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Asia Pacific

3 October 2024

  • Flooding and 101mph winds as Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan – video

    Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second biggest city and home to 2.7 million people, hit by heavy flooding
  • Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus.

    Bird flu outbreak kills dozens of tigers in Vietnam zoos

    The H5N1 virus killed 47 tigers, three lions and a panther at the My Quynh safari park and the Vuon Xoai zoo, according to state media
  • Military guard posts of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, front, are seen in Paju, near the border with North Korea.

    North Korean defector crashes stolen bus in failed bid to return home

    Defectors seeking to cross back into North Korea from the South are rare, though many struggle to adapt to life in their democratic, capitalist neighbour

2 October 2024

  • Waves come over a wall onto a road where a car is driving

    Typhoon Krathon: two people killed and two missing in Taiwan

    More than 100 injured as schools, offices and financial markets shut for a second day
  • Tanuki: Pon’s Summer, showing an illustration or screenshot from the game of a large cartoonish animal in the grass in front of a building

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    Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking

    In this week’s newsletter: Konami, cute RPGs, weird but wonderful indie games – everything I saw at Japan’s biggest gaming convention

    • Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport

    • Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

    • New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister

1 October 2024

  • First response teams at the scene of the blaze

    Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand

  • Xi Jinping makes a toast marking the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

    Xi Jinping forecasts ‘rough seas’ on 75th anniversary of People’s Republic of China

  • Bereaved people react outside the Seoul western district court in Seoul where three police officers were given jail sentences but Yongsan city ward officials were acquitted over the Itaewon crowd crush

    Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster

  • Cambodian freelance journalist Mech Dara in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 21 February 2021. Mech Dara was arrested on 30 September 2024 while driving with his family to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, according to the independent Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association (CamboJA).

    Award-winning Cambodian journalist Mech Dara arrested, say rights groups

30 September 2024

  • Hong Kong’s court of final appeal in Central district

    British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court

    Phillips, who the court of final appeal said was stepping down for ‘personal reasons’, is fifth foreign judge to leave city’s judiciary this year
  • Crowds of people hold colourful umbrellas

    From the agencies
    Tenth anniversary of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement – in pictures

    Region to mark a decade since police tried to disperse pro-democracy protests by firing teargas at unarmed students

    • Is this a mountain? A multistorey car park? Or both? Inside Shanghai’s audacious £225m summit

    • New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka – video

    • Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports

29 September 2024

  • Participants in a crowd wave flags and punch the air as a man on stage lifts a framed certificate

    New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka

  • A sleek white bullet train passes in front of snow-capped Mount Fuji, against a deep blue sky

    Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country

27 September 2024

  • September brings record-breaking floods to cities in Africa, Europe and Asia – video

    Climate scientists have warned that many of these incidents are linked to human-induced climate change
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