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Chinese state network dropped a live broadcast of an Arsenal game against Manchester City on December 15 after Mesut Ozil criticised China’s treatment of Uygurs. Ozil and Arsenal faced backlash from Chinese authorities and fans, even though the club tried to distance itself from the football star’s comments.
A video that emerged on Thursday captured a freak accident in which a primary school boy fell out of his school bus, prompting the vehicle behind to pull a sudden brake to avoid a life-threatening collision. The incident happened on December 4 and the pupil was sent to the hospital immediately after, suffering only …
As the marriage rate in China fell to 7.3 per 1,000 in 2018, more affluent single women are seeking to become mothers without husbands. They are turning to overseas options, because unmarried women in the country are largely barred from accessing sperm banks and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, where an egg i…
A father-to-be in southwestern China’s Sichuan province was seen squatting to become a “human chair” for his pregnant wife to rest on. They were waiting to take a test at a hospital, and the mother-to-be’s legs had become numb.
A memorial vigil has been held in Afghanistan for Tetsu Nakamura, the head of the non-governmental organisation Peace Japan Medical Services, who was among at least six people killed when gunmen attacked their convoy on December 4, 2019.
China Aids Walk is the nation’s largest awareness and fundraising event focusing on HIV/Aids and related discrimination. Since 2012, people from a wide range of backgrounds have been invited to take part in the event at China’s Great Wall. The event aims to promote education, advocate for equal rights for those infe…
Chinese health authorities on November 28 reported a new case of plague in the country’s northern Inner Mongolia region, increasing the total number of cases to four since the beginning of the month.
Aside from the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, leukaemia also comes with great costs to the families of young patients fighting the disease in China.
Ellenborough Lewis, the koala rescued from a bush fire in the Australian state of New South Wales a week ago, died on November 26, 2019. The 14-year-old marsupial was put to sleep by the animal hospital after vets determined his wounds were not going to improve.
Lewis, the seriously injured koala who was rescued from a bush fire, was being treated in a koala hospital in New South Wales, Australia.
Hong Kong was rocked by a day of chaos after a Hong Kong protester was shot by a policeman and required emergency surgery.
An American on drug dealing charges escaped a courthouse with two other prisoners in Pattaya, Thailand on November 4. The shackled inmates fled in a pickup truck after stabbing and shooting guards.
Special camps have been set up in South Korea to help smartphone ‘addicts’ break free from their dependence on digital devices and the internet.
Hanyuan County in China's southwest Sichuan province is rich in lead-zinc deposits and dozens of mines are scattered along the Dadu River to extract the ore. The arrival of the mines offered well-paying jobs to locals, many of whom had been poor farmers who jumped at a chance to lift their families out of poverty.
Excessive weight is a growing problem across China, where 6.6 per cent of adults were considered obese according to the latest research from 2016 – almost double the rate recorded a decade earlier.
A Hong Kong police press conference was interrupted on October 28, 2019 as a freelance journalist accused officers of mistreating reporters and interfering with press freedom during the city’s ongoing anti-government protests.
A 67-year-old woman has reportedly become China's oldest new mother after giving birth to a baby girl on October 25, 2019. After a 36-week pregnancy, the baby named Tianci was delivered by caesarean section at a hospital in China’s eastern province of Shandong province, according to local media reports.
After the violence of recent months, the scheduled protests in Hong Kong on Saturday October 26 were a peaceful affair. Starting with a Catholic gathering in the afternoon and ending with a rally for medical professionals, thousands of people came out to protest the government’s handling of the worst political crisi…
Months of often violent protests in Hong Kong have left society more unsettled and troubled than it has been in decades, according to University of Hong Kong professor, Paul Yip.
A week-old baby girl was found buried alive in a cemetery in northern India by a man digging a grave for his own stillborn daughter. The baby he found, buried inside a clay pot, was just about a week old, and was sent to the hospital after the discovery.
The Philippines initiated a vaccination campaign on October 14, 2019, nearly a month after Manila declared a polio outbreak on September 19.
Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde has resigned as the government investigates his involvement in the ‘ninja cops’ scandal in 2013. As chief of police in the country’s Pampanga province, Albayalde allegedly blocked the dismissal of officers who kept methamphetamine from a drug dealer who had tried to b…
The Philippines initiated a vaccination campaign on October 14, 2019, nearly a month after Manila declared a polio outbreak on September 19.
A driver who works for local media outlet Now News was allegedly shot by a police round during protests in Mong Kok, Hong Kong on October 13, 2019. The broadcaster accused police of “violent treatment” as the driver reported being beaten by officers during his detention. Police said “the reason for the injuries has …
More than 80 students are being treated in hospital after police fired tear gas and water cannons at tens of thousands of protesters outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on September 24, 2019.
An 11-year-old boy from central China’s Henan province had to gain 18kg in just three months in order to save his sick father. Lu Zikuan’s dad needed a bone marrow transplant to treat a type of blood cancer, and the boy was a match - but he didn’t weigh enough.
South Korea on Tuesday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide. Officials said almost 4,000 pigs would be culled.
Mui Thomas is a young Hong Kong woman who has harlequin ichthyosis, a rare skin disorder which causes her skin to grow 10 times faster than normal.
Robots have been put to work in China to do routine morning health checks on preschoolers at more than 5,000 kindergartens across China.
China’s top legislature has voted to revise the nationwide drug administration law as part of the country's efforts to help patients with rare diseases.
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Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong staged a sit-in at Yuen Long MTR station to remind passengers of the violent mob attack that happened here one month ago. On July 21, a group of rod-wielding men dressed in white attacked protesters and passers-by indiscriminately at the station. At least 45 people were sent to t…
This clip of surveillance footage shows a drunk man repeatedly hit by two police officers in his private part, head and abdomen while in custody. Lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, who released this video, said the shocking revelation emerged on Tuesday that the 62-year-old man, surnamed Chung, was allegedly “tortured” while …
Thousands of civil servants and medical professionals, who were joined by residents from different sectors, gathered in two locations in Hong Kong’s Central district on August 2 to protest against the government’s handling of the extradition bill crisis.
The Philippines has issued a national alert because of a severe outbreak of dengue fever. The mosquito-borne tropical disease has caused around 115,000 infections and nearly 500 deaths, mostly among children, since the beginning of 2019.
British boxer Michele Aboro racked up an impressive 21-0 record as a professional boxer and retired as WIBF super bantamweight champion in 2001. She later moved to China with her partner and founded a foundation that helps the youth live healthy lives. She also set up a boxing academy to pass her skills on to a new …
At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured after a man torched the Kyoto Animation Studio on July 18 in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades. Police are investigating the motive of suspected arson. Fans of the studio placed flowers outside the burnt-out building in tribute to the victims. Police named th…
Violent clashes between protesters and police officers in Hong Kong’s Sha Tin district on July 14, 2019 sent 28 protesters and officers to hospital. More than 40 people were arrested.
Violent clashes in Hong Kong’s northern town of Sha Tin have sent at least 22 people to hospital. The fights on July 14-15, 2019, involving anti-extradition law protesters and riot police, followed a largely peaceful rally by tens of thousands of demonstrators who marched through the centre of the town.
Police killed a three-year-old girl on June 29, 2019, during a drug raid in Rizal province, east of the Philippine capital Manila. Myca Ulpina is the youngest person to be killed in the government’s three-year-long crackdown on illegal drugs. A senator who oversaw the most violent period in the country’s so-called d…
A doctor pulled out a 14cm-long toothbrush that was stuck in an elderly woman’s stomach in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, according to Chinese media. She sought medical help nine months after she accidentally swallowed the toothbrush, because she was suffering from severe stomach ache.
Hong Kong has one of the world’s top-ranked medical services, providing the city’s 7.4 million people with care that has a good reputation for availability, affordability and quality.
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A Thai boxing studio in Hong Kong is offering free classes to people who suffer from Parkinson’s disease. The training at Fu Tak Thai Boxing and Fitness is meant to improve agility and provide exercise which helps slow the progress of the illness. The gym even organises a fight night to raise money for the Hong Kong…
Some traditional Japanese food items have become popular around the world as “superfoods” hailed for their health benefits and high nutrition.
A 12-year-old schoolgirl and a 39-year-old man were killed and at least 16 other people injured in a mass stabbing in a residential area of Kawasaki, in the southern part of the greater metropolitan area of the Japanese capital Tokyo. Local media reports said the suspected attacker turned the knife on himself after …
A video of five-year-old Afghan amputee Ahmad Sayed Rahman dancing after he received a prosthetic leg has gone viral on social media.
After being diagnosed with lymphoma in February, South Korean beauty YouTuber Dawn Lee decided to chronicle her battle against the illness, to encourage people in similar situations.
Millions of pigs have been slaughtered across Asia as African swine fever spreads since the first outbreak of the disease was reported in August 2018 in northeastern China – the world’s largest pork producer and consumer.
A man arrived at a clinic in Vietnam, claiming to have an insect inside his ear that was causing him unbearable pain. A doctor investigated and found a tiny cockroach.
