Asia in 3 minutes: Farewell to (legal) dog meat in Korea and Australia's incredible breeding orangutan. Hello rich rats in India
Feast for cyberattackers: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's Singapore summit with US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP
Singapore came under attack earlier this month during the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to American technology firm F5 Networks and its data partner Loryka, the city state endured a barrage of close to 40,000 cyberattacks during the June 12 meeting.
F5 data analysis found that attacks "skyrocketed"over the two-day period, with almost 90 per cent of all attempts being launched from Russia. The remaining 10 per cent stemmed from Brazil and Germany. The company could not verify if the attacks were state sponsored. Many of the attacks were scans looking for vulnerable devices, with only a few being attempts to upload malicious software.
Puan, Perth Zoo's Sumatran orangutan, leaves an incredible legacy. Photo: AFP
The world's oldest Sumatran orangutan, which had dozens of descendants spread across the globe, died aged 62 on Monday, Australian zoo officials said. Puan - Indonesian for "lady" - died at Perth Zoo, where she had lived since being gifted by Malaysia in 1968. "She did so much for the colony at Perth Zoo and the survival of her species," said primate supervisor Holly Thompson. "Apart from being the oldest member of our colony, she was also the founding member of our world-renowned breeding programme and leaves an incredible legacy." According to the zoo official, Puan's genetics count for just under 10 per cent of the global zoological population of orangutans. Born in 1956, Guinness World Records listed her as the oldest Sumatran orangutan in the world.
A rally for marriage equality in Manila, capital of the Philippines. Photo: EPA
The Philippines' top court this week heard arguments for the legalisation of gay marriage, a historic first in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation. Two same-sex couples denied licences to wed urged the Supreme Court to strike down a 1987 law that states marriage must be between a man and a woman. "When the right to marry, a decision so personal, so intimate and so life-changing, is denied to LGBT people, the state is not valuing their dignity," lawyer Jesus Falcis, who is also a co-plaintiff, told justices in Manila. It took three years for the Supreme Court to schedule a hearing and the case is likely to move at a glacial pace. Outside the court on Tuesday, about 20 members of Manila's LGBT community waved rainbow flags and lit multicoloured candles in support.
Rats in India have a taste for cash. Photo: Reuters
Indian police on Thursday said rats nibbled through more than a million rupees of banknotes after crawling into a cash machine in the country's northeast.
The rodent heist in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after locals complained that the ATM was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinkusia district said. "The bank officials came to check the ATM machine last week and found a dead rat and shredded banknotes when it was opened," said district police superintendent Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta.
The rats munched through an estimated 1.2 million rupees (US$18,000) worth of hard currency, local media reported. Images showed an upended ATM filled with torn and shredded 500 and 2,000 rupee bills.
This article originally appeared on the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
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