10 years ago, Hong Kong became the second place in Asia to get Pokemon Go, sparking a citywide craze and trespassing warnings
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Fauci’s refusals put spotlight on ‘pleading the Fifth’ right in US
It was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”.
Today, that protection – famously known as “pleading the Fifth” – remains one of the most visible and politically charged safeguards in American law.
It has seeped into the culture, too. “Pleading the Fifth” has become an idiom in the United States, used jokingly in
Heatstroke fears rise as Japan quake victims face El Nino weather without power, water
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Japan toppled houses and split open streets in the small city of Yatsushiro, but town official Akio Matsushita is most worried about the invisible threats from the lack of water and power amid the punishing summer heat.
Many of the port city’s roughly 58,000 households were still without running water or power on Thursday, two days since the quake hit Kumamoto prefecture, killing at least 17 people.
Matsushita, who is helping lead relief efforts,
Cuba says nearly three-quarters of hotels have shut as travel plunges
Nearly three-quarters of Cuba’s hotels have been closed and the island’s tourism sector has been brought to “almost total paralysis” by US sanctions and fuel shortages, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said on Wednesday.
Detailing the scale of the tourism crisis for the first time, Marrero said seven international chains, responsible for about half of all hotel rooms, had left the island.
Tourism had been Cuba’s second-largest source of foreign currency earnings, employing more than 300,000
‘Quite disappointed’? Trump’s mixed signals ahead of Xi’s September trip
In mixed signals to Beijing, the US leader blasts Fauci-led pandemic response for ‘protecting China’ and warns Xi over arms for Iran
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US President Donald Trump said he would be “quite disappointed” if his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping broke a personal promise not to arm Iran, even as he revived his accusation that
Why did an Okinawan delegation visit a Beijing cemetery amid China-Japan tensions?
Members of a delegation from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa paid tribute to their ancestors at the historic Ryukyu Kingdom cemetery in Beijing, highlighting a legacy of ties that China is increasingly leveraging as a counterweight in its frictions with Tokyo.
During the visit in June – first made public by the Global Times on Sunday – about a dozen delegates travelled to the site southeast of Beijing, which honours six centuries of ties between China and the former island nation
Singapore court fines French teenager US$465 for viral straw-licking prank
The vendor has to replace all 500 straws after the 19-year-old takes one from a machine, licks it, then places it back into the dispenser
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US launches more strikes on Iran as conflict spreads across region
Pentagon retaliates against attempted attacks on American forces as fighting draws in Tehran-backed proxies
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The US carried out fresh strikes in Iran on Wednesday, the US military said, further intensifying a five-month-old war that was already expanding beyond its main fronts to embroil additional countries in the region.
“US forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8pm ET today,” US Central Command said in
‘So absurd!’: Chinese cosplayer draws crowds by selling lemonade ‘feet juice’
An anime convention in southern China recently evicted several cosplayers after they put their bare feet in water and sold the so-called “feet juice,” which attracted large crowds of onlookers eager to buy.
This activity mirrored a similar stunt at a US anime event in May, where a number of participants sold their feet juice for US$10-30 per cup, generating widespread controversy and heated discussions globally.
According to a
