Wall collapses in busy tourist area

The three-storey building has been standing idle for more than 40 years, and only recently part of its veranda also collapsed. At around 9.30 a.m., the fire service arrived at

Alexis Tam | Cultural fund member not sacked over law breach

The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, has said that the former Cultural Industries Fund member Chao Son U was not sacked for breaching the law, Radio Macau

Google acknowledges 11 accidents with its self-driving cars

Google Inc. revealed Monday (yesterday, Macau time) that its self-driving cars have been in 11 minor traffic accidents since it began experimenting with the technology six years ago. The company released the

Corporate Bits | BNU co-organizes lunch with Portuguese Secretary of State

About 70 guests attended to listen to Mr Mathias’ presentation. Regarding investment opportunities, the Secretary indicated three pillars of the development strategy, based on the European structural funds, industry and

Drop in oil production reduces East Timor’s revenue

A drop in oil and natural gas production has been the main factor behind a reduction of oil revenues to East Timor, which account for almost all of the state’s

China and Brazil discuss cooperation

The Prime Minister of China Li Keqiang will present a list of nearly 60 investment projects involving construction of infrastructure and industrial facilities in Brazil, reported Brazilian newspaper Valor Económico. The

Replica of razed Summer Palace opens, but some prefer ruins 

China already has its own copies of London’s Tower Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. Now a life-sized model by a film studio of one of the country’s own historical attractions —

Authorities investigating police shooting of man at train station

China’s Public Security Ministry is investigating a shooting in which a police officer killed an unarmed traveler in front of his elderly mother and three small children at a train

Singapore | Teen found guilty of insulting Christians, ex-leader Lee 

Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee was yesterday found guilty of insulting Christians in a video monologue, and of distributing an obscene image of the country’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew with

Bangladesh | Latest blogger killed in the country

Masked men wielding machetes stabbed a blogger and author to death yesterday near his home in northeastern Bangladesh, police said, the third fatal attack this year against a blogger in the

Nepal | Second major earthquake strikes, killing at least 42 

A major earthquake hit a remote mountain region of Nepal yesterday, killing at least 42 people, triggering landslides and toppling buildings less than three weeks after the Himalayan nation was ravaged by

Migration | Malaysia to turn away Rohingya unless boats are sinking

Marine northern commander Tan Kok Kwee said yesterday that waters around Langkawi island where several wooden vessels have landed in the past three days will be patrolled 24 hours a

Environment | Shell clears major US government hurdle for Arctic drilling 

  Royal Dutch Shell’s­ Arctic drilling program has cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to begin drilling for oil and gas off Alaska’s northwestern coast this summer. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Monday

Art | Picasso painting sells for USD179.4m setting auction record

Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘‘O’’)” sold for USD179.4 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction. The price for the painting, sold Monday at Christie’s in

Russia | Kerry to meet Putin amid Ukraine, Syria tensions 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. Kerry laid a wreath at

UK | Osborne spells out mandate on EU referendum

Emboldened by his party’s election triumph, Britain’s finance minister said yesterday his government has a “very clear mandate” to change the terms of the country’s membership in the European Union

This Day in History: 1981 Thousands see Pope shot in Rome

Surgeons have performed a five-hour operation and say they hope he will make a full recovery. At about 1715 local time, the Pope was being driven in his Popemobile through a

Offbeat: 700 cannabis plants found next to Berlin subway station

It wasn’t the world’s best-hidden marijuana plantation. Berlin police say they were were called to a subway station this week by a street cleaner who reported finding “numerous small plants that

American Football | NFL suspends Brady 4 games for deflated footballs

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are preparing for a fight. The reigning Super Bowl MVP will appeal his four-game suspension, his agent said, and the team threw its “unconditional”

Boxing | Russian fighter in coma after incident in Berlin subway

Boytsov, who has a 36-1 record, was found lying in the tunnel between two subway stations in the upmarket Charlottenburg district of western Berlin on May 3. The 29-year-old fighter was

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