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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.
First report on Jeju Air crash due Monday
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2025
» SEOUL - South Korea on Monday will release a preliminary report on last month’s Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the country’s soil, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
Astronaut, 'Earthrise' photographer, dies in plane crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/06/2024
» WASHINGTON - William Anders, the US astronaut whose "Earthrise" photograph from lunar orbit captured humanity's humble place in the cosmos, punctuating the 1960s' race to the moon with one of the most recognised images of the 20th century, has died. He was 90.
China aims for upgrades: domestic aircraft engines, larger planes
South China Morning Post, Published on 11/04/2024
» China expects to make progress on an advanced aeroplane engine, a bigger commercial jet, and an amphibious search-and-rescue aircraft under a government plan to upgrade production equipment across industries through 2027 and improve the economy.
Singapore PM says political succession to coincide with election
Bloomberg, Published on 06/11/2022
» Singapore’s planned political succession that would see Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong become the country’s next leader will coincide with general elections due by 2025, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Sunday.
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.
Sriwijaya air crash search suspended due to bad weather
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/01/2021
» The search for one of the black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday has been suspended due to bad weather, Indonesian officials said.
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.
'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.