The shallow quake struck at about 2:00 pm (0600 GMT), a few kilometers from Maragusan municipality in the mountainous gold-mining province of Davao de Oro on Mindanao island.Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more harm than deeper ones, but there were no immediate confirmed reports of major damage.An employee in the Maragusan disaster office told AFP that authorities were checking reports of a landslide on a national highway.”We have not received any reports of other damage or casualties, but we are checking the villages around the town,” he added, declining to give his name.”Things shook at the office but there was…
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Hong Kong model and socialite Abby Choi. Photo courtesy of Abby Choi Instagram A Hong Kong woman has been arrested in China in connection with the gruesome murder of model Abby Choi, becoming the 7th person detained in the case. The suspect was handed over to Hong Kong police at a border control point on Tuesday, a source familiar with the case told South China Morning Post.He said the woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender in relation to the 28-year-old socialite’s killing. She was the third person arrested for assisting an offender in a murder case that…
The 33-year-old girl was born into a middle-class family in Hanoi. She is beautiful, smart, and charismatic.As a young lady of marrying age, Linh had received several gentlemanly callers from good family backgrounds and high socio-economic status.Her first relationship was with the director of a multinational company who came from a family of multi-generational intellectuals.Although Linh was loved by her boyfriend’s family, she felt suffocated and exhausted making sure all her mannerisms matched her prospective in-laws’ standards.Things became different when Linh began dating her now-husband Duc Manh.Manh had the same starting point as Linh: the two lovers’ families came from…
By Reuters  March 7, 2023 | 10:19 am GMT+7 An H3 rocket carrying a land observation satellite lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the southwestern island of Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan March 7, 2023. Photo provided by Kyodo via Reuters Japan said it had destroyed a new medium-lift rocket it launched into space on Tuesday after the vehicle’s second-stage engine failed to ignite, in a blow to its efforts to expand access to space and remain competitive in a launch market roiled by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The H3 was carrying the ALOS-3, a disaster…
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By Reuters  March 7, 2023 | 08:26am GMT+7 A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 lands at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, February 13, 2015. Photo by Reuters A United Airlines passenger has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a flight on Sunday from Los Angeles to Boston and then trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck, US prosecutors said on Monday. Passengers tackled Francisco Severo Torres, 33, after the attempted stabbing and the flight crew helped restrain him prior to the plane landing at Boston Logan International Airport, prosecutors said. A judge…
By Reuters  March 7, 2023 | 08:24am GMT+7 People inspect the damage at a village that was hit by landslides in Natuna in Indonesia’s Riau Province on March 6, 2023. Photo by AFP At least 11 people have died in the Indonesian region of Natuna on Monday after a landslide buried houses amid heavy rainfall, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said. Abdul Muhari, a disaster official, told news channel Kompas TV 11 people had died and 50 are estimated to be missing. Junainah, a disaster official in Riau Islands province, said the number of fatalities may rise and that communications…
Hieu competed with seven other contestants at the final on Saturday night (local time) in Germany. He and a dance crew performed “Dare To Be Different,” a song with an uplifting melody. Hieu impressed the audience with his vocal performance and ao dai and conical hat.Overall, Hieu finished third with 71 points. The winner was the band Lord of the Lost, which sang “Blood and Glitter” to earn 189 points. The band will represent Germany in the continental event of the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in the United Kingdom in May.Famous German TV host Barbara Schoneberger, one…
The four main characters of the series (called F4) Bright Vachirawit, Win Metawin, Nani Hirunkit and Dew Jirawat kicked off the show with a performance of the soundtrack “Who Am I,” while the fans held up posters and continuously sang the names of their idols.Dew held a fan-made banner that had an animated version of himself throughout the show when he spotted it in the crowd, while Bright shared his thoughts.”When we were planning our Asia tour, we wanted to come to Vietnam and see what the fans here are like,” Bright said.F4 tried to say some Vietnamese sentences following…
But for those in their path, the work has not always brought greater security.In Indonesia’s Central Java province, ongoing work on the 690-hectare (1,700-acre) Bener Dam has destroyed farmer Gunawan’s small durian fruit plot, robbing him of his income.The 33-year-old said his land in Purworejo district was bulldozed to make way for the dam despite not being earmarked for demolition when the government published its plans for the project.The 2 trillion rupiah ($132 million) dam is set to be finished in 2024.”I’m sad and also … angry,” Gunawan – who like many Indonesians goes by one name – said in…