Caesars names ex-Hertz chief Frissora to succeed Loveman

Caesars Entertainment Corp. named former Hertz Global Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Frissora as its new CEO to succeed Gary Loveman, three weeks after the casino company put its

Greece sticks to anti-austerity demands after ECB severs funding lifeline

Greece held fast to demands to roll back austerity as the European Central Bank turned up the heat before Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was to meet one of his main

Angola’s 2013-2017 National Development Plan still in place

The government of Angola has concrete measures to address the current drop in oil prices without having to disrupt the national economy, the national director for local budgets of the

Corporate bits: The grand at ho tram strip appoints world gaming group as poker operations partner

Ho Tram Project Company Limited and World Gaming Group Limited yesterday announced the signing of an agreement for World Gaming Group (WGG) to create, develop and maintain poker operations at

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, receives first train made in China

The first train to run on Line 4 of the Rio de Janeiro metro connecting the Olympic Village to the Copacabana game center, is already in the city, three months

TAIWAN | Mayday call issued before plane crashed into Taipei river

Moments before the TransAsia Airways propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, one of its pilots said, “Mayday, mayday, engine flameout,” according to a Taiwanese aviation official. “Engine flameout” refers

North Korea | Wary of sanctions, Pyongyang woos money-laundering watchdog

North Korea, long accused by the U.S. and others of engaging in counterfeiting, drug trafficking and even online gambling scams, is trying to repair its international image by courting a little-known

Argentina | President’s tweets on Chinese accent cause furor

  Embattled Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, while on a state visit to China seeking badly needed investment, caused a furor Wednesday by joking about her hosts’ accents on Twitter. Fernandez tried to mimic

This Day in History |1971 Man plays golf on the Moon

There was just one moment of serious concern: as Apollo 14 left its orbit around the Earth for the Moon, a docking probe failed to work, putting the mission’s ability

Ukraine | Kerry travels to Kiev as US weighs sending arms

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine to show support for the embattled government as the Obama administration weighs sending arms to Kiev to help it fight Russian-backed separatists. Amid a

Offbeat | Australian V8 champ Jamie Whincup bitten by snake

Australian motor racing champion Jamie Whincup has been bitten by a snake at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo during a pre-season photo shoot for the domestic V8 Supercars series. Whincup, a six-time V8

British Touring invited to join Macau GP

  A report by AUTOSPORT has revealed that the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) was contacted by the Macau Grand Prix organizers regarding the possibility of having BTCC teams and cars

AP Global : Football 10 | Wolfsburg team of the week after thrashing Bayern

Wolfsburg has taken team of the week honors in the Associated Press Global Football 10 after thrashing Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich 4-1. It was the first league match of 2015 in

Bizcuits: Now a resident, now you’re not

One of the issues close to the hearts of many of us is our Macau residency status. On the flippant side, there is that secretly held little elitist pleasure of

Where and who is Tyler Kuan?

* Books: Among Thieves by John Clarkson * Music: Shadows in the Night by Bob Dylan * Wine: The Franco-Iberian Enclave * Food: l’amour à Paris * Technology: Groupon founder takes a detour with

Tea Leaks by Talkers

Rumor has it that there’s gonna be more changes in “the” industry at high levels. After Adelson announced he will be replacing Tracy at Sands, it seems the waves of

Times Square by Rodrigo

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Jack Black

continues to show that he is the greatest promoter of the idea of transforming the São Lázaro district into a creative industries center. This week Albergue SCM opened a

Tragedies of ‘Timbuktu’ told with rare beauty

The hot Malian sands of Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Timbuktu” are a cool reservoir of placid beauty, where desert dunes are swept by quiet ripples of colorful, everyday village life and haphazard

Bob Dylan’s late-night disc

Bob Dylan has never called “Shadows in the Night” a Frank Sinatra tribute album. The idea seems nuts: one of the last century’s greatest songwriters challenging perhaps its greatest voice,

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