In this file photograph dated Nov 9, 2022, Nepalese villagers stand amidst the debris of their mudhouses after an earthquake in Doti district, Nepal. An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Nepal on Jan 24, 2023 at a depth of 25 km to the northwest of Nepal's Jumla district, more than 300 km from the capital, […]
This handout photo taken on February 7, 2021 and released by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shows members of the ITBP during a rescue operation after a broken glacier caused a major river to surge and overflow, sweeping away bridges and roads, at Reni village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. (INDO-TIBETAN BORDER POLICE / AFP) […]
SHENZHEN, CHINA, Dec 6, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – A series of “Overseas Talents’ China Visit to Shenzhen” events were successfully held in Guangming district, Shenzhen from November 21 to 22. The events were co-organized by Shenzhen Center for International Exchange of Personnel. The events are hosted by the China Association for International […]
This AFP graphic dated Nov 9, 2022 shows the map of Nepal locating an earthquake that struck in the early hours on Nov 9. KATHMANDU – An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Nepal early Wednesday, killing at least six people, destroying multiple houses in the western district of Doti and shaking the Indian capital New […]
Rescue workers and firefighters try to help injured people near the scene of a crowd surge in Seoul, South Korea on Oct 30, 2022. (LEE JIN-MAN / AP) SEOUL – At least 151 people were killed and 82 others injured in a stampede that occurred Saturday night at Itaewon, a district of the South Korean […]
TOKYO, Oct 4, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group companies – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (MHI-AP) – have jointly delivered two large-capacity centrifugal chillers for a large-scale district cooling system in Singapore’s Marina Bay as part […]
Members of Pakistan Navy personnel take part in a rescue operation in flooded Mehar city after heavy monsoon rains in Dadu district, Sindh province on Sept 9, 2022. (AAMIR QURESHI / AFP) DADU, Pakistan – Authorities in Pakistan are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people against a growing […]
A part of a main road along the Han River is flooded due to heavy rain in Seoul, South Korea, Aug 10, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP) SEOUL – The heaviest rain in Seoul in 115 years has spurred the South Korean capital to revive a $1.15 billion plan to improve drainage after floods exposed how even […]
On April 27, when the secretary for security, Chris Tang Ping-keung, answered legislative councilors’ questions on law-and-order issues, he provided some important insights, particularly regarding the processing of protest-related and national security cases. As always, the latest statistics were instructive. Although, as of Feb 28, 10,277 people had been arrested for crimes resulting from the […]
People wait outside after evacuating an Indonesian government building following an earthquake in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dec 14, 2021. (DAENG MANSUR / AP) JAKARTA/MANILA – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia's western province of North Sumatra early Monday, but no immediate report of damage or casualty was issued, an agency and officials said. The quake […]
On Thursday, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced that 17 district councilors took invalid oaths on Oct 8, of which one had already resigned while the other 16 will be disqualified from the post. It is totally an internal affair of China and its Hong Kong SAR and anybody with a rational mind will […]
In May 2021, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed a law stipulating that all incumbent district councilors must take an oath to pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, as well as to uphold the Hong Kong Basic Law. About half of the district councilors in […]
Hong Kong’s district councils underwent a sea change after the landslide defeat of pro-establishment candidates in November 2019, in politically fraught elections held amid a background of violence and intimidation. Not including seats held by ex officio rural committee chairpersons in the New Territories, pro-establishment candidates managed to retain only 59 out of a total […]
Onlookers watch as smoke bellows from a massive fire that broke out a day before in a juice factory in Bangladesh's Narayanganj district on July 9, 2021. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP) DHAKA – At least 51 workers died as a juice factory in Bangladesh's Narayanganj district, about 20 km from capital Dhaka, caught fire […]
Last week, the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2021 in an orderly manner. Around the bill’s passage, there has been a political earthquake at the district level as some 30 self-proclaimed democratic district councilors announced they would leave their positions. They refused to take […]
In this April 29, 2021 photo, an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier sits at a road checkpoint near the a US military base in Bagram, some 50 km north of Kabul. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) FARAH, Afghanistan – Twenty soldiers lost lives as militants attacked a military post in Balablok district of the western Farah […]
Cliché as it sounds, politics is compromise, and in brokering certain political agreements, what becomes customary sometimes may soon be accepted as right. This epitomizes the current political role of Hong Kong’s District Councils (DCs), which comes into question considering the constitutional underpinning of the Basic Law. Coming on the heels of the recent decision […]
Kuala Pembuang, Indonesia, Mar 1, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – As 2021 starts, the media continues to carry horrific stories of ongoing environmental abuse. We can no longer deny that the climate crisis is real, but somehow we manage to do just that. ‘Extinction: The Facts’ is a BBC Earth documentary, in which Sir David […]
SHENZHEN, CHINA, Feb 13, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – On the morning of February 4, a press conference themed ‘Foreseeing the Future in Longhua, Shenzhen’ was held in Shenzhen Citizen Center. Longhua District will launch an all-round future city scenes experiment, make every effort to build a future city development experimental field and ideal society […]