How should Hongkongers prepare for road trips in Japan? Experts weigh in after accidents
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How should Hongkongers prepare for road trips in Japan? Experts weigh in after accidents

Hong Kong travellers should be mindful of driving fatigue, unfamiliar road signs and their insurance coverage when going on road trips overseas, experts have warned after two traffic accidents involving city residents in Japan within a week. Ringo Lee Yiu-pui, honorary life president of the Hong Kong China Automobile Association, said on Wednesday that various factors could affect drivers’ concent...

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オスよりおいしい? 土用の丑の日前にメスのウナギ出荷が最盛期

今月26日は土用の丑の日です。ウナギは一般的な養殖方法では成長するとほとんどがオスになりますが、愛知県の養殖場ではエサを工夫することでオスより皮や身が柔らかいメスに成長させる技術を導入していて、このメスのウナギの出荷が最盛期を迎えています。

Head of Indonesia’s troubled free meals agency resigns, citing health and stress

Head of Indonesia’s troubled free meals agency resigns, citing health and stress

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The chief of the Indonesian agency overseeing President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme said on Wednesday she had resigned, citing health reasons, the second leadership change at the beleaguered government body in just over a month. The ‌resignation of Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, who took over the National Nutrition Agency in June, comes after budget cuts and a criminal investigation ...

Australia news live: Origin Energy investigating potential data breach that could affect millions

Australia news live: Origin Energy investigating potential data breach that could affect millions

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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says the state’s Labor party is under threat from One Nation and “we’ve got to fight for those votes”.Appearing on ABC Radio National this morning, Minns was asked if One Nation was a “racist party”. He said people who had concerns about the levels of immigration weren’t nec...

Alleged rape victim ‘could have done a lot better’ if she had made up claims against well-connected Melbourne man, court told

Alleged rape victim ‘could have done a lot better’ if she had made up claims against well-connected Melbourne man, court told

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Prosecutor tells court that ‘gaps or inconsistencies’ in the woman’s account ‘enhances her credibility’, but the defence maintains she is lyingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman who accused a well-connected Melbourne man of rape “could have done a much better job” if she was inventing the story for money, a Melbourne court has heard.The man, who cannot be named, fac...

Brittany Higgins accuses Pauline Hanson of victim-blaming for calling domestic violence a ‘two-way street’

Brittany Higgins accuses Pauline Hanson of victim-blaming for calling domestic violence a ‘two-way street’

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One Nation leader criticised by advocates after telling women being abused: ‘don’t put up with it’Pauline Hanson has described domestic violence as “wrong” but a “two-way street”, and that women being abused should not put up with it, drawing condemnation from advocates who have accused the One Nation leader of victim-blaming.On Wednesday, Hanson told radio station 4BC domestic violence in Austra...

Outcry in Algeria over doctor deaths after gruelling on-call shifts

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A resident neurosurgeon died of a heart attack after a 24-hour shift, and an anaesthesiologist died days later — deaths colleagues say reflect years of chronic overwork, understaffing and inadequate conditions in Algeria's public hospitals, demanding a revision of on-call rules dating back to 2013.

Iran’s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei

Iran’s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei

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Abbas Araghchi says he has kept on the move since being pulled from rubble after strike on first day of warIran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has described how he was pulled from the rubble of a leadership compound after the US-Israeli airstrike that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war, and has survived since by constantly moving around the capital,...

Lack of defibrillators could put 16m at risk of death by cardiac arrest in England and Wales

Lack of defibrillators could put 16m at risk of death by cardiac arrest in England and Wales

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Exclusive: Research shows millions live more than a 1km round trip from 24/7 accessible deviceMore than 16 million people in England and Wales risk dying from a cardiac arrest because they live farther than a 1km round trip from the nearest 24/7 defibrillator, according to exclusive research. Analysis of publicly available defibrillators by the Heart Restart campaign found that in England and Wal...

Rebel Wilson wins defamation case brought by co-star after bitter dispute

Rebel Wilson wins defamation case brought by co-star after bitter dispute

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Judge finds Wilson did not defame Charlotte MacInnes, lead actor in Pitch Perfect star’s directorial debut The DebFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter a blistering dispute that spanned continents and years, Hollywood A-lister Rebel Wilson has been found not to have defamed her co-star in a series of social media post...

As Iran war drags on, Trump sets sights on ‘Pickaxe Mountain’

As Iran war drags on, Trump sets sights on ‘Pickaxe Mountain’

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After US strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both US President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear programme had been destroyed. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social media. “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated – ...

Indonesia restarts South China Sea gas project Beijing opposed

Indonesia restarts South China Sea gas project Beijing opposed

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Indonesia’s long-stalled gas project in the North Natuna Sea is stirring back to life, with its new operator confirming that activities have resumed at a strategically sensitive field after years of commercial uncertainty and pressure from China. Prime Group, the Indonesian company that took over operatorship from Britain’s Harbour Energy, told This Week in Asia that “activities associated with th...