Hong Kong | Billionaire Kwok jailed 5 years for corrupting official

Billionaire Thomas Kwok, the former Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. co-chairman, was sentenced to five years in jail and fined HK$500,000 (USD64,460) for conspiring to corrupt Hong Kong’s No. 2

Former Chinese aluminum boss facing graft charges

The former boss of China’s biggest aluminum producer has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party on corruption charges, the party announced yesterday, as an anti-graft campaign that has brought

Myanmar | Woman fatally shot at Chinese-backed mine protest

An official from a Chinese-backed copper mine in Myanmar where a villager was shot dead in a protest expressed sorry yesterday at the incident and said it will impact the

UN Security Council takes up N. Korea’s human rights

  The U.N. Security Council took up the issue of North Korea’s bleak human rights situation for the first time yesterday (Macau time), a groundbreaking step toward possibly holding the nuclear-armed

Vatican reform | Pope Francis in blistering critique of bureaucrats

  To the Catholic Church’s “seven deadly sins,” Pope Francis has added the “15 ailments of the Curia.” Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy this week, accusing the cardinals, bishops

This Day in History: 1962 Bay of Pigs prisoners fly to freedom

The government agreed to the payment of a ransom of $53 million in food and medical supplies, donated by companies all over the USA, as a condition for their release. The

Offbeat | US Christmas tree controlled by tweets

Twitter users anywhere in the world can control the lights on a holiday display in New Jersey. Tweets will turn on a 3-meter Christmas tree, menorah and over 1,000 LED lights

NFL | Bengals beat Broncos 37-28 to reach playoffs

The Cincinnati Bengals booked a place in the NFL playoffs with a 37-28 win against Denver with Dre Kirkpatrick returning an interception for a touchdown in the closing minutes to

Basketball | Harden powers Rockets to 110-95 win over Blazers

Houston’s James Harden scored a season-high 44 points to power the Rockets to a 110-95 victory over Portland yesterday, moving within one game of their NBA Western Conference rival. On a

World Views: Mexico’s corruption eruption

With a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a spot on one of those ubiquitous lists of “leading global thinkers,” Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray is just the kind

Revealing | 2014 Or the Year of the Flesh

* Movies: The interview * Music: Black Messiah by d’Angelo and the Vanguard * Wine: The Hope Against Hope * Food: Marvelous interpretation DOWNLOAD

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – edition no. 2217

* Vatican: Pope Francis in blistering critique of bureaucrats * Stanley Au: political system favors sole candidates * Design: A way of reaching out to the community * Beijing to investigate former President

‘The Interview’ deserves to be seen

That I was one of the relative few to see “The Interview” is not a boast I take any pleasure in. It’s with heavy sadness, not pride, that I review Seth

D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ plays to message of rising up

The phrase “long-awaited album” gets tossed around quite a bit — slapped on sets delayed by a couple years, or a few measly months, even. But “Black Messiah,” D’Angelo’s follow-up

NEWS OF THE WORLD | Bold booty or sheer reveal: 2014 was big on flesh

Skin was definitely in, but was 2014 all about the big, bold booty or a sheer reveal up top? On runways, Marc Jacobs sent up-and-comer Kendall Jenner out during February’s New

The Hope Against Hope

Detractors of Bordeaux wine often point to the fact that many bordelais estates have in the last decades become quasi-investment instruments, that vineyards have become akin to real estate in

MARVELOUS INTERPRETATION

Bringing a new Portuguese dining concept to Macau, the hotel opened a restaurant named Fado, offering authentic cuisine and numerous bottles of exceptional Portuguese wine to discerning diners. Upon entering

THE BUZZ: US seeks China’s help after cyberattack

The United States is asking China for help as it weighs potential responses to a cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment that the U.S. has blamed on North Korea. A senior Obama

World briefs

AUSTRALIA Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, yesterday reshuffled his cabinet and pledged to reset his government with a renewed focus on the economy in a bid to tackle a slump in poll

A forgotten dictator | Panama’s Noriega in prison 25 years post-invasion

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is nearly forgotten, languishing in a steamy jungle prison near the interoceanic canal while the country enjoys democracy and economic prosperity a quarter-century after the

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