Fosun interested in buying Portugal’s Novo Banco bank

The Resolution Fund has started the process of selling Novo Banco, the bank that inherited the healthy assets of bailed-out bank Banco Espírito Santo, requesting expressions of interest by 31

China increases cultural presence in Cape Verde

The Confucius Institute will have a delegation at the University of Cape Verde and China will open a cultural centre in the archipelago in 2016, Cape Verde’s Foreign Minister, Jorge

Environmental filmmakers have rare impact

One clip shows a girl swatting flies from a younger child among piles of trash. Another has children blowing up used medical gloves like balloons. The footage is on the computer

Mainland celebrates constitutional rights citizens are arrested for

Students in more than 400,000 schools across China recited the country’s 135-article constitution yesterday in a national celebration of the document that enshrines one-party rule as well as a series

Hong Kong | Student leaders mull protest retreat

Hong Kong student leaders said yesterday they’re considering retreating from protest sites on city streets after more than two months in the latest sign that momentum is fading in their

Beijing to end prisoner organ transplants on Jan. 1

China says it will cease transplanting organs taken from executed prisoners on Jan. 1 in response to human rights concerns, although uncertainties linger over where a replacement supply will come from,

Philippines | Approaching storm brings back nightmare of Haiyan

Villagers fled coastal homes and sparked panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations in the central Philippines yesterday as an approaching powerful storm brought back nightmares of last year’s deadly onslaught from

THAILAND | Myanmar migrants charged in British tourist deaths

The attorney general’s office presented the case to the court on the nearby island of Samui, and court officials said the two indicted men will attend a session on Monday

SPACE | Launch of new Orion ship has NASA flying high 

With the imminent debut of its Orion spacecraft, NASA is on a high not felt since the space shuttle days. Shuttle veterans, in fact, were leading the charge in yesterday morning’s

USA | NY officer in chokehold death cleared by grand jury 

In a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, a white New York City police officer was cleared in the chokehold death of an unarmed

This Day in History | 1991 – Maxwell business empire faces bankruptcy

At 1100 GMT two sons of the late business tycoon Robert Maxwell, Kevin and Ian, called in administrators from accountants Arthur Andersen as the enormity of their father’s financial difficulties

Offbeat | Cat survives trip in moving box across US

Ashley Barth tells WAVY-TV (bit.ly/1tLTngg) her cat Mee Moowe disappeared in September as movers packed her family's belongings for a move from Suffolk, Virginia, to Hawaii - a nearly 8,000

Football | Premier League preview: Man United on the march, Southampton on the slide

Rob Harris Sports Writer, London Tuesday, 4pm Southampton v Man U Home 2.9, Draw 3.5, Away 2.64 The established order is gradually being restored in the Premier League. Southampton is on the slide and Manchester United

Kapok | Expected Expectations

Nobody can deny it: the announcement of the new government line-up last Monday did not come as a surprise, quite the opposite. Secretaries’ and other senior officials’ names had been

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‘Wild’ finds salvation in the woods

Cheryl Strayed, as played by Reese Witherspoon in Jean-Marc Vallee’s “Wild,” is, bless the Lord, not an easily discernable type. She’s also not the sort we’ve often encountered on the well-trod

‘Midnight in Siberia’ looks at Russia today

As the West nervously watches a newly aggressive Russia, many commentators are trying to figure out what Vladimir Putin is thinking. But "Midnight in Siberia" reminds us of another important

Wu-Tang look to cement legacy on new album

Old Dirty Bastard once proclaimed: Wu-Tang is for the children. On their sixth album, "A Better Tomorrow," U-God reinforces the sentiment: We "construct these jewels so they can live through

Rod Stewart tribute band to start resident show at Venetian next Spring

In the next few decades the original rockers who brought us the best of rock’n’roll will no longer be around to play live and in the flesh, but shrewder bands

The Atlantic Soul

Situated in the westernmost of the European continent, Portugal is less of a Mediterranean or southern European country than an Atlantic one. Sharing – if uncomfortably – the Iberian Peninsula

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