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Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering
AFP, Published on 03/09/2025
» TOKYO — The Australian embassy in Japan issued a warning to travellers to behave themselves after an Instagrammer drank offerings from a Japanese burial site, provoking widespread anger online.
Fuel to Air India jet engines cut off moments before crash: probe
AFP, Published on 12/07/2025
» NEW DELHI — Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday.
US court convicts Chinese intelligence agent of economic espionage
AFP, Published on 06/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - A Chinese intelligence officer was convicted in US federal court Friday of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said.
Newest Boeing 737 MAX makes first test flight
AFP, Published on 19/06/2021
» NEW YORK: The newest version of Boeing's 737 MAX made its first test flight over Washington state on Friday, just months after the plane returned to service following a worldwide grounding after two fatal crashes.
Indonesian divers search for crashed plane's second black box
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators said they were hopeful of retrieving a crashed passenger jet's second black box, and hopefully learn why the plane with 62 people aboard plummeted into the sea minutes after takeoff.
NY Philharmonic is back, pandemic-style -- playing in the streets
AFP, Published on 06/09/2020
» NEW YORK: Its fall season has been cancelled and its concert hall closed indefinitely, so New York's Philharmonic is taking it to the streets.
General Electric to cut 10,000 aviation jobs
AFP, Published on 05/05/2020
» NEW YORK: General Electric announced Monday it will cut an additional 10,000 jobs from its aviation sector as the coronavirus pandemic decimates the industry, forcing companies to cancel orders.
Chinese football agonises over wage cuts in face of coronavirus
AFP, Published on 07/04/2020
» SHANGHAI - Chinese Super League (CSL) players were under growing pressure Tuesday to take a pay cut in line with the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as coronavirus hits football hard.
Industry races to meet demand for ventilators
AFP, Published on 25/03/2020
» PARIS: Manufacturers are on a mission to produce desperately needed medical ventilators for the coronavirus pandemic, even if it means converting assembly lines now making auto parts.
'It's humiliating': China's virus controls raise hackles
AFP, Published on 07/03/2020
» BEIJING - An elderly man in virus-hit China pops out to use a public toilet without wearing a compulsory face mask. The next thing he knows, police are ordering him into a van to be taken into quarantine.