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China forces committed abuses in Tibet: rights group By Marianne Barriaux BEIJING — Chinese security forces brutally beat and even shot dead some protesters during unrest in Tibet in 2008, and tortured many in the subsequent crackdown, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday. The New...

Mosquito chokes news anchor China Television Co had to urgently put on an advert while it drafted in a replacement presenter TAIPEI — A Taiwanese television presenter was hospitalised after a mosquito flew into her mouth, choking her and interrupting her live broadcast of a news...

The Three Gorges Dam faced its highest levels ever this week and water breached the massive dam. -- PHOTO: AP China's massive Three Gorges dam is facing a major test of the flood control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction, as torrential rains swell the...

Journalists take photos as flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. -- PHOTO: AP Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. -- PHOTO: AP Rescuers...

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The rain started at around 4.40 a.m. and stopped more than 2 hours later, affecting the road surrounding Masjid Darul Aman resulting in flash flood. The rain started at around 4.40 a.m. and stopped more than 2 hours later, affecting the road surrounding Masjid Darul Aman...

Residents resort to standing on tops of tables at a coffee shop to keep dry. The shutters of a restaurant along Upper Thomson Road was badly damaged by the flash floods on Saturday morning. According to eye witnesses, the water pressure was so strong it swept things out of its way...

Residents of Robin Close, Bukit Timah, checking their car for damages at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning. Reader, Jazmine Chua contributed this photo taken at 1130 a.m. on Saturday July 17. The basement of these strata houses at Gentle Road, Novena is flooded. She was told that four...

The basement of this new strata houses at Gentle Rd is flooded. AsiaOne reader ras told that four cars were submerged in water. Workers were called in to pump out the water. This picture is taken from Gentle Rd. A car trapped in the flood at Tessarina Condo of Bukit Timah...

Starbucks and Wendy's restaurant at Liat Towers flooded for the second time in recent months after flash floods hit many parts of Singapore early Saturday morning.