Tag: Asia
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Hong Kong mum who gave birth at 58 marks 100-day milestone with happy family
A Hong Kong woman who defied the odds to give birth to a second child at age 58 has celebrated the newborn’s 100-day milestone, as the parents reflect…
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2 bodies found in waters off isolated island and Lamma in Hong Kong
Two bodies were recovered from Hong Kong waters in two separate incidents on Sunday, with police working to uncover their identities. Police received …
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Chikungunya strikes 2 Hong Kong travellers as infection count rises to 70
Hong Kong has recorded two more imported cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya involving a man and a woman who had both recently trave…
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Israel steps up strikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah official
Israel targeted the chief of staff of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in a strike in the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, Israeli Prime Minis…
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China, allies drive agenda at G20 South Africa summit amid US no-show
The G20 summit in Johannesburg delivered major wins for African countries on debt, climate and critical minerals processing, but the progress was unde…
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Why Japan’s drift to the right means a ‘long-term struggle’ for China
The diplomatic crisis between Tokyo and Beijing is the result of a years-long fundamental shift to the right in Japan – and part of a “long-term strug…
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Carney: global economic ‘centre of gravity’ shifting away from US
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 …
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Venezuela? Trump’s real aim could be laying claim to the western hemisphere
On November 16, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier, sailed into the Caribbean to join Operation Southern Spear – the l…
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Chinese team cuts laser weapon, EV part production time from 1 hour to 1 second
Chinese scientists have reduced the production time of dielectric energy storage capacitor components to just one second, enabling scalable, temperatu…
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Vietnam floods, landslides kill at least 90, US$343 million in damage
Heavy rain, severe flooding and landslides in Vietnam have killed at least 90 people in the last week, authorities said on Sunday, leaving others stra…