What happened to the families of the drowned cocklepickers of Morecambe Bay?

On the three-hour bus trip from the southern port city of Xiamen to central Fujian province, you move into a landscape of largely abandoned villages, once the homes of so many departed Chinese migrants....

continue reading

Taiwan hospital fire kills 12, injures 60

TAINAN, Taiwan — At least 12 people were killed and 60 injured when an early-hours blaze tore through a hospital catering mainly to bed-ridden and mentally ill seniors in southern Taiwan on Tuesday,...

continue reading

At least eleven dead as floods take their toll

At least eleven people, including a five-year-old boy, have died in incidents related to heavy rainfall in the Eastern Cape according to provincial Disaster Management. Disaster Management’s Captain...

continue reading

Further exhumations have come to an end

The bodies of further 2 victims of the Smolensk air crash, exhumed today in Warsaw, have been brought to the Cracow Forensic Medicine Institute. They are to be transported today to Wroclaw, after they...

continue reading