H5N1 (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Via Xinhuanet: Macao's health authority warns of rising flu cases. Excerpt: The health authority of Macao Friday issued a warning of increasing local flu cases which may lead to a small outbreak in July. Between the 25th and 28th weeks...
http://idiomato.com/rss?status=all (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
When you mix a Portuguese bun with a Chinese egg roll, what do you get? Is there any hope of a compatible union for these two unlikely partners i 14 Vote(s)
DealBook (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Warring octogenarian siblings are not the only headache for investors as a casino company with roots in Macao’s lurid past makes its stock market debut this week. The potential risks outlined in the share prospectus of SJM Holdings - intense business rivalry, building delays, labor shortages, money laundering, mainland Chinese travel restrictions - make a lengthy [...]
The Informed Traveler (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Las Vegas of the East welcomes a brand spanking new Four Seasons Hotel. Macao, the world’s biggest gaming capital, has seen a slew of new luxury hotel brands from the West staking claim to a piece of this former Portuguese capital. Hot on the heels of the Wynn Macao and the Venetian Macao, the [...]
ChinesePod - Learn Chinese (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Discussion Dialogue Vocabulary Expansion Exercises When you mix a Portuguese bun with a Chinese egg roll, what do you get? Is there any hope of a compatible union for these two unlikely partners in calories? This edition of the Hungry Traveler takes us to the shores of Macao. The Las Veg...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
INTRODUCTION The modern age of digital technology as well as the rapid culture of globalisation triggered the arrival of new concepts and ideas in construction industry. In fact, there has been an increasingly sophisticated and state of the art emergence of construction tools. The traditional mechanisms that are commonly used...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Finding Shangri-la. Searching for paradise on earth. With the help of dark chocolate & Marmite.
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Swiss driver Raffaele Marciello has switched from Spirit to the Tony Kart Junior Team, run by Strawberry Racing's Paul Spencer for the last four major races of the season.
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
China's Ministry of Culture yesterday posted new rules on its website banning outside artists Beijing feels endanger the country's sovereignty. From Ed Wong, writing in the New York Times: The rules say that the background credentials of performers from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will be scrutinized. “Those ...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
South China’s smoggy skies have a grave impact on human health. The benefits of pollution control in southern China far outweigh the costs, finds a new study by Christine Loh, Anthony Hedley, Wong Tze Wai and Alexis Lau. New research conducted in Hong Kong, Macao and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of Guangdong province has for the first time identified and quantified the direct risks to public...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
A weak Hong Kong stock market has prompted the Macao gaming company controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho to limit its initial public offering to less than half of the $1bn it originally sought to raise in January……Read more
PageantCast News Desk (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Handpicked by Creative Options, Inc., the company that owns the Puerto Rican franchise for Miss International, Miriam Pabon Carrio (in photo) will be the representative of Puerto Rico and will travel to Tokyo, Japan and in Macao, China to compete for Miss International Beauty Pageant later this year. Miriam is a professional model, actress and acting instructor. She was Miss Puerto Rico Latina 2002....
Getwonder (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Waw,the Chinese have stolen Venice! Well, not literally stolen, but they copied it on a smaller scale. I’m talking about the Venetian Macao in China, the world’s largest casino and the third largest building in the world. It has more than 1000 slot machines and over 600 gaming tables open 24/7. So it’s safe to say [...]
damncoolpics (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The Venetian Macao is a casino resort in Macau, China owned by the Las Vegas Sands hotel-casino chain and its the world's largest casino. The Venetian is a huge complex with the central building standing over 40 stories high and costing US$2.4-billion to build. The 120,000-square meter Venetian Macao is modeled on its sister casino resort – the The Venetian in Las Vegas. The Venetian claims to be the...
¨°º©[ Fink ]©º°¨ (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Another painfully early start this one (quite unfairly) as Tulum was only a short way away (as the Psittacidae Ara Macao flies), but we'd opted for a half-day ( our visit to Chichen Itza having been a bit of an epic) so getting up early was part of the deal...in retrospect we probably should have got a cab (would have been quicker and cheaper), but we hadn't discovered that fact at this stage...anyway,...
