BEIJING: Rescuers were working Sunday (Dec 25) to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, state media reported. A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100km from the border with Kazakhstan, at theContinue Reading
Three Ukrainian emergency services workers were killed on Saturday (Dec 24) when a mine exploded while they were demining parts of the Kherson region, said the emergency service of another region, in which they served. “All three selflessly served in the emergency and rescue squad of the Special Purpose UnitContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s National Health Commission, which for the past three years or so has published daily COVID-19 case figures for the country, said it will no longer release such data from Sunday (Dec 25). “Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention forContinue Reading
Heavy snowfall continued to blanket areas across northern, eastern and western Japan on Saturday (Dec 24), paralysing traffic and causing blackouts. The snowfall that has continued along the Sea of Japan coast in northern and western areas in the country since Dec 17 has killed 11 people and injured 77Continue Reading
The great grandson of former Taiwan president Chiang Kai-shek has ignited hopes that his young age and popularity could inspire more youth to join or support the party.Continue Reading
TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors have decided to indict the man suspected of shooting former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reported on Saturday (Dec 24). The decision follows psychiatric examination of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 42-year-old. Abe was killed with a handmade gunContinue Reading
US and Chinese policymakers are inflicting incisive blows on each other. The Biden administration is less bombastic in speech than its predecessor while being louder in its policy actions. Yet restrictions that aim to slow China’s rise to the technological frontier of semiconductor technology may unintentionally help it marshal investment and effective business strategies. Former […]Continue Reading
BEIJIING: Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with COVID-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country’s wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. China this month has rapidly dismantled keyContinue Reading
At a crematorium in Gaobeidian, about 20km south of Zhuozhou, the body of one 82-year-old woman was brought from Beijing, a two-hour drive, because funeral homes in China’s capital were packed, according to the woman’s grandson, Liang. “They said we’d have to wait for 10 days,” Liang said, giving onlyContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Seven Indonesian families whose relatives died or were injured in one of the worst stadium disasters in football history are suing officials they consider responsible, their lawyer said Friday (Dec 23). The stampede in the Javan city of Malang in October left 135 people dead, including more than 40Continue Reading