Beijing’s highest-ranked official in the world’s biggest casino market was found dead on Saturday, according to a government statement. The official, Zheng Xiaosong, who had been the head of the central government’s liaison office in Macau for just over a year, fell to his death at a residential building in Macau late Saturday evening after suffering from depression, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council said on Sunday.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 21, 2018 10:30 UTC