Deadly wildfires sweep South Korea’s southeast
More than 100 helicopters and 9,000 personnel have been deployed to battle the fires in Sancheong and elsewhere in southern South Korea.
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China tests a hypersonic afterburner, doubling thrust at Mach 6
Researchers have developed an innovative secondary combustion technique to help China win the global hypersonic race.
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Chinese woman dies in hospital plunge after tooth extraction blunder causes ‘immense’ pain
Doctors remove wrong tooth then stuff rogue denture back in place using wire, leading ‘healthy’ woman’s face to swell up.
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Hong Kong urged to offer rich tenants priority ‘carrot’ to buy subsidised flats
Call made after authorities announce plan to raise rent and evict well-off tenants from public rental flats.
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Thailand’s trillion-baht plan to bypass the Malacca Strait moves ahead
Thailand aims to complete a 100km project bisecting the country’s southern peninsula with a new highway and rail line by 2030.
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Pope Francis back home after 5-week hospital stay for life-threatening double pneumonia
The pope, 88, travelled in his white Fiat wearing nasal tubes to give him supplemental oxygen as he entered Vatican City on Sunday.
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UK cuts welfare and civil service spending, boosts defence
Finance minister Rachel Reeves sought investor trust by pledging to balance day-to-day spending with tax revenue by the end of the decade.
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Investigation launched into hacking of student’s records at elite Hong Kong school
Unauthorised individual accessed and modified a Queen’s College student’s violation records under different teachers’ names.
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Thousands gather for ComplexCon Hong Kong’s final day, as fans await headliner NJZ
Anticipation building ahead of performance at AsiaWorld-Expo by group formerly known as NewJeans amid legal complications surrounding band.
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Water leak during eye surgery at Hong Kong teaching hospital prompts probe
Doctors and medical staff had to prevent patient from getting wet during at the CUHK Medical Centre in Sha Tin.
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On Lee Kuan Yew’s 10th death anniversary, PM Wong says Singapore story ‘still being written’
Lawrence Wong called on Singaporeans to ‘forge a brighter future worthy of the foundation’ laid by the late leader.
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Young Chinese man embarks on 3,300-km trek to Lhasa, emerges looking like 50-year-old
Hiker endures blizzards, wild wolves, accidents which left him hobbling in epic journey over mountain ranges during which he hardly bathed.
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Beijing AI firm to establish global headquarters in Hong Kong, hold IPO in city
Hong Kong finance minister Paul Chan confirms Post report that AICT aims to hold initial public offering in city.
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As sun sets on Hong Kong’s Sunbeam Theatre, what’s left for Cantonese opera in the city?
The church group that purchased the theatre plans to convert the building into a community centre.
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Will Zambian mine disaster spill over to destroy relations with China?
A 50-million-litre acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia is now threatening to kill ties with Beijing, experts say.
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Hong Kong cafe where hundreds of stray cats found haven forced to close
Sick, skinny, lost – all types of felines have ended up at Siu Lam-lam’s Dundas Cafe in Mong Kok, but her days as neighbourhood carer are coming to an end.
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Venezuela to resume US deportation flights after 238 citizens sent to El Salvador prison
Caracas is seeking the return of its ‘kidnapped’ citizens, who were moved to a Salvadorean high-security facility by Trump’s administration.
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3 teens killed, 14 others injured in New Mexico mass shooting
Police are still looking for suspects in the deadly incident at a park in the desert city of Las Cruces.
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Don’t expect the US to scale back its Asia-Pacific military presence, analysts say
Trump may not have spelled out his South China Sea position but deployments are peaking and only likely to be maintained, according to observers.
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Russian negotiators hope for progress at Saudi peace talks
Moscow has rejected a joint US-Ukraine proposal of a 30-day ceasefire, instead suggesting just to halt aerial strikes on energy facilities.
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