Cristiano Ronaldo will be challenging Lionel Messi and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to retain the Ballon d’Or. Ronaldo won the 2013 honor to end Messi’s three-year run as the world’s best player
S KOREA The U.S. Osan Air Base in South Korea lifts a lockdown that had been ordered as a precaution after someone reported an unscheduled “active shooter drill” at the
As a canal boat slides along Amsterdam’s elegant Herengracht canal, a man walking over a bridge pushes down and pulls up on a bicycle pump. As he does, a model
The five new Secretaries chosen by Chief Executive Chui Sai On for his second term were finally announced yesterday in a press conference held at the government headquarters. As hinted on
In a press conference held yesterday, Lionel Leong professed that his office’s priorities hinge on three main strategies, namely ensuring economic stability, developing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well
Casino revenue in the city fell 19.6 percent to 24.27 billion patacas (USD3.04 billion) in November, according to Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau. This compared with the median estimate
The government has recently signed a cooperation agreement with mainland Chinese authorities focusing on veterinary medicine. However, the Society for Animal Protection (Anima) is concerned as China “is not particularly
“I believe that these achievements come as a result of a set of reasons…such as students’ merit, their diligence, and the effort they’ve put into their work,” he said. Mr Machado
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has detained a local woman in her 50s, alleged to have defrauded her friend out of around MOP800,000, using documents provided by her former client. PJ information
“We are interested,” Henry Cheng, a director at the closely-held investment company, said in a Nov. 28 interview about the casino resort in the central Vietnam province of Quang Nam.
An Afghan official says a suicide bomber detonated his payload at a crowded funeral, killing two police and seven civilians. Taj Mohammed Taqwa, chief of the Burka district in the
Rescuers searched yesterday for 52 people missing after a South Korean fishing ship they were working on sank in the Bering Sea, an official said. At least one person died. Authorities
Two young boys playing on a Sydney beach on Sunday found an infant’s body buried in the sand, police said, one week after a newborn baby was discovered alive at
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters face a new court ruling to clear out after Sunday night’s attempt to expand their hold on a swathe of central Hong Kong was beaten back
China must establish “big country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics,” President Xi Jinping said in a speech that laid out his goals for making the nation a major strategic power, a
About USD1 billion in loans under a U.N. initiative for poor countries to tackle global warming is going toward the construction of power plants fired by coal, the biggest human
By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and where he spoke
A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of
Only 23 percent of cases are being isolated in Liberia, and 40 percent in Sierra Leone, short of a goal set in October to isolate seven-in-ten cases by yesterday. Neither
Negotiators from more than 190 countries get together yesterday in Lima for the last main stop of the U.N. climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal
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