Japanese researchers say they have developed a blood test that can help coronavirus patients predict the risk of becoming seriously ill. A team from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine studied blood samples from 28 people with coronavirus. They investigated possible links between blood components and changes in …
Read More »A South Korean official has been shot dead by North Korean troops
An employee of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries went missing on September 21 in 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) of water south of the Yonhap Island, according to Lt. Gen. Ahan Young-ho, a senior South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. . The islands are located near the maritime border …
Read More »Pakistan factory fire: Baldia catastrophic fire in 2012, two sentenced to death
The anti-terrorism court found that the men set the factory on fire because the owners did not accept their extortion demands and did not pay them. The fire at Ali Enterprise, a multi-story unit for readymade garment manufacturing in the southern city of Karachi, sent shockwaves across the country as …
Read More »Executed Chinese drug trafficker escapes Indonesian prison through sewer pipes
Kai Changpan, also known as Kai Ji Fan, was sent to jail in the Tangereng area on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta on charges of smuggling methamphetamine. Last Monday, he escaped by digging a hole in the garbage pipes and on the road outside the prison from his cell, …
Read More »Ren Ziqiang: Chinese giant sentenced to 18 years in prison for criticizing Xi Jinping for handling coronavirus
Ren Ziqiang, a retired real estate tycoon with close ties to senior Chinese officials, went missing in March, when he wrote a scathing essay criticizing the class response to the Ronavirus epidemic this month. He was later charged with corruption-related offenses. A Beijing court on Tuesday convicted Ren of multiple …
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