A projected landslide victory for Japan’s ruling party in Sunday’s parliamentary elections could give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe political breathing space to push forward with his long-held nationalist agenda. While Abe
Australia pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president yesterday, with Australia’s prime minister calling for an end to the bloody conflict in Eastern Europe and Ukraine’s
The Syrian teen, driven from his home by his country’s civil war, swipes across the world on a mobile phone map, over China and the blue expanse of the Pacific
Turkey’s foreign minister says this week’s report on the CIA’s harsh treatment of terrorist suspects reveals “unacceptable torture and treatment.” Speaking in Ankara with his Slovakian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
The 42-year-old arrived at Crathie church near Balmoral Castle accompanied by her father Prince Philip, and her daughter and bridesmaid 11-year-old Zara. Before a small family congregation she and the groom,
Thousands of Christmas cards are pouring into a small village in Wisconsin that shares its name with the most famous reindeer. The Rudolph Post Office receives more than 10,000 Christmas cards
Liverpool’s group-stage exit from the Champion League marked a new low in a disappointing season so far for one of the giants of English football. Things could be about to get
McLaren announced the return of Fernando Alonso and retained Jenson Button for the 2015 Formula One season, giving the British team a lineup of former champions at the start of
Those who bluff and bluster around us with total unreasonableness unsettle us. They can be objects of fascination. In what world do they live? How can they sleep at night?
There’s no way around it. Beijing has sent a clear message this week that Macau has to diversify its economy no matter what. Now, there is the soft way – we
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If you’re one of those who fondly recalls spending the ‘60s luxuriating in a pleasantly disorienting haze, well, consider “Inherent Vice” a reunion of sorts. You’ll fit right in. If, on
Shakespeare mentions high heels in “Hamlet,” former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised them and fashion designers from Dior to Manolo Blahnik have bewitched women and men with their versions.
Charli XCX, the British artist with a penchant for teenage churlishness, knows a thing or two about warfare. With her second major label album, “Sucker,” she throws a smoke grenade
Many young South Koreans, some educated overseas, are going to Gangnam to start mobile or Internet businesses. Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and Japan are opening offices in the area
Known as Ribatejo (literally: banks of Tagus) until 2009, the wine region of Tejo takes its name directly from the all-important Tagus River, meandering more than 1,000km from Aragon in
A recent addition to the world-famous MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2015, Temptations at StarWorld Hotel has a very special gourmet celebratory menu for guests to enjoy while the
* Hong Kong police arrest protesters in main camp * Executive Council with two new faces * Jason Chao: secretaries will incur in human rights violations * EU forecasts Macau’s economy to shrink
Under pressure from Congress to speed access to U.S. skies for commercial drones, the government granted four companies permission yesterday to use drones for aerial surveillance, construction site monitoring and
CHINA A defense lawyer says prominent Chinese legal activist Pu Zhiqiang has denied a series of police charges against him that fellow activists say were trumped up to silence a
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