An attacker with a knife hijacked a bus in a south-eastern Chinese city and drove into pedestrians, killing at least five people before being captured, police said. The police department in Longyan in Fujian province, south of Shanghai, said another 21 people were injured in the attack on Tuesday. The announcement gave no details of […]
BANGKOK (AFP) – A Thai prisoner died early Tuesday (Dec 25) after being electrocuted by high-voltage barbed wire as he attempted to escape, police said. Wiwat Aksorsom, 32, broke free from his cell just after midnight along with two other prisoners and tried to scale the 6m walls of his prison in southern Surat Thani […]
BEIJING (XINHUA, AFP) – At least five people were killed and 21 others were injured after a bus which had been hijacked in the southern Fujian province plowed into pedestrians on Tuesday (Dec 25), officials said. A hijacker carrying a knife had been detained and was being investigated by local police, state television CGTN reported. […]
LABUAN, INDONESIA (REUTERS) – Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday (Dec 25) used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a series of tsunamis that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are expected to be uncovered as the search expands. Thick ash clouds continued to […]
SINGAPORE – The stork delivered two Christmas babies – a boy and a girl – at the stroke of midnight this year, both at Mount Alvernia Hospital. Baby Charlie weighed in at a healthy 2.75kg and she is the first child of banker Choong Yong Thai, 31, and his 29-year-old optometrist wife Chua Si Qi. […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Former Nissan Motor Co Representative Director Greg Kelly was granted bail by the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday, the court said, raising the prospect he could be freed before the end of Christmas day. Kelly’s bail has been set at 70 million yen ($635,612), the court said in a statement. Kelly has […]
“Do you see them?” the radio crackled in the old Russian 4×4. The driver tried to steer away from pits and ravines that he could barely see in the dark. The lights of another car flashed in the distance. After a prolonged silence came the answer. “No.” The two drivers navigating around a national park […]
BEIJING (NYTIMES)- Yuan Mu, a Communist Party propaganda official who defended the Chinese military’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters around Tiananmen Square in 1989, died on Dec. 13 in Beijing. He was 90. The Chinese state news media were unusually muted about Yuan’s death, perhaps because of sensitivity before the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen […]
Throughout this week, we will be looking back at some of the BBC website’s most-read stories of the year and asking: what happened after the news moved on? Today, our Seoul correspondent Laura Bicker looks at what, if anything, changed after historic talks between Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in June. I’ve lost […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Residents along Indonesia’s Sunda Strait coast were warned on Monday to avoid beaches for at least two days for fear that volcanic activity could generate another powerful tsunami. Experts were still uncertain what caused a 10-foot-high tsunami on Saturday, which killed at least 373 people and injured more than 1,459 on the […]