TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Eight people died and three others were injured when a toxic chemical leaked Saturday at a plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang, authorities said. The leak happened as workers were unloading a shipment of methyl formate from a vehicle at a chemical handling facility. An investigation is underway, according to […]
A five-story building which was being demolished has collapsed onto a main road and hit a bus in the South Korean city of Gwangju, killing nine people and seriously injuring eight others, local authorities have said. Dramatic CCTV footage from the southwestern city showed the moment the block toppled onto the bus, which had pulled […]
A Myanmar Air Force plane crashed near the city of Mandalay killing at least 12 people, media reported, citing the city’s fire department. It is still unknown what caused the incident. Four other people who were on board were injured in the incident, according to reports. Meanwhile, local media reported that senior military officers could […]
Hundreds of people gathered in Hong Kong near the site of a banned candlelight vigil on Friday, lighting up their phone flashlights as thousands of police turned out to guard the area and prevent anyone from getting through. Without talking to each other, the bystanders lit up their phones at around 8.00 p.m. outside the […]
BANGKOK, June 1 (TNA) – A Thai aged 32 years was arrested for allegedly smuggling four kilograms of crystal meth aka “ice” into South Korea, according to the Yonhap News Agency. The Thai national was indicted after trying to smuggle the narcotic worth about 376 million baht via a flight on May 6. The drug […]
Vietnam has detected a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to Vietnam’s Minister of Health, Nguyen Thanh Long. According to the minister, this variation is a hybrid between the Indian and British variants, which is spreading rapidly through the air, as reported by the online newspaper ‘VnExpress’ and picked up by Reuters. REUTERS reporting […]
Manila has barred Filipino workers from going to Saudi Arabia for employment after the Middle Eastern country allegedly asked migrant workers to bear the cost of COVID-19 health and safety protocols, officials said. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III wrote to Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) administrator Bernard Olalia instructing him to impose the labor freeze […]
TOKYO (Sputnik) – A pair of premium Yubari melons fetched 2.7 million yen ($24,800) at this year’s first watermelon auction in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, 22.5 times higher than the winning bid for the last year’s premium fruit, media reported on Monday. According to the Kyodo news agency, this year’s bid was won by […]
