Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

Nov 24, 2024 | yahoo.com | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

As the sun slowly dips behind the jagged peaks of Mount Nam Xay, a group of brightly coloured hot air balloons drift across the Vang Vieng valley. In the river below, young tourists laugh and splash each other from their kayaks. It’s not hard to see what draws so many travellers here to this little town in central Laos. The scenery is stunning, the fun cheap and plentiful.

Nov 24, 2024 | flipboard.com | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

8 hours agoThe deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian holiday hotspot’s seedy past. Surrounded by picturesque green mountains and the slow-flowing Nam Song river, Vang Vieng has become the scene for an unfurling tragedy. Alongside …

Oct 31, 2024 | risingnepaldaily.com | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,Reporting from Taipei,Koh Ewe, Singapore , BBC New, Oct 31: Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, has made landfall on the island's eastern coast. Schools and workplaces across Taiwan were closed on Thursday and supermarkets were stripped bare, as millions of residents braced for the storm which hit at about 13:40 local time (04:40 GMT).

Oct 31, 2024 | yahoo.com | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes |Koh Ewe

Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, has made landfall on the island's eastern coast. Schools and workplaces across Taiwan were closed on Thursday and supermarkets were stripped bare, as millions of residents braced for the storm which hit at about 1:40PM local time.

Oct 22, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Kelly Ng |Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

China has held several major military drills off the coast of Taiwan since 2022 but the operations have intensified in the past year [EPA]China held a live-firing exercise from its territory closest to Taiwan one week after it launched a large-scale drill encircling the island. Chinese military drills off the Taiwanese coast have intensified in recent years as its claims over the self-governed island have grown.