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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest thanks to petrodollars, is scaling back plans to dump stakes in oil and gas companies, the government has revealed. Originally, the fund — which manages more than $1 trillion in assets — had envisaged pulling out of 134 companies involved in oil and gas exploration and production. Norway […]

Pictures by Yury Kadobnov. Video by Ivana Jurisa by Anna MALPAS In cropped jeans and a cream sweatshirt, Alina Muzychenko would easily blend into a central Moscow crowd. But her bright pink socks are quietly subversive — patterned with a drawing of riot police holding hands. The 34-year-old runs a design label with her husband […]

by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Flash-mob rallies broke out in Hong Kong on Wednesday as anger mounted over police shooting a teenage protester who attacked officers in a dramatic escalation of the violent unrest that has engulfed the territory for months. A large crowd of demonstrators, including office workers in shirts and suits, mustered […]

MBLAQ’s G.O and Choi Ye Seul officially got married on 28 Sept. The wedding was a private, small-scale ceremony with about 70 guests according to the couple’s wishes. Mir, a fellow MBLAQ member officiated the ceremony with G.O. G.O shared a photo of the couple in their wedding attire around noon that day with the […]

Police in Indonesia uncovered a gruesome murder after they found a suicide note on a 42-year-old widower. The police said people alerted them to the scene where they found a man who apparently committed suicide. The man, Wayan Sutarsa was found by passerby’s who thought he was in a state of seizure. Since the man refused assistance, the passerby alerted […]

Recently Hong Kong actor Kenneth Ma has been in the news but attention on his love life is not what the TVB actor wants. The 45-year-old shared with The Straits Times in Mandarin,”I will leave relationship matters to fate, I won’t force it. Now, I’m just hard at work filming and making money.” “Housing in […]

SINGAPORE—Yesterday (Sept. 30), Swedish furniture company Ikea put out a press release recalling its MATVRÅ children’s bib packs because of a possible choking hazard. In its official press release, entitled “IKEA recalls the children’s bib MATVRÅ, Blue/Red 2-pack, due to a choking hazard”, Ikea noted that it had received two separate reports of the buttons […]

South Korean boy bands Super Junior and TVXQ will be reminiscing about their friendship in the upcoming travel documentary Analog Trip. It will feature TVXQ’s Yunho and Changmin as well as Super Junior’s Leeteuk, Shindong, Eunhyuk and Donghae as they travel through Indonesia with just their backpacks. The show offers an intimate look into the […]

Shopping, shopping, shopping! It’s one of the world’s favourite pastimes, and you can’t deny that walking out of a shop with something you like does have the uncanny ability of cheering you up when you’re in a funk. Some even call it therapy! If you love to travel and you take your shopping seriously, you […]

by Andrea PALASCIANO Dozens of cadets and youngsters from Russia’s Youth Army have been getting up close and personal with perhaps the world’s most iconic firearm as their country prepares to mark the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, maker of the legendary rifle. At Victory Museum in western Moscow, visitors including the young […]

It’s a skill you never forget once learnt, as the saying goes: Now immigrants to Finland can receive free cycling lessons to help them better integrate into life in the bike-loving nation. On a sunny September morning a group of around eight students have taken time out from their Finnish lessons to come to an […]

by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Strife-torn Hong Kong marked the 70th anniversary of communist China’s founding with defiant “Day of Grief” protests on Tuesday as pro-democracy activists ignored a police ban and took to the streets in multiple neighbourhoods. The international finance hub is on edge as protesters vow to overshadow Beijing’s festivities, stepping […]

Sri Lanka announced harsher penalties in a bid to protect wild elephants on Tuesday, as investigators probed whether seven jumbos found poisoned over the weekend were killed by villagers. Wildlife and Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said he will impose tougher sanctions on offenders to boost laws enacted three years ago but not yet implemented due to […]

Indonesia has been rocked by the gruesome murder of a man who was killed by a group of hitmen hired by his own mother to execute him because of his sexual orientation. The mother allegedly told the hitmen to kill her son because she believed her son was gay, but the local papers in Indonesia have […]

by Sean CHANG Communist China’s creation seven decades ago irrevocably changed Taiwan, but Beijing’s huge celebrations this week will be met with a collective shrug on an island where people increasingly see themselves as distinct from the mainland. After the People’s Republic of China was declared on 1 October 1949, its rival, the Republic of […]