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Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:00:27 +0800
Why did Muslims attack Hindus in Bangladesh’s worst bout of communal violence in two decades?
Muslim-majority Bangladesh in October witnessed one of the worst bouts of communal violence in the last two decades, leaving six people – both Muslims and Hindus – dead and hundreds of homes and temples belonging to the minority Hindus destroyed....

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:51:33 +0800
Hong Kong police arrest 4 on suspicion of extorting money from restaurant owner, assaulting him after he refused to pay
Hong Kong police have arrested four men on suspicion of extorting money from a restaurant owner and assaulting him after he refused to pay.Three men, suspected to be members of a triad, approached the 44-year-old victim at about 11.30am on Monday and...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:18:06 +0800
Hong Kong construction worker gets 7 years in jail for attempting to snatch officer’s shotgun
A Hong Kong construction worker has been jailed for seven years for attempting to rob a police officer of his shotgun after the latter was knocked to the ground by a flying kick during an anti-government protest two years ago.Tse Shun-shing was only ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:00:16 +0800
Covid-19 Delta subvariant: amid rising concerns in Britain, what was India’s experience like?
While fears in Britain are mounting that its current virus surge could be caused by a mutation of the Delta variant of Covid-19, in India calm prevails.The country of 1.3 billion people has also grappled with mutations of the Delta variant – broadl...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:27:29 +0800
Taiwanese foreign minister and delegation to visit Czech Republic
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and a business delegation will visit Prague on October 23 to 27, the Czech Taiwanese Business Chamber said on Tuesday, in a fresh indication of warm relations between the European Union country and the self-ruled ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:12:07 +0800
Olympic cauldron lit in Beijing as protesters face court in Athens
The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, on the day that several activists were reportedly due in court in Greece after being arrested for disrupting the lighting ceremony to accuse China of human rights abuses.Beijing 2022 officials transp...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:05:26 +0800
Hong Kong police arrest suspected member of gang that duped 17 people out of HK$350,000 with low-interest loan scams
Hong Kong police have arrested a man suspected of being part of a fraud syndicate that duped 17 people out of HK$350,000 (US$45,000) in low-interest loan scams over the past 11 months.The jobless man, 37, was detained on Monday afternoon when he coll...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:00:23 +0800
Shimao’s unit taps a jittery capital market in a surprise plea for funds, sending nervous investors for the exit
Shimao Services Holdings, the management unit of one of China’s largest property developers, is tapping the capital market for funds, a plan that surprised investors who are already jittery over the financial state of China’s indebted developers,...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:11:29 +0800
Hong Kong minister says it could take 20 years before government meets its public housing target
It could take 20 years to substantially reduce the time Hongkongers have to wait for public housing, the minister responsible has said.By the end of June, about 153,600 Hong Kong families were waiting an average of 5.8 years to be allocated a flat, a...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:00:22 +0800
China space programme hit by coronavirus outbreak as rocket work stops
The coronavirus outbreak in northern China has hit the country’s space programme, halting development of a rocket to launch satellites into orbit, according to the state-backed company behind the project.Every member of the testing team for the Kua...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:28:48 +0800
Hong Kong man who stabbed MTR worker with syringe denies being mentally ill, but judge sends him back to psychiatric centre
A man who stabbed a Hong Kong railway worker in the neck with a syringe because he was angry at having his ticket inspected has been sent back to a psychiatric centre, despite denying being mentally ill.Pleading guilty on Wednesday to wounding and th...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:03:05 +0800
India’s love for gold reaches fast food as US$12 burgers cause a storm
In gold-obsessed India, edible gold leaf-plated burgers have become all the rage after a Mumbai restaurant launched the offerings in July.Louis Burger’s two creations triggered such an “overwhelming demand”, it plans to open new branches to sel...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:40:07 +0800
Italy’s Chinese feel penalised by ‘Green Pass’ Covid-19 vaccine rules
One of Italy’s largest Chinese communities says it is being unfairly penalised by the government’s mandatory Covid-19 health pass and has asked the authorities for a flexible interpretation of the rules.The so-called Green Pass, showing proof of ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:39:55 +0800
Hong Kong Observatory predicts colder weather ahead, but expert says you don’t need your winter wardrobe just yet
A cold front forming over central mainland China was expected to move south over the weekend, bringing in cooler temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time this autumn, the Hong Kong Observatory said on Wednesday...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:35:56 +0800
China’s September home price index falls, the first monthly drop in 6 years and sign of the coming winter for the real estate market
China’s monthly benchmark price index of new homes fell for the first time in more than six years, confirming the real estate slump that dragged the nation’s economy to its slowest quarterly growth pace since September 2020.The average cost of a ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:30:23 +0800
China is working on a way to extract oxygen from the moon’s surface
Chinese researchers are working on a way to extract oxygen from lunar soil that they hope will be used to sustain humans on the moon in the future.A team from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation carried out experiments to do this u...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:27:59 +0800
Canada’s canola farmers hope Meng Wanzhou release ‘lowers the temperatures’ with China amid trade spat
The resolution of US criminal charges against the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. is boosting optimism that China and Canada can resolve a trade spat over canola.Canada is the world’s largest grower of canola, an oilseed used in ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:16:07 +0800
Health authorities seize Vancouver care home for Chinese elders where 41 died in Covid-19 tragedy
Health authorities in Vancouver are seizing control of the assets and operations of a troubled care home catering mostly to Chinese elders, where 41 residents died in a catastrophic Covid-19 outbreak that began almost a year ago.The pandemic had expo...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:53:49 +0800
Beijing demands end to ‘risky’ US operations in South China Sea after sub accident
China’s defence ministry has demanded an end to US military operations in the South China Sea, saying they pose a threat to regional security and increase the risks of collisions and even nuclear leaks in the strategic waterway.Ministry spokesman T...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:51:24 +0800
Drones will try to rescue three dogs trapped by La Palma volcano
A drone operation received approval to launch a rescue attempt for three dogs stranded near a volcano that has been erupting since September on the Spanish island of La Palma.The dogs are stuck in an abandoned yard blanketed in volcanic ash within th...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:26:54 +0800
Senior US diplomat says ‘no preconditions’ for North Korea talks
US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman appealed to North Korea for negotiations “without preconditions” on Tuesday while condemning the country’s most recent missile test.“We have reached out directly to Pyongyang and stand ready to meet ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:22:47 +0800
US Capitol riot panel backs criminal contempt charges against Steve Bannon
Lawmakers investigating the deadly January 6 assault on the US Capitol voted unanimously Tuesday to pursue criminal contempt charges for a key ally of former president Donald Trump for refusing to testify.The seven Democratic and two Republican membe...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:09:31 +0800
Coronavirus: Singapore nears 4,000 daily cases; Australia relaxes internal movement restrictions
Singapore’s Health Ministry reported seven coronavirus-related deaths and nearly 4,000 positive test results on Tuesday, the highest number of cases in a single day. The ministry said the rising numbers were putting hospitals “under significant ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:30:19 +0800
Developer bets on Asian buyers to make a beeline for Andermatt resort property in the Swiss Alps as travel restrictions ease
A Swiss developer is launching a luxury residential project in the Alps exclusively for Asian investors ahead of the winter ski season, as travel restrictions ease around the world with increasing vaccination rates against the Covid-19 pandemic.Ander...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:00:25 +0800
Philippines denies gas deal involving Rodrigo Duterte ally Dennis Uy was corrupt
The Philippines’ energy ministry on Tuesday defended the sale of an oil and gas concession to a firm controlled by an ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, dismissing a corruption complaint that alleged preferential treatment as “malicious”.Udenna...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:00:23 +0800
‘This should not be rushed’: expansion of Hong Kong discrimination laws to cover mainland Chinese must be balanced, experts say
A proposed expansion of Hong Kong’s anti-discrimination laws to give mainland Chinese people protected status – recently revived after years of lobbying – must be narrow in scope, legal experts have warned, lest the changes chip away at freedom...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:41:42 +0800
North Korea’s new submarine-launched missile raises threat of nuclear strike from the sea
North Korea announced on Wednesday that it had tested a newly developed missile designed to be launched from a submarine, the first such weapons test in two years and one it says will bolster its military’s underwater operational capability – pot...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:30:16 +0800
MPF: Hong Kong’s pension regulator mulls allowing members to invest in sovereign bonds
Hong Kong’s pension regulator is considering changing rules to allow members of the Mandatory Provident Fund scheme to invest in sovereign bonds, according to a senior executive.Plans are afoot to include sovereign bonds issued by the Chinese gover...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:00:31 +0800
If the US and EU were divided on China, Aukus ‘betrayal’ just dug the trenches deeper
It was not a phone call from one of his American, Australian or British counterparts that informed the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell about a new Anglophonic defence alliance designed to tackle China.Rather, one of his colleagues sent him a news s...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:00:29 +0800
Amid Squid Game and K-pop, South Korea spots a challenge to its soft power: Konglish, a hybrid of Hangul and English
Cho Mi-hak, 66, wanted to know how her son’s job was going, so she stole a glimpse at his mobile phone and the text messages he had been exchanging with friends and colleagues.Her son needn’t have worried about his privacy, however, as she could ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:00:27 +0800
‘Stateless’ Chinese-North Korean defectors face hardship in South Korea
Abandoned, he feels, by three countries, Cho Guk-gyeong shows a visitor his South Korean alien registration card, which describes him as “stateless”. It is an apt description for what his life is like in South Korea, 15 years after he fled the No...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:48:11 +0800
Floating props and Velcro: Russian film crew says shooting in space a ‘huge challenge’
Their movie props floated around and they used Velcro to keep objects in place but Russia’s first film crew in space said they were delighted with the result and had “shot everything we planned”.Yulia Peresild, one of Russia’s most glamorous ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:00:20 +0800
Cyberport’s future is in the north as industry pivots towards Greater Bay Area, says CEO of Hong Kong tech hub
Hong Kong tech hub Cyberport sees its future in the North as the city’s tech industry pivots towards China’s Greater Bay Area from Southeast Asia, its chief executive said.In an interview with the South China Morning Post last week Peter Yan King...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:52:11 +0800
US lawmakers seek further actions to provide safe harbour to Hongkongers and Uygurs
Members of the US Congress urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to ease asylum requirements and take other steps to help those fleeing Hong Kong and other parts of China where Beijing is accused of rights abuses.The appeals came during a hearing of t...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:30:15 +0800
China’s Canton Fair wraps up, but exporters lament the lack of foreign buyers
Canton Fair participants said global inflation was the biggest risk for their businesses as they attended the biannual trade event in person for the first time in three exhibitions.The five-day fair – the largest of its kind in China – kicked off...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:26:20 +0800
Queen Elizabeth turns down ‘Oldie of the Year’ title
Queen Elizabeth is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch. But don’t call her an oldie.The 95-year-old queen has politely declined the honour of being named “Oldie of the Year” by a British magazine, saying she does not meet “...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:22:19 +0800
EU reiterates support for Lithuania in row with China over Taiwan
As European lawmakers demanded the EU foster closer ties with Taiwan, a leading Brussels official vowed to push back against China’s “attempts to intimidate” Lithuania and other member states over their relations with the self-ruled island.Beij...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:36:34 +0800
Lucky escape in Texas plane crash as all 21 on board survive
A plane crashed at take-off on Tuesday in Texas, with all 21 passengers and crew on board scrambling to safety before the aircraft burst into flames.Television images showed firefighters spraying water onto the burning remains of the plane, which cam...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:29:09 +0800
US must put new limits on Chinese drone maker DJI, says Federal Communications Commission member
A member of the US Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that the agency should impose restrictions on Chinese drone maker DJI Technology because it poses serious national security risks.Describing DJI, the world’s largest drone maker, ...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 03:38:54 +0800
Passengers held up phones but did not help as woman was raped on US subway
The rape of a woman aboard a Philadelphia subway witnessed by as many as 10 passengers, some of whom appeared to film the attack, could have been stopped quickly if one had called 911, police said on Tuesday.The woman was raped shortly after 9pm on O...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 02:56:09 +0800
Israeli diver finds 900-year-old crusader sword
Israel on Tuesday displayed a 900-year-old sword believed to have belonged to a crusader, found by a scuba diver off the Mediterranean coast.The Israel Antiquities Authority said diver Shlomi Katzin came across the iron sword, now encrusted in marine...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 02:09:23 +0800
FBI raids Washington, New York homes linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
FBI agents on Tuesday raided Washington and New York City homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire under US sanctions who once employed Paul Manafort, a chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential campaign.Two sources familiar with...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:13:08 +0800
Coronavirus: UK keeping ‘close eye’ on Delta subvariant amid rising cases
Britain on Tuesday said it was monitoring a subvariant of the Delta strain of the coronavirus that has been seen in a growing number of cases.Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said the government was keeping a “close eye” on the AY.4.2 v...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:08:27 +0800
Mainland Chinese police boat runs aground after entering Hong Kong waters during chase in anti-smuggling operation
A mainland Chinese police vessel ran aground after entering Hong Kong waters in pursuit of a speedboat during an anti-smuggling operation on Monday, the local force revealed on Tuesday evening.The speedboat also beached near Tai O with a suspected cr...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:34:31 +0800
Property developer with rights to prized wetlands in Northern Metropolis area calls for fair hearing by Hong Kong town planners
A Hong Kong developer behind a residential project planned at an ecologically sensitive wetland has insisted no one should influence the town planning authority in vetting its scheme, even though the site lies within a conservation area outlined in t...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:16:14 +0800
Covid-19 vaccines: facial paralysis patient in Hong Kong hits out after compensation claim rejected
A Hong Kong man who suffered facial paralysis after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine has complained that his application for compensation from a government indemnity fund was rejected after hospital staff failed to report his case to health authorities.T...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:24 +0800
US vows to help free hostages in Haiti after gang’s US$17 million ransom demand
The United States vowed to do all in its power to free US and Canadian missionaries taken hostage in Haiti, after kidnappers demanded US$1 million for each of the group of 17.A gang known as 400 Mawozo has been identified as behind the kidnapping of ...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:25:18 +0800
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council delivers best-ever performance, passes record number of bills after opposition exodus, senior lawmaker says
Hong Kong’s legislature has delivered its best-ever performance and passed a record number of bills since the opposition camp resigned en masse nearly a year ago, according to the chairman of its powerful House Committee.Starry Lee Wai-king on Tues...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:00:08 +0800
China test fires ‘world’s largest, most hi-tech solid-fuel rocket engine’
China says it fired up the world’s largest, most technically advanced solid-fuel rocket engine for the first time at a ground testing facility in the country’s northwest on Tuesday.The rocket’s 3.5-metre (11.5-foot) wide engine can generate 500...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 22:57:46 +0800
Hong Kong to host 7 trade fairs simultaneously, with hybrid platform aimed at taking advantage of peak sourcing season
Seven autumn trade fairs will be held simultaneously for the first time ever on a single hybrid platform offering both online and offline events later this month, as the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) seeks to tap into “peak sourcing s...



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