Hong Kong authorities will consider reducing the amount of compensated sick leave or hospital days that traffic accident victims can claim from a government fund, as part of a review to clamp down on welfare abuse, a minister has said. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Wednesday that authorities aimed to…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) – Detectives with the Murfreesboro Police Department are looking for three suspects wanted in connection to a lucrative cell phone store break-in in November. Murfreesboro PD released footage of the incident, which shows three men crashing through the front of SD Cell Plus on Memorial Blvd. on November 17. The men used…
Dec 02, 2024 08:32 PM IST After Connor Kasin suddenly collapsed, multiple “civilians” rushed to the ice and performed CPR till the first responders arrived, according to the police A teenager from Long Island died after losing consciousness on the ice during a charity hockey game at his high school. Connor Kasin, a 17-year-old senior…
A college student in China missed her last chance to see a dying relative after her dormitory manager insisted on the curfew rule, sparking public fury. Many from the Guangdong Eco-Engineering Polytechnic in southern China’s Guangdong province posted the young woman’s accusations against dorm managers’ indifference in their dorm group chat, on November 24. The…
A member of China’s highest military body is being slapped with a corruption investigation. Adm. Miao Hua is one of six members of an exclusive commission led by Xi that oversees China’s military. He’s the latest in a string of high-ranking defense officials to be purged from China’s military. A top-ranking admiral in China’s Central…
Text size Sweden on Thursday asked China to cooperate in an investigation into the severing of two Baltic Sea cables, after a Chinese ship was linked to the incident, the prime minister said. Sections of two telecom cables were cut on November 17 and 18 in Swedish territorial waters of the Baltic Sea off the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin was trolled with an image of a Ukrainian flag on a digital billboard while visiting Kazakhstan, according to the Russian news outlet Meduza. A criminal case has been launched in Kazakhstan, which shares a 7,500-kilometer border with Russia, after the Ukrainian flag was shown on a screen near the opera house…
Miao Hua, one of the top generals at China’s powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), has been placed under investigation for suspected serious violation of rules, the defence ministry said. He has been suspended from duty, the ministry said on Thursday. The announcement comes a day after the Financial Times reported that Defence Minister Dong Jun…
A fire engulfed and destroyed part of a 150-metre-long (492 feet) noise barrier on a busy Hong Kong road on Wednesday, paralysing parts of the road for the entire day as authorities rushed to repair and reopen them by early Thursday. The blaze began at around 11am under a footbridge next to the six-metre-tall structure…
Investigation is part of a broader probe into military corruption that unseated Dong’s two predecessors. China has launched an investigation of Defence Minister Dong Jun due to suspicion of corruption, according to reports. Citing current and former US officials familiar with the situation, British newspaper The Financial Times said on Wednesday that Dong is the…