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Cold snap deepens as Hong Kong temperatures plunge to 2°C
South China Morning Post, Published on 09/01/2026
» Temperatures in many areas of Hong Kong dropped to single digits on Friday morning, with some reaching 2°C to 3°C, according to the city's weather forecaster.
He studied elephant behaviour to save lives
New York Times, Published on 04/11/2025
» Joshua Plotnik: For about 20 years, I have been studying Asian elephant cognition. The biggest issue for the conservation of Asian elephants is human-elephant conflict. Humans and elephants are fighting to share limited resources, and you’re starting to see conflict that is resulting in the loss of human and elephant life.
Las Vegas in Laos: the riverside city awash with crime
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» VAN PAK LEN, Laos - Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry as a centre for cybercrime.
Hong Kong man, 29, lured to Southeast Asian 'scam farm' returns home
South China Morning Post, Published on 28/01/2025
» A Hong Konger who was lured to Southeast Asia and held captive at a "scam farm" in Myanmar since October returned to the city on Monday, as the government revealed that a security official would remain in Bangkok to continue efforts to rescue 10 other residents stranded in similar fraud centres in the region.
'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» ABDULLAH GOTH — Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables.
Hong Kong rejects call from Japan to drop ban on seafood imports from 10 prefectures
South China Morning Post, Published on 18/08/2024
» Hong Kong has remained firm on the need for a ban on Japanese seafood after the country's fisheries minister urged the city to drop restrictions imposed over the discharge of treated waste water from the mothballed Fukushima nuclear power plant.
China and North Korea pledge stronger cooperation in rare talks as Beijing shores up ties with neighbours
South China Morning Post, Published on 18/12/2023
» China and North Korea pledged to deepen cooperation as senior officials met for rare talks last week amid broader efforts by Beijing to shore up relations with its neighbours to counter external risks.
North Korea's Kim in Russia for Putin talks
AFP, Published on 13/09/2023
» MOSCOW - North Korea's Kim Jong Un was in Russia Wednesday for a rare summit with President Vladimir Putin that could lead to a weapons deal that the United States has warned would violate international sanctions.
Medics in quake-hit Morocco battle against the clock
AFP, Published on 12/09/2023
» RABAT - Medics treated a constant flow of casualties after Morocco's strongest-ever earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, but hopes were fading Tuesday of finding more survivors under the rubble.
Rescuers race against time as Morocco quake death toll mounts
AFP, Published on 12/09/2023
» TALAT NYACOUB (MOROCCO) - Moroccan rescuers supported by foreign teams on Monday faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages after the country's strongest-ever earthquake.