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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr gave his first national address on July 25, 2022, promising to reform taxes, upgrade infrastructure and transform agriculture. He also vowed no further Covid-19 lockdowns despite a recent uptick in cases. Ahead of his speech, thousands of activists marched to voice concerns …
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Chinese search engine giant and AI leader Baidu has unveiled its sixth-generation fully autonomous vehicle. The Apollo RT6 is an all-electric vehicle that comes with a detachable steering wheel. The new interior design allows for the installation of extra seating, vending machines, desks or gaming consoles. Baidu sa…
The US Department of State has cited China and Russia as two of the worst offenders of human trafficking. In a 634-page annual report released on July 19, 2022, Washington accused Beijing of “widespread forced labour” of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang, as well as exploiting labour for its Belt and Road Initiativ…
Some critical tunnel boring jobs have been completed as work continues on the East Coast Rail Link, a China-led project that aims to connect Malaysia’s eastern states of Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan with the nation’s largest city Kuala Lumpur and its western ports. The 665km (413-mile) railway is being built by t…
Sri Lankan lawmakers chose acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new leader on July 20, 2022, hoping his long experience in government will help pull Sri Lanka out of a crippling economic and political crisis. The six-time prime minister garnered 134 votes in the 225-member parliament, despite publi…
Builders from the China State Construction Engineering Corporation are nearing completion of what will be the tallest building in Africa – the 78-storey Iconic Tower in Egypt’s yet to be named new capital. The skyscraper is part of a US$3 billion investment deal by China to build the central business district of a n…
Heavy shelling by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left much of it in ruins. Certain areas in the northeastern Ukrainian city were left without public transport, as shelling damaged the electrical station used to power the city's Soviet-era trams. Out of 160 trams, 60 were destroyed in the fighting an…
Sri Lanka has endured a months-long economic crisis that has seen rampant inflation and civil unrest. The country defaulted on its foreign debts for the first time in its history and its people have faced shortages of fuel, medicine and other essentials. According to the World Food Programme, nearly five million peo…
Taiwan conducted its largest-ever disaster preparedness exercise on July 14, 2022, with more than 1,800 personnel taking part in the exercises. The drills were held amid heightened fears of an attack on the island by Chinese mainland forces, and organisers said they incorporated wartime scenarios similar to what Ukr…
A landslide in southwest China has killed a four-year-old girl and injured four other people. The debris has blocked the main road and damaged nearby buildings.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said on July 11, 2022, that at least 150 people have died and 160 people were injured from heavy monsoons in the past month. Flooding was particularly dire in Karachi, the largest city in Sindh province, which remained under water on July 12. The extreme weather brou…
Dozens of Chinese cities are facing scorching temperatures amid heatwaves hot enough to melt roofs of buildings and buckle roads. On July 12, 2022, 68 cities issued red alerts, the highest level in China’s three-tier heatwave warning system. With temperatures expected to rise above 40°C (104°F), Shanghai’s 25 millio…
The Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which connects Russia to much of Europe, temporarily closed for annual maintenance on July 11, 2022. The suspension is expected to last for 10 days, but European officials worry that the Kremlin will extend it beyond the maintenance period, destabilising countries like Germany, which …
Protesters in Sri Lanka stormed and occupied the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on July 9, 2022. Thousands had taken to the streets of the capital Colombo earlier in the day to demand the resignations of the men who have faced months of protests amid accusations th…
A group of men and women were filmed forcefully pushing a parked van out of the way because the vehicle was blocking their practice space for square dancing.
A car travelling along a mountain highway tunnel in China had a close call when a landslide narrowly missed crushing the vehicle on July 5, 2022. The landslip happened in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, where debris and mud completely blocked the Wenchuan-Maerkang Highway, which was closed off as a result. No…
Seeing no end to Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis, many are now cooking with firewood and charcoal stoves, and turning away from automobiles and towards bicycles. The South Asian nation has failed to pay for petrol and diesel imports and is suffering with prolonged power cuts. The country is set to present its debt restructu…
The ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak, near the Afghan capital Kabul, is at risk of disappearing after the discovery of what’s believed to be one of the world’s largest copper deposits near the city. The Taliban has partnered with the Chinese mining giant Metallurgical Group Corporation, to start mining copper from…
Muslims in Pakistan are preparing to celebrate Eid ul-Adha, one of the two most important festivals on the Islamic calendar that begins this year on July 9, 2022. Inflation however has pushed up the price of sacrificial cattle, driven partly by higher energy costs, which have risen about 90 per cent since the end of…
Typhoon Chaba, the third typhoon of 2022 and first to affect Hong Kong, made landfall in China’s southern province of Guangdong province on July 2, 2022. The storm caused severe flooding and disrupted civil aviation, railways, shipping in the area where it came ashore. The typhoon also damaged power grids in the cit…
Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Hong Kong on June 30 and July 1, 2022, for official celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule, and to attend the inauguration ceremony of the city’s new leader, John Lee Ka-chiu. While slogans and banners were visible everywhere, the city was g…
This three-year-old boy from Zhejiang province has some smooth “excavator” moves. His father made a miniature version of the vehicle for his son because of the boy’s interest in excavators - Youyou would stop and look at excavators he passed on the road. That, and more trending videos from China this week.
Tokyo residents are switching off some of their lights in the afternoon to conserve electricity and avoid a looming power cut.Tokyo is suffering from the hottest June on record, driving up air conditioning use and straining Japan’s electricity grid. The government has urged people to conserve energy during high-use …
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A bus fell into a river in Shanghai after the driver suffered a heart attack and fainted. A nearby colleague chased after the out-of-control vehicle and tried to stop it, but to no avail. Sensing he was in trouble, he urged all the passengers to get off before he passed out. Fortunately, he is now in stable conditio…
A former White House aide has offered dramatic new testimony about ex-president Donald Trump’s behaviour during critical hours on January 6, 2021 when his supporters marched to and stormed the US Capitol building. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told a Congressional comm…
Sri Lanka announced a two-week ban on fuel sales for all non-essential services, starting from June 28, 2022, as the island nation faces its worst economic crisis in 70 years. Schools have also been shut to reduce the need for commuting, and the government has urged companies to allow employees to work from home. Sr…
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Southern China continues to be hit by record rainfall, affecting 3.75 million people in Guangxi province alone, one of the worst-hit areas. The downpour and rain-induced disasters, such as floods, have engulfed homes, crops and roads, causing direct economic losses of more than 12.48 billion yuan (US$1.86 billion). …
This three-year-old boy from China’s Zhejiang province has some smooth “excavator” moves. His father made a miniature version of the vehicle for his son because of the boy’s interest in excavators - Youyou would stop and look at excavators he passed on the road.
A China-funded airport in southwestern Pakistan is scheduled to be completed by mid-September 2023, four years after work began on the US$230 million project. The New Gwadar International Airport project is in Pakistan’s Gurandani area, some 26km (16 miles) northeast of the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan provinc…
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…
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Floodwaters engulfed homes, fields and roads in southern China as the region was battered by the heaviest rainfall recorded in the area in 61 years. At least five people died in a village in Guangxi province on June 18, 2022, after their homes were washed away, state media reported. Authorities have evacuated nearly…
Protests continue in Sri Lanka with many demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa amid a deepening economic crisis that has seen inflation reach an all-time high. The nationwide inflation rate was 45.3 per cent in May 2022 according to the most recent data, as Sri Lanka struggles with its worst econ…
Firefighters in Hong Kong rushed to battle a blaze that left parts of Yuen Long, in the New Territories without power and rail service. An electrical cable and bridge near Kwong Yip Street caught fire at around 7pm on June 21, 2022. The fire quickly engulfed the bridge, which collapsed in the flames. There were no i…
Tourists on a cable car ride in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh were trapped for hours on June 20, 2022, before they were rescued using harnesses and ropes to lower them to the ground. Similar accidents involving cable cars have occurred in India, including a recent one in April 2022 that led to the death…
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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Mechanics in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhia are turning former rally racing cars into stripped-down, armour-plated combat vehicles as Russia’s invasion pushes closer. The “combat buggies” were built from a Russian-made Lada Samara, a compact car popularly used on the local rally racing circuit. The vehicl…
Vira Samsonova and Serhii Samsonov are among several Ukrainian families that face homelessness and now live in train carriages. The rail cars were converted into temporary housing in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin to shelter people whose homes were destroyed following the Russian invasion. The carriages are equipped with …
The last stretch of track has gone into service to complete a 2,712km (1,685 miles) railway that loops around China’s largest desert, the Taklamakan. The latest section covering 825km (613 miles) went into operation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on June 16, 2022, after three and a half years of constructio…
Yang Yong, the driver of a high-speed train, saved all of his passengers’ lives by engaging the emergency brake almost immediately after his train went off the rails at a station in southwestern China’s Guizhou province. There were more than 140 passengers on board. That, and more trending videos from China this week.
Torrential rainfall in southern China has had an impact on millions of residents and caused billions of yuan in economic losses. As of June 14, 2022, weeks of heavy rain had triggered flooding and landslides in large areas of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, damaging homes, crops and roads. But on June 12, a dr…
A six-year-old husky turned on a rice cooker by following her owner’s voice commands via a video home surveillance system in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. He said he took longer than expected getting a Covid-19 test done, so he decided to remotely instruct his dog to start preparing dinner. Lucky also knows how…
Piles of rubbish have been accumulating in the Kathmandu Durbar Square, a Unesco World Heritage Site in Nepal. For weeks, proper waste disposal has become a chronic problem in the city after attempts to dump garbage in the Bancharedanda landfill site have been met with resistance from local villagers. Protesters all…
Yang Yong, the driver of a high-speed train, saved all of his passengers’ lives by engaging the emergency brake almost immediately after his train went off the rails at a station in southwestern China’s Guizhou province. There were more than 140 passengers on board.
At least two shots were fired in a clash between two groups of men near Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong nightlife hub, after an apparent bungled knife attack in the early hours of June 10, 2022. Three people were injured in the skirmish. One of the suspected attackers fell unconscious after being shot in the back and his …
