World Views: This Is what your brain might look like on telepathy

Big news in the world of science and technology: Scientists just invented a form of telepathy. Actually, it’s a form of noninvasive electronic brain-to-brain communication. The transmission side is pretty

Thursday, September 4, 2014 – edition no. 2144

* Portuguese entrepreneurs bet on Barra district * PRD region joins efforts to monitor pollution * ‘Migrants do make a great contribution’ * Kiev and Moscow agree ceasefire steps   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz: UK withdrawing warrant for ill boy’s parents

U.K. prosecutors are withdrawing the arrest warrant in the case of a British couple who took their 5-year-old son out of the country in hopes of getting a new type

GAMING | New Jersey casino goes dark after just 2 years

Revel Casino Hotel opened with a bang a little more than two years ago amid high hopes of turning around Atlantic City’s struggling casino market. But the USD2.4 billion resort went

World briefs

CHINA Three prisoners including a death row inmate killed a guard, donned police uniforms and escaped in a rare jailbreak in northeastern China early yesterday, prompting a manhunt that later

UNOFFICIAL REFERENDUM | ‘I don’t think I’m safe in Macau,’ says Jason Chao

Political activist Jason Chao does not feel safe in Macau, he told reporters yesterday. The president of the Open Macau Society, one of the associations organizing an unofficial poll on

Chinese Estates to sell Moon Ocean to Joseph Lau

A Chinese Estates announcement revealed that the provisional consideration payable under the Moon Ocean sales and purchase agreement is approximately HKD4,830.20 million. Nevertheless, it stated that the transaction would not take

GAMING | Single mom leads labor protests against casinos

Cloee Chao remembers when she first decided to challenge the billionaires of the world’s largest gambling hub. The 34-year-old single mother of two was working in a Macau casino in

Raising the region’s visibility through entertainment

As a next wave of Cotai resorts is being shaped, various operators are looking to expand their non-gaming offering by providing arenas and theatres, trying to rival Sands China, which

SSM receives smoking room floor plans from 39 casinos

The six casino operators in Macau made the suggestion to set up smoking rooms in their mass areas last year, a measure adopted by the government. Alongside the establishment of smoking

Green group criticizes gov’t background noise standard

The Macau government has published a directory of outdoor background noises that serves as part of the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Law (the Noise Law). However, a local environmental

Report says LRT could save over 30 minutes on daily commute

It found that the LRT phase one and phase two will be able to generate an economic benefit ranging from MOP15.8 billion to MOP16.4 billion between 2014 and 2025. The report

Briefs: French national museums masterpieces exhibition extended

Scorsese’s Studio City film features DiCaprio, Pitt and De Niro Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro have been recruited by Martin Scorsese to act in a short film

FOOTBALL | Sporting Macau signs partnership with Osaka F.C.

Sporting Club of Macau’s president, António Conceição Junior, said that the partnership makes transferring players between Macau and Japan possible. “Local players who join Sporting might have the opportunity to

Cultural Festival organizers want to extend the event to other cities

Chong Chun Heng, vice-president of MIYCAA, told the Times that over the 17-day period, almost 200,000 Hefei residents visited the Cultural District to take part in the Festival. Mr Chong observed

Law amendment focuses on building maintenance fund

The acting president of the Housing Bureau (IH), Ieong Kam Wa, claimed yesterday that the amendment of the Regulation of Condominium Common Areas Management would focus on improving management of

Corporate Bits | Conrad Macao Facebook fan wins stay by uploading #travelbear photo

Throughout August, Conrad Macao, Cotai Central invited fans to win a free luxury Macao getaway; all they had to do was upload a photo of one of the hotel’s bears

Survey: Foreign companies in China feel ‘targeted’ 

Foreign companies in China feel increasingly targeted for unfair enforcement of anti-monopoly and other laws and might cut investment if conditions fail to improve, a U.S. business group said yesterday. The American Chamber

Mozambique | Japan supports competitiveness of over 200 products

More than 200 Mozambican products are being made more competitive for national and international markets as part of a program supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), according to

Angola | Completion of Benguela Railway will boost economic growth

The project, which is being carried out by China Railway Construction, one of China’s largest construction groups, involved reconstruction of 1,344 kilometers of the railway and took around 10 years

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