Hong Kong police will launch a citywide crackdown on traffic offences by both drivers and pedestrians, with the enforcement to include officers filming from a height, as the number of fatal road accidents climbed by 40 per cent in the first quarter of the year. Superintendent Lai Siu-wai of the traffic branch headquarters said on…
M.M. Cloutier | Special to the Palm Beach Daily News Video: Gov. Kirk, Erika Mattfeld Kirk wedding, reception in Florida Scenes from 1967 wedding of Gov. Claude Kirk and Erika Mattfeld Kirk, Bethesda-by-the-Sea, reception at The Breakers. Guests included Richard Nixon. Produced by the Florida Development Commission The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, burned…
The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a stationary tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship’s owner confirmed to AFP on Wednesday. U.K. police arrested the man after the Solong cargo ship, owned by Ernst Russ, struck the U.S.-flagged Stena Immaculate on Monday, leaving one crew member missing and…
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police safely recovered a Chinese student who was kidnapped by a Chinese-led gang, which killed his driver and cut off the student’s finger in a bid to force his parents to pay a huge ransom, officials said Wednesday. Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said the parents rejected the ransom demand but the…
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese rescuers searched for some 30 people after a landslide on Saturday in southwestern Sichuan province buried 10 houses. The Ministry of Emergency Management deployed hundreds of rescuers including firefighters following the landslide in a village in Junlian county. Two people were pulled out alive, state broadcaster CCTV said. President Xi Jinping…
With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple. Gates focuses on the first quarter-century of his life in “Source Code: My Beginnings,” the opening installment in…
FILE – Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish fashion brand Mango, arrives at the Fall-Winter 2011 Mango’s fashion show in Paris Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Andic died after falling while on a hike near Barcelona, the company said on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. He was 71. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Source link
A seafood vendor in eastern China has garnered widespread praise on mainland social media for draining the water from tanks of live marine products he was transporting to extinguish a car fire. As a result of his actions, he suffered a total loss of the seafood he intended to sell. The incident occurred on an…
Hong Kong’s Audit Commission has found “unsatisfactory” reclamation work led to HK$1 billion (US$128.5 million) in additional costs for the Tuen-Mun Chek Lap Kok link, a much-delayed HK$47 billion road project. The auditor released a report on the project on Wednesday, highlighting that poor quality work had been present from the beginning and had caused…
Members of a mainland Chinese tour group visiting Hong Kong fell down an escalator “like dominoes” in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday, with one man sent to hospital. The Fire Services Department said it received a report at 5.20pm that people had been injured at the junction of Kowloon Park Drive and Salisbury Road. A…