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Lid lifted on Hong Kong bid-rigging rackets
South China Morning Post, Published on 24/12/2025
» Raphael Chan entered Hong Kong’s construction industry in the mid-1990s convinced that quality building work could improve people’s lives. But he quit more than two decades later, disillusioned by what he called rampant corruption in the industry.
Earth 'can no longer sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
AFP, Published on 08/11/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said Earth cannot sustain humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and without confronting this reality the climate fight will be lost.
'Finally back home': Rebel octogenarian nuns reclaim Austrian convent
AFP, Published on 21/09/2025
» ELSBETHEN (AUSTRIA) - Three rebel nuns in their 80s have taken back their Austrian convent after fleeing from their care home, with supporters flocking to the nunnery Saturday in a show of solidarity.
UK court gives govt green light to reach Chagos Islands deal
AFP, Published on 22/05/2025
» LONDON — A British court on Thursday paved the way for a government deal on returning the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, lifting a temporary ban which had forced an 11th-hour halt to an accord being signed.
Life of pain for toxic syrup survivors
Reuters Special Report by Stanley Widianto, Willy Kurniawan, Kate Lamb and Jennifer Rigby, Published on 23/12/2023
» JAKARTA - Devouring books from a young age, Sheena Almaera Maryam had been excited about her first day of kindergarten near Jakarta.
Sinead O'Connor, a troubled Irish icon
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» LONDON - Sinead O'Connor will forever be remembered as the Irish singer who made Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" her own, turning it into an anthem for the broken-hearted.
Victims wash ashore after deadly Italy shipwreck
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» CUTRO, Italy: Italy's coastguard on Monday searched the sea and beaches for bodies following a shipwreck off Calabria, as the death toll rose to 62 and charities cared for children who witnessed loved ones drowning.
UN biodiversity talks open, billed as 'last chance' for nature
AFP, Published on 07/12/2022
» MONTREAL: High-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.
Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.
Philippines to reopen 'soon' to vaccinated foreign tourists
Reuters, Published on 19/11/2021
» MANILA: The Philippines has approved a plan to allow entry soon to foreign tourists vaccinated against Covid-19, its tourism ministry said on Friday, following moves by other Southeast Asian countries to relax travel curbs.