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China declares highest flash flood alert as Typhoon Noul hits land, forces thousands to relocate

The year's 12th tropical cyclone and China's third this month, Noul, which means the glow of sunrise or sunset in Korean, struck the coast of Huidong County at about 3:50 a.m.

Workers clear fallen debris and obstacles from the road after Typhoon Noul, in Hong Kong, China, July 26, 2026.
 An illustrative photo of the Iranian and Chinese flags.

China eyes Iran conflict while pushing military modernization - analysis

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Appeal court clears Jimmy Lai in fraud case but 20-year term remains

 A representation of the cryptocurrency is seen in front of Binance logo in this illustration taken, March 4, 2022.

Iran transferred $1.7b. to terror proxies through cryptocurrency service Binance last year - NYT


In Asia's 'zero COVID' countries, Jews optimistic despite new wave

In Hong Kong and China, COVID-19 is spreading with a vengeance that has made March 2022 look like March 2020.

Medical workers in protective suits work inside a makeshift nucleic acid testing laboratory set up at a convention centre following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, December 22, 2021.

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South Korea is turning to self-treatment, New Zealanders arrested at vaccine mandate protests.

 Passersby wearing protective face masks walk at a train station concourse, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2022.

Chinese shares fall as weakness in tech, healthcare stocks weigh

The fall occurred despite signals of more policy easing to shore up growth.

People walk at the Bund, in front of Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, Shanghai

Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

Stand News, set up in 2014 as a non-profit organization, was the most prominent remaining pro-democracy publication in Hong Kong.

Police stand guard outside the Stand News office building, after six people were arrested "for conspiracy to publish seditious publication" according to Hong Kong's Police National Security Department, in Hong Kong, China, December 29, 2021.

Hong Kong university dismantles, removes Tiananmen statue from campus

Known as the "Pillar of Shame," the statue was a key symbol of the wide-ranging freedoms promised to Hong Kong at its 1997 return to Chinese rule that are becoming increasingly curtailed.

 Activists hold candles beside the "Pillar of Shame", mourning those who died during the June 4 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, inside the campus of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China May 2, 2021.

From Hong Kong to Jerusalem: Wax on to Israel

Stephen Ho's unlikely story of aliyah begins with a long-forgotten wax museum, which once was in the Shalom Tower in Tel Aviv.

 Stephen Ho, 68, from Hong Kong to Kadima, 2011.

Olympians need to be educated about Uyghur genocide - opinion

What doesn’t seem to be considered at all is that the athletes themselves need to be treated as adult moral agents and held responsible for what they will do or not do.

Demonstrators from Hong Kong protest on October 1 in Taiwan on China’s National Day, calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Hong Kong douses fire that trapped 150 people on trade centre roof

A fire broke out in the building in the busy shopping and commercial district of Causeway Bay.

 Rescue workers evacuate people from the site after a fire broke out at the World Trade centre in Hong Kong, China.

How did a girl from Turkey end up studying in Israel?

In Israel, she said, “You learn to enjoy life in its basic charms."

 TAU International Liberal Arts student Rainbow Yeung

Biden offers temporary safe haven to Hong Kong residents

President Joe Biden on Thursday offered temporary "safe haven" to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing potentially thousands of people to extend their stay in the country.

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has been riding a new wave of populism that will become the central theme in the next decade’s election campaigns across the Western world: disparaging big tech corporations.