Visitors rise 15.9 pct to 3.4 million in April

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said on Friday that Macau people have safeguarded, on their own initiative, the “insurmountable line” of opposing political chaos, based on their “excellent tradition” of loving the motherland and their hometown. Ho made the remarks in a speech at the Spring Festival reception at Macau Tower hosted by the local Central People’s Government Liaison Office. The chief executive underlined as the “most satisfactory” situation in Macau last year that all

SAN FRANCISCO –The San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall has set up a reading room to commemorate the late Chinese-American writer Iris Chang, renowned for her books on history, including Japan’s invasion of China.Chang, whose Chinese name was Zhang Chunru (张纯如), was the author of “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II,” a best-selling book published in 1997.With the book, she brought to light the horrifying atrocities known as “the Nanjing