SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers wearing hard hats crawled into tight passages of concrete rubble, chipping away debris with hand tools to try to reach survivors days after they were trapped in Monday’s collapse of an Islamic school’s prayer hall in Indonesia. Some of the survivors were communicating with the rescuers working to free them….
A woman weeps as rescue works are underway for victims (Image credits: AP) SIDOARJO: Dozens of parents waited Wednesday near a collapsed school building on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an AFP correspondent said, as rescue teams searched for survivors under the rubble.At least three people died when the multi-storey building gave way in the…
Published on: Sept 30, 2025 11:17 pm IST The epicentre of the quake, which struck around 11:49 pm (1649 GMT), was around 156 kilometres east of Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s main island of Java late Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate…
New York — They are animals without eyes or the ability to speak, but if the live corals at the New York Aquarium could talk, they would have quite a story. Aaron Brett, a coral expert with the aquarium, can tell their story for them. Earlier this year, somewhere in Indonesia, about 200 coral pieces…
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority is in talks with more than 20 international airlines, including ones from Europe and the US, over launching new routes to the city as it ups its game to entice foreign carriers with incentives. Chapman Fong Shui-man, the authority’s director for hub development, said on Thursday that the statutory body had…
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority is in talks with over 20 international airlines, including those from Europe and the United States, to launch new routes to the city as it ups its game to woo foreign carriers with incentives. Chapman Fong Shui-man, the authority’s director for hub development, said on Thursday they had arranged to meet…
Some air travellers took their last chance to fly out of Hong Kong at 6pm on Tuesday before most airlines suspended flights due to the approaching Super Typhoon Ragasa, while others remained stuck at the airport and planned to stay overnight. The Airport Authority said it handled 600 scheduled flights on Tuesday, about half of…
Three in five multinational companies expect costs to rise due to ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, which is spurring their adoption of artificial intelligence and smart manufacturing to offset financial pressure, according to a Standard Chartered survey on Wednesday. About 62 per cent of top executives surveyed predicted cost increases of 5 to 14 per cent in…
Hong Kong’s police chief has met top security authorities from four countries in the region, including Cambodia and Singapore, to discuss closer collaboration in combating scams and enhancing training as efforts are made to expand an international law enforcement coalition. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming told the Post on Friday that the four meetings…
In Nepal, it was a politician’s son posing next to a Christmas tree made from designer shopping bags. In Indonesia, it was a lavish housing allowance for lawmakers amounting to 10 times the minimum wage. In East Timor, it was a multimillion-dollar plan to buy new SUVs for parliamentarians. PREMIUM Why Asia’s Gen Z Is…