Source: France24 Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other Thursday to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games. A dozen North Korean hockey players wearing white-and-red winter parkas crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea earlier Thursday, as about 30-40 conservative activists shouted anti-Pyongyang slogans at a nearby border area. The North Koreans… Read more »
France 24 Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbours to implement a pact signed last year. A statement by the Bangladesh foreign ministry did not say when the process would begin. But it said the return effort… Read more »
France 24 Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was jailed for three months Wednesday for obstructing clearance of a major encampment during mass pro-democracy protests in 2014, the second time he has been imprisoned over the rallies. Wong, 21, who had pleaded guilty to the contempt charge, was already on bail pending an appeal over a six-month sentence for another offence related to… Read more »
France 24 Rocks spat out by an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan on Tuesday and one skier was missing following an avalanche that occurred shortly after the volcano exploded and engulfed nearly a dozen skiers. Six of those trapped were members of Japan‘s Ground Self Defence Force (SDF) engaged in training manoeuvres, the… Read more »
France 24 The two Koreas on Wednesday agreed to form a united women’s hockey team and march together under a unified peninsula flag at next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, after the latest in a flurry of cross-border talks. Following a working-level meeting held at the truce village of Panmunjom, the two sides also announced that their athletes would… Read more »
BEIJING — A Chinese university has fired a well-known professor over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, a significant step for China’s fledgling #MeToo movement. Beihang University announced late Thursday that an investigation found Professor Chen Xiaowu “did sexually harass female students” and would lose his post as vice president of the university’s graduate school. His teaching certificate has also been… Read more »
Part of an oil tanker that has been ablaze for days off the coast of Shanghai exploded Wednesday, forcing rescue boats searching for 31 missing sailors to retreat, Chinese authorities said. The Panama-registered tanker, Sanchi, was carrying 136,000 tons — around 1 million barrels — of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-registered CF… Read more »
UKHIA, Bangladesh (AFP) – In a makeshift bamboo clinic, small children struggle to draw breath through surgical masks, victims of a forgotten but deadly disease that has torn through the teeming Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. Diphtheria had been all but eradicated in Bangladesh until last year, when more than 650,000 Rohingya poured across the border fleeing a bloody military… Read more »
I am really shocked about this one, this is something that I thought would never happen in my lifetime, I didn’t think that this would be something that North Korea would want to agree to. Maybe this is all just some good political imaging, and nothing has really changed between these countries, but this gives a really big sign of… Read more »
www.bbc.com China’s economy grew by 6.9% in 2017 according to official data – the first time in seven years the pace of growth has picked up. The figure beats Beijing’s official annual expansion target of about 6.5%. China is a key driver of the global economy and so the better-than-expected data is likely to cheer investors around the world. But… Read more »
