Month: January 2023

Marcos: Xi vows to find solution, compromise to allow Pinoy fishermen to fish in natural fishing ground BEIJING, China—Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to “find a compromise solution” to allow Filipino fishermen to fish in their natural fishing grounds. President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. revealed this following his bilateral meeting with Xi during the…

By Ray Ndlovu Water levels at the Kariba reservoir plunged to a record low of less than 1%, curtailing power supply to Zambia and Zimbabwe and shuttering the tourism and fishing industries. The dam, which is the world’s largest human-made based on water-storage capacity, had 0.97% usable storage on Dec. 28, compared with 20% a…

Incredible footage shows a man catching one of the world’s rarest fish – which turned out to be the bloke's first ever catch.Not a bad start, eh?TikToker @shaaaarky, who regularly shares ‘catch & release shark fishing adventures’ on the platform, recently posted a video of the amazing find, revealing how he and his friends had…

Footage of a giant octopus being dragged up from the ocean by a fishing boat has left viewers stunned.Photographer Brooke Sattar shared the dramatic video to TikTok under the handle brookesirah where it has already been viewed over 41 million times.It was filmed during a fishing expedition off the coast of Vancouver Island in British…

With temperatures significantly warming up in the Okanagan, officials are warning that ice activities on local lakes could be unsafe. “Right now, we’re in a really weird transition, we came out of a really good cold snap where we had -20 to -25 C,” said Captain Shawn Wudrich of the Kelowna Fire Department.“What we have…

Since October, Xiaoyuan has spent hours chatting with hundreds of potential suitors on multiple dating apps. But the profile, which appears to be a 28-year-old woman, isn’t there to find romance — it’s to hunt down scammers swindling people online.Xiaoyuan is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot created by a Shanghai-based programmer who calls himself Turing’s Cat…