According to ndtv.com, a 36-year-old Indian worker has died while clearing a tree in a forested site of a subway interchange project in Singapore. Workers were trying to loosen soil around the tree when it fell on an excavator. It took two hours to extricate the worker, known only as Gunasegaran, from the excavator which was crushed by the tree, The Straits Times reported today. Gunasegaran suffered spinal and nick injuries. Read article
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According to cctv.cn, China’s first luxury cruise ship is being detained in Jeju, South Korea, as the result of a legal dispute. Tourists and staff of the Henna have been stranded on board for more than 30 hours. The governments of China and South Korea are coordinating efforts for its early release. Accommodation on board […]
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theguardian.com reported that nearly a quarter of men in the Asia-Pacific region have admitted to committing rape at least once in their life, according to a new survey (pdf), with more than half of those respondents claiming they raped for the first time while in their teens. The study covering six countries – Bangladesh, China, […]
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According to ibtimes.com, ahe Australian government has confirmed the attack on a group of Australian trekkers in Papua New Guinea. Initial reports said the guides of the trekkers have been hacked to death. The trekkers were following the Black Cat track when a group of men armed with machetes and bush knives attacked them. Two […]
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According to thestar.com.my, what was supposed to be a holiday outing for a family of six from Dubai in UAE ended in tragedy when a six-month pregnant woman and her daughter were killed in a car crash. Hajar Ahmad Al Tanajy, 34, died at the Tapah Hospital and her 13-year-old daughter Mira Ali died on […]
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According to shanghaidaily.com, eleven tourists from China’s mainland were injured in Taiwan along with their driver when a tourist bus crashed into a roadside power transformer in the rain at about 11am today, China News Service reported. All 12 were slightly injured and transported to a hospital. Read article
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Thestandard.com.hk reports that thirty-three passengers were killed in Malaysia today when a bus carrying 49 people plunged 30 meters into a ravine near a mountaintop tourist resort popular with Chinese and Singaporean visitors. Local media reports said 16 have suffered injuries. Police said the vehicle had tumbled off a steep road near the Genting Highlands, […]
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According to thesundaily.my, a 21-year-old Chinese national was injured when shrapnel from a homemade explosive thrown from a car onto another car struck her as she walked along Love Lane here today. In the 2.30pm incident, an unidentified suspect threw the explosive at a Honda Civic that he was trailing in his Nissan Grand Livina […]
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According to ndtv.com, a 25-year-old Indian man has been critically injured when the vehicle he was travelling in was hit by a speeding BMW car in Singapore. Nagaraj Sathairaj, a resident of Tamil Nadu, was among nine people who sustained injuries when the BMW rammed into their pickup truck ferrying workers last Sunday, The Straits […]
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the death of an army conscript continues to send political shockwaves through Taiwan, with anonymous online organizers rallying more than 110,000 protesters to flood the streets of Taipei over the weekend. Many young people were among the protesters clad in white mourning garb who marched on the Presidential Office […]
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