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A convicted killer’s freedom now hangs by the thread of a hotel booking error. Erin Patterson, dubbed the “mushroom murderer,” is appealing her conviction.…
As Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in China for the second…
Jinjiang, a city in south-eastern China, has seen a factory…
TOKYO: In Tokyo’s Asakusa tourist district, caricaturist Masashi Higashitani is dusting off his Chinese as he prepares for an influx of travellers after Beijing ends inbound quarantine rules. “We used to say ‘ni hao’ all the time,” he said with a laugh as he whipped…
HONG KONG: Shanghai engineer Roy Wang has a pressing task now that the border between Hong Kong and China is being reopened – rekindling his long-distance relationship after a painful separation. “There were so many quarrels with my girlfriend. It was really miserable to handle,”…
In 2019, 155 million Chinese travelled abroad, spending US$254.6 billion, or close to the GDP of Vietnam, said Citi, whose researchers expect “meaningful recovery” in mass tourism to start in the second quarter of 2023. In Vietnam, almost a third of the 18 million foreign…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will restart negotiations on trade pacts with India, China, and Thailand after a four-year hiatus, an official said on Thursday (Jan 5), as the crisis-hit country races to seal deals to help it rebuild its economy. The island of 22 million is…
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has purged a former foreign minister who played an instrumental role in his summits with former US President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019, South Korean lawmakers said on Thursday (Jan 5), citing intelligence officials. Ri Yong-ho has…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s controversial littoral combat ships (LCS) procurement project will continue, with the first vessels scheduled to set sail as soon as July 2024, said Defence Minister Mohamad Hasan on Thursday (Jan 5). “We are not interested in suing anybody or putting someone behind…
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