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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Tiffany May |Damien Cave |Tung Ngo
China's leader is on a charm offensive in the region, but some of Beijing's neighbors are wary of being caught in the crossfire of a superpower rivalry. As China faces off with the United States over a punishing trade war, it is under pressure to shore up its friendships around the world, starting with its neighbors in Southeast Asia. But its relations there are complicated.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Neil Vigdor |Ian Austen |Tiffany May
All 80 passengers and crew members on board the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis that crashed and flipped over at Toronto's airport are expected to survive. Two passengers described what seemed like a routine descent that suddenly turned them upside-down. Mr. Koukov, 28, a professional skier from Colorado, was on his way to Toronto to film a ski movie.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Tiffany May |Neil Vigdor
A Delta Air Lines passenger jet made a dramatic crash landing at Toronto airport on Monday afternoon, flipping upside down on the tarmac with its tail and one wing shorn off. But all 80 people aboard clambered out of the jet, which was coming in from Minneapolis. At least 18 of them suffered injuries, some of them critical but not life threatening. The authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred amid strong winds and drifting snow.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Tiffany May |Muktita Suhartono |Claire Fu
Chartered flights have been canceled. Performances have been called off or postponed. Tour agencies have fielded requests from travelers who want to change their plans. Chinese travelers have been scrapping trips to Thailand, frightened by the story of a Chinese actor who was abducted there, taken to Myanmar and forced to work in an online scam compound.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Tiffany May |Muktita Suhartono |Claire Fu
Chartered flights have been canceled. Performances have been called off or postponed. Tour agencies have fielded requests from travelers who want to change their plans. Chinese travelers have been scrapping trips to Thailand, frightened by the story of a Chinese actor who was abducted there, taken to Myanmar and forced to work in an online scam compound.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Tiffany May
Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a crackdown on dissent, died Friday in Hong Kong. He was 55. His wife, Kelly Hui, said his death, in a hospital, was due to stomach cancer. As a social worker, civil rights activist and for a time as a legislator, Mr. Shiu pushed for the rights of the marginalized, but his participation in a protest movement landed him in prison.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
clarin.com | Tiffany May
Los equipos de rescate, que trabajaban en condiciones bajo cero y vientos fuertes, buscaban entre los escombros el miércoles después de que un fuerte terremoto en el Tíbet derribara miles de casas en una zona remota cerca de las faldas del norte del Monte Everest. Decenas de miles de residentes estaban siendo trasladados a un lugar seguro mientras que decenas estaban recibiendo tratamiento por heridas.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
xpresschronicle.com | Tiffany May
Rescuers working in subzero conditions and bracing winds searched the rubble on Wednesday after a strong quake in Tibet toppled thousands of houses in a remote area near the northern foothills of Mount Everest. Tens of thousands of residents were being transferred to safety while dozens were being treated for injuries.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Tiffany May
For Chan Po-ying, a labor rights leader, life is one of constant police surveillance, even on hikes. But she finds solace from tiny gestures of support. When a court in Hong Kong sentenced 45 pro-democracy politicians and activists to prison sentences of up to 10 years, it took down the city’s once-vocal opposition in one fell swoop, making clear the risks of dissent.
But a handful still remain.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | David Pierson |Tiffany May
HONG KONG — As the founder of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai cut an unusual figure: a rebellious tycoon who was not afraid to march with anti-government demonstrators and openly criticize China’s ruling Communist Party. But as he testified for the first time at his landmark national security trial Wednesday, Lai eschewed his confrontational image. The jailed media mogul distanced himself from some of the editorial decisions at his former newspaper.
