MANILA: A Korean Air plane slid off the runway while landing at Cebu international airport in the Philippines, causing slight injuries and shutting down the country’s second busiest airport, authorities said Monday (Oct 24). All 173 passengers and crew of Korean Air flight KE631 from Incheon were evacuated safely afterContinue Reading
LOCAL INITIATIVES VITAL While the impact of hate speech online has already been documented in several Asian countries in recent years, analysts say that tech firms have not ramped up resources to improve content moderation, particularly in local languages. United Nations rights investigators said in 2018 that the use ofContinue Reading
YANGON: A group who used sex dolls to carry out “ritual incantations” in the car park of Myanmar’s holiest site will be prosecuted by the religious affairs ministry, state media said Monday (Oct 24). Around eight people attempted to bring two “lady dolls” into the towering, gold-plated Shwedagon pagoda inContinue Reading
The professional China commentariat and its echo chamber in the Western media were blindsided by the appointment of Shanghai party head Li Qiang as the country’s premier, the number two position to Xi Jinping. Li is a tech-savvy supporter of high-tech entrepreneurship who believes that China’s future lies in the digital economy. Xi, the Western […]Continue Reading
BEIJING: The Communist Party Congress has laid bare the striking gender imbalance in the upper echelons of Chinese politics, with not a single woman making the 24-person Politburo for the first time in at least a quarter of a century. As Xi Jinping and his allies concentrated power over theContinue Reading
While hunting is a historic practice in Southeast Asia, rising commercial pressure and cheaper poaching methods are emptying forests faster than they can replenish, hurting human and forest health
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SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged warning shots off the west coast on Monday, accusing each other of breaching their maritime borders amid heightened military tension. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it broadcast warnings and fired warning shots to see off a North Korean merchant vessel thatContinue Reading
“We once again sternly warned (the) enemies that staged maritime provocations on top of the firing of artillery shots and cross-border loudspeaker broadcasts,” the spokesman added, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. The maritime border is considered a flashpoint, and has been the location of several clashes between theContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH: Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Indonesia on Thursday (Oct 22) to discuss the Myanmar peace process, Cambodia’s foreign ministry said on Sunday (Oct 22). The talks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat in Jakarta will cover the implementation of aContinue Reading
“We are extremely disappointed that the Changi Airport Group has chosen to unilaterally announce a plan to relocate the Jetstar Group to Terminal 4 at Changi International Airport, before any agreement has been reached,” it said at the time. “A joint study was only agreed to be undertaken last weekContinue Reading