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Hong Kong shelter saves 351 animals in 6 months as trapping, smuggling cases surge
South China Morning Post, Published on 07/01/2026
» HONG KONG — Illegal dog trapping and cat smuggling have become alarmingly common, with an animal rescue group reporting that it saved 351 animals in Hong Kong over the past six months - an average of two per day.
Hong Kong police arrest 6 linked to phone scam gang operating for months
South China Morning Post, Published on 18/03/2025
» Hong Kong police have smashed a fraud syndicate and arrested six suspects who allegedly cheated at least 12 victims out of about HK$520,000 (2.24 million baht) in a series of phone scams since last November.
Husband of Hong Kong star Coco Lee to apply for inquest into her death to dispel rumours against him
South China Morning Post, Published on 07/08/2023
» The husband of late Hong Kong pop celebrity Coco Lee plans to turn to the Coroner's Court to seek an inquest into the cause of her death in a bid to dispel rumours, the Post learned on Monday.
World Cup revenge on Ghanaian minds as Uruguay sweat
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» DOHA - Uruguay stalwarts Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez are fighting for their World Cup survival while Ghana will have revenge on their minds on Friday.
Chinese leader Xi says Hong Kong 'reborn of fire' as visit to city begins
AFP, Published on 30/06/2022
» Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong had been "reborn of fire" as he arrived Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of the city's handover, in his first visit since the business hub's democracy movement was crushed.
More than 100 reported dead in Philippines typhoon: officials
AFP, Published on 19/12/2021
» More than 100 people have been reported killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, official tallies showed Sunday, as efforts to deliver water and food to devastated islands ramped up.
Finding Nagaland: Tribes on India-Myanmar frontier dream of unity
AFP, Published on 28/04/2020
» LONGWA, Myanmar: The king of the Konyak tribe sleeps in Myanmar, but eats in India -- his house, village and people divided by a mountain border which serves as a vulnerable lifeline now severed by a coronavirus lockdown.
HK butterfly population explosion linked to hottest year ever
South China Morning Post, Published on 03/04/2020
» Hong Kong's butterfly population hit its highest level in at least 14 years in 2019, the warmest year on record in the city, causing a local green group to suggest the increase in numbers could have been linked to climate change.
Decades on, Soviet bombs still killing people in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 15/12/2019
» BAMIYAN (AFGHANISTAN) - Gholam Mahaiuddin sighs softly as he thinks of his 14-year-old son, who was killed in the spring by a bomb dropped last century in the hills of Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan.
In China's Himalayas, a wine 'flying above the clouds'
AFP, Published on 12/11/2018
» ADONG (CHINA) - A $300 bottle of wine sold in the United States and Europe is made in the unlikeliest of places: at the foot of the Himalayas in China, where farmers sing traditional songs while picking grapes.