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According to JMC’s second forecast on Jan 26, the earliest flowering date for cherry blossoms will take place in Tokyo on Mar 21, with its full bloom on Mar 29. For other popular cities such as Kyoto and Osaka, the forecasted flowering dates are Mar 27 and Mar 28 respectively. Cherry blossoms in both cities are expected to be in full bloom on Apr 4. In Sapporo, capital of the Hokkaido region, fans can only expect to see cherry blossoms flower much later on Apr 29, with a forecasted full bloom date on May 2. “The flowering and full bloom…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The suicide bomber who killed 101 people inside a mosque at a police headquarters in Pakistan was wearing a police uniform and helmet when he staged the attack, a police chief said Thursday (Feb 2). “Those on duty didn’t check him because he was in a police uniform … It was a security lapse,” Moazzam Jah Ansari, the head of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province police force, told a news conference. Police have a “fair idea” about who the bomber was after matching his head found at the scene with CCTV images. “There’s an entire network behind him,” Ansari said,…

The discovery of a tiny lost radioactive capsule beside a remote highway in Western Australia raises many questions – not least how it escaped layers of radiation-proof packaging loaded onto a moving truck. It’s one of the many puzzling aspects of a case investigators will examine in the coming weeks as they try to piece together the timeline of the capsule’s movements from January 12, when it was packaged for transport, to February 1, when a recovery team found it by the side of the road. The capsule – just 8 millimeters by 6 millimeters – was used in a…

Northern Territory Independent MP Robyn Lambley says Alice Springs needs to reinstate bans “immediately.”“There’s two things that I have been calling for: the reinstatement of alcohol bans, particularly on the town camps of Alice Springs …, second thing is we need a curfew in place for children on the streets,” she told Sky News Australia. “We have to address these large groups of children that are still roaming around the streets of Alice Springs at night.” Source: Sky News

Hong Kong is giving away 500,000 airline tickets in an effort to woo tourists back to the region.The city has rolled back several COVID-19 travel restrictions in recent months including mandatory isolation on arrival.Now it is hoping to bounce back from the massive impact that the pandemic had on its tourism industry. And part of Hong Kong’s plan involves giving away 500,00 airline tickets worth more than €250 million.Back in October, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Board Dane Cheng told the BBC that the free tickets were initially bought to support airlines during the pandemic. On Wednesday (1 February),…

How easy is it for children to buy vaping products that should only be sold to adults? Put it this way, in one covert purchasing exercise a girl aged just ten and in school uniform was able to buy vapes from a shop. In another case, a secondary school headteacher was so infuriated by sales to his pupils that he went to the vaping store to demand they pack it in. The shop continued regardless. And why might children want to vape? The picture above of a disposable vape called Skitles and some sweets with almost the same name might…

European stocks and US futures rose on Thursday after the Federal Reserve kicked off a series of central bank policy meetings this week by delivering its smallest rate rise since March.The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 added 0.9 per cent and London’s FTSE gained 0.3 per cent ahead of policy announcements from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England later in the day. Both are expected to lift rates by half a percentage point to their highest levels since autumn 2008.Contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent and those tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 added…

In a press statement on Wednesday, Bersatu’s secretary-general Hamzah Zainudin said his party will continue to cooperate in the investigation so that the “slander” against them could be stopped immediately. Mr Hamzah, who is also Leader of the Opposition, said his party is disappointed that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) government was using the MACC as a political tool to “kill” Bersatu and PN’s credibility. Mr Muhyiddin added on Thursday that Bersatu will send a letter to MACC requesting for the bank accounts to be frozen as the funds are from “legitimate sources”.  On Thursday, Mr Anwar…

Authorities in Rockdale County, Georgia, are reviewing a now viral video after a student’s attack on a teacher left the longtime educator hospitalized.The video shows an altercation between a student and a teacher, who was identified as English Language Arts teacher Tiwana Turner in a GoFundMe, inside a classroom at Heritage High School on Jan. 26. An argument escalated into a physical attack when the student slammed the classroom door on Turner and then started punching her.The attack continued into the hallway, where the teacher of 27 years was pulled to the ground and punched repeatedly, resulting in her being…

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