Housing in Hong Kong is the most expensive and least affordable in the world, according to the latest Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. With the housing prices on average 17 times annual income, 88 percent of young people aged 19 to 29 has lost the hope that they could afford having an apartment of […]
Japan’s national Diet (parliament) voted to overturn a 67-year-old law that prohibited dancing after midnight in bars and nightclubs. The vote was in response to requests from the public and recommendations from police and parliamentary committees about ways to make Japan more “visitor-friendly” in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The decades-old law, called the […]
At least 36 people were killed after a ferry carrying 173 passengers capsized in rough waters off Ormoc City, the Philippines, on Thursday, officials report. The boat, called the Kim Nirvana, was heading from the port of Ormoc to the island of Camotes when it overturned. Read more: sputniknews.com
An Indonsian Air Force Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential area in the town of Medan on Sumatra Island, killing all people on board. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – All 113 people aboard the Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport airplane that crashed into a hotel and residential area earlier on Tuesday are dead, Indonesian Air Force […]
On 27 June 2015, flammable starch-based powder exploded at Formosa Fun Coast, a recreational water park in New Taipei, Taiwan. By the following day the injury list from the explosion was at least 498 people, with 184 in intensive care. As of 29 June 2015, one fatality was attributed to the explosion. The dust explosion, […]
At least 24 people were killed and scores others were injured when an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in Al Sadeq Mosque in Kuwait today. On social media, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on the Shia mosque, the fourth such attack on Shia mosques in Gulf countries in recent months. Last month, the […]
As of today, as many as 84 people are reported dead since Wednesday after drinking toxic homemade alcohol sold in a slum in Malad in northern Mumbai. More than twenty others are reported admitted to hospital for alcohol poisoning. Police said five people have been arrested for the transport and sale of the alcohol with […]
More than 28,000 people gathered in Singapore’s Hong Lim Park to celebrate Pink Dot, an annual assembly in the city to promote inclusivity, diversity and LGBT rights. This is the biggest Pink Dot event ever since it started in 2009. Last year, Pink Dot drew a crowd of 26,000. This year’s theme, ‘Where Love Lives,’ […]
