Powerful storm with gusts of up to 216km per hour made landfall near Satsumasendai city in southwestern Kyushu. Dozens of people have been injured and power was cut to a quarter of a million households after Typhoon Shanshan struck southwestern Japan. The typhoon, bringing gusts of up to 252 kilometres…
Two Hong Kong journalists will learn the outcome this week of their landmark sedition trial, whose verdict could set the tone for the future of journalism in the Chinese city. The two journalists, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, are former editors of the now-closed independent news outlet, Stand News. They…
Court sentences PetroSaudi executives to six and seven years in Malaysia investment fund fraud case. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has convicted two executives from an oil exploration company for embezzling more than $1.8bn from Malaysia’s state investment fund 1MDB. The verdict on Wednesday was the latest episode in the…
Authorities on Kyushu and Honshu islands order evacuations and carmaker Toyota suspends operations at 14 plants. Japan has issued an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches its southwest, prompting carmaker Toyota to shutter factories and airlines to cancel flights. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Wednesday estimated that Typhoon…
Sydney, Australia – Sam Hall, an Aboriginal woman from Ormiston in southeast Queensland, was 40 weeks pregnant when she felt her baby’s movements slow. She was already anxious about her son’s safety – earlier scans had found possible problems with her pregnancy, and her partner had genetic heart issues. But…
The White House aide’s visit comes amid China’s tensions with Japan and the Philippines over the South China Sea. The national security adviser of the United States, Jake Sullivan, has met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi as Beijing finds itself embroiled in security rows with key US allies. Japan scrambled…
The now opposition leader is accused of insulting the previous king during an election campaign rally earlier this month. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who currently leads the main opposition coalition, has been charged with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s previous king. Muhyiddin appeared in court in the…
Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was ‘uniquely exposed’. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued his latest climate SOS, calling on countries to “Save Our Seas” as he warned of a crisis of an “unimaginable scale” caused by greenhouse gases…
Seven people, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter, died when the ship went down in a sudden storm. Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of the superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, on possible charges including manslaughter, his lawyer…
Tokyo summoned ambassador and lodged protest after surveillance plane was detected on Monday morning. Japan has said the violation of its airspace by a Chinese military spy plane was “utterly unacceptable”, a day after the country scrambled jets and summoned a Chinese embassy official in Tokyo in protest. Speaking at…
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