An elderly Hong Kongman died of bird flu on Christmas Day last year, the government said Tuesday it was the first human infection in the city in winter.

The Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health says a 75-year-old man, diagnosed with H7N9 strain, died Sunday.

Last week, Hong Kong was diagnosed with H7N9 recently after traveling to China for the first time this year.

South Korea and Japan earlier this week have ordered further exclusion to control the outbreak of different types of avian flu that has killed tens of millions of birds in the past month.

China has at least seven people infected with H7N9 this winter, two deaths.

Hong Kong, a former British colony, resumed Chinese rule in 1997 and since the outbreak of Avian Influenza, six outbreaks of avian flu have been reported in humans in the same year.

HONG KONG –

Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not the problem with these cats.

Four legs of the “assistant” can be found in some shops in Hong Kong, the city kept in a hurry through the store at the same time, keep the business of non-binding vision.

Their presence inspired the Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen to make them a unique subject for a book and recent exhibitions – capturing some of their most traditional communities in the city.

The pictures show all shapes and colors of the cat: the owner of their field, either on the goods, on the table, or almost mixed into the monitor.

“They’re cold, they’re very Zen, they see people coming in and out every day, they have trucks unloading, people walk around with boxes, they’re very uncomfortable and they sit on top of everything,” Heijnen said.

There is nothing famous in Hong Kong celebrity shop cat-cream brother.

British Shorthair has nearly 200,000 fans on Facebook, attracting a large number of fans, including his store closed in 2016.

He is also behind several books, served as an advertising campaign, and has his own “Butterbrook” Foundation to help the unfortunate cats.

Now a little semi-retired, he has regulars.

“I think he is a very special cat, handsome, very cute,” a bank teller, once a week to visit him twice at home, said Wu En.

Such a reputation is unexpected, said his master Ko Chee-shing, but it is a natural life to come to the convenience store cat.

“His character is really like a star and he will sit down and let you shoot him. Every day hundreds of people come to our store to take pictures of him and he will stand up and pull a lovely face or just sleep and let people Take his picture.

For Heijnen, the photo also points to a nostalgic stay in a changing city.

“I think the only thing in the photo is that it captures the background,” he says while a favorite subject sits in the boxes stacked in the background of the goods.

“So it’s not just cats, it’s about shops, in many of my photos, you see … 90% of the shops and cats are very small and these are very traditional stores and they are very likely these photos Shot in the 60’s.

New Delhi – At least two people died and 28 were injured Wednesday after a train derailed in north India, close to the site of a previous rail accident that killed 146.

The incident happened in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state, when more than a dozen coaches of an express train derailed.

Local government officials at the accident site said some coaches had crashed into each other and turned sideways after coming off the tracks.

“We can confirm two deaths and injuries to at least 28 persons, who are admitted at different hospitals around Kanpur,” Zaki Ahmad inspector general of Kanpur police told AFP.

“The incident happened around 5:30am. There were passengers, other than the 28, who’d received minor injuries and left after receiving first aid,” he added.

India’s railways minister Suresh Prabhu said senior department officials had already rushed to the accident spot.

“Immediate medical help being provided to the injured. Mobilized resources, directed all concerned to ensure rescue and relief,” Prabhu said on Twitter. “Thorough investigation will be carried out to ascertain the cause,” he added.

India’s railway network, one of the world’s largest, is still the main form of long-distance travel in the vast country, but it is poorly funded and deadly accidents occur relatively frequently.

At least 146 people were killed last month in Kanpur, the same district as Wednesday’s derailment, when a train derailed in one of India’s worst rail disasters in recent years.

A 2012 government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on India’s railways and described the loss of life as an annual “massacre”.

The government has signed numerous deals with private companies to upgrade the ageing rail network.

Gunpo, South Korea –

A huge man-made robot built in Korea walked like a man, but rocked the ground under its weight and had taken the first infant steps.

Designed by experienced science fiction blockbusters, a four-meter high, 1.5-ton Method 2 tower is located in a room on the outskirts of Seoul.

This king king of humanoid creation and in the movie “Avatar” starring in the military robot has striking similarities.

It was named the world’s No. 1 by the founder of the Korean robot company Hankook Mirae Technology, with about 30 engineers conducting a preliminary test on Tuesday afternoon.

“Our robot is the world’s first manned biped robot designed for extreme hazardous areas (unprotected) that humans can not access,” said Yang Jinhao, chairman of the company.

The pilot sitting in the trunk of the robot makes method 2 imitate the movement of the limbs, and the metal arms each weighs 130 kg.

The robot is a tall man more than twice as powerful as a robot, and it is so heavy that it shakes the ground when it takes a step with the motor lashing.

Mr. Yang, who dreams of building his own robot, says he has invested 24.2 billion won ($ 290 million) since 2014 to “make life seem possible in movies and comics.”

One who declined to be named said that the construction of giant robots was a challenge for engineers, most of them in their midst and the late 1930s, because its unprecedented scale meant that they had little to refer to.

Up to now, it is still unclear how to use the robot. Tier 2 is more of a testbench for a variety of technologies that will allow creators to build robots of any type and size in the future.

Although its sheer size draws media attention, the creators of Method-2 say the core accomplishment of the project is the technology they have developed and enhanced.

Designer Vitaly Bulgarov on his Facebook page, said: “We have been learning in this robot can be used to solve real-world problems.

He has previously worked in film series, such as Transformers, Robocop and Terminator.

Mr. Yang said they have received advice from the manufacturing, construction and entertainment industries.

There are even questions about its possible deployment in the demilitarized zone with a serious strengthening of the DPRK.

But the robot, tied by the power cord, is still a bit wobbling at its feet, far from complete. According to its creator, its balance and power systems require more work.

“The robot is a year old, so it’s taking the baby’s steps,” Yang said.

Like humans, it will be able to move more freely over the next few years, he said, and the robot will be ready for sale at about 10 billion won ($ 8.3 million) by the end of 2017.