Views: 2 MALAY MAIL SHANGHAI, Aug 3 — Floods and mudslides destroyed village homes and part of a highway in China’s south-western province of Sichuan today, killing at least two people and leaving 17 missing in two incidents, state media reported today. Overnight in Kangding, a mountainous region in Sichuan’s western highlands, mudslides took down […]
Views: 2 Eco-minded Games hosts keep air con to a minimum as they rely on shade to keep things cool. At a Paris water fountain, Marcel, 11, ducks his baseball cap in water before adjusting it back on his head. After days of heavy rain that blighted the opening ceremony and wrecked the triathlon, a
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Views: 5 TIMES LIVE At least 41 people were killed and scores injured after landslides in the hills of India’s southern Kerala state, local media reported, with rescue operations obstructed after a main bridge collapsed in the region. State Health Minister Veena George said that over 70 people were injured and the Indian Express reported
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Views: 6 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited flood-hit areas near the Amnok River and guided an operation to rescue around 5,000 isolated residents with the military’s helicopters, Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday. Kim visited flood-ravaged areas in Sinuiju City and Uiju County of North Phyongan Province on Sunday, after a record downpour hit
Views: 8 Emerging Risks The global aviation industry has been told it needs to up its cyber security both internally and with third parties as regulators demand change. The calls comes in a new report by SecurityScorecard which has published cybersecurity research on 250 leading global aerospace & aviation companies, including 100 top commercial passenger
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Views: 9 Emerging Risks Advanced air mobility is a rapidly developing sector of technology with a plethora of companies working on and developing new, innovative automated aircrafts, from small drones delivering cargo packages to larger vehicles transporting passengers. The news this week that Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop operational
Views: 4 Emerging Risks The ability to deliver regular and substantive net zero flight looks set to move a step closer as ZeroAvia and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that they will work towards a demonstration flight using ZeroAvia’s ZA2000 zero-emission, hydrogen-electric engines for large regional turboprop. Hydrogen-electric engines use hydrogen in fuel cells to
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Views: 3 ASIA ONE BEIJING — Typhoon Gaemi lashed towns on China’s coastal Fujian province on Friday (July 26) with heavy rains and strong winds as the most powerful storm to hit the country this year began its widely watched trek into the populous interior. The storm, which has already killed dozens of people as
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Views: 4 LBC Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged people to ‘put safety first’. Heavy rain has triggered floods and landslides in Japan, forcing residents to take shelter on safer ground and leaving four people missing, including two police officers. The rain had subsided in Yamagata and Akita prefectures by Friday, but the area was still
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Views: 5 Straits Times SINGAPORE – Multiple flights between Singapore and cities affected by Typhoon Gaemi were cancelled or rescheduled on July 25, as the powerful typhoon heads towards southern China after sweeping past the Philippines and Taiwan on July 24. According to Changi Airport’s website, two Xiamen Airlines flights between Singapore and Fuzhou
