Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was arrested for attempted murder before fleeing his jail cell and escaping to Hong Kong, it was reported yesterday. The star dangled a photographer over a ninth-floor hotel balcony in Macau after catching him in his room in 1986 while he was filming Shanghai Surprise, according to The Sunday Morning Post in

The plan for expanding Macau’s international airport is expected to be concluded in 2012 and represent an investment of 4 billion patacas (US$500 million), director of the Macau airport management company, CAM, António Rato said Wednesday in Macau. At a press conference, Rato said that initial construction work would extended the southern area of the passenger

The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, has been living with his family in Macau for the past three years, a Hong Kong-based newspaper reported Thursday. The South China Morning Post quoted one diplomat as saying that Kim Jong-nam, 35, has been using the city as his base, putting Macau's government in a difficult

We always have said Macau is busting at its seams. Infrastructure is becoming a serious issue, and if they are getting the 40 million visitors in 2010 they will be arriving in traffic jams! At the moment Macau's population stands at 503,000, which is growing by about 20,000 a year, so let's say 550,000 by

Nevada gambling regulators are drawing closer to a public hearing on MGM Mirage's casino venture in Macau with businesswoman Pansy Ho, daughter of Hong Kong billionaire Stanley Ho — but may drop tentative plans for a late-February session.While the state Gaming Control Board had discussed holding the special meeting at the end of February in