This day in history | 1969 Film star stabbed in ‘ritualistic’ killings

Actress Sharon Tate has been found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home, along with three high-society friends and a fifth, as yet un-named, victim. All five died from shooting and

Culture | Rice pizza, noodle ices: Food shows Japan’s punk rock soul

Countries’ foods are also windows on their souls. Take hamburgers. Hand-held, quick to assemble and wolf down, they embody a quintessentially American idea that founding father Benjamin Franklin put to paper

Tokyo 2020 | Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics wind to a nuanced end

It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ends with a typhoon and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. The Tokyo Olympics, christened with “2020” but held

The Buzz | Zuckerberg’s cash fuels GOP suspicion and new US election rules

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic late last summer, he said he hoped he would never

Fire devours Greek island forests as residents urged to flee

Pillars of billowing smoke and ash blocked out the sun above Greece’s second-largest island and turned the sky orange as a days-old wildfire devoured pristine forests and triggered more evacuation

China Daily | Imperative that socializing and trips be cut

  China announced 62 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the total number of existing domestic infections to 1,285 nationwide. With the tracing of close contacts of the confirmed cases to

Monday, August 9, 2021 – edition no. 3831

— The United States (39) and China (38) topped gold medal tally by far as Japan achieved its best result ever at home games marred by the pandemic * Mass testing

Covid-19 | Public efforts may complete mass test earlier than expected: Alvis Lo

Despite the city currently facing “extremely huge challenges” from the Delta variant, locals’ swift registration rate of city-wide mass Covid-19 testing may help wrap up the large-scale scheme earlier than

Covid-19 | Red Zone residents unhappy but acquiesced

An eatery owner now being quarantined in the Red Zone near the private Kiang Wu Hospital said he was not pleased but nevertheless accepted the situation. The government’s recent announcement of

Hou Kong principal apologizes for citywide havoc 

The principal of Hou Kong Middle School (Hou Kong) Iao Tun Ieong has made a public apology for the city-wide havoc indirectly caused by the school, but appealed to the

CAEAL opens channels for polling station enquiries

  Yesterday the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEAL) opened multiple channels for voters to confirm the polling station at which they will cast their vote. Voters can now obtain relevant

Covid-19, elections, campaign pitches in AL plenary

The four recent cases of Covid-19 registered in Macau and the upcoming elections took up a significant period of yesterday’s plenary session with an agenda dedicated to the final approval

Covid-19 | Gov’t lockdown guidelines unclear, says resident

A resident living close to the Yellow Zone near the Kiang Wu Hospital said that she was unsure how to get home after the lockdown came into effect on Tuesday,

Covid-19 | Confusion on first day of citywide PCR test

Queues have only lengthened at most sample collection stations for the citywide polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test on Wednesday. Lawmakers, commentators and members of the public expressed their confusion in

Registered capital in new companies rises slightly to MOP231m

  A total of 1,441 new companies were incorporated in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 49 year-on-year. Of the new corporations, 467 were in Wholesale & Retail Trade

Gaming | MGM sees revenue nearly double in 1H

MGM China saw a 45% rise in its market-wide gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the first half (1H) of 2021, recording a total revenue of approximately HKD4.7 billion, nearly double

Analysis | Delta variant challenges China’s costly lockdown strategy

The delta variant is challenging China’s costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the country need a

Hong Kong | Corruption charges dropped for singer, activist

Prosecutors in Hong Kong yesterday dropped corruption charges against a prominent singer and pro-democracy activist, after initially accusing him of providing entertainment to sway voters in a legislative by-election. Anthony Wong,

This day in history | 1971 Sailor’s record ‘wrong way’ voyage

A British man has become the first to sail the world non-stop in the “wrong” direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents. Chay Blyth, 31, set

India | Suspected rape and killing of girl triggers protests

Angry villagers in the Indian capital held a protest yesterday outside a crematorium where they say a 9-year-old girl was raped and killed earlier this week. The protesters, sitting on a

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