Turkish ski resort fire kills 66, forces guests to jump from windows, alarm failure blamed
[South China Morning Post] - 01/21/2025
Wooden cladding on the exterior of the hotel may have accelerated the spread of the fire.
In Chinese newspapers
Trump strips Secret Service protection from ex-adviser Bolton, target of Iran murder plot
After leaving his White House job, Bolton had called his former boss ‘unfit to be president’ and said he would (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
China flight attendant quits job, becomes pig farmer, earns US$28,000 in 2 months
Fortune favours ex-airline employee whose earnings shoot up as she forsakes the skies to get down and dirty and run (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Elise Stefanik, Trump’s UN ambassador pick, vows to counter China’s ‘significant inroads’
New York congresswoman at Senate confirmation hearing outlines plans to vie with Beijing’s ‘whole-of-government (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Donald Trump says he’s open to Elon Musk buying TikTok ‘if he wanted to’
Billionaire given green light by US president, whose executive order extended company’s deadline to find a (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Hong Kong police summon fugitive Chung Kim-wah’s siblings for questioning
A leading pollster and the wife and son of Chung Kim-wah, who moved to the UK in 2022, were also asked to help with (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Asia’s lowest birth rate is rising for the first time in years
South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rates, but an uptick in pandemic-postponed marriages has sparked (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Hong Kong’s banks gird for leaner times ahead as 9-month profit growth slows
Net interest margin narrowed to 1.5 per cent last year from 1.67 per cent in 2023, according to HKMA data.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Cat from New Zealand flies there and back again after being left on a plane in Australia
Mittens, 8, was only supposed to take a one-way flight from Christchurch to Melbourne. She ended up being airborne (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Greenland PM says ‘we don’t want to be Americans’ as Trump takes office
Denmark’s foreign minister said that no country should be able to simply help themselves to another country.
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Tech titans join Trump for US$100 billion AI boost ‘to beat China’ in Day 2 pledge
OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle CEOs join the new president for White House launch of private sector joint venture Stargate.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Hong Kong minister demands report from Greater Bay Airlines over axed flights
Carrier earlier admitted to ‘negligence’ in scheduling process, having already cancelled 128 flights in next two months.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025