GOLF | Venetian Macau open Lahiri ahead after 1st round

It was an overcast day yesterday with some scattered showers at the Macau Golf and Country Club, but this did not stop players at the Venetian Macau Open putting up

World briefs

MYANMAR-USA An influential Washington think tank is criticizing Myanmar’s government for presiding over a “humanitarian catastrophe” in western Rakhine state and doing little to track down perpetrators of Buddhist-on-Muslim violence

MIF | Macau seen as a platform for regional trade services

Speaking at MIF’s inauguration ceremony yesterday, Francis Tam recalled that Macau has seen a rapid and stable economic development, leading to the improvement of employment rates. He added that the

Lionel Leong willing to take up gov’t job

Macau Executive Council Member, Mr Lionel Leong, said yesterday that he’s willing to accept any government position if invited. His name has emerged as one of the possible five secretaries

GAMING | Casino recovery seen in late 2015

Francis Tam forecast the city’s drop in casino revenue will worsen this month and a recovery will come in the second half of next year. “In October, the decline on

Guangzhou Party chief with links to Macau falls from grace

Former Guangzhou Party chief Wan Qingliang, who helped initiate talks on cooperation between Macau and Guangdong province with a particular focus on Hengqin Island, has been removed from his public

One third of Hengqin population expected to come from Macau

The director general of the Hengqin New Area Administrative Committee, Niu Jing, predicts that more than one-third of the population on the nearby island will be made up of Macau

Sands China signs agreement to protect musicians’ copyrights

The Macau Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (MACA) and Sands China Ltd. signed a music performance license agreement yesterday at a ceremony held at The Venetian Macao. The agreement

STATS | Tourist arrivals up for Sept

Tourist arrivals increased by 3 pct year-on-year to 2,405,497 in September. Same-day visitors accounted for 52% of the total, according to information released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Analyzed

Taxi Passengers Association denounces three incidents

The association viewed footage of the first two incidents. In the first, a Macau taxi driver claimed to have been “beaten up by six Venetian security guards” at the West

Corporate Bits | Conrad Macao, Cotai Central recognized by “2014-2015 city traveler best hotel awards”

Established in 2008 in Shanghai, City Traveler is a high-end luxury magazine targeting female travellers, offering its readers current news and information on business and leisure travel, celebrity travel, health

Tesco chairman resigns after accounting scandal

The chairman of Tesco, the world’s second-biggest retailer behind Walmart, announced his resignation yesterday amid an accounting scandal in which the company admitted it had overstated its projected profits. Richard Broadbent

Real Estate Matters |Top 20 Questions On Renting A Property In Macau – Part 3 Renting an apartment can be a traumatic experience

Juliet Risdon is a Director of JML Property and a property investor. Having established the company in 1994, JML Property offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in managing properties

PROJECT POKER : Love the process

Recently I had the opportunity to return to my first passion, field hockey, as a television analyst for the Hockey World Cup. This year's tournament took place in The Hague

Mozambique | Private companies account for half of bank deposits in 2013

About 49 percent of bank deposits held in Mozambique in 2013 were owned by private companies, followed by Mozambican and foreign families, with 45 percent, the Bank of Mozambique said,

Angola | Tax reform increases revenues

Angola’s Executive Project for Tax Reform (PERT) had a cumulative impact of 361.100 billion kwanza (USD3.647 billion) in non-oil tax revenues from 2011 until the end of the first half

Hong Kong | Exclusive election body at heart of protests 

It’s among the most powerful clubs in this city of enormous wealth and influence. Only 1,200 people are allowed in, and they decide who leads Hong Kong every five years. As

Zuckerberg speaks Mandarin, Beijing students cheer 

China may ban Facebook, but not its co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who delighted an audience of students in Beijing with a 30-minute chat in his recently learned Mandarin Chinese. There was

Hong Kong | Local support for protesters grows, survey says

Public support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters has grown, particularly among younger people, a survey shows, underlining the difficulty for the government to resolve four weeks of demonstrations. A public opinion

North Korea | Pyongyang tries on the charm to avoid ICC referral 

For an envoy of the North Korean government, which virtually bans the average citizen’s contact with the outside world, Kim Ju Song looks breezily connected. A tablet computer is propped

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