CHANGSHA (XINHUA) – Golden pomelos hanging from branches, a row of potted succulents and a slumbering orange cat all feature in a winter scene in the new home of Yin Ping and Yin Ling, as it defies the chill to present a vibrant courtyard. This old house in Fangshiping village, central China’s Hunan Province, had […]
JAKARTA (BERNAMA) – Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) reported that at least 68 houses in Bogor and Sukabumi were damaged due to the 4.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Sukabumi District, West Java, yesterday. “The BNPB Operations Control Centre reported that the earthquake had affected 61 houses in Bogor District and seven in Sukabumi,” Head of […]
HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam confirmed yesterday the arrest of an energy policy think tank director, the sixth expert working on environmental issues to be taken into custody in the last two years. A rights group reported last month that Ngo Thi To Nhien, executive director of the Hanoi-based Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET), had […]
LISBON (AFP) – Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo said on Wednesday he wants to go “even further” after becoming the first player to score 850 career goals with Saudi club side Al-Nassr. “I want more,” the forward told a press conference before training with the national side at Oeiras, on the outskirts of Lisbon, ahead of […]
MILAN (AP) – The wife and daughter of a former European Union (EU) Parliament member at the centre of a bribery scandal rocking the EU have been freed from house arrest after Belgian prosecutors revoked their arrest warrants, their defence lawyer said on Monday. Antonio Panzeri’s wife, Maria Dolores Colleoni, and daughter, Silvia Panzeri, had […]