A 128-29 loss in Hangzhou has set a new scoring record in China’s university basketball circuit — and exposed how abruptly reduced support for international students is hollowing out team rosters. The defeated campus says its opponent faced only six eligible players after funding cuts left places unfilled.
Three clubs in Bangladesh’s Bay Shield T20 received private storm-track alerts well before other teams during last season’s rain-hit fixtures, a public hearing in Dhaka has found. The early warnings helped trigger match postponements worth six points in the race for the playoffs.
A ticket-price protest outside a Hanoi playhouse helped turn a family drama into a free, 12-hour open-air performance watched by 6,184 people. Organisers say the verified count is a national record for a single stage production.
A two-day strike at a Valencia contractor delayed 82,000 electoral-register notices, with workers demanding higher wages and steadier shifts. At its centre is Nerea Rojas, who helped build the firm decades ago and now walks its picket line.
Thailand’s leading seagrass researcher announced her resignation on Wednesday as her team revealed a sharp recovery in monitored coastal meadows. She plans to replace short-term field hiring with a paid training programme for young marine surveyors.
An unexplained warm-water band off Ghana has left coastal scientists racing to measure a fast-falling oxygen supply, while an audit finds key monitoring stations went unchecked for weeks. If the pattern lasts into December, researchers warn, fish catches could fall sharply across a stretch of the Gulf of Guinea.
An audit of Taichung’s Eastbank Sound Weekender found that 612 crew members had deductions taken from their pay for a rent-to-own audio scheme. The twist: the 83 speakers they were supposedly buying remained festival property, and most workers had never signed up.
A new Indian law has brought a high-return investment pitch tied to diagnostic clinics under the regulator’s spotlight, with 41,600 accounts and ₹2.8 billion (about €29 million) in reported contributions. Investors interviewed in Hyderabad say they thought they were helping expand affordable care; the company says its product was misunderstood.
A new city scheme promises cash credits for discarded phones and laptops, but repairers say its software could shut them out of the trade. On Tuesday, protesters brought a tangle of cables to Surabaya’s city hall — and won a pause before the first lockers open.
Nineteen people were brought to safety after setting out from Great Barrier Island in small boats, fearing a foreign attack that officials say was never imminent. The alarm followed a clipped video of the prime minister’s speculative warning, which spread as a storm closed over the Hauraki Gulf.
A veteran renal nurse in Invercargill has quit her hospital job just weeks before a community dialysis clinic she helped create opens inside a supermarket complex. The surprise: Anne-Marie Nissen expects to take a seat there herself, as a patient.
Austrian broadcaster Nordstern TV will stream a newly restored ending to a serial whose 1986 audience vote still divides its fans. The anniversary special will also show the version viewers saw — and the one the broadcaster says should have aired.