Day: April 25, 2023
Hong Kong: some schools face closure as birthrate and exodus take toll
Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enrolment numbersHong Kong schools are being forced to merge or prepare for closure as a decade-long decline in the birthrate and a recent exodus …
EU imposes sanctions on relatives of Syria’s president over drugs
The European Union has put sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s cousins over the trafficking of the amphetamine drug Captagon.
Hundreds gather in Turkey to remember WWI dead on Anzac Day
Hundreds of people have gathered near the former World War I battlefields in Turkey to pay homage to soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who died in a disastrous campaign 108 years ago
Ex-UN head Ban Ki-moon calls for end to Myanmar violence
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to violence in Myanmar after a surprise meeting with the military leaders of the Southeast Asian nation.
Tangaraju Suppiah: Singapore to execute man over cannabis charge
Activists including Richard Branson say Tangaraju Suppiah was convicted on weak and controversial evidence.
Australians and New Zealanders recall war dead on Anzac Day
Hundreds of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders have gathered at dawn services and veterans’ street marches across the two nations to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day.