The Buzz | Google settles with ex-banker over online abuse

Google has agreed to a settlement with a former Morgan Stanley banker who sued the search engine over defamatory Internet posts. Daniel Hegglin, a Hong Kong-based investor, went to Britain’s High

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AUSTRALIA A 30-year-old Sydney mother has been charged with trying to kill her newborn son by abandoning him in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries,

DreamWorks gang returns for ice sculpture exhibition

Bai Liang, project manager for the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Fun World, the Chinese company building the ice sculptures, got started in ice sculpture exhibitions back in 1966 in Harbin. The largest

Russian website | Over 50 webcams hacked in Macau

The worldwide site provided live streaming from thousands of private webcams for over a month, including images from baby monitoring devices. Hackers accessed images from devices whose default passwords had

Taxi fares set to rise next month

After the new fares come into force next month, the flag fall rate will rise from MOP15 to MOP17. Additional charges for every subsequent 260 meters after the first 1,600

CRIME | Man allegedly blackmailed with doctored video

The Judiciary Police (PJ) has received a report from a resident who has claimed to have been extorted with a tampered video. A PJ spokesperson revealed yesterday that the man met

AL PLENARY | Gov’t slammed over public transportation

This matter has reappeared in recent discussions, as lawmakers questioned the government on its policy to provide residents with an improved public bus system. A spoken enquiry delivered by legislator Au

AL PLENARY | Political reform isn’t the most pressing matter

A large number of legislators said that there are rather more pressing matters needing the administration’s attention, namely housing and public transportation. Ng believes that the electoral system is not being

Budget execution rate lowest since 2009

A Legislative Assembly (AL) committee has found that the execution rate of the 2013 government budget was only 39.6 percent, the lowest since 2009. Chan Chak Mo, president of the

Augmented reality introduced to the most digital of regions

As we walk past Soho restaurants at the  City of Dreams, the big screen instantly captures one’s attention. Indeed, it’s not every day that we get to be next to

Tourist arrivals see double digit rise in Oct

Despite the plunge in gaming revenue in October, the amount of visitors arriving last month increased by 11 percent annually to 2.65 million according to the data gathered by the

CGN Power seeks USD3.2b in biggest Hong Kong IPO in 2 years

CGN Power Co., China’s biggest producer of nuclear energy, is seeking as much as USD3.2 billion in what could be the largest initial public offering in Hong Kong in two

Mainland investors turn sellers through HK stock link

Mainland Chinese investors briefly turned net sellers of Hong Kong stocks through the city’s bourse link for the first time yesterday, after taking up just 6.1 percent of daily buying

Corporate Bits | Second Pro boxing extravaganza coming to Shanghai

Fist of Power II features seven bouts including two regional title fights for Chinese boxers, who regard the upcoming event as a warm-up for shooting for world titles next year. Yang

Mozambique | Exponential increase in banking sector assets continues

Six of the largest banks – Millennium bim, BCI, Standard Bank, Moza Banco, Banco Único and Barclays – posted an increase of 19 percent in net assets to nearly USD8.5

Angola | Economic diversification costs USD22.7b

The projects selected to accelerate the process of diversification of Angola’s economy over the next three years have an estimated cost of USD22.7 billion, Angola’s Economy Minister said recently in

State media give profs a chilling warning

Over two weeks, the Communist Party-run Liaoning Daily newspaper sent reporters to sit in on dozens of university lectures all over the country looking for what the paper said were

Hong Kong | Jutting, fit to plead, remanded 7 months for murder probe

Prosecutors were granted seven months to further investigate charges against Rurik Jutting, a former Bank of America Corp. employee whose psychiatric reports said he’s fit to plead in a double-murder

Beijing defends land reclamation in South China Sea 

Defying a U.S. call to halt the project, China defended its land reclamation in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea yesterday, saying the work is for public service use, although a

Australia | Mom charged with trying to kill baby left in drain

A 30-year-old Sydney mother has been charged with trying to kill her newborn son by abandoning him in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries, police

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