European Union and Guinea-Bissau renew agreement

Vessels from the 28 Member States of the EU, mainly from Spain, France, Greece, Italy and Portugal, will now resume fishing in Guinea-Bissau waters after a break of two years

Angola 1st International Fisheries and Aquaculture Fair opens in Luanda

The 1st Angola International Fisheries and Aquaculture Fair is on from 27-30 November at the premises of the Luanda International Fair (Filda) with at least 50 domestic and foreign companies

Briefs | Mozambique: Statistics Institute prepares 2nd Company Census

The National Statistics Institute of Mozambique (INE) is due in 2015 to begin the second Companies Census and preparatory work is currently underway, Mozambican newspaper Notícias reported. The newspaper added

Mainland prepares for bigger smoking crackdown with fines

China is considering fining smokers who light up indoors as much as 500 yuan (USD81) and penalizing operators who don’t stop them, a sign of rising political willingness to curb

Beijing tries students of convicted minority scholar

Seven minority students were standing trial on separatism charges yesterday for working on a website run by a prominent Muslim Uighur scholar convicted on the same charge in far western China,

Hong Kong | Police clash with protesters as Mong Kok site cleared

Hong Kong authorities began clearing a 2-month-old pro-democracy protest site in Mong Kok district yesterday, risking confrontation with demonstrators in the neighborhood, a flashpoint for previous violent clashes with police

Tencent to air HBO in mainland as gov’t shuts down free sites

Tencent Holdings Ltd., controlled by China’s third-richest man Ma Huateng, has won exclusive rights to air HBO content online in China. The agreement between Tencent and Time Warner Inc.’s HBO comes

N Korea | Gov’t holds rally against UN rights resolution

North Korea held a mass rally yesterday in its capital to protest a United Nations resolution condemning its human rights record. Thousands of protesters in Kim Il Sung Square carried banners praising their

Philippines | Manila lifts ban on 9 Hong Kong journalists

The Philippine immigration bureau said yesterday that it has lifted a blacklist order against nine Hong Kong-based journalists, following criticism from media and Hong Kong’s government. A Hong Kong television cameraman

Japan | Young fret as unexpected recession hits 

When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to Japan’s surprise recession by delaying a sales-tax increase, it was a cause for worry, not celebration, for many young Japanese. This generation, barely

USA | Obama asks for calm as Ferguson burns

Enraged protesters set fire to buildings and cars and looted businesses in Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed

this day in history: 1992 Queen to be taxed from next year

The Prime Minister, John Major, told the House of Commons the Queen had informed him earlier this year that she wished to make changes to her tax arrangements. She will also

Offbeat | ‘Wizard of Oz’ Cowardly Lion costume fetches USD3M

The big cat outfit had been authenticated as the one Lahr wore in the 1939 film. Its face is a sculpted likeness of the late actor. It sold at an auction

Cricket | Batsman Hughes in critical condition after surgery

Hughes, who was wearing a protective batting helmet, reeled back and then bent forward momentarily after the impact of the short-pitch delivery before falling suddenly to the ground. He was

Basketball | LeBron James leads Cavaliers over Magic 106-74

LeBron James scored 29 points, including 16 in the first quarter, as the Cleveland Cavaliers broke a four-game losing streak with a 106-74 win over the Orlando Magic yesterday. After bluntly

Artifacts: Paying for pink

When people ask me what living in Macau is like, invariably questions about whether I gamble and like to watch boxing (especially after last weekend’s Pacquiao-Algieri bout) tend to come

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 – edition no. 2199

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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

World briefs

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

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