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by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — The world’s longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China opened to traffic Wednesday, with excited travellers making their first journeys along what has been described as a politically-driven and costly white elephant. Passengers and tour groups gathered at Hong Kong’s cross-border coach terminus and bus operators gave away Chinese pastries and roasted meat to passengers. “I wanted to try this […]
by Elaine YU Agence France Presse ZHUHAI, China (AFP) — The world’s longest sea-bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China will be launched Tuesday at a time when Beijing seeks to tighten its grip on its semi-autonomous territories. President Xi Jinping is expected to officiate at an opening ceremony in the mainland city of Zhuhai Tuesday morning, but details of the cloak-and-dagger event have been kept secret. The 55-kilometre (34-mile) crossing, which includes a […]
by M Jegathesan Agence France-Presse SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) – Two women go on trial Monday accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, in an audacious assassination in Malaysia that stunned the world and sparked a diplomatic crisis. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong arrived at the heavily guarded court outside the capital Kuala Lumpur for the proceedings, handcuffed and wearing bulletproof vests. The defendants were arrested just days after the killing of […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A powerful storm lashed Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday, just days after a punishing typhoon swept through southern China and claimed at least 18 lives. Both cities raised a Typhoon 8 signal, the third-highest warning level, early Sunday morning as severe tropical storm “Pakhar” made landfall in the region, where emergency workers are still battling to repair Wednesday’s damage. Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon cancelled 50 […]
Typhoon Hato flooded and devastated the bustling city of Macau on Wednesday where at least nine people were killed. They city was largely unprepared for the signal number 10 typhoon. Macau’s government rated Hato only a signal 3 typhoon, although Hong Kong had earlier rated it as signal number 10. Many residents and tourists complained that the government was woefully unprepared for Typhoon Hato and its destructive winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph). […]
by Aaron Tam / Anthony Wallace Agence France Presse Macau, Macau (AFP) — The Chinese army on Friday joined relief efforts in Macau where at least nine people are now known to have died when a huge typhoon swept through the gambling hub. Around 48 hours after Severe Typhoon Hato smashed into southern China, worst-hit Macau was still picking up the pieces, with the enclave’s government facing recriminations over its lack of preparation. The government […]
by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse MACAU, Macau (AFP) — The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators. […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo recently launched an International “Aid for Humanity” in Macau, China.
(Eagle News) — Overseas Filipino workers held a gathering to rally support for Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte in Macau, China. The rally staged by the United Democracy and Duterte Supporters or United DDS was also held over the weekend, at about the same time that hundreds of thousands of people showed up in Manila to express their support for the President. Eagle News Service correspondent in Macau, China Kit Wong interviewed some of those who came […]
Overseas workers in Macau flock to the polls Kit Wong reports.
Nine years after she left the Philippines and stepped foot in Hong Kong as a domestic helper, Xyza Bacani’s life has taken a new turn. Bacani was recently named one of the recipients of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship for Human Rights with her latest, unpublished, images of the abuse suffered by domestic helpers in Hong Kong, and will be jetting off to New York in just a few months time to study at the prestigious […]
