Shanghai stampede | Witnesses: Sequence of errors led to accident

On New Year’s Eve of 2013, Shanghai authorities sent about 6,000 city police officers and requested help from military police to manage a 300,000-strong crowd that filled the city’s famed

Shanghai stampede | China targets critics

The Shanghai government took measures at the weekend to prevent public criticism of its role in the New Year’s Eve stampede that left 36 people dead, including banning interviews with

Australia | Wildfire threat eases as cool front moves in

Cooler conditions yesterday were helping hundreds of firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that had forced thousands of people to flee their homes in southern Australia. A dozen homes have been destroyed

Indonesia | Prayers held as divers thwarted from AirAsia site

Around 100 family members of AirAsia Flight 8501 crash victims sought strength yesterday, one week after the disaster, while bad weather again prevented searchers from reaching a large object on

US warns about threat against banks, hotels in Surabaya

The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has issued a warning to Americans about a potential threat against U.S. associated banks and hotels in Indonesia’s second-largest city, Surabaya. An embassy spokesperson said yesterday

N. Korea blasts US for sanctions over Sony attack

North Korea yesterday criticized the United States for slapping sanctions on Pyongyang officials and organizations for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures — the latest fallout from a Hollywood movie depicting

Vietnam | Ship sinks off Vietnam, only 1 of 19 crew rescued

A Norwegian cargo ship with 19 Filipino crew members sank off the coast of southern Vietnam with only one man known to have survived, officials said yesterday. Two bodies have been

USA | Officers salute police boss, mayor at wake for slain officer

  Mayor Bill de Blasio drew salutes from some officers at the wake for a second slain New York Police Department officer after the city’s police commissioner urged his ranks to

Obama looks past Republicans in promoting his 2015 agenda

Obama is expected back in Washington today. His approach for the new year appears to look straight past newly emboldened Republicans who take full control of Congress tomorrow. Fresh from a two-week

This Day in History | 1985 – Israel ends major Ethiopian rescue mission

Operation Moses, which has been taking place in secret since 21 November 1984, has been suspended since news of the covert airlift became public. Press leaks have forced the Israeli Government

Offbeat | Famous Southern California white cobra gets name: Adhira

The San Diego Zoo tells the Los Angeles Times that the cobra will be called Adhira, which in Hindi means “lightning.” The Times says Adhira came in first in an online

Skiing | US Shiffrin leads WCup slalom after 1st run

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin continued her recent resurgence by building a commanding lead in the opening run of a World Cup slalom yesterday. The Olympic champion timed 56.88 seconds on the

Football | Russian player shot dead

A 20-year-old footballer for Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala has been shot dead near his home in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus. Gasan Magomedov was driving into his home village Saturday night

Insight | One fading system?

1. Unfortunately, a lawmakers’ agenda doesn’t always coincide with the citizens concerns. Directly elected Ho Ion Sang, one of the main figures of the influential Macau General Union of the

Monday, January 5, 2015 – edition no. 2221

* AirAsia plane engine cuts out minutes before takeoff in Surabaya * Smoking ban in bars, nightclubs in force * A decade of gambling expansion ends * Sequence of errors led to shanghai

2015 begins: Shanghai tragedy, fireworks elsewhere

Revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York's Times Square to say good riddance to a turbulent 2014 marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks

THE BUZZ: New Year’s card sheep completes knitting scarf

Tradition in Japan calls for people to send post cards — often hundreds of them — to friends, colleagues and relatives, decked with pine trees, cranes and other symbols of

Las Vegas betting on chance of New Year’s Eve snow

  If Sin City’s sports books took bets on the weather, snow in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve would normally have terrible odds. It might pay out this year, though,

World briefs

CHINA The president has called for the Communist Party’s leadership over the country’s universities to be enhanced in a continuing tightening of ideological controls across a wide range of society.

Lionel Leong looks at MSAR’s economy with ‘caution and optimism’

  The Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong has said that his cabinet is looking at Macau’s economic development in the coming years with both caution and optimism. He believes the

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