South Korea’s love of football kicked into full gear in 2002, when the country co-hosted the World Cup with Japan. The team’s remarkable run to the semi-finals thrilled millions as they cheered in the streets and lifted the spirits of a nation still recovering from the Asian financial crisis. But in the years since, Japan…
In total, about 30 unique adverts appeared promoting child sexual abuse, although some of these were shared by multiple accounts. The alias account was also shown about 20 ads featuring adult pornography. The distribution of both child sexual abuse material and adult pornography are criminal offences in India, while Meta’s policy states that ads must…
Eight Buddhist monks were killed and more than 10 others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents’ pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police said. The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a road in Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident…
The pilot who crashed his small plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was suffering from from “chronic insomnia and anxiety” and did so for “personal reasons”, authorities said Thursday. The crash had killed the pilot, officially identified only by his surname Liu, and wounded 13 others. Liu, a 66-year-old Beijing resident, was a divorced…
An AI-generated anti-drug video from Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department is facing backlash for allegedly making substances look too appealing. The video was released by authorities on 26 June for International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The BBC’s Chinese service reporter Martin Yip explains how the controversy unfolded. Source link
Zhang Yadi, 23, also known as Tara, is supposed to be studying at a prestigious university in the UK. Instead she is believed to be in detention in China. In one of her last posts on the social media platform “X”, she wished the Dalai Lama a happy 90th birthday. She had also helped edit…
The BBC joined US, Japanese and Australian troops in remote North Queensland, where they trained together in some of Australia’s toughest terrain. But why were these exercises taking place in Australia – a country not at war, thousands of kilometres from today’s major conflicts? Our Australia correspondent Katy Watson explains. Source link
The rise of the NSE, meanwhile, mirrors the explosion of retail investing in India, as millions of mom-and-pop investors entered the stock market during the pandemic. Fuelled by cheap mobile data and rising smartphone use, the number of online trading accounts surged from about 30 million to more than 200 million. Its listing, long delayed…
Guo Wengui, who was once believed to be one of China’s richest businessmen, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail in the US for running a billion dollar scam. The former property tycoon had fled China to the US in 2017, where he reinvented himself as a Communist Party critic and built a loyal…
“Back then, a lot of people cut down their rubber trees or oil palms to grow durians. A lot of the trees [planted then] are now starting to bear fruit,” says Lu Yuee Thing, the owner of several durian farms near the Malaysian town of Raub. Over the last decade, Malaysia’s durian exports, to China…