Tag: the buzz
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The Buzz | More drones for hire coming to U.S. skies
The Obama administration is opening U.S. skies to more commercial drones with long-awaited regulations that the government hopes will spawn new businesses inspecting bridges, monitoring crops ... -
The Buzz | Jack Ma’s company plans to buy Ascend Money share
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s financial affiliate is planning to purchase a 20 percent stake in Thailand’s Ascend Money in a bid to become a key financial ... -
The Buzz | Bank of England warns about risks from EU vote
The Bank of England has kept its key interest rates on hold amid heightened uncertainty over whether the country will vote next week to leave the ... -
The Buzz | Chinese online loan sharks demand nude photos as guarantees
Web-based loan sharks in China have found an unconventional way of guaranteeing loans: demanding naked photos from female borrowers. The state-run Southern Metropolis Daily reported this ... -
The Buzz | A-League’s Newcastle Jets sold to Shenzhen-based Ledman Group
Football Federation Australia has sold the A-League club Newcastle Jets to China’s Ledman Group. FFA chairman Steven Lowy said the Ledman Group’s investment is a significant step in ... -
The Buzz | Microsoft to buy networking site LinkedIn for USD26.2 billion
Microsoft Corp. said it will buy LinkedIn Corp. in a deal valued at USD26.2 billion. The deal, in which Microsoft will pay $196 per share in ... -
The Buzz | Visa overstayers could see detention last 90 days
The Public Security Police is currently considering a proposal that would hike the detention period from 60 to 90 days for people caught overstaying their Macau ... -
The Buzz | Suicide car bomb attack kills 4 in Turkish town
A Kurdish rebel suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a police headquarters near Turkey’s border with Syria yesterday, killing four other people. An Interior Ministry officia, said ... -
The Buzz | EU pressures Thailand on fish, labor reform
The European Union says Thailand must take “swift and determined action” by next month to improve its fisheries and labor practices or the threat of a ... -
The Buzz | Salom hit brakes later than usual in fatal crash
Telemetry data shows Spanish rider Luis Salom hit the brakes nine meters later than usual in the crash that took his life at the Catalunya Grand ... -
The Buzz | Europe losing reputation as a renewable energy leader
Europe is losing its status as a global leader in clean energy, with investment in the region plummeting 21 percent last year, while spending in the ... -
The Buzz | Man who got 1st US penis transplant released from hospital
A man who received the first penis transplant calls the operation a success and is going home. Thomas Manning left Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday [Macau time], ... -
The Buzz | Pacific military exercises to include 27 nations, a record
The U.S. Navy says 27 nations will participate in the world’s largest maritime exercises in coming weeks. This is an all-time high for the Rim of ... -
The Buzz | UK pound slides as polls indicate support for EU exit
The British pound has fallen sharply after two opinion polls for The Guardian newspaper indicated support for a British exit from the 28-country European Union in ... -
The Buzz | China: Climbers who found remains of renowned mountaineer return
A Swiss climber who found the long-lost bodies of a renowned mountaineer and his cameraman on one of the world’s tallest mountains said it took days ... -
The Buzz | Unemployment holds stable
The unemployment rate (1.9 percent) and the underemployment rate (0.5 percent) for the period February-April 2016 remained stable, as was the case for January-March 2016, according ... -
The Buzz | Five accused of trafficking phony fragrances from China to NYC
Five people have been arrested in New York City in a multi-million dollar counterfeit perfume scheme. Bogus fragrances made in China were packaged to look like ... -
The Buzz | Freed Ukrainian pilot returns home after 2 years in Russia
Russia freed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko yesterday after holding her for nearly two years, with President Vladimir Putin pardoning her as part of a swap for two ... -
The Buzz | North Korea’s UK ambassador rejects Trump’s offer
North Korea’s ambassador to Britain said yesterday that his country has no interest in presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s offer to open nuclear talks with ... -
The Buzz | Braga beats Porto on penalties to win Portuguese Cup
Braga defeated Porto 4-2 in a penalty shootout to win the Portuguese Cup yesterday [Macau time], 50 years after its only previous title. Goalkeeper Jose Carlos ... -
The Buzz | Gunman fires into crowd at concert in Austria, killing two
A gunman fired shots yesterday into a small crowd attending an open air concert organized by a local motorcycle club, killing two people and wounding 11 ... -
The Buzz | Tobacco firms lose UK court bid to stop standard packaging
A group of tobacco firms have lost a U.K. court bid to prevent the sale of cigarettes in standardized green packaging. Philip Morris International, British American ... -
The Buzz | NBA China to open basketball-themed Playzone in Shanghai
The NBA is opening a basketball-themed entertainment center in China in another effort to connect with fans where it enjoys huge popularity. The league says that ... -
The Buzz | Thirty-one caught in retests of 2008 Beijing Olympic samples
In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in this year’s Olympics after they were ... -
The Buzz | Colombia claims largest cocaine seizure in its history
Colombian authorities say they’ve made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug. The National Police agency ... -
The Buzz | Pope says he’s willing to study women deacons, in major step
Pope Francis says he’s willing to create a commission to study whether women can serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling the possibility of letting ... -
The Buzz | Erdogan says Turkey killed 3,000 Islamic State extremists
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish forces have killed some 3,000 Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, insisting that no other country has matched ... -
The Buzz | Climbers nearing Everest summit after 2 years of disasters
Climbers are making good progress on Mount Everest and the first group could reach the summit as early as tomorrow, following two years of disasters on ... -
The Buzz | Lucky seven: Indie bookstores rise for seventh straight year
Independent bookselling remains on a roll. The American Booksellers Association has grown for the seventh consecutive year. Core membership increased to 1,775, up by 63 over ... -
The Buzz | Afghanistan: 52 dead after buses collide with tanker
Two buses and a fuel tanker collided yesterday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said. Another 73 people who had been on ... -
The Buzz | Rainstorm kills seven, injures 65 during Hindu pilgrimage
A heavy rainstorm yesterday collapsed several tents, sheds and gates at a sprawling Hindu pilgrimage site with hundreds of thousands of devotees in central India, killing ... -
The Buzz | Southeast European business forum draws global investors
The countries of southeastern Europe are aiming to attract more investment from international business executives gathered at a conference in Sarajevo. The annual event, which opened ... -
The Buzz | Atlantic City pays interests as mayor averts a default
Atlantic City made USD1.8 million in interest payments, averting what would have been New Jersey’s first municipal default since the Great Depression as state lawmakers bicker ... -
The Buzz | Companies crucial to energy exploration abandon USD34b merger
Two companies crucial to the business of U.S. energy exploration have abandoned their planned USD34 billion merger, the Justice Department said yesterday. The department filed suit ... -
The Buzz | Defense publisher leaving Hong Kong over safety concerns
The publisher of a leading magazine on Chinese and regional defense issues says he’s leaving Hong Kong out of concern he could be targeted by China’s state security bodies, a further sign of how ...
