In Flores’ westernmost town of Labuan Bajo, the gateway to Komodo National Park and one of Indonesia’s most popular tourist destinations, many survivors have been sleeping outdoors, fearful that if the tremors continue they might be crushed in their sleep. “The shaking was very scary. My house almost collapsed,” said one farmer named Anastasia Imad,…
India therefore faces a delicate balancing act. It wants to make UPI financially sustainable without disturbing the conditions that helped make it ubiquitous. It is not an impossible task. Brazil’s Pix, another hugely successful instant-payment system, is free for individuals but permits low-cost charges for businesses. Yet it is the world’s fastest-growing real-time payment system,,…
Police in Singapore are investigating the assault of an elderly man after he patted a young girl on the head at a food court. A man believed to be the father of the young girl, who appeared agitated after the gesture, allegedly threw the 73-year-old to the ground. Security camera footage of the incident on…
Torrential rains have pummelled South Korea’s Gyeongsang province, triggering a landslide that killed one person and wounded two others. The landslide buried the first floor of an apartment building in the south-eastern city of Geoje on Monday morning. Rescuers pulled out three people, one of whom was later declared dead, local media report. This comes…
Donald Trump has said the US will “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally…
Australia’s most populous state will launch a gun buyback scheme later this year, becoming the first to offer cash in exchange for firearms in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack. Gun owners in New South Wales (NSW) will be offered up to AUS$1,000 (£523) to hand over eligible handguns, shotguns and rifles from…
Rescue teams in Indonesia have been searching for survivors of Saturday’s major earthquake which left at least 47 people dead. The magnitude 7.7 quake struck the island of Flores shortly before 05:00 (22:00 GMT on Friday) and had a depth of 15km, Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency stated. Preliminary reports indicate hundreds of buildings have…
A French family was left stranded at sea for more than 16 hours overnight after their rented jet ski capsized off the coast of Thailand. A 50-year-old father and his young sons were left “pale” and “exhausted after swallowing a lot of seawater” before being rescued, local government official Amorn Chomchoey told AFP. All three…
A 50-year-old father and his two sons have been rescued after they were found adrift off the Thai island of Koh Samui, a local official told AFP on Saturday. They had spent more than 16 hours floating at sea after their jet ski capsized, local government official Amorn Chomchoey said. “We found the exhausted after…
A review , externalby aviation-medicine specialist David Newman for Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau reached a similar conclusion. Cannabis affects behaviour, cognition and psychomotor performance in a dose-dependent way, and complex tasks such as flying are particularly sensitive. The review also found evidence of residual effects lasting up to 24 hours. The science has become more…