The city’s weather observatory raised its storm signal to No. 10 with typhoon Wipha packing winds of 167 km per hr. More than 200 flights have been cancelled.
The incident comes days after an Air India flight to London, using the same type of Boeing aircraft, crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad moments after take-off, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.
This is the second group to be released this month. 47 pro-democracy campaigners were arrested, charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under Beijing-imposed national law.
Dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants in Singapore & Hong Kong are subvariants of JN.1, which is a sub-lineage of the BA.2.86 omicron variant first seen in Denmark in July, 2023.
A total of 47 activists were arrested & charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law; some jailed up to 10 yrs.
The statement signed by the US, UK and other European nations urged Hong Kong and China authorities to abide by international human rights commitments.
Chung Pui-kuen, Patrick Lam, could face a maximum jail term of 2 years, first sedition conviction against any journalist or editor since Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China in 1997.
A legal Hong Kong resident, Romi provided funds & facilitated safe houses for perpetrators of 2016 Nabha jailbreak, most of whom were later arrested and led Punjab Police to him.
Industry insiders say any rise in duties on Indian generics will squeeze profits for Indian companies, but will also make the drugs costlier for patients in US.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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