Field’s Medal winner Shing‑Tung Yau says the region should set up its own body to coordinate action
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An award-winning mathematician has called for Asia to set up its own maths union after Hong Kong lost out to Glasgow to host a top international meeting in the field.
“My colleagues and I are deeply regretful about the voting result,” Yau said on Wednesday.
“The voting power within
The fast-growing movement gained political momentum on Tuesday when opposition leader Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were forcibly removed after a gathering with about 100
The latest update from Congo’s Ministry of Health shows that as of Monday, 2,473 cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak, and 999 people have died. At least 737 patients were currently in isolation and hospitals, it said.
The outbreak declared on May 1
The meeting on the sidelines of the Asean foreign ministers’ gathering marked the first formal talks between the top diplomats since Maria Theresa Lazaro assumed office in July last year.
Japanese cities are experiencing “cruelly hot days”, a new meteorological term devised this year to warn people of intense heat above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), with emergency officials describing the soaring temperatures on Wednesday as “a disaster”.
Heatstroke alerts were issued across almost the whole country and emergency officials said at least 14 people had died from heat-related causes in the past week.
Three central cities logged scorching temperatures on Tuesday above the new threshold, called kokushobi , which translates to “
Hongkongers will be able to upload orders specifying which life-sustaining treatments they do not wish to receive when terminally ill to the city’s electronic health record platform from next Friday, when the new law comes into effect.
The move marks a significant step in formalising end-of-life care arrangements, more than 20 months after the Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance was passed by lawmakers.
“This legislation is a milestone for Hong Kong’s end-of-life care,” Dr Doris
Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are due back in a US court on Wednesday for a hearing over the upcoming schedule in their drug trafficking case, including a possible June 2027 trial start date.
The hearing before US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, scheduled to start at noon local time in Manhattan federal court, could shed light on the next steps in one of the most high-profile and consequential criminal cases in recent US history.
US Special Forces captured Maduro and Flores
High Court Judge Herbert Au-yeung Ho-wing said on Wednesday that the proceedings had ceased after the plaintiffs informed the court two days ago that they would not continue the legal challenge.
The four plaintiffs – Alice Leung Shuk-ling, Leung Ka-yan, Philip Chiu Ping-chuen and Tsui-keung – lodged the application in April after the Coroner’s Court reached its verdict on the city’s deadliest maritime accident in recent decades, which claimed the lives of 39 people on October 1, 2
Coordinating Minister for National Security K Shanmugam was promoted to senior minister, joining the ranks of former leader Lee Hsien Loong. Shanmugam, a senior counsel, entered politics in 1988 and has helmed the home affairs ministry since 2015.
Shanmugam is the first senior minister
