creating mountains of electronic waste that is poison for the environment and expensive to recycle hongkong has hired a german company to help solve its crippling electronic waste problem with a plant that can serve as a model for other recycling centers in the region. modern robot technology in this case it's not being used to produce devices but to dismantle them the hong kong administration is paying the berlin company three hundred eighteen million euros over a period of ten years the company has to read the city of its electrical waste. a lot of the material that arrives in hong kong is exported to third world countries. where it often gets disassembled in a very full state and that's one of the principal concern we should not be exporting. like. hong kong is not only one of the richest and most consumer friendly cities in the world it's also one of the largest producers of electronic waste every hong kong resident throws away almost twenty kilos of old electrical appliances every year most of it's collected by small businesses some products are resold as used equipment but a large par

the south china morning posts leads on hongkongers working and living in mainland china who will havehreat to national sovereignty and security. the paper says lawmakers have raised questions about whether this can be done if no laws have been broken. and the gulf times reports on the beginning of the hajj rituals. it says the five—day pilgrimage has become increasingly tech—savvy with apps now helping people to navigate islam's holiest site. yet again, the indonesian island of lombok has been hit by a series of earthquakes. the latest had a magnitude of 6.9. it was felt in the east of the island, triggering landslides and sending people fleeing into the streets. the new tremors come just two weeks after an earthquake killed more than a70 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. richard galpin reports. once again, people in lombok run for their lives as another series of powerful earthquakes hits the island. the fear palpable. one of the tremors measuring 6.9, the same as the quake which killed more than 400 people here earlier this month. for those living near the hills, anot