The Buzz | Betting company to sponsor Davis Cup and Fed Cup tennis

A leading online betting company has become an international sponsor of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup tennis competitions. The International Tennis Federation says Betway will sponsor the men’s and women’s

The Buzz | First Japanese rocket with commercial payload launched

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rocket took off at 3:50 p.m. from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launch pad on the island of Tanegashima, off Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. It

The Buzz | Prosecutors say jewel heist was largest in British history

A prosecutor said yesterday that an Easter weekend break-in to a vault in London’s Hatton Garden diamond district was the largest burglary in English legal history, with a haul estimated

The Buzz | Record number of stranded seal pups

Unhealthy northern fur seal pups have been found stranded on beaches in record numbers, newly weaned and weighing little more than the typical birth weight for the species, experts at

The Buzz | Watchdog group seeks probe of Adelson’s US political donations

A U.S. government watchdog group has asked two federal oversight agencies to investigate Sheldon Adelson. According to a Reuters report, the probe intends to determine if any money he donated

The Buzz | Marvel, Transformers display heads to Vegas’ Treasure Island

Batman has his bat cave. Superman has his fortress of solitude. And soon the Avengers and a team of Transformers will call a corner on the Las Vegas Strip home. Treasure

The Buzz | US: Police stop Google self-driving car for going too slowly 

A car built by Google that drives itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly. A police officer in the tech giant’s Silicon Valley hometown

The Buzz | Romania: 3 handball players die after team bus hit by truck

The Romanian handball federation says three players died and 11 were injured when the bus they were traveling in was hit by a truck. The accident occurred late Sunday outside the

The Buzz | Macau Yearbook English edition launched

The bureau says that “meticulous efforts” have been made to ensure accurate translations of the names of organizations and locations in the edition. The yearbook is priced at MOP 120,

The Buzz | Economists: Trump’s charges against China are obsolete

Donald Trump’s latest attack on China is about three years too old. In a column in The Wall Street Journal, the Republican presidential candidate writes that “the worst of China’s sins”

The Buzz | UM swimming team makes a splash

The University of Macau (UM) swimming team recently broke 8 records and won 11 gold medals and a silver at a national inter-varsity swimming competition. This year’s five-day competition was

The Buzz | Future Bright expects profit nosedive

Future Bright Holdings Ltd stated yesterday that it expects to revert to a loss for the full year of 2015, following last year’s profits of HKD168.8 million. The Hong Kong-listed

The Buzz | Corruption trial starts in Rome for 46 politicians, others

Forty-six local politicians, businessmen and go-betweens have gone on trial in Rome accused of corruption and, in some cases, of banding together to use intimidation similar to the Mafia’s methods

The Buzz | 2,000 households lose power on Monday night

More than 2,000 households in the Three Lamps District were affected by an abrupt power outage on Monday. The blackout occurred at around half past seven in the evening as

The Buzz | France’s Mont-Saint-Michel recovers its island status 

French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalizing 10 years of construction. The former causeway that used

The Buzz | British foreign minister discusses climate change in Gulf

Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain’s foreign secretary called yesterday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable

The Buzz | EU against spending farm aid for bullfighting 

A majority in the European Union’s legislature wants the EU not to spend farm subsidies that could profit the raising of cattle for bullfighting. In yesterday’s vote high in symbolism but

The Buzz | Authorities investigate breach of anti-smoking regulations

The Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff’s Association and an anti-smoking concern group met the health authorities yesterday after over 100 Wynn Macau employees staged a strike at the casino the previous

The Buzz | 17 people killed in fire at karaoke bar in Indonesia 

Seventeen people were killed in a fire that raced through a packed karaoke bar yesterday on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, and 71 others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Witnesses told authorities the fire started

The Buzz | Stuart Braga launches book on ‘remarkable journey’ of Macau people

The International Institute of Macau, with the support of the Macau Foundation, has published a book titled “Making Impressions: a Portuguese family in Macau and Hong Kong, 1700 to 1945”.

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