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Phuket hotels upbeat on prospects for festive season

The festive season in the final quarter is expected to bring hotel bookings in Phuket that match pre-Covid levels, but not every hospitality segment will reap benefits, according to the Phuket Hotels Association.

Bjorn Courage, president of the association, said the average occupancy rate is picking up for November and December as well as the first quarter next year, driven by individual travellers, group meetings and Mice (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions).

Receding waters reveal historical marvels during summer's droughts: See the most notable finds from around the world

Heat waves and drought are hitting communities across the world, threatening supplies of energy and food while causing rivers from Europe’s Danube to China’s Yangtze to dry up.

In the United States, these receding water levels have exposed human remains and dinosaur tracks. Elsewhere, they have revealed relics that include ancient Buddhist statues, lost villages and sunk Nazi warships.

It’s a phenomenon that experts say should ring alarm bells about climate change.

(Contributed) Falling video screen injures 2 dancers on stage at Hong Kong concert

HONG KONG — Two dancers have been injured after a huge video screen crashed onto the stage during a concert by popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror.

More than a dozen performers were on stage at the Hong Kong Coliseum late Thursday night when the screen appeared to come loose from one of the two metal cords from which it was suspended. It landed directly on one dancer before falling backward onto another, eliciting screams from a crowd of thousands.

Hong Kong's timeline since the 1997 British handover to China

Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1841, when it was occupied by British forces during the first Opium War. China’s Qing Dynasty signed it over to the British the following year in the Treaty of Nanjing, the first in a series of what China now calls the “unequal treaties.”

Under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984, Hong Kong was to return to Chinese sovereignty as a special administrative region governed by a principle known as “one country, two systems.” The f

Japan makes online insults punishable by 1 year in jail in wake of reality star's death

Japan has made online insults punishable by up to a year in prison in an effort to reduce cyberbullying after the death of a reality television star who had faced a wave of online abuse.

Previously, the maximum penalty for the crime of “insultation” was less than 30 days’ detention or a fine of less than 10,000 yen ($75). The amendment to Japan’s penal code, which lawmakers passed Monday and is set to take effect this summer, introduces the prison term and increases the maximum fine to 300,000

Investigation: Misleading claims about masks and vaccines in Hong Kong’s 5th wave

Annie Lab looks into an article about Hong Kong’s COVID-19 fifth wave published by a known anti-vaccine website in the United States.

An article published by the U.S.-based, self-proclaimed research organization Brownstone Institute has made a few misleading claims about Hong Kong’s fifth wave of COVID-19, questioning the effectiveness of masks and vaccines using the city’s outbreak data as evidence.

The piece titled “Anatomy of the Hong Kong Disaster” was shared not only by the Institute’s so

False: Woman protesting against Zelenskyy on Ukrainian TV is a digital mashup

A tweet on March 17 claims to show a Ukrainian woman interrupting a live news broadcast calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to resign and return to his former career as an entertainer.

This Twitter account has over 5,000 followers and self-claims to be a news agency from Syria. The post, which attracted over 200 likes, says the video shows opinions of Ukrainian citizens are being overlooked by the Western media.

Another user tweeted the same video to 176 followers with similar c

False: Putin was not holding a picture of the late King Bhumibol of Thailand

The image is manipulated. The original shows Russian President Vladimir Putin holding his father’s portrait during the Immortal Regiment march in 2015.

An image posted on Facebook on Feb. 27 showed Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a photo of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, or King Rama IX, the late King of Thailand.

The Thai text in the image claimed, when translated in English, “Russia can withstand due to the merit of King Rama IX” (รัสเซียยืนหยัดได้เพราะบุญคุณของในหลวงรัชกาลที่ 9).

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Why is there a global shipping container crisis?

“Supply chain crisis” became an often-used phrase during the coronavirus pandemic as Covid-19 caused vast economic disruption across the world. It has been used to explain bare supermarket shelves and why goods are taking much longer to reach businesses and consumers. The pandemic has laid bare vulnerabilities in the global shipping industry, which remains affected by a shortage of crew, available containers in Asia and capacity at major ports in the United States and Europe.

Sham Shui Po - How a changing community of diversity gets connected

Having worked in Sham Shui Po for six years, Tiffany Fung noticed an influx of diverse shops in the area. Coffee, art, and books — the cultural elements that seem to mainly belong to young people, or to say, hipsters, invaded the area which was for long considered as Hong Kong’s poorest district. South Asian vendors, the homeless, subdivided units residents, together with the hipsters and artists — Sham Shui Po epitomizes the unique diversity of the city of Hong Kong. From Tai Nan Street to Ki L

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