Five staff and the attacker’s grandparents were also killed before he apparently took his own life. Fourteen people are in hospital
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A girl died from critical wounds Saturday after a pupil opened fire at a secondary school and his home outside Bangkok the day before, bringing the death toll from the attack to nine people.
The 14-year-old opened fire at around 10am on Friday at Debsirin Nonthaburi
After 15 years of research, scientists discover definitive evidence of glueballs using the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II
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The finding was announced by a Chinese research team on Thursday at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Natal, Brazil. Held every two years
The concept envisions three astronauts working alongside intelligent machines. As the crew explores the moon’s surface, one astronaut would direct two robot dogs across the landscape, while another collects rock samples and carries out detailed scientific work.
A third
A Manila-bound flight returned to Hong Kong airport after its cargo door was suspected to have opened on Saturday.
Police said officers were alerted at 3.05pm to the incident involving flight CEB143.
The plane landed safely at Hong Kong International Airport and no one was injured, the force said.
According to the flightradar24 website, the Philippine
At least 12 flights connecting Hong Kong with mainland China, Taiwan and Japan have been cancelled as Typhoon Dolphin gradually moves away from Japan’s Okinawa prefecture and approaches eastern China.
Hongkongers in Okinawa whose travel plans were disrupted by Dolphin were able to partially resume their itineraries as supermarkets and aquariums reopened. But an accommodation and car rental operator said the typhoon had cost his business between 500,000 and 1 million yen.
According to the Hong Kong International Airport’s website, eight outbound flights were
Italy had rejected Spain’s ultimatum to lift checks imposed in response to the migration crisis. Now Spain has announced its own checks
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Following Italy’s rejection of its ultimatum to lift the border checks imposed in response to the Ceuta migration crisis, Spain has in turn announced that it will carry out checks on travellers from Italy.
From midnight on Saturday, travellers from Italy would initially be subject to random checks at
A coalition of Hong Kong employers has called on the government to freeze the pay of foreign domestic workers this year, warning that any wage increases may result in mass sackings.
They also proposed a new pay-for-performance mechanism to allow employers to reward high-performing helpers more than poor performers.
Two employers’ groups – the International Domestic Service Industry Development Federation, and
Global pharmaceutical giants are doubling down on investing in China’s fast-growing biotech companies given the sector’s huge room for valuation growth, according to speakers at the Global Health Summit, which concluded in Hong Kong on Saturday.
“They are moving towards investing in companies with strong innovation capability, as well as deeper integration with
Overwhelmed by a high volume of inquiries, a 17-member Hong Kong charity offering pro bono help to migrant workers has turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its operations.
David Bishop, co-founder and director of local non-governmental organisation Migrasia, described the systemic abuse in global labour migration as a “climate change-level issue”, as ageing populations across major economies worsen labour shortages.
Likening the organisation’s AI chatbot, PoBot, to a centralised call centre for migrant workers,