Sichuan | Village petitions to ‘isolate’ HIV positive boy

  Villagers in China’s Sichuan province have petitioned authorities to “isolate” an HIV positive eight-year-old boy, state media report. Kun Kun lives with his grandparents, who struggle to care for him. Local

Authorities arrest policeman blamed for wrongful conviction

A police officer who oversaw the case of a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1996 had been arrested, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. Feng Zhiming, now

FT: Housing market trims losses

Chinese house prices fell at a slower pace in November, in a tentative sign that the sickly housing market may soon bottom out, lightening its drag on the broader economy,

Japan | ‘Interview’ ordeal at Sony just its latest crisis

  How do you say “damage control” in Japanese? Sony Corp. is sealed within a hermetic cone of silence as executives try to prevent the slow motion train wreck at Sony

US | probe links NKorea to Sony hacking

  Federal investigators have now connected the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. to North Korea, a U.S. official said yesterday (Macau time), though it remained unclear how the federal government

S. Korean group cancels plans for border tree

A South Korean church group said yesterday it canceled plans to erect a giant Christmas tree near the border with North Korea after locals complained that it could provoke Pyongyang. The

Russia | Putin: economy will recover

  The Russian economy will rebound and the ruble will stabilize, Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday at his annual press conference. He said the current crisis could last two years at

Haiti | President meets with opposition amid unrest

Haiti President Michel Martelly met yesterday with opposition leaders in a bid to stabilize the politically fractious country as pressure mounted on him to appoint an interim prime minister. The meetings

History in the Making | US was at odds with world over Cuba policy

  President Barack Obama’s decision to pursue new relations with Cuba was driven in part by a stinging realization: Longstanding U.S. policies aimed at isolating Cuba had instead put Washington at

Cuba | People hope for better future with Washington-Havana deal

Cubans cheered the surprise announcement that their country will restore relations with the United States, hopeful they’ll soon see expanded trade and new economic vibrancy even though the 53-year-old economic

This Day in History: 1984 Britain signs over Hong Kong to China

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Joint Sino-British Declaration with her Chinese counterpart Zhao Ziyang. It formally seals the future of Hong Kong, transferring it from a British colony of six

Offbeat | American Kennel Club adds 4 new dog breeds

The kennel club announced that the Spanish water dog, the Cirneco dell'Etna, the Bergamasco and the Boerboel will become recognized breeds Jan. 1. They'll be eligible to compete in many AKC-sanctioned

Olympics | Beijing ramping up bid for 2022 Winter games

Beijing is ramping up its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics by holding a series of international athletic competitions and promotional events. Games organizers said yesterday the upcoming season-opening Freestyle Skiing

Football | Asian Cup wide open after coaching changes

  With the start of the Asian Cup only weeks away, a wide-open tournament has become even more unpredictable after a rash of coach firings in recent months left many of

Football | Spain arrests 13 more people in football fan fight

The FIFA executive committee met yesterday amid a renewed crisis after the prosecutor it appointed resigned in protest over the handling World Cup bid investigation. The sudden decision by Michael

Kapok: Blowing hot and cold

Politicking in Macao at present is being blurred by the celebratory mood of the year-end, and Christmas has indeed a lot to do with it. With the visit of Xi

Friday, December 19, 2014 – edition no. 2215

Like a proverbial Sun Tzu, Xi Jinping – who arrives today in Macau – is the CCP’s modern-day general navigating the pitfalls of breakneck development to deliver his

The year of the word CULTURE

* Robin’s on our mind A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are

‘Annie’ is a hard knock, no fun adaptation

It’s impossible to talk about “Annie” without admitting up front when you first experienced John Huston’s 1982 film. For adults at the time, it was a spectacular disaster, thanks in large

‘Five’ by Ursula Archer is intriguing

Geocaching — the contemporary treasure hunt in which a GPS is used to find hidden objects — lends itself to an intriguing melding of a gripping police procedural and an

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