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Workers dig by layers in search for 47 missing at China mine

ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after a collapse at an open-pit mine in northern China have had to change their excavation methods to avoid causing more landslides, state media reported Friday.

Six people have been confirmed dead and six injured people have been rescued at the mine in Inner Mongolia’s Alxa League as of Thursday night, broadcaster CCTV said.

China: Shenzhen to build 10,000 5G base stations in 2023

SHENZHEN, Feb 23 (Xinhua/APP): China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen will build 10,000 5G base stations in 2023, local authorities have said.

By the end of 2023, the 5G base stations will be distributed at a density of 42 per 10,000 people and 37 per square km in the city, according to an action plan issued by the municipal industry and information technology bureau.

Since 2019, Shenzhen has constructed over 65,000 5G base stations, with over 10 million 5G users, said the plan.

Indonesia, China Vowed To Safeguard Regional Peace, Stability

JAKARTA, Feb 23 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, here yesterday, as both sides promised to jointly maintain regional peace and stability.

Widodo, during the meeting, wished a successful outcome of the upcoming sessions of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Philippine Rescuers Found Four Bodies From Cessna Plane Wreck

MANILA, Feb 23 (NNN-PNA) – Rescuers found the four bodies from the small plane, which went down a few hundred metres away from the crater of an active volcano, south-east of Manila, six days ago, a local official said today.

Mayor Caloy Baldo of the Camalig town, where the plane crashed, minutes after taking off, last Saturday morning, said, it could take hours to bring down the bodies of the Filipino pilot and crew and the two Australian engineers aboard the plane, from the volcano slope due to the rugged terrain.

More bodies found in China mine collapse, 49 remain missing

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of an open pit coal mine in northern China has risen to four, with 49 people still missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported Thursday.

Work had been suspended for several hours after an additional landslide at the gigantic facility following Wednesday’s mine collapse in the vast Inner Mongolia region’s Alxa League.

State media said the landslide struck at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, about five hours after the initial cave-in of one of the pit’s walls buried people and mining trucks below.

Cambodian girl dies of H5N1 bird flu

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- An 11-year-old girl from southeast Cambodia's Prey Veng province had died of H5N1 human avian influenza, the Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department said Wednesday.

The girl fell ill on Feb. 16, with the symptoms of a high temperature of 39 degrees Celsius, cough and sore throat, the department said in a news release, adding that she first sought local health service, but her condition had worsened, having rapid breathing, so she was then transferred to the National Pediatric Hospital in Phnom Penh.

S. Korea to lift post-arrival test requirement for travelers from China

SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea will lift a post-arrival test requirement for travelers from China next month as the COVID-19 situation stabilized, South Korea's central prevention and countermeasures headquarters said on Wednesday.

Travelers from China have been required to take polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests after arrival here since early January. But from March 1, the post-arrival test requirement will be lifted, and flights from China will be allowed to land at other airports besides the Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul.

Japanese wave goodbye to three more pandas returning to China

SHIRAHAMA, Japan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Eimei, a giant panda that has lived in Japan for 28 years, left west Japan's Wakayama park along with his twin daughters to fly back to China on Wednesday.

The 30-year-old male panda, along with his eight-year-old Japan-born twin daughters Ouhin and Touhin, has left their current home at Adventure World, a theme park in the town of Shirahama in Wakayama prefecture.

Philippine police hunting killers of New Zealand tourist

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine police search was underway on Wednesday for two motorcycle-riding men who shot and killed a New Zealand man in a brazen street robbery that officials fear could scare foreign tourists away.

The 34-year-old tourist, Nicholas Peter Stacey, was fatally shot once in the chest while trying to wrest a pistol from one of the two robbers who held him up and his Filipina girlfriend on Sunday in a suburban street in Manila’s Makati financial district, police Maj. Gen. Jonnel Estomo said.

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