月: 2024年12月
Experts hope flight recorders will provide answers to key questions surrounding crash in which 179 diedAs investigators set to work unpicking the cause of Sunday’s devastating plane crash in South Korea, the black boxes carried on the aircraft will be …
President seeks to allay fears that world’s second-largest economy will falter in 2025 because of high US tariffsChina’s economy is on course to expand by 5% in 2025, according to its president, Xi Jinping, meeting official growth targets and rebutting…
Nuns mark opening of Druk Amitabha nunnery with performance, five years after Covid closureAbout a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwis…
The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 is believed to have suffered a birdstrike, but analysts doubt that as the single cause of the tragedyAviation experts have raised safety questions over the placement of large concrete barriers at the end of runways after a p…
Jeju Air flight burst into flames when it hit barrier at end of runway after crash-landing at Muan internationalSouth Korean authorities seeking answers to the country’s deadliest plane disaster are investigating the role of a hardened barrier at the e…
Gulf province councillor says growing numbers are leaving, in what climate activist describes as a ‘humanitarian crisis’Two years ago fisher Siri James lived on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, in a small village near Pariva beach. But as the ti…
The warrant was sought over Yoon’s controversial and short-lived decision to impose martial law early in DecemberA South Korean court has approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached and suspended from power over his decisi…
Aid package includes weapons and economic assistance to pay for critical government services; Ukraine foreign minister visits Syria. What we know on day 1,042The US has unveiled almost $6bn in military and budget aid for Ukraine, as the Biden administr…
‘This is a moral and scientific imperative,’ World Health Organization says in statement marking five years since Chinese authorities first alerted to ‘viral pneumonia’ in WuhanThe World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and ac…
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistanceThe 11-year religious dictatorship of General Zia…
Mizo Games wants players to have a chance to ‘experience war on the tabletop before it reaches us’As families in Taiwan prepare to gather for lunar new year celebrations in January, a game that will be released that month promises to offer some war-the…
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giz…
Even as experts remain puzzled by Jeju Air crash, they are sceptical a bird strike was sole cause of fatal disasterOne day after the fatal airline disaster in South Korea, the answer as to what went wrong with Jeju Air 2216 remains elusive.Even as expe…
Authorities announce investigation as shocked citizens enter second day of official mourningSouth Korea has launched an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operations, and a separate check of all Boeing 737-800s, after 179 peopl…
Families of the dead and missing struggle to come to terms with disaster that struck Jeju Air plane as it was coming in to land at Muan airport“A bird is stuck in the wing. We can’t land,” one passenger on board the ill-fated Jeju Air flight 7C2216 sen…