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Asia Pacific

16 July 2024

  • A screen grab of an image on the official GoFundMe page for David Fisk & Lucita Cortez. A suspected murder at a luxury resort in the Philippines have been identified as Australian couple David James Fisk and Lucita Barquin Cortez.

    Suspect in killings of two Australians and companion in Philippines hotel surrenders to police

  • man wearing black puts hands together and smiles

    Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme

  • Police cars outside the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Bangkok, Thailand

    Six people found dead in Bangkok luxury hotel in suspected poisoning

  • Rangers Jim Fyfe and Tūmai Cassidy walk alongside what is believed to be a rare spade-toothed whale, on 5 July 2024, after its was found washed ashore on a beach near Otago, New Zealand.

    World’s rarest whale may have washed up on New Zealand beach

15 July 2024

  • People look at North Korea from the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju

    North Korea diplomat flees to South in highest ranking envoy defection since 2016

  • File photo of Nuku'alofa in Tonga.

    Parts of Tonga without internet after cables damaged and Starlink ordered to cease operations

  • Smoke billows from a large steel plant in China

    China’s emissions of two potent greenhouse gases rise 78% in decade

  • Iuniarra Sipaia at Tuanaimato gym in Apia where the weightlifting team bound for Paris are camping

    ‘Our whole country is behind them’: Samoa’s weightlifters chasing Olympic glory

  • From the agencies
    Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings – in pictures

  • China’s economy growing slower than expected as leaders meet for third plenum

12 July 2024

  • A person shops for cooking oil in Beijing.

    App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled

    App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandal
  • Aerial view of a container port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province in June 2024

    China posts record trade surplus as foreign importers rush to beat tariffs

    The $99bn figure comes as data shows exports growing at fastest rate in 15 months while imports fell
  • Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2024.

    Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

    Vessels have been rammed, punctured with knives, damaged by water cannon and targeted by military-grade lasers. Now the Philippines’ US ambassador has warned the aggression must be reduced to avoid conflict

11 July 2024

  • Lucita Barquin Cortez and David Fisk.

    Family wants answers after ‘horrific’ deaths of Australian couple and relative in Philippine hotel

  • A Chinese warship navigates on waters near Pengjia Islet in northern Taiwan, in this handout image released May 23, 2024. Taiwan Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

    Chinese warships spotted off Alaska coast, US Coast Guard says

  • Leaders attend a working session during the Nato Summit in Washington.

    China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato

  • Cooking oil products at a supermarket in Beijing

    Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil

10 July 2024

  • ONE TIME USE ONLY. Illustration for the Pacific Project. Western countries security deals with Pacific Nations. Final

    Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty

    Pacific country must ‘maintain independence’ in security partnerships, military commander warns, amid spread of deals struck with other countries
  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

    Lee Sun-kyun appears posthumously in one of his best performances as an actor struggling to control his night-time excursions in this elegant and intimate horror
  • A crate of snakes

    Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers

    Traveller stopped by customs as he sought to slip out of Hong Kong into the border city of Shenzhen
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