Joel Guintoand Jonathan Head,South East Asia Correspondent, Bangkok Watch: Emergency responders clamber over mangled train after crane collapse At least 30 people have been killed and 64 others injured after a construction crane fell onto a moving train in north-eastern Thailand. The crane derailed the train and crushed some of its carriages, one of which…
BEIJING (AP) — Canada, under Pierre Trudeau in the early 1970s, was among the first Western nations to recognize the communist government in China, nearly a decade ahead of the United States. A half-century later, relations soured under Trudeau’s son, Justin. His successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney, is in Beijing this week in an attempt…
On January 14, Wang Shan, Chief Operating Officer of Tiger Brokers (Hong Kong), stated at a press conference that the group plans to invest 100 million US dollars in Hong Kong over the next two years, covering areas such as human resources and infrastructure. Regarding the recent increase in investment by several Chinese brokerages in…
Tosin oldest player at 28 ©TM/IMAGO Former Liverpool defender turned pundit Alan Hansen once famously said, “You can’t win anything with kids”. Many claimed that that proverb ultimately came back to bite the Scotsman, as Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United, centred around their youthful ‘Class of 92’ academy players, went on to win the league….
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APP/NurPhoto via Getty Images Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much of the world because they follow a calendar that starts at 950 BC, when King Sheshonq ascended the…
Rebuilding the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court on its original site to rehouse displaced residents will be “immensely challenging” because of complex legal and property rights issues, a senior Hong Kong official has said, adding that a cash buy-back would be the “fastest and most flexible” solution. Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun, who led the…
Mark PoyntingClimate researcher Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The California fires of January 2025 were one of the most expensive weather-related disasters in US history Global temperatures in 2025 did not quite reach the heights of 2024, thanks to the cooling influence of the natural La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific, new data from…
Noa Lang is expected to return to the Napoli XI for a rescheduled Serie A fixture against Parma at the Stadio Maradona. It kicks off at 18:30 CET (17:30 GMT). It’s a rescheduled Serie A match from Week 16, which was not played back in December due to the Supercoppa Italiana. Advertisement Napoli coach Antonio…
Nearly three-quarters of enterprises from Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area cities will speed up their expansion into the Asean market as a primary strategy to mitigate risks from international trade frictions and shifting global supply chains, according to a survey. The survey and research findings, co-published by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and…