The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of #China deeply mourns the passing of Benjamin Kang Lim, a veteran journalist who covered Greater China for almost four decades.
fccchina.org/2024/05/21/in-…

Airline statement : facebook.com/singaporeair/p…

#SIA statement here facebook.com/singaporeair/p…

BREAKING - Singapore Airlines flight SQ 312, from London, made an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday afternoon after encountering air turbulence. One passenger died, and 30 others were injured.
#emergencylanding #singaporeairlines #suvarnabhumi #thailand #RIP

#BREAKING : Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore made an emergency landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday afternoon due to 'injured passengers as a result of mid-air turbulences'. Medical services have arrived on the scene.

A Bald Eagle deep in concentration before diving to catch fish @ Conowingo Dam along the lower Susquehanna River, Maryland, USA. (2023-11-19) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #eagles

Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly accessible to anyone in the world & the primary effect was to make everyone much dumber.

“‘Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death.' cbsnews.com/news/pope-fran…

'The West should strike now' to 'liberate' the #Iranian people; well that is likely to go quite swimmingly, isn't it..

Big cats are critical to the health of entire ecosystems. Yet linear infrastructure is increasingly fragmenting the vast habitats they rely on. Join us on Thursday to explore linear infrastructure safeguards for these keystone species.
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USAID Bureau for Asia

This is brutal. #Delhi

For those who care about democracy read this article. A Muslim Voter’s First-Person Account Of How She Fought To Cast Her Vote In The 2024 Election | Article-14 article-14.com/post/a-muslim-…

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True or False?

Anyone with any intellectual integrity should always study the arguments opposed to theirs in order to reassess whether their position is correct.

In that spirit, let's look at what those criticizing the ICC for its indictment of Israel are saying. This thread 👇, as far as I

Oh 'they don't belong in such company' really? Much more civilised, are they now? Gentleman's club?

It is rarely discussed, but after the Hutu's genocide of the Tutsi, Rwandan forces and proxies hunted down and slaughtered tens of thousands of Hutu refugees in the Congo.

'Among the victims were mostly children, women, old and ill people.'

theguardian.com/world/2010/aug…

There is literally nothing, absolutely nothing, that makes a nation or a peoples who endured a genocide exempt from perpetrating a genocide against someone else. Serbs suffered a horrific genocide in The Holocaust and then went on to commit a horrifying genocide against Bosniaks.

Shocked to hear that Ben is no more. Hugely respected China hand. RIP, Benjamin Kang Lim.. 🙏

In which Jonathan Schanzer wants us to take him seriously...