Hong Kong – Hong Kong hospitals were on alert Saturday after a 2-year-old boy was confirmed to have contracted bird flu. The boy from was admitted to hospital a week ago with convulsions after arriving from the southern Chinese city of Guangdong. Read more: The Nation
Lai Changxing, dubbed the Bandit King, has been given a life sentence for years of smuggling and corruption that added up to billions of US dollars or Pounds sterling. The Chinese court described the values as “massive”. Lai smuggled goods worth more than £2 billion into Xiamen, bypassing more than £1 billion in import duty. […]
HONG KONG, May 17 – Numbers of Thai women have been jailed in Hong Kong for drug smuggling as they were deceived by a Nigerian drug cartel using them as dealers. Deputy Consul-General Suree Trairatananukool of Royal Thai Consulate-General in Hong Kong said drug gangs lured Thai women to smuggle drugs by asking them to […]
Indonesian police said Tuesday they would not issue a permit for a Lady Gaga concert scheduled for June 3 in the capital. “We will not issue a permit for the Lady Gaga concert in Jakarta,” said national police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution. “The concert will have to be cancelled.” Read more: Bangkok Post
Australian man Don Ritchie, dubbed the “Angel of The Gap”, has died. He earned his nickname after spending decades talking people out of jumping from The Gap, a cliff famed as a suicide spot beside his house in Watsons Bay, Sydney. Credited with at least 160 rescues, though his family suggest the true figure is […]
Police in Nepal say a plane crash near an airport in the country’s north has killed 15 people. Authorities say six people on board, including two Danes and two children, survived Monday’s crash. The plane, belonging to local carrier Agni Air, went down while trying to land at an airport in Jomsom, a hub for […]
A plane built by Russia’s Sukhoi has crashed in Indonesia with around 50 people on board during a demonstration flight to potential customers. The Superjet 100 struck a cliff as it descended over mountains near Jakarta. The aircraft departed Halim Perdanakusuma Airport at around 2pm local time yesterday and was due to return 50 minutes […]
Authorities say a Russian jetliner with at least 44 people on board has gone missing near the Indonesian capital. Search and rescue officials say the Sukhoi Superjet 100 disappeared from radar south of Jakarta while on a demonstration flight Wednesday afternoon. Read more: VOANews.com
