War gives inspiration to Gaza’s artists

* Movies: Last Days in Vietnam * Music: Songs of Innocence by U2 * Wine: The Swedish Connection * Food: Outshining the capital   DOWNLOAD

News of the World | War gives inspiration to Gaza’s artists

Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen’s latest work was already complexly layered — a movie within a movie about a director and screenwriter producing a film about an honor killing in the

‘Last Days in Vietnam’ shows Saigon’s fall

There are many differences between America’s troubled exit from Iraq and its ramshackle retreat from Vietnam. But the U.S. flight from Saigon as seen in Rory Kennedy’s documentary “Last Days

No surprise the surprise U2 album shines

Everything about U2's new album “Songs of Innocence” is unexpected. Like its very existence, for one, after the Irish rock band dropped it on iTunes users Tuesday in a surprise

The Swedish Connection

Generally reliable and readily available, Grandes Marques champagnes remain dominant in terms of market share, but champagne-aficionados would be aware of, indeed delighted by, the emergence of boutique maisons over

OUTSHINING THE CAPITAL

Some might think that Lyon’s cuisine is less glitzy and glamorous than Parisian gastronomy. I could not entirely agree, because to me personally, I believe that there are sophisticated chefs

Friday, September 12, 2014 – edition no. 2149

* In Hong Kong, you can find a home where cows and buffaloes roam * Study: medical vouchers prevented fatalities * China’s vice premier in town * Rights group calls on Thai junta

THE BUZZ: Armed men seize Donetsk ice hockey club offices

The professional ice hockey club in the war-torn city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine says armed men have occupied its offices. The Donbass Donetsk club says that a group of

World briefs

PAKISTAN Warplanes strike five militant hideouts in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, killing 65 insurgents, the military says. The strikes, carried out in two phases hours apart, targeted

TECHNOLOGY | Apple watch threatens Swiss industry’s lower priced timepieces

Swatch Group AG’s Tissot T-Touch Expert Solar watch has a compass, tells the altitude and runs on solar power. It costs USD1,250 - more than three times the smartwatch Apple

Nine missing after migrant smuggling boat capsizes

The vessel, registered in Hong Kong, sank as it carried illegal immigrants  who had either been in Macau or Hong Kong. Wang Shiyun, deputy head of the Zhuhai Maritime Affairs Bureau,

APEC Ministerial Meeting | Macau seen as ‘good example’ of tourism development

Rolando Cañizal, the head of the Philippines’ delegation to APEC’s 8th Tourism Ministerial Meeting (TMM8), sees Macau as a good example of tourism development. Speaking to reporters yesterday after meeting

SPORTS | Local marathon takes new route

The event will this year take place on December 7. Lau Cho Un said that the participants will not be running across the Estrada do Istmo this year due to the

SURVEY | Facebook had ‘great influence’ on May protests

News agency Lusa reported that the study – conducted by Wenny Cao, Angus Cheong and Zizi Li – looked into 12 Facebook events that took place between April 20 and May

1.5m cross border during Mid-Autumn Festival

On the first day, there were already 437,002 people crossing the borders. Among the 1.5 million people in total, around 500,000 of them were tourists. Two-thirds of the travellers, more than 1.18

Over 20,000 people fined over smoking in prohibited areas since 2012

Between January this year and August, Health Bureau agents have recorded 5,405 law breaches. This year, authorities have conducted 184,235 inspections, with an average of 758 inspections per day. In total,

Delta Bridge works lead to increasing accidents

Macau Daily pointed out that there have already been three accidents in the water where construction vessels collided with each other. It suggested that the accidents - which involved construction vessels,

Chui asks to extend border crossing hours

During the meeting, the newly elected CE mentioned his hope to gradually extend the border-crossing hours between Macau and the mainland, a measure he said would benefit regional cooperation and

BRIEFS | Locally shot movie nominated for Portuguese film awards

The film “The Last Time I Saw Macau,” directed by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, has been nominated for a prize at the Sophia Awards in

Nevada bets USD1.3b on Tesla to push economy beyond gaming

Nevada casinos, the state’s largest industry, took in USD11.2 billion in the year that ended in July. Now lawmakers must decide whether to wager as much as $1.3 billion on

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