Story highlights A supplier says the powder it sold to the events company carried a warning that it is flammable A 20-year-old woman has died from her injuries, a hospital says; hundreds are injured The event organizer and engineer have been arrested and released on bail Taipei, Taiwan CNN — Forty-three hospitals are treating casualties, […]
Story highlights March organizers say they expect around 100,000 people to attend Rally comes two weeks after a controversial electoral reform bill was voted down Pro-democracy lawmakers hope a large turnout will pressure the government to reopen dialogue on political reform Hong Kong CNN — Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers are hoping heightened political tensions in […]
Seoul, South Korea CNN — A British man made it more than halfway up the exterior of the world’s fifth tallest building Monday before he was stopped and handed to police, according to South Korean authorities. The man, in his twenties, was forced to abandon his free climb of the 123-floor Lotte World Tower in […]
CNN — The Philippines’ most active volcano began spewing lava and sulfuric gas Sunday, prompting the evacuation of nearly 13,000 residents in the southeast of the country’s main island, authorities said. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recommended everyone within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius or “danger zone” of the Mount Mayon volcano be evacuated […]
CNN — At least 10 people are feared dead after a late-night bus crash in the Australian state of New South Wales on Sunday, local police say. Emergency crews responded just before midnight to reports about a bus rolling over at a roundabout near the town of Greta, which is located in the wine growing […]
Hong Kong CNN — A comedian in New York who joked about the safety of Malaysian planes in an apparent reference to the disappearance of flight MH370 has sparked a heated backlash in Malaysia and Singapore. Controversy over the joke by lawyer-turned comedian Jocelyn Chia at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar erupted soon after a short clip […]
Taipei, Taiwan CNN — Five years after #MeToo took the world by storm, Taiwan, a liberal democracy that has prided itself on gender equality, is facing its own reckoning over sexual harassment – brought about by a hit Netflix series. The series, “Wave Makers,” follows the fictitious lives of a team of campaign staffers in […]
CNN — One of two giant rubber ducks on display in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor was deflated on Saturday to protect it from sweltering temperatures. Organizers said they made the decision to deflate the duck just one day after the pair arrived in the harbor, after an inspection found that its surface had stretched in […]
CNN — Two airplanes have “highly likely collided” with each other at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japanese public broadcaster NHK is reporting, citing the country’s transport ministry. The two passenger aircraft involved belonged to EVA Air and Thai Airways and are thought to have come into contact with each other near a taxiway at […]
CNN — A sushi chain is suing a high school student for 67 million yen ($480,000) after social media footage showed him licking his finger then touching a plate of sushi as it passed him on the conveyor belt, Japan’s public broadcaster has reported. Akindo Sushiro Co., which runs the Sushiro restaurant chain, claims to […]
