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Singapore street performer Bryan Wong may have performed all around the world, but few gigs can compare to the one where Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong randomly turned up in the audience. The 29-year-old acrobatics artist was performing his Circles In Circus act at Rainforest Wild Asia when he spotted Lee and his wife, Ho Ching, watching from the crowd. In a video later posted to social media, Wong zoomed in to Lee’s face, joking: “Sir, I’m sorry, I’m going to zoom in to your face, thank you...

Esther Martin's daughters speak to the BBC after a man is convicted over the attack.

Esther Martin's daughters speak to the BBC after a man is convicted over the attack.

Hong Kong International Airport’s second terminal, set to fully open in May, is projected to serve 15 million travellers by the end of this year, with a mid-term goal of increasing capacity to 30 million. The target was revealed by Rock Chen Chung-nin, lawmaker and board member of the Airport Authority, who said on Friday that the 15 airlines scheduled to operate from the terminal would primarily be budget carriers and newer carriers flying short-haul routes. The carriers would include Hong Kong...

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ante los problemas para atrapar a un ladrón en serie que se les escapaba de las manos una y otra vez, la policía tailandesa ideó un plan creativo: infiltrarse con un traje tradicional de intérpretes de la danza del león para acercarse a su escurridiza presa. Un video difundido por […]

Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey is one step closer to launching its newest ride.

Hong Kong’s public hospitals recorded up to a 15 per cent year-on-year decline in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment during the first three days of the Lunar New Year holiday, following fee adjustments introduced at the start of the year. The decline was revealed on Friday by Dr Axel Siu Yuet-chung, chairman of the Hospital Authority’s coordinating committee. He noted that accident and emergency departments (A&E) in public hospitals often become overcrowded during long holidays,...

South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol apologised Friday for the "hardship" caused by his 2024 martial law decree, one day after he was sentenced to life in prison for insurrection.

Por DAVID BRANDT PHOENIX (AP) — Bruce Meyer defendió con firmeza la agencia libre y el arbitraje salarial en su primer día completo como jefe del sindicato de peloteros, y descartó cualquier posibilidad de llegar a un acuerdo sobre un tope salarial, en otra señal de una probable confrontación laboral el próximo invierno. Meyer, de […]

Chinese demand for overseas schooling, holidays and medical treatment has contributed to a persistent deficit in the country’s services trade, but signs of a tentative counter-current are emerging as a growing stream of foreign patients heads to China. The change – modest in scale but symbolically significant – comes as China, long the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, seeks to build strength in exporting high-value services. While patients in the United States or Europe may wait months to...

Dear Eric: My wife and I have been married for more than 40 years. She’s great. But a reoccurring point of friction and, really, anger on my part is over the dishwashing and laundry at our house. She’ll let them accumulate beyond what I can stand. So, long ago, I began just doing all of […]

Twelve police officers have been arrested in Malaysia for allegedly extorting about 200,000 ringgit (US$51,000) in cryptocurrency from a group of Chinese nationals during a midnight raid on a house in Selangor, the country’s wealthiest state. The arrests, announced on Thursday, came just days after Malaysia’s king had issued a blunt warning about corruption within the civil service and police ranks, cautioning that such practices were on his “radar”. Selangor police chief Shazeli Kahar said the...