The Buzz | Court awards some USD1.8 million to phone hacking victims

Britain’s High Court has awarded actress Sadie Frost, sports star Paul Gascoigne and a group of other claimants some 1.2 million pounds (USD1.8 million) in damages after their phones were

Equatorial Guinea hopes to join Forum Macau

Equatorial Guinea wants to join Forum Macau and “apparently it has China’s blessing,” a diplomatic source told the Times. The membership of Eq. Guinea, a Franco-Lusophone-Spanish country, “may be formalized

Q&A with Andrew Scott, CEO of World Gaming Group | ‘Marketing and competition is heating up’

The World Gaming Group, which publishes World Gaming Magazine (WGM), has recently acquired Must Read Publications, the publisher of Inside Asian Gaming magazine. In an interview with The Times, Andrew

G2E Asia | Online gaming hacking threats growing

  As online gaming attracts countless gamblers across the world, businesses operating these services have also been subject to further hacking threats, namely distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), said Tony Teo, Regional

Gov’t invites parental involvement for teenage anti-drug efforts

Parental involvement plays a crucial role in the government’s anti-drug campaign directed at local youth, who nowadays have moved away from using outdoor venues to their own private homes when

Extradition treaty between SARs to be signed this year

The upcoming extradition treaty between Macau and Hong Kong along with a mutual legal assistance agreement will be signed this year, the director of the Law Reform and International Law

Inflation in April declines year-on-year

Compared to the same month in 2014, a notable increase was observed mainly in terms of housing, fuels, health and food and non-alcoholic beverages; these were explained in a manner

3,588 crimes in Q1 | Unlawful detention cases nearly double

Criminal cases of unlawful detention and loansharking surged significantly year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, as well as cases of arson, document forgery, and “crimes jeopardizing the territory.” The

Casino worker unions jointly urge for trade union law legislation

The Power of the Macao Gaming Association’s honorary president, lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho, stressed in the meeting that a trade union law is still absent in Macau, and also that

Immigration policy | IPIM promises ‘a more transparent system’

The head of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Cheong Chou Weng, responded to lawmaker Lei Cheng I’s written inquiry by stating that the institute was willing to

Real Estate Matters | The most important questions to ask when you sell: part 2

Juliet Risdon is a Director of JML Property and a property investor. Having established the company in 1994, JML Property offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in managing properties

PROJECT POKER | Pura Vida

One of my favourite aspects of playing poker for a living is freedom. I can manage my own schedule, set my own goals, and go on vacation whenever I want.

Hewlett-Packard sells stake in mainland unit for USD2.3B

A group owned by the Chinese university, Tsinghua Holdings, will purchase the 51 percent stake in a new business called H3C. The deal values the businesses at $4.5 billion net

Survey shows China manufacturing down for 3rd month in a row 

Manufacturing in China shrank for the third straight month in May as demand remained soft, raising the chances of more stimulus to prop up growth in the world’s No. 2 economy. HSBC’s preliminary

Corporate Bits | Macao water launches various e-services

The Company’s first Mobile App will be available in June 2015. Through the app, customers can manage their water usage on a smartphone, including balance check or bill payment, electronic

Xi targets tech elites for Communist Party outreach push

If Chinese technology tycoons such as Jack Ma and Lei Jun didn’t already realize their special significance to the Communist Party, Xi Jinping has made it official. The Chinese president for

US group: Foreign authors censored without knowing

A U.S.-based advocacy group is warning Western authors to be vigilant of censorship of their work in China’s fast-growing book publishing industry, which is sometimes done without their knowledge. A report Wednesday from

Censors suspend TV drama over plot of crotch grenade 

The country’s regulating agency — the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television — also began to review the TV drama “Let’s Beat the Devils,” which tells about

Beijing warns US plane away from disputed islands, CNN reports

China ordered a U.S. military plane away from islands it’s building in the South China Sea, CNN reported, in the latest example of the country’s efforts to assert sovereignty over

Rohingya trafficking | Malaysia finally orders sea search-and-rescue for migrants 

Malaysia’s prime minister said yesterday he has ordered the navy and the coast guard to comb the sea to look for stranded migrants, the first country to announce it will search

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