HONG KONG — Football enthusiast Gina Benjamin is not just training for victory in the upcoming Gay Games in Hong Kong, but she’s also on a mission to help push for legal reform for same-sex marriage. After moving to Hong Kong from Britain in 2016, Benjamin, 33, met her true love in the semi-autonomous southern … Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway on Monday as it was set to begin commercial operations, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically reduce the travel time between two key cities. The project has been beset with delays and increasing costs, and … Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway on Monday as it was set to begin commercial operations, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically reduce the travel time between two key cities. The project has been beset with delays and increasing costs, and … Read more
High view of Seoul within the morning in autumn 2016. Natthapol Bussai | Second | Getty Photos China lifted a ban on group excursions to greater than 70 places, giving journey and airline shares in Asia a lift. China’s tradition and tourism ministry mentioned Thursday that group excursions will resume to over dozens of places … Read more
A employee welds within the workshop of a equipment and gear manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Financial Growth Zone, East China’s Shandong province, July 17, 2023. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Photographs Factories in Asia reported sluggish demand in July as new home and international orders slumped firstly of the third quarter, underscoring the … Read more
India’s southern state of Karnataka has a popularity for clear vitality, with almost half of its energy provide combine being in renewables. However as a warmth wave continues to scorch India and the remainder of Asia since April and vitality calls for spike, the authorities have been pressured to return to coal. Coal-fed energy crops … Read more
(BENGALURU, India) — A searing warmth wave in components of southern Asia in April this yr was made a minimum of 30 instances extra possible by local weather change, in accordance with a fast examine by worldwide scientists launched Wednesday. Scorching temperatures of as much as 45 levels Celsius (113 levels Fahrenheit) had been recorded … Read more
Asia stays within the grip of a blistering warmth wave, chiming with predictions from local weather scientists that 2023 could possibly be the world’s hottest 12 months but. In an ominous signal forward of the northern hemisphere summer time, an rising El Nino climate sample is pushing the mercury to unprecedented ranges in southern elements … Read more