is about its economy. But the
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The Qatar Central Bank last week celebrated the official opening of the first Renminbi Clearance Centre (RCC) in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), to be located in
CHINA The top anti-graft body of China’s Communist Party says more than 100,000 officials have been reprimanded since late 2012 for violating policies mandating more austere working practices. AFGHANISTAN A suicide
Police said witnesses told them that around midnight on Saturday three gunmen stormed the dark and gritty site where Corinthians’ fan group Pavilhao 9 meets underneath a highway overpass. They
At the press briefing held yesterday at PJ’s headquarters, police revealed that up to 21 Korean women ranging from 24 to 37 years of age were involved in the two-month
Sheldon Adelson will be confronted in court for the first time with allegations of wrongdoing by a man he fired five years ago as the head of his Macau casinos. Adelson,
The maximum compensation possible for the resolution of an employment contract without justifiable cause has increased in Macau, effective from today. The maximum base salary to be used in calculating
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