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A fire in a hospital in Beijing killed at least 21 people on April 18, 2023, according to Chinese state-run media. Images posted on social media showed people sitting on external air conditioning units or clinging to ropes after the blaze broke out at around 12.57pm local time. The flames were put out about half an …
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Russian filmmakers are promoting what is touted as the first movie to be shot in space ahead of its release on April 20, 2023. Filmed on board the International Space Station, The Challenge tells the story of a female doctor who must go into orbit to save the life of a cosmonaut. The film will premiere in Russia, Se…
Food insecurity is weighing down on Muslims around the world during the holy month of Ramadan, which is meant for community gatherings and feasting over big plates of mouth-watering food. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that conflicts, political and economic crises, the Covid pandemic and cl…
Former Indian lawmaker Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in a dramatic attack that was caught live on television in northern India, officials said on April 16, 2023. The two brothers were under police escort on their way to a medical check-up when three men posing as journalists shot the brothers at c…
Tens of thousands of revellers, including hordes of foreign tourists sporting floral shirts and plastic water guns, descended on the streets of Bangkok on April 13, 2023, for the biggest traditional new year gathering since the pandemic. The country is celebrating the return of its annual Songkran water festival. It…
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Many in Japan can no longer afford to buy eggs for daily meals after a surge in prices over recent months as the nation grapples with its worst-ever outbreak of avian influenza. Since the virus began spreading in October 2022, Japan has culled over 17 million chickens to fight the disease.
As domestic and international travel demand rebounds, many Chinese airlines are planning to resume more flights and are now on a recruitment drive to hire more flight attendants to make up for cabin crew lost due to attrition during the Covid-19 pandemic. The response from jobseekers has been strong. China’s Hainan …
Construction work at Long Thanh airport, which will be Vietnam’s newest and largest air hub, has been blanketing surrounding neighbourhoods with a thick layer of red dust for months. The windblown particles are disrupting the lives of residents living as far as 10km (6.2 miles) from the site, prompting fears for the…
Dangerous levels of smog have hung heavy over the city of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, for weeks as farmers in neighbouring Laos and Myanmar set fire to fields and forests to prepare for the coming growing season. Chiang Mai was named the world’s third-most-polluted city by the air monitoring website IQAir as a…
Water fights in the streets returned to Hong Kong’s “Little Thailand” as the Thai community celebrated Songkran on April 9, 2023. It was the first celebration of its kind since 2019. The splashing came along with a carnival that showcased Thai massages, Muay Thai and the Miss Songkran pageant.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Macau imposed some of the world’s strictest travel restrictions. That was when Brazilian scholar Vanessa Amaro started to notice a rising number of Portuguese leaving the city. She said as the Macau government enacted rigorous pandemic measures for nearly three years, many among the loc…
As Hong Kong’s catering industry faces an acute labour shortage following the pandemic, a restaurant chain has turned to automation technology, including a wok robot, to help cope with an ongoing manpower crisis in the city.
All New Zealanders should feel politics can be a home for them, former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on April 5, 2023, in a final emotional address to parliament where she thanked family, supporters and her party for a career that included leading her country through the Covid-19 pandemic and the Christchurch t…
Ching Ming festival is one of the two annual, traditional dates when Chinese sweep the tombs and graves of their loved ones and ancestors. Graveyards will usually be crowded as people bring joss paper to burn as well as gifts of fruit and rice wine to their departed relatives. In recent years, fewer people have come…
Malaysia’s lower house of parliament has passed a legal reform measure that would put an end to issuance of mandatory death penalties and natural-life sentences. The country paused executions in 2018, but courts have continued to send inmates to death row. The bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat on April 3, 2023, would …
The director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender surgery department has called on similar institutions to increase their capacity to perform underage gender surgeries, as Republican-run states begin to clamp down on the practices.
Oscar-winning Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died at the age of 71. Sakamoto’s management team released a statement on April 2, 2023, that the composer had passed away the week before, on March 28. Sakamoto had reportedly been undergoing treatment for cancer since June 2020, but the musician con…
Thousands of Filipino Catholics attending church on Palm Sunday marked the beginning of Holy Week on April 2, 2023, by offering prayers for the health of Pope Francis as they presented palm fronds to be blessed.
The Hong Kong Sevens is a landmark sporting occasion offering unparalleled global exposure for the city. It is back after several years of disruption amid the pandemic, with tens of thousands of fans descending on the city for three days of action starting March 31, 2023. Post sports editor Josh Ball has a preview.
More than three million Chinese tourists are expected to flock to Italy in 2023, following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions. Italy is considered the top European destination for Chinese tourists. According to the Italian National Institute of Statistics, 3.5 million Chinese tourists travelled to Italy in 2019 bef…
Biomedical engineers in Australia have developed a prototype of a small flexible robot that they say can be used to 3D print biomaterials directly inside the human body. The device called F3DB functions like an endoscopic tool, and may have applications as a way to repair ruptured tissue or blood vessels without the…
Shenzhen’s Dafen village was well-known for creating near-perfect replicas of masterpiece paintings for export. But the 2018 global economic downturn and the pandemic led to a huge drop in export sales, forcing artists in the village to adapt by creating original works.
As tourists flock back to Thailand’s Maya Bay since its post-pandemic reopening, the site’s environmental conservation issues caused by overtourism have resurfaced. As a result, the return of tourists is forcing authorities to find ways to balance efforts between preserving marine life and creating tourism revenues.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced tough questioning on March 23, 2023, from US lawmakers convinced that the Chinese-owned short-video app should be barred for its connection to the Chinese Communist Party and for publishing content harmful to children's mental health. Some young Americans, however, expressed doubt that …
Video circulating on social media shows the moment several vehicles collided into each other on a Hong Kong highway on March 24, 2023. The five-vehicle pile-up involving four coaches and a truck happened at around 1pm near the Kowloon entrance of the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel. About 85 people were injured, including 15 w…
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Hong Kong’s Art Basel is back with its 2023 edition featuring more than 170 art galleries drawing in high-spending international visitors. It is the first time the fair has been held in the city since it fully reopened with the lifting of pandemic restrictions that had cancelled or limited the size of past events. H…
A group of Chinese graduate students have created a robotic silicone device that allows people to kiss, even if they are nowhere near each other. Inventors say they were inspired by feelings of isolation during China’s lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. The device, named “Long Lost Touch” in English and now bei…
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Some 100,000 villagers living in floating houses over Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake lack proper sanitation systems. Many of the villagers defecate directly into the lake that they also use for cooking, washing and bathing. A local social enterprise, Wetlands Work, introduced “floating toilets” to filter the sewage to pr…
Hong Kong band Mirror launched their first English single “Rumours” on March 17, 2023, following challenges such as the global pandemic and a concert mishap. Edan Lui, member of Mirror, said they had learned a lesson from the previous event, and will continue to perform professionally.
Several accidents on Hong Kong roads involving elderly taxi drivers in 2023 have sparked public debate on whether stricter medical requirements or even an age limit should be imposed on commercial drivers. Wong Po-keung, who is still driving his taxi after 55 years, said elderly taxi drivers help ease Hong Kong’s la…
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Blake Johnston broke the record for the world’s longest surf session on March 17, 2023, after he spent more than 30 hours and 11 minutes riding the waves. After doing so, the Australian surfer headed back into the sea with hopes to take his record to 40 hours. The physical strain of surfing for extended periods of t…
The Bar Bilat “virginity soap” is widely promoted by vloggers in the Philippines. However, it’s actually part of a misinformation crisis involving untested cosmetic products and treatments promised as a quick fix for chronic illnesses. Some Filipino doctors have tried to counter the misinformation by creating their …
China announced it will resume issuing nearly all types of visas for foreigners, including for tourism, starting on March 15, 2023, taking another step in the country’s emergence from its strict zero-Covid controls. It will also resume accepting previously granted visas that are still valid, and allow regional visa-…
China announced it will resume issuing nearly all types of visas for foreigners, including for tourism, starting on March 15, 2023, taking another step in the country’s emergence from its strict zero-Covid controls. It will also resume accepting previously granted visas that are still valid, and allow regional visa-…
One day late last summer, Dr. Barry Grimm called a fellow obstetrician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to consult about a patient who was 10 weeks pregnant. Her embryo had become implanted in scar tissue from a recent cesarean section, and she was in serious danger. At any moment, the pregnancy could rupture…
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On March 8, 2023, Indonesian police burned down an 11-hectare cannabis plantation in Aceh, North Sumatra, which was discovered by local authorities in February. The Southeast Asian country has some of the strictest drug laws in the world.
Forty young Afghan women are attending a trainee midwife programme run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and a local charity Watan Social and Technical Services Association. They are trained to save the lives of mothers and babies in remote parts of the country where medical help is scarce. Afghanistan has the highes…
As Hong Kong's international music and arts festival, Clockenflap 2023, returns after four years, several local bands have been eagerly awaiting their debut on the Clockenflap stage. Among the dozens of home-grown acts on the bill is jazz-metal-fusion quintet Code, praised by one Post critic as “one of the most intr…
China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), opened its annual meeting on March 5, 2023. Outgoing premier Li Keqiang delivered his final government work report, saying China aims to boost its gross domestic product by “around 5 per cent” in 2023. The world’s second-largest economy grew by only 3 pe…
Four and a half years since Hong Kong’s last Clockenflap festival, the city’s largest outdoor music and arts festival is back, the first one to be held since the Covid pandemic. The 2023 edition, happening from March 3–5, features over 100 musical acts performing over the three days of festivities, and takes place s…
‘Cobra Gold’, the largest multinational military exercise in Southeast Asia kicked off on February 28, 2023, in Thailand after a two-year break during the pandemic. Over 7,000 soldiers from 30 countries are taking part, including the most US troops attending in a decade. Analysts say it is a sign of Washington’s des…
Security has been stepped up in the Chinese capital Beijing ahead of the latest session of China’s parliament, which gets under way on March 5, 2023. The annual meeting is expected to result in the biggest Chinese government reshuffle in a decade. It will also announce a series of fiscal budgets of central and local…
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