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A reclusive billionaire, a ‘fearless’ dealer and a globe-spanning feud over priceless art Boy dies in Thailand after attack by grandfather’s monkey, pet released into forest
A six-year-old boy in Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat province died after he was attacked by his grandfather’s pet monkey, sparking concern in a country where…
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Hong Kong’s southbound travel scheme opens to 5 more Greater Bay Area cities
Hong Kong will expand a travel scheme that allows mainland Chinese motorists to enter the city for leisure, opening it to drivers from five more…
Hong Kong tycoon bets China will overtake US economy ‘in next decade or so’
Hong Kong property tycoon Gordon Wu Ying-sheung has predicted that China will overtake the US as the world’s largest economy in the next decade or…
Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Philippines, tsunami warning issued
Tsunami warnings were issued after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences…
Japan prepares to drop its pacifist mask as the right rises
Japan appears to be edging ever closer to a referendum on its pacifist constitution, after a realignment of parliamentary forces delivered the supermajority needed to…
Christian Eriksen ‘conscious’ after another on-field collapse in Denmark match
Christian Eriksen was conscious and undergoing further tests in hospital after collapsing on the field again while playing for Denmark’s national team on Sunday in…