A picture and its story: Fire-bombing of a seaside English migrant centre
Peter Nicholls recalls the moment a man fire-bombed the English port gates at a centre for processing migrants and then took his own life.
Mon Oct 31 2022
Sam Mendes' 'Empire of Light' a love letter to movies and his mother
The film, a star-studded drama that Mendes wrote, directed and produced, is a love story set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
Thu Oct 13 2022
Malaysia's EPF weighing sale of up to $110 million of real estate assets
The assets include office buildings it currently occupies, a retail property and a seaside hotel.
Sat Feb 06 2021
Old man and the sea: Malaysian's mission to rid beaches of glass
Tengku Mohamad Ali Mansor has made it his mission to gather bottles washed ashore on Malaysia's rugged South China Sea coast.
Sun Sep 20 2020
Old man and the sea: Malaysian's mission to rid beaches of glass
A 74-year-old Malaysian man's quest to rid the country's beaches of washed-up glass led to a collection of thousands of bottles, now displayed in a colourful seaside museum.
Wed Sep 16 2020
3-year-old girl safe after being lofted by kite in Taiwan
A 3-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported safe after becoming caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several meters into the air.
Sun Aug 30 2020
Spain hunts for driver in van rampage, says Islamist cell dismantled
The Spanish government said it considered it had dismantled the cell behind Thursday's Barcelona rampage and an attack early on Friday in the Catalan seaside town of Cambrils.
Sat Aug 19 2017
'Cat Beach' needs funds to maintain feline inhabitants
In 2005, the house located at a seaside village in Teluk Bahang served as a shelter for just 10 stray cats rescued from the streets.
Tue Jun 27 2017
Sex in Thai city frustrates junta
Stung by foreign headlines portraying the seaside resort of Pattaya as "Sin City" and "The World's Sex Capital", Thailand's junta has begun a new effort to re-brand it.
Sun Mar 26 2017
1 dead, 14 hurt in blast at Spain apartment block
One person died and 14 people were injured in an explosion in a block of flats in a Spanish seaside resort near Barcelona early Sunday, rescuers said.
Sun Sep 18 2016
Intentional New York blast injures 29 people
A deliberate explosion rocked an upscale and bustling neighborhood of New York on Saturday night, injuring 29 people, one seriously.
Sun Sep 18 2016
New York explosion injures 25 people on Saturday - police
An explosion that shook New York's crowded Chelsea neighborhood injured 25 people, firefighters said Saturday.
Sun Sep 18 2016
Nice becomes latest French city to ban Islamic swimsuit burkini
Nice has become the latest French seaside resort to ban the burkini, the body-concealing Islamic swimsuit that has sparked heated debate in secular France.
Sat Aug 20 2016
At least 19 dead in Somalia Shebab restaurant attack: police
Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant.
Fri Jan 22 2016
Tourists scramble to leave Tunisia after seaside massacre
Thousands of scared foreign holidaymakers were being flown from Tunisia on Saturday after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort.
Sat Jun 27 2015