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A cross-border operation between police in China’s southern Guangdong province and counterparts in Cambodia have seized 350kg (772lbs) of crystal methamphetamine in a series of raids, shown in recently released footage by Chinese state media. Police say they also arrested 49 people in both countries over their alleg…
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It’s a mixture of herbs and opium sourced from Southeast Asia’s notorious Golden Triangle, and police in China say it has become the drug of choice among the rich and educated in Yunnan province. Police recently released details of a nine-month long raid on drug dens, manufacturing sites and transport networks in Yu…
A powerful earthquake that struck near the Afghan city of Khost is now known to have killed at least 1,000 people and injured more than 1,500 others. The casualty toll is expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages where the quake struck early on June 22, 2022. The earthquake was measur…
Police body cam captured the moment a 3-year-old boy was rescued from a mobile home fire in West Allis, Wisconsin on June 19.
A district court in Osaka, Japan ruled on June 20, 2022, that the ban on same-sex unions does not violate the Japanese constitution, citing the legal definition of marriage and a lack of public debate on the issue. The judgment stands in stark contrast to a March 17, 2021 ruling by a Sapporo district court, which sa…
Around a hundred students protested in the Nepali capital against fuel price hikes on June 20, 2022. Police in Kathmandu reportedly fired tear gas to disperse the protest that broke out after the state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation raised fuel prices. The country’s Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies said the …
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Protesters in India have clashed with police during rallies against a new military recruitment scheme. Dozens of people were detained on June 19, 2022, as police used batons and tear gas to disperse protesters who had taken to the streets and damaged government buildings to protest against the policy. The scheme ann…
The CEO of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Nicolas Aguzin, says the two new offices being mooted in the US and Europe would promote HKEX as a fundraising centre for international companies and a gateway for international investors to access the mainland China market. Speaking with Post business editor E…
A fire department captain in the US state of Arizona has developed a bulletproof vest for children that is designed to protect them in a school shooting yet small enough to fit into student backpacks. His company, Escape Armour, also produces a shield that is described as capable of making any backpack bulletproof. …
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Japan’s parliament has passed a bill imposing tougher penalties for online insults. The amendment of the penal code will take effect in late 2022, with offenders subject to prison time of up to a year, or a 300,000 yen (US$2,228) fine. The revised bill came in the wake of the death of Netflix reality television star…
Thailand released more than 3,000 people jailed on marijuana-related charges after the country became the first in Asia to legalise the drug. Convictions on possession of even small amounts of cannabis in Thailand had carried prison terms until June 2022, when Thai officials decriminalised the drug, effectively maki…
A Cambodian court ordered jail sentences on June 14, 2022, for about 60 opposition figures including Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng for conspiring to commit treason. Their mass trial and guilty verdicts have been condemned by the United States and human rights groups.
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Nine people were arrested after viciously beating a group of women in northern China’s Tangshan. The group of women was fiercely attacked after one of them was harassed by a man and rejected him. Two of the women required hospital treatment.
The Philippine government is stepping up efforts to complete rebuilding the destroyed area in the southern city Marawi known as “ground zero” by the end of June. The current government had promised the city in the southern island of Mindanao would be completely rebuilt by the end of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term,…
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The Hong Kong Police Force will phase out older British-style marches starting from July 1, 2022, when it commemorates the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Going forward, the city’s police, as well as other disciplined services including Customs and Excise as well as the Fire Services, …
Angry protests continue in Muslim communities across Bangladesh, India, the Middle East, Pakistan and parts of Asia directed at two Indian politicians who made remarks considered derogatory to Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. A spokeswoman for India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nupur Sharma, is under fire for com…
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Thailand has delisted cannabis as a narcotic, the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise the use of marijuana. Known for its tough policies on drug trafficking, the conservative Buddhist nation made the move in apparent recognition of the growing market for marijuana-infused food and medicinal cannabis. From Ju…
As part of the city’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, Hong Kong approved its first electric double-decker bus for trial operations on June 19, 2022. The bus will run along Route 5B, from Hong Kong Stadium to Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island. The bus can carry up to 113 passengers and has an estimated range …
A series of earthquakes recorded in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan since June 1, 2022, have claimed at least four lives and injured over a dozen people. The latest quake on June 8 was measured at magnitude 6.1. The swarm has been reported in the same area where 196 people were killed by a major quake in Ap…
Police in Thailand have found 200kg (440lbs) of crystal methamphetamine hidden inside one of six replica Easter Island statues that was allegedly being sent to Taiwan. The illegal drugs shipment was turned up during a June 8, 2022, raid in the port city of Laem Chabang near Bangkok. Officers became suspicious when t…
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A young survivor of the deadly school shooting in the city of Uvalde in the US state of Texas, has testified before a congressional panel on gun violence in the country. Eleven-year-old Miah Cerillo told lawmakers on June 8, 2022, about the moment when her teacher was killed at her junior school. The May 24 shooting…
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Around 3,000 armed police officers, firefighters and residents worked overnight to clear up mud and debris after torrential downpours and floods hit China’s southern city of Liuzhou for five days since June 2, 2022. By June 7, more than 9,000 cubic metres (31,7832 cu ft) of mud had been cleared.
Firefighter Rakibul Hasan Bappy's engine was the first to arrive at the scene of a huge fire at a cargo container depot in Bangladesh. But when a devastating explosion happened while they started fighting the blaze, he was the only member of the 15-man crew who was not killed, severely hurt or left missing. "I will …
A forensic pathologist has teamed up with a Catholic priest to seek justice for victims of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug war campaign. Officially, over 6,000 have been killed in the drug war since 2016, but the International Criminal Court estimates that the true toll could be as high as 30,000. F…
A massive fire at a container depot near Chittagong in southeastern Bangladesh has killed at least 49 people and injured more than 300 others. The blaze at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture, broke out around midnight on June 4, 2022, after a series of explosions set several containers f…
People have gathered in cities around the world, including in Taipei, New York, London and Melbourne, to mark 33 years since China's Tiananmen Square crackdown. Among those attending June 4, 2022, events were immigrants from Hong Kong, where an annual candlelight vigil was banned for the third year in a row. The Hon…
Hong Kong was once the only place on Chinese soil where large-scale commemorations were held to mourn those killed in the June 4, 1989, crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Since 1990, football pitches in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park were used as a venue for tens of thousands of people to gather for a…
At least 100 police officers patrolled Victoria Park on June 3, 2022, ahead of the June 4 anniversary that commemorates the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. They also cordoned off parts of the park, restricting public access until June 5. Earlier, a woman was taken away by police after carrying out a perfo…
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A team of 4,500 rescuers has arrived at Lushan county in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, where a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck on June 1, 2022. At least four people have been reported killed during the quake. The first tremor was reported at 5pm, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, before a s…
Residents in the Beijing satellite city of Yanjiao clashed with police at a checkpoint leading to the capital on June 1, 2022. They were protesting against being barred from returning to work in Beijing, even though Covid-19 restrictions had been eased two days earlier. About 400,000 people from Hebei province hold …
Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of Sidhu Moose Wala. The cremation ceremony for the 28-year-old Punjabi rapper, whose real name is Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, was held on May 31, 2022, two days after he was shot and killed. Canadian-based gangster Goldy Brar has claimed responsibility for his death. Polic…
Vietnamese Ngo Minh Hieu is a convicted hacker who once stole the personal information of some 200 million Americans. After serving seven years in a US jail, he was released in 2019 and was recruited by the Vietnamese government in 2020. His new job at Vietnam’s National Cyber Security Centre involves educating the …
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Indian police are investigating the murder of popular Punjabi rapper and politician Sidhu Moose Wala. The artist, whose real name was Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, was shot on May 29, 2022, while driving in Mansa, India. A senior police officer in the state said a preliminary investigation revealed that the killing was gan…
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Police in Sri Lanka used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesting medical students on May 29, 2022. Young protesters surrounded the home of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to demand his resignation. The latest demonstrations marked nearly two months of protests, sparked by the country’s worst economic crisis s…
