Myanmar | Search ends for victims of jade mining landslide

Police in northern Myanmar said yesterday they have ended efforts to find bodies in a jade mining landslide that killed more than 100 people and highlighted the perilous conditions created

Afghanistan | Doctors Without Borders hospital said to be misidentified before being bombed

The crew of a U.S. warplane that attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last month, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, misidentified the target, believing it to

Indonesia | Authorities increase security after Islamist video calls for terror attack

Authorities increased security across Indonesia after a video appearing on social media threatened attacks against police and other targets, police and officials said yesterday. Security was raised at airports, the presidential

India | Soldiers kill 3 rebels who attack army camp in Kashmir

Three heavily armed rebels stormed an army camp in the Indian portion of Kashmir yesterday and were killed in a fierce gunbattle with soldiers, the army said. A civilian worker with

Briefs | Pakistan – Prison suspends execution of paraplegic inmate

A prison official says Pakistan has have suspended the execution of the only paraplegic inmate on death row. Ahmad Nadeem, the chief of the prison in eastern city of Faisalabad,

Russia | Putin sends air defense missiles to Syria to deter Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday ordered state-of-the art air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of a Russian warplane by

USA | Chicago police officer charged with murder; video released

A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing

This Day in History | 1972 – Police foil IRA hospital rescue attempt

MacStiofain - who has refused to eat or drink for nine days - was sentenced to six months imprisonment yesterday for being a member of the IRA. Four men, two of

Offbeat | Despite warnings about West, 007 finds his way into Iran ad

Even amid warnings about Western infiltration, the famed fictional British spy James Bond still found a way to get into Iran. An ad hawking Omega watches appeared in the daily newspaper

Golf | Scott’s 14-year title streak under threat as 2015 winds down

Adam Scott is without a tournament victory thus far in 2015, putting his 14-year record of winning at least one tournament a year in jeopardy going into this week’s Australian

Champions League roundup | Goals galore as Barcelona and Bayern advance

Lionel Messi is back and scoring netting a double in Barcelona’s 6-1 win over Roma that put the titleholders into the knockout round for a 12th consecutive season. Messi showed no

HK Observer | Shifting Sands

Isn’t it great to have a new force in politics here after so many years of stalemate; in this case the youth? For so long voters have been mainly divided

Thursday, November 26, 2015 – edition no. 2447

* Gov’t expects to spend more despite slumping income next year * Galway to make local debut * Singapore to trump HK in millionaire growth * Putin sends air-defense missiles to Syria   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | First Japanese rocket with commercial payload launched

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rocket took off at 3:50 p.m. from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launch pad on the island of Tanegashima, off Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. It

Portugal’s Socialists to take power, backed by radicals

Portugal’s president announced yesterday he is inviting Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa to form a government backed by the Communist Party and radical Left Bloc, despite doubts over those parties’

World Briefs

NEW ZEALAND A court hearing in New Zealand on whether to extradite Kim Dotcom and three others who helped run the website Megaupload to the United States ends after nine

2016 Policy Address | Sonia Chan asked to introduce measures to lift civil servant morale

A letter by the late Commission Against Corruption investigator’s wife was brought into the legislature’s debate yesterday afternoon by lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho, shining the spotlight on the alleged pressure

Widow’s letter denounces management, CCAC reiterates suicide thesis

“In the report, the only persons that were investigated were the ones in contact with my deceased husband during the week prior to his death. (…) Why weren’t other persons

Extended working hours and more staff for public healthcare

Alexis Tam also revealed some of the plans related to health, namely regarding the new Islands Hospital and the expansion of services in the current public hospital. According to the Secretary

Alexis Tam says moving schools from housing complexes is priority

The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, says that it is a priority to move schools from housing building podiums to specific “open space” locations built specifically for

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