US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last
Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learned The photograph shows devastation in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb:...
Category : Asia Pacific
Australian tourist in serious condition after falling into thermal sinkhole in New Zealand
The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central North Island An Australian woman has been seriously...
Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country There is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s...
China conducts military exercises off Taiwan after warning Pelosi to scrap visit
PLA carries out ‘live-fire exercises’ after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told not to visit the island democracy China said it was conducting military exercises...
‘Logic of brute force’ is rising in Indo-Pacific, says Japan amid China concerns
Japan’s foreign minister tells Washington audience world at ‘historical crossroads’ and that Russian invasion of Ukraine must not succeed Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, has...
As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act?
Parts of a 23-tonne piece of rocket will come crashing down – somewhere – in the next few days In the next few days, a...
New Zealand: 15-year-old boy receives life sentence for murder
The boy, 14 at the time of the offence, must spend at least 10 years in jail after stabbing 22-year-old Bram Willems to death A...
Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden not to ‘play with fire’ over Taiwan in two-hour call
US president reiterates opposition to undermining peace in Taiwan amid tension over potential Pelosi trip The Chinese president has warned Joe Biden against “playing with...
Pelosi’s Taiwan trip plan apparently confirmed by US lawmakers
US-China tension rising as Michael McCaul and Anna Eshoo say they were invited to travel with House speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited senior lawmakers to...
Monkey put down but hunt still on after attacks in Japanese city
Male identified as one of a group of monkeys that have wounded 49 people and counting in Yamaguchi Hunters on the trail of a group...
