Yearly Archives: 2024
Electric revolution
VIETNAM (AFP) - In Vietnam’s heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers...
Thailand says Myanmar has released detained fishermen
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said that Myanmar has released all four Thai fishermen who were detained after a maritime clash in which...
Fish to fashion
COSTA RICA (AFP) - On a beach in Costa Rica, as fishermen land the day’s catch, two women are hard at work on a...
Senior couple set record as world’s oldest newlyweds
UPI - A heartwarming love story unfolded in a senior living home in Philadelphia, United States, where a 100-year-old man and a 102-year-old woman...
Age not a barrier
AP - The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in...
Police in India clash with farmers during protest
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian police yesterday used tear gas against hundreds of farmers taking part in a march to New Delhi to demand...
South Korea democracy faces ‘most critical moment’
SEOUL (AFP) - Lawmakers camping out in Parliament, hundreds of thousands of protestors expected outside, a landmark vote to impeach the president over martial...
Trump picks ex-senator Perdue as US envoy to China
WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump named political ally and former Georgia senator David Perdue as his pick to be ambassador...
Woman who snuck on NY to Paris flight charged as ‘stowaway’
NEW YORK (AFP) - A woman accused of evading airport identity and ticket checks and sneaking onto a flight from New York to Paris...
Quake sparks brief tsunami warning in California
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of California sparked a brief tsunami warning, with residents warned to flee...