An 82-year-old woman in Hong Kong has lost HK$4.2 million (US$539,800) after being duped by scammers with a new phishing tactic involving a streaming subscription that has also been used against postgraduate students, police have said. The force’s Anti-Deception Coordination Centre revealed on Thursday that it had received over 35 inquiries on the scams involving…
Cross the road in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s largest city, and the pedestrians are suddenly pale, blond and six feet tall. They are Mennonites, a close-knit Christian group, who travel in from their remote farming communities to buy seeds, fertiliser and tractor parts. They also pick up Die Mennonitische Post, a newspaper. “I don’t understand a…
Super Typhoon Ragasa may have been the biggest storm of its kind in the world this year, but when it made landfall in mainland China last month, it left no fatalities in its wake. Rewind to 2018 when Mangkhut, the last super typhoon to hit Guangdong province, struck and at least four people were killed…
London — The Greater Manchester Police said at least four members of the public were wounded and a suspect shot outside a synagogue on Thursday in what appeared to be a vehicle and stabbing attack. The incident comes as Jewish people around the world mark the holiday of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the…
BEIJING, Oct 2 — China’s national railway recorded 23.13 million trips on the first day of the country’s eight-day National Day holiday yesterday, up nearly 8 per cent from a year earlier and setting a single-day record, state media CCTV reported. More than 19 million trips were expected to be made on the railway network…
A dump truck caught fire in Hong Kong’s shopping district of Causeway Bay on Thursday, resulting in dark smoke billowing across a busy street. Photos posted online in the afternoon showed that a truck on Paterson Street was on fire, producing a large column of black smoke that drew a crowd of onlookers. The fire…
There have been fresh warnings over the deteriorating situation in Gaza, where Israel is attempting to capture Gaza City, the enclave’s largest. Here are some of the key developments: “Last opportunity”: Israel’s defense minister issued a “last opportunity” for Palestinians to move south. “Those who remain in Gaza will be (considered) terrorists and terror supporters,”…
From solar panels to electric vehicles, Beijing has outpaced rivals before. Wendy Chang says its latest push to spread the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could now threaten other European strengths, like industrial automation. The Chinese government has started a major push to spread the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) widely across industries, schools and…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli navy soldiers boarded vessels and detained dozens of activists aboard a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, but 12 hours after the military began intercepting the vessels, several boats continued sailing and were nearing the besieged territory on Thursday, activists said. Supporters of the flotilla took to the streets…
Amnesty International, in a report released on Wednesday, revealed that Chinese courts are utilizing ambiguous laws to crack down on civilians’ freedoms of speech and association, subjecting individuals to arbitrary arrests and violations of fair trial rights. The report, titled “How Could This Verdict be ‘Legal’?”, analyzes more than 100 “official indictments and verdicts from…