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Suspected wartime bomb found at construction site at Hong Kong airport

A suspected wartime bomb has been found at a construction site at Hong Kong airport, prompting police to evacuate workers and dispatch explosive ordnance disposal officers to the scene. Police said on Saturday that officers were alerted at 11.58am by a construction worker that the suspected bomb, measuring 30cm by 7cm (11.8 inches by 2.8 inches), had been discovered at the third runway’s...
Pikachu protest at Cop30 takes on Japan’s fossil fuel empire

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South. The Stop Japan’s Dirty Energy Plans protest aligned with the first of two thematic days with a focus on energy during the annual climate conference known as Cop30, held...
Taiwan woman in Japan reports harassment to police who tell her ‘man has apologised’

A woman from Taiwan who was sexually harassed by a man on the street in Japan was shocked when police said they could not help her. The woman said online that on November 5 she had been slapped on her behind by a Japanese man on a street in the city of Kyoto on the evening of October 18. She was walking along when a group of Japanese young people walked towards her. One man from the group...
Alibaba slams FT report on alleged PLA ties as ‘completely false’, ‘malicious’

Alibaba Group Holding on Saturday denied a report by The Financial Times about the company’s alleged support for China’s military in operations against the United States. “The assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false,” an Alibaba representative said. “We question the motivation behind the anonymous leak, which the FT admits that they cannot verify.” The Alibaba representative...
Blast kills 9, rocks India’s Kashmir police station, days after Delhi explosion

At least nine people were killed and 29 injured when a pile of confiscated explosives blew up at a police station in the Indian portion of Kashmir late on Friday, police sources said, days after a car blast in New Delhi killed eight people. Most of the dead were policemen, including forensic officials who were examining the explosives, said the sources, who did not wish to be named. Some of the...
Beijing warns against travel to Japan as row over Taiwan comments intensifies

China has told its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, upping the ante in its row with Tokyo after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested her country could deploy its military forces in the event of a cross-strait conflict. In a notice late on Friday night, China’s foreign ministry said the safety of its citizens in Japan had “continued to deteriorate”, citing a series of targeted...
After Bucheon market crash, can South Korea curb risks of older drivers?

At Jeil Market in South Korea’s Bucheon, Gyeonggi province, few ever imagined that a truck would surge into the crowd, as one did on Thursday, killing two people and leaving 19 others injured. “The truck came barrelling in just as I stepped forward to help a customer checking radishes,” a vendor said. “If I had stayed where I was, I could have died. Later, I told her how grateful I was.” Police...
More financial courses needed among helpers in Hong Kong to avoid unethical loans

A year after arriving in Hong Kong in 2017, Filipino domestic helper Maria Nemy Lou Rocio took out a HK$25,000 (US$3,200) loan from a local bank to settle her family’s debts and provide for her three children at home. The 44-year-old had learned from other domestic workers about how to apply for the loan but said it took more than a year to repay it. With a monthly salary of less than HK$5,000,...
Are China’s stars leading fans to be more nationalist – or the other way round?

Grass-roots enthusiasm has played the main role in shaping China’s online nationalist narrative and has pushed celebrities to follow, according to a study published in the American peer-reviewed journal Science Advances last week. Contrary to the common perception that nationalism on Chinese social media space functions more top down and that Beijing uses social media to influence or control...
Why Singapore’s PAP is taking aim at opposition WP so soon after an election

It has been six months since the national polls concluded in Singapore, but the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) is not resting on its laurels. A popular line among party faithfuls is that the PAP begins preparing for the next election the day after winning one. But a recent series of salvoes against its main opponent, the Workers’ Party (WP) and leader Pritam Singh suggests a new intensity,...