Gaming alert | Mongolia considers legalizing gambling

Mongolia plans to establish two newcasino resorts, according to the iGaming Post. The country’s parliament may vote as early as this week on draft legislation to develop casino resorts. The political

Gaming | MGM announces ‘special bonus’

A ‘special bonus’ to non-management team members at MGM Macau was announced yesterday. The bonus is equal to one month’s salary and will be paid out in July 2015. This means

Tradition | Good luck chicken for Lunar New Year

Local wet markets are bustling these days, and costumers look for live birds to cook the favorite dishes you’d find in most Chinese homes during the festive season. According to Fernando

Extra flights to cope with CNY

Compared to last year’s 28, this marks an increase of more than 1.5 times, which, according to the authorities, will allow the local air transport market to provide enough capacity

Price of residential units surges 22 pct in 2014

The average price per square meter in the Macau peninsula reached MOP95,576; while in Taipa it amounted to MOP106,316 and in Coloane prices reached MOP122,697, up 19.8 percent, 29.6 percent

Corporate Bits | GEG volunteer team members distribute New Year puddings to the underprivileged

Six Senses Spa at MGM Macau is now incorporating a holistic Singing Bowl Ritual at the commencement and conclusion of all types of body and facial treatments, to offer guests

China firms replace banks to drive Hong Kong rents

  Chinese brokerages and asset management firms are underpinning Hong Kong office rents as the city cements its financial-market ties to the world’s second-largest economy. Prime office space leased by financial companies

Angola| Standard & Poor’s lowers credit rating

The Standard & Poor’s rating agency (S&P) downgraded its credit rating of Angola’s debt in foreign currency from  while maintaining a stable outlook, the agency said in a statement. The

Portugal is China’s 4th biggest European investment destination

Portugal was the fourth country in Europe to receive the most Chinese investment in the last ten years, ahead of much larger economies such as Spain or even Italy, according

American lobster: the mainland’s new festive delicacy 

  Now on the menu in Beijing for Chinese New Year: lots and lots of American lobster. Exports of U.S. lobster to China have rocketed in the past few years, largely to satisfy the

Thanksgiving celebrations have nothing on CNY

About 2.8 billion trips will be made in China, including 295 million on board trains, according to government estimates. In the U.S., AAA Travel had projected last year that 46.3

Prosecutors take down senior leader amid anti-corruption campaign 

Su Rong, a former provincial party leader and former vice chairman of China’s top political advisory body, is one of the most senior officials to have fallen in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping

Tens of millions on the move for Lunar New Year

A new interactive map of China’s Lunar New Year travel tells a story of massive migration home from the big city. The updating graphic posted online by the Chinese Internet portal

Shanghai dampens festive events after deadly stampede

Officials have put the brakes on some popular Chinese New Year events in big cities in the wake of a deadly stampede in Shanghai last month, leaving some observers complaining

Indonesia | Jakarta postpones moving of Australian drug convicts for execution 

Indonesia has postponed the transfer of eight convicted drug smugglers, including seven foreigners, to a prison island for execution due to technical problems and to allow the two Australians among

Sri Lanka | UN council endorses delay to war crimes report 

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday delayed by six months the release of a report into alleged war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war, a move sought by the country’s

Myanmar | Tens of thousands of ethnic refugees flee to China

Tens of thousands of refugees from Myanmar’s ethnic region of Kokang have fled into the neighboring Chinese province of Yunnan over the past week amid fighting between militant rebels and

North Korea | Pyongyang threatens strong response to DC rights meeting 

North Korea said it would respond “very strongly” to a conference in Washington yesterday about its widespread human rights abuses and says the United States ignored Pyongyang’s offer to attend and defend

USA | Federal judge stalls Obama’s executive action on immigration 

  A federal judge in Texas on Monday temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop

Ukraine | Army, rebels fighting despite pullback deadline 

  Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed rebels faced a deadline yesterday to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line in eastern Ukraine, but Associated Press reporters saw no signs

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