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A family of three in Hong Kong suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas water heater at the weekend, prompting an investigation by authorities. With temperatures forecast to drop significantly in the coming days because of an intense winter monsoon, experts have warned that it is crucial to keep bathrooms well ventilated even in cold […]
Over the past few weeks, Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, had been on a trip of a lifetime backpacking across South East Asia. Photos posted online show the two young Danish women sightseeing in Cambodia and motorcycling around Vietnam as they made new friends and partied into the night. But their […]
The death toll now includes Bowles, Jones, two young Danish women, an American man and 28-year-old British woman Simone White. The hostel denies that its drinks made the guests sick. To make the point earlier this week, the manager drank vodka from one of the bottles himself. Loading A Nana worker, one of few remaining […]
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More than a week after people became sick, a group of officials that included a police chief went to the hostel on Wednesday and confiscated bottles for testing in Vientiane. Nana Backpacker Hostel manager Duong Duc Toan with a bottle of vodka.Credit: AP It was unknown whether investigators from the other visit, which happened shortly […]
Two young women from Melbourne are in hospital in a critical condition and more travellers are sick after consuming what is believed to be methanol in Vang Vieng, Laos. The 19-year-olds consumed the drinks on Thursday and are in a grave condition, said 3AW drive host Jacqui Felgate, who has spoken to a father of […]
A book launch event at an independent bookstore in Hong Kong was disrupted by a group of people who harassed participants and accused the writer of “poisoning” readers. A group of people tried to enter the bookstore Have a Nice Stay when a private book launch was being hosted on November 15, 2024. Photo: Pazu, […]
The National Informal Traders Alliance says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan to re-register all spaza shops in South Africa in 21 days is too ambitious, given the number of spaza shops nationwide. Source link
As parents of children who died from food poisoning reel in pain, President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered words of comfort while imploring the public and his government to ensure no more young lives are lost to food-borne illnesses. Grieving families of children who died from food poisoning in recent weeks detailed feeling helpless as they […]
Northumbria Police Thomas Kwan created a fake ID under the name Raj Patel to carry out the attack A GP who disguised himself and injected his mother’s partner with a poison in a row over an inheritance has been jailed for 31 years and five months. Thomas Kwan, 53, was posing as a community nurse […]