Rival gangs clashed inside the prison before overpowering guards, seizing their weapons and opening fire
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Sri Lankan prison riot kills dozens, over 100 wounded
Armed police and commandos were not sent
Some of Japan’s most notable investments in India have been in the financial
Explosions rocked Damascus on Tuesday as France’s president met with his Syrian counterpart in a landmark visit, wounding at least 18 people, Syria’s Interior Ministry said.
“Nothing can smother the aspiration of Syrian women and men to live in a fully sovereign, safe, pluralistic, and united Syria,” Macron said in a post
Staff from 74 embassies attended the screening of the smash hit that has triggered debates about propaganda across Southeast Asia
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The movie was shot in the Teochew dialect spoken in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province and follows a man
According to Incheon International Airport Corp (IIAC), the airport crossed the 1 billion passenger mark just 25 years and three months after its opening in March 2001, outpacing all historic rival global hubs.
Germany’s Munich Airport required 33 years and 10 months to hit the same metric
Hong Kong’s stock market could face sell-off pressure amid a torrent of new share supply in coming days as the six-month lock-up period ends for hot artificial intelligence and semiconductor picks including Zhipu AI and MiniMax.
Meanwhile analysts warned of rising fears of a drain on liquidity as many of the same companies were eyeing large secondary share placements.
The market was facing dual selling pressure, said Stevan Tam, associate director at Fulbright Financial.
“These stocks have generally seen significant gains, and it is believed
China’s last surviving female Red Army veteran has marked her 105th birthday, as her extraordinary wartime story stirred admiration across mainland social media.
On June 27, Wang Quanying, from Sichuan province in southwestern China, sat in a wheelchair in military uniform, her chest adorned with medals, as relatives, volunteers and well-wishers gathered to celebrate the milestone.
Although Wang never learned to read or write, local media said she
China’s semiconductor equipment industry is heading into the first-half earnings season under intense scrutiny, as a broad stock rally turns one of the tech sector’s least visible niches into a crowded investor trade.
The rally has swept across makers of etching, thin-film deposition, cleaning and testing machines, among others, reflecting bets that China’s next round of chip spending will benefit a wider group of domestic suppliers.
China’s crude oil demand is expected to peak this year, according to executives from the country’s largest oil firm, a scenario set to further reshape the global energy market following the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
The world’s top oil importer would record slowing demand as reductions in the use of transport fuel outweighed gains in petrochemical demand, said Zhang Changbao, vice-president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong), at an event in Hong Kong on Monday. CNPC