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XINHUA – A tough man like Mao Xianglin rarely hesitates in the face of difficulty, let alone being deterred from his course of action. However, faced with carving a road out of the mountains where he and his fellow villagers had lived for generations, he found himself faltering. In the piercing winter of 1997, more […]

WEIFANG (AP) – More than 1,000 kites filled the skies of Weifang, an eastern Chinese coastal city that touts itself as the “kite capital of the world”, on Saturday. Locals say there is nothing that can’t sail the skies of Weifang. From dragons to pandas, modern cars to mythical characters from a canonical Chinese novel, […]

HANOI (AFP) – The head of Vietnam’s National Assembly has resigned, the ruling Communist Party said on Friday, one of the most senior leaders to fall in a sweeping anti-corruption purge. Vuong Dinh Hue asked to step down because of “violations and shortcomings”, the party said in a statement on its website. Thousands of people, […]

ANN/THE STAR – Aargh!! Anger isn’t a pleasant feeling. According to Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University Dr Heather Lench, anger shouldn’t be avoided, suppressed, or ignored. Instead, it can serve as a motivating force to conquer obstacles and attain challenging objectives. In an article published in the widely-read Scientific American, […]

TOKYO (AFP) – A normal if windy work day went south for one Japanese bureaucrat when documents containing residents’ personal information were blown away in a real-life slapstick mishap. The official in central Japan’s Aichi region was using a trolley to transport a cardboard box filled with documents from one building to another when, to […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States (US) President Joe Biden took aim on Wednesday at Donald Trump, joking that when his rival famously remarked about injecting bleach to tackle COVID it instead went in his much-discussed hair. “Remember when he was trying to deal with COVID… He suggested just inject a little bleach in your veins,” […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Shakira, the boundary-breaking Colombian performer, has been remarkably consistent since beginning her career in the early ’90s. Without fail, she toured, released albums, won awards, woven global, genre-defying sounds into her pioneering singles, performed at the Super Bowl halftime show and more. Then, things slowed. Or so it appeared. In reality, […]

LONDON (AP) – A teenage girl was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on Wednesday after stabbing a student and two teachers at a secondary school in Wales, police said. The three victims were expected to survive their wounds after being taken to a hospital following the attack at Amman Valley School in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, […]

BASEL (AFP) – The chairman of Swiss banking giant UBS voiced concern yesterday at proposed additional capital requirements aimed at ensuring banks have sufficient funds to withstand possible crises, insisting it was “the wrong remedy”. In the aftermath of last year’s shock-rescue of Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s government said this month it aims to tighten regulations, […]

EL PASO (AP) – A Texas, United States (US) grand jury indicted more than 140 migrants on misdemeanour rioting charges on Tuesday over an alleged mass attempt to breach the US-Mexico border, a day after a judge threw out the cases. No injuries were reported during the alleged breach on April 12 in El Paso, […]