News - South China Morning Post
June 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Hong Kong’s first five-year plan will map out ways to tackle the city’s shortcomings, improve residents’ lives and create better jobs, including through leveraging AI, the finance chief has said ahead of a public consultation on the blueprint. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that a key task for the plan would be upgrading and transforming the city’s economy, while also vowing to make the Northern Metropolis a “spatial carrier” for emerging and future industries. “Hong Kong’s...
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June 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A woman in eastern China has been reunited with her birth family 22 years after running away as a child, fearing punishment for breaking a bottle of shower gel. Liu Xiuhong, from a rural family in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, was nine years old when she moved with her migrant-worker parents to Jieyang, Guangdong province, where they lived in a cramped rented room, according to the mainland outlet Shicheng Media. While playing at a friend’s home in 2004, Liu accidentally smashed a glass bottle of...
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Tajikistan News
June 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 13 (ANI): Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel expressed happiness with the presence of uncapped pacers Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar in the training session, saying that on his first impression of these two bowlers, he felt as if they both were a part of the team for five years, pointing out that they showed no nervousness. In the absence of workhorses like Jasprit Bumra
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Kyrgyzstan News
June 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 13 (ANI): Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel expressed happiness with the presence of uncapped pacers Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar in the training session, saying that on his first impression of these two bowlers, he felt as if they both were a part of the team for five years, pointing out that they showed no nervousness. In the absence of workhorses like Jasprit Bumra
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Turkmenistan News
June 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 13 (ANI): Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel expressed happiness with the presence of uncapped pacers Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar in the training session, saying that on his first impression of these two bowlers, he felt as if they both were a part of the team for five years, pointing out that they showed no nervousness. In the absence of workhorses like Jasprit Bumra
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The Astana Times
June 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA — More than 200,000 people have participated in volunteer activities across Kazakhstan since the beginning of 2026, a year designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development at the initiative of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Photo credit: gov.kz The year-long campaign officially launched on Jan. 30 during a national volunteer forum attended by Tokayev and has since brought together volunteers through environmental, cultural and community projects across the country. One of the key events was the Volunteering and Environmental Action session held on April 23 in Astana as part of the Regional Environmental Summit. The event brought together approximately 200 participants from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Japan and Afghanistan, as well as United Nations Under-Secretary-General Haoliang Xu. Vo…
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News - South China Morning Post
June 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
A Hong Kong retiree has received 40 hours of community service for slapping a five-year-old boy who threw a tantrum and berated his domestic helper at a shopping centre earlier this year. Lok Kam-ming, 61, returned to Tuen Mun Court on Friday to be sentenced for what his lawyer described as an incident arising from the “unfortunate encounter” between him and a child whom he first met at Grand Yoho in Yuen Long on January 8. Lok, who pleaded guilty last month to assault occasioning actual bodily...
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BBC News
June 12, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Prosecutors argued that Yoon ordered the operation to provoke Pyongyang and create a pretext for martial law.
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June 12, 2026 at 7:31 AM
A South Korean court sentenced ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday for sending military drones into North Korea, saying he planned the action as pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. The drone flights two months before Yoon suspended civilian rule had sparked anger in North Korea, which accused the South of dropping propaganda leaflets as well. Judges said Yoon intended to provoke Pyongyang “into carrying out armed or equivalent acts against South...
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June 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Chinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest “whale-fall site” ever recorded in the Indian Ocean. The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique ecosystems they support, with some fossils dating back about 5.3 million years. Detailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday, the study was conducted by researchers from the CAS Institute of...
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BBC News
June 12, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the king's eldest daughter, collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs.
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BBC News
June 12, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Relatives urge Indian authorities for answers after receiving the misidentified, and in one case mixed, remains of their loved ones.
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BBC News
June 12, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Relatives urge Indian authorities for answers after receiving the misidentified, and in one case mixed, remains of their loved ones.
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News - South China Morning Post
June 10, 2026 at 7:18 PM
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday brushed off concerns about consumer inflation surging to a fresh three-year high in May, on the back of soaring energy prices caused by his war in Iran. “The numbers were great … I love the inflation,” Trump told reporters, a comment pounced on by Democrats who have made rising prices a cornerstone of their campaign to take control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.2 per cent year-on-year, up from the...
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June 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Four Indonesian soldiers found guilty of an acid attack that left an activist blind in one eye were sentenced on Wednesday to up to three years in prison by a military court, with a judge calling their actions “arrogant”. The four, all members of the military’s Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS), were found guilty of premeditated assault for the attack in March that left Andrie Yunus, 27, blind in one eye. They were arrested shortly after the attack, and BAIS head Yudi Abrimantyo stepped down...
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June 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
A dismissed high-ranking Filipino police officer convicted of orchestrating the 2016 killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo was arrested in the Philippine capital of Manila after nearly two years on the run, authorities said on Wednesday. President Lee Jae Myung welcomed the arrest, vowing to seek justice for criminals targeting South Koreans abroad and expressing gratitude to officials in both countries for their joint efforts. Rafael Dumlao, who was a top official of an anti-drug unit...
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News - South China Morning Post
June 10, 2026 at 10:53 AM
A teacher in Hong Kong has been spared a criminal conviction for slapping her 13-year-old son during a heated dispute last year after entering into a three-year good behaviour bond. The 35-year-old was bound over for HK$1,000 (US$128) at Kwun Tong Court on Wednesday for three years on a charge of assault by a person in charge of a child or young person. Court documents identified her only as MBC and did not disclose her nationality. She was accused of slapping her son at their Sai Kung home on...
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June 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Sydney’s new A$5.6 billion (US$4 billion) airport will open to passengers in October after more than a decade of planning, adding red-eye flight options from Australia’s largest city as the existing hub operates under night curfew restrictions. The current airport, located closer to Sydney’s central business district, can host take-offs and landings only until 11pm and after 6am due to tough noise regulations, limiting airline scheduling options relative to other major Australian cities like...
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BBC News
June 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Barbeques Galore will close dozens of stores across the country with the loss of about 500 jobs.
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News - South China Morning Post
June 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
The US expects to complete President Donald Trump’s long-promised southern border wall by late 2027, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott said Tuesday. The barrier along the US-Mexico border is made of reinforced metal beams and is intended to run from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico, except in selected areas “where we’ve made a conscious decision that we don’t need it”, Scott said at the Centre for Immigration Studies event in Washington. “The primary border wall will...
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